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the extreme, but sharp and bright as could be. Reckon pap's trappin didn't come to nuthln'," said Bud. Was tn trap sprung?"
 q never thought to look," confessed George. They went out to the woodpile, leaving the girls engaged in exchanging con- fidences.
 Bud examined the ground carefully "Been suthin' else sides wolves here," he announced. "Where'd ye chain tn trap?" "To this log,' replied George, walking around the woodpile. Then he stopped, his eyes round with surprise. The log was gone! He was sure that was the place, and there was no other log of that size near the house. Bud looked over the scattered chips and examined some marks on other smaller logs about. Reckon ye caught CT bar," he said "Thet's jest what's happened, an he's stole yer trap t git even." "Stole my trapn' repeated the astonished George "Jest drug off trap, log an all," replied Bud. "There's his tracks right off younder, maxim a beeline fer tn woods. We mout git yer gun an go fer him, and if he's got shet O tn trap we can fin ct and git ct back"
 CT would rather get some breakfast, :" said George. They went into the house. to find Helen deep in a lecture on cooking, which Miss was delivering with evident pride in her knowledge, Illustrating her points by skilfully preparing meal which made ueien's face flush with envy.
 (To be Continued.)
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THE ADVENTURES OF THE MERRY -GO ROUNDS.
1.-THE CAPTURE OF THE Roo-BIRD.

The Merry -Go-Round brothers, Peter and Paul, were just the very jolliest fellows you can imagine. They were sorry at hav- ing lost the kite, but they soon forgot all about 1t, and Paul said he never knew before what people meant when they spoke of any one's ''going kiting."
 After while they took their big dog Rolo and started out to hunt for Roo-Birds. A Roo Bird Is a very funny bird, and they only live in the Circle Country, and as everything there is round, the Roo Birds are round, too. Their wings are so small that they can not fly. They have very long necks and they are so bowlegged that they. cannot run fast. When they are pursued they will just put their big toes in their bills and roll away very swiftly. They can roll faster than horse can run, and the only way to catch them Is to head them off and make them roll up hill. Then, of course, the7 cannot go very fast and it is easy to catch them.
 Peter, Paul and Rolo walked for long time, and finally they found a Roo-Bird. They headed it of and chased It toward q steep hill. The Roo Bird rolled so fast that Peter, Paul and Rolo were left long way behind, and when they came to the hill the
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..Safe enouf ef ye don't go out O nights" chuckled MT. Dobbins. Hey ye any traps?" George had several, which he had bought before leaving his city home for residence in the wilderness, but he knew absolutely nothing about the proper way of setting them. MT. Dobbns selected one from the bunch. "Tother's too weak jawed fer a wolf" he announced. He carried the trap to the wodpile, and, burying it under chips and sawdust, chained it to an old-worm- eaten log, covering the chain In the same manner. Then he cut portions of the worth less buzzard from the body and strewed them about the ground, and placed the carcass on. another log, almost directly over the trap.
 Now, ef should try sech a contraption ez that by my place. he announced, mary wolf 'ud come within mile of 1t, but, bein' no ones lived here in so long, ye may ketch somethin.''
 He went away, promising to send his daughter Mliss up in the morning to help Helen and keep her company.
 Helen had somewhat arranged the bed rooms during the day, and they were quite fit for occupancy. Helen chose the front room, but George preferred the rear, as from the windows he could keep an eye on the barn. They were soon in the Land of Nod. but their slumbers were rudely disturbed by a chorus of howls and yells that seemed to come from the direction of the woodpile.
 ..I'll bet there's wolf in the trapi'' cried George. as he sprang from bed and rushed to the window. That is a very good place for it." said Helen, as she came to his side They could see several shadowy forms fit ting about near where the trap lay, and
 4txx howIs would be repeated As they looked George and Helen saw an immense object numbering along through the shadows. The slighter forms drew back and gathered to- gether.
 "Oh, what a shot at the bunch" whis- pered George. "I will kill more than one, and will probably frighten them so that they will never come back, anyhow"
 He got his shotgun, softly raised the win dow, and, cautiously slipping the gun barrel over the sill, fired at the. snarling group of shadowy forms. They melted away as if by magic, and without a sound but there came a frightful roar from the more bulky figure by the woodpile. Then it, too, shambied slowly on into the darkness and disap- peared.
 Did you hit |" asked Helen anxiously.
 ''I don't know," replied her brother. ''I seeu to have frightened them away. I wonder what that great hulking thing was. It looked like monster turtle."
 The youngsters were too much excited to resume their slumbers just then, and George wanted to go out to the woodpile and see what effect his fusillade had had. Helen would not hear of it, for she said there might be some dreadful beast prowl- ing about, and, besides. she was afraid to
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THE END OF
 A STAGE FIGHT.

{. Me. Lyall Swete is a young English actor. but his exceptional height proved, on a cer- tain occasion he is not likely to forget, rather disadvantage. It was during his apprenticeship to the stage, when he was playing villain in a melodrama, says Answers. The company gave show in n tiny .tbeater, with particularly narrow stage. The pit and gallery were crowded, but only one quiet little old gentleman was to be seen in the stalls. Mir. Swete made his first entrance hurriedly, and had his hat knocked of by the front sky border The stage manager, after consoling him, added !: Work up the fight in the last act. It ought to get three calls at least" MT. Swete worked it up, and when the hero knocked him down he did grand back fall, with his head toward the audience. There was silence, then roar of laughter. Mir. Swete was greatly puzzled till he heard the soft voice of the quiet little stallite murmuring gently, Excuse me, sir, but your hair Is on firew So the villain took his head out of the footights, and the audience gave the little old gentleman round of applause.
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move, but his stiffness availed him nothing In few minutes the creature extended an enormous paw, entirely covered with blacA fur, and after two or three preliminary shivers, thrust 1t Into the water and downt down until it reached and caught the frightf ened turtle who was tossed out of his prison and on to the floor. Of course, he drew himt self as far as possible into his shell, and thiss as it chanced, was the very best thing that he could have done, for the creature sprang after him and sniffed around him for somG time, but, finding nothing but hard shelly at length left him where he had fallen and strolled away.
 For some time later the turtle lay quietly on the floor; then, finding that all was silents he ventured to take peep at the world. Al careful survey showed him that no one was In the room, so he scuttled across the foor and out of the door as fast as his crooked little legs would carry him.
 A turtle seems to know instinctively how to get out of house, so this lit .le fellow at once made for the stairs. down which, not being accustomed to such conveniences, he fell with a tremendous humping. Severab members of the family looked out into the hall to sc the cause of the noise, but, for4 tunately, it was rather dark, so they did not see MT. Turtle lying on his back on the rug, and he, after few moments SD cnt in trying to collect his scattered thoughts, stumpeG out of the open door, down the gravel paths. and headed, straight as a die, for the pond which had been his matching place.
 It may be imagined what an excitement his return created among the other turtles, and how admiringly they listened to the story of h tc odv nd fhof tad frrtI always thereafter the first to give the alarm when an enemy appeared in sight. :; FLORENCE A. EVANS. :
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Once there was little turtle who lived with number of little brothers and sisters, just like himself in fine muddy pond. They were very pretty little turtles, black with yellow spots, and their residence was very fine one for turtles; indeed, there were only two drawbacks to their complete enjoyment of life. One was that little turtles must keep out of the way of big ones, even their own parents, or they may have to pay the penalty with their lives (for turtles are can nibals), and the other was that boys with nets on long poles sometimes came and cap- tured the incautious inhabitants of the pond What became of the unfortunates carried away by the two-legged monsters no one knew, but dreadful whisper went the rounds of the pond that they were made into soup and devoured. So, when the little turtle heard the splash that meant "hide alp from the sentinel frogs who were al ways posted on the bank, he and his little brothers and sisters would burroT into the soft mud at the bottom of the pond till neither their pretty yellow s7sts nor their bright eyes were visible, and there they would lie hidden until quite certain that the danger was passed.
 Now, whether the little turtle whose story this is was more curious or more incautious than his fellows, who can say? At any rate, he one day sat so long on fine sunny log, gazing lazily at the wielders of the long handled net, that when he at last attempted to slide off into the water and conceal him self, as had been his wont, he found that it was too late.
 With shout of triumph the two manipu- lators of the net drew 1t toward them, and the poor frightened little turtle was thrust carelessiy into the trousers-pocket of one of the boys, where he lay for some time, shaking in his shell, and wishing that he
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Tbe Babes in the Woods.
Iv.-NEw FRIENDS.

George was very much ashamed of his mistake in shooting turkey buzzard for wild turkey, and Helen was terribly disap- pointed in the fine meal that she had 'antict- pated. She regarded, too, the time and trouble she had expended in cooking the worthless bird. However, the three fin ished their supper on timed meats. which were a real luxury to the mountaineer, for MT. Dobbins was accustomed to an alternate diet of game and salt pork He asked ques- tions continuously throughout the meal, and at its conclusion said abruptly:
 .'Guess we won't have t waste tn bug gard after all. Maught use him t ketch wolf. They's ten dollars bounty on wolf belts en this county"
 '.Do you catch many?" asked George.
 ''Not many,' was the reply. "They're too cute. Smell tn touch ov a man on a trap en a minnit. But yer sis tells me she seen tracks here by tn house. Reckon they must be usen to small men round here an wouldn't be so scary."
 ..I would like to catch one very much, !" replied George, land I would like to drive them away, too, for I don't think 1t is safe to have them coming around that way"
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had never seen the log, the grateful warmth of whose surface had proved his undoing.
 It was hot and stuffy in the dark pocket, and there were many hard objects to bump against and hurt one, so the turtle took good care to keep well within his shell until he was removed from his uncomfortable position. Then he ventured to put out his head and glance around, but the strange ness of everything that he saw so terrified him that he was glad enough to hide his eyes in the wrinkles of his neck.
 After a time he felt himself dropped into his native element, and then, indeed, he struck out and swan valiantly, never doubt ing that he would early reach his old re- treats, but he soon encountered some trans parent substance which stopped his further progress, and he quickly found that his prison was small one and that he could move but short distance in any direction. He could see no other 7Teature of his kind, and was so lonely and unhappy that he would not even look at the luscious, tempting worms which his captors dropped into the water. For several days he moped in his prison, seldom moving and taking little nos tice of anything that happened.
 But the poor little turtle was not always to endure this solitary captivity. One day something terrible occurred, which, though at the time 1t seemsd the worst thing that could befall him, proved in the end to be very fortunate thing for the prisoner.
 As he lay at the bottom of the water he happened to glance up and saw very strange, and, to him, ferce-looking creature, glaring down at him. It had greenish-yel- low eyes and glared fearfully, and its whiskers, of which it seemed to the poor turtle there was an abnormal quantity, twitched hervously now and then. The turtle was so frightened that he dared not
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stay in the house alone. George was obliged to return to bed without satisfying his curiosity.
 As the sun rose over the mountains and cast the first glow of morning over Eagles Nest, the young inmates were astir. The first thoughts of both were for the turkey buazard-baited trap and the result of Georges shot at the midnight trespassers. They hurried to the woodpile, but there was no dead or trapped wolf there. George was greatly disappointed. "See" he said, "every bit of the bait is gone. They were too cunning to get caught, though" He found some shot marks on the chips and sticks that lay all about. 'I believe must have missed them entirely" he said regret fully.
 George went to the barn to attend to the wants of their one horse, while Helen pre- pared breakfast, and upon his return he found two strangers in the kitchen. One was a boy of his own age, the other girl of 13, who was helping Helen cook the meal, or, rather, allowing Helen to help her. Helen introduced them as Bud and Miss Dobbins, whose father had visited them the night before. They were uncouth in
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Roo-Bird was halfway up. Still, they kept up the chase, and finally the hill became so steep that the Roo-Bird could not roll any higher. It tried its best, but 1t began to roll backward in spite of all it could dos and came rolling down the hill directly toward Peter, Paul and Rolo.
 Any one but a Merry o-Round would have been frightened, but as the Roo Bird rolled past Peter rolled himself up, too; Paul caught hold of the middle of the Roo- Bird with his hands and the middle of Peter with his feet. This made a very good bi- cycle, and if you don't believe it, just look at the figures in the picture; any one will tell you that figures never lie. Rolo jumped on this queer bicycle and rode 1t home. The parents of Peter and Paul were very proud of them, for that was the first Roo Bird that had been caught in great many years.
 We would like our young readers to try and draw picture of the Roo Bird rolling up the hill, with Peter, Paul and Rolo after 1t,
 The one rule to observe is that only curved lines can be used; no straight lines or shade ing allowed.
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THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT

The smallest man in this years batch of conscripts in France comes from Cunel, near Montfaucon, in the Department of the Meuse He is named Emile Mayot, stands only three feet nine and three-quarter inches in height, and weighs 42 pounds in his clothes. He is, however, declared to be constitutionally quite sound, and has never had a days illness in his life. The biggest man comes from the Department of the Herault. He stands six feet six inches, and is named Eugene Casenae.
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coach dog came originally from England
where many years ago it was the custom 10
nave one OF the dogs in attendance not only
on private vehicles, but in many cases ON
the public coaches which preceded the rail-
ways. Whether they were maintained AZ.
watch dogs to guard the vehicles from
thieves while the owners were temporarily
absent or whether they were merely an
ornamental appendage to the rig is OBJ
scured in mystery. At any rate, everybody
had them and therefore, of course. eVery-
body else had TO have them, and the coach
dog was a prominent feature of every
stable. But 1. il be true that every dog
has his day the coach dog certainly has
had his and the sun has set upon it
When they were finally dropped they
must have been dropped pretty hard-hard
enough TO take all the life out of them.
Probably the custom fell into disuse I'm Eng
land and in time that action had its reflex
in this country, those who adopted The
style from the English making haste TO
initiate them in its abandonment Dog
dealers in this city say they do not handle
coach dogs because nobody wants them. II
there should be a revival of the style for
the spotted dogs a careful search and en-
HANGED prices would probably bring to light
enough specimens to stock all the stables
in town within the course of few years,
but just now nobody seems to worry much
about what has become of them or whether
they ever will get new lease OF life.
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COACH DOGS PASSING AWAY.
Spotted CANNES No Longer Seen
TrOttinE Behind Carriages.

Who ever sees coach dog trotting along
under a carriage nowadays? What has be-
come of the spotted animals which a gem
Grafton ago were considered component
part of a swell turnout? Something must
certainly have occurred to remove all the
coach dogs from human ken, for of a score
Of people asked the question few days
ago not one remembered having seen
coach dog for many years, and, strangely
enough, not one had observed their pa ssing
away.
The time was, not so very long ago, when
nearly every stable in the city with any
pretensions TO style supported a coach dog
"a thin dog with long-pointed muzzle and
its body covered with black and white
spots. 1t lived in the stable with the horses,
slept in the stalls with them and accom-
panied the carriages on their whirls over
the boulevards. Sometimes the dog was
chained to the rear axle and thus ii trotted
decorously along beneath the rig and again
it was allowed to follow its own bent, run
ming ahead of the horses leaping playfully
at their noses or trailing along a block
two behind the carriage.
But of a sudden the fashion for coach
dogs seemed to die out and with il went the
dogs-or most of them. They may have
been killed off or given TO deserving poor
families to support or turned over to the
dog catchers. Whatever their fate, they
disappeared and dog fanciers say there is
absolutely no call for them. They went the
way of all things which get out of fashion
into mere oblivion. Here and there one
of the spotted beauties may be found in
livery stable, the pet of the hostlers, and
kept there for its rat-killing faculties. but
as a part of fashionable Stable equipments
they have passed into the discard.
That fact, however, does not answer the
other question, what has become of them?
1t is easy enough TO imagine their non-ap-
pearance with carriages or their absence
from the stables of the wealthy. But II
seems strange that the breed should prac-
tically disappear merely because 1t became
questionable. As a matter of fact
fashionable things in other walks of life
are usually the most numerous-babies, for
instance Something must have operated to
greatly reduce the output of coach dogs,
but what it is no fellow seems able to find
out.
1t may be that the generation of coach
dogs which actually suffered the humilia-
ton of being turned out of house and home
became so detected that it went away and
died in some neglected alley without CIV
ing to the world the heritage of a new
| generation. 1t may be that the breed be-
came SO crossed with other breeds that the
| type has almost disappeared even in the
brief time since 1t ceased to be the proper
thing to have coach dogs. However 1t is.
the dogs are gone.
Like many other fads and fashions. the
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HUGE STEEL FRAME
Progress of the New Government
Printing Office.
WILL Be COMPLETED IN JUNE, 1902
The Estimated Cost Will Be
$2,42e,o00.
TO BE A MODEL OF ITS CLASS

An important stage in the progress of the
construction Of the new government print
ing office has been reached. The steel work
has been completed to the floor of the top
story, leaving only the steel frame forming
the loft and roof TO be added all of which
will be completed in about six weeks. The
building will probably be ready to be oc-
cupied by the public printer about June l.,
1902, and it will then be the most complete
and by far the largest workshop of the
kind in the world.
The new government printing office build
ing fronts 4OS feet on G street, and 175A
feet on North Capitol street The building
forms an Oblong and has an interior court,
20 by 16S feet. 1t is seven stories in height,
is perfectly fireproof and in order to pro-
vide for the great amount Of machinery 1t
will contain, it will probably be the strong
est steel building in existence.
The estimate for the building is s., i23, 900
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Concerning Neckwear.


Everything depends upon how woman
dresses her neck. whether she looks well or
not, and women who study the subject Of
looking their best bestow the greatest
amount of attention on what might be
thought to be the frivolous details OF 4
stock collar. They are very careful never
to wear with a plain shirt waist tie that
by rights belongs TO q more elaborate silk
waist, ETC.; but especially are they careful
as to the height of the collar. A woman at
all inclined to be stout, when she wears
too high and too tight collar. shows her
defect much more clearly than when she
wears low collar and one that does ct
fit too tightly. As a rule the shaped collar
is the best lower in front than at me
back. and with tie pulled well down in
front If a woman has a long neck she
can, as rule, look much smarter than
her short-necked sister for she can wear
any sort of collar and tie provided only it
is high enough. Just now the long hand
kerchiefs wound once or twice around the
neck and tied In the front either I'm Etifr
bows in long ends are considered par
ticularly smart. but the soft lace ties sn1
those OF chiffon with the lace ends arc so
becoming that they are always In fashion.
There must be a line Of either black or
white around the throat-that is one of tho
present rules. and the little touch of con-
J trast Is quite effective and, as a rule be-
coming.
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the interior court and the driveway When
the building begun it was believed that
it would be completed in three years or in
March. 1902. but there was some delay in
obtaining the steel work and certain of
the bricks, there being nearly 1900 COO
faced brick of three Kinds to go in the
building. The delay will not be greater
than three months.
Masses of Brick and Steel.
When completed the great building will
contain 10,oG0.0e0 b-iek and about 10, 900, eoa
pounds of steel.
AS many $40 steel columns will be
used to support the weight, and it Il esti-
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and expenditures up to the present time in
dictate that the cost will be within that
amount AS it stands today the building
has cost 100000. which includes the mas
siye and expensive concrete foundation
necessary to carry the great weight.
Construction Authorized.
The construction of the building was ati-
thorized March g. 1899 at which time the
engineer department of the army did not
lave single live drawing for the build
ing except tentative plans for the ground
space. Lieutenant J. s.. Sewell, United
States army, was placed In charge of the