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he II am going to see a bit OF the
world" So, dragging his house after
him. he started.
Just then a big butterfly came nut-
tering BY.
Good morning. Mr.. Snail" said the
butterfly as she poised above the stone
where Master Snail was summing him
self. Il don't believe I've seen you
about here before"
DO you come by here often? 1t
doesn't seem to me that I've noticed
you before either" replied Master Snail
automatically. He was ashamed to ad-
nit that he was not used to going
about by himself
The butterfly. too. decided to change
the subject. 1t had been only day or
two since she emerged from the chrys-
ais and took her place in an aristo-
cratic circle of butterfly life. She did
not like to remember that she had once
been a humble caterpillar But she
looked at the snail closely. His house
arrested her interest That must be
his chrysalis. NO doubt after a few
days he win come out Of it nice but
terfiy like myself. He knows all about
it. so there is no use pretending" So
she said to the snail: II suppose you
viii soon be one Of us. I see you are
spinning your chrysalis''
Master Snail had never before heard
the word chrysalis, 50 he asked, What
is that?'
oh" responded Madam Butterfly
airily, when a caterpillar or any SINH
lar crawling insect gets old enough it
spins house around itself, hangs upon
a leaf and goes to sleep. Then. by and
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our shells as quickly as possible and
there wait until danger is passed
Young Snail did not agree with his
father. He declared. Time and tide
wait for no snail" Then his father
quoted. The more hurry the less
speed" And they We're even on argu-
ments.
The snails lived each in his little
brown shell. with its spiral staircase.
up which he backed in case of danger.
Eyes were set high over the neshy
head on two long stalks called tenta-
eles. which could be drawn in when the
snail fed before an enemy An aper-
ture in the side OF the shell allowed the
snail to breath the fresh air when hid
den inside The little mouth was just
below the second or lower tentacIes.
which were smaller than the pair on
which the eyes were erected. The
mouth. supplied with a hard. stiff upper
lip. slightly notched. was able to bite
or pieces Of foliage from the leaf on
IS hich the snail CHANGED to be- The
tiny creature moved over the ground
ly a singular contraction of the mus
o4es. tne shell on its back being carried
along with it.
One day Young Snail decided that he
would crawl about little in the sun.
Pm tired living under these damp
leaves with no other companions tnan
old fogy snails slugs and worms said
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ASPECTS OF THE PINES.

Tall, somber, grim, against this morning SKY
They rise, scarce touched by melancholy airas
Which stir the fadeless foliage dreamiully
As Il from realms Of mystical despair.
Tan, somber, grim, they stand with dusky CLEANS
Frightening to gold within the woodlands core
Beneath the gracious noontide's tranquil beams.
But the weird winds Of norning sigh ne mere
A stiffness strange, divine, inedabIss
Broods round and Ger them in the Winds l1r-
cease,
And on each tinted copss and shimmering dsii
Rests the mute rapture Of deep kaartsd Psaea.
Last sunset comes, the solemn Joy and might
Borne from the west when ciOudlesa day de-
clines;
Low, autelike breezes sweep the waves Of light
And, lifting dark green tresses Of thu pines
Till every lock is luminous, gently hoat,
Fraught with hale odors up the heavens siaR
To faint when twilight on her virginal throat
Wears for a gem thu tremulous vesper star
Paul Hamilton Hayna.
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Peculiar Fishing Methods.

The natives of Tetuila, one Of the is
lands of Oceania. have a peculiar meth
cd of catching fish. At a given signal
all the inhabitants of the village as
semble on the seashore to the number
of about 200 pesons. each one carrying
a branch of the cocoa palm. With
these in their hands they plunge into
the water and swim a certain distance
from the shore. when they turn, form
ing a compact semicfrcle, each one
holding his palm perpendicular in the
water, thus making a sort of sieve. The
leader of the party then gives a signal.
and the fishers all approach the shore
gradually in perfect order, driving be-
fore them q multitude of fishes that are
cast on the sands and killed with sticks.
The fish are then cooked over hot
Goals and served with bananas and CO.
coanut milk.
The scene is most picturesque and in
teresting, the effect being heightened
by the appearance of the natives, who
usually have their hair powdered white.
the warriors in the tribe having theirs
powdered red. Wreaths are worn upon
the heads and round the necks.
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wines and red. The servants bowed
down before him. and the proprietor
upon the event of his starting for the
ascent of some gigantic hill the sum-
nit of which looked down on clouds
handed him his alpenstock, which
when not in use hung from a shining
hook in the hall.
When he had spoken those few vel
come words in her native tongue, he
bent benevolent blue eye on Kitty and
observed her awhile
You look pale.'' he said 81 think
humph-that it's because you don't
drink the wine. Why-humph-don'
you drink the wine?''
The question was more pointed than
he thought. Upon SO short an acquaint-
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5oWsu Town De benevolent blue eye, she
iols NM replied:
In America we rarely drink wine, we
women. quite as if that were the only
reason why.
"Humph!'' Take little with me-" he
insisted, and for fear of being classed
with those violent prohibition women
who go about with angry temperance
partly. too, because the wine was white
and dubbed in the glass, she took a sip
and still another sip until it came to be
that she regularly assisted The Gentle
man in the drinking of his wine every
night at dinner and oftentimes at 1
o'clock at dejeuner-
1t was at that first dinner that the
head waitress-the gentleman called
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SOME ANONYMOUS BOOKS
CREDITED TO ROYALTY.

A few years ago a book was given to
the world which at the time created a
considerable sensation. This book was
a novel, smart and original in every
way. and many were the conjectures as
to the authorship of It. At one time IL
was seriously thought by several who
were really in the know that the
Prince of Wales had written this book,
and consequently H. R. H was daily
asked whether he was the author.
One day the Duke of Connaught, stay
ing at Sandringham. said to the Prince
of Wales. his brother: MANY people
think that you have written this novel
I wish you would tell me. Have you
written it?"
H r. H smiled and replied, Now.
do you for one moment imagine that
have?"
mo. 1 don't" promptly replied the
plain spoken duke. Il always told my
friends that you never wrote It. Why.
the book was written by a marvelously
clever mani"
A political novel now having a great
sale in Germany is thought by very
many of the fatherland's greatest au-
thors to have been written by the en-
psaor himself. This novel is called THE
God and the Kaiser" and up to the
present time the author OF the book IS
unknown.
"Of course the emperor never wrote
this book, The God and the Kaiser "
said a young officer to some OF his SEN
Tors a few weeks ago.
why. how on earth do you know"
queried some brother officers to whom
the statement had been made.
We'll" was the reply. amy duffer,
think, might know that the emperor
never wrote The God and the Kaiser
If he had written It, he would have
called it The Kaiser and the Godl'"
When a very daintily written little
book of "love songs" came out some
four or five years ago and no one could
guess the author of these lyrics. it was
for a time generally believed that the
Duchess of Cornwall and York was the
writer of the poems.
A lady. a we'll known woman of let
tiers, by the way, who was staying as a
guest at York House, said to the Ouch
ess, II have carefully read through this
book of poems, which s now being SC
greatly discussed, ana there is one son.
net in the book which really think
your royal highness has written
''Indeedi'' replied the duchess. very
much surprised. And what IS this par.
ticular sonnet called?"
1.-THE sonnet is a delightfully."- written
one. 1t is the one called Knitted
Souls replied the lady OF letters
dreamily.
Knitted Souls indeed" exclaimed
the merry, practical duchess, laurhfna
heartily. Knitted SouIsl' Now IN Il
had been anything to do with knitted
socks you might well have thought /
had written it"
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Powered hat--and held out both her
hands.
Il am sorry to leave it, she said.
land you
Then the cab drove past the rows of
man-high hollyhocks out into the mist.
(which enveloped now not only the
mountains. but the hollyhoclzs and The
Gentleman, about whose white head it
shone, Kitty thought. with something
like the glow of halo.
1T is just as well,'' she said to her
self. that he is old and gray and I am
going. or should have ended by falling
in love with him.
Turning her head. she looked back.
but she could not see him. The way be-
tween was mist, all mist
Gratitude is a flower of love-" she
finished, talking into the mist that
has been known at times to burst into
full bloom. am not so sure but that
I'm half in love with him as it Isl
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OF LLIE uegIeCL OF Lne
maid who cleaned up her room some
where about the middle of the after
noon, Notwithstanding the overf1Iled
condition of the hotels and her innate
consciousness that under the existing
circumstances she should have consid-
cred herself fortunate in having found
any sort of place to lay her head, she
was covertly looking about her for an
other location when The Gentleman
came. took a seat next her at table and
spoke to her in English-English faint
ed somewhat by a rich Germanic &C
cent, but English.
He was old, The Gentleman, he was
gray, and experimenting the German
accent was a strange and peculiar halt
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III was the height of the season, the
Alpine glow was on the Jungfrau,
and the town was filed to over
flowing when Kitty Ogden, alone
THAT is, without membranes 9TH
er than two satchels, an alpenstock, an
tim hrella and a camera-arrfved at In
terlalSen and implored admittance at a
hotel.
Now. Kitty, who throughout Switzer-
land had been passed like a precious
parcel from pension to pension by anx-
ious and affectionate friends, was not
aware of the fact that at public hotels
in that country it is different There,
as rule, those of the feminine gender
who voyage seule Gravel alone) are
set down as either impostors or Ameri-
cans.
After some years of residence abroad.
Kitty had unhappily lost that distinct
i've air which sets one spIendidly apart
as an American and gives her the right
to travel alone in Switzerland or other
where Whether it was her gown-sin-
PIE enough in all conscience, but Pari-
sian-or her hat. her manner of dress
ing her hair or her shoes that had done
away with it she found it impossible to
say, but it was gone. She felt a certain
sense Of desoladon at its loss, which
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ShOne upon them, nor
because of the tiny hill nearer to her
over which the clouds flung themselves
and chung caressingly, so low down
that she might almost have tiptoed
and caught handfuls of them If she
had tried. but because of The Gentle
man.
AS she might have expected. he made
a little fete of her last dinner. ordering
the fraulein to open bottles of cham
payne, which the party that had climb
ed the mountains with them drank with
resonant clinking of glasses, wishing
her bon voyage and a happy return on
the following year, to the intense ad-
miration of those at the other end of
the table. who looked smilingIy and
champagnelessIy on
At that dinner every time she glanced
at The Gentleman she found him glanc-
ing at her.
Why do you leave Interlaken2'' he
asked at length. 'Lucern,'' for that
was her destination, ''is-humph-not
half so nice a place. It is a city You
can find everywhere cities. but not ev-
erywhere a place set in q nest Of dns
hills like Interlaken-"
He looked at her again
Besides he added, this place be-
comes you. When you hrst came. you
were pale and thin Now your cheeks
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IEaUIII5 UL LUesC give
her some little comfort,
it failed to cure entirely
her individual hurt,
which was of such a ma
ture that, what with the
supercilious glances of
the tall and thin haired
mistress, the inattention
of the head waitress, a
Dutch girl who assumed
an air of proprietorship
equal if not superior to
that of the proprietor
him saIf u .nn nn+l,inn
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for that room of hers, The Gentle
man = well. it was difficult to say
just what he was paying for his, look
ing as it did straight out on to the Al
pine glow, but Kitty, unduly sensitive,
perhaps. laid it to the fact that she
was suspected Of being whatever that
was they suspected her of being. With
slight laugh and a shrug of her Shout
ders, she passed it by. but The Gentle
man stared in amazement. He not only
stared He blazed up in her defense
'k'ranlein." he cried in voice that
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her F'rauleln did an
uncomfortable thing.
Kitty's plate had been
laid for her dessert; The
Gentleman's had not;
seeing which. the frau
lein snatched her plate
and placed it with ella boz
rate courtesy before The
Gentleman. This may
have been due to the
fact that. though, ac-
cording to Kitty's ideas
of prices. she was pay
ing more than enough
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ing to see that the mat
ter was conducted exact
ly to suit his taste, and
not until Kitty had been
helped abundantly to
cream and cake and to
tiny CONNECTIONS like
wise. wrapped in paper
of tissue and silver that
glittered, did he wait on
himself.
From that moment he
who was a parsonage of
importance constituted
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are rosy and your eyes are bright
Humph, your eyes are bright
Kitty laughed.
TT is not the place. she told him.
1T is your care of me and the drinking
of your wine''
1t was early when she left, so early
that the mist hid the Jungfrau and all
the other mountains, but The Gentleman
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AAA1C IL " d. ILL tOe1lA III
for Kitty to explain
that, though her room
looked out on a snow
less and green mountain
not any too high, the
price thereof was Of
such a height as to prac-
tically exclude the con-
SUI Q tion of wines,
white, red or otherwise
So. with a smile and an
answering glance at the
han e1raIan IaIl1a eve she
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one suspected. Confronting her, nailed
upon the walls of her room, were three
separate notices in as many different
languages to the effect that the guests
must guard their valuabIes, beWaring
not SO much of the servants employed,
whose characters were guaranteed, as
of their fellow guests. whose charac-
tiers were not guaranteed. Though the
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Platte in search OF HOW
ers for her which grew
out OF reach of the COM
mon herd. He pulled
them up by the roots,
these fine, rare flowers,
that she might have the
pleasure of replanting
and watching them
grow, and sent the now
humble fraulein with
them to her room.
Not being possessed of
a square inch of soil in
the whole round world in
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was up to see her or.
He followed her through
the row of servants, who
received her parting
gifts benignly as if they
had served her we'll from
the first and stood at
the step of the cab.
Il wish you could have
staid awhile longer" he
reiterated. This place
becomes you so"
Kitty laughed again
he talked of the place as
if it were a ribbon or a
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fr1endless Kitty, who was a parsonage
of no Importance at all. He watched
over her; he protected her Smoothing
out the rough places. he made the path
pleasant for her in small ways and in
great.
He demanded that the frauIein serve
their first breakfast out on the veranda,
from which the early view of the jung
frau was something calculated to take
away the breath-Kitty had hitherto
been excluded from this precious priv
ilege, accorded only to the more
wealthy of the guests-and thereafter
each morning found them duly instated
in large wicker chairs before a round
white table, worshiping, while the fes-
tive bees from out the man-high holly
hooks on the walk sWarmed into their
honey and rescued themselves with diff
f1culty, only to drown ANONYMOUSLY
later on in the dark brown depths Of
their coffee cups.
An inveterate climber. he made up
parties for long walks up high noun
tains, ordering their lunch in a manner
which exacted obedience swift footed
and prompt.
He escorted them up the bucketIike
way back home over II miles of noun
tain road which fortunately descended,
and when Kitty, unaccustomed to II
mile walks on the spur of the moment.
without the glimpse of a warning was
laid up on the following day, with every
bone aching, he assembled the Schnige
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The sOrghies, told playmate travelling the
Were
to
Into stepped, Candy
He hope car craft
thing safety watt"
Land retired, which
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tsrIslan lavishly embroidered in
old. raised gold. with a
black mantilla and a gorgeous, slowly
waving fan, but never once had she
been taken for American.
Found lacking in the American
stamp, she was therefore an impostor
Women are not so destitute OF that
intuitive faculty which leads them to
know what people think as the world
at large is led to suppose, and Kitty. be-
fore she had passed the night at Inter
laken, was quite as much alive to the
tact that she was suspected of being an
impostor-a petty thief. perhaps or a
downright burglar with 3 deadly mid
night lantern concealed In the depths OF
her valise-as she was to the fact that
she was not
1t seemed that she was not this only
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He HEARD A FAMILIAR NOISE.
by. it comes out beautiful winged
crea ture.
How NIGEL" exclaimed the snail.
With wings I could get over the
ground much quicker"
TO be sure" assented Madam But
terhy, and more gracefully There is
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startled his neighbors thereabout, why
did you do that? Put the plate back at
once and serve this lady first
It was good then to see the meekness
with which the fraulein put the plate
back and filed it, The Gentleman watch
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HOW DO THEY GROVE

This is only blade of grass
But how does it grow2 Does any knowR
The seasons come, and the seasons pass,
And with every year the grass have here
So green and bright in the and rain,
And then it is brown when the comes down,
But young and fresh in the spring again.
These are only five little girls;
But how do they grown Does any one knowf
With hair OF gold and teeth OF pearl,
From babies they Will grow to be
Maidens fair the blooming rose,
But one can say. day follows day,
How blade OF grass a little girl grows
JumbIed Names of Kinds of Marbles.
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LGLCADDBAKAO PNIE INTER-
TOALEBLCRE SLHLE
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+ ETO SR "A A r r re
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PM R IN SAE
ARPRMEOED E E z E N TN
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Solution of JurnbIed Names of south
and Central American States.
Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ar
gentine, Guatemala, Ecuador. Uruguay.
Nicaragua, Paraguay. Honduras
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cndnSS was que TO the
courtesy of The Cen
tleman who had consti-
tuted himself her knight.
At the end of the week
she who had thought to
hate the place regretted
leaving it, not because
of the Alpine glow on
the Jungfrau, nor be-
cause of the intervening
mountains that showed
dark blue in the dawn,
changing to emerald
green when the sunlight
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was destined to be in
creased On her jour
ney she had been taken
for French, for italian,
for Egyptian, and one
Spaniard who talked
with her between two
stations had dubbed her
50 persistently "senorita"
that she had fallen to
picturing herself indo-
lently reclining upon a
much bepillowed couch
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Johnny, if you subtract one from opa
how many remain?" asked the teacher
of a small pupil.
"One.'' answered Johnny.
mo" replied the teacher. zone from
one leaves nothing"
We'll" replied the youthful philosO-
pher, IF you subtract one apple from
one plate isn't there one plate Ieft2''
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Kitty wrapped them carefully in a bit
Of paper and put them away with her
best clothes in her big valise- When
ever she shook crumbs Of rich black
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The highest church steeple In the
world is that Of the Cathedral OF Anti
werp-476 feet.
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---ao1+1e VI Took a seat next
- ne was d per her at table
hotel He occupied a room looking out
on the Jungfrau, while her window gave
upon some obscure green mountain
whose name was hardly worth men
tiOning.
lie drank hne wines at dinner-white
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that it behooved all of his kind to be
cautious For" said he. If pursued
we have small hope of safety in flight
Our only salvation then is to retire into
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THE YOUTH OF FAMOUS FOLK

& ::' 6: 6; =4. :: e: !: !:
family had long been distin-
guished in the public affairs OF
the state. his uncle. the Hon. Robert
Young Hayne. having been opposed to
Daniel Webster on the notification
question in what was perhaps the most
famous oratoricaI battle In this ooun-
try.
Paul was the only son of a naval ofii-
Ger. who died at sea, and his uncle, the
famous orator, who was at this time
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lIldL vas OCCdsIUMdIIy
distressing But from
the first Kitty called
him by his title of Gen
tleman, this knight of
hers who had come
bravely to her assist
ance, gallant as any
knight of old to the res
cue of his lady, armed.
equipped. booted and
Spurred.
Being a gentleman OF
Uanltl.
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it up to devote himself to 1itera-
ture, for which he had long had a taste.
He edited RusselIs Magazine and the
Charleston Literary Gazette. William
Gilmore Sfmms and Henry Timrod were
his friends, and the three brilliant men
made Charleston a great literary CEN
ter. When the civil war broke out.
Hayne enlisted in the Confederate ar
my. but his delicate health did not per-
NIT him to see much service. When
Charleston was bombarded, his house,
library and art treasures were burned.
Impoverished in fortune, he went to
Georgia at the end of the struggle
and supported his family by his literary
work His health soon began to fail,
and on July G, 1886. he died in Augusta,
Ga. His poems are characterized by an
exquisite refinement and beauty Of iIn-
3gerv
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SLOW Old Snail lived under a
damp log IN a wood. He had
a son who was inclined to
liveliness. This greatly dis
turbed his sedate and elderly
father. Old Snail believed