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INSTRUCTIONS.

l. Get a few active members and form a circle.
q Meet once in weeks.
s. Give your circle fitting name as for In
stance. the Children's League. the C. L. Helping
Hand Circle. Always uss the c. l.. with the name
you decide uDon In order to keep In close touch
with the central movement.
f. Elect president, a secretary and a treasurer
and librarian.
s. Make your rules In harmony with the
pledge you send your president.
g. Send monthly report Of all you do to the
childrrn'S secretary. with names. age and address
of each member written on the coup this pag.
l. Keep ON call in your treasury the amount you
pormise on your pledge to try to earn save, and
when an emergency arises your president will let
you know whcre to send this fund Report monthly
g. Keep separate fund for local work and for
the work connected with this page. We will tell
you from time to time in to your letters
where and how you find negnborhoOd oppor-
tunlties for pleasant loC al work.
g. All members should Join In our contests and
win our prizes, this is means for trying to
make you happy In return for your kind cffortsfor
Others. and through which we are helping you get
your own library and recrea ton centers You must
watch this page to learn how are doing this
10. Adults may join league IL they will work
with US The league has thousands of members
adults and children all over the world.
IL Use part Of your fund to buy a book once q
month for your circle library select your books
from the lists publish.
IL Address all letters to
THE CUILDREN'S EDITOR.
The Evening Star. Washington. d. c.
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Dear Aunt Dorothy:

Dear Aunt Dorothy:
l have been here since last Saturday.
thought you would like to know about my
visit. l got here by coming on the Forest
Glen electric car to where it turns to go up
to Forest Glen. There 1 met the gentle
man to whose house l was going, and
drove six or nine miles to his home, Rock
hill farm. The farm is very large, con-
tanning about 300 acres. There are large
fields of waving corn and wide pasture
fields, where the cattle and pretty white
sheep quietly Craze rest in the cool
shade under the trees Then there are the
pretty groves, with little streams running
through them, and in one of these groves is
the ram which pushes forces the water
up to the tank. which in turn supplies the
house, garden. stable and barn yard with
water. There is a large plowed field ready
to receive the wheat for next years crop.
The grass in a nearby field has just been
cut for the second time this season, as
there have been two crops of grass. The
grass field from a distance looks like a
beautiful smooth lawn. large vegetable
garden occupies a small field near the
house and next 1t is a large chicken yard,
in which live the chickens, turkeys, guinea
fowls. three white fan-tailed pigeons and
one little yellow duck. Back of this is the
apple orchard. and on side of the
house are the peach and pear orchards, side
by side. Now 1 will tell you what / do
One day l helped to drag hay. 1 help to
silk corn and play with Puck, the dog, and
little Richard. little boy who lives here.
l go driving. sometimes to church and
sometimes visiting. One day l went to the
ice pond with my friends, Ida and Mabel,
and We got a watermelon and canteloupe
from the patch near by. Both, however
proved to be unripe. l watcn the feeding
of the poultry. hogs and Princess Jane, the
dear little colt She is a little beauty.
wouldn't you like to know about the ami
mails? There are eight big, strong horses
ana the colt, almost too many pigs to
count, seven cows, about thirty nice fat
cattle and forty or fifty woolly sheep. Do
you not think it a lovely farm? 1t is
about twenty miles from the city, on the
7th street pike. Hoping you will like my
account enough to publish 1t, remain,
Your true little friend,
ELSIE NJ Y, age b.
Rockhill Farm. Oakdale,
Montgomery Co.. Md.
P. S-You must address me 1902 Penn
sylvania avenue southeast. Washington
d. c., as return home next week E.
MARY'S PONY
1t was little Mary Browns birthday. She
was ten years old that day. She wished
very much for a pony and a little carriage
to go with 1t. Mary could hardly get to
| sleep the night before. she was SO very
! happy. When she awoke next morning
| she heard a rafting out in the yard. She
looked out OF her window and saw a little
brown pony dragging carriage. Oh. how
delighted she was! II know that's my
birthday present." she said. So she hur-
down to breakfast Her father meant to
surprise her. so he said: Mary. go down
into the stable and see what's there for
you" Not q second had passed when Mary
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Buzz and Button.
AHotHeT StOry ADOut The Little Lady
tBy Albert Bigelow Paine.)

Wy IaiDeTt i1lSelow Pa1He.D
(Copyri,ht, 1901, by II. Altemus Coz
Across the street from the House of
Many Windows there is another house with
a green lawn. and in this house there lives
another little lady who is the happy owner
OF two little dogs, just such little dogs as
the Little Lady would like to own. The
names of these little dogs are Buzz and
Button. and once upon a time they had
very great adventure. The Little Lady
knows all about it. and now am going to
tell IL TO you, so We will all know about
the great adventure of Buzz and Button.
Buzz was SO named because when he was
very small puppy he sometimes used to
make a queer little sound like a humble
bee. and Button got his name because he
had round, black spot like a collar but
ton on his throat. Except for this spot both
of the little woolly dogs who lived and play
ed together in a big green yard were snow
white.
They were very lucky little dogs. When
they were taken away from their NAM
ma. as they were one day. they had come
to live in this beautiful green lawn, in
which there was the beautiful big house
and a still more beautiful little lady who
petted them and often took them to drive
in her pony carriage. They had g. bath al
most every day. TOO, which they did not
like so well. but it kept them white and
silky they did not make much fuss about
it some children do.
What they liked best was PLAYING on the
big green lawn. chasing eacn other around
and around, and rolling ovar and over down
the little terrace next to the fence. Often
their little mistress would sit out on a pret-
ty rustic seat and watch them, and some
times, when they pretended TO be fighting
they growled and made such a noise that
she lectured them on their manners. Then
for while they were very proper and dig
nified little dogs.
Buzz and Button had been warned q
great many times not to play down by the
fence. l am not sure shat they had rot
once been punished for this very thing
and 1 know they had been scolded for It
very often. The fence WAS low. and their
mistress told them that 1t would be quite
easy for some wicked person to reach over
and kidnap one of them, and perha pS both.
They knew this as well as She did when
they thought about 1t, but they forgot 1t
SO often and then the terrace was such q
nice place to roll down. one over the other,
growing and barking. to the very bottom,
which was against the fence But Buzz
and Button disobeyed. or forgot once too
often. for one day. when their little mis-
tress was dressing to take them out for a
nice drive, and they were rompinE and
felt himself seized roughly from above. ard
Button felt quick grab that just missed
| his tail as he scampered up the slope.
| ing out with fear. When he had reached
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10

dow and said. 81 am the Princess Chloro-
phyll. and this Is the treasure I bring to
you;" and she shook the golden pollen from
Prince Crystal and Prince Noneron. They
cannot live without me, SO have come to
help them as well as you. love the under
world and all its treasures, just as much as
love this beautiful upper world. So will
rule the middle kingdom. and all the flow
ers and trees and grain and grasses shall
be my care. Now watch and see what hap
pens" Then the lovely Princess Chloro-
phyll stretched one small slender hand
down into the dark earth. and gave one to
Prince Noneron, who was standing near.
and loi the two brothers and the little SIS
ter were again united and all the world
smiled with beauty and love.
Then the Princess Chaos kissed the Prin-
cess Chlorophyll and went back into her
palace of clouds and mist. How can l
sleep" she said. for my work is DONE
And the wind sang her a lullaby.-Kinder-
garten Review.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
Rabbits as Acrobats.
From the London Daily News.

From the London Daily News.
The rat is. and no one will doubt, a very
fair climber. He can scamper about any
where in the roof Of a barn or can ascend
the Ivy that grows on the house wall, and
makes the lives of the pigeons in their
cotes anything but happy ones. The rab-
bit, on the other hand, is not usually ac-
counted climbing animal A writer in
Field describes the establishment of his
sisters at seeing a rabbit jump from the
Dough of a tree, and picking itself up,
scamper off rather daZed to it's warren"
Whenever a rabbit is found in tree, ex-
cept when he is carried there by flood or
left there by a receding snowdrift, 1t will
be found that sloping trunk or other easy
method of approach has been made use Of
He Is, however. very expert at climbing
stone walls that bound the fields, and even
the wire netting that the farmer vainly
imagines will keep him from the choicest
crops. We have seen rabbits run up the
face of a quarry to their holes toward the
top, feat which we have not found it
easy to initiate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
Fishes That Puff Themselves Up Like
q Ball.

If you should take a foot ball and drive
small sharp nails and pins through 1t so
that the points all stuck out 1t would then
look very much like the globefish does
when he is angry. OF course. he Is not al
ways angry. He romps about and plays
with other fish, but II they play too rough
ly or If he sees big fish coming then he
puffs himself up just the shape of big ball
and sticks out his sharp little fins and
spines. Then nothing can hurt him: the big
fish would not care to bite him any more
than you would like to eat big chestnut
burr This is how the globefish protects
himself, and a very good way it is, don't
you think SO?
The globefish has some relatives who are
also round and fat. One of these Is the
sunfish. He looks like big fish's head
with a large sharp fin on top and another
just like 1t underneath. His tail Is very
short and wide. Perhaps he knows that
he is not very pretty. At all events he
lives away out in the ocean and seldom
comes near the land. where people might
see him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
The Cricket.
A Fable Of Florian. translated by f. r. Perrot,
Philadelphia.


A little cricket
Hid in thicket,
Was watching close a butterfly
That f1uttered low and high.
The winged insect shOne bright
With azure. purple, gold and white
"a real dandy, young and fair;
From flower to flower he'd cleave the ala
The sweetest choosing with due
"Ah!' thought the cricket at this sight,
How much unlike his fate and mine;
Dame Nature made him most divine;
Compared with him l m but blight
My talents void and attire most forlorn;
And then, for me one doth care.
Oh! how all this is hard to bear;
'Twere better not be born y
As thus the little cricket thought
A crowd Of children came close by;
Unclined not to do what they ought
They the futtering butterfly;
All reached to catch him at one time,
Not thinking that it a crime
Hats, kerchiefs, caps, all were in hand,
And swiftly worked the little band.
The butterfly tried hard to get away,
But soon became their prey.
One caught the wing another caught the head,
A third the body seized; then he was dead.
''Oh!' said the cricket,
Still in the thcket,
.'By this sad sight to the truths unfurled;
Too dear the cost Of shining In the world.
oh, my sweet humble home and life,
Do ever shelter me from strife.
I'll love you more,
For eyermOre."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
THE CHILDREN's LEAGUE.
They Are Made Happy Through
Thought for Each Other
MEMBERSHIP COUPON.
International Headquarters,
New York City.

National Weekly Organ, the Saturday Ed
tion Of The Washington Star.
International President, Mrs. Louise Hogan,
Post Office Box POS, Washington, d C.
No dues, no central fund; no saIaried off,
Gals. All help goes direct on call from the
nues that are open for this work. Further
Information given on application to the
editor Of this page.
PLEDGE.
I promise to try every day to add happi-
ness sume ones life by being kind.
/ promise to try TO earn at home each
month II penny. postage stamp, nickel or
Il dime and keep it ready to send to any on,
our president may tell us is In need of such
help.
l promise to write TO my president once a
month and tell her what l am doing to help
others and what can do to help her help
others.
promise to help the Children's League
give to children and others who cannot
otherwise get them such books as are Sc
lcctcd by my president and printed ON our
LIST.
Please enroll my name and send my badge
In inclosed stamped and self addressed en-
velope.
Street.
Town or City. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
State and County.
Age of Applicant, If under 20. ............
adults may JOHN
Date OF Application. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
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Hazel Eyes.

Two little hazel eyes
Five years ago
First saw this strange land
Where the roses grow.
Laughing, liquid, bright eyes,
Fairer than day:
Vying with the silver stars,
Radiant as May.
Dimpled ere the clasped hands,
Falls the flowing hair,
Kneeling at her bedside,
At her evening prayer.
Ev'ry morning early,
Standing on the STAIR
Fresh as the freshest May dawn,
Stands my cherub there.
Patter. patter, sound the feet
On the kitchen floor
Little chubby 'Chin-chin''
Standing at the door.
Fair as the rivers CLEAN
In the breezy morn,
Fresh as the footsteps Of the wind
On the tasseled corn.
Like the gold unfolding
On the leafy throng,
When from every spray-branch
Comes the soul Of song.
Gladdest of the glad joys
Song has ever told,
Beams the love in Maud's eyes
Just five years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
CHARADE.
Beryl.
Flower Fairies

A. little girl was picking flowers one day.
when she heard a sweet voice say, Il am
dying" AS the little girl took the next ia
break it's stem she said. Don't you want to
be picked, little f1ower?"
A sweet voice replied, II do not want to
u ,,,s 40, ,a S n tha ee ny LIVE Tetr aas
The little girl began to cry, and when her
tears touched the broken stem new flowers
sprang I'D; when the little flower said.
when children feel sorry they have given
the flower pain their tears make the fairies
live again" RENA MORRISON.
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Aunt Dorothy's Corner

Dear Children
Aunt Dorothy is still too i'll to write, but
she sends me a note to tell you of an
emergency call for help from friends and
members of the Children's League. News
papers are asked to please copy. both here
and abroad. and to say it is by permission
OF Mrs. Louise E. Hogan. president of the
league. that this may be done. Three hun
dred dollars is needed to aid a delicate
woman of education, whose husband is Ill
and whose children need the care she can
not give them because of lack of strength
and money, and whose name cannot be
given. All members are asked to fulfill
their pledge and to try to interest others
in this. our first emergency call for this
year. Do not send money yet, but write
to the Children's League. Box 205, Wash
ington, ID. c., and tell how much you can
contribute in a week toward this call, and
arrangements will be made to receive and
acknowledge 1t through committee, and
it will be announced through the Associated
Press This delicate woman has struggled
for over a year to support Ill husband
who needs help in his pastorate, which she
also gives. She does without servants and
educates her daughters. She has written
some charming stories that you will read
no doubt when she has found publisher to
give to children books that are lovely
Be sure to write to Aunt Dorothy at once
Yours sincerely
THE CHILDREN'S EDITOR
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Sailed From Cork.

cracked and bleeding for the want of soap
and water, climbed Mrs. Phelan's back
fence and unbolting the gate. led her away
into captivity. When Mrs Nanny came to
this part, she dropped some tears. and
Kiddie felt so bad, he said Ba-h-ah, almost
crying his little heart out.
And what do you think, Riddle, this
bad boy that has SINCE made me his slave,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10

The bicyclst was inclined to be scornful
have to stop and saddle and bride him
every time you want to go for ride"
True" replied the horseman, but /
don't have to pump him up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10

Dear Aunt Dorothy:
l am very sorry that you are sick, but
hope you will soon be we'll l thought I
would write you letter. as 1 have not
written to you for long time 1 enjoyed
my vacation very much. but l am glad to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10

ENIGMA.
My first is in blossom, but not In oud-
NV second Is in sand, but not In mud
NV third is in canary, but not in sparrow.
My fourth is in plough. but not in harrow.
MY fifth is in risk. but not in gain.
My sixth is in snow. but not in rain.
NY seventh is In village, but not in town,
MY eighth is in dress, but not in gown.
My whole is a tropical tree.
JUMBLED CITIES.
Pinke, Natcon. Hingshaha. Alcattuou
Maybob, Darmas, Vbatia.
WORD SQUARE.
My first is what we did yesterday.
My second Is what we like to drink In the
evening.
My third is what we will do tomorrow.
CURTAILINGS.
Curtail a turner's machine and leave
thin strip of wood.
Curtail a jewel and leave a fruit: curtan
again and leave a vegetable.
Curtail sorcery and leave an eastern
philosopher.
BEHEADINGS.
Behead piece of furniture and leave one
of our bones.
Behead to delude and leave injury: beg
head again and leave part of the body.
Behead to chop and leave a tree.
Behead to repair and leave to close.
ENIGMA
My first Is in happy, but not in gay.
Ny second is in fodder. but not in hay.
My third is in square. but not In round.
My fourth is in lose. but not in found.
My whole is a loud sound
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
The Little Church Martyr.
In the big darkened church
Way up In the town.
Where papa and mamma
And others kneel down,

In the big darkened church
Way up In the town,
Where papa and mamma
And others kneel down,
am put on the seat.
Decked in best Sunday clothes,
Too little to kneel
Without humping my nose.
There's nothing to play with,
wish could shout.
But the minister talks
And won't let US out.
When I stand on my toes
Ana peep over the pew
I can see Johnny Ruskin
With nothing to do.
And Dorothy Douglas
Is fitting q fan;
III catch her blue eye
For a wink II I can.
What a lot Of big people.
ALI sitting so straight:
I'd like to twist them
Like a big figure eight.
Oil dear, and OIL dear.
win he ever get through!
I'll soon be asleep
Like q man In that pew.
Now down goes the book
From the rack to the 0oor,
And MP bohs the man,
Fast sieepinG before.
III whisper '.Amen''
Very loud wiz be heart
Oil please, preacher, say u
Please, please, preacher dear.
by aunt AouiA%
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REHEADINGS.

BEHEAD1NGS.
I. Daunt-aunt.
2. Parch-arch.
3. Part-art.
4. Creed-reed.
-. CHARADE.
Barbecue.
ENIGMA-1.
Byron. .t.
ENIGMA-2.
Beryl.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-11-09

Stops the Cough and Works off the
Cold.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure 9 cold
in one day. No Cure, No Pay. P:ice, Is cents.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-11-09

required to go in by a narrow path or
walk at one side of the main entrance.
Our chairs are hustled along by
active coolies, who almost run up
granite steps leading to a rise in the
street and down again on the other
side, always uttering singsopg yells
warning pedestrians to get out of the
way. We are soon in streets so mar
row that two sedan chairs can
scarcely pass each other. One can
easily touch the houses on both sides
Of the street at the same time by
stretching out his arms. In due time
there is waited upon the senses a
smell, diabolical, indescribable, and
peculiarly Chinese, in com parison
to which the odor of pile of burn
ing feathers, leather, and rubber
sinks into insigni6cance. The cause
is evident in the slippery, Shiny
streets which serve as sewers The
proper sewers have probably not
been cleaned out for a thousand
years.
Perchance some one asks to see
some silks. We soon stop in front of
a barred door. The wooden bars are
withdrawn as we enter and close
again when we are inside the prison
store. The store-keeper, who un-
derstands enough English to sell his
wares, exhibits his bars of silk, both
plain and embroidered, and quotes
his prices so low as to surprise an
American buyer. The merchant also
keeps in stock supply of silk hand
kerchiefs, Chinese flags, doilies, and
napkins and tablecloths made of the
famous Canton linen.
No one visiting Canton should fail
to see the celebrated water clock.
1t is made of four large bronze tubs
resting on stairs one above another
and so arranged that the water from
the highest receptacle goes out
through spout, drop by drop, into
the next lower, thence in like man
ner into the third, then finally into
the fourth and lowest. This last tub
contains an upright ruler or meas
ure attached to floating horizontal
base, 80 that, as the water rises, the
ruler also rises, thus indicating the
time of day by the graduated scale.
The drops from the highest tub to the
second fall three times a second;
from the second to the third, twice a
second; and from the third to the
lowest, once a second. The water
has to be changed every twelve hours.
This clock is said to be eight hundred
ears old.
E. ELMER WEBSTER.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-11-09
Marion r Glford's Estate

CTATE OF VERMONT, DISTRICT OF ORLEANS
lDss. In Probate Court, held at Newport,
n said District, on the 2sth day Of Oct /,
"a. D., 1903.
Allen r. Daniels, Administrator OF the
tstate OF Marion R.Gifford late OF Craftsbury,
n said district, deceased, makes appli.
cation for license TO sell all OF the real estate
~ SAID deceased, situsted in the ) ate OF YER
mont; being the late home place OF said de-
ceased. containing about eight &C es; also
about two acres Of tillage land, formerly psrt
|oi TIE Weber farm, all situated in said
Nraftsbury, representing that IL wou
he beneficial 10 the heirs ard all
persons interested in said estate, to sell and
convert into money all said real estate.
Whereupon. IL is ordered by saio Court, that
said application be referred to session
|thereot, TO be held in the Probate Office in
Newport, on the 18th day OF November, A. D.,
Dos, Tor hearing and decision thereon:
And 10 is further ordered that notice hereof
dc given TO all persons interested by publica-
on Of the same three weeks successfully in
|fhe Orleans County Monitor. newspaper
published at Barton, VT, previous to said
me appointed for hearing, that they may
appear az said time and place and show cause.
any they may have, why said license should
not be granted.
BY the Court, Attest,
- % F. f ALFRED, Judge