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FORMER MAY QUEEN
YIELDS To CUPID'S WILES
Engagement Is Announced OF Ru-
doIph Van NorSIen TO Miss
jackson OF Sacramento.
sACRAMENTO. - 9.-The :

SACRAMENTO. Aug 9-The engage
ment was announced this evening Of
Rudolph Van NOrden. superintendent
OF the Yuba Power Company. 70 Mss
Fay Jackson Miss Jackson was Nay
queen at the Floral Festival in this
city two years agQ~
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Earthquake at HeaIdsburg.

HEALDSBURG. Aug early this
morning windsor was visited oy a
heavy earthquake. which caused q
great deal OF damage and destroyed
ths barber shop OF 7. S. Packwood.
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TWO RUSSIAN OFFICIALS
MEET VON PLEHWE'S FATE
Head Of Fore=L Department and Chief
OF Police Are Murdered in
NaEhchfvan
N"hiltilIt an.
-DrTNT ATTr 3 -TLa

EEELLN- aLE- Tie NN0ssIsche
.Zeitung says that TregUxbenko. head
Of the Forest Department. and Chief
Of Police KuznezOn have been mur-
dered in the streets Of Nakhchivan.
Russia
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.JAPAyWS GREAT SIEGE GUNS
IRE HAJMMERLNG THE FORTS
THAT DEFEND PORT ARTHUR
BroDn Men Begin General assault
and CdnnOndde Continues
Throughout Night
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LONDON, Aug. 10.-The Daily Telegraphs Chefu
correspondent reports that great land and fight Oc
Cured Port Arthur August g. and that the jap
repeatedly repuISed. More than thousand
Russians were killed, says the correspondent.
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Japan's Port Arthur Iosses-

ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. s-The
Russ estimates that the japanese
losses thus far. as result Of the siege
Of Port Arthur, aggregate q, ,0oe men.
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VI knoun surgeon Dc.

LONDON, Aug s.-Slr william
Banks. the well known surgeon, is
dead. aged 81 years,
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War News Continued on PAGE 2.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-10
THE TEEATEzs

AIcazzr-Shsri sridan-"
California "A 1Zi1-io1z1rs
Tramp
Csu1rai-ssA Bunch OF Eevs.H
Colrl E=Eanglsa.r
Chures-Vaudsvi11s.
Ffscher's-"The Whtrl cT ths
Town"
Grara-aA Partisan Eomancs--
Orpn Gastnes
To-Day.
TfvoIi-aThe Torsadcr."
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Sc Francisco sz5 vicinity
C-ozs- Ee6asz5zy; Light south
ely Winds Gzaaz-nE 60 brisk
westerly & @. AeADE,
DisCzct Forecaster.
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TIE Res0ard of Giadfola.
By FRANCES HARNER.

In tie first place her name wasn't Gladiola ct
ell-it was just Gladys Browns common name
enough. especially Brown. 1t that ridiculous
Miss Graham. the history teacher, who called her
Gladiola Just 10 make her more conceited. And
she hadn't anything TO be conceited about, either.
We all knew she didn't pay any fees, but that
Mrs. Peel the principal. let Ter come for moth
ing. Just because she used TO go to school with
her mother. Il mean Mrs Peel used to- Of course).
Sadioa thought whole lot OF her hair. OF
course she did. or why did she brush It so long
every nisht7 wouldn't have had It as a gift II
IL did reach below her waist. Il reS!
Then We all knew she thought herself smart
What was the OF her pretending she didn't
when she took good care 10 get all the prizes Mrs
Peel let girl get? You could only get
three at that school. II you got three that dis
qualified you from trying for any more. 1t always
seemed TO me il better not TO get any, and
then you weren't disqualified. Ana IL you weren't
disqualified. what vas % hirde- you from trying
for the Who'll. lot? Elsie-sae's my roommate
says don't SEQ II because I haven't got math-
metacil-I mean northumberland. Well I
don't want one.
But don't seem to be getting CT very fast ana
what want TO write about is the reward GLADYS
Q'm not going TO call her Gladiola) got for not
trying for that third prize. Now that was one
OF the oldest things that ever happenssa in that
school. and It just shows what q crank Mrs. Peel
wss- She and Miss Graham used to urge US to
uy-used 10 say how pleased our parents would
be- you'd nice. exciting book and hadn't
read your history over worked your examples
they were sure TO say: Think how pleased vour
dear mother would be IL you were To win the So
and 30 prize" They called It Stimulating their
ambition" when they talked US over. Elsie told
me this. for shed hoard them say It che day
forget where left on-oh know About the
prize they gave Gladys for not trying-for not try
Ing! AZ Elsie said, what did they want to go and
DO that for, when there were three or four of us
who had never tried for sny. But none OF Ms oot
any reward believe they wrote Does not apply.
on our reports home.
IT was about ten weeks before III. .ur,r,.r hoy-
Gays when she came-Lottie. mean, OF course be-
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cause the rest Of US had been there all the year.
She was thirteen. and that was younger than any
other girl in the school, She was slow. too. and
didn't know-wen. think II was nearly everything
she didn't know. Just one thing she was I'D In and
that was one OF Mrs. Pees fads too. Mrs. Peel
had a good many. but mythology was the first.
oPe nsed to give US an oral examination in 1t every
other Wednesday. Oh how we hated It'll She didn'.
give you any time TO think. and II you couldn't
answer-and they were generally such silly cues
lions that you couldn't-well. she looked at you!
So did Miss Graham So did some OF the CHRISTINA
studying set Elsie and weren't in that 1t was
at these examinations that how conceted
Gladys was. She always made a point Of answer
Ing every question. AS Elsie said II was too
monotonous. didn't even listen 10 them / don't
think it's right TO be studying about things that
haven't any sense. AS Elsie says. we all know
these gods never existed at ALL and If you learn
about them you are learning nothing. That's not
What our parents send US TO school forl So, when
Fricka and Penelope and Persephone' and things
dong that THIS d day a and had Just decided
upon snowy ostrich tips and paiest pink velvet,
She b. doesn't know Gladys doesn't know.
1t Ss m Fee hat oa and nc IN b back s to earth
taces on nose. and GLADYS stood UP at hers. and
know the answer. For that shabby little Lottis
Il know. Mrs, Peel. wotan made her SOS she
s wnsI Ior goddess d any more.I mean walkyris-
Gladys smiled at her 90 can that So bvpoor,t,cs,
10 one can Ike 10 have Know more
child some more questions It turned out that
she.d been shut up with lot of old books ON
mythology and had read them TIL she knew them
backward believe she could have puzzled Mrs
reel herself. But that all she knew though
Hsr writing and spelling were simply. awful
Inc prizes were generally books. and stupid ones
too. But this Easter. Mrs. Peel had offered for
her beloved mythology pin, fine cameo-loyely
IL was the head cut In white, pale. soft tan.
i, :! almost wished that my conscience would have
lei me STUDY mythology that pin duck. own
should have liked 20 have IT. OF course II woula
go 10 Gladys. She wes pretty safe TO have lhe
Lottie would try. -
Yes, she did She sent IN note. asking to be a
r-conpettytawr!" She knew much more than
Gladys. but the way she pronounced the names
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Jessie Rice wesleyan Miss Mamie Johnston
(Wesleyan) and Miss Ellie II. Shaw Institute OF
Harlem German No. 90 East One-hundred- and
eightsenth-st.. A. p. Nelson Union Seminary and
Miss Ida z Lewis (Barnardl.
JudsOn Memorial. No. 50 Washington Square, r.
H. Williams (Crozer), Miss Marie Oner Smith and
Miss Margaret Bull
Lexington Avenue (Lexington-ave and One-hUn-
acknowledgements W. ID. Swafield (Brown)
Miss Milhcent Swafield (Peddie Insttute) and
Miss Agnes Morrison Normal College,.
Mariners Temple. No. l Henry-st.. F. W. Hard
ing Colgate University W. y. Creasman colgate
University. Miss Josephine England Smith Col
lege) and Miss Katherine Reynolds
Mulberry Bend. No. So Murberry-st.. r. G. Hart
ley chichester University. Mrs. j. G. Gallagher
Norwegian, The Bronx; NJ. b Holmen C1Iorgen
Park. Miss Myra Chceseman Institute OF Applied
Music Mss L. L. Palmer Institute of Applied
NuSicl.
son lSouthsrn Theological Seminary. Miss Rachel
DItaridge CTeachers College, and Miss Mary Arch
er (Teachers College,
Second Avenue. No. 162 Second-ave H. K. Will
Jams Grocer Seminary Miss R. p. Henszey (Ethi-
CBarnard) Miss Emily JessUp CTeachers College,.
Swedish. No III East Eifty-hfth-St.. j. H Lar
son Chicago University and Miss Jeannette L
Special musical staff-Mrs. r. C. BoviIs direc-
tor: Miss Ida p. Brown (Adelphi College). Miss
Institute OF Applied Music. Mrs. ]. c. Gallagher.
Miss ,NIadge Gould american Institute of Applied
MusIc) Miss Emily Jessup CTeachers College,, Miss
Jeanette r. Larson. Miss L. ]. Palmer american
Institute OF Applied Music Miss Katherine Rey-
holds and Miss Ellie H. Shaw (American Institute
Of Applied Music Assistants. Miss Ada E. Car
penter, Miss Susan Letter and H. NJ Bremen (Nsv-
York University
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process of wedding out had to be resorted to
before any work could be done, and the police
thought 1t wise to remain in the near
Some of the boys came in for the express purpose
of having some fun along their own lines. ana
gave wrong addresses by way or precaullon q
fact which came to light when arrengenen.s were
made for baseball game. and the boys were 70 De
notified of the time and place by postal As they
couldn't miss q baseball game, they were care1ul
inform the principal that they had changed their
addresses
Disturbing elements Of this kind were met by
prompt ejectment. and for the first three or four
days the teachers. women well as men, found
that their college athletic training was OF more
use than they ever expected ii to be, At the
Mariners Temple peace was restored by the ex-
pulsion OF a gang OF twenty who VIII probably be
organized into a club later. and in other schools
the situation met by the decapitation or the
gangs.
the beginning. At the Harlem school. although
there are over a hundred active boys, et the most
obstreperous age, in attendance. there has never
been anv trouble The principal does not know
how this desirable state of affairs was brought
about but he does not believe the boys have
discovered yet that he Is their teacher 1t Isn't so
yerv long since he was a boy himself. and he
knows what boys like.
The schools are all held in the Sunday school
rooms of Baptist churches. and Mr. Boviile hopes
that the idea of utilizing the empty buildings In
this way during the summer VIII be taken up by
other denominations.
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turbans for the Ishmaelites. thereby distinguishing
them from the Israelltes. and where there were no
handkerchiefs the teachers brought cheesecioth
for the turoans
The industrial work Is also great attraction:
II they asked to choose between work and
play. their cry is "Oh. let sew. teacher!" 'Oh.
can't we make baskets to-day?" "oh; please;
when fresh air parties take them to the country
for couple OF weeks they plead for Just little
work" TO take with them Apropos Of this depart
mcnt. Mir. BovIlie says:
In planning the details OF the schools studied
the children themselves trying TO learn from these
small interpreters Of God just what they needed
| found idle children vent to and fro IN
the tenement house district All were busy about
something. and so we made industrial work feat
of the schools.
Mrs. George 3. Roys is director Of this depart
ment. and says that she finds II difficult TO supply
the little folk with enough work. She uses the
Teachers College methods III sewing. and has pre-
pared course OF nineteen models for the vacation
term
Still another great attraction is the department Of
athletics. All the schools but three have well
equipped gymnasiums. and besides the work done
in school there are baseball and basketball games
at other times One of the schools also has a
shower bath.
Then there is the music. to which great deal Of
time is devoted. under the direction OF Mrs. Boville
nature study. for which an abundant supply OF
flowers is furnished by friend of the schools and
elementary science. which is taught by means OF
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''s:ay. it's a rat IL my hair how all desc kids
TO de church. Dc feliers quit swimming de
river At early nine and &c little swipes hang on
&c door al de no-ning-and a church, TOO! But
cay. 6cy don't ask tcl!er 10 be an angel III a
minute. an2 OATS Why show my face dere' fer
how could j be an angel wild no buttons on me
nngoishirt and me old cussin' de fedders off
me angel wings, and how could an angel rush de
can fer de old lady?"
The above is the comment of an East Side
boy on one OF the Bible vacation schools now
being conducted by the Baptist City Mission So
ciety and represents q pretty general opinion
nmon. the students at those institutions OF learn
in4- They do not need any urging. still less COM
7ulzion 10 go 70 school in vacation but are eager
md anxious 10 Toe ouroi,cd and kceply interested in
inc course Of study.
The most important tuing in this course IS. as
.hc name indicates. Bible study. ana this seems TO
he the suliec in which the children are most in
ierested.
1t is holding them says the superintendent. the
Jev. Robert J. Bolile, AS nothing else does"
Even at Et1lbc-Fv Bend and the Mariners Tenn
tle the boys beginning 10 get excited about pa
iriarchs and prophets. and though the taste for
1Bgble study sometimes needs some cultivation. it
always seems to come IN the END
''Nyc'ss Go-'t iiso DAT map of China" declared
fhe boys IT tho Mariners Temple contem7tuously
s,en n map ~ Palestine presented for their
consideration lut they have since discovered that
fhe-c are unexpected possibilities in the map and
That the country indicated was the home of some
mighty good fighters" And that these fighters
''s-rappod Ter de Lord one little chap said,
not detract from the interest of the story for
shey have been given 10 understand that they were
hetrer punchers for it,
To those accustomed 20 the atmosphere Of the
average Sunday scnooI, which does not suggest
elirious delight in Bible study. this enthusiasm FOR
ihe subject may appear iueNplicable. but the mys-
iery is easily cleared up by visit to the schools
where the methods as different possible
from those ordinarily IN vogue in Sunday schools.
The children not expected TO sit still and lis
ten while the teacher talks 10 them, and assuredly
would not do so If ii expected. They work up
The lesson themselves and teach each other. The
map just alluded to is not attached to the wall in
the ordinary way, but traced on the floor with
chalk with chairs 10 indicate the objective points
Of the story, and on this stage the incidents that
lend themselves 10 such treatment dramatized.
A chair in The back of the room does duty for I-z
Of the Chaldees, for instance. and when Abraham
starts out from that place with his father and
family TO to the land OF Canaan he leaves his
brother Haran the father Of Lot, sitting in the
chair. because "Haran died before his father Jerah
In the land OF his nativity. in w of the Chaldees
This situation pleases the children immensely
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I aid little studying 10 what Mrs. Peel
and Miss Graham laughed at She called "Wotan'
(Which you ought TO call Votahn; YOU know
What oon, and all her words were like that. Mrs
Peel used TO put her handkerchief on the desk
whenever II was Lotties turn to answer, and she
put II over her mouth to hide her smiles Elsie says
teachers always do that-its traditional with them.
she says. One day the question was how ROmuluS
died. Qsnt II silly. TO make you learn how a per
died, who wasn't ever bornD And Iottie said:
"Why. he never died. he didn't. His Paw took him
right up to heaven IN a buggy" Mrs Peel snatched
Elsie heard that Mrs Peel had said lottles spell
ing and writing would spoil her chances for the
prize. and that Gladys OF It, We took
care - let Gladys know We thought II might
make her little less stuck-up. II she knew that
only her writing and spelling her the prize. And
they wouldn't have got II. either. only that the
10 to outside examiner. We
thought. maybe. she'd withdraw. and give the poor
little thing chance. You see, Bottie's knowledge
was away ahead OF every ones except Gladys's.
Her paper would only he about good as Lotte's.
plus writing and spelling. Elsie said she'd have
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withdrawn, IN a minute, and said was glad
hadn't entered. But Miss Graham's precious Glad
lola kept right She wanted that pin, OF course
Well she didn't get II, The examiner wrote back
Elsie heard Miss Graham tell one Of the other
teachers that Miss Browns facts were utterly er-
roneous," her answers were upside down. suppose
she'd muddled herself studying. I've done that.
/ can feel for her. But you never saw any one
odd Mrs. Peel was. or Miss Graham, for the
matter OF that. Elsie says. that when the letter
came (she didn't know what in IL. OF course,
but she found out later. Mrs. Peel put her arms
round Gladys and saia MY dear. generous child"
V-asa't ttat silly? But Gladys got served out for
be. so ConCeited and thinking she knew more
than ne did. She only got prizes (such come
down for her. who'd always had three and little.
shabby Lott!e got the beautiful pint But what sur
prised that Mrs. Peel gave Gladys smaller
one, with the pattern II. and Miss Graham
had Il n ring for her. I said, well. IL they
meant 10 give consolation prizes. why not begin
with those who hadn't any nj all. and who had pur
rosely kept out OF little Lotties way? But Mrs.
Pocrs crank. I told you. and I'm going 10
another school,
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STANZA ON THE OCEAN.

The best four line rhynied stanza, containing the
word ocean. received in answer to contest No. was
sent by Dorothy Clifford. of Armenia Union N. Y.
Here Il is:
l love the grand old ocean.
With It's tides that come and go:
With its winds and changing colors.
And its nsver ending flow.
A few of the other stanzas received are fol-
lows:
I haven't notion
OF the size OF the ocean.
But ! know the hue
Is usually blue.
Washington. Conn. MARIE CHURCH
Out of the depth of the
fish on the shore was cast;
He lost every bit of his motion.
Therefore he breathed his last
SAM @. CHLEM
love to the ocean.
When the moon is its only light,
And 10 look the shining pathway
That leads through the unknown night
ELIZABETH S. BEUGLR ~.
Armenia Union. n, Y.
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his father. In the second the brothers put Joseph
into pit Of chairs and then sold him the
Ishmaelites and IN the last the reconciliation took
place.
These scenes were represented more or less re-
alistically according 10 taste and convenience IN
some of the schools the girls made coat Of many
colors for Joseph, and the brethren sat down
10 eat bread after putting Joseph in the pit,
OF the actors were commissioned to provide dough-
nuts for the occasion. In schools where the chill
dren had handkerchiefs they used them to make
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dred-and-forty- frst-st, F. ". Schaefer New
York University and Miss Alice V. Smith BAR
nardl.
Central Park. No. 2S5 East Eighty-third-st.. A.
". Logan CIereer Cniversity) Miss Jeannette Tay-
lor CVassar). Miss Ida P. Brown (AdelphD-
Eton Hall. No. loss Dawson-st.. The Bronx; w.
r. Hood (Newton Centre) and Miss Eliza Toms
(Barnard).
Fourteenth Street German No. S3i East Four
feminist. L. W. Van Schaick Colgate Univer-
eity) and Miss Edith DietZ (Barnard).
Harlem. No 2l5 East Observation-Disclosures
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'"The idea came to me like an inspiration three
summers ago" he says. Here was the regular
staff OF mission workers out Here were the
empty churches and unemployed students and a
splendid opportunity going to waste. 1t was a
simple thing to put these things together, and the
result the Bible vacation schools. They have
done good than IL is possible to estimate. but
there is enough work of the kind for all the
churches in the city, and for the Board OF Educa-
ton well.
The staff OF the Bible vacation schools is made
up follows:
Robert G. Boville superintendent
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THE FIVE PRIZE WINNERS.

The Ave prize winners In the rebus contest Of
July 10 ore;
Gertrude Boss. Dudley Observatory Albany .
checkerboari.
Bessie Crookshank. OF Cairo. Egypt. paint box
j. Gertrude Wyman. OF Hoosick Falls. N Y, a
book.
Helen Gibbons. of No. 50 West Milton-ave. Rah-
way N j.. does not state preference
Marjorie Livingston. of Monticello, Sullivan
County. n, Y. badge.
These prize winners may know that their work
was chosen from that of hundreds of other little
men and little women.
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LITTLE EAST SlDERS STUDY THE
MOST FASCINATING SUBJECT TAUGHT IN VACATION
SCHOOLS OF BAPTLST MISSION SOCIETY:

and they shout ioyfuIy. referring TO the boy on
the chair oh. he's dead"
The story OF Joseph and his brethren. which Is
always a fascinating to boys and girls. was
one Of the lessons dramatized last week. and lends
itself particularly well TO that treatment. The
story was divided into three scenes. In the first
Joseph told his dream OF how the sun and moon
and stars bowed down to him. to his brothers and
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simple experiments.

simple experiments
The attendance at the schools Is about seventeen
hundred, and has grown IN most cases from about
twenty-five on the first day. to one hundred or over
at the end OF the first week showing that the
first Corners reported favorably 10 their friends.
The children of all creeds and colors and
uationalties. and there is colored school In the
Abyssinian church: Swedish school. a Norwegian
school and several German schools.
Those who come in once usually remain unless
they go away vacations. or are, perchance. eX-
PEELED. for In n good many Of the schools, such as
Mulberry Bend and the Mariners Temple. q Wig
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6bf1Ss TO 6bink About.

Allen B. vermilya. of No. So West one-hundred-
and-forty-ninth-st. New-York City. is the prlze
winner in last Sundays puzzle contest.
The successful competitor IN to-day's contest will
All answers must reach the Office by Thursday.
Address Little Men and Little Women. New-York
Tribune.
PREFIXES.
BY using the same prefix in each case. change:
The substance of which anything Is made into
To work a, closely into to contain by inference
Not the whole into TO make known.
DIAMONDS.
A third Of cat; Latin verb to love: back part
OF ship: continent on which we live; young
person: a third OF cat.
q A fourth Of port. dexterity; to push; condi-
pa nth of eagle; no, small; large boat; an
stern: a nth OF eagle
BEHEADED WORDS.
l. am serious; behead me- and talk wildly
em Idle talk; hehead me and am childs
S. am extreme contempt; behead and am
4 sprinkle with liquid or with mud; behead
5. am a clew; behead me and am running
competition
JUMBLE PUZzLE
IA c id ee II II nm o W.
Find the title OF book by Lewis Carroll
Answers to Puzzles Published July II.
BEHEADED WORDS.
i. Fable. able. =. Relation, elatiOu 3 Sport.
HIDDEN BIRDS.
l. Eagle. q Condor. 8. Sparrow. 4 Canary.
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w. C. Jackson, secretary.
Mrs George b Roys. director Industrial depart
ment.
SCHOOLS AND PRINCIPALS.
Abyssinia, No. 240 West Fortieth-st.. ". 5.
Holder. Miss X, Allison WEIGH. and Miss L. A
Lee.
Alexander Avenue Alexander-ave. and One-hun-
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CORRESPONDENTS WANTED.

Anna Marguerite Neuberger one OF our mos rs.
terested contributors and prize winners. wou.u ,I.
TO correspond with some OF the little men ana arras
women who about sixteen years ol4, -
addresSts No. l4I West Sixth-st., Erie. FeD