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establish his noble blood in this republic. But it was not foolish vanity that made Blinkiets familiar with the name or eacn twig on his family tree. No, 1t was the silly pride of his old mistress, who was forever telling of Bfinklets pedigree to visitors and to BlinlSiets himself, that had dinued it into the puppy's quick ears and impressed itself on his susceptible brain.
 Blinkiets looked out at the window and, as has been said, longed to get into the fresh outdoors. There were boys-funny, boisterous boys-running about the streets with so much freedom, and Blink let's wanted to frisk at their heels, to sniff the fresh air, to feel the warm sun shine on his furry coat and to wag nis tail--yes, to wag and wag it in his Joy to fine f,iluess Of his desire, for never had ne really wagged it through excessive pleas ure for he had never been quite happy.
 ITst as Blinklets struck the window pane with his little, helpless paws his old mistress came into the room- Now, could von have seen the old lady, you would not have wondered at Blinklets discontent- She, was not the sort of old lady you would choose for your grandmama Uor grandmamas must always be-and always are. of course-gentle, iovable, sweet voiced women) nor would you want such for an old auntie, either, l am quite sure, for she was a most unloyable person in many ways
 But let the story tell itself.
 When Biinklets' old mistress entered the room she came hopping over to the
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on to all the Macon household, Fred re- moved the chain from about the little fellows neck Oh, relief from torture' How nice to be freel
 Now" said Fred suppose we go down to the stabfer and find Rodger. want to sec how he takes to this new Inmate. v And Fred led the way to the barnyard with Blinkiets at his heels. Rodger was n splendid hunting dog, and till Biinkiets' arrival he had been the lord or dosuon about the Macon Farm. Fred had won dered how Rodger would receive the new conner. and after calling the big te1low- who was asleep in the sun beside shei- tering hay rick-he said 10 lSinkiets Now, puppy, there's great, elephant or n dog about to appear, but you need reel no anxiety, for he's as harmless as hit- ten ,, ....o. however. Blinklets felt some uneaslness repardine the great elephant of dog, . for his former mistress had always toiu him that strange dogs would tear nlIn 10 nieees and then devour the pieces. But ne was brnye-hearted little fellow and de termined to stanG his ground at any cost. If he was to be eaten IL should De Tn a struggle to the death, 80 a piaahbt,hig, ins n's ali over. he awaited the coming or Aod- ger. IL. =. s,. ho loved Fred, and stretching himself lazily he got up slowly and came forward, wag- ging his bushy tail. He cast just cne dis interested glance toward the now trem- bling Blinklets and walked past him; go in most sociable and affectlonate man ner, seeming to ask: Who is this insig- nificant little puppy you have hereT'
 But as the weeks went by Rodgcr grew more gracious toward Blinklets-who by inc way. had now another name. But of that we shall speak later. Old Rodger showed signs of play again. for all the world like q big. overgrown puppy: lie would lie in the warm straw and roll ana bite teaslngly at little Blinklets, who would leap. bark, snap and frolic in all the ecstacy of his puppyhood And how he
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It was a glorious morning in March--a morning for all the world like a spring morning should be-and little Blinklets, peeping from the window of his old mis- tress' room, tapped the thick French plate-glass pane with his soft paws, with a hope of breaking a hole through which be might jump into the street
 Now, Blinklets had a splendid home, If splendid means to possess daily all the dainties one wishes to eat. the sleeping on soft, downy cushions and blankets and the undivided affection of a dotfng old lady.
 But luxuries do not always bring happi- ness to those possessing them, and Blink lets-poor little blue-eyed Blinklets-was not happy. in truth. Blinkiets was not lady's dog. He was essentially a childs dog-yes, more than that--he was boys dog, a real live, loud-voiced, mischievous boys. Not that Blinklets had ever be- longed to an owner of such description, but because instinct taught him his place in the world.
 Ever since the morning of hls birth Blinklets had been pampered, and petted, fondied and fed. He had a long line of biooded ancestry behind him, and poor Blinklets knew each grandparents name in proper line of descent from his seventh grandfather, who was St. Reginald and who was brought over from England to
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without blanket to burden him or chain to confine him. How dear was the com panionship of old Rodger, who guarded him just as a gentle big brother guards little one. Sometimes at night Blinklets i've should say Fun) would dream that he was back In the great, lonely city house, where the servants, through spite toward their oyerhearing mistress, would
 secretly kick him. and the old mistress would kiss him, stabbing her long nose into his poor little eyes. At such times he would whine in his sleep, Just as little child cries, and this would wake both himself and. old Rodger. Very ten derly old Rodger would fold his soft paw
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to roam, to see, was too strong to resist, that Sunday afternoon, so out for the Ncvsky Prospect he strolled, unmindful of the prohibition that had been placed upon that locality.
 As he drew near the square he saw men and women thronging and marching. Some were carrying poles bearing legends. Some were singing. None were armed. Prospect of excitement was too much for Ivan to resist and running forward he forced himself to nearly the head of the throng.
 Let me carry the banner" cried the youth to q woman near him.
 The pole she was bearing was handed to him without A word. and Ivan raised 1t aloft, not even noticing the legend 1t bore. It was in Russian. Liberty or denth."
 Loyal to tho core. because his father was at the war, Ivan stepped proudly m the procession, anon joining in the songs that were sung, and again shouting Justify for the Little Father. They were march, ing toward the palace, and Ivan thought 1t was all meant to do honor to the great Emperor.
 Suddenly from side strees dashed company of mounted Cossacks. with sa- bers drawn. The people by him, thrown into confusion, scampered in every d. rection save forward. Ivan was left almost alone In the foreground. He knew not for what he was fighting, only he felt outraged that hls innocent fun should be spoiled. He raised the pole of his banner ns club and stood his ground.
 With babel of cries and bea ting of hoofs on the hard-trodden snow the Cos sacks were upon them. Ivan raised his club to strike, and as rough rider passed he brought his saber down, sew eripg Ivan's hand. With cry of mingled rnge and horror Ivan stopped to pick up the severed member, and the oncomlng horsemen tramped and rolled him until he lay battered and unconscious In the poo of crimson that flowed from his sev- cred wrist Then there came the crack ling of n hundred guns from hidden sources In moment 1t was all over. Ivan awakened from his swoon, and where the snow had been white were splotches of blood, and about him were piled and heaped the bodies of the slain, of both sexes and of all ages. Some were wounded and were dragging themselves away Ivan gazed down at his hand, be- cause his wrist seemed cold. and he was faint. There lay the severed member, small and white It was the hand with which he hoped to paint great pictures when he grew large, and now
 As he tried to move he found his gar ments had been frozen to the ground by tho blood that was yet pouring from the
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long range of distant wooded hills. Blink lets turned into the latter, still going at the top of his speed. He had rounded some shops and an old factory building, when the rumble of wheels from behind caught his quick ear. They were not car riage wheels, so Blinkletts felt no fear that it might be his mistress in pursuit.
 Now, dogs have a greater intelligence than people give them credit for having. Blnklets' instinct had taught him who and what to fear and to recognize things by sound as well as by sight He turned round and looked toward the oncoming vehicle and its occupants. The result was that Blinkiets slowed his gait to a leis- urely walk, for he felt that the great turning point in his life-real dog life was about to take place. Two boys sat in the seat of the farm wagon that was being drawn by q fine pair of old farm horses. Bllnklets stepped to one side of the road and held his front paws up to- ward the boys in childish and supph- eating manner. Just as the horses drew near where the waiting walt puppy pIgs sat otne tne down and saw him. Gee whizi,' he ejac- ulated, drawing in the reins There's listle puppy by. the roadside Bet dollar he's lost"
 Then the younger boy-about eleven caught sight of Blinklets and cried out, I'm going to get him. And, .suiting the action to the words, he set ms root qn another moment he was back in the wagon with the doggie In his arms. Won der where he came from-.away out here on this old addition roadT' said the boy who held Biinklets. Hes belonged to some swell person, sure, for just see his fine coat and his chain. do believe its silver" = A. small kind But what do you s'pose old Rodger will think of himT' asked the older boy as he whipped up the horses
 HOh, Rodger won't notice him!' an swered Fred. He's so stuck up that ne thinks he's the only dog on the eartn. We'll we'll show him a trick or two wltn this little fellow, for he's mine till some, one comes with proofs to carry him away.
 T wouldn't give Rodger for q c--load of this kind,' declared the older boy, whose name Bllnkets afterward learned was Tom
 Then the boys fell to talking oyer the prices they had received for the load of butter. eggs, turkeys and chickens they had taken to town that morning so early. From this conversation Blinklets knew they were farmer boys, and his canine heart beat with joy at the discovery, for of all places in the world that Blinklets loved best it was q farm. During part of the past summer he had lived with his doting old mistress on farm, but the poor fellow had had little pleasure of
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Ivan PatkerSki.

It had been a quiet day in St. Peters burg. The czar had ordered business suspended, for fear of the rising mob. Street cars had ceased running. and the usually busy Nevsky Prospect was nearly deserted. Rumor had 1t that masked batteries were mounted, no one knew where. so as to command the open place before the palace.
 The quiet was more than Ivan Patkerski could bear. There was a bit of Cossack blood in his veins that tlngled for excite ment. Ivan was but 12 years of age, and 1t is not surprising that he should be un- able to understand the unusual calm. He was alone in the world, hls mother hav- ing died years ago, and his father being in Manchuria at the war The impulse
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There never was another boy Knowed half as much as Jim: Feared as if all learnin did Come natcheral to In grammar he could parze an parze; Tn spellin'-well, that feller Could recollect so well you'd think He'd swallered whole speller- In history, too. he ne'er forgot captain, king or battle; An 'rithmetic was easy. too, For Jim you couldn't rattle With fggers half a mile In length; He'd look, then shut his eye An speak the answer krectly off, And never seem to try. Brt once he went to sec q gurl, A gurl he'd met at school, An Jim be told me afterwards He felt jest like fool He said his feet was heap too big, An awful in his way; He said he set am tried to think Of somethin' nice to say But words stuck in his throat an chosed; His hands looked big an, red; e felt as if his senses all Was leayin os his head. The gurl she set awhile quite still. Then got up offul mad, An said she reckoned that he'd come To sec her ma an dad. An out she whisked, an ne'er come back, Though Jim staid quite spell; Al last he saw clean through her trick, Then he made steps; but--weli, There ain't much use to tell you For you probably all know That though Jim was a cracker1ack In books-he want no beau.
 HELENA DAVIS.
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Here is the tale of some Monkey. .monk-monks; A tale of poor monkeys
 Three, Who went out one day For n few hours play In the limbs of an
 African tree. Along came man. n tall. Mean, white man, And he caught these monkeys
 Three: He carried them far Der ocean and land And brought them to This countrie. In cages of iron, Of iron cold and hard. Live these little monkeys
 Three; And they weep and vail, As they hang by the tail, To go back to that African tree.
 FLORENCE MAY.
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To say that the entire family gave Blinklets a warm welcome hardly ex- presses it. From the oldest to the young est-who was Fred--he received the greatest attention a small dog can re- ceiye. There were the boys parents, MT and Mrs. Macon: Lucy Macon, the boys 15-year-old sister, and two women servants, with twice as many men serv- ants, or work hands," as they arc com monly called. And each one found some word of welcome for the little stranger within their gates.
 After the first few minutes, in which Blnklets was being introduced and shown
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over the little puppy's curly back. and together they would fall asleep again. Blinklets happy in the knowledge that he was far far from the great city house and it's mistress of his dreams.
 Thus in sweet security md content ment, Fun-formerly Blinkiets-lives to this day, never having been claimed by his oldtime mistress, who, doubtless. mourned him as dead, and secured an other poor little puppy of pedigree to take her lost pets place; and she, doubt less, soon ceased to remember the un- happy little spirit that broke from hls luxurious prison and ran away on that March morning which opened this story.
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would wag his tail!-almost loosenng it some times in demonstration of his hap piness.
 But you, no doubt, want to know Blink lets new name, for, of course, the Ma cons had no way of knowing the name he had been accustomed 10 answer to, so they had to give him another one. For several hours the matter received atten- tion, each member of the household sng- mnchlsdmired h R,lnklets.p But " at last I they @ all agreed that the right to name him should rest with Fred. Well, let's call him Fun suggested that youngster, for if ever a puppy loved to have jolly time it's thls little chappy," and he pat ted the frisking Blinklets on his round head
 So Fun he became, and very fond of the name he was, too. How glad be was to never be called Blinkie any more, and to never hear himself talked to In a rasping, high voice, employing baby talk. by n cross grained old lady. And the free. dom of the farm was so sweet, so sweet,
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wounded wrist. And he was so weak. Was this warfare, which he had pictured in his mind as a glorious thing7 Were these Cossacks the heroes of the armyl What would his father say when he re- , turned home and found no little Ivan awaiting hlm2 Again he swooned, and from that swoon he never awakened.
 The Czar's soldiers came later, and. gathered up the dead, bore them to the inlets of the sea that penetratcl the city. and, cutting holes in the Ice, slipped them forever out of sight.
 And the hand-that little white hand of whom no one could identify. lay there for days before somebody found 1t. and. in respect for the unknown child. buried 1t away.
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A Stone Image of Mys-
 terious Origin.

In the National Museum at Washington. D. C.. stands an enormous stone image from Easter Island, in the Southern Pa cihc ocean. This island Is 2.000 miles distant from any other Inhabited spot. There are over 600 of these Images on this island. and formerly they stood In groups of six and 12 on platforms or
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hewn stone; but in the later years they were thrown down during the civil war between the natives. Most of these colossal figures are to be found at the eastern end of the island. They were hewn out of the volcanic tufa of an ex- tinct crater and transported over its sides for three or four miles.
 The island Is almost treeless, and the wonder IS now the sayages could remove three to 30 tons over ground so rugged to their destination.
 There are now 400 people living on Easter Island, all of pure Polynesian stock. They know nothing of the cree tion of these Images, and It Is quite evi- dent that they are descendants Of later immigrants
 This mysterious image was procured. with many others of ethnologtcal inter- est. during a 12-day visit to the island by the United States ship Mohican. un- der command of B. T. Day. U. 8. N.. in the year 1356.
 A drawing made from the image is rs- produced here.
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puppy, saying, in a high, sharp voice: 1'1here, 'oo little tweetsy ting. It's my ownest little baby. so it is. Tum, tiss me, darling" And the silly old lady caught Blinklet's in her long, cold, bony fingers that hugged the life almost out Of his sen sitive little body. Up to her nouth-a heavy one, full of false teeth-she put Blinklets' little cold nose and kissed it several times, punching one of the poor fellows eyes with her long, sharp nose, that was of a purplish red. "Oo is going for walk, so co is. Just % wait till l dets it's little cloak and chain. :"
 In a few minutes Blinklets, wrapped in a velvet robe trimmed with gilt braid and lined with soft silk, was going down the street at the end of silver chain, led by his old mistress. On they went. the old lad- striking with a whip at any other dog that chanced to come their way, and sometimes she made threatening gesture at some boy who dared to stop to admire Nt.le Blinkiets. Those awful creatures!
 the old lady exclaimed, speaking tc Blink lets of the boys they passed T just de- test children, particularly boys They are of no possible use in the world, unless it is to be a nuisance. I'm always afraid one Of the little rascals will steal yon.
 BlInklets only tusged against bis chain
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A Riddle.
E,r-~~~1 al

There is-
 Something that flies Yet nas no wings; It brings sure death To all living thlnga It Is always going But never gone, For every second It's newly born. It never sleeps
 Nor does 1t eat; It travels fast.
 Though 1t has no feet. It brings us evil, It brings us sovs-s It's ways are strange And ne'er understood. It comes and goes As the lightnings fly: Iris here when we're born. And stays after we die. Answer: Time.
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No. I shows the nag of the Fed erated Colonies, afterwards United States flag. The body of the flag was red, the square in the corner white with cross-bars of red. The globe was yellow.
 Ne. 2 shows the fng carried at Bunker Hill June IT, 1775. The body of the flag was blue, the cor ner square white, with red cross bars. The evergreen tree was very dark green.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-03-30

The New York stock market opened
under pressure today which was marked
by declines of an eighth TO half-for the
majority OF stocks Union Pacific. Atchi-
son and Locomotive lost about a point
and Pennsylvania. Baltimore & Ohio and
Reading declined large fractions. One
or two OF the independent steel companies
and railway equipment companies were
slightly higher. Wabash debenture bonds
rose points and Lackawanna 4.
The general market showed little sym
pathy with the temporary bullish out
burst in Ontario and Western and a
half dozen minor specialtes. Some re-
covery followed the opening decline. but
the market soon became heavy again and
Ontario and Western lost ITS point ad
vance. Somewhat lower prices were made
In this decline on several standard stocks
while a few specialries rose sharply.
The decline reached a point in several
active stocks. The market became ex-
tremely dull except for advances in a
number OF issues rarely traded in. The
standard rope stocks and bonds and Gen.
tral OF Georgia second and third income
bonds advanced 1 10 3 points.
Gains of from 10 a were made by
some less prominent stocks. Consolidated
Gas rose q. These movements were not
impressive and prices elsewhere began 70
sag again. ST. Paul dropped IL. Bonds
were steady.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-03-30
.ELKS' DONATION TO
BR0CKT0N RELIEF FUND

After the election OF the officers OF the
Benevolent and Protective Order ~ Elks.
Providnce lodge. Nj. IA. a Communication
was read from the Brockton lodge. asking
for aid of the sufferers OF the recent dis
aster there. and the lodge here voted TO
send 800.
The communication also stated that all
the other lodges in the country had been
sent appeals OF the same kind and the
prospect was that more than SIC. eo0 would
be raised by them alone for aid A re-
port OF the members on the sick list was
made and accepted. after which the cleo
tion OF new members took place There
were found 20 he FIVE members ill and
three new ones 90 he taken into the lodge
After some further business the election
of the .offccrs took place. resulting as
follows.
For exslted ruler. Brother James r
Traney, esteemed leading knight. Brother
r. g. Warren esteemed loyal knight
Brother Thomas ] Flynn. esteemed lee
turing knight Brother Charles E Shcan:
secretary. Brother ~ W Calender:
reasurer. Brother Charles III. Abbott:
tiler. Brother u. r. Nicholas trustee,
three years. Brother Frank King = n.
r.; delegate 10 Grand lodge. Brother VIII
liam r Maires r r. - alternate ~ Grand
lodge. Brother silas L. W. Merrill p
r. r
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-03-30
KNIGHTS OF HONOR HELD
THEIR ANNUAL MEETING

The twenty-eighih annual meeting OF
the knights OF Honor was held in Area
mum hall this morning at 10 o'clock.
Grand Dictator Edward T. George read
Che annual report and the election of Of
hcers followed. Tt resulted az follows:
Grand dictator. Edward T. George OF
providcnce grand vice dictator. Charles
~ Jencks OF Pawtuuket; assistant dicta-
tor. Sllns T. Nye OF Phenix. r. r.: past
gr5 nd dictator. David +. Sherwood OF
Providence grand reporter. oscar A. Car
Teton of Providence; grand treasurer
Philip s. Chase OF Providence; grand
Cnaplain James u Carpenter OF Paw
UcNet: Grand guide. walter sherman OF
Newport: grand guardian. wm r. Abbott
OF Anchor 335. Phenix. r. l.. grand senti-
mel Alvin p Caldwell. grand trustees
Nm s. I.awton. Inion 66S, Newport: VIM
T Huntington. T. G u. Excelsior. Provi-
csncs and Thomas VI. Holden OF Anchor
Lgago PheniN r. 7