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mountain in the middle of his face
Does man always look like that?'
mo. Sometimes the cavern is
closed"
What is it for anyway"
ST think he eats with it, and some
times I've seen him put one end of
stick into it, and set fire to the other.
Then a lot of disagreeable smoke
comes out and you have to get out of
the way or you'll be choked."
Where is that square meal you
promised me2" queaied hungry Ping.
"Silly Pingi" laughed Mrs. Sing.
Don't you know that right under Ihe
mans skin flows the most delicious
beverage? You've only to poke your
bill through"
Lets go to work. I never had a
square meal in my iife. Where is the
best spot to begin %
His cheek right there above the
patch of bristles is the incest" said
Mrs. Sing, but it's the most danger
Gus. There's good quiet spot he
hind that round arrangement just
back of his cheek. Shl Don't sing
so loud if you go there! He hears with
that. Go quietly"
But Ping was so happy at the pros
pect of a supper that she could not keep
from singing.
Whack! Ping had barely time to
| dodge a great fat thing that nearly
crushed her. She scuttled out through
a crack in it, and flew trembling to
Mrs. Sing.
MY. what an ESCAPED" gasDed Ping.
do you call that place safe?"
Safest of any unless you light on
/ the f1ipper he hit you with. But you
must learn to keep STILL
! THAT mountain just above his cav
ern looks good. I'm simply starving. "
For your life don't go there! He'd
have you in a twinkling. Try under his
chin, and don't sing if you have any
/ sense at all.
Ping stole quietly up, Mrs. Sing light
I ed softly beside Ping, and the glorious
4 feast began.
Don't take too much or you'H be
sorry" whispered the wise Mrs. Sing.
But Ping did not hear. Deeply she
drove her pointed bill.
oh, how lelcioust" she sighed
Then all was silence except the roal
from the cavern above them.
Come, Ping! No more said Mrs
Sing.
But Ping was not to be cut off from
her first draught at the springs of life
Come, come tn be too late"
But foolish Ping staid, and Mrs. Sing
/ flew awav.
When Pings thirst was quenched she
could not fly. She crawled off on q
loiI1oW to rest
When morning broke she was still
there. The man woke w and she was
rS!. thare.
Then the man saw her.
"Aha!' said he. You little glutton
I have you"
Whack! and greedy Ping was nc
more.
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ahead. Then the japanese silently
d1ved, without even making a. splash.
and sped with swift strokes, but as
noiselessly as a sha1ow- through the
ocean, till he was close to the sleeping
turtle. He dived again and came up
under the monster, selling it by the
hind ripper. Then the JAPANESE
sprang on its back and held fast to
the upper part OF the sheIIsarOund the
creatures neck. Off it went, padding
straight down into the deep sea like
a great bird soaring.
PaaO watched. from his canoe and
saw the strange horse and it's rider go
down., down, down into the clear blue
water till they were more than fifty
feet below the surface, and at last
they glimmered out of sight in the
vague depths. He had given up all
hope of seeing his companion again
when the big turtle came rising to-
ward the surface as fast as it had gone
down, and the next moment the Jap
anese was shaking the water out of his
hair while the turtle lay utterly wear
led and spent, on the surface.
soon it was lifted into the boat, and
the japanese addressed it, saying: 81
have conquered you in a fair fight, and
taken you prisoner in your own ele-
mentt with nothing to help me ex-
cept my bare hands. Now you are
mine. If I let you go, will you prom
Use to obey the command which I
shall lay on you ?'
The turtle turned its hawk-IiIze
head toward its caDtor and opened its
jaws wide three times
1T is WE'LL said the sailor '"This
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an Unpleasant New Tenant.

Look Loozr' shouted Bob peering into
the shallow water in the little cove. What
is that funny thing2"
Father looked and saw a queer creat ure
shuffling along the bottom It was about
as big as a thumb In front were long
feelers and two beads of eyes set on what
looked like long stalks, and two great
claws were held out before this array.
But it was queerer-stiIl in the back. for
there was a tiny snailshen that seemed
to be grown fast ito the thing; and as it
shufTled along the bottom it dragged the
shell along, bumpety bumpi It looked for
all the world like a toy wagon dragged
helterskelter over a rough road by a small
boy.
and that little she'll is his house. But
it did not grow on him. The hermit crabs
are born without any shell except the
thick one that covers their heads and
shoulders. Their tails are as soft as can
be, and as the fishes all love to eat those
tid-bits of tails. the poor hermit crabs
would have a sad time of it if they did
not know a curious trick, They look Tor
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Priests brother who was great war
chief. became angry at PaaO because
he refused to pray for the death of all
his enemies and even sheltered some
of them when they were wounded. So
he sent his warriors down from the
mountains to kill Paao.
Paao was warned in time and leaped
into his canoe and sped out to sea
When the morning came he was far
out Of sight of land, but on the horizon
he could see the great fleet of war
canoes that his brother had sent in
chase, so he padded on
That night a terrible storm arose
The wind was so great that PaaO, eX-
hausted as he was from his flight
could hardly keep the prov of his
canoe headed into the waves. He Ia
bored until he could not move the
paddle any more and then a great
wave twisted it out of his hand and he
struggle in the sea. for a bigger wave
still was racing straight at him with
its crest foaming and all around and
behind it were other waves roaring. It
seemed the end.
That very moment there was a
smart jerk on his canoe and instantly
it headed into the huge wave and rode
it as if it had been guided by a paddle
in strong hands. Paao looked and saw
that a big fish had hold of the canoe
and was pulling it. It was aku, the
Bonito.
But the waves were getting bigger
and bigger, and Paao felt certain that
before long they would smash his
canoe if they did not overturn it. Al
ready the seams were beginning to
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A True and Thrilling Story of a
Haunted House.

II know real true ghost story about
this house." said Uncle Jim to Amy ana
Dora, as they passed very pretty house
standing some distance from the road.
'sTen US, tell us" cried both the chill
dren, as they sat down among the fra
grant leaves at UncIe's feet.
well, q family once lived in that nice
house only a short time before they were
sure that they heard strange noises in a
chamber which they seldom used. One
said it sounded like a person walking back
and forth as if he had some great trou-
bic and could not sleep. Another said 1t
was like the sound of one person following
another IN the dark ready to spring on
she heard scudle as II a robber nad
made a leap on his victim But in the
morning when they went up to the room
there was not thing to show that any
person had been there. "
Didn't they 60 up in the night and
mo. they moved out. But the second
family that heard the strange noises went
up in the night. They heard q sound like
when the door of the chamber was flung
open there was no human being IN sight
That seemed very strange to them, as the
noises which they had heard were quite
distinct. Well, that family also moved out
ssrThen a third family moved into the
house" continued Uncle JIM land the
neighbOrs told them about the ghost. But
they only laughed AS soon as they heard
hard as they could, And they did not think
that it sounded like a man who couldn
sleep or like d chain trailing on the floor,
or like anything the others had told about
And the more they listened the more they
agreed.
so the very next night Mr.. Ainslee
took the pistol and hid in the room as soon
as dark His wife was listening below.
AS soon as the straPSe noise came
she heard her husband take some quick
steps TO the corner of the. room, and
, then laugh: Come uD with a light and
see the Shosts
She laughed merrily, too when she
opened the chamber door. There in the
middle of the room were two fat wood
chueks. who seemed vastly surprised. at
their situation.
Mr. Ainslie stood before a large pic
ture which leaned against one corner of
the room. i was found that behind this
was the hole by which the ghosts had
crawled into the room. They had climbed
up large tree and gnawed a hole through
/ the cornice of the house, and had had
merry times playing ghost.
How people must have laughed, SAID
/ Indeed they did, said Uncle. "And
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open from the straining. Just then a
beautiful red fish rose to the surface.
It was the opeiu. He swan around
and around the canoe SO fast that Paao
got dizzy. Every wave that dashed to-
ward them was caught by the Opelu.
He would stiffen out his great body
and the wave would break harmlessly
against his gorgeous red sides.
So they Travelled all night and VIXEN
morning broke they were far out in
mid-Pacific. Aku was still pulling
strongly and opelu was breaking the
waves without firing; but Paao saw
that they did not know where to go.
He knew that they were heading far
Their and farther out to sea and ne
feared that he would soon die from
the sun rose great hawk-like head
appeared in the sea and a turtle came
alongside and began to guide the
course of the bonito.
The moment the bonito and the
opelu knew that they had a guide they
dashed after him as fast as the wind
till the canoe actually leaped from the
water at times. Before sunset they
were nearing some beautiful islands
and soon the canoe was safe and
sound in q great lagoon.
The islands to which the faithful
turtle had brought the High Priest
were the Hawaiian islands, and he
built a temple there and became j
very famous man, about whom the
HaWaiians tell stories to this day. And
have been Worshipped as gods in the
Hawaiian islands by the people who
are now our fellow Americans. And
the japanese fishermen there still re-
lease turtles taken in the nets after
they have inscribed their signs on
them, because they believe that turtles
-Bes az 4no 4soI go pIuoqs G7Ql u puBI
o. YoBq m7q4 9p!nS IIIM p7lB7I4 os
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sHIPWREChED.
The Tale of Catboat and the Tail of
a Cat.

THERE Isn't that about sailing enough?''
asked Mr.. Drake, as he reversed the tiller
and swung the catboat across the wind
Just one u1Ore-mOre tack. pap please,
cried Ellen, her eyes dancing and her
hands patting each other. Just one
more :"
All right" laughed Mr.. Drake. Wen
tack toward that point, then. That will
be mile or more. Keep a sharp look out
for whales and icebergs and castaway is
lands.
ooh papai mamma - cried Ellen. sud
denly. What Is that right in front of Is
dead ahead, mean2"
Nothing that I see-oh, you mean that
little black spot yonder. A floating bit of
, timber, think. But it's off our course. =
1T ought to be on my tack" she beg
ged. 4 N to have a long one, you know
Why papa her hands once more com
mencing TO pat each other. 1T might be a
wreck, with survivors.
Mr.: Drake swung the tiller q little.
All right, Ellen he said, good-natlIred
" Its your rescue"
Ten minutes later he ran alongside some
bits Of timber. As the stern of the boat
swung around, almost grazing them, there
was sudden glad meow" and a tiny
ball of black fur sprang on board and into
Ellens lap, where it curled up into ecstat-
ic purrings.
We'll [ declare" said Mr.. Drake. If it
] isn't a rescue. after all!'
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Been savay for the sumrner9" 1sobe1
asked Jean

she enjoyed the first glimpse of the
girls standing on the stone doorstep.
Every one was so glad to see every one
else, and they chartered like sparrOws.
did you have a good time?" Per
fectly fine" Where did you gO?" ard
then came an answering tide of names
of places and talks of golf and swim
ming and padding.
There were only a few new girls en-
tered, for Miss Damons school was
not large and the children VINO began
i'm the primary class were pretty sure
TO stay through until they went to
boarding school or college.
Miss Damon called them into the
assem- bly, room and gave them d nice
little talk and a welcome and then
they sang some songs and went back
to their respective rooms.
When IsObelis desk was given to
her. she found to her great disap-
pointment that her seat mate was Il
new girl She and Martha Chester
had expected to sit together, of course,
and Martha's face looked like Il
thunder cloud when she found herself
sitting with Mary Arthur, whom she
did not like
Martha motioned to Isobel to so and
make fuss right away, but Isobel
saw that Miss Van Wyck was busy and
confused with the things to be done
and She decided to wait until later TO
ask to be reseated.
She whispered this across to Martha,
to her books.
IsobeIs seat mate was curious lit
tie girl. She wore a plain black dress
with white cuffs and collar. Her face
was thin and very white i'm contrast to
the tanned faces around her. She evil
IDENTIFY had not had a vacation.
AT recess time IsObel spoke to her
Her name was Jean Stewart. She said
she had recently come to the city. She
lived in an apartment a few blocks
from the school with her mother and
uncle.
Isobei could see that Jean was timid
and she could also see that she was
not the kind of girl who would be
vel-v popular Isobei was sorry, for II
was not pleasant to be at Miss Da-
mons and have the girls slight you
Martha pulled Isobel into a corner
60 talk over their affairs. She saiG
Miss Van Wyck would have to change
their seats or she would go straight te
Miss Damon.
Isobel said she preferred to wait I'M
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til tomorrow az least before making a
fuss, for Miss Van Wyck had so many
things to attend to.
At that Martha f1ounced off and
Joined the group of girls who We're
opening their lunches over in one cor
ner of the school room
Come on, Isobel hustle" they
called, "the foodu be gone quick,
cause it's terribly good
Jean was sitting alone in her seat
eating her little luncheon daintily.
There was something very lonesome
about her look and attitude.
Isobel went to her desk, pulled out
her box of luncheon laid it upon the
desk where the girls were eating.
Picking out sandwich she returned
to her seat and sat beside Jean. The
girls gasped. What did Isobel mean ,
But then, IsobeI always was doing
crazy things. She'd get over it.
Been away for the summer %
Isobe1 asked Jean.
mo- was the reply. we've been at
home all sumner. Mamma hoped to
send me. but she couldn't manage it.
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is my benefactor. Paao. Look upon
him.
The turtle turned its head and
looked at the High Priest.
IF he be lost in the sea, swim with
him and guide him to the land," said
the Japanese. Then he took out his
knife and carved a sign on the big
turtle, after which he put it back into
the water
a few weeks after the sailor had
departed Paao came upon a bonito
leaping madly among the sharp PIN
nacles of a coral reef listle way
from shore.
He saw that a great shark was chas-
ing him, and, without hesitating a mo-
ment. he waded out and lifted the big
silvery fish from the water.
BE not frightened oh aku, said
he. q shall carry you to the lagoon
and there set you free
/ The fish looked at Paao and lay still.
/ When he was placed into the water
! he remained motionless for a time,
/ looking fxedly at the priest. Then he
vanished.
Not long afterward Paao saved a
beautiful red opelu from the attacks
of an octopus, and carried it to the
same lagoon.
About year later the good High
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IsOBEL's sEAr-1IAIE.

The idea Of school was very pleas
ant to IsobeL
In the first place she was to be in
1Iiss Van Wyck's room and Miss Van
Wyck was by all odds the sweetest
teacher in school. as every girl admit
ted.
In the second place, she was tired of
vacation. She was tired of the piazza
of the hotel where they had spent the
summer. She was weary of clean white
clothes. and carefully brushed hair and
people every minute. Her ideal Of sum
1ler was different, but her mother
fized fashionable places, so, of course,
there were no sweaters and camping
and knocking about.
Her own room and her book case full
OF books were most inviting and her
plain school frock felt more comforta-
BILE than anything she had put on for
months.
The morning was crisp and cool, az.
the sunshine was very bright.
She enjoyed the walk to school and
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THE FATE on GREEDY PING.
(By Sarah Noble Ives. illustrated BY
the author.)


.Ha, ha. hal" laughed Ping. Us
that funny thing a mans head?"
Ping was a young and ignorant
mosquito, just emerged from the wig
gler stage, which had been spent hap
PLY and uneventfuIIy in a nearby
pool The one unpleasant circum-
stance that she had to look back upon
was a taste of petroleum, which had
been placed in the otherwise lovely
and stagnant bit of water
The fact that Ping was just hatch
ing into her present state was all that
saved her from an untimely death.
AS it was. there was a bad taste in
her mouth as she dried her wings ana
flew away.
In her haste she hunted straight
into Mrs. Sing. They exchanged com
pliments, and Mrs. Sing told Ping of
place near by where they could Ca'awl
through a hole in a netting and get a
good square meal.
They waited till rough noise came
from the corner Of the room where
they lay hidden.
What's that?' asked Ping.
That's a man. He's snoring. Now
is our time"
Wing and wing they flew and perch
ed together on the edge of a pillow.
Where does the noise come from %
asked Ping.
Prom that cavern just below the
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an empty shell and climb into it back

an empty shell and climb into it back
ward
often they try score of shells till they
ind one that fits. When they do they hold
fast to it with a hook that they have in
their tails and after that even man could
not pull them out without killing them.
But they do not always succeed in find
ing an empty shell; then they look for one
that still has the snail in it and calmly
eat the poor owner; after which they get
into the empty house This fellow we are
watching has evidently grown too big for
his shell and is looking for another one.
Do you notice how he stops to examine
every shell on the bottom?"
Just then Mr.. Hermit Crab stopped short
in front of a big snail which Immediate
" withdrew into its shell. But in vain
The hermit crab stuck his great claws in
and began to eat the poor snail bit by Bit
In a very short time he had finished his
meal and then he backed into the new
house.
''TaIk about eating a person out of house
and home,'' said Bob as the wicked pirate
scuttled of.
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THE STRANGE sEA-RIDE OF THE
HIGH PRIEST
A Story Of Aku and OpeIu, and Why
They Became Hawaiian Fish Gods.

one day as Paao. the High Priest
was sitting under the bread fruit tree
in front of his hut on Samoa. watching
the long Pacific rollers break in white
thunder on the sleepy beach, a japanese
sailor came along in rags Paao beck
oned to him and asked wnat had
brought him to such d plight. and the
Japanese sailor told him that he had
been shipwrecked on the coast and had
been forced to live on the beach while
waiting Cor a ship that might be will
ing to hire him as sailor.
Paao Immediately took the stranger
into his hut and brought forth food
and drink. Then he gave him the best
clothing that he had. Thus they lived
together in comfort till at last a ship
arrived and the Japanese sailor found
employment on it.
Before he Went away he said to
Paao. Come thou with me to the
sea. I am minded to catch a turtle :
Paao followed, wonderingly.
The japanese and the High Priest
padded to sea in Paao's beautiful
hfgh-prowed canoe, till they spied a
floating black spot in the blue water
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list BoY-THouGHT.

Grown folks they act as if they thought
Boys never did just what they. ought,
If we make noise they hOller: oh!
Why do you shock our systems SOP
And If were still, they say: "Ohot
You've been in mischief Oh, We knoW!'
Us boys we find it quite fight
To Just be boys and stay polite.
When all the grown UP folks we know
Insist on acting to US so.
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WHO can GUESS ME2

speak with voices Of countless tone,
Yet never a voice that is my own.
All day round the earth my words are
rung
Yet have neither speech or tongue
I can sing and laugh and shout and cry,
Yet neither a soul nor a brain have I.
There is never a language so strange to
me
That can not speak it instantly.
1dy voice goes faster than wind can fly,
Guess ySu clever ones, what am II
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or
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these two last ones were glad that they
had agreed in their ideas, and they are
living there now"
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-04-08
SENATOR NIXON
HOME AGAIN
Interesting Statement BY Ne
vada's Able Representative
III the Senate.

Nevada's popular United States
Senator, George S. Nixon. arrived
in Winremucca, his home, Monday,
after months tour OF eastern states
Seuator Nixon was sworn in as
United States Senator from Nevada
to succeed Senator Stewart, on
March 4th, and participated in the
deliberations of the short extra ses
sion which convened on that date.
Senator Nixon was greatly i'm
pressed with the dignity, yet plain
nrss, OF the Senate Of the United
States, He says he never before
fullv realized what conservative
BODY Of business statesmen it is. In
an interviewing a SilverState repre-
sentative, the Senator said: My
predecessor, Senator Stewart, was
one Of the great Republican leaders
and he was beloved by his late col
leagues on both sides of the political
fence.
AS to the railroad legislation
now pending, believe there is little
friction between the Senators and
the President, and | think bill will
be drafted during the recess and be
ready for presentation at the extra
session to be called in October, that
will settle the transportation ques.
tion satisfactorily to the people.
4 was gratified to note that Ne
vada's undeveloped possibilities are
beginning to be appreciated east OF
the Rockies and the state is more
talked about east than any other
common wealth in the union of states
MCneyed men and homeseekers
everywhere are casting their eyes
in this dire tion and certainly pre-
dict great prosperity for Nevada.
He says that there are more men OF
standing looking Neyadawards at
this particular time than there are
looking in any other direction The
mines in Tonopah and Goldfield sec.
tions are the magnet which is prov
ing very attractive TO many, while
others have their eyes on the great
reclamation work now going on in the
Truckee and Walker river basins
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-04-08
HARRY MANON
PASSES AWAY
The Brave Deputy Sheriff Sacri-
fees His Life on the Altar
of Duty.

Harry Manon, the brave deputy
sheriff, who was shot by a desperado
whom he was trying to capture near
Beatty two weeks ago, passed away
at Godtield. Wednesday morning
Impressive services were held that
afternoon by the Godticld Aerie OF
Eagles and the following morning his
remains were shipped to Oakland
Calf, for iutermeut Mr., Mamn
was at his bedside when he brratlled
his last, but his brother, w, r.
Manon, who came from San Fran
cisco, did not arrive until a few min
utes after his death, Harry Z.
Manou was pioneer resident of
Tonopah, man of sterling worth
and one beloved by all who knew him.