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the forthcoming birthday, grandmamma promising to look after everything In mammals absence
 Half an hour later Rosie was walking slowly homeward, musing thus: 'If mamma doesn't come home for my birth day 1t won't seem like birthday at all. I'd rather put it off for week-or longer-and have mamma here. Grand mamma would make a nice party for me, but not like mamma would make 1t. Nobody could make anything half as nice as mamma can. Oh, l do wish auntie would hurry and get well so my mamma can come home"
 The morning of Rosies birthday dawned. and with the breakfast came telegram from her mamma saying that she would not be home for two or three days, but wished her little girlie happy birthday. After Rosie's papa had finished reading the telegram Rosie's appetite vanished, and she couldn't taste a mouth full of the breakfast. h answer to her papa's anxious inquiry, Rosie explained that she was just bomesick for mamma" Her papa laughed and declared that she must be cheerful on her birthday, and that in the afternoon her party would make her forget her loneliness, and that within a very short time mamma would be with them again
 v After her father had gone to his store Rosie went to her own room to dress her dolls for the afternoon party. But her heart was not in the preparations for the coming event, which, had her mamma been al home, would have held such happy anticipations for her. T just don't want a party at all while mamma is away" she declared. stamping her foot empha tically T can't enjoy birthday when mamma Is away.
 Then Rosie let fall the doll she held iD her hands and began to think. As an idea flew through her mind her eyes grew round and sparkling, and a happy smile crept to the corners of her dear little mouth. After a few minutes she sprang from her little chair and ran to look at the clock in the hall. I'll have lots of time,'' she said to herself. And I'll not tell soul about it. Papa won't come home for luncheon, and when the children all come to the party they can have the cake and ice-cream and all the goodies same as though l was here. And I'll
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obe FATE OF THE GIRAFFE.

" TALL giraffe one morn A ing said
 Unto a creature small, Of all the things l pity most On this terrestrial ball, Tt is a creeping mite like you That stays down in the grass And cannot see an inch away, Nor knows what comes to pass Up in the clouds, or OCT the
 hills,
 That are so far away, For out of sight of everything Down next the earth you stay" But as he/ made this pitying
 speech
 "Bingl Bangp came through
 the air. A hunter on the hills had seen Giraffe a-standing there,
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ROSIE. A Story for Tiny fTots, by Maud Walker

took from her purse the silver dollar Once when she and her mamma were go- ing to the city they reached the railroad station too late to procure tickets before boarding the train, and she had seen her mamma pay money to the conductor in- stead of handing him tickets So she in- tended adopting the same method.
 The conductor stopped beside the seat occupied by Rosie, but he spoke to woman who sat across the aisle from Rosie. Tickets, ma'am." The woman handed him a ticket, which he took and punched. Then he said: Ticket for your little girl, here.'
 II have no little girl" snapped the woman. looking sharply at the conductor. I'm travelling alone, sir
 Well, whose child is this?" asked the conductor, speaking to the woman, and pointing toward Rosie.
 Pm MT. Jackson's little girl, sir," spoke up Rosie, not waiting for the won- an to reply to the conductor.
 And Is your father travelling in the smoker?' asked the conductor of Rosie. Papa isn't trayeling at all today" ex- plained Rosie. T am going to the city to visit my mamma and aunt. Here Is some money, sir. I didn't get ticket" And Rosie handed the silver dollar to the conductor
 But where are you going?" asked the conductor, looking at the silver dollar And why didn't your father see to get ting your ticket? You're a mighty little trick of gira to be travelling alone"
 II m going to A." explained Rosie.
 "Going to A" and the conductor opened his eyes very wide. Why, my child, this train is going in different direction. Our next stop is Danton, fifty miles from here. What did your father mean by allowing you to get on the wrong train?'
 My papa didn't know I was going to visit my mamma" said Rosie, blush of confusion crossing her face But please let me off, sir, and I'll run back to the station and get on another train one that will take me to A. ' Why, my child, l can't stop this train till we reach the next station. This is a limited train and every minute counts Besides, we're now 15 miles from where you live. No, you'll have to go on to
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the station agent. very nice man, who gave her some chewing gum and who telephoned to his own little daughter to come down to the station and keep the little runaway company till time for her to depart. And, with the money that was left after sending the wire to her father, Rosie bought something to eat at the lunch counter in the station-house and invited the station agents little daughter to partake of it with her. "It'H my birthday" confided Rosie to the little companion. And there's a party being given at my home for me- this afternoon. But I'll miss 1t all for it's to be over at o'clock. But I'll get home before supper, and grandmamma and papa will tell me all about 1t, and I'll have lots of fun looking at my presents. But it's very wicked of me to have run away, and when I get home again I'll never leave without mamma or papa are with me- Just think what might have happened to me If the conductor hadn't found out that I was on the wrong train! Oh, might never have got home again." And Rosie trembled to think what might havt happened to her-a naughty runaway.
 And that evening when she rolled into her own home there were papa and grandmamma to meet her. and both had many things to say to her about ltttie gtris rlnning away.
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He dropped beside the creature
 small,
 Who said, with pity keen, "'Tis sometimes best, poor dying
 one,
 To not see nor be seen. For though my lot most lowly is I'm safe from shot and shell. And live to see the proud brought
 low,
 And of their grief to tell"
 WARNING. Ne'er from station high look
 down
 With sense of pitying scorn On those who are unfortunates, Who are more lowly born. For like giraffe, who boasted vain,
 You may be brought so low That those whom you have scorned the most In turn may pity you.
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what secure. "Listen to its fingers scratch!" And the small urchin drew himself closer to the host of the party. But the noise ceased. and Artie, a trine nervous for a moment became himself again and made ready to continue his story. But a questioner interrupted him. Say, Artie. what was you going through the graveyard at night for?" came the whispered query from another of the credulous, who also sought closer contact with Artie. drawing himself beside him for safety, for the wind was moaning about the barn and making such strange noises.
 "I go through the graveyard to keep me brave," proudly asserted Artie, but his courage was given a jolt at the very moment, for again came the sound of tapping on the barn wall "Say. what can that be?" asked .Artie, rising and looking into the different corners of the loft. Somebody's trying to play joke on me, I reckon"
 But why isn't it a spook? interro- gated one of the small boys, his face a bit pale and his manner nervous. Maybe it's one of them graveyard ghosts, Artie"
 Artie, knowing the graveyard ghosts to be a hoax-mere apparitions of his own fancy-was on the point of declaring there were no such things, when he caught himself in time, and continued in his deception: 'Oh, yes, maybe 'tis one of them. We'll" and Artie cleared his throat, wishing that he had some way of knowing what caused the tapping, which had now ceased.
 Say" Artie declared after a moments pause suppose We go into my house. I can tell the story in my room. and we'll be-be-"
 The small boys had huddled about Artie, some so frightened that they could not speak, and all wondering whether or not they would reach their own homes alive. and all wishing they had not ven- tured out on this night of all nights to listen to ghost story, for on such nights the ghosts were about in numbers. and likely to bounce upon any one of them and carry him to some terrible cave or devour him alive. And when they saw the look of fright in the face of Artie, who always before had assured them that though he had seen ghosts, spooks. goD- llns, he had never yet felt a moment of fear, their own apprehensions grew, and not one of them would move an inch from the boy whose bravery seemed to be leav- ing him. Artie stuttered and his lips trembled. He wondered if, after all, the ghosts of his fancy had come into real creating them.
 "Yes, let's go to your house." whis- pered one boy, not. yet powerless of speech. But at the moment a hollow voice sounded through the loft, saying: Archibald Jones, you are deceiver, liari You have been working upon the credulity of these little boys, telling them stories of ghosts that never existed except on your tongue and in their ex- cited imagination. I, real spo9k, have come to avenge the wrongs sgou have done me and my kind, and to open the eyes of these misled boys regarding you. Now, either speak the truth to these boys-and tell them that all the ghost
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BY WILLIAM WALLACE, JR.


 TWRTIE JONES had one very bad A# habit. Although he was a boy well
 liked by comrades and friends and
 known to be strictly honest in all matters there was one thing he would persist in doing which was greatly to his discredit. He seemed to possess Il diaboical mania for frightening boys younger than himself by telling to them most narrowing and ood-curdling ghost stories or "spook stories" as Artle was wont to say. ''Ah. of course, there are spooks,' he would declare when some little seyen-year-old would ask: Really, are there ghosts, Artie?'
 Then if invited to relate some story in which "spook" was the hero or heroine Artie would pull a long and serious face and say: "I oughtn't to tell you kids of the spooks, for you'll turn pale to your marrer bones. Honest. l oughtn't to tell you about a horrible spook l saw the other night"
 Then, of course, the kids who were In danger of turning pale to their mar Ter bones" would gather round their hero, Artie, and coax from him the story he was so anxious to tell. But, being ''born story teller and, therefore, pos sessing the story tellers tact, Artie would pretend his unwilingness to speak in public, making one excuse or another, and knowing all the time that he'd end by giving not only one story, but two or three In fact, he'd story till the little listeners became pale with fright and would ask Artie to please go to their re- spective homes with them, for so vivid were Artie's descriptions that the little chaps imagined they could see spooks hid ing in every dark corner of a fence or hedge or peeping from old untenanted buildings, ready and anxious to gobbe them up. clothes and all.
 Now in the same town with Artie Jones lived another boy of strong characteris- tics, but somewhat different In disposi- tion from Artie His name was Jack Ball and he was about Artie's own age and size. Jack was q most scrupulous boy in regard to truth, any form of deceit being despised by him, and he often spoke very plainly to Artie on the sub
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Danton. where I'll put you off andoin- struct the station master to put you aboard the next eastern-bound train and to have the conductor take you in charge. This is pretty mess. little girl. You're runaway, and just baby. at that
 "But-but-oh, please sir, I must get on and go back to my home," cried Rosie. Papa will be crazy about me when he doesn't hear from me- If l had gone to A mamma would have telegramed to papa, and that would have made 1t all right"
 What's your fathers name, little one?' asked the conductor, taking pencil and a slip of paper from his pocket. m wire from Danton that you are safe and sound and that you'll be at home on the 530 train this afternoon. Here, give me thIs dollar to pay for the wire. I'll give you the change. As for your fare well, your father will nx that-if there's any fare due the company. I'm in doubt about that, for you should not have been permitted to get on the train alone. You're under even half-fare rate and are not supposed to travel alone'
 Rosie felt somewhat relieved when. about two hours later she stood in the station at Dantcn and saw the big con ductor write out telegram to her father. And the conductor put her In the care of
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out the sight of the tombs, for they made me nervous" As Artie paused to take breath, and to observe the impress sion his first words had made on his hearers, slow low rappfng was plainly heard on the side of the barn, apparent ly just outside on the wall beneath the cave. Artie glanced in the direction of the noise and said: ''I wonder who's out there doing that?'
 Maybe It's a ghost!" whispered one Of the eredulous his little voice full of fear, but also denoting pleased anticipation, for although he feared ghosts, spooks, goblins and so forth. he had longing to just hear one for himself, and while in the company of Artie he felt some
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curing Art of his ugly fault against the younger kids. except by using his own weapons against him. They say 1t takes a thief to catch a thief; so the same principle may be applied in Arts case It will take spook to frighten him out of his spook manufacturing business. And 1t will require deception to make him see the spook. which, not being one of his own creation, will cause him to think that after all there are such un- natural things as ghosts and goblins"
 That evening, Just at dusk. Artie sat in the loft of his fathers barn, an ad miring group of small boys gathered about him. The elements were right for a ghost story. for drizzling rain had
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ject of his shortcomings. But Artie would laugh and say: Gee, Jack, you can't split q hair over little matters. So long as my stories-even if wholly manufac- tured by me-amuse the kids, why shouldn't I tell them? And l Ind such pleasure in entertaining the youngsters, and It's funny to see their hair begin stiffening as I unfold my spook story
 I'm not objecting to your telling stories of your own manufacture, Art" ex- plained Jack, when he and Artie were in argument one day, but I do object to your pretending to the kids that the stories are true If you'd confess that you
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1 OURPUZZLE| sHxA,CoRrIER
HIDDEN PRovERB PUZZLE.

Each of the following sentences con- tans one word of a well-known proyerb. If the words are rightly guessed and written together in the order in which they appear the proyerb will be com plete:
 It Is never too late to mend. The person who suffers deepest does not cry out.
 It is ever over the highest mountain that lies our goal.
 Many have spilled their blood for lib erty.
 The monkey eats only the milk from the cocoanut.
 BEHEADINGS.
 1) Doubly behead to speak the truth and leave the habitation of a fowl. (2) Doubly behead to sneak about in a sly manner and leave 8 bird (3) Behead that which is used in making bread and leave one of the points of the compass.
 CuRTAILINGS. CD Doubly eurtail current report and leave q strong drink. @ Curtail a walk ing stick and leave a tin vessel. (0 Cur tail to leap in frolicsome manner and leave a point of land.
 ZIGZAG PUZZLE. The words of the zigzag contain the same number of letters. Beginning with the upper left-hand letter and ending with the lower left-hand letter the zig gag will spell a color. The cross-words are l. An insect ?. An Insect also. g.. meadow. 4. A playing card. B. Fam fly relatives
 CONUNDRUMS. Why is a defeated army like wool7 Becanse 1t Is ioOrsted.
 When is a bee like a criminal? When in his cell.
 What kind of money is found in all parts of the world?
 Mdtrf-moRy. ANSWERS TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLES. Letter EniQmd-Edster.
 Primal Acrostic-Easter. The cross cords are: 1. East. ?. Acre. 8. Stdr. 4. Tedm 5. Foil. G. Ripe.
 Novelist ZigSd0 Puzsle-B. 4. Poe. The crossroads are l. Eat 2 Far. g. Hop. PoD g. Ear
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set in after sundown. Each member of the group had had his supper, had "done his chores,' and was in proper mind for the thriller which Artie had that day promised them would "be on deck" in the evening at headquarters, namely, the loft of the barn.
 "As T was walking through the grave yard last night at midnight" began Artie, his voice low and husky (for Artie was a born actor) 'I heard a slight move ment behind me, and fearing to turn round-for I felt sure there was some un- earthly thing pursuing mel hastened my footsteps, closing my eyes so as to shut
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caused them the greatest terror. For Artie always laid the scenes of his ghost stories at night. and accompanied them by storms and dreary rains. Consequent ly, when 1t stormed there were about dozen little boys in the town who were afraid to put their noses out of doors, and if obliged to run on an errand would fancy they saw spooks and ghosts and gobllns grabbing them from every corner. And this condition of Juvenile fear was caused by Artie's ghost stories.
 q hate deceit in any form" declared Jack talking to himself. But on my hnnor don't see any other way of
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And from his gun had sent ball Which caused giraffe great
 pain; It pierced his neck, that loomed
 so high,
 And he'd never boast again.
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MORTH BENNINGTON

Mrs. Henry F. Lamb is attending
the w. C. T. U. state convention at
Burlington.
Misses Elsie and Mabel White who
have been visiting their cousin. Miss
Nella Cole have returned home.
B. T. Henry who has been spending
a week with his son Allen, in New
York City, returned home Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs Merritt Hewitt and
family are spending a few days at the
home of Mrs. Jennie PERCY on West
street.
Mrs Mary Wales ewho has been Wis
iting friends in Greenwich, ~ Y, has
returned to the home of Henry f.
Lamb.
Wells w. White who has been at
tending the Hudson-Fulton celebra-
ton at Poughkeepsie returned home
Monday.
Ray Minott who has been a guest
for few days of his mother has re-
turned to his duties at the hutland
Business school.
On Sunday, October 10, the Congre-
gational Sunday school will observe
Rally day. There will be a few ex-
ercises by the children. All the mem
bers are earnestly requested TO be
present and to bring some one with
them.
Members of the Congregational
church do not want to forget that he
annual roll call of their church will
be held on Thursday. October T. You
are requested to be in the vestry of
the church at 1880 p. m. & social
hour will be held from 1880 to $50
p. m Then the business meeting and
roll call will take up the rest of the
meeting.
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EAST ARLINGTON

Farand Dean of Wallingford spent
Sunday in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. ]. Warner spent
Sunday in Bennington.
Mrs. s. Phillips has returned from
a two weeks visit in Middletown. Ct.
Mrs. Alice Buck has been confined
to the house by illness the past week.
Mrs. Mary Gendner has been enter
tanning her son and wife, Mr.. and Mrs
William Coppin of Canada the past
few days.
Mrs. Robert Shuffleton and son
Floyd have been spending a few days
in Bennington at the home of her
brother, c. I. Hendee.
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DEMAND FOR FoREsTERs
The Canadian Pacific Takes Entire
Glass at University of Toronto

Toronto, Oct 5.-The Canadian Pa
cifc Railway company has engaged
the whole OF the senior class in for
estry of the University of Toronto for
two months work in the forests of
Maine and elsewhere.
The members of the class will re-
ceiye payment for their services and
all expenses, and the university au-
thorities have granted the class two
months leave of absence to attend
these splendid training duties.