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Arizona republican., 1910-06-08

don't mean it. and you mustn't think of spelling your future in any such way Your day will come ii you are only patient. What IS ten years? Why, a lifetime IS little enough if in the end, you've accomplished some thing know it's hard and that you want poney-so do l. for that matter-but money isn't everything by good deal"
 Tar-Shin cracked with pleasure At last he had found out what Helen wanted he agreed with Jack that money all that mortal need w:sh Tor arid to hm, nothing more easily obtanable.
 The talked long in this way, Jack insisting that he would strive for only thing in the future, and, as he rose to go away he pointed at Shln'
 Helen" he said .yogr little god may be all right
 She very unhappy Helen who conlded her grlet to Tan-Shin after Jack went away.
 "Oh my little god, why can't you help mel she said to him But you are lovegod, suppose, ifyou are so ugly and love-god won't do It's only money he wants just money money and that will be his ruin. You're laughing at me, and o course you cant under stand and you couldn't help anyhow, if you did and I'm wretched!"
 Somewhat abruptly she went away, leaving him won dering and perpexed He certainly not love-god, and he failed to understand what possible she could have for any such frivolous deity Still, his way was quite plan there question that money was what she wanted So, while Helen slept Tan.Shn exercised his chief attribute in her behalf and reJoced to be at work again Incantatons that had never failed kept him busy all night and he happy at his task that he put little of his real feelings into the set grin of his mask.
 "Wbv. vou're smiling more than ever" Helen said to him the next morning "I believe you're bad little god, after all. Are you glad I'm so unhappy"
 No one but Tan-Shin knows how much he had to do with it, and he is given to complaining that the people of this country have little faith IT hls powers How ever the fact remains that Helen received letter by the first mail which changed her into joy. She read it eagerly and there was light in her eyes when she finished
 Poor Uncle Horacel" she said to herself and then sent off a note to Jack by messenger.
 What do you think, my little god?" she confded to him afterward ten thousand dolars-all my very Who would have expected old Uncle Horace to remem- Der me after all these years? And now Jack have
Arizona republican., 1910-06-08
By Alden Hrthur Knipe

what he wants and there won't be any bother about money and we can"
 Helen stopped abruptly while pink flush stole into her face and she leaned forward kiss Shin on his shiny forehead.
 She did no work that day and gay and grave by turns. There uncertainty about all that was inexplicabe to the silent god but from her frequent references to Jack 1t evident that he played large part in her affairs, and the in which he would receive the o this suddenly acquired wealth was evidently of vital importance
 lie early in the afternoon, and Helen flushed when she heard his step the stairs.
 jack she began anxiously, "such good news. l sent to you because there is one else to tell"
 Sold picture?" he asked with evident interest
 "Oh better than that lots better than that but you couldn't guess! Uncle Horace Mamas brother you know, died and left ten thousand dollars"
 She looked eagerly at him. Jack strengthened up in his chair and his face became set
 I'm very glad, he said quite formally. '" 1 suppose you will now go abroad at once"
 Helen caught her breath l thought you would be SO glad" she said with manifest disappointment.
 sam glad he answered without enthusiasm
 But Jack, you don't understand" she began plain lively. We've known each other always and shared things since children and" Don't go on!" he broke in. " You must see that this is different Tubes of paint and brushes and little things like that don't count, but couldn't touch your money"
 " don't why not she answered, her voice break ing; 1t isn't any different to what 1t always was" Everything is different" he replied almost roughly, as different as day and night
Arizona republican., 1910-06-08

words, such as technique" and composition, which he did understand. But day the following attracted his attention and he listened inenty
 But, Jack, money isn't everything!" Helen was saying.
 It's everything to me from On Jack replied almost passiOnatey. five been working ten years, thinking of nothing but my art and what the result You doing the same thng-and now where are we? We're poor desperately poor because won't paint the pretty things that everybody wants and instead have tried to do something of real value. Well, I'm done! tell you the only thing worth having IS money and I'm tired of making sacrifices for the sake of visionary idea that call art"
 Jack" pleaded Helen don't talk like that. You
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was asking boon threngh the hgh-prest, and he re- solved that the grarrg of her wishes should be his initial manifestation.
 Then man made a request, but to Tan-S -Shins sur prise the girl immediately followed with another prayer
 This repeated several times, but he noticed that the girl had been the last speak and that she looked up at him anxiously.
 Again there silence. Even the monOtonous chant ing had stopped Suddenly there sharp sound o pencil being struck the high priest uttered word, Sold!" and, to the chagtnl Df Tan-Shin, he was whisked of the altar As he was being carried away he heard the dronng of the high priest begin again Lot number ,,377 in your catalogues ladies and gentle
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-10

fresh water to give him oxygen. The shell
Of Mr.. Hermit Crab is just the thing, so
he agrees TO take up his abode upon Mr.
Hermit's shell and to pay his rent by de-
Tending the owner Of the house from mis-
enemies. Mr.. Hydroid can sting and thus
ward off dangerous characters. Further
more. the hydroid looks more like a sea-
weed than he does like an animal, and
thus he covers and helps to hide the her
mit's she'll
The hermit has another little friend, the
sea anenone, whom he takes to live upon
the roof of his house. Sea anemones are
useful members OF the family. for they
also can sting the enemies who come .to
harm the crab. When the hermit changes
his residence ne lifts his friend, the sea
anemone, from the roof of his old home
and places it carefully upon his new abode
The little hermits who hatch out of the
eggs laid by the female crabs are carried
about until they are able to start out
house hunting and set up housekeeping for
themselves. The ways that animal moth
ers have Of carrying their babies about
are many and vary in every different
species One mother carries her babies in
sack just under her stomach, like the
kangaroo; another carries them on her
back, the birds build nests for their young
tae bears hide theirs in caves. and foxes
dig holes for the fox babies But our her
nit crab certainly does the oldest thing
OF ALL for she carries her babies on her
feet until they are ready to leave home for
the wide sea and the sandy beach.
Do seek this queer little fellow the next
time you go to the seashore and try to
prove the truth OF my story of the hermit
crab and his cdd way of living.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-10
THEIR HOMEMADE HAIR CUT

THE other day poor little mite OF lad
WIS sent. TO me and he needed a hair cut.
So the BOYS took him out and used the
scissors on him. You can guess what sort
Of q lob they did, and we all laughed when
one of the boys remarked, apropos oftthe
rough appearance Of the new boy, Here
comes City Hall steps backward
This boy was very badly treated by his
father. who had recently pulled his wife out
Of bed with her two-day-oId baby. I told
him. never TO go hungry and TO come 70 my
house if he needed 70 eat. 1 got some
clothes for him, and the boys took him out
for a bath, then walked him all over town
10 get him necktie for 70 cents They had
10 nav % cents, and they were quite
wrought up for fear I might not like it,
Mrs. Clements explained that the money
was crap" money. Whenever 1 catch
the BOYS playing craps I make them give
me the money ana save 1t for such things
a this she said
We always have some pet case of char
itv on hand It may be a chicken or dog
that needs 10 be freed from mango, "a half
starved or sick cat or d dilapidated horse.
once when il was a dog, 1 remember say
ir.q: We'll. I don't ike to see so much good
tonic being wasted on a bum dog The boy
replied: But that's q good dog, Mrs. Glenn
ents. He's q She
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wen as If he took the trouble 10 make one
OF his own. As q result Of this lazy habit
/ Of living in the shells OF other rnolIuscs he
never grows to be fully developed, well
balanced crustacean like his relatives the
crayfish and common crab. His fourth and
iitth pairs of legs are shrunken or have
almost entirely disappeared.
He moves into small quarters at first, and
as he grows and finds himself cramped he
starts out house hunting for d larger shell
When he finds one 10 suit he takes posses
sion. using force, If necessary, TO secure
what he feels he needs. Here I cannot
commend his methods, for sometimes,
regret TO say, he actually devours the occu-
pant he finds in the shell. and upon the
heels Of his murder enters in and enjoys
his victims property.
l suppose he knows through his own evil
propensity to destroy whatever stands in
his way that there are other cruel minded
enemies who VIII fall upon him and devour
HIM if he does not devise some means TO
protect himself. So he makes d bargain in
his crabby fashion-just how, cannot say,
but a bargain it is nevertheless-with a
little animal called hydroid, chap just
as odd as the hermit crab, and perha ps
that is why they get on SO well together.
The bargain is ike this;
Mr. Eydroid needs = home that win
move about, something to grow on that
will be firm and hard and yet viii move
from place TO place, Sc that he will have
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A PRETTY INCIDENT.

Dear Little Men and Little Women: II
is during this very warm weather that We
notice more closely our horses as they
work. and we feel that their lot Is not
erIviabIe. However. there are some VeIy
kind and considerate drivers among many
Indifferent ones. and the following IS
little incident to show that one driver, at
least. treated his horses with human kind
ness.
Il was about noon yesterday. when the
humidity drove every one to seek the cool
est place, and our lawn was being sprln-
killed. with the hose 10 prevent the grass
from burning up Along the dusty street
a huge truck. containing boxes of-1lreWorks,
was drawn BIZ a team Of horses, which were
PAINTING and gasping with the heat, Their
bodies wet and hot. The driver noticed
our hose, and watching him. I saw his face
light up as he eagerly looked at the water
squirting out Of i. Stopping his team and
humping from the truck. he begged our
hose for q moment TO wash down his
horses. Gaining permission TO use It, lie
Quickly turned II on his horses, the delight
ed expression never leaving his face.
What a change! The horses raised -the'T
heads. breathed deeply and one even opened
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finished the FIFTY Lessons" and sam now
reading with the club a book entitled Sub
Ia Nego'' (Under the Snow, translated into
Esperanto from the French OF J. ]. Por-
chat The book is a diary written by q boy
who. with his grandfather, remained all
winter in cottage in the Jura Mountains.
buried under the snow The story is very
interesting but heart breaking, relating
the dangers and hardshtps endured by
these, sturdy moIntaineers.
The chief aim Cf Esperanto Is to estab-
Hsh universal brotherhood, so that all ma
tons will live in peace with one another.
The interest is very great il foreign lands
In Europe there are many hotels where
one can order meals in Esperanto. There
are about one hundred and fifty newspa-
perS and magazines printed in Esperanto.
Germany IS probably the leader IN using
the international language IN advertising
In the United States the interest has only
recently awakened but Esperanto clubs
are forming in all parts OF the country
Tie State Of Marylsnd, at the last Legls-
Iature. passed bill authorizing the teach
ing of Esperanto in the pubic schools. OF
the first time the United States is about 70
be hcnCred with a gathering OF lnterna-
ti0naI Fsperartfsts. The sixth congress,
which viii open at Washington on August
l. is attracting much attention throughout
The more read of Esperanto the easier
and more Interesting IL becomes / am aoie
to use it considerably IN conversation anu
have written and received many letters IN
ESPERANTO from members of our club. |
shall soon take UP foreign correspond
and thus make a collection OF poStdI Ctt1tIS
from neoule of many lands whose Ian
e1ages / do not understand but who, by
means OF Esperanto. win be able TO maze 1s E
known TO me their ideas l snaII, De 80 go
~ receive letters from any of The Trib-
IIne's Little Men and Little Women VINO
wish 10 Iztow more about Esperanto
JOSEPH LEPSEY taSed ID
No 9z7 Grand avenue, New Haven
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peculiar people called the Guineas. About
q hundred years ago one family, consisting
of a man. his wife and six or eight children.
were caught in Guinea, brought 10 Norfolk
and sold as slaves to wealthy Virginian,
who took them to work on his plantation
below Richmond. They were very dEer-
ent in looks from the common negro slave.
They were so light as 20 be muddy yell
low. with high cheek bones. thin lips and
straight, coarse, black hair. like an Ind
ian's. One day, so the story goes, tie
planter cruelty beat the old Guinea man for
some trivial offence which so greatly an
gered the Guinea that he pronounced
curse upon the planter and his family. He
told him that within three weeks he would
look upon the dead face of his eldest son.
The planter did not believe this. and so
would pay no heed to the old Guinea, who,
in his own country, had been great VOC
doc priest, and was supposed to be able 10
see the future.
Time passed by. The three weeks were
nearly gone, and the old planter had al
most forgotten the incident when one az
ternoon word was brought that his eldest
son had been drowned while swimming in
the river near his home Several weeks
later the planter again beat the old Guinea
unjuStly who, IN revenge, pfOpneSied tiIdl
the planters second and only remaining
son would be dead within ten days Once
more Lis prophecy came true, for on the
tenth day the second son was carried home
dad his neck having been broken by fan
from his horse BY this time the planter
was so thoroughly frightened that he told
the Csuineas he would give ali of them their
freedom and deed them a certain tract OF
land in what is now West Virginia il they
would only go away forever The Guineas
gladly agreed to this. accepted the deed ana
started for their new home. which consisted
Of thousand acres of wild tlmberland IN
Barbour and Taylor counties. These people
practise very little agriculture, but live by
hunting and fishing, leading quiet, SOLITARY
lives. aSsociating with neither the whites
nor the negroes, but with only their own
people. As the years have passed they nave
So increased in numbers that there are now
about two hundred Of them They stu
practice a kind of vOOdOCism, and there are
always a few old crones about, who pro-
fess to be able to read the future and tell
fortunes. One incident well known around
here is that one day, while walking
through a field near the river, an old crone
laid her hand against an immense bowler;
nearly as large as a house, and prophesled
TO her companions that before many years
the iron horse would run right through It's
centre A few years later the G. & 3. Rail-
road which at that time had never been
thought Of blasted its right of way through
his Very rock. DOROTHY THAYER-
Grsfton W. Va. aged 49,
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70 put the other out OF his way by forcibie
means with claws and legs and jaws.
There were hundreds Of empty shells on
he beach Just as good as the one in dis
pute but these little fellows did not think
al 1ls-. and at last one lay quite still The
othe- had done him 10 death.
Then We saw what few strollers on the
beach ever have q chance TO see. TIE moving
q the hermit crab from his old house into
us new. ! say we saw II, but It was &C
cor1..shed SO quickly that the eye could
scarcelv follow. He was out OF his old
shell and had darred his abdomen into the
new with the auickness Of q thought, and
before We had time 10 realize what had
happened he walked of down the beach,
vel satisfied with the days work But he
was overtaken n his flight by the Boy, who
fighter who was walking of so proudly with
his newly Won home on his back
Down upon the beach We sat, and father
tod the story Of the hermit crab, which 1
an going 10 tel YOU
You would never suppose when you first
meet this queer combination Of claws and
legs hanging out Of a shell what an lntelli-
gent surprising person he really IS. When
STU only q baby he realizes that the soft
Part Of his body would be safer If Il were
covered wiki q hard shell Now, most
crabs. oysters and mussels set TO work anu
build 2 house for themselves, like the gOoG'
INDUSTRIOUS fellows that they are But TINS
hermit Of ours thinks ne knows q better
1zav. and decides he viii look about ana
See il he cannot tnd house ready made
that VIII Il the needs q his case quite as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-10
HER. MATRIMONIAL ADVICE.

. ~Vvlv.' said, think it would De an
-,,,1a,t idea. one Of these days, II your
So 5les. you'll have q lot Of money ana
III need somebody that's interested N
Won 70 help you keep IL
.srhe poor boy began to cry D ~ S soaa
=. - fellers are telling Jennie ne SAID
- +bev don't see what she wants 81
blind guy like me. ...o.2., the
- hat could you say 10 that t4e
LII. ,aI.- sled Mrs Clements
49, ..u-hv" she replied. Il said: Why Joe.
, .s,,,lc its perfectly lovely for woman 70
have a bind husband for ne can never 7'e
- row old and honely
r-.o listener swallowed lump IN Lef
,,-n -. hut Mrs. Clements went on Dlitheiy
.,-tere are some very funny Things TIA
-, A. the class Would you IKE 20
49, few Of them? Only the opnep Gay u
.is.-- ,.Istorv lesson was saying: rms ms
.,-~ sa,,s that Peter Minuit paid Sz4 iof 'le
' 'oiy ~ MANHATTAN ana the other one says
80, LA s2s' and 1 started to maze an @A "a,
ne pa.I " when one of the boys raised liz
pla .-s ~ agked: But now do you kho"
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Saws Her "ts6' r. the Tanning Of "Incorrgi6e" Boys

also to pick up bricks, and if the boy
did not do enough work he was beaten
I am going TO get after him. l said.
The teachers begged me not to. You'll
have a stiletto in your back one of these
days they said. 1 went to the uncle's
house and gave him piece Of my mind
The italian called me names and fol-
lowed me into the street when 1 came
away, but the boy wasn't beaten with
trunk strap any more"
Here Mrs. Clements remarked, whimsi-
cany: My daughter often tells me that
should be more careful, but of one thing l
succeed in doing what I do for them II 1t
were not that the superintendent and my
SO I wrote 10 Bill and I said Hello
Bill I hear you've found fine friends
Hooray, Just think of bum Catholic
like ne having q candle lit"
our class is home with lessons on
the side NY boys need more done for
them than just 10 be taught. / could not
notice and 10 approve or disapprove OF her
attire They object TO her wearing an
apron. on the ground that it makes her
look too old Gee, take 1t off, they say
1T makes you look Il hundred years old
If she wears a new hat that meets their
approval they express their delight II
they DO anything that meets with her con-
demnation they are sorry about it after
ward Wen all rise together" is her
motto, and the boys have come to believe in
it. She is not slow 20 say so when she
thinks any boy has done wrong
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-10

knee, and then when they got me into the
hospital the job was such poor one that
they took off some more above the knee
And or the end of this letter he wrote
three times: 'Goodby. God Bless Mrs
Clements
Bit thought lie was Eoing 70 de out /
think he's coming out all right now. Hes
at Altoona. and they have cheered him up
there. I am a Protestant but believe in
the prayers Of everybody. and knowing
BIZ was Catholic. I had one Of the boys
take a candle ana burn il 1t St Anthony's
altar.
fellow teachers are ali 50 helpful Of
course. q teacher with sixty children TO
look after does not have time 10 make
the special study Of each case that needs
to be given to the boy whose tncorrigihiiIty'
is the result Of poor training at home, OF
an empty stomach or al aching back
once a hoy came into my class and he
was very restless and nervous. Finally
I said 10 the class: Wen. now, what do
YOU suppose is the reason this boy will
act so?' One OF the boys spoke up and
said: Hes got a great sore on his hack
Mrs. Clements
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BILL" IN HARD LUCK.

4Our latest pet is 'BuI.' Poor BIZ used to
be in the class. Last week, one of the
bows cane in and said: Mrs. Clements.
have YOU heard what's happened TO
.BuPv' He said that Biir had been down
on his luck and in trying 10 beat his way
out 10 the country. where he and Foxy
hoped 10 get q job, Bill had fallen from
.+ha train and had been run over and had a
leg cut off. Biz had written: Say, felers,
I got one Of my wings clipped
But we all knew the sad feelings that
Law behind that short message. and we be-
gan ct once to pull strings and get BIZ in
to a place where he could be cared for 1t
seems that he had written bis father. who
would not do a thing -H e EFrote
me. saying: Thank God, I've got one
friend in the world Foxy tore of his shirt
and tied up my leg so I wouldn't bleed TO
death. Then he ran I'VE miles for help.
Some farmers took Off my leg below the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-10
HONOR LIST.

!. Louise Bernard; ?. Martha Benkeser;
8 Catherine Bockmann; 4, Florence Blith;
5. Regina F. Balls; 6, William Bremen; .
Frances D. Bender; 8, Leona Caneson; g.
Marguerite Chanlot: 10, Helen NJ Duncan;
II. Emily Friedkin: z, Lillian E. Fleming;
10. Ernest Gaylord: Il, Beatrice Gruhl: 10
Katharine Goodridge; Is, Arthur Hostage;
IT. Douglass Hail. IS, Ida G. Horton; 10.
Amy L. Hunter; %, John Kelly; q, Maude
Knecft; %. Lulu X. Kretschmann; %, Leo
pold I.evinson; q. Esther Morton: % John
Messenger: 26, Edythe MacConneI; 2,
Katharine Palmer; rs, Harriet Pratt; %.
Herbert Lee Pratt; 30 Wyman Pearson;
81. Raymond Panier; 80. Alfred Rowland;
So. Carrie Robinson; "a. Anna Rubin; %,
Ella RinggoId; &c. Elizabeth Rea; 81, Joseph
Swain; 50, Dorothy Scudder; SO, HoIlaway
ScudGer: 20, Viola Scholemann; Al, Rose
Steinberg; 2. Dorothea Saul: -. Katharine
Spencer; a, Virginia Swain; 10, James
Mason Terrell: 46, Caroline B. Thompson;
It, Laverne TeeI: IS. Blanche Z. Todd; 49,
Edmund Trabold; 80, Greta Winquist.