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late. I shall look for them before bedtime"
 Then Kitty gave her mother the messages from Will and Harry, add ing: Good bye. Mamma, I'll have to run fast for the boys are in such a hurry and may get away from me-"
 Mrs. Granger kissed Kitty good bye, told her to carry her warm jacket and mittens and to remain in the wagon while in the woods. Then she went off down the street while Kitty ran with all speed to her own room, got her jacket and hat and mittens and ran out again. She looked in the direction her brothers had gone, but could see nothing of them. Doubt less they were just round the corner of the block. Anyway. Kitty knew they were to go to Mrs. Bates home first, where they would get into the wagon. From there they would drive to the mill, half a mile from town and would be joined by Jim James and Chal Turner.
 She flew across lots to the big road leading towards the mill, and made the dust rise in little clouds as she battered along. She carried her jacket and mittens as the day was too warm for her to wear them with comfort. F.
 Once or twice she glanced back, hoping to see the wagon, with all aboard, coming behind her. But she had no such good luck. However. she felt quite sure that she would reach
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running down hill as fast as she could go. On the other side of an- other hill flowed the great deep river, and on its banks stood the mill. Kitty crossed the last hill, ran round the up in front of the mill. But no wagon was there, and neither were Jim and Chal to be seen waiting.
 Kitty went timidly to man who was all white with four and asked him if Jim and Chal had come yet. The miller looked down into Kitty's face with some surprise. Well, you're little tot to be running round by yourself, aren't you? Chal and Jim ?-Yes, they were here awhile ago. but a party in wagon came along and picked them up. They said they were going nutting over in the big woods"
 How long they been gone?" Kitty asked the question with beating heart. Maybe she could overtake them.
 "Oh, just few minutes. Why. they're just on the other side the river by now. Guess you might see 'em if you ran across the bridge. Was you to go with 'em, little one?"
 "Yes, Sir," replied Kitty. But she didn't stop to explain who she was, and the miller stood looking after her as she went like a tiny bird across the bridge. Then the miller went to his work and the little girl was forgotten. It may be that the good man thought Kitty a child of some
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had been carefully unearthed 1t was found to measure one hundred and eighty feet in length and forty-seven feet high at the shoulders.
 The history of this enormous piece of art is vague. Judging by the style of workmanship the figure cannot possibly be less than five hundred years old. But if it be of this late date, there is no record to be found of it's construction.
 The government has contributed to the work of covering this mighty Buddha with an over-hanging shade to protect 1t from the clements. The inhabitants of the country round about look upon this noble representa- ton of their Buddha as something holy and have enriched the figure by putting upon the soles of the feet and beneath the mighty head splendid Burmese glass m osaic.
 And so the visitor views this mar vicious statue, reclining with slightly raised head and shoulders. and out stretched legs, in the very midst of wild vegetation and deep jungles. How many centuries it has lain there. covered by Natures own blanket of decaying matter. will never be known. for its sculptor put no word or date upon it to disclose the secret of it's age. But it forms sort of shrine for the Burmese who gather about it at all times. It is nothing unusual to see dozen or more of these dark skinned Buddhists squatting at the base of the figure and looking up al it with silent wonder and reverence. It Is indeed one of the wonders of the East, where so many wonders exist. Ae
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make any bother. I'd gather nuts, too."
 'I don't think you're big enough, Kitty, to go on such tiring jaunts. You see, you're such a little mite, and couldn't walk as fast nor as far as the rest of us. guess you'd bet ter wait till next year. Then you'll be ever so big and strong and can go with us."
 But Lily and Fanny Jackson are going" urged Kitty. Please, Brother, take me along"
 But, Riddle, Lilly Jackson Is four teen and Fanny is twelve. You are tot, only seven. See? Just be a patient little sis and you'll grow big ger. Then you may go nutting with us.'
 But, Brother" urged Kitty eager ly, would you have taken me if Mamma had said I might go2"
 Sure, Wee One," laughed Harry, putting on his cap. "But Mamma did not say it. By the way, where is Mammal"
 "She went across the street to Mrs. Thomas. She'll be home in a min- ute."
 "Tell her good bye for me-" cried Harry, rushing out of the house in answer to Wills urgent call to hurry.
 Kittie stood in deep thought for a few seconds. Then she ran across the street to the neighbor house. AS she stepped upon the front porch her mother came out, laughing and chat ting with Mrs. Thomas, who came to the porch with her.
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Lewis Carroll, 0uthor of Glice in monderlond

from station to station, naming the stopping places after some of the large cities they had heard about.
 In her interesting book, entitled Lewis Carroll" Belle Moses gives the following description of his first days at school away from home:
 Holidays in those days were not arranged as they are now, for one of the first letters of Charles, sent home from Richm ond, was dated August 9th; so it Is probable that the term began in midsummer. This special letter was written to his two eldest sisters and gives an excellent picture of those first days, when, as a new boy he suffered at the hands of his schoolmates. AS advanced as he was in Latin, Greek and mathematics, this letter, for a twelve-year- old boy, does not show any remarkable progress in English. The spelling was correct, but the punctuation was peculiar, to say the least. Still, his description of the school, when one overcame the presence of commas and the absence of periods. presented a vivid picture to the mind. He tells of the funny tricks the boys played upon him be- cause he was a new boy One was called King of the Cobblers.' He was told to sit on the ground while the boys gathered round him and to say Go to work Immediately the boys fell upon him, and kicked and knocked him about pretty roughly
 "He closes this letter by stating three uncomfortable things connected with his arrival-the loss of his tooth- brush; his inability to find his blot ting paper, and his lack of a shoe- horn. The games the Richmond boys played-football, wrestling, leapfrog and fighting-he slurred over con- temptuously, they held no attraction for him.
 "The schoolboy or girl of the pres- ent day can have no idea of the dis comforts of school life in Charles Dodgson's time, and the boy whose gentle manners were the result of sweet home influence and association with girls, found the rough ways of the English schoolboy constant trial Strong and active, he was always up in arms for those weaker and smaller than himself. Bullying enraged him; and distasteful as it was, he soon learned the art of using his fists for the protection of himself and others.
 ''Flogging was then considered the surest road to knowledge; teachers kept a birch rod and a ferrule within gripping distance, and the average schoolboy thus treated like a little beast could be pardoned for behaving 1ilya ono ooao sion,1I,ys
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side. I suggested this move. for I'd been here before and found dead oodles of nuts. But say, Wee One. won't Mamma sit up and wonder when we tell her all this? Gee! you had a narrow escape from being lost in the woods overnight, for Mother and Father would have supposed you to be with us till we returned and told them to the contrary. Geel It was luck brought us together"
 And within few minutes Kitty was in the midst of surprised and ques- tioning band, Mrs. Bates taking her into her warm motherly arms and kissing her. Never go away like this again, dear child" she said.
 "I never will" promised Kitty, bursting into tears. But she was not weeping because of sadness, but of joy at being found.
 And now I must get into the wagon, for Mamma said I should not go about in the weeds and broken twigs. Where is the wagon?" And Kitty looked about her.
 "I'll take her to the wagon, and stay with her, too," smiled Mrs. Bates. And when you want us you will find us there, enjoying some of the fresh nuts you have gathered. And while we are waiting for the gatherers, I shall tell Kitty fairy story. all about the little creatures who live in the deep forest.'
 And from that moment, Kitty en- joyed the outing: and soon the wagon was filled, after which they had fine picnic lunch, spread in the wagon, for Kitty would not get out of it. "I must mind Mamma" she declared, her great baby eyes full of serious ness.
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R urpuZZle Corner 8
SEASIDE ENIGMA.

From the depths of the sea, From the foot of a rock, am brought to the earth To do dirty workl I have mouths to take in All the liquor I meet: I am given to drinking. But never do eat.
 RIDDLE. Mrs. Jones was asked how many children she had. and in reply said: T have five daughters, and each daughter has a brother" How many children had Mrs. Jones?
 WORD SQUARE. My first Is the name of goddess. man body.
 My third is a thought. My fourth is part of a street car.
 ANAGRAMs. 1. Form an anagram from gera- nium.
 2. Form an anagram from croco- dile.
 DIAGONAL. This diagonal contains four words of four letters each. If the words are rightly guessed and written one be- low another their diagonal letters, beginning with the top left-hand let ter and ending with the lower right hand letter. will spell that which we all like to own. The cross-words are, 1. A song-bird. 2. A place in the country. 8. A group of men who
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Autumn keooes for Decorotions.

festoons in place against the wall. These were pasted at the ends after having been twined about the stem Of the leaf. And the leaves were so placed as to hide these pasted fasten- ings.
 The grasses were fastened here and there like graceful plumes, falling from the draped festoons of leaves. The festoons were made in the form of a long wreath, and draped effec- lively over door, window and mantel. And upon the mantel were two plain china vases in old-fashioned blue. These held immense bouquets of dried cat-tails and ferns with mixture of long swamp grasses.
 After the room had been finished, the little girls mother was invited in to give her verdict as to its artistic effect With admiration in her eyes. she looked round the room. It's like an autumn scene painted on can vas," she declared. And how warm and restful, too." Then the neigh bors were invited to have a peep at the little artist-maid's Autumn Boudoir' as she called it.
 One neighbor lady was so impressed with the room that she offered to
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or, LOST IN THE WOODS.

or more "hel-los" from a distance. Then the first voice called out: Here's bushels of nuts. Come south of the spring. I've found-'
 But the voice stopped at this point, for the owner of it had come pushing through the bushes to the very spot where Kitty was kneeling. Their eyes met, and both gave a cry of surprise.
 "Oh, Will" It was Kitty who cried it. And in another instant she was holding to her brothers arm, crying out her joy at having been found. And Will, as if thunderstruck. stood looking at his little sister, rubbing his eyes and saying: Am I asleep? How on top the earth did you get here, Kiddie?"
 T ran all the way, Brother" said Kitty between smiles and tears. T thought you were a bear to eat me up. But I prayed and was-''
 Say, sis, stop that crying and laughing and tell me how you got here. Be calm. now, Wee One" he added, batting his sisters mussed f1axen curls.
 Then Kitty told her story and Will declared he had never heard of any thing so remarkable. Why" he said, ''it was just mere chance that brought us together, Riddle. You see. on leaving the mill we crossed the bridge, but did not go over the main road, for Jim said we'd find better picking down the river a piece. So we turned into the dim road which led to the left directly we had crossed the bridge. As it led us round deep bend in the river, we were hidden among the trees which bordered our road. And after we reached the woods we decided to push north to the hill-
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~ EW children exist today, who have not gone through the
 "wonderland"1 of little "Alice." But very few indeed have be- come acquainted with the man who wrote that delightful fairy tale, and who also wrote many others of a like delightful mature.
 But it is not of the man, author of Alice in Wonderland" that this article deals. It is of him as a boy, when his own world held imaginings and fancies that maturer years dis illusioned.' But his boyhood seems to have been passed in state of en- chantment, for otherwise he never could have given, to children the stories they are indebted to him for.
 Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland" !" was in real life Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, and he was born in Daresbury, England, on January 27, 1892.
 He was the first child of his par ents, but many brothers and sisters followed in quick succession. His father was a clergyman and came from a family of gentlemen and
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{" STATUE of immense propor-
 tions-in all probability the
 largest representation of the 1 human form in the world was discovered by mere accident. When the railroad between Ragoon and Mandalay (Asia) was being con- structed, this statue was uncovered. It was in 1881 that the engineer in charge of the work of the road was looking for ballast for the track. The country abounded in jungles which stretched from five to ten miles be- tween the river and the hills. At the edges of these jungles was found a fold of laterite buried beneath the centuries of decaying vegetation. The contractor had found this kind of rock valuable in the construction of bridges and embankments, and now sought to get it in quantities for tho bed of the road. While the workmen, at the engineers order, were clearing away some trees preparatory to sinking a shaft, and were digging into the mass of debris to discover the formation beneath, they struck something as hard as granite. On examination 1t was found that there was solid for nation of the nature of burnt brick. This was found about three feet be. low the surface of the earth. The contractors agent stopped his men from digging, and himself made a careful survey of the ground. He then proceeded to have portion of this unknown ruin dismantled of earth and vegetation. and found that the long, low hN on which he was working was nothing less than a gi- gantic and fairly well preserved figure of Gautama. After the entire statue
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When Charles was eleven years of age his father was presented with the Grown living of Croft, a little village in Yorkshire. This meant that the Dodgsons would live in better cir cumstances than heretofore. for a Grown living'' meant comfortable quarters and very nice income. This insured certain advantages of educa- ton and society that had not been theirs in their old parish.
 In this new abode little Charles, the "big" brother, passed many happy day. He invented games for his younger brothers and sisters. and con- structed in the great kitchen garden a railroad, following certain descrip- tions of one he had read about. He fixed board stations at the ends of certain walks, and his railroad ran between. He was of an inventive mind and made a rude little railroad coach out of wheelbarrow, a barrel and a box. In this vehicle he conveyed his DaSSengerS (hiS sisters and brotherSl
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"Oh, Mamma, may I go with Harry and Will to the woods, nutting? Mrs. Bates Is going to go with the party, and they have a wagon"
 Mrs. Granger smiled at her excited little daughter. "Why, yes, dearie, you may go if the boys want you. But you must not get out of the wagon, darling, for you'd get your face and hands all scratched in the brush and dead twigs. Let the boys gather the nuts and you just ride along. Now. dearie, I'm going on down town to do a little shopping. Tell Harry and Will that Mamma says they must take good care of you if they take you with them. And
 also say that they must not stay too
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1 now becoming very dim. She was too much frightened to feel tired, or cry. She must, she simply must find Will and Harry. Oh! how she wished she had not attempted to overtake them. And her dear Mamma! She had not known that the boys were on their way at the very minute that her little girl had asked to bear them company. Had she deceived her dear Mamma?
 Kitty stood perfectly still for a few minutes. Then she began to cry soft ly to herself. Oh, what was to be- come of her? Would some wild beast devour her? She shuddered and crouched behind some great rocks which lay piled beneath some trees. She had no idea what to do. She feared to go any farther. And she feared to remain where she was.
 At last, after a very long time during which Kitty had prayed ana prayed for help, she heard a strange noise. She looked about her, think ing that her time must have come to die. It surely was a wild beast or some other forest monster. Kitty could see nothing but the trunks of trees coming from heaps of dried leaves and twigs and rocks to rise into towering tops of wide-spreading branches. But that noise! Yes, 1t was like the stirring of leaves! An animal was approaching to eat her alive!
 Kitty closed her tear-wet eyes. her heart fluttered wildly. "Oh, Lord. ha breath. i've been a wicked little girl to come off this way--without my Mamma knowing I came alone. But, dear Lord, protect me"
 ''Hello--Hel-lo!" It was a boys voice ringing through the woods It was immediately answered by three
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0 NCE there was little girl whose F. room was so bare that she con- F. ceived the idea of beautifying " it with Autumn leaves and grasses. Her home was in town near to which was fine forest. Early of a morning before school, this little girl would walk briskly to the edge of the woods and gather a basket of beautifully tinted autumn leaves which were attached to short stems. And beside her path grew tall brown and yellow grasses, and she gathered from them also.
 After she had brought to her room huge pile of the leaves and grasses she set to work decorating the four plain white walls. With a pot of cooked flour paste (made like very stiff starch) and strips of white cot ton-torn from worn-out garments and bed-linens-sheb began placing the leaves and grasses about the room in festoons. She was highly artistic, and arranged the leaves so as to get a variety of colors throughout, avoiding the use of too much brown or yellow or red or green in any one place. The strips of cloth, cut about an inch vide, were used as loops to hold the
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SchoIars.
 During the first eleven years of his life, the little Charles lived close to nature. The lands about the parson age were roomy, and over the un- cultivated acres the boy would wan der, burrowing into the ground in search of tiny wiggIing creatures. such as worms and insects and oftimes their larger relatives, the tiny, animals that live in holes in the earth. He studied their habits and was kind to-them, never inflicting any sort of torture as so many wicked boys are inclined to do with the small, and helpless creatures
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neighboring farmer who knew every turn in the river and the road.
 Kitty did not see any wagon on the road in front of her, but since the party had just left the mill, she felt that she must overtake them before long. There were many turns in the road, and trees and hedges hid 1t at times. Possibly she would catch them at some turning point before they had gone very much farther.
 So on and on travelled little Kitty, becoming foot-weary and a little scared. But she could not turn back now. She could not miss her party if she kept on the straight road. But it was difficult to know just which was the straight road, since there were other roads leading off at short distances. Kitty chose the largest and dustiest road as the main one.
 The sun must have marked the noon hour when Kitty entered deep woods. following the road which was
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the mill in good time to meet her brothers, who would be very much surprised on beholding her there, all ready to join them on the nutting expedition.
 Well, Mamma said I might go." she kept saying. to herself. And Harry and Will won't mind-so long as Mamma said yes"
 Before the mill was reached, how ever, Kitty became very tired and a bit uneasy. Suppose the wagon should have taken another road to the mill! Of course, there was more than one road from town to that place. She had not thought of that before. And horses travelled very much faster than little girls did. Kitty hurried her feet,
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make music. 4. Something found on the desert.
 ANSWERS TO LAST WEEKS
 PUZZLES. Letter Enigmd: HdllotDe'en. Hidden Article in the School Room: i. Slate. 2. Tdblet. 8. Map. 1. Desk. X Ts1E
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Natural FEELING,

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Indeed? Did she die a natural
death"
YES, the natural death of a person
who tries to light a fire with kero-
STRAY Stories.
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Strategy of Cecil Rhodes

bag and baggage with him; but
thought that I'd go to the drawer and
Just make sure Of my shirt. 1t was
gone! Cecil came back that night.
We'll, Cecil said, you won over
that shirt of mine; but just tell me
how you did it, for 1t wasn't on you
when you left here and you had no
parcel with you. What did you do
with IT.?
HE chuckled little and said, dry.
ly, I put 1t on under the old one
Now. that's Cecil"