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M ACK in the most remote corner EAM of the garden, close by the shell ter of the chicken house, lived NY the little mouse Tike and his good wife Tin.
 Before they came to live in the gar den, they had had very fine residence in the pantry. But by the time Tike and Tin had raised three sets of healthy, hearty little mice, the house. keeper who ruled over that particu- lar pantry had become so very skill full in the setting of traps that a self respecting mouse could no longer live there in peace! So Tike and Tin de- oided to move.
 Everyone lives out of doors in the summer anyway" said Tike when the matter was forced to their notice by an unusually narrow escape from the trap, land for one am tired of these trapsl I can't enjoy a meal in peace.
 If it was only a matter of food!" cried Tin as though she was far, far above such carnal considerations, Eff 1t was only the eating that bothered, would say stay, because we are so nicely settled. But it isn't just the eating. There are my nerves to be considered. I'll declare, if we don't get away from those traps soon, I shall not have a decent nerve leftr' And she fiourished her tail wildly to show Tike how very nervous she was.
 After great deal of talk, and many exploring trips, they had at last de- cided on the back yard. Then it didn't take very long to spy the cozy little corner in a lot of odd boards that were piled against the chicken house, and the move was made.
 The first few days after they moved in, Tike and Tin were too busy set ting to notice much about their neigh bors. But when the nest was nicely lined with soft bits of thread and down, and when various routes of en- trance to the new home had been hunted out and tried, Tike and Tin began to look about them and see something of their own surroundings and friends.
 The first creature to greet them was a plump, green toad, who dozed in the sun just outside their door. Probably he didn't know they had moved in, because he jumped two feet when they spoke to him and was so frightened he could hardly answer!
 Don't be so afraid" cried Tin, laughingly, i've don't eat toads and we would like to talk to somebody"
 May you find someone smarter than T." exclaimed the toad; he was still a bit suspicious, as he didn't re- call seeing creatures just like mice be- fore. Though I must admit there are few such," he added with what he
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~ HERE who couldn't think of anything but sas-so stars.
 &u He wondered if Dutchman made the big canal in Ma
 Or the planet Venus had satellites 0 To better he always his hind side before. One night this great astronomer went wandering of As usual. looking up. and up, and looking down; And he gazed and gazed his mind and far In thought of all those mighty along the milky Until obvious of the earth. he stumbled and he fell With omersault complete. kerplunk, into a farmers we'll. Ah quick reverted then his mind this terrestrial bal' "Subconsou thought uppemost and loudly did he On looking again he caught one little ray of hope Instead of mighty thoughts he gapd with frantic haste And while within his head the whng round He thanked his to find himself securely the ground
 The farmer sad My learned friend while gazing the skies
 Just keep the earth whereon safety lies
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WHY ROBBIE WOULDN'T BATHE

oT-sometimes they eat you all up!"
 Big Sister sat on the sand and pulled him down upon her lap. Now, see here, Bobbie," she said in serious tones, Where did you ever get such foolish idea? There aren't any sharks around here"
 It was Bobbie's turn to smile at her scornfully now. "Oh, yes. there are" he said. Didn't I hear Papa and Mamma reading in the paper this morning about sharks biting peoples legs off and killing them when they went in bathing. Of course I did!"
 Big Sister threw herself back on the sand and began to laugh-and laugh-and laugh
 Which, of course. made Robbie very angry.
 But Sister stopped presently. Now, Robbie" she explained, you did hear Papa reading about the sharks biting people; and it is true, too. But you must realize that those sharks and those people were in the Atlantic Ocean--in salt water, mind you And you seem to have forgotten that Lake Michigan isn't the Atlantic Ocean and is fresh water. Why, Robbie, there never are sharks in fresh water; and here in Lake Michigan we are perfect ly safe. And
 You can't fool mel" insisted Bob- bic. You want shark to bite off my leg, you dol"
 Robbie! Aren't you ashamed of vourSaIff Do you SuDpoSa I'd oo h, bathing if I thought there were any
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are fine food. A perfect food. the doctors call them, for they contain almost all of the things our bodies need to make us grow big and strong"
 I'm glad can eat them." Jamie saad. taking another bite. Mother. do you know where bananas grow? Can you tell me a story about them ?"
 "Yes. believe can tell you some- thing about bananas" his mother re- piled. Bananas grow in very hot countries, on big tall trees that are moro like plants than treas, for it's stems are thick and sc&t, assd are made by the long leaves overlapping each other.
 Bananas are used by some people for nour-it is ground up after being dried. Other people make a kind of . drink out of it-something like our cideP. And then again 1t is cooked as . vegotable. There is another plant that looks something Ike banana --callsd plantain--hut it is . vegs- table--uot . fruit.
 ''Well, these banana trees grow very tall---somstimes as high as forty feet l-highey than an ordinary house"
 "Oh. uayi" Jamie exclaimed. How do they ast the bananas ohef Do they pick them like we do appIes?"
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considered great truthfulness.
 Hear that vain creature" whis- pered Tin to Tike, we'll f1atter him and then we can learn all we want to know about the garden" Then she raised her voice and said, I'm sure, my friend, that you would not be so heartless as to run away from us when there are so many things we need to know that a wise creature like your self can surely tell us."
 Observing, isn't she," the toad said to himself, then he turned around and hoped back to where Tike and Tin were sitting. ITO be sure I will be as you seem to be. And I must admit that few could give you as much in- formation about the garden and it's inhabitants as I can. For I am not an idle creature. I watch and learn. What would you like to learn?"
 Tike thought it was about time for him to take a hand in the talk, so he asked eagerly "the thing that concerns me most just now is the trap question. Are there any traps in the garden ?"
 "Traps?" asked the toad, Traps? l? Whatever can you mean? Traps7 I never heard of any such creatures" i"
 "Oh they are not creatures!" ex- claimed Tike, laughing at the toad s mistake, "how funny!"
 "Funny?" cried the toad with of- tended dignity, If they are not crea- lures what are they and why do you worry about them? ?'
 They are great things of wood and steel and they catch us in their claws and kill us.''
 That certainly sounds like a crea- ture," said the toad. it sounds like a hawk. No, there are no hawks in this garden. And if your trap thing is not a hawk" he added when he saw look of dissent on Tike's and Tins faces. T can assure you that 1t is not in this garden either-for ! have never seen one."
 Tike and Tin heaved a big sigh of relief. T am certainly glad we went to all the trouble of moving said Tin, flor I was getting worn out in the house. Now tell me, have we nice neighbors here?"
 The toad told her all about the
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So together they crept through the cracks between the boards, clear to the very corner of the chicken house Then they looked out and saw before them the whole bare corner of the yard. T don't much care to run around that big bare space" said Tin doubtfuliy.
 Maybe we won't have to-" sug- sested Tike, Tets explore" He nosed around, up and down the side of the chicken house till he spied loose bit of dirt down by the ground. "Come and help!" he called to Tin, '-this is where we can get in! We can dig a passage through the dirt, and under the chicken house wall. Then we can go and come as we please--that is, fl we find food worth coming for!"
 Together the two little mice dus and scratched till tiny hole was ex- cavated and a neat little passage made into the chicken house. Can't you just imagine how excited Tike and Tin were when they came up through on the other side of the wall and heard
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money?"
 "Yes, they had the money. but in those days there were no ships fast enough to bring the bananas to the northern countries before they were spoiled. It is only since we have steamships, that go across the ocean very fast, that we folks here can have bananas. Why, fifty years ago a banana was almost curiosity in this country, and they cost about twenty times as much as they do now, too"
 I'm glad wasn't little boy then" Jamie remarked. For l couldn't have had all the bananas wanted, and they are so good" "Yes, lots of little folks and biz folks too, think that bananas are good. especially here in the United States, and that's what makes this country of ours eat ten times more bananas than any other country in the world.
 That's about all mother knows about bananas. dear" Jamie's mother said, going into the other room.
 Its whole lot, think" Jamie called after her. I'm going to tell the next boy see eating q banana just where it grew and how it came across the ocean on a big ship. Won't that boy be surprised? Mother, may I have another banana?"
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they summoned courage to sneak out and grab up a bit of corn and hurry back to the passage.
 They soon found that the chickens were friendly. or at least were not unkindly disposed, so they could come and go as they wished. Isn't 1t just splendid" said Tin one day after an extra good ueal of corn and crumbs, ito live out of doors and have such very good eating without any fear?"
 Its so good" answered Tike. that keep being afraid that something will happen!"
 "Foolish!" exclaimed Tin, why worry about what may never hap
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than year is as big as ever and produces more bananas. It does this for ten years. then 1t is no good, and a new one is planted in its place.
 People in the hot countries-the Indies. and Cuba and South America raise bananas like our farmers raise corn. They set the trees out in rows and keep the ground around them carefully weeded."
 T bet they are good picked right of the trses!" said Jamie. taking an- other bite.
 His mother laughed. Lots of folks think that-but bananas are not bit good that way. If they arc allowed to stay on the tree and ripen, the skin cracks open and little insects get into tho fruit and spou 1t. The flavor is not nearly co good. either. So they arc always picked green and allowed to ripen o8 of the treas."
 Jsmts's mother watched him enjoy ing his banana . moment. Then she saad. "Jamie, you ars eating some thing thst tho ytchest kingp of the northern countries In the oidsu times never had on their tahlss--e bsnana-
 "why notf" Jamie wanted tc know. why couldn't these kiugp buy ha- nanasf Didn't they have any
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KA EFORE the family went to the B&A beach for the summer, little E Robbie talked about nothing " but going in bathing. He'd put on his suit-a most alarming pattern with orange and black stripes-stand on a chair, put his hands together in front of him and cry out:
 Watch me! Look at me, Sister! This is the way I'm going to dive when I get down to the beach! Whew!' And then Robbie would jump down from the chair, throw himself on the floor and go through the motions of swimming. puffing and blowing all the while like a porpoise.
 And yet-mind you--the very first day after Papa and Mamma and Robbie and Big Sister Gas he called her), had arrived at the beach, Bob- bic displayed no enthusiasm at all over going in bathing! In fact, he seemed to be scared to death" to water. Suddenly he developed a strange enthusiasm about merely playing in the sand and piling it up around him.
 Big Sister presently found him on the beach. Why, what Is the matter, Robbie? Why don't you come into the water?"
 Robbie made no reply; he continued to pile sand up around his chubby knees.
 "It isn't cold-really 1t isn't. Bob- bie," said Big Sister.
 He wiggled his big toe out of the sand with which he had covered it. vastly interested in that big toe!
 "Why, Bobbie," Big Sister persist ed. T thought you were going to dive right into the water and swim all around-you showed us all at home how you would do it, you know. What is the matter? Are you afraid?"
 Robbie grunted: 1t sounded some thing like No" but not very much.
 You're afraid! You're afraid! You're little 'fraidy-cat! leased Big Sister. Come on-come on in with mel" And she grabbed Robbie by the hand and pulled him to his feet.
 Stop! Stop! Go way!" yelled Bob bic, jerking his hand loose and doubl- ing up his tiny fist in a threatening fashion that was quite funny consid- ering his size.
 Big Sister-who was an awful tease, as you have seen already leaned over and laughed at him. "'Fraidy cat! 'Fraidy cat!" she hissed You're a fine swimmer. you are-on dry land!"
 "G'on! G'on!" cried Robbie.
 Big Sister laughed at him again. What are you afraid off" she asked scornfully.
 "Humh!" Robbie was mad all through. T guess you aren't afraid, are your"
 Afraid? Why, of course not!" exclaimed Big Sister. What in the world would be afraid of"
 Robbie looked around quickly-and then stepped up very close to her. ''Sharks!" he whispered. Big sharks thatT bite your leg off"
 sitter stared at him in amazement. "ShArks?" she echoed.
 Robbie nodded his head. And maybe they won't just bite your leg
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BANANAS @

''No," his mother replied. They grow in big punches"
 "Oh, yes. we see the big punches in the stores!" Jamie said.
 "Yes, but the punches of bananas do not grow the way they hang in the stores They grow just the op- posite way, with the little pointed ends turning up toward tho sky"
 "How funnyp'
 "Yes, and every time the bananas are picked, the whole tree is cut down!" his mother went on.
 Gut down---the whole tree? What | shame!"
 'Not at all" his mother said, For the tree grows up again, and in less
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penn" and she started another meal,
 So all through the long warm sum- mer, Tike and Tin lived in the pile of boards in the back yard. The housekeeper. who (heartless person) thought they must be dead. was quito happy. the chickens were satisfied with their new neighbors and Tike and Tin had more than enough to eat. Everybody was content.
 There's just one thing I want to do," said Tin at the close of . long, happy day, T want to advise all mice to move out of doors for the summer!' and she laughed contentedly and went to sleep.
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Get out of here. you big old bruta. And find some other place to root! I vow the next time that l catch You huntin' in the garden patch. I'll ask Pop to give us treat And make, you into sausage meat. It keeps me busy all the day A tryin' to drive you away. With all the farm for feedin' ground, Why will you come here rootin'
 round2 l sues. though. you ain't much to
 blame. For human folks are just the sams We do the things we shouldn't do And 90 where we're forbidden. too. And-Wouldn't that give you pain, !, I'm blest if he ain't back againl
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sharks around? Now, if you don't believe me you go right and ask Papa!"
 Robbie did-and you can imagine how much better he felt when Papa assured him that there weren't any sharks in Lake Michigan. But Papa laughed at him, too. And perhaps you have, also?
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CTS, would stay here," cried Tin. chickens in the house just back of the pile of boards, about the choice worms and flies and bugs that could be found in the rich dirt of the gar den, and about the many kind friends they would surely find among the creatures of the yard. You'll be glad you came," he assured them. "But I must go now. Mayhap, I will see you again." he added, and he hopped off down the garden path.
 Isn't he funny creature" said. Tike when he was sure the toad was out of hearing, just as though any, one cared about flies or worms or bugs! He spoke assthough they were good eating! But was interested in what he said about the chicken house."
 "So was l." agreed Tin. flor I think have heard that chickens eat grain If that is true, we can be sure of plenty of goodies. Let's go now and see if he was right"
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Yes" answered his mother. taking out a lovely ripe banana and handing 1t to him. Bananas are good for little boys" she said. Jamie peeled 1t and took a bite. "Mmh! It's good" !" he said, smaclSing his lips. But some children's mothers won't let them eat bananas--why?"
 Well, you see bananas are not good for some people--they act as . kind of poison, and those people should not eat them. But for people whose stomachs can digest them, bananas
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ANSWERS.

ANSWER-Boy, Joy. Toy. Coy.
 DIAGONAL-Scythe. l. Eorrow. Icicle, 3. Crying. 4. Rott0m. Height. 6. Ne1Ne.
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N OurPuZZle Corner x
CHANGE OF LETTER.

am word of three letters, and I am male child.
 Change my first letter and I am great pleasure. Change again, and am what chill dren play with.
 Change again, and I am shy.
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 n dwthou tonceba of he twice you can with the 1t must of picture it.
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ARITHMETICAL PUZZLE.

Take 1 from g and make 1t 10. Answer:--IX; take I away and leave x.
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DIAGONAL PUZZLE.

If the following are written one below another their diagonal letters, beginning at the upper left hand corner, and ending at the lower right hand corner. will spell the name of an instrument used in moving grass 1. Grief or sadness.
 ?. pendant piece of ice.
 8. Weeping.
 4. A reedlike stem.
 5. Distance from a point below.
 6. A girls name.
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A OTHER. may I have & ba-
 nana?" Jamie asked, as he
 peeped into a bag on the A kitchen table.
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EN ACK in the most remote corner
 sAM of the garden, close by the shell ter of the chicken house, lived A@ the little mouse Tike and his
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Go. go. 90. my kitel
 Slow. slow. slow. my kitel Back again to earth so green. Tell me, kite. what you have seenI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-03
Copyrighted. 1916, by Frank G. Carpenter,

Copyrighted. 1916, by Frank C. csrpenter)
FORT YUKON, Alaska
q AM on the Yukon river steaming
slowly through the wilds of Alas
ka. This mighty stream has its
q source a thousand miles south
east OF where 1 am writing II rises
in the headwaters of the Lewes and the
PeHy. within a short walk of the Pa
life ocean. and it flows from here per
haps 1900 miles more before it pours
out over the wide fats Of the tundra into
Boring sea In this region the stream
is enormous. 1t is from ten to twenty
miles wide. and the channel winds
sluggishly in and out among Islands
Of all shapes and sizes. Some are cir
cuIar. some oval, and some are perfect
crescents of vegetation and sand. The
waters are like glass. putty-coiored
during the daytime. and with all the
hues Of the rainbow as the sun rises
nd sets. Just now 1t IL about mid
night. and then the Yukon becomes one
sheet of molten gold, or Of the hue OF
Sowing copper as the metal pours
>or:h from the furnace.
The land is low and built up by the
SILT Of the river We are now in what
IS known as the Yukon fats, an area
most as large the state of South
carolina, lying between the two ranges
OF mountains which border our terri
tory at the north and the south. The
Yukon passes through the fats in a
course Of roo miles, and that in a net
work Of waterways, some Of which are
sloughs. some great inland lakes. and
others are ox-bows made by the
islands. The windings of the river
among the islands make me think of
the Amazon near its mouth. The tropi-
cal vegetation is, Of course, far more
iuSuriant- The Amazon trees are gi-
gsntic. some are as big around as a
!fogShead. and are bound together with
itsnas. The trees here range in thick
ness from that Of the wrist of a baby
to a hundred pound nail keg; they
would hardly be twigs on the Amazon.
host % them are less than thirty feet
h!2' md they have bushes under
them The open places are covered
with great fields OF pink flowers.
Everywhere you look you see the
Yukon at its work of earth-building.
its waters are melting the prehistoric
ice that begins two or three feet under
the moss and muck covering: and grea
blankets of earth. studded with trees
fall down into the river. Sandbars rise
in a season. and islands are created
with the floods of one spring. Other
Islands are swept away. There are no
rocks anywhere. The bed of the river
Is silt, and the silt goes down to great
depths. There are many channels
among the islands that a man without
q compass and sailing directions would
surely get lost. Indeed. in the early
days the cheechakos, or tenderfeet
coming here to get gold, were
facetiously warned to beware of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-03

tiers in a graphic portrayal OF the devei-
opnent of a character that, In all essen
tials, rises to the full measure OF a ro-
bust and useful manhood. Elias Toben-
kin writes with his heart and holds him
self true to the matter in hand. Out OF
this double pre-occupation he achieves
a story whose perfect sympathy ana SIM
plicity reflect, without appreciate nav,
the flexible, receptive character OF the
Jew, in it's idealism, its deep-seated mel
ancholy. its courage and its unconquera-
BILE will to live. The writer's trans
parency as a medium brings these very
real people before one in their great
adventure Of becoming American citizens,
as If this reader were himself at first
hand touch with them. beautifully
simple story and pathetic one, as any
perfectly true story of living Is bound
to be pathetic
ADDRESSES on INTERNATIONAL
SUBJECTS. BY Elihu Root. Col
lected and edited by Robert Bacon
and James Brown Scott. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press.
The editors of this volume have here
brought together twenty-four addresses
made by Elhu Root within the past
ten years. These are, therefore, peril
nent discussions. each bearing directly
upon some vital and urgent point in the
relationship of the United States to one
or another of the foreign countries.
Many of these addresses were made be-
fore the American Society Of 1nterna-
tional Law, of which Mr.. Root is presi-
dent. Some were made before the Sem
ate of the United States in the line of
Mr.. Roots duty as senator, and others
were given before important comforting
bodies on both national and interna-
tional subjects. The Real Monroe
Doctrine" The Ethics of the Panama
Question" The Ship Purchase Bill
The Basis of Protection to Citizens Re-
siding Abroad and Foreign Affairs" are
among the themes brought under con-
sideration here. AS Secretary of War,
Secretary of State and senator in the
Congress of the United States, an emf
nent jurist and unassailable American,
Mr.. Root brings an Incompatible