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Native Fairy Tales

American children have been fed for SO
many years on the fairy stories and the
myths and legends of the old world that
T. is about time their attention was direct
ed toward the body OF American myths
Patient men have gathered a large body
OF Indian love and written it down. but IL
has been prepared almost exclusively by
ethnologists interested in the study OF the
primitive Americans. In order 70 make II
understandable by the average reader II
must be rewritten from the literal tran
script OF the Indian story tellers' version
into connected narrative Frances jenkins
Oicott has undertaken this task and has
rewritten large mass of these Indian
iniry stories and put them into book along
with other Indian stories rewritten by
ether authors She has grouped them in
twelve divisions classified according to the
months OF the year. and she has indicated
the tribe Of Indians with which each tale
originated. The collection win be enter
tanning 70 children and adults who have
given no serious thought to the native Her
sture Of early America will discover that
the aborigines had A mass OF imaginative
tales worthy 20 be compared with that OF
any other primitive racs.
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WALTER GEORGE SMITH,
A LAWYER, NOT A POLITICIAN
Town Meeting Party's Candidate for Register of
Wills Is Man of Force Honest,
Earnest and Competent

LEHEN
~ hseb important positions
the
"s requirements
aHa0ed the the Jealous the business
world he weeks
sRoodnonth
desirable a
~ Is IN the market
picks ITS employees the Philadelphia and
u
employed applicants
inquiries
cith
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Jews HAVE DONE FOR THE BLE-ALLIANCES AFTER WAR

thirteen included in a volume entitled
The Four Corners OF the World Ihe
others are interesting In dinerent way
hut thew are ali unusual I'm plot and treat
ment. Lovers Of detective literature VIII
be pleased with "The Affair at the Semira-
mis- Hotel" and students Of South Amer,
lean social and political conditions VIII
recognize Castro of Venezuela as the orig
inal Of the President Of the republic OF
Maldiva in Green Paint Mr' Mason
is a literary artist Of parts and he has
never done better work than that Included
in this volume.
THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD, BY
A. r. W. Mason. New York: Charles Scrlb-
ner's Sons. S16O.
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A Bow Without a Country

There Is no writer in closer touch with
the simple homely life Of the country in
America than Homer Greene. of Honesdale,
Lake, Me. Mr.. Greene Is nominally writer
Of juvenile stories. but his books are read
by the fathers and mothers in the villages
and on the farms with as much interest
as by the boys and the girls. His latest
story, THE Flag" appearing at a time
when the spirit of patriotism is active. is
likely to be read in the cities with as much
interest as in the country. The enthusiastic
admirer of 1t who called it "a kind Of junior
Man without a Country" was not far
wrong
Its hero when the story opens is a school
boy who in his anger at a trick played by
the leader Of the opposing forces in
SNOWFALL battle tramples on the flag, in
which the leader had wrapped himself to
escape attack. aand says outrageous things
about II. The other boys indignant at his
conduct. will have no more to do with him.
and when he refuses to apologize he has
to leave the home Of his rich paternal
grandfather, where he has been living, and
go to his poor maternal grandfathers home
The flag which he had desecrated had been
presented to the school by the rich grand
father, veteran or the civil War. The
story OF the boys attack on the flag fol-
lows him wherever he goes. When he is
old enough he seeks to join the National
Guard, but is turned down on account Of
the flag incident He finally enlists in a
Canadian regiment and goes to the war in
France. He becomes lieutenant and is
seriously wounded, is reconciled to his
paternal grandfather and the story ends
happily. The book is likely TO enlarge Mr..
Greene's following among both the young
and mature.
THE FLAG. by Homer Greene. author OF
vPcketts Gap" Philadelphia: George W.
Jacobs Co. S25.
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Reminds One of Ro,--

Readers who can remember the rsr,..
revival OF twenty years ago are VEN 49,
.'Tekia" I'm Clara l.. Laughing. san
novel. The Heart Of Her Hiehnss. hesu
ticularly I'm the opening chaptsrs hs
likeness be found. but throuehou, IN ~ u
traces of Mr.. Barr's work. 'Ths ere II'e ~
Her Highness" lacks almost whoi,, ar ~ Y
and life that such tales shou,a .e N
Love is plentiful; there is almost pOsssa
Of 1t, but the author has done her r,..,V suftss
enough to merit respectful atten,oS !, vel
eager interest It is her own ,ns,.,,n no
work that interests tho reader "uOal
THE HEART OF HER HTGHNEss
Il. Laughl,n New York: q. r. R Clan
Sons. S1.50. - Futnau,
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together mass OF information about tne
history Of flags in general, which he IN
cnided I'm his story. He produced sort
of a flag cyclopedia. The value OF tne
work as a book Of reference would be much
greater II the new publisher had included
a comprehensive index, but even without
the index II Is bound TO have new lease
Of life because Of the renewed Interest i'll
the subject which II discusses.
oRIgtN AND HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN
FLAG By George Henry Preble, rear ad-
miral L. S. ~ New edition IN two yoi9hes
NJ, LII. B. Philadelphia: Nicholas L. bro"n'
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ENHANCE THE BEAUTY OF
HOME-GROUNDS
BY L. M. BENNINGTON.

Copy nature by sowing seeds Of per-
ennials as they ripen. Provide some
sort of shade for the seeded. A screen
made of lath or one of unbleached
muslin will answer.
The robust-growing plants will need
some sort. of support. Let the support
be painted green or oiled to bring out
the grain of the wood, and you will
find them more pleasing than rough
sticks and far more satisfactory. Drive
the stakes fast into the earth q little
lower than the plants, so that they are
inconSpicuous.
The plants needing supports are such
hardy perennials as delphiniums, giant
foxglove and snapdragons. Do not
overlook giving stakes to dahlias, cos
mos, hydranges and gladioli.
To maintain continuous blooming,
make habit of cutting flowers freely,
and remove all the fading blossoms,
and nature will reward you with
lavish hand.
If you want your bed of cannas or
border of caladiums to make a grand
tropical showing, give them a frost
like covering of bonemeal; then stir
the soil, water thoroughly, and mulch
with lawn clippings. Be sure to re-
move the fading flowers.
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NOTES ON GARDEN WORK

1t is just as important to rotate gar
den crops as field crops, and it is GER
tainly great mistake to plant the
same crop on the same ground three or
four seasons in succession.
A tight-wire fence around your gar
den will do more to promote harmony
between neighbors who keep chickens
than anything else.
Cut out the market man when you
market your garden stuff. You can
always get full retail prices, and if
selling vegetables is regarded as an
honorable business for the grocer,
why not for you?
It's the early vegetable that brings
the big price, and the man who sticks
to his hotbed and makes use of it al
ways gets to market first.
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In my native town there is monu-
ment that crowns it's central hill-a
plain white shaft, writes a correspond
ent of the Boston Globe. Deep cut into
it's shining side is a name dear to me
above the names of men. Not for all
the glories of America, from Plymouth
Rock all the way would I exchange
the heritage he left me in his soldiers
death. This message comes from con-
secrated ground-sacred soil to all of
us-rich il memories that make us
purer and stronger and better. an elo-
quent witness in its white peace.
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ABOUT COSMOS

If you want to get some satisfaction
out of the cosmos, sow it early and
push it along as fast as you can. 1t
does not transplant easily, therefore
grow 1t in pots. Shift it along until
it is growing in 9-inch pot. Then
sink the pot in a border and from the
time the plants are inches high until
the end of July the shoots should be
pinched off. This will keep the plants
low and stocky. Long after severe
frosts, your cosmos will be giving you
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THE WAY TO RAISE DALLAS
BY (. VAN BENTHUYSEN.

If you want dahlia roots for next
year, plant them in small pots and let
them remain all summer. Keep them
over winter like the old roots; and
start them again in the spring. I do
not say this is the only way, but it is
a good one.
A good dahlia must bloom from July
it.
: 1t is claimed by dahlia growers that
dividing the roots will degenerate al
most all the varieties; that is the rea-
son we have such q few good flowers.
OF course a good many will believe
that a cutting will not flower and make
roots to keep over the winter, but it is
not true; they were raised that way
many years ago, and that is the way
they are raised today in England,
France and Germany (that is if these
countries were thinking of planting in
stead of warring) and other countries
except the United States.
1t is the reason too, the Americans
do not care for dahlias; they have
been deceived too much. They buy old
roots and get an old degenerate plant,
sometimes six feet tall and more and
not a blossom in sight.
In October, when nights are cool, the
degenerate shows sbuds, and if the
frost does not catch them, they will
flower maybe two weeks, and the flow
or ho dofioiant in color and ci1o rTbau
blame the weather, ETC., it is not the
weather altogether, but the method Of
planting.
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not much finer than being a person.
"Oh, indeed" said the monkey.
"Well, that's all you know about it.
Some creatures like being what they
are-they wouldn't be birds for any
thing l.. the world
Maybe not" said the gray crane.
"But they needn't call me an animal
when / am a bird A lovely two
legged, long-legged, long-necked bird .''
"And so are we ALL" screamed the
other cranes. But at that moment a
little girl looked at the cranes who
knew the names of most of the zoo
animals and she called one of her
friends to her saying:
ooh, see these lovely birds" And so
the cranes were happy and satisfied
for oncel
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TFiE wind was cold. the hilltop bare;
We marched and took our stand
Smith was the army we had there.
With Hawkins in command.
WE placed flag above the mound
w And from a book read,
The Lord God bless this hallowed ground
Where lies the nations dead. :"
THEN to the road we turned again
Hawkins and Smith and l.
The same as though thousand men
Were in our company
FOR not alone we three had come
To that one soldiers grave
The wide land rife with tramp and drum.
Its immanent presence gave.
rs voice, which filled the wayside pine.
Chanted of martial days;
It's great soul through our slender line,
Rendered memorial praise.
Stephen Tracy Livingston. in Harper's Weekly.
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L
There were many cranes in the crane
house and they were all quite lovely
looking. Their necks were so long
and their little eyes sharp and bright.
Their legs looked so long and almost
as if they would break for their bodies
were quite fat and covered with the
loveliest feathers.
"You see," said the gray crane, ut
is quite bad enough when people talk
about what they know-for they SIM
ply say things that everyone knows"
Dear me-" said the monkey, "but
you are feeling quite cross today"
Eyes, / am" said the gray crane, as
he put one foot up under his wing. Il
Il think it is quite remarkable"
said the monkey, "the way you can get
your long leg up like that"
81 enjoy standing on one foot" said
the gray crarfe.
so do we all" said the other cranes.
And all the cranes were now standing
on one foot while the monkey looked
across from his cage and grinned.
.eWell," said the monkey, tell me
why you are so cross, Mr. Crane. AS
far as l can gather you don't like it
because people talk about something
they don't understand. And you also
don't like it because they talk about
something they do understand"
"Just So" said the gray crane.
"Please explain" said the monkey.
swell I shall begin with the second
objection first" said the crane.
"Oh, very WE'LL" said the monkey.
'Most creatures usually begin with the
first objection-of the first of anything
before the second. But l suppose we
must expect something unusual and
different from you as you don't like
people to talk about what they do
know nor about what they don't"
II don't like to hear people talk
about and no one cares to hear Of"
said the gray crane. "For example,
children and grown-ups come to the
zoo and they talk about the day-what
a nice day it is-for they don't come
on the bad days very often. Now
when it is nice day everyone knows
it. Why talk about it?"
"That's better than to hear them
grumbling," said the monkey.
perhaps, but they needn't say it at
all. Why don't they ask the keepers
some questions that are interesting
about us-where we came from, our
histories, about our families and our
ways?"
That's what you consider interest
ing, eh?" laughed the monkey.
"Of course" said the crane. 'But
the thing that did make me mad was
to hear some children say:
"'Oh, look at those animals with
the long legs"
"And why should that have made
you so mad?" asked the monkey. He
l. ha faIy.
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Famous Organization Had Its In
Ception Before the Close of
the Civil War.
GATHERED PATRIOTS IN FOLD
To IncuIcate Loyalty to the Nation
Which They Saved, and the Uphold
ing of Its Institutions, the
Foundation Stone of the
Great Order.

wv HE earliest reliable written rec
n ords of the Grand Army of the
ID Republic were consumed at Bos-
ton during the great conflagra-
ton on Memorial day, 1873. Fortunate
Iy, however, although the early pre-
li1ninary history is lost to the coun-
try, enough of printed and written rec
ords in other locations was found to
enable the historians of the G. A. r.
to piece out the interesting story of
it's birth.
In the quaint old hall of records at
the national G. A. r. headquarters in
Independence square, Philadelphia,
the original minute-book of the nation
al encampments. beginning with the
Soldiers and Sailors convention at
Pittsburgh, September 25, 1866, may
be seen carefully preserved among 9th
err historic G. A. r. literature.
1t is heavy sheepskin folio in good
condition, of 7S0 pages of which 1853
are written upon. The minutes cover
The story of the national encampments
for the first six years, from 1867 to
1872, after which the proceedings were
printed. These records and others of
the Departments contain the history of
the Grand Army organization after it
became an embodied fact. There is,
however, because of the lost records
a nebulous atmosphere about the
movements leading up to it's forma-
tion.' But the organization, it is clear
ly known, is the evolution of the active
political and social movements among
the soldiers in the u months succeed
ing the close of the war.
IT SEEMS a far cry from the mod
i ern era of prosperous commercial
and industrial peace in the United
States back TO the troubled days of
'G5 and '66, "when Johnny came march
ing home"
The discharged soldiers came back
to meet and conquer with a soldiers
courage a difficulty more complex and
intangible than that of fighting an en-
eny-the problem of his own read
justment of the workaday world which
L.
Previous to the war the general
feeling had prevailed, as voiced by
Gov. John A. Andrews, speaking Of
the people of Massachusetts, that the
family Of every man who enlisted
should he fully provided for. The re-
turn Of the soldier in health made it
possible for him to resume response
bility. All he needed was an oppor-
tunity.
FTHE sentiment of patriotic support
z ers of the army was that the men
who had given UP their chance of
advancement at home and Of support
ing their families in the many avenues
Of trade and commerce stimulated by
the war who had returned with good
record Of service, wounded or disa-
4ied, should he entitled to considera
ton in the distribution of Offices I'M
der the local, state and national gov
eminent. Places of honor and profit
it was held, should be given to the
veterans whose services and sacrifices
had been so great. But politicians in
trenched in Office were not willing tx
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retire in favor of the army men; con-
sequently clubs and societies of sol
diers and their supporters for the pro-
motion of their candidacy for positions
of trust and emolument sprang up
everywhere. There was soon great
host of organizations, among them the
Boys in Blue, Soldiers and Sailors
league, Conservative Army and Navy
Union, White Boys in Blue, Colored
Soldiers. league-a vast mass of varied
tinted bodies of assorted minds, who
were destined to form the nucleus for
the all-embracing G. A. r.
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they don't know
what they are
talking about"
Il agree with
you," said the
monkey from his
cage in the zoo.
He stopped twirl-
ing around q
wooden bar and
listened to the
crane who was
p a Gin g up and
down in the yard
a d joi n n g the
crane house.
ut is a pity"
said some of the
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Too True.

Its no USE" sighed Freddy; II GER
tainly can never learn to SPELL"
"Why not?" inquired his mother.
"How the dickens can l ever learn"
he demanded holly, "when the teacher
changes the words every day?"
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ing a great many
chances himself
for saying such a
thing as he knew
p er f e C tt Y well
what made the
crane family more
angry than any
thing else. He had
heard them angry
about this . very
same thing before.
Il simply can
not bear being
called an animal
when I am a bird.
1t is so wonderful
to be a bird. And
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DR. James Hamilton, Maj. r. M.
Woods and II others.
The makers of the G. A. r., it ap-
pears, adopted, in part, the 'title of
officers" and the general organization
of the Loyal Legion of the United
States, the essential difference in
herring in the terms of eligibility to
Office, the Loyal Legion restricting
membership of the first class to Off
GERS.
The plan of organization embraced,
first, the formation of precincts, called
posts; second, county unions, called
districts; third, state associations,
known as departments, and the ma
tional organization formed originally
of two delegates from each depart
ment.
The declaration of principles, clear
statement of the fraternal, patriotic
and charitable purpose of the new or
ganization, was introduced by a para
graph in high-sounding and rounded
phraseology after the style of the
times, as follows:
ssT he soldiers of the Volunteer
Army of the United States dur
ing the war of 1S61-1865 actuated by
the impulse and convictions of pa
triotism and eternal right; combined
in the strong bonds of fellowship and
unity by the tolls, the dangers and
the victories of long and vigorously
waged war, feel themselves called on
to declare in definite form of words,
and in determined cooperative ac-
ton, those principles and rules which
should guide the earnest patriot, the
enlightened freeman and the Chris
tian citizen in his course of action,
and to agree upon those plans and
laws which should govern them in
united and systematic working meth
cd with which in some measure shall
be effected the preservation of the
grand results of the war, the fruits
of their labor and toll so as to bene-
| Mt the deserving and worthy"
The Grand Army organization. it
appears, at first made little Roadway
in the various states. In two years but
thirteen states were permanently or
ganized, the order being Illinois, Wis
consin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York,
Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jer-
sey, Maine, California, Nevada, Rhode
Island New Hampshire and Vermont.
The chief cause of the slow progress
seemed to be that the soldiers had be-
come weary of organization in the in
effective clubs already referred to,
which had grown into popular disfavor,
and almost total disruption was threat
ened by the Indifference and opposition
of those who at first conceived the G.
A. r. to be some sort of secret So
ciety of partisan proclivities.
MANY wise heads, however, recog-
AVA nized the power for good in the or
ganization, and its future prosperity
was happily assured by the adoption
of resolution of the national en-
campment of 1868 that the purpose of
| the G. A. r. is "to secure the rights
of these defenders of their country. by
all moral, social and political means in
our control"
Emphasis was appropriately placed
on the primary objects of the organi-
cation to maintain and strengthen the
| fraternal feelings which bind together
the soldiers and marines of the Civil
war, to perpetuate the memory and
history of those who have died, and to
lend assistance to the needy and to
their widows and orphans, and all dis
tinctions of party, creed, rank or color
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DADCYSEv[N|NG|
[AIRY TALE
81 kAQY GRAHAln BONNER
THE CRANES.

'Its a great pity" said the gray
crane, shat people should talk when
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THE idea of the organization of the
Grand Army of the Republic was
really conceived, however, before the
close of the war. The signer of the
first general order, calling the first
encampment in Indianapolis, Novem-
Der 20, 1866, carefully preserved in
the venerable general order book in
the Hall of Records at Philadelphia,
was Maj. Benjamin Franklin Stephen
son, provisional commander in chief
in 1896 and the founder of the Grand
Army of the Republic.
Major Stephenson was a native of
Wayne county, Illinois, where he was
born in 1922. Reared in poverty, but
managing to wrest an education from
difficult conditions, he entered the
medical profession, graduating from
Rush Medical college, Chicago. in 1851,
and practicing in Petersburg, Ill. He
enlisted and served three years as sur
geon of the Fourteenth Illinois in
fantry and Immediately after the war
he resumed the practice of his profess
sion, locating at Springfield, Ill. Major
Stephenson during the war was close
ly associated with Chaplain William
Rutledge, a Virginian by birth, resi-
dent of Illinois and a Methodist preach
er, who was his terminate and bosom
companion.
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Courage Of Conscience.
There is no courage like the courage
of clear conscience.