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t /' #% "v* I j eriy, go I Juat lands him a beauty la e ^^* J I "But ha didn't Improve, sir," con- Ol IVindnCSS tinued Mr. Shoehuckia, "for the very next morning. Just because I said I'd like to borrow bis face to poison a few rats with, he again threatened to summons me. Ileally, you know, The usual serenity and peace of Sweat Hepcsa Avenue, Upper Ba^ ham, lisd been disturbed by a snake In the grass, and Mr Alfred Shoe- buckle, retired boxef, was out for re- Tenge. Me was going to show Mr. Henry Tickle a few things, but be- you can't call your life your own, sir, so I sloshes hlra again; and when he came back from the doctor's he didn't half rap on. ««,« j»_i _. .1 J, "'Excuse me,' he said, 'but do you Tore declaring Uie proceed ngs ooen , .,. . .^ j . , j .^ / â-  1,. w,, ^^J f. J„ L «,.,., I '«â- Â«"' that the doctor had to put in he was g^lng to pop into the Bald- 1 J^ced Got for a quick one. three stitches.' " 'Weil,' I says, 'what aliout It? Let So It was soma time later before â-  that be a lesson to you, for the next Mr. Shoebuckle was seated In the time I lands you one the doctor offlce of Messrs. Torde, Tootle &| won't stitch you up by hand. He'll Tontle, solicitors and comminsionera use a sewing machine. And the^ for oaths, of Peckham Rye. 1 s\t. bellere me or believe ma noT, "Good-morning!" said Mr. Tootle, blessed if he didn't call ma a bully. Jun. "And what can I do f>.r you?" Now, I ask you, sir. la that a neigh- "It'a about my next-door neighbor,"! borly way to go rn? Replied Alfred Shoebuckle. "He's] "Then my wife says I ouglit to thinking of taking proceedings against i humor him. Now. I asks you, I had me. Me, mind you, what has a lamb-j given him two black eyes and landed like (iisposititn and wouldn't knowing- him a few extras. What more ci uld ly hurt a cheese." I do?" Mr. Tootle looked at the unshaven 1 "And what do you want ma to do?" lace of his client, and felt that he Could not agree. "Tell me all about it," interpolated die s( licltor. "Not 'arf I won't," said Mr. Shoe- buckle. "That's what I came along here for. Well, I live In Sweet Re- pose Avenue, and I've lived there In peace and quiet with my neighbors for tour years. Of course, one or two Of us might iMive a scrap now and then, and I mialit give one or two of them a grod hiding, but that sort of thing only adds to the har- mony of our nelghbrly lives. Why, we've been like a lot cl turtle doves lor years." "Quite." remarked Mr. Tootle. "Well." went on Alfred Shoebuckle, "tiaree weeks ago a pie-faced kyhoot named Henry Tickle, a traveller in the glue trade, came to live next dcor to ma in a house called the Sanctuary, and as soon as I saw his face I laughed. I never saw such a clock in my life. He reminded me of an old cottage-door-knocker. "Well, I says to myself, me being all fi T peace and we cannot always help our faces, we've got to be nice and neighborly, but when I saw his wife I had another shock. She's one of those women who look as if they had been poured into her dress asked the solicitor. "Well." replied Mr. Alfred Shoe buckle, "what about me having a sum- mens against old rahblt-face for dlS' turbing the -peace?" A Flowering Climber Yakima, Wa.<»h. â€" To give that cool shade and delightful fragrance so desirable in summer about home, the climbing honeysuckle with its gen- eral adaptability and hardiness may be strrngly recommended. Coming into bloom in late spring," it will con- tinue through the summer months, giving a wealth of bloom and foliage en the trellises which must be pro- vided as it possesses no other means of grasping „ support than twining. Several species are In cultivation and they differ somewhat. Halls' honeysuckle, Lonicera Ja- ACCORDING TO THIS IT'S SIMPLICITY ITSELF Two Australian students create a mild sensation in Loudon by U!tlng water-skis to navigate the Thames. And here tha voyaging farmer found Qeologjgtg Huflt Hidden Wealth . For Soviet State a line market awaiting him. it seems incredible, but it is evidently a fact, that a city like Saigoa should be da- pendeut upon shipments form Franca of fresh vegetables. A few inferior vegetables drift down from the ia- terior, but the well-to-do natives and Moscow ^nds 639 Parties to the French colonials, will not eat tUem. Almost the first thing Elliott was asked was: "Can you send us some artichokes from California?" m„.,„„,„ ti. - t â-  .â-  Also, they wanted lettuce, celerv, I ^h rJ'"'"'"'"^f, -"^ scientist* anything good, green, and fee from I ^"1-'''"'^, ''='''"' '''â- %^';:^ ^""""7,^''- germs. For here, as in China. ICuro- P'"',"^*'^ sections of the Soviet Un- peans will not eat green-leaf vege-l '„L °f '"? ^^^ evidences of hidden &° «nnr/.o<i of naional wealth Explore Domain in Their Survey of Resources sources of naional wealth below ground. Six hundred and hiry-nina geological expeditions have been sent out. , ,„ , ., o. , 0" ""il '^o*' """e the chief magnets ^^rmer from the States was welcom- f^r this activity. Sixty parties ara *^' P,. „, c I .IT , , , lookin gfor oil in the Urals, the Cau- F.om Sagon to Hongkong, and IhenUsus. tiie Kazakstan district and on home. That is the log of the CaU-Uhe Island of Sakhalin, off the coast tables raised locally since the Chinese gardener has ideas about fertilization which are both repulsive and un- sanitary. Therefore the seagoing fornla farmer who put to sea in a of Siberia, and torty-seven parties are ship with the truck of his own farm.Leeking new coal beds. Preliminary Ir u'niiTH Ka o olmmr^ t^ 1.1...., ,| ' . " It would be a shame to bluut the I surveys in many instances have shown point of Frank Elliott's achievement that coal and oil exist ijj some of these by overstatement: but what he has piacts, the question of the surt-ey !)e- (lone Is to show that there is a dual- i^g oniy as to whether its production Ity market in the Orient for the is commercially feasible, cnoicest American fruits far exceed- [gLAND DISPUTED TERRITORY. Ing anybody's dreams. He has open- t,,, , , , , c i u r â-  i .- a ed an export trade that will bring mil-' ^^^ '^'^"'^ °^ Sakhalin is believed lions of dollars to tthe West Coast of 1'° ^^ °"® '^^ ""'^®- f^'^^'ora' .vears a-o America. And that is doiug a good joi agents of Harry Sinclair, American A Farmer Goes To "" ^"'"' '' '^'"°" "'' ^'^ '"'' Sea Freeman Fllden Arab Story-Tellers Outside the Jlarrakesh Gala, in the open square, there is always the true East to be seen. A caravan, coming in frrm the desert in long and sway- Ihad Just come from the orchard. The i ing lines, camels stretching tiieir necks from side to side, their drivers running up beside them and guiding word in quality aud packed with the idea of getting it to the Asiatic con- sumer in as good condition though It I bulging boxes, which do very well tor When the Sllverbelle slid out of : domestic shipments, but offer a fine San Francisco harbor last November, ! opportunity for the fin^irs of the bound for the Orient, she carried a ! collie handlers, h.id not been used. In Shanghai there are said to be 70.000 Chinese in the quality-buying class. A San Franciscan, just home atttir a long stay in China, is authority for the statement that there are more deal, tor one young man and foronei"'' ma"- obtained an exploratory eon- tour months' trip.-Tlie worlds work i '^''^^"'" ^'â- Â°'" ^"'*"'* *" '**"'' ^" ''*"'"" ,., â-  1 leum there. But the island's possession was in dispute iietween Japan and the Soviet Union, and when the American geologists arrived there they were royally entertained by the Japanese military, but somehow could not get started into the interior. Finally they went back to the United States and representations were made at Wash- ington. The American government, however, them to the special place where t he v j ;.'â- ",' Powerless, since the concession are unloaded The little donkevs ' ''^ ^ee'i granted by Russia with â-  1 which it had no diplomatic relations I loved, and there was alwavs a num- , , . , , , her of these coming in and going out;^'«! was not rccoBnized by Japan, with at the Marrakesh Gale. M. st of all ' ''''"'^'' '*'* ^"'''^'^ ^^""^^^ '''"' °" *'"" however. I was interested in the i ^'''^"'""-'^' **'''"''• So that concession story-tellers, those old men who told i '^P^^''' '"^' ^''* northern-fc^^ of the their ancient tales to the still older island is definitely Russia's. farmer named Frank T. Elliott. The Sllverbelle. a new ship of the type that is revolutionizing traffic in per- ishable commodities, has 1320 tons' panlca Halleana, is the one mrst fre- measurement of refrigerator space. In quently planted and perhaps the most! that space Elliott had 2000 packages miU'oaah'es in China than in tlie Un- , r,nirf-Tr,TTc Mir-r ^ r c cnr-fii-r desirable. This climber remains of grapes, apples, lettuce and celery, ! Ked States. This seems hard to credit °ien as well as to lads and children.! IRt-ClOLb Mh-TALS bOLGHT. green far Into the winter and in mild most of it raised on his own California | at first glance, but on a relative basis, | Every evening about five o'clock we | Asbestos, mica, emeralds, graphite, climates may be In fair shape in farm. His intention was to sell those | (comparing the buying power of the "fe^ to go to tlie Gate and see tnem j sulphur" and porcelain clays are the spring. Its general foliage effect is 'fruits and vegetables in Oriental j 'l""ar. country for country. It may i ^'^''^g in circles with the story-tel- obects of twenty-nine expeditions, light green. I ports, where such things had never lie so. 'ers standing in the centre, every- 1 These parties will prospect in Karel- Llke other climbing honeysuckles.' been sold before. Most of the people I "I am convinced," says Elliott, j °"^~°'f' a"'! youngâ€" listening with ^ ina, in central Russia; the Caucasus, and forgot to say 'When.' "Ere.' l|it confines itself to tha trellis pro- 1 who knew of his venture merelv re- i "that personal contract Is absolutely ^^P' attention, obiivi.us of all else, the Urals, the Ferghana mountains, «ays to Mr. Tickle, pciinting to his •wife in thf? garden, 'did you find It. 'Erbert. or did you win it in a raffle?' " "And what did he say?" asked Mr. Tootle. "Say," sniffed Mr. Shoebuckle. "He' gijoots will reach out and clamber didn't half go in off the deep end. over it. This climber is charming- I suppose he was annr.yed about some- j ly placed at corners of squatty thing, because he says to me. 'Youj houses, and. It trained to a pillar vlded. except perhaps at tha base, j marked, "It's a shame he should go ' I'^'-^'^sary to begin trade with the There vines are inclined to run al'ng| broke this way." Orient. The Oriental merchant is the ground and take root, hence such Perhaps Elliott thought he might as>'*"0''6d, Just as the American besin shoots must be pruned away oc- well go broke in the Far East as on casionally. If a shrub Is close by, I his own farm. Back of his trip was the problem facing American agricul- mlnd y' ur own business.' Now. that a a nice, kind, neighborly way to talk to a chap like me. " 'Ere.' I says to him, 'it I cumes over Into that ashtip you call a gar- den, you'ra going to wake up in some place where everything is nice and quiet and white and clean.' Well, then ha made a face at me and wentj In. form, serves the useful purpose of making tha house appear higher. Its trait Of clothing Itself with foliage all the way. to the ground commends it for anch use. Also, planted two feet apart. It makes acceptable screens for porchea where shade or privacy is wanted ture: the farms, with improved mach- inery, produce more and more: and the American consumer eats less and less. Gone, for instance. Is the big breakfast of wheat cakes, cereal, eggs, ess man is, with advertising letters which simly go Iqto the waste- basket. "When I went there in person I was received most courteousl.v every- where. I usually cabled ahead to my next stop the fact that I was arriv- ing on a certain day with my wares. and bacon, doughnuts, pie, and coffee. 1 and the merchants who were luter- ] It is astonLshing how still Arabs sit; near the Afghan border: Russian even children will sit for hours quite , Turkestan, and the Trans-Balkan re- still, almost without moving their 'gion. Ten other parties have gone to l>ands. jthe Irtysh River and Akmolinsk dis- Tha storyteller iias an idoal au- ^ tricts of Siberia and to the .\zov Sea dience. Xi thing distracts their atten- littoral in search of salt and phosphor, tion, not even straugers behind them. | Precious metals also will be the ob- Their eyes are fixed on hiH face, none' ects of numerous parties. Thirty Of his gestress escape them, their, groups are to look for gold and three ears ar strained to hear his lowest for platinum in the Urals, Siberia and words. He is telling them some ! the Far East. story as ancient as tlie Bible, and j _._ many ("f these stories are handed down almost unchanged from one • story-teller to another. There are' Opulent Summer America has food to export. And yet ested would be waiting for me.' there are millions of people in the | The vo'yaging farmer next went to outlands of the world who have act- 1 Manila and then to Cebu. in the i gpegj^, favorites among the stories.^ ually never known what it was to |PWlippines. From there to Surabaya. Und sometimes a verv fine talker liave all they wanted to eat. Could >" Java. In this port Elliot found an ,„a,;ea one his own-that is, ha tells trouble with summer is that there Is ! Arabian Jewish merchant who was jt better than anyone else. He travesl' too much of it while it lasts. This didn't half give me a black look. Just | ,„, y„io^. ^hey are In pairs In the ] .ears'" iu"o:e'rgn°m;rS 'wei^ "al^ , bntLreT" To^t!^;'u.X!^i:e' CaU- ' '"""'^ ''"''' '""" " """"'• ''""' ^"- ' ^"«^^' ""«'" ^^'-'"' -â€" ^'« --- Someone has complained that tha , The aowers have the peculiar habit., , .~Q,.i„„„ f„ ,-, And. bless me. It next day hej^f coding o^ white and soon turn-''"*^ ""^ Ameiican loo.l . TiBraii^P a kettln I threw Into his gar-' „',u nf th,> Ipivp^ nnri ii tha leaves ' •"'"'" '"'"â-  ^*"^«'S" "'aiKeis were ai- 1 "'••â- -"-'• -" "••- =u.i,..o=, .u= v.a.,- . i^ge, to village, and his fame precedes perhaps, expressed by an overzealous Sen ca^ight him n the face aSoLsi'etMs brings ou%oTers ' ^^^^ ^' ''>« saturation point. Elliott 'ornlan found that some of the grapes uim. "Achmed Ali, tha st> ry-tcller natur. lover who undertakes to cata- den caught him la ^^'^^°^^°^'^l}^l\y^JJ'°^_'°^lj^°ll'^]toxmd that this was not true in the 'he had dropped in Shanghai had beat', is coming," is the news that runs iog„e all the wonders to be observed "Then ha said something about me together. The flowers are two-lipped not knowing my manners, so with that I Just hops over the wall and sloshes him one." "You mean ycu struck him?" ex- claimed the "lawyer, In horrified tones. "Yes, sir," replied Mr. Shoebuckle. "What would yet have done? Not half I didn't slosh him. I landed ; Orient. He made .lapau his first oh- him into Java and were on display in Jective struck thn lower Ho jolne narrow while : "-"""'"'•â-  "" "'"""^ ''"'"'" "'* ""'• "" ' ""'" """ '""^ "" '"»i"u.' â- " Uirough Ihe place, aud everyone on a single summer day. There can the upper Is four-toothed The ber-i^«'="^«- '^ '"™«'l ""ts t^at he had 'He Java markers. Usually tiny | crowds In. Arabs from distant camps. 'scarcely be loo much of what is ries are black. his poorest market first, : samples were laid upon a leaf and ^ tribesmen from the uear hills, natives beautiful, although, to be sure. In tha summer the beauty of I â- â- - â- - ; - â€" ." .'"' '7' ; '-"B '""" 's spread out under a some- Somewhat s'imllar to Hall's honey- ' t'^°"8^ ''"® situation here was iuter- 'hought by the natives as a rare treat.] working on the land for miles around high noon of su suckle la Lonicera Perlclymenum,hs""K- He found that the Japanese i InBatavla and Singapore Elliott j hear tlie news in that mysteri. us fas- ; ^he land is sprea known as wocdbine The general l liave heard of these things called vita- fo>'nil the demands for his fruits so, hlon in which gossip spreads in the;ti,„e3 too ardent sun. foliage effect of this Is darker green. I 'n'^s, and actually propose to use'^vely that he could have .sold out j East By early evening the village; j;^ ,g„ggp (^ (,,^^8 any need to The flowers are of the same shape, i^iem ' oralse the stature of the Jap. entirely, but preferred to keep his: is packed, and Achmed Ali tells his ^p^^^,, „„t a few shvlv blooming flow- but Instead of being In the axils ofianese people. Hence they are doing samples and take orders for the fut- 1 centuries-old story to an audience of g,,3s,n.,, ^g g^ve ,iolight in the earlier him a proper fomrpenny one and cloa-j jhe leaves are In terminal clusters a great deal of talking about getting ure. hundreds. ed up ona of his eyes with a click, j at tha ends of the branches. They Talk about Aladdin and his wonder- ful lamp. Then I'm blessed If he didn't become rude and said I wasn't nice to know, and that he didn't want to know me A nice, gentlemanly way to treat a elghbor I call It. "And then it he didn't get cross the very next day because I went Into his garden and half-Inched his lawn- mower. Borrowed it without his per- mission, he said. "'Look here. Mr. Tickle.' I said, quite neighborly-like, 'yiu run away and bowl your hoop while I use this lawn-mower.' Then he called me a thief. That was a nice thing to say. wasn't It? 'Look here.' I said to him. 'yiai ain't no gentleman. I've seen better things than you on lettuce.' are white Inside and carmine or pur- plish cutside and soon turn yellow. mouths, for now the true aim of more food with vitamins In it. But: Then he went to Bangkok, in Siam. ! Once in the far south our g"i'le spring's experiments in bloom is opu- the tariff laws of the country keep -^s he boarded a little steamer, and asked, rather apologetically, to be ex- ,^^^1^ apparent; and there la instead such products out. On fruits and veg- l^^'atihed the last-minute loading oper- ; cused the next day at live o'clock. As ^^ embarrassnieu of choice when This climber drops its leaves without j etables the duty is 100 percent ad ations, ho was surprised to see lugs of , we had fixed a very special excur- ^1^^,..^^, the manifold blosoms. Tha delay in the fall, thus bringing small ! valorem. Though many California 8'-apes with his own label on them sion for that afternoon it was rather ^^j^^ ^^ ^^,^^^^ ^,^,^j ^,_^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ red berries clearly into view. | fruits can be delivered as cheaply in being hoisted aboard. They, too, were inconvenient and we asked him it he ^,^^ ^^^^^^^ .^^ j,.^^ ,^^g become a pro- The trumpet honevsuckle. Lonicera, Japan as In New York. California «" their way to Bangkok, having been would not take aolher da.v. Tlion he ^^^^.^^ ^^ ^^^|^_. ^^^ hioom-filled mea. sempervlrens. Is a neat climber with, oranges are selling in Japan tor 35 or resold by ne of the Singapore deal- explained to us that he could not as ^^^^,^. ^^^ ^^^^ ,^^^, ^^,.^^^ ^^ j,^g^ ^^^^ glaucous foliage aud orange-scarlati 40 cents apiece. ers. This shipment was being carried f'e most famous story-teller In the ^^^^^_ ^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^ flowers which ara borne In terminal] In Shanghi Elliott ran up against along by one of the boys of the crew, -'^t'as would pass through for rne day ^j,^^,,,^,..!,,^,,, f„,.j,^^ „( ^,^^33 ^^^^^ spikes made of several six-flowered the age-old Chinese guild i.lea. He according to the peculiar arrange- and would tell stones at nve ciock. | ^ _^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^.^^^ ^^ ^_^^ ^.^^^^^ whorls. The upper leaves show the found that all the principal dealers in "lent existing in that part of the] "« had never hearu nis man as ne : ^.^,^ ,|^ ^^^^ stream peculiar trait of uniting about the fruits and imported vegetables were "orld. These sailors get. Instead of, • • • seldom travelled now. he toui stem. Si me of tha best known stories, aud Jlidsumnier is a time of alllueuce In Incorporated into a nice, solid guild wages, a hit of space in the hold of, "â€" r' ----- '"'','",," up„r nature's wonders, but there Is not too with central headquarters. Member tl>e steamship, and from the sale of , "J" S'li'ie wi.Miea so mucn i» "^"^ m,,^.,, ^f ^ \\-p,,g ^^^^^.^ 5,^^ ,.„,„. The Preference ot this guild have to report to head- 'his freight space to their merchant' "'"'â-  "® ""^"'- °*^"' "'*^^ ^ *^"*°^ plaint, it might ha that "Summer's Saint John Telegraph-Journal quarters everything they buy and the relatives they get their stipend. •'» j "^q "' o,,,.,,p ,,.e j^.j him go and the ' 'ease hath all too sh..rt a date." (Ind.): Premier Bruce of Australia' price paid for it They have the Bangkok al.so Elliott found husinesa | ^^^J ^^^ ^^^^^^,^^1^^, i^j^^^ ^..^y^^^^ .^ ^^^ Meanwhilo. Ihe .'ihadows; ot Ihe leaves, has cabled th-s British Prime Minister American commission merchants look- sood. and had the experience ot pay-! jj^teres'ting as he had expected?" . . I ilaping the grass, give, delight to ona a protest against abolition if the Im-ling like solitaire players when it com- '"â- " $1.50 tor a ^hunch of his own ^ j ^^^^^ always so'riv I could never *ho has the lol.-iiire to observe their and with that I told him to hop back| ^^^.,^^1 pi.gference. Hon. J. A. Robb.Us to teamwork. Yet the guild was srapes at one of the markets. De Into the cheese. I'll tell you what It, j,^,na„j,g minister of Canada, In a re- 1 greatly interested in what the Ameri- sP'te their long trip out ot refrigera- Is. sir, some people don't deserve j ^.^^^^ interview pointed out that Im-'can farmer had brought In the re- t'"". f'ey were pretty good, giod neighbors. They ain't fit to ^^^..^1 preferences are favored by | frigerator. Thev made him an offer Finally Elliott arrived In Saigon, live In a good-cla.ts neighborhood like (.^^^ja. South Africa Is disturbed on 500 lugs of grapes at a price slight- 'j^rench Indo-China. the "Paris ot the ours. . - „, . I "Then Just tins Tude aonal wife." I kind was held In 1923. At the Im- "And I take it .vou areT' said the ^gj.,^, conference of 1326 economic aolicitor. | problems were also discussed and "Certainly, sir." replied ^r. Shoe- ^.^^^^^^1,^^^^ appointed to gather In- buckle. "I treat her more like a, formation. It I& hardly likely that friend than a wife. Ot <-ourse we^^^ ^^..^^^^ Government in the face have the usual tiffs, and now and theii ^^ overseas opinion as now freelv ei- I might throw a bit ot "..ckery at | ^^.^^^^^ ^,,„ ^^^^^ ^^^ , .j. complete abolition of the preference This Is nt a time for disputes over trade mat- ters between the Mother Country and the Domini, ns. her, but I don't mean any harm It's Just my wa.v. Well, when he said that I just po-.-s i./er the garden wall again and I hit him for six. When he came round I warned him that the next time 1 sloshed him one I should Living BeautifuUv hit him so far It ^oMia^s.o a post- ^^^ _^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ beautifully card a weel. V, ,7„,av"' asked Mr who said to himself, "Every-tima an -And what did he say? asked Mr. ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^j^^_ ^ â- ^•"weir "replied Mr. Shoebuckle,' shall put a beautiful thought In It. "he told me h? was going to the police ?•*<=«• •bout me, and accused me ot being! â-  <> - «nnelghb<rlv. That's all the thanks | Beautiful Olrl: "No. Sam. I cannot 1 got for trying to be nice to him ba your wifa. Please go way and for- «nd m^kln^ ulm f«el at home. A nice gat me. Jhing to siy about a man like ma! Dejected Lover: "No use; I'm • Well, that s.-» my dander up prop- memory expert" The Horse is Popular Among the Wealthy English JUDGINQ THE MOUNTS AT THE RANELAQH HORSE AND POLO PONY SHOW A nice string ot horaeflaah lined up by the mounted police for the benetlt ot the Judges at the lUmelacti Homwl and Polo fony Show recentlyheld In England. .1 I was always son. understand a word of all the stories tremulous motion. The flash ot a I sat so often and listened to. but to'sohlen butterfly against the dark of a watch the faces of the audience was, chestnut tree, or the bronze of a milk- an experience In itself. One could weed butterfly, sudilenly merged iu almost follow the outline of the tale the brown ot a woodland path, or the pes.â€" EleaU'r smaller ona with polka-dot wings, f Morocco." ; poised on a pink clover bloom: a row â€" 'of birds, swinsiiig and visiting on a Iher should olw branch of a willow beside tha ther.â€" Lincoln brookâ€" there ara not too many of i these lovely trifles that help to make 'up the perfection ot summer time. I There Is an almost universal de- I sire to be out of doors throughtout tha whole length of the glad season; to I rejoice in the gayety of cottage gar- !dens, with their honeysuckle trellises â- and variegated blossoms, calling tha ibees through the scented air; to I breathe the sweet perfume of upland hills and high plains: or to count the .rounded fragrant stacks In the fields 1 where haying Is in progress toward I orderly provision <or later needs. I Tha grasshoppers and cicadas ex- press their pleas^ure, shrilling their thin tunes; the dapper dragon fly darts through tha sunshine, pivots motionlesa for a moment on a blade ot grass, as If the better to display Its wings ot sapphire gauze; and In the rich fullness ot a single summer aft- ernoon, one in.iy touch a hundred flower* An4 not >luck onel t