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a gy » Sieeo _y uw Loole's litule bottle __.«sed glue, and we'll stick e'em t )igether in. the twinkling of a_ pig uirterent | whisker." owes ANG styitu, ud-gold tea-} I do not think, if you had emp set for grand oceasiors, «nd a smalier|"a bag of go.den eagles among t blue-stripped one for every-day se. Kearns children they could have b' There were puzzles, dissected maps, aja whit happier than they were at' work-box, papér dolls, tin mechanical' moment. Some of the wooden qi toys, paint-boxes, wooden animals, | ripeds were really in very good battledores and shutt*ecocks--in short, 'dition. Atl wete gay with paint, the only difficulty would be to tell in a few minutes, Hannah and what wasn't there" were hard at jvork repairing the But it is very hard to satisfy some 48S, healing' wounds, and arra little people. Agnes had been to visit the ee BE, beasts and bird: a schoolmate who had just received a ,SUNny corner ot thp Window-sill, : present of an artificial canary-bird in the meddling' little fingers of Lu a cage, which sang a little tinkling Denay could not, reach' 'then sort of song, on being wound up with, Where the wet glue could dry a key, like a clock. best advantage. Agnes came home, eager that her | They were happily busy in this oc- mother should et once go and purchase cupation when the door opened, anc a eran automatic canary, or,.as she dy. richly dressed in silks and furs, catled it, "a Tommy canary-bird" ee in. ' Mrs. Avenel, however, resolutely de- Does Mrs. Bridget Kearns live clined to do anything of the sort. here?" asked she, looking around her. + "No, Agnes," she eaid, "we are not! It was Mrs, Avenel--Agnes' moth- rich enough to buy fifty-doilar auto- eT... Some one had told her of the matic canaries for you. Our own little | littie motherless ¢hildren, for whont Dickey in his cage sings sweeter than 'the hardvorking grandmother could any artificial bird could do." .|hardly provide read, and she had "] don't. care for Dickey," pouted| come to see what she could do to help Agnes. "I want a. 'Tommy-canary,'| them. that I can wind up with a key." "Sure, and And so she was making herself very | said Katy. She's -out scrubbing. at unhappy this. bright morning, for no/| Miss Hale's i Gra street, and if other reason than this. ye'll be pleased *o sit down," hurriediy Pretty soon Jane, the maid, came in| dusting off a wooden chair with Luiy's with a dustpan full of broken wooden| apron, "I'll ren around after her in toys. just a minute!" "See what I swept up in the play-| As Mrs. Avenel )3at there waiting, room," said she. "All Miss Aggie's|she asked shy, little Suuly about the Noah's Ark animals!" wooden animafs onsthe window-sill. "They're broken!" said Agnes, never| "Katy found,'em," said Luly, with even turning her head.to look. "I} her finger in Her. mouth, don't want: 'em any more.. L hate). "Wycre?? said the lady, smiling Noah's Ark. .I want a Tommy-|p easantly, At, the toy-shop2" . = canary." ~ "In a dust bar'l,", said Luly, bash- So Jane threw the damaged wooden | fully. : relics into the dusi-ba5-y!. And as Mrs. Avenel looked a litile And when little Ket Mica came} more closely. she recognized the very along with her basket and book, look-| striped and spotted animals which had ing for rags, stray bits of paper, and, populated. Agnes'. Noah's, Ark. the odds and ends of every.discription, she | Christmas before... For Agnes had thought she had discoyered a mine of undertaken to-paint some of them over treasures, |again with the box.of water-co'ors, "Elephumps;" said little Katy,|and the smears, ¢# orange and green under her breath; "and camels! and, were easily to be identified, 4 doves! and. gooseys! and spotted lep-!.. Granny, Kearns *came. in presently, pets and tigers, all. striped beautiful.| wiping her,soapy hands on her. apron, Oh, my, I'm in tuck!" land was very, thankful for the prom- Katy picked them out. carefully. 1 ise%pf a little help... And Mrs. Avenel do not believe there was.a grain of | went home to, where little Agnes was ashes or a cinder in ail that barrelstill. sulking , about the, "Tommy, that she did not search through to find canary." some last remainder of the precious | i wooden wild animals; and when at, child, I want to speak to you." last she was quite convinced that there} Agnes came, unwillingly: enough, was neither fractured found more, she sped home like an arrow outeof a bow. "See what I've found!" said she, rushing,. breathless, into the room where the other-littie Kearnses were playing on the floor. po 'There was Denny, two' years od; Luly, four, and Hannal, six, Hannah was old enough to go to school, but she couldn'{ be spared from her post as nurse-in-general ones, ing in the sunshine, te save the cost of a. fire, and the only food was bread, with a little molasses smeared over the slices. ; + She ,described good-natured old 'granny in her stiff kerchief; round- Teyeg, Katy, with her hair tightly braid- jed into two little pigtails; Hannah, who had no shoes, and ran about in to the two younger her stocking-feet, and littte shy Luly, who looked out at you from behind gn Their mother was dead, their father her eyebrows, and Baby Denny, who had gone to the shipyards of Halifax)could not speak plainly yet, 'until in search of work, and they had been; Agnes became interested in spite of left in charge of their grandmother--| herself. od Goody Kearns--who went out, "And what were they doing, do you peo and house. cleaning by ithe »sippose, Agnes?" her mother asked. By. Sis 5 ©s|"They were playing with sonie poor see os ' ste ee Pie little-wooden toys, battered and ee enoug! earn her own: living;.soisbe}}enthe remains , had been promoted ra getter Bs pon ine 'of st Nowhitaft th and sent out to search dust-heaps.azd ash-barrels, while Hannah took care of the two little ones, and sewed squares of dirty patchwork between whiles. a: SS There was a general outcry of ad- miration and delight as Katy poured down her treasures on the floor Noah, without a head; Mrs, Nodif without any feet; the 'elephant,' the tiger, the doves and the ostrich, just' acqaaintance had told the* maid*to' throw away. Katy, 'the eldest girl; had_found them in a dust-barre?, and carried ie 'saw such gleeful children!" "~ "Mother," cried Agnes, "was it my Nogh's Ark?" Mrs. Avene'. "And notail the toys-in| the toy store could have made those that's me grandmother," : "Agnes," said she, "come here, myi\- ; ony elephant's | and Mrs, Avenel 'told hér: of 'thesuns!) trunk nor splintered wooden leg to be | carpeted, curtainless room, where the! litte motherless children were play! which'a littie, discontented girl of my, 'them home, "and "you 'never ----4t was, all that was left of it,' said a -wousy a Db-yearold Liverpool boy, constructed this little ycrvetal radio Set"in @ walnut shell. "He says it will work two pairs of ear- i phones a mile and a half away from the Liverpool station, jin the-nut, and it js des{gned for Liverpool onlyy A fixed coil {s | little ones happier! I think it would 'have taught my discontented little deughter a good lesson to.see what be- 'came of her discarded toys." Agues hung down her head and looked very>much ashamed. "Mother," said she, "won't say an- "other word about the' Tommy-canary 'bird. 1 don't think I want it any longer." r "You surely would not if you could see the happiness that a few broken wooden animals afforded fo children like yourse!f," sald Mrs. Avenel. "Mother," said Agnes, "will you |take me there some time 'to'jsee the 'poor children that have no mother? And V'll carry them some more of my toys, I've a great many more than I "can possibly use." : : "Some day," said her mother, "when your lessons are correct and you have been a, good girl." i And tttat was the' last! that Mrs. Avenel heard about the "Tommy- canary." i i aT ee ea _ The Serving Maids of England. "The serving maids of England, From parlor maids to kitchen ma:ds, So-comeély. and so Courteous, Of them I mean to sing-- ; With cheeks so pink and eyes so-bright, 'In neat black gowns and capsiof white, The serving maids of England, An ode to them I/fling! { walk through lofty halls at night And see the brasses shining bright, And boots for cleaning in array-- 'And think how zealously they work, How scarcely one is known to shirk, From serving maids of England A moral bear away! 'Phe serving maids' of England Are part of England's charm, Though ft may seem laborious, They make: their service glorious, With the rubbing-and the scrubbing Of each willing, sturdy arm, *-- They contribute ample share To the backbone of the nation, Far beyond all\computation, The serving maids of Hnglaud Are not bettered anywhere! Se --Amy-Smithy pains PT Tao Bobby Behaves. A guést.was expected for dinner, and Bobby had-received 5 cents as the price of his silence, during, the meal. He was as quiet as possible until dis- covering that his favorite dessert was. being served. »Then be could no long+ er curb his enthusiasm. . He drew the coin from-his pocket sand» rolled. it across the table, saying: "Here's your Mhickel, Mamma. I'd like to have 1t, but Vd rather-talk," nice 6 3 Whatodids bilearm to-day, teacher?!) i. ¥ Gite Teacher--Why do you ask?" "Willie+"They/lls want to; know at hoine."_ si At the Fair. In thé'vast theatre enlarged into an ellipse, and-outlining a large patch of blue, thougands.of faces -were pressed close together on the many rows of henches, bright eyes forming luminous points of light which mingled with the yaried reflections and brillfancy of fes- tal toilets and picturesque costumes. From thence, as froma huge vat, as- cended joyous,shouts ringing. yolces soed trumpets, vitualized; as it.were, by. the intense 'Hght of the sun. _ Above all roge~most.distinctly.the \tand, Defenders of the Faith, Princes yaaa oI SRE MA NUDE IW A yaeey> 2 urged. ft was not until Z tts seco'. reading that the Gover: mé@nt proposed to m@gke the Queen "Empress of Indis." The Prime Minister scouted 'the idea that word "Empefor" had had bad ass tions. Spenser has ised the 1 in dedicating 'the "Faerie Queer Queen Elizabeth: | Tudeed, the adi @on would come as le shock ¢ public, for the deseription "Empr Of-India" was applied' to Queen \ foria ina popular school ee that at the time: was widely us most welghtysobjection to Di plan Was the ~nhourccogniticn dominions: whose clajnis Ww those of India. -Th> possib then discnased.ot- maxing the of Wales "Prince Imperial of and his youager brothers Canada and Australia" resi The Princeof Wales,objectet seems a'faiéry from the grandiose de-| scription in the Statutes of Mary after she was married to Philip of Spain: "philip and Mary, by the Grace of God, King and Queen of England, France, Naples, Jerusalem and Ire of Spain and Sicily, Archdukes of Aus- tria, Dukes of Milan, Burgundy and Brabant; Counts of Hapsburg, Flan- ders and Tyrol." | James I. brought with 'him to the throne of England the title of "King of Scotland." The Bill of Rights, the 'Act of Succession? and the Act of Union of England and Scotland re sulted in. simplification, The title be- came, "By the Grace of God, King (or Queen) of England, Scotland (or Great Britain), France and Ireland, Defend- er of the faith, etcetera." George I, however, used his own titles of "Duke of Brunswick and Liunenbirg, 'Arch- ci ray ery of yenders of milk-biscuit, bearing from step to step théir baskets draped | with white lnen--'"Li pan ou la, li pau ou_la." The venders of fresh water, balancing their green and varnished jugs, made one thirsty when listening to their gulping.. "L'yigo es fresco, quau you beure?', The water is fresh, Fand the proposal qvas abandoa~ The controversy,.over the .rec tion that shoul! Be «ccorded die' down. It-was discussed, at first' Colonial. Conference, but 1 Was done until 201, when adward caine-to thesthrone. Many suggest Treasurer and Electon ef the. Holy Roman Empire." George IIL, in 1801,! by parliamentary Authorization, drop- ped all claim to the throne of France, and abandoned 'also the "+tcetera," which had been assumed by Hlizabeth as a substitute for the "Supreme Head who wishes to drink?" Then, at the yery top, children' ruiming and play-) ing on the crest of the area crowned | this grand hubbub, with sharp sounds | as high as martinets soar in the king- dom of birds... ..../Phus peopled, and | animated, the ruins seemed to be alive again, and lost their appearance of a cicerone's show-building... When look- ing at it one had the sensation given by a strophe of Pindar recited by a modern Athenian, which is. a dead i H | 'language revived. without a cold schol- astic character, .This sky so pure, this sun Hke; molten, silver; these Latin intonations, preserved here and there, especially in the-smail places, in the Provencal idiom; the attitudes of some standing in archways with. motionless poses, which.in. the glimmering air seemed antique. and almost like the work of a sculptor, and. were.a type of the place, their heads appearing as if struck off.on medals; the short, arched nose, the broad shaven cheeks, and the turned-up..chin of Roumestan-- --all to- gether completed the illusion. of a Roman spectacle, even to the lowing of Ladaise cows which echoed through yaults from which formerly lions and elephants. came forth to combat, Thus when above the circle, empty and coy- ered with sand, the yery large black hole of the.podium covered by a sky- Mght opened, people expected to see wild beasts Teap forth instead of the quiet and rural procession of beasts and people crowned at» the fair.>-Al- phonse Daudet. s SS For Colds--Minard's Lintment. gin Rona a The Great Italian' Pictures. _{ remember when in 'my younger. days I had heard of the "wonders of Italian painting, I fancied the great pictures would be great strangers; some surprising combination of 'color andi form; a foreign wonder, barbari¢ pear} and gold, like the spontoons and standards of the' militia, which plays such pranks in the eyes and-imagina- tions of Schoolboys.' I 'was' to'see and aequire I Knew wot whats' °When't came at' last' 'to Rome and saw with were' made,sbut, the simple, and até language, "of the British Do: ond Beyond the.seas," was, decided on. "Now. that Ireland has.a domi. status,*the, phrase, "The United Kin dom '6f@ireat Britain and Irelani' » comes inaccurate. George V. as Been made "King.of Great B landj 'and the British Dow': yond the, Seas." Tho comma important... There !s .stlil, h« much truth in Disracii's. stateu the House of Commons Just century ago:Il is only by 'the fication Of titles that you can touch and satisty the imagina nations; and that is an elemen governments must not despis of ths Church." "No further change came until 1876, when fhere was @ heated controversy in Parliament over the designation that Victoria should have. ie After 1858,'when the government of India was transferred from the com- pany to the crown, it seemed fitting to signalize the changed relationship by an addition'to the royal title Dis- Taeli was extremely anxious thus to appeal to'the fmagination of India, and the Queen was anxious on' her own account. "As Disraelf" wrote "to" his Lord Chancellor in "January, 1876: "The Empress Quden demands "her Imperial Grown," and he told Lord 1s eyes. the pictures, I found that genius Jchnson's Royal Pension. left to novices the gsy and fantastic) | t and ostentatious, and !tself pierced dt- | Bo athe right Honourable the rectly.to the simple and true; that it | of Bute, was familiar and sincere; that it was the old, eternal fact I had met already in so many forms; . . . that it was the plain you and me J knew so well --had left at home in so many conver- sations. I had the same experience already in a church .{n Naples. There I saw that nothing was changed with) .,. ay me but the place, and said to. myself, |. Bounty always reoefves* part of "s "Thou foolish child, hast thou. come! Value irom the manner it which it !s out. hither, over four thousand miles | bestowed; your, ferdsbip's kindaess of salt water, to find that which was) includes every ¢ieumstance that car perfect to thee at home?'--that fact | gratity delicacy, or enforce obligation. I_saw again, inthe Academmia ot! you have ¢donferred your favors on Naples, in the chambers of sculpture,!g man who jas neither alliance nor in- and yet again. when I.came,to Rome 'terest, who has not merited.them by and to the paintings of Raphael, AN- | services, nor courted them by offictous- gelo, Sacchi, Titian, and Leonardo €a ness: you have spared him the shame Vincl. . . . I now require this of all! o¢ soyetiation, and the anxiety of sus- pictures, that they domesticate me, not | ss that they dazzle me. ~ Pictures must} not be too picturesque. Nothing as*| pv ; tonishes men so much BB ichrimod ena ae $ i sensaiand plain dealing. All great ac-' vou» 4. tions bave been simple, and all great t pictures are.-Emerson. y "My lord--When the-bills were yes Lterday, delivered to me by Mr. Wod- derburne, | was infsrmed D the future fayors which his has, by your Lordship's recommcade- tfon, been induced to Intend-ior me. Whe been thus" elegantly" hops, not be fepproach- yas {your Laad¢hip the only_-edompense Ui whit } Bereroeity desires --ihe gratl- ificati: « wriidding that your benefits are fe F properiy Bestowed." 1 'a, , Tee wo. H oo ba ae aie ose A . 'my. J Lordship's most ob- Less insistence on the right of way iy yon aaa " and more recognition of the way of} ae be Fis = om ieroga right would ease many a traffic prob- = ca 3 . eae yee yaaa op ee ad . Bosweil's 'bite of Jelboson." TQ eer om ed mo ie Minard's Liniment for chapped hands, . ISSUE No, 127. cee SURE 1 DO ONEY WHATLL TKETCH IF SHE. |. FINDS IT OUTS, The Grocer Probably td; Ushelliendeavor to zive-----~-- = ey