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* ' . . MUSEUMS RARELY DECEIVED THE CHOICE OF PAINT. mz:z&zzzpA3&>. --CQf9&BffZJ8SZ it AmJSSOf f casmv?3t CHAPTER X ' "Oh, splendid!" cried Madge, clap­ ping her bands, "Mr. Camp will find that other peo- (>ie can give surprise parties as well as himself," I said cheerfully. "You'll telegraph at once?" asked Mr. Cullen. "Instantly," I said, rising, and add­ ed, "Don't you want to see what I aay, Miss Cullen?" "Of course I do," she cried, jump­ ing up eagerly. Lord Ralles scowled as he said, •"Yes; let'* see what Mr. Superlntend- «nt has to say-" "You needn't troubl# yourself," I remarked, but he followed us into the station. I' was disgusted, but at the same time it seemed to .ffle that he •%ad come because he was jealous; and that wasn't an unpleasant thought. Whatever his motive, he was a third party in the writing of that telegram, and had to stand by while Miss Cullen and I discussed and draughted it. I didn't try to make it any too brief, not merely -asking for a guard and when I might «xpect it, but giving as well a pretty lull history of the case, which was hardly necessary. "You'll bankrupt yourself," laughed Madge., "You must let uis pay." "I'll let you pay, Miss Cullen, if you want," I offered. "How much is it, Welply?" I asked, shoving the blanks into the operator. "Nothin' for a lady," said Welply, grinning. "There, Miss Cullen," I asked, "'does the East come up to that in gallantry?" "Do you really mean that there is no charge?" demanded Madge, in­ credulously, with her purse in her Jiand. "That's5 thoslse of it," said the operator, /'i • * "I'm not going to believe that!" «eried Madge. "I know you are only deceiving me, and I really want to Day." I laughed as I said, "Sometimes railroad superintendents can send messages free*, Miss Cullen." "How silly of me!" exclaimed Madge. Then she remarked, "How nice it is to be a railroad superin­ tendent, Mr. Gordon! I should like to be one myself." That speech really lifted me off my feet, but while I was thinking what response to make, I came down to «earth with a bounce. "Since the telegram's done," Said Lord Ralles to Miss Cullen, in a cool, almost commanding . tone, "supppse •we take a walk." ' s „ "I don't think I care ta this morn­ ing," answered Madge. "I think you had better," Insisted bis lordship, with such a manner that 1 felt inclined to knock him down. To my surprise Ma<Jge seemed to hesitate, arid finally said, "I'll walk up and down the platform, if you wish." Lord Ralles nodded, and they went out, leaving me in a state of mingled amazement and rage at the way he 3iad cut me out. Try as I would, I -wasn't able to hit upon any theory that supplied a solution to the con­ duct of either Lord Ralles or Miss Cullen, unless they were engaged and Miss Cullen displeased him by her behavior to me. But Madge seemed auch an honest, frank girl that I'd liave believed anything sooner than that she was only playing' with me. If I Deas perplexed, I wasn't going ~a give Lord Ralles the right of way, and as soon as I had made certain that the telegram was safely started I Joined the walkers. I don't think any of us enjoyed the hour that fol­ lowed, but I didn't care how miser­ able I was myself, so long as I was certain that I was blocking Lord Ral­ les; and his grumpiness showed very •clearly that my presence did that As for Madge, I couldn't make her out I had always thought I under­ stood women a little, but her conaoct was beyond understanding. Apparently Miss Cullen didn't alto­ gether relish her position, for pres­ ently she said she was going to the car. "I'm sure you and Lord Ralles* will be company enough for each other," she $redlcted, giying me a Cullen. "The mandamus will be here before that." "Oh, don't say there is something more wrong!" sighed Madge. "Won't it be safer to run while there is still time?" suggested Al­ bert, anxiously., "I was born lazy about running away," I said. "Oh, but please, just for once," Madge begged. "We know already how brave you are." I thought for a moment, not so much objecting, in truth, to the run- ing away as to the running away from Madge. "I'd do it for you," I said, looking •at Miss Cullen so that she under­ stood this time what I meant, with­ out my using any emphasis, "but I don't see any need of making myself uncomfortable, when I can make the other side so. Come along and see if my method isn't quite as good." We went to the station, and I told the operator to call Rock Butte; then I dictated: "Direct conductor of Phoenix No. 3 on its arrival at Rock Butte to hold it there till further orders. Richard Gordon, Superintendent" "That will save my ronnlng and their chasing," I laughed; "though I'm afraid a long wait in Rock Butte won't improve their tempers." The next few hours were pretty exciting ones to all of us, aa can well be Imagined. Most of the time was spent I have to confess, In ma- noeuvers and struggles between Lord Ralles and myself as to which should monopolize Madge, without either of us succeeding. I was so engrossed with the contest that I forgot all about the passage of time, and on»y when the sheriff strolled up to the station did I realize that the climax was at hand. As a joke I introduced him to the Cullens, and we all stood chatting till far out on the hill to the south I saw a cloud of dust and quietly called Miss Cullen's attention to It. She and I went to 97 for my field glasses, and the moment Madge looked through them she cried; "Yes, I can see horses, and, oh, there are the stars and stripes! I don't think I ever loved them so much before." "I suppose we civilians will have to take a back seat now, Miss Cul­ len?" I said; and she answered me with a demure smile worth--well, I'm not going to put a value on that smile. "They'll be here, very quickly," she almost sang. "You forget the clearness of the air," I said, and then asked the sher­ iff how far away the dust cloud was. "Yer mean that cattle-drive?" he asked. " 'Bout ten miles." "You seem to think of everything," exclaimed Miss Cullen, as if my know­ ing that distances are deceptive in Arizona was wonderful. I sometimes think one gets the most praise in this world for what least deserves it. I waited half an hour to be safe, and then released No. 3, just as we were called to luncheon; and this time I didn't refuse the invitation to eat mine in 218. We didn't hurry over the meal, and towards the end I took to looking at my watch, wondering what could keep the cavalry from arriving. "I hope there is no danger of the train arriving first, is there?" asked Madge. "Not the slightest," I assured her. "The train won't be here for an hour, and the cavalry had only five miles to cover forty minutes ago. I must say, they seem to be taking their time." - * "There they are now!" cried Al­ bert. Listening, we heard the clatter of horses' feet, going at a good pace, and we all rose and went to the win­ dows, to see the arrival. Our feel­ ings can be judged when across the tracks came only a mob of thirty or forty cowboys, riding in their usual "show-off" style. "The deuce!" I couldn't help ex­ claiming, in my surprise. "Are you sure you saw a flag, Miss Cullen?" "Why--I--thought--" she faltered. "I saw something red, and--I sup­ posed of course--" Not waiting to let her finish, I ex­ claimed, "There's been a fluke some­ where, I'm afraid; but we are still in good shape, for the train can't possibly be here under an hour. I'll get my field-glasses and have anoth­ er look before I decide what--" My speech was interrupted by the entrance of the sheriff and Mr. Camp! CHAPTER 3d. fttink you had better," instated hie ^ - lordship. flash of her eyes which showed them j full of suppressed merriment, even while her face was grave. In spite of her prediction, the mom­ ent she was gone Lord Ralles and I pulled apart about as quickly as a yard-engine can split a couple of cars. I moped around for an hour, too un- settled mentally to do anything but smoke, and only waiting for an invi- •tation or for some excuse to go into 218. About eleven o'clock I obtained the latter in another telegram, and "went into the car at once. * "Telegram received," I read tri­ umphantly. "A detail of two com­ panies of the Twelfth Cavalry, un­ der the command of Capt. Singer, is ordered to Ash Forks, and will start 'Within an hour, arriving at 5 o'clock. • C. D. Olmstead, Adjutant." , "That won't do. Gordon," cried Mr. . The Letters Change Hinds Again. What seemed at the moment an incomprehensible puzzle had, as we afterwards learned, a very simple ex­ planation. One of the G. S. direct­ ors, Mr. Baldwin, who had come in on Mr. Camp's car, was the owner of a great cattle-ranch ne§r Rock Butte. When the train had been held at the station for a few minutes. Camp went to the conductor, demand­ ed the cause for the delay, and was shown my telegram. Seeing through the device, the party had at once gone to this ranch, where the owner. Baldwin, mounted them, and it was their dust-cloud we had seen as they rode up to Ash Forks. To make mat­ ters more serious. Baldwin had round­ ed up his cowboys and brought them along with him, in order to make any resistance impossible. I made no objection to the sheriff serving the paper, though it nearly broke my heart to see Madge's face. To cheer her I saifl, suggestively, "They've got me, but they haven't got the letters. Miss Cullen. 'And remember, it's always darkest before the dawn, and the stars in their courses are against Sisera." With the sheriff and Mr. Camp I then walked .over to the saloon, where Judge Wilson was waiting to dispose of my case. Mr. Cullen and Albert tried to come too, but all out­ siders were excluded by order of the -/'V; " . . I wag toM to should not forthwith produce «uu ttuawtued uiat t as ic­ ed an adjournment of the case so that I might be heard by counsel. It waa denied, as was to have been expect­ ed; indeed, why they took the trou­ ble to go through the forms was be­ yond me. I told Wilson I should not produce the letters, and he asked if I kjjew what that meant I couldn't help laughing and retorting: "It very approprial tempt of the court, "I'll give you a stiff term, young man," he said. "It will take just one day to have habeas corpus proceedings in a Unit­ ed States court, and one more to get the papers here," I rejoined pleasant­ ly. Seeing that I understood the moves too well to be bluffed, the judge, Mr. Camp, and the lawyer held a whis­ pered consultation. My surprise can )riate!y t,' your honor.' Send them all sprawling on the be imagined when, at Its conclusion, Mr. Camp said: "Your honor, I charge Richard Gor­ don with being concerned in the holding up of the Missouri Western Overland' No. 3 on the night of Ocf. 14, and ask that he be taken into custody on that charge." (To be continued.) CLEVER PLAN FAILED TO WORK Juror's Only Reward for Attemptec Bribe Was Witty Speech. Several years ago, while I was serr- lng as a juror in a Suffolk county court, the following story was told: Mr. L., who was disappointed at not being made foreman of one of the sev­ eral panels on which he had been drawn, concluded a favor to the court might attain the desired honor. He came into court one morning with « very large floral display, and gav» the boquet to the clerk of the court, who instructed the court officer to see that it was immediately placed upon the desk before the judge's seat Judge Edgar J. Sherman entered. the usual opening ceremony was gon«s through with, and his honor asked to whom the court might extend his thanks for so large a floral display. The clerk answered that it was one of the jurors. "Then he must be in thj florist business," said the judge. "No, sir," answered the clerk, "he is an un­ dertaker." His honor exclaimed: "That explains it. Some poor corpse was robbed."--Boston Herald. Typewriters Catch Cold* The employer looked on with ifc fUBB- zled expression while the new stenog­ rapher carried the typewriter across the room and placed it on a chair la the immediate neighborhood of a steam radiator. "I'll be ready in just a minute, Mr. L ," she said.* "The typewriter get cold while the heat was turned o't and it sticks dreadfully." "Does the cold affect them?" hi asked. "That's something new." "Yes, sir. I find that it does, verr much. Some machines regularly take cold if Jeft long in a cold room. It's especiaily hard on old machines that are pretty well worn, making them very unmanageable sometimes. I've known the cold to remain in an old one until it had been several hours in & warm room, when it' gradually be­ came better; but usually a machine yields to three" or four minutes of warmth." Spread of Style in Arizona. Every s.vmpton points to a tendehc/ to spread on style in Tombstonn Among other Instances in this dlreo tion the boys bought a pair of bean tlful barber pole suspenders and po< sented them to the amiable dispense! who shoves the amber extract cl cheerfulness over the mahogany o( the Parlor saloon. He promptly donned the innovation, but claimei that he felt like he had a fence rai. on each shoulder. Then when they became overburdensome he would un­ button them and permit them to dan­ gle in front, but he finally got tbenc down fine enough to go to church {a Several old-timers, conspicuously court attendants from the other end of the county, have fallen into the habit of wearing boiled shirts, and it looks as if sky-blue overalls might be discard­ ed as a full dress costume. Getting "powerful tony" in town aOfF&da^s*-- Tombstone Prospector. _l___ tscted by Experts of the In­ stitutions. According to Dr. W. D. Matthew, as­ sistant Curator of the American Mu­ seum of Natural History, there is little forgery of fossils and such things. For one reason the prices paid for articles in this city are not high enough to tempt forgers or eveu to repay tne work necessary to produce a success­ ful Imitation. Yet some imitations are put on the market There was, for instance, the fraud of which Prof. Cope was for a time the victim. Prof. Cope made a specialty of fos­ sils and in one of his treaties an-" nounced the discovery of the Coeno- tasileus tremontigerus, a new variety of mastodon. In a note in a subsequent edition he acknowledged he was mis­ taken and that no such animal ever existed. He waa led into error by purchasing what was represented to be a tooth of a hitherto unknown herd. P 'of. Cope set out to discover the ar Imal to which it had belonged, and ilassified it among the mastodons. It was not until after his publication of the fact that he discovered the fraud that had been practised on him. i Three teeth of a familiar variety had been glued together in a way that could not be detected except by micro­ scopic examination. Prof. Cope worked out his animal, and it was something even larger than a common or garden mastodon be tore he took to the mi­ croscope. In the same way a noted English naturalist- was several years ago jnade a victim of a similar deception. A curious and unprecedented tooth was sold to him by a man who declared that he had found it in a part of trance especially rich in fossils. The scientist had made extinct ver­ tebrates his special study. He was working hard over this tooth, and was prepared to produce almost any kind of exotic and extinct animal when his suspicions were awakened as to its authenticity. It was then discovered that it con­ sisted of three teeth taken from the remains of prehistoric fish and glued together. The teeth of the fish were common enough and singly could have been recognized immediately. It was only the appearance of the three to­ gether and attributed to a mammal that mystified the learned doctor. The Indian relics that are now dug up in the southwest are not believed to be forged to any considerable ex­ tent. Every piece that is bo ight for a museum of any pretensions must be property accredited, and If its pedigree contains the name of no reputable scientist there is little change that it will be accepted. In case it has such authentication the testimony of this expert will be sought. There have undoubtedly been cases in which articles dug up at the home of former cliff dwellers were deposit­ ed there in advance, but such frauds have been detected and the money brought by these objects is not suffi­ cient to make imposture on. any exten­ sive scale worth while. Indian dress, arrows, household goods and similar relics are manufac­ tured by the Indians for sale jusi as they always have been, and they are not sold as antiques by any but the small dealers. The same holds true of the Alaskan relics that are begin­ ning to have an Interest for American eol lectors. They are made now In larger quan­ tities than ever, and are always what the shopkeepers represent them to be. They are too crude and too easily im­ itated for the temptation to be resist­ ed, but there Is no trouble In finding the genuine relics in sufficient sup­ plies for the museums. Even they are not sold at very high prices. "It is the cheapness of most of the articles that helps to prevent imita­ tion," Dr. Matthew told the Sun re­ porter, "and the money paid for them is not enough to make the industry profitable on any large scale. "If anybody should send to the mu­ seum here the teeth that deceived Prof. Copo we should not pay more than ten dollars for them. So you see it is not worth while to make a very Elaborate fraud for that." Labor in Old Times. Twelve hours in winter and 14 in sum­ mer was a fair average day's work. But in Lyons in 1571 the printers worked ffom two o'clock in the morning till eight or nine in the evening. In other trades the working hours were often from four in the morning till nine at night or from five to ten. Workers in the same metier generally lived together in the same street But the maltre-artisan had his own maison. The ground floor was his shop or workshop; above was his bed­ room. which was also the sitting and eating room; a small room adjoining accommodated his children, and above was a garret where various commodi­ ties were stored.--Work and Workers. Wanted a Demonstration. He was large, to put it moderately, and he stood in the middle of Broad­ way, his uniform immaculate, and his rosy face beaming with good humor- His elbows were akimbo, one pointing to the south and one to the north. She was wee and evidently from the country. She faced him and hei brown eyes looked confidingly up Into bis face as she asked: "Please, officer, am I going Op Oi down town?" - He beamed graciously. "Plase, ma'am, If ye*ll take a few steps I could tell ye."--Brooklyn T"T SKgS?'- As They Met. Miss Sweetun--Why don't you kist me? This is the first time I have seen you for six months. Miss Tartun--Because, dear, I hav« just been kissing a lot of girls I don't like. Give me a little time to forget them. High Finance. A Buffalo man stopped a newsboy la New York, saying: "See here, son, I want to find the BlaDk national bank. I'll give you half a dollar if you direct me to it." With a grin the boy replied: "AH right, come along." And he led the Buffalo man to a building half a block away. The man duly paid the promised fee, remarking: "That was half a dollar easily earned, son." "Sure!" responded the lad, "but you mustn't fergit that bank directors is paid high in Noo-Yawk."--American Spec­ tator. What the Woman Thought. They were talking about the •tar In society. "She never laughs at jokes," said the man. "Maybe she has no sense of humor," said the other man. "Maybe she has false teeth," said the woman. And then the conversation lan­ guished--Louisville Courier-Journal- , Bedouin Diet The Bedouin Arabs are small eaters. Six or seven dates soaked in melted butter serve a man a whole day, with a very small quantity of coarse dour or a little ball of 4 " -- - Fifty years ago a well-painted house was a rare sight; to-day an unpalnted house Is rarer. If people knew the real value of paint a house in need of paint would be "scarcer than hen's teeth." There was some excuse for our forefathers. Many of them lived in houses hardly worth preserving; they knew nothing about paint ex­ cept that it was pretty; and to get a house painted was a serious and cost­ ly job. The difference between their case and ours is that when they want­ ed paint it had to be made for them; whereas when we need paint we can go to the nearest good store and buy it. in any color or quality ready for use. We- know, or ought to know by thjts' time, that to let a house stand unpainted is most costly, while a good coat of paint, applied in season, is the best orSjnvestments. If we put off the brief visit of the painter we shall in due time have the carpenter coming to pay us a long visit at our expense. Lumber is constantly getting scarcer, dearer and poorer, while prepared paints are getting plentler, better and less, expensive. It is a short-s'.ghtod plan to let the valuable lumber of our houses go to pieces for the want of paint. For the man that needs paint there are two forms from which to choose; one IS the old form, still favored by certain unprogressive painters who have not yet caught up with the times --lead and oil; the other is the read}- for-use paint found in every up-to-dat; store. The first must be mixed with oil, driers, turpentine and colors be­ fore it is ready for use; the other need only be stirred up In the can and it Is ready to go on. To buy lead and oil, colors,* etc., and mix them Into a paint by hand is, in this twentieth century, about the same as refusing to ride in a trolley car because one's grandfather had to walk or ride on horseback when he wanted to go anywhere. Prepared paints have been on the market less than fifty years, but they have proved on the whole so inexpensive, so convenient and so good that the consumption to­ day Is something over sixty million gallons a year and still growing. Un­ less they had been in the main satis­ factory, it stands to reason there would have been no such steady growth in their use. Mixed paints are necessarily cheap­ er than paint of the hand-mixed kind, because they are made In a large way by machinery from materials bought in large quantities by the manufac­ turer. They are necessarily better than paints mixed by hand, because they are more finely ground and more thoroughly mixed, and because there is less chance of the raw materials in them being adulterated. No painter, however careful he may be, can ever be sure that the materials he buys are not adulterated, but the large paint manufacturer does know in every case, because everything he buys goes through the chemist's hands before he accepts it. Of course there are poor paints on the market (which are generally cheap paints). So there Is poor flour, poor cloth, poor soap; but because of that do we go back to the hand-mill, the hand-loom and the soap-kettle of the backwoods No, we use our com­ mon sense In choosing goods. We find out the reputation of the different brands of flour, cloth and soap; we take account of the standing of the dealer that handles them, we ask our neighbors. So with paint; if the manufacturer has a good reputation, if the dealer is responsible, if our neighbors have had satisfaction with It, that ought to be pretty good evi­ dence that the paint is all right. "Many men of many kinds"-- Many paints of many kinds; but while prepared paints may differ considerably in composition, the bet­ ter grades of them all agree pretty closely In results. "All roads lead to Rome," and the paint manufacturers, starting by different paths, have all the same object--to make the best paint possible to sell for the least money, and so capture and keep the trade. There is scarcely any other article of general use on the market to-day that can be bought with anything like the assurance of getting your money's worth as the established brands of pre pared paint. The paint you buy to­ day may not be like a certain patent medicine, "the same as you have al­ ways bought," but if not. it will be because the manufacturer has found a way of giving you a better article for your money, and so making more sure of your next order. _ : m o » One Too Many for Them. A short time ago a gang of riveters was sent to do some work on a bridge in course of construction. They got lodgings and started to board them­ selves; but they began to think the landlady was helping herself to their food, so they thought they would try and catch her. Seeing new potatoes exposed for sale at a grocer's they bought some, and having counted them, they gave them to the landlady to cook for their dinners. Each man was to count how many he got; but to their surprise, when they lifted the cover off the dish, they found the landlady had mashed the potatoes! Heredity. •T know I'm losing my hair early in life," says the young man, passing his hand over his bare scalp; "but my father and grandfather became bald at 20." "Ah," comments the pickle-nosed in­ dividual, who is always thinking up such things, "then you are the heir to their hairlessnesS." -- Magazine of 'OUIV BOYS AND G .v'.v? •T.1'-' tp^.vyr* A PET CROW. * Found as a Fledgling He Grows to Adult Birdhood, and Learns Many Tricks. Tills crow was one of five hatched lq the top of a hemlock tree about May 1. He Was taken from the nest when fully feathered, about three weeks old, by & 12-year-old boy. He was put Into a screened box and fed every three hours during the day on fish worms and raw fresh meat. When four weeks old he was put out on the grape arbor south of the house; he could fly a little. Sometimes we would feed him cracked' corn or soaked whole corn; each time he would vomit it, preferring meat. There were two families of robins In the pear trees, near to the cherfy tree. The first few days that he was out the robins were excited and noisy, as many as 25 at a time twittering, flying here and there, frying to drive "Jerry" away. As soon as the baby robins were large enough all inoved out, never bothered us with the berries or cher­ ries. Jerry was a very busy bird. One day he went into the garden with us to weed beets. When he found that the beets had pretty red roots, he be­ gan to pull beets faster than any hen; the boy had to take him to the shed and styit him up until the beets were weeded. He would say "Hello" when about three months old; would greet the A LITTLE WORD-HUNT. How Mother Helped the Children tt Pass the Time Until Tea Was Beady. - if ' ( • • "J*if4 l;i' Fun. Nautical Xnowledgft A young lady, who had no knowl­ edge of nautical phrases, asked a friend, "Do you know, I often wonder why a ship has to weigh anchor every time it leaves port?" The answer of her friend was not illuminating. "Well --er--the weight is constantly chang­ ing, you know, because of the--er-- binnacles and things that accumulate on the anchor!"--London News. Advice Easily Followed. "Speak every day to some one who you know is your superior," said Ed­ ward Everett Hale. An easy duty. If you wife is not at home say some- thins naL 1 V . ' ' - - V -- c . -- -- . ' " V -- "JERRY" O N H I S MASTER'S HEAD. neighbors when .they came into t&e yard, with "Hello." One day Jerry flew up on to a box where some kittens were sleeping; it frightened the kittens, and they hissed and spit at him; that surrpised him so he called out "Hello-lo-lo!" He was very fond of picking out choice bits from the cats* dinner plate. The old cat would strike him in the face. He would step back and wait until the old cat began to eat, then walk around the dish, catch the tip of the old cat's tall and pinch it wickedly. The cat. of course, would jump and spit; then Jerry would cry out: "Ha, ha, ha!" as if laugh­ ing. When called he would come to us, alight on our hand if held out. or on our head. He liked to be praised; if we asked him to sing and begin to run the scale, he would try to sing, and swell out his throat, a laughable sight, his voice about s musical as a Plymouth Rock hen's. Jerry delighted in teasing the dog; li' he found the dog asleep he would creep up and pull his tail; after try­ ing two or three times, if this didn't wake him, he would give the dog's toenail a good pull; that usually brought the old dog up with a snap. Then Jerry would laugh. When the men were shingling he was very much Interested In chalk line, nails, etc.; if you tried to catch him he would just step out of your way, while if you coaxed him or flattered him would bring them back. He though it great fun to take a side comb from a lady's hair and fly to the top of the barn, yet if you coaxed him would bring It uown to you. He went to the village, one and a half miles away, with the children to school at eight a. m., com­ ing back at about 11 a. m.; after awhile perhaps he would be gone over night. When about a year old he for­ got to come home. The children say they saw him visiting with another crow In a treetop. We havq heard of him since about three miles from home, playing with other children. The boy thinks he will try to get an­ other this year; they enjoyed his com­ pany.--Rural New Yorker. dear; what shall we do?" aaii Dick at dusk. Tea time was half aa; hour off and the children were sitting around the fire. 'Let's have a word-hunt," said mother. "I've just been reading about the queer ways some common uamea start. Where do you suppose the war# army' comes from?" "Give it right up," said little Bille% promptly. The rest laughed, but they had to give It up, too. "It comes from a French wordt meaning 'to be armed,'" said mother., "And where do you suppose that 'bri­ gade' comes from? It comes from thf Italian 'brigata,' meaning a company or a horde, and the word 'brigand' has . the same source. And the word 'milt-: - tary' itself comes from the old Roman, for the 'miles' meant the men who hal t to supply a thousand men each for the army." ? \ "Where does 'soldier' come from?** asked Sam. "From 'solidus,' an ancient coin witk : which the fighting men were paid, ft" dates back to the time when all war­ riors were hired for the work. Thiil word 'artillery' goes away back to the Latin 'arcus,' meaning bow and 'arc»- balista,' which was a word coined in the Middle Ages as a name for the crossbow. The projectiles known a* 'shrapnel' are named after the Brltlslr General Shrapnel. 'Pistol' has a queer history. Long ago the village of Pi»- toja, in Italy, was famous for making daggers. When the pistol was invent- , ed, it became known at first as a *fis£» gun,' and then the name of the dag ­ ger 'plstoja' was given to it The bajjf? onet got Its name from tfee Freneh town of Bayonne." Just then the tea bell rang. "Say, mumsey." said martial Didt who expects to be a soldier some day* "that wasn't such a bad game."--8o#»; < ton Globe. -SI " '*» 3 A MAGAZINE CABINET. How a Grocer's Box Can Be Trail# formed Into a Useful Article of Furniture. Here is something useful for thift boys^ to make--a magazine and new*. paper holder;;,1": Papers and mag» * azines make S; a g r e a t l i t t e r when piled hap^ hazard on tables and stands, and are often mislaid. In this cabinet theyv are always ready at hand. A niof grocery box is cut to a slope In front, as suggest­ ed by the dotted lines In Fig. 1; t h e n p a r t i t i o n s and a little drawer are added, in eaci|, of which a newspaper, farm paper of magazine can be folded and placed, the Initials of the papers being place# at the top of the division. (See Fig; II.) The drawer, explains the Farm Journal, will hold the letter paper an# envelopes used by the family. ten to the wall after staining. ^ • sH V? J • •>' v 1 A SCBAP BOOR. *:kicacjO The Long Way Bound. Papa--And do you mean to say thai you and Bessie have hem over t* grandma's to-day? 4,; Willie--Yes, sir. Papa--And how in the world did yos get over the big hill? WlHi«--By going around it. V Blacksmiths Must Qualify.' ' In Saxony no man is permitted ib shoe horses unless he has passed a public examination and is proper'y qualified. ' - THE RISING SUIT Level. * No Ten minutes be­ fore the school bell rings! Five minutes b% fore itie school bet| rings! , Taking the last good stretch to *he r music of the school bell. ;V-- -A Easy. "Doesn't It worry yoo, not having your watch when you want to know" what time it is?" "Not a bit. I just take out my pawn ticuet and look at the nearest clock.** --Cleveland Leader. Wrong Implement of de difficulties 'bou de pres­ ent time," said Uncle Eben, "Is dat too many men wants to be carrvi'n' canes, when dey ought to be totin* whitewash ^2^-W.shingto* Stir, / She Knew Her Business. He had been sweet on her tor sspsli, time, and one evening he dropped ha on his way home from the office. "'I hope you will excuse me for call- ' ing Iq my business colt," hm s*t#^ but--" " "Oh, that's all right,** interrupted the fair maid, "that is, if yon mean. business." And the next day a downtown jew­ eler separated him from a month's saWl ary in exchange for the ring Chi# eajp»Dally New*. * .** ^ "V* • '.T'wH