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r, ,;<wt «t̂ V» "̂ , -V\*" ̂̂ &'Jl "4\"*" £$*&'\f:m%T̂ r ̂ €̂ ' Itj "' •• • ' as i. m* i t j^-»*" ^H*, >j% j lf^ i t ~ • •/ r-.»- , ,^*>- - « , . • • • * . - . , . . . " < < ~ k " % • . } " * * ' ' • * £^;ssis;i§|fi * «"..S ':% v ,.'; THE SPENDERS A Tale of die Third Generation By HARRY LEON WILSON i • * , ; " ; * " 7 «ald It mignt ;" .-r- CTriited State®, Copyright, by Lolhrop Publishing Company. | CHAPTER XIV.--Contiwukd. : Ton know it's BO, ma," the daughter *v$nt on, accusingly. "One night last •winter when you were away we dined s at the Balldridge's, In Eighty-sixth «tr#et, and the pavements were so sleety the horses couldn't stand, so Col. Balldrldge brought us home in the Elevated, about 11 o'clock. Well, at % ; . , -one of the stations a big policeman j;ot on with a little baby all wrapped "•"•'T/«p in red flannel. He'd found it in an £ ^' -areaway, nearly covered with snow-- "* /w-. "Where some one had left it, and he was '*" taking it down to police headquarters, ' tie said. Well, ma went crazy right V " B *, .away. She made him urido it, and*then t she insisted on holding it all the way >/*•. ;r -down to Thirty-third street. One man be president of the some day; and Col. JBalldridge said: 'Yes, it has unknown i A possibilities--it may even be a presi- *>, dent's wife'--just like that But I y' ' thought ma would be demented. It *)';}) -was all fat and so warm and sleepy It " ' 5 «ould hardly hold its eyes open, and I believe she'd have kept It then and there if the policeman would have let lier. She' made him promise to get it •b, bottle of warm milk the first thing, | And borrowed |20 of the colonel to give 'gl'fj to the policeman to get It things with, < And then all the way down she talked jagalast the authorities for allowing -such things--as if they could help it-- And when we got home she-cried--you itnow you did, ma--and you pretended St was toothache--and ever since then she's been perfectly daft about babies. Why, whenever she sees a woman go­ ing along with one she thinks the poor thing is going to leave it some place; &nd now she's in with those charity workers and says she won't leave New York at all this summer." ! MI don't care," protested the guilty mother, "it would have frozen to death in just a little while, and it's done so often. Why, up at the Catholic Pro- • *' tectoiy they put Out a basket at the .eide door, so a body can leave their baby in it and ring the bell and run .away; and they get one twice a week f, • sometimes; and this was such a sweet, fat little baby with big blue eyes, and Its forehead wrinkled, and it was all puckered up around its little nose--" "And that isn't the worat of it," the a-elentless daughter broke In. "She •gets Legging letters by the score and gives money to all sorts of people, and A man from the Charities Organisa­ tion, who had heard about it, came And warned her that they were im­ postors--only she doesn't care. Do you linow, there was a poor old blind worn- An with a dismal, wheezy organ down .at Broadway and Twenty-third street <--the organ would hardly play at all, And just one wretched tune--only the ,/ woman wasn't L.ind at all, we found 1. •*^'-,out--and ma bought her a nice new ' organ that cost $75 and had it taken f v * tip to her. Well, she found out through tfcls man from the Organization that -the woman had pawned the new organ Cor $20 and was still playing on the -old one. She didn't want a new one because it was too cheerful; it didn't make people sad when they heard it, like her old one did. Atfd yesterday ana bought an Indian--" "A what?" asked brother,' tn Amazement. ; "An Indian--a tobacco sign." "You don't mean it? One of those lads that stand out in front and peer «nder their hands to see what pale­ faces are moving Into the house across the street? Say, ma, what you going to do witn him? There isn't much aroom here, you know." "I didn't buy him for myself," re­ plied Mrs. Bines, with dignity; "I "wouldn't want such an object." "She bought it," explained his sister, •"for an Italian woman who keeps a little tobacco shop down in Rivington «treet. A man goes around to repaint them, you know, but hers was so bat­ tered that this man told her it wasn't •worth painting again, and she'd better 4?et another, and the woman said she •didn't know what to do because they •cost $25 and one doesn't last very long. "The bad boys whittle him and throw 9iim down, and the people going along the street put their shoes up to tie them and step on his feet, and they ^scratch matches on his face, and when 16 tie goes out and says that isn't right they tell her she's too fresh. And so ana gave her $25 for a new one." "But s&e has to support five children, «nd her husband hasn't been able to •*work for three years, since he fell through a fire escape where he was sleeping one hot night," pleaded Mrs. jfc5ines, ."and I think I'd rather stay Siere this summer. Just think of all those poor babies when the weather jgets hot. I never thought there were „ «o many babies In the world." "Well, have your own way," said her «on. "If you've started out to look After all the babies in New York you ?won't have any time .left to play the •races, I'll promise you that." f'j , "Why, my son, I never--" "But sis here would probably rather o other things." I think," said Psyche, "I'd like ^Newport--Mrs. Drelmer says I should mot think of going any place else' Only, of course, I can't go there alone. £>he says she would be glad to chape- rone me, but her husband hasn't had A very good year in \V>11 street, and «he's afraid she won't be able to go tierself." "Maybe," began Mrs. Bines, "If you'd offer--" "Oh! she'd be offended," exclaimed psyche. "I'm not ao sure of that," said her fjrother, "not if yon suggest it in the Ifight way--put it an the ground that you'll be quite helpless without her, 4P.ud that she'd oblige you world wltn- |§mt end and all that. The more ! see Of people here the more I think they're $ulte reasonable in little matters like %hat They look at them in the right Ifight Just lead up to it delicately #IJh Mrs. Drelmer and see. Then if yuu,l>bqr Sum­ mer will be provided for; except that we shall both have to look in upon Mrs. Juzzlebraggin here now and then to see that she doesn't overplay the game and get sick herself, and make sure that they don't get her vaccina­ tion mark away from her. And, ma, you'll have to corns off on the yacht once or twice, Just to give it tone." It appeared that Percival had been right in supposing that Mrs. Drelmer might be led to regard Psyche's pro­ posal in a light entirely rational. She was reluctant, at first, it is true. "It's awfully dear of yon to ask me, child, but really, I'm afraid it will be Suite impossible. Oh!--for reasons which you, of course, with your end­ less bank account, cannot at all com­ prehend. You see we old New York families have a secure position here by right of birth; and even when we are forced to practice little economies in dress and household management it doesn't count against us--so long as we stay here. Now, Newport is dif­ ferent. One cannot economize grace­ fully there--not even one of us. There are quiet and very decent places for those of us that must. But at .Newport one must not fall behind in display. A sense of loyalty to the others, a no­ blesse oblige, compels one to be as lavish as those flamboyant outsiders who go there. One doesn't want them to report, you know, that such and such families of our smart set are fall­ ing behind for lack of • means. So, while we of the real stock are chummy enough here, where there are only ua in a position to observe ourselves, tftere is a sort of tacit agreement that only those shall go to Newport who are able to keep up the pace. One need not, for one season or so, be a cottager; but, for example, in the mat­ ter of dress, one must be sinfully lav­ ish. Really, child, I could spend three months in the Engadine for the price of one decent month at Newport; the parasols, gloves, fans, shoes, 'frillies' --enough to stock the Rue de la Paix, to say nothing of gowns--but why do I run on? Here am I with a few sim­ ple summer things, fit enough indeed for the quiet place we shall reach for July and august, but. ab-so-lute-ly im­ possible for Newport--so say no more about it, dear. You're & sweet--but it's madness to think of it" "And I had," reported Psyche to her mother that night, "such a. time get­ ting her to agree. At first she wouldn't listen at all. Then, after I'd just fair­ ly begged her, she admitted ahe might because she's taken such a .fancy to me and hates to leave me--but she was sensitive about what people might say. I told her they'd never have a chance to say a word; and she was anxious Perce should know, because she says he's so cynical about New York people since that Milbrey girl made such a set for him; and at last she called me a dear and consented, though she'd been looking forward to a quiet summer. To-morrow early we start out for the shops." So it came tnat the- three members of the Bines family pursued during the summer their respective careers of di­ version under conditions most satis* factory to each. The steam yacht Viluca, chartered by Percival, was put into commission early in June.' Her first cruise of ten days was a signal triumph. His eight guests were the men with whom he had played poker so tirelessly during the winter. Perhaps the most illumin­ ating log of that cruise may be found in the reply of one of them whom Per­ cival invited for another early in July. "Much obliged, old man. but I haven't touched a drop now in over < three weeks. My doctor says I must let it be for at least two months, and I mean to stick by him. Awfully kind of you, though!" Mrs. Bines, guardedly, "J always ltksd the baron." "Of course," said her son, to Mau- burn's mystification, "and the noblest men on this earth have to wear 'em." The surmise regarding the Baron de Palliac and Millie Higbee proved to be correct. Percival came upon Higbee in the meditative enjoyment of his after-dinner cigar, out on the broad piazza. "I s'pose you're on," he began; "the girl's engaged to that Frenchy." "I congratulate him," said Percival, heartily. "A real baro*,"continued Higbee. "I looked him up and made sure of that; title's good as wheat. God knows that never would 'a' got me, out the madam was set on it, and the girl, too, and I had to give in. It seemed to be a question of him or some actor. This madam said I'd had my way about Hank, putting* his poor stubby nose to the grindstone out there in Chi­ cago, and makin' a plain insignificant business man out of him, and I'd ought to let her have her way with the girl, being that I couldn't expect her to go to work, too. So Mil will work the society end. I says to the madam, I says: 'All right, have your own way; and we'll see whether you make more out of the girl than I make out of the boy,' I says. But it ain't going to be all digging up. I've made the baron promise to go into business with me, and though I ain't told htm yet, I'm' going to put out a line of Higbee's thin-sliced ham and bacon in glass jars with his crest on 'em for the French trade. This baron'll cost me more'n that sign I showed you coming out of the old town, and he won't give any such returns, but the crest on them jars, printed in three colors and gold, will be a bully ad.; and it kept the women quiet," he concluded, apolo­ getically. "The baron's * good fellow," «aid Percival. "Sure," replied Higbee. "They're all good feUows. Hank had the makin's FOR MOTOR CAR8. A New Improved Light-WelQht Igni­ tion Storage Battery. Our Illustration shows the general appearance of a new light-weight ig­ nition cell put up In celluloid jars by Improved Light-Weight Ignition Stor­ age Celle. (Voltage, 6; Ampere Hour*, 25; Weight^ 12 Rounds.) a New York company. The battery illustrated consists of three 5-plate cells having a total capacity of 25 ampere-hours and furnishing a total of six volts. The cells and contain­ ing case complete weigh only 12 pounds, which is extremely light for a battery of this voltage and capacity, says the Scientific American. The battery shown was constructed espe­ cially for use on a flying machine, but the greatest sphere of usefulness for cells of this kind is on automo­ biles: Not only are these batteries of about half the weight for the same TgLEGRAPH KEY. AND SOUNDER How the Complete Outfit Can Made by the Amateur. The sounder, Fig. 1, is made from an old electric bell magnet, D, fast­ ened to a wooden base. The lever, A, can be made of brass and the arm­ ature, C, is made of iron. The pivot, E, is made from a wire nail and is soldered to A. It' should be filed to a point at each end so as to move freely in the bearings, B, which are pieces of hard wood. The spring, H, is fastened at each end by pins, bent as shown, and should not be too strong or the mag­ net will be unable to move the arma­ ture. The stop, K, is a wire nail driven deep enough in thfe base t leave about one-eighth-inch betwee the armature and the magnet. The binding posts, F, can be taken from old dry batteries and are connected to the two wires from the magnet by wires run in grooves cut in the base. The base of the key, Fig. 2, is also made of wood; says Popular Mechan< ics, and has two wooden bearings, E, which are made to receive a pivot, similar to the one used in the sound­ er. The lever of the key is made of brass and has a haii^rood knob, A, fastened near the end. A switch, D, connects with the pivot at F and can Chad Life in the Feline World . . . „ , capacity of cells used heretofore, but of a good fellow in him. And say, •&, young man, that remindB me; I hear all kinds of reports about your getting to be one yourself. Now I knew your le plates are constructed after a special process which gives them great porosity and a long life. They can be charged and discharged a large number of times, and at a high rate, without injury, and, what is more Important with an ignition cell, they can be left standing in a dis­ charged condition for a long time without nay loss of capacity. In oth er words, abuse of this character, which would completely ruin some of the light-weight foreign ignition cells, will cause no perceptible difference in the efficiency of this improved bat­ tery. The capacity, unlike that of most ignition accumulators, is fully equal to the rating. Two 60-ampere-hour cells giving four volts, for example, Weigh only 16 pounds, and yet they will be found sufficient to run a four-cylinder car at least 1,200 miles. Comparing these figures with those of other ignition cells, it will be seen that, durability aside, the battery is a decided ad­ vance over what has been done be­ fore as regards light weight, CHAPTER XV. THE SKlHT OF A NEW BEAUTY, AND SOME ADVICE FROM HIGBBJS In from the shining sea late one aft­ ernoon steamed the Viluca. As her chain was rattling through the hawse- hole, Percival, with his sister and Mauburn, came on deck. "Why, there's the Chicago---Higbee's yacht." "That's the boat," said Mauburn, "that's been piling the white water up in front of her all afternoon trying to overhaul us." "There's Millie Higbee and old Silas, now." "And, as I live," exclaimed Psyche, "there's the Baron de Palliac between them!" "Sure enough," said her brother. "We must call ma* up to See him dressed in those sweet, pretty yachting flannels. Oh, there you are!" as Mrs. Bines joined them. "Just take -this glass and treat yourself to a look at your old friend, the baron. You'll no­ tice he has one on--see--they're wav­ ing to us." "Doesn't the baron look just too dls tinguished beside Mr.. Higbee?" said Psyche, watching them. "And doesn't Higbee look just too Chicago beside the baron?" replied her brother. The Higbee craft cut her way grace­ fully up to an anchorage near the Vi­ luca, and launches from both yachts now prepared to land their people. At tne landing Percival telephoned for a carriage. While they were waiting the Higbee party came ashore. "Hello!" said Higbee, "if I'd known that was you we was chasing I'd have put on steam and left you out • of sight." It's much better you didn't recog­ nize us; these boiler explosions are so messy." "Know the baron here?" "Of course we know the baroft. Ah, baron!" Ah. ha! very charmed ,Mr. Bines and Miss Bines; it is of a long time we are not encountered." He was radiant; they had never be­ fore seen him thus. Mrs. Higbee hov­ ered near him with an air of proud ownership. Pretty Millie Higbee posed gracefully at her side. "This your carriage?" asked Higbee; "i must telephone for one myself, do­ ing to the Mayson? So we. See you again to-night We're off for Bar Harbor early to-morrow." "Looks as If there were something doing there," said Percival, as they drove off the wharf. "Of course, stupid!" said his sister; "that's plain; only It isn't doing, it's already done. Isn't it funny, ma?" < -For a French person," observed ••THERE'S THE BARON." 1 father, Daniel J. Bines, and I liked him, and I like you; and I hope you won't get huffy, but from what they tell me you ain't doing yourself a bit of good." "Don't believer all yon hear," laughed Percival. Well, I'll tell you one thing plain, if you was my son, you'd fade right back to the packing house along with Henry-boy. it's a pity you ain't got some one to shut down on you thai way. They tell me you got your fa­ ther's capacity for carrying liquor, and I hear you're kjjown from one end of Broadway to the other as the easiest mark that ever came to town. 1 ney say you couldn't walk In jrour sleep without spending money. Now, eycuse my plain speaking, but them are two reputations that are mighty hard 10 live up to bfeyond a certain l'mit. They've put lots, of, good weight-car­ riers off the track before they was dua to go. I hear you got pinched in that wheat deal of Burman's?" "Oh, only for a few hundred thou­ sand. The reports of our losses were exaggerated. And we stood to win over--" "Yes--you stood to win, and then you went 'way, back and set down,' as the saying is. But it ain't the money. You've got too much of that, anyway. Lord knows. It's this everlasting hul­ labaloo and the drink that goes with it, ai\d the genera! trifling sort of a dub it makes out of a young fellow. It's a pity you ain't my son; that's all I got to say. I want to see you again aloag in September after I get back from San Francisco; I'm going to try to get you interested in some business. That'd be good for you." "You're kind, Mr. Higbee, and really I appreciate all you say; but you'll see me settle down pretty soon, quick as I get my bearings, and be a credit to the state of Montana." i After- they had gone away Percival sat revolving the paternal warnings of Higbee. He considered them seriously. He decided he ought to think more about what he was doing and what he should do. He decided, too, that ha could think tetter with something me­ chanical to occupy his hands. He tr ok a cab.and was driven to the local branch of his favorite temple of chance. His host welcomed klm at the door. "Ah, Mr. Bines, a little recreition, eh? Your favorite dealer, Dutson, is here to-night, if you prefer bank." Passing through the crowded, bright­ ly-lighted rooms to one of the faro tables, where his host promptly* se­ cured a seat for him, he played medi­ tatively until one o'clock; adding ma­ terially to his host's reasons for believ­ ing he had done wisely to foil >w Hi3 New York clients to their summer *a- ne^V"".; .. , fTO BE CONTINUE©.) . 'V'-ifi-' * ' 1 - 1 • 1 - Fortune Telling. If one has a friend clever at fort.tne telling. Valentine's day is the time to call such talents into use. A fortuae teller at such a party is u great 1 d- junct, and a little booth could be ar­ ranged where, one by one, the gues*.i could learn their fate. A knowledge of the Individuals is quite indispensi- ble to amatuer fertone-tellei?.- • u». dame MerrL IMPROVED RAIL BONO. Method by Which a Firmer Electrical Contact la 8ecured. A patent has recently been secured by Edwin W. Robinson, of Punxsu- An Improved Rail Bond. tawney, Pa., on an improved rail bond for electric railways. The new bond 1r arranged to insure an exceedingly firm electrical connection between ad­ jacent rails, and in a very simple and economical manner. The invention will be clearly com­ prehended by a glance at the accom­ panying engraving, says the Scientific American. It comprises a conductor in the form of a rod, which is bent to enter holes in the webs of two adja­ cent rails. The ends of the rod are threaded to receive a pair of nuts, which enter the holes in the webs. The nuts are formed with frustro-con- Ical ends, and as the' nuts are screwed up on the rod, they not only Graw the rod into close contact with the webs of the rails, hut also wedge their frustro-conical ends tightly into the holes in the webs. This Insures an exceedingly good electrical con­ nection between the adjacent rails. It will be evident that the new rail bond can be applied to rails as now con­ structed. S rh Mfe • »;• d That care of the b t being the eldest child ly News. yon always have to take THE SOLDIE MAGIC COIN. Pressed Cannot Palm W* I' <!> ne.r Sounder--A, brass; B, wood; C, soft iron; DD, coils wound with No. 26 wire; E, nail soldered on A; FF, binding posts; H, spring. be either made from sheet brass, or taken from a small one-point switch. The binding posts are like those of r Jr f r - a Fit-2 Key--A, wood; B, braee or iron sold­ ered to nail; C, brass; D, brass; E, wood; F, connection of D te nail; HH, binding posts. the sounder, and are connected to the contacts, K, by wires run in grooves cut in the wood. EXTENSION CALL BBLL. How the Ring of the Telephone Can , Carried Some Distance. : Qi.many shops, where the telephone is in the office and the proprietor spends a great part of the time in the shop, the telephone often rings re* peatedly without being answered, as there is nobody within hearing dis­ tance. In many cases of this kind an extension call bell, such as is shown in the sketch, could be used to ad­ vantage. The telephone bell, A, Is fitted with a piece of hard rubber, B, having a metal contact', C, whiclP is placed so that the hammer will strike it and make contact. Part of the gong may be cut away to do this, or if neces­ sary, the whole gong may be removed. The other gong is connected to one side of the battery, and the other side connects to an electric bell, D, which can be placed in any desired location. If the bell does not work well, short circuit the interrupter. This will not prevent it from vibrat*^ ing, as the current IS^ntermittent, being Interrupted^ 1» ' ' if ' \ J vyjf Arrangement, of the Wires. terruptions at C and D are liot in uni­ son the result will not be sood. I have one of these bells in use at the present time, says a correspond­ ent of Popular Mechanics, and find it a great, convenience. AN ELECTRICITY THIEF. Electrical Divining Rod. ^ V An electrical divining rod, claimed to operate more certainly and scientif­ ically than the ancient and dishonored twig, has been devised by A(Jolph Schmid, -a Swiss engineer. It seems to consist essentially of a glass-cov­ ered box enclosing a coil of insulated wire in which a slightly magnetized needle is free to rotate over a gradu­ ated dial. When the apparatus 1b placed over subterranean water, with the axis of the coil in the magnetic meridian, the needle, it is asserted, oscilates more or less rapidly for to ten and even up to 50 degrees. Electricity From Water Power. Owing to the decision officially an­ nounced of utilizing the power of vari­ ous important waterfalls in Finland, the electrical work in connection with its transmission is engaging the at­ tention of European firms in that line. Some Finnish mills have been trans­ forming their plant with a view to adopting electricity as a motive forre, further developments of that industry being looked for in the near future. Case Where a Householder Secured Enough Current to Light His House. * - "Electricity thieves crop up now and then," said an electrician to the reporter of the Philadelphia Bulletin "Our last case was a man who. had lighted his whole house with stolen electricity for six months. "Next door to this man was a big factory that use*d 1,000 lights a night. IThe man bored a hole through a parti­ tion, inserted a wire, tapped the fac­ tory's current and helped " himself bountifully to illumination. "We lost nothing. The factory <paid, of course, for the electricity stolen from iL The theft wasn't discovered till some time after the thief had moved away." Handicapped at Birth He Easy Life Later, • This little fellow comes into the World only half dressed, while his cousins are all provided with full suits of armor to protect them from their enemies. His head find legs have a hard, shelly covering, but the hinder part of bis body is soft and tender. "Dear me!" he cries, when he finds himself alone on the beach, "I must bustle round now and find wme sort of a covering for my poor, shivering body. How neglectful my mother was to leave me in this condition! Why, there is my sister scampering along with a snail shell on her back! What a neat little house It makes! I wonder how It would fit me?" And this bel­ ligerent infant grabs hold of his un­ offending relative and tugs and pulls till he succeeds in parting her and her home, when he quickly thrusts his own body into the shell and fastens it with his claw hooks. "Just my sise!" he cries triumphantly. As he is creeping about cn the sea bottom with a number of other crabs, suddenly a dafk shadow tails on them. A fish! A fish!" they cry, scampering away in terror. "My turn may be next," says onr little friend to himself; "I must put my wits to work to prevent such a dis­ aster." He remembers having heard that fishes keep away from a sea ane­ mones, for fear of their sharp stings. What a splendid clan!" he cries, rat- ..Mm • • tllng his claws in glee. '1 will go and ask Lady Anemone to be mine. I will plant her on my shell, and she shall ride about wherever I go. When I have finished my meal, she shall have what is left, which, I've no doubt, will be more than she would otherwise en- Joy." Off he hastens to the tide pool where this lovely lady spreads her fringes to the sun. "Yes, my brave soldier," she replies to his question, "I shall be happy .to go with you, for life is very dull here. Together we will seek our fortunes through the wide sea."--N. Y. Post. Stretch yoi in the middlejpp--ippprtainary coin, say, a nfckeT or a one-cent piece. ; . Then tell some one he may have it i"' If he can succeed in brushing it off.' He must use a flat brush for the eac-r"^ periment. Of course your hand must not be struck; it must be to Brush Coin Off. just as one would brush an article <br| t: clothing. But the coin will stick t®| >• your hand as if It were glued there. |p You may regard this experiment f; f with some incredulity, says the Chi-1 cago Daily News, but you have only; to make it yourself and you will seel that it is always successful. It seems ̂ hardly necessary to give the reason/;' for the apparent phenomenon. The I; coin lies flat against your palm and [v'tl the pressure of the atmosphere holds It there, for between it and your fleslfc '* " there is little or no air. SM HIS REASON. Told by Its Shadow. •m extent and degre of the oscilla­ tion of tall chimneys may be exactly known by a close observation of the shadows they cast upon the ground. An instance is that of a chimney 115 feet high and foui; feet in external di­ ameter at the top, near Marseilles, the oscillations of which were ob­ served by the shadow, during a high wind, to attain a maximum of over 20 inches. 8teel Plate Sky-Scraper, San Francisco is to have a 15-story building of which fUl the walls are to ba of steel plates. Fatal Electrfc Shocks. Of 30 accidents from electric shocks in Switzerland, last year, 21 were fa­ tal, while Austria had but six fatali­ ties In 56 cases. A fifth of the acci­ dents were from currents of 250 volts ot less, and a mason wa» billed by a 120-volt three-wire supply /,'hile in an­ other case a shock from 26,000 volts did not kill. Of 15 attempts at resu* citation, only one wa* successful. It Satisfactorily Explained the Cross on His Report Card. When Bobbie brought his report €ard to papa there was a little black cross in the section marked "deport­ ment." Bobbie knew papa's eyes would find that the first thing, and he twisted his small handkerchief Into hard knots, and tried to hide part-. Of his chubby head behind the chair. In which his father sat. What does this, mean, Bobbie?" asked his father. I was late tn school," said Bobbie, who knew that his mother had seen him leave the house in good season each day. "Tfce teacher rang the bell when I was just in the yartj, but-- but I couldn't fun." Bobbie was neaii to tears, bat he was winking man­ fully. . - Well, that is rather bad," said papa, gravely. "I don't want my son to grow up into a man who is always behindhand. Now I am going to be ver^ severe. I shall not tell you to­ night what the punishment will be,; but unless you can show me a good reason why you were late--" 1 can show the reason," urged Bob­ bie. "This little cat was bound to follow me, and I tried to get away, an4* I kept putting him over the fence and>muiing very, very hard, but he just jump«?d-.pver and stuck his claws in my pants until I had to leave^iim with the lady in the candy shop until school was done. an,d then I hrunged him honae. Tha,t was the reason," Bobbie finished, all out of breathj Papa put on his glasses and loolced at the kitten. Something in Its for­ lorn, frightened face touched him. "Well, I guess we shall have to for­ give you this time," he said. "Nora better feed him on cream a while!" "Then I needn't have that punish­ ment--that one that was too awful to think up?" asked Bobble. "No, that is all forgiven," said papa. --Youth's Companion. The Pup Had a Good Time. A little boy, having been sent of town for a vacation last week, has f § forwarded to his mother a letter from his dog. The signature is that of Bb»- ter, the pup, who says: jf'T| 1 am having a great time. There Is a nasty dog. It is a hound, it is black " and about two feet high and four feet J from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail. The tail counts about 1 1-5 foot and Its nose about one half foot. |f!i I fite this dog and make him run with *" his tail between his legs. I have bees v in swimming it's buly. I chase squlrls <J|| and oh everything is buly. I trianph over big and little dogs. How are your shoes I wish I had them to chew. love and Ucks yours loving Boater, Then and Now. - I'm glad I'm not a little maict Like ther were long ago. ^ With manners prim, and frocks And curl always just a*. Tin g&d I'm just an avery-day Sort of a little girl. Whose manners might be mended _ Whose hair won't stay in cuf^; The Gear of a Bicycle. A bicycle gear is found by multi­ plying the diameter, of the wheel by the number of teeth in the front sprocket, and dividing the result by the number .of teeth la tti rear sprocket. Whose frocks are often greatly Wno never wear* a hat. But who enjoys herself all Vou may depend oa that. --Cleveland Leader. : /1 Companionship. Mother--You mustn't play with that little boy. Tommy--Well, can I fight with him? • Harperls Bazar. , ' V" - • -pyf = ? Phonetic English. H a country school tn Engt*»t H * : said that one of the examiners In • general exercise wrote the wos4 "dozen" on the blackboard and anted the pupils each to write a mnttrsa containing the word. He was sosMfr what taken aback to find on one %| the papers the following > "I dozen know my