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CON^TENTS\;or. VII. No. 8 Jurv, 1916

ILrr, :t22.Sronrns FRoI\.r F'lt-rlrNo Sr:noor.nor.s . 222

The Ear'1y Filipinos Aqttilirro A. Jaaier zz8Ilanners and Customs

l/irrtltte A. Con.ttantino zzgLanndry Wolk .lo.ti C. E.spinosa z3oA Trne Stoly Poblo D. Flores z3rAbaca Plant Vict. A. Dasig z3zPiffa-\rVeaving .losd ll[. ]i. linentcs 233Copla Marcelo Golimpitt, 234Horv the Fishelman Saved Hin-rself flon-r

the Crocodiles Arscnio .R. Cueztas 235The Death oI Apirr's Pig

Irin.eo T. Domirmtlo 236FLrlt aNr Frnrcn,tc't<rns . .l . Gertrtt,cle Hul;ton, 238Sorrri IN'r'rnrsrrNc DATES . 242Avrstt,t, rt'na Mono' Grnr,

I{o.tltarine G. Bu,ffttm, 244PnrsorBns Ers'r on Jonn,tN Frances Ilealey 246A Gnr,tr SuRrnrsr Anna Htuir,t,.; Bra.thear z4BEvrnvr.trvu N,trunn Cruu A. Llyatt l/errill z5oFrxurNG Our Crul Aun,t Helen z5zBonnv amu Bttlv l\tfaxu ,r. No,lH's Ant<

l?obcrt .Ru,ssell 255THa Sronv or, .t BrG BnotvN Bri,tn

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Evrnvr-.rNo is indebted to manyof its friends Ior July favors.

First, to the Filipino school-boys at Sillin-ran Institute whoal'e now membels of ourEvsnyreNr family and to Mrs.Hibbar-d under whose directionthe class prepared the storiesfor Evcnvramo,

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Then to Mr'. Dunlap, a lormerteachel in Silliman whom wehappened to find just as thismagazine was being prepared.He added many interestingitems.

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The illustlations of SillimanInstitrlte were kindly loaned tous by the Plesbyterian Boardof Foreign Missions.

trThe delightful picture of Jua-nita on page 232 and many ofthe smaller pictures shor,vinglife in the Philippine Islandsare presented through Jhecourtesy ol the Spirit of Mis-ston-t.

trAugust Evonvrano is to con-tain the first number of Turk-ish Nonsense Tales. These areold stories which have been toldsince the days o{ Arabian,tYights. Some fun awaitingyou !

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Not long ago we spent a fewdays visiting a school in theBlue Ridge Mountains (Doyou know where it is?) andthere we met six hundred asfine girls and boys as you willrrnd in the whole Evrnyr.aNnfamily. They have since sentletters and stories about theirschool and their homes in themountains for EvrnrrLA NDreaders. Keep your eyes openfor them.

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There is no harbor at Dumaguetefrom shore. These Filipino

(Du-ma-gelte) and boats must beschoolboys are just arriving, bag

at Siiliman Institute.

unloaded at a distanceand baggage,

Philippine Tslands. (Seeopposite paCe.)

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The composltlons weren-ritten in English forEr-envreNo girls and boYsand so beautifully writtenthat rve wish you couldail see them. We Printthe compositions just asthe bo1,s sent them, mak-i.g practically nochanges. Most of the il-lustrations were selectedbr- the rvriters and accom-pinied their manuscripts.

There are now eighthundred boys in SiliimanInstitute. In addition to IIAIN SCHOOL BUILDING AT SILLIMAN INSTITUTE

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Stories From Filipino SchoolboysHE stories from Filipino school-boys on the following Pages,r" written bv students at Silli-man Institute, Dumaguete,

map on the

their usual high school studies, includ-ing English, they have industrial train-ing in carpentry, printing, agriculture,and the silk industry. They have base-ball,basketbali,tennis, and a trackteam.

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The Early FilipinosBefore the Spanish Occupation

By Aquilino A. JavierHtr Philippine Islands lie at thenorthern end of the MalayArchipelago, about six hun-dred miles from the China

coast. By the geographical location ofthe Islands, the Malayan race came tosettle here.

The first people who lived in theseIsiands were the Negritos. These arethe black people that are now living inthe mountains. Afterward a strongerpeople landed on these shores. Thesepeople came from the south. Upon thearrival of these strangers the Negritoswere driven to the mountains. It issaid that these early comers were notmuch more civilized than the Negritos.

After the early Malayans had driventhese Negritos to the mountains otherMalayan tribes came also from thesouth and drove these early conquer-ors from their homes to the hills.These latcr Malayans were morecivilized than the early ones that camebefore, for they had better weaponsand clothing, so they were called thecultured Malayans. To-day these peo-p1e are composed oI eight Christiantribes and the Moros. The Christiansare the Visayans, Tagalogs, Ilocanos,

Bicols, Pampangos, Pangasinans, Ca-gayans, and Zanbals. The Moro peo-ple occupy the fslands of Mindanao,Palawan, and the Sulu Archipelago,and their religion is \,Iohammedanism.

The early government of these peo-p1e was ca11ed the Village government.The population rvas divided into manyhostile groups. Each village chose itsown headrnan or ruler.

The people of each little viliage didnot respect or obey any other chief buttheir own headman. They lived intheir own village rvithout visiting thepeople that lired on the other side ofthe hil1s. Thev sometimes could notunderstand the ianguage of their owntribes that lir-ed a ferv miles distant.

The earl1. Filipino people worshipedtheir lesser gods called "Anitso" bythe Tagalogs and "Dirvato" by the Vi-sayans. Ther- beliered that when anyone died his soul entered into some ob-ject, such as a tree, rock, or river.They believed that the animals werethe homes of the departed spirits, andtheir great god rras called "Bathala."

These u'ere the earlv conditions ofthe people of the Philippines beforethe Spanish came in r5zo.

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Manners and CustomsThe People of a

By YincenteILIPINOS, especially the young-er generation, are adapting them-selves to the manners and cus-toms of the civilized people. Still

there is a small proportion who clingto their old manners and customs inspite of the remarkable changes whichhar-e taken place here.

Usually a Philippine village has onenarrow street. The houses are builton both sides. A large village mayhare from forty to one hundred houses.The u'omen are engaged in weavingcloth and in poultry raising, while themen do farming and basket weaving.\\-omen who go to the river to washoften go together in companies of fouror six, carrying their bundles of clotheson their heads and bamboo buckets ontheir shoulders. On arriving at theriver they sit and gossip before begin-ning to wash.

-{ man who wants to get his fieldready for planting will ask his neigh-bors to help him. They do not receiveanv pay, for they work in each other'sfield in return for the help renderedthem. But the owner of the fie1d forrrhom they work has to provide food.The same method is used in plantingseason. This is a very happy time.JIen and women, boys and gir1s, showtheir ski11 and try to find who is thefastest planter. At dinner-time notonl1- those who worked are present butalso their families. After tiis dancinsand singing follow, if the host is rich.

But of all the l-,appy events in ther-illage the harvest season is perhapsthe happiest. People of the neighbor-ing r-illages come to help galher in thecrops. The villagers harvest theircrops at different times so that theys-ill be able to obtain each other's help.The reapers receive a certain propor-tion of what they reap, which variesin different localities. In the eveningmandoiins and guitars are heard tothe accompaniment of dancing and

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love songs. Everybody in the villageis happy. Visitors are everywherewelcomed. Sometimes the peoplebring some of their best crops in asma1l house, built for that purpose, orin their chapel, if they have any, as anoffering to.the One who gave them agood harvest. The crops are left therefor a day or two, or sometimes about aweek, then the owners take them awayfor their own use or else give them tothe treasurer of their congregation,and have him sell them, and the moneygoes to the treasury. That is when thepeople are Christians. In that case ittakes the place of dancing and drink-1ng.

In love matters the marriage is set-tled by parents. This is often a mat-ter of constraint, for the young ladymay not like the man she is to marryor vice versa. Sometimes a youngman failing in love with a lady sendsan old person to the parents of thegirl to ask them her hand for him. Themore considerate parents ask theirdaughter's opinion. If she consents tornarry, the contract is made. The girl'sparents ask a house or a certainamount of money, and if they are notstiil satisfied they would ask the suitorto live at their house for a certainlength of time. The reason is thatthey want to observe his manners andcustorns before they give their daugh-ter in marriage. \\rhen the parents aresatisfied with their prospective son-in-larv's conduct, the marriage day isnamed.

When the day arrives, the bride andbridegroom go to a near-by town earlyin the morning, where they are to bemarried by the priest at the church.Of course they are accompanied 1jysome relatives. Meantime prepara-tions are made at the newly-builthouse for the coming of the youngcouple, and rvhich promises to be avery big feast. At the arrival of the

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couple at the house the first thing thatthey do is to kiss their parents' hands,and they in turn bless them. Theythen listen to the advice of an old manor woman concerning their duties ashusband and wife. This lecture isoften long and tiresome. It is soonforgotten, however, in the feast thatfo11ows.

Many parents who are poor borrowmoney to be spent on the marriageday of their children, so that their chil-dren, they say, shall have a happy lifetill the end. They believe in the max-im which says, "A good beginning hasa good ending." Thus, when their sonweds, they always have a feast.

When some one dies in the commu-nity, the neighbors visit the bereavedones to comfort them. Some bring

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money with them, some chickens, andothers anything they can think of ascontributions to the expenses of theburial of the dead and for the visitors'food. For one week after the burial,prayers are offered for the soul of thedeparted every evening. After theprayers the young people play variousgames. This is the best time that theyhave to enjoy each other's company.At the end of the week of prayer an-other feast is celebrated. It is fre-quently accompanied with dancing.

Such are some of the customs andmanners of a typical Philippine vil-lage. But it is safe for me to say that,as civilization is strengthening its holdupon the people day by day, the timeis not far when all these, or at leastsome, will gradually be forgotten.

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dera goes to a neighboring river orspring on the first day of the week. Shegets a big flat stone, and sitting herselfon another or on a piece of wood, shebegins to soak one or trvo pieces at atime in the rvater and beats themagainst the flat stone rvith her pacong

(a piece of woodshaped like asmali tennisracket). In thisrvay she gets con-siderable dirt outof the clothing.The next day shesoaks the clothesin soap. Here sheoften scrubs themrvith a kind of abrush made out ofthe mid-ribs ofthe leaves of thecoconut or buripalms. She leavesthe soap in theclothes and driesthem on lines at-

Laundry WorkBy Josd C. Espinosa

XCtrPT in a few large towns ofthe Philippines laundry work isalmost wholly done by hand.Ironing by means of electricity

is not known, while steam laundrieshave just been introduced. The peo-ple confine themselves to their simplemethods.

If we look atthis work as oneof the duties ofthe home it seemstrivial, but whenwe see more thanone hundredlaaand,erqs (wash-erwomen) carry-ing big bundles ofclean clothes ontheir heads, thenwe stop and won-der horv they areable to do such anamount of workin only a week.

And yet it issimple. A lavan- CARRYING THE WASHING HOME

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tached to posts. She fastens them bymeans of bamboo clips. On the thirdday she washes off the soap by wash-ing them in clear water. They areagain dried in the sun. The next dayshe is ready to starch them.

The starch used is often made out ofrice which is boiled in water. It ispressed through a piece of strongcloth. The creamy, sticky substancethus obtained is diluted with waterand used.

These starcheddried. On the

moistens them. She then spreads oneor two blankets on a low table. Afterheating her charcoal iron, she spreadsa piece on the table and begins herironing. The iron has a flat base. It isbroad on one end and tapering on theother. A number of holes along thesides keeps the charcoal blazing.

On the sixth day of the week she isready to turn in the clean clothes. Sheties them in a bundle neatly packedand plaees the bundle on her head.For her work she receives two dollarsa hundred.

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clothes are againfollowing day she

FloresCLAUDIO BACAOCO

THE BOY WHOWAS ADOPTED

A True StoryBy Pablo D.

LAUDIO

ESPERIDON VILLAGAS,IHE MAN WHO WASSAVED

was born in a barrioof Antique Province. Hisfamily was poor. After thedeath of his father and mother,

he was taken care of by his uncle. Buthis uncie treated him unkindly. So heran away. He went to Iloilo and en-tered as a cabin-boy on one of thesteamers. During his third year ofsen-ice on the boat it happened thatrrhen the boat was on her way to oneof the islands a storm arose. The boats'as loaded with rice, petroleum, flour,and carabaos. The waves were highand strong, and the boat was turnedabout. The carabaos went to one sideof the boat and there losing her bal-ance the boat overturned and sank im-mediately. Claudio could swim andfortunately found four sacks of flourfloating on the sea. He tied them to-gether and they formed a raft. Heheard a cry for help. He swam untitrhe found a rnan, almost dead. Heplaced the man on the flour raft withiris head lower than his stomach. Hepushed the four sacks for z4hoars and

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final1y came to shore. When theyreached the shore they kneeled downand thanked God for their deliverance.Jlhere were twenty-seven men, women,and children drowned and forty weresaved.

As they were walking along in searchof a house the man asked Claudio whatreward he was going to ask for savinghis life. Claudio told him he wantedno re14,ard, but he would like to go toschool. When they reached a near-bytown a boat came and in a few daysthey were taken to their home town.There Claudio learned that the man hehad saved was rich. The next daythey rode for the home of the savedrnan, and when they reached the place,there were many people on the shoreeager to meet them. After their ar-rival there was a great feast for threedays. Claudio was adopted by the manhe saved. He treated him very kindlyand for the past five years Claudio hasbeen a good student at Silliman andappreciates the advantages he hasbeen given.

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Abaca PlantIts Commercial Importance in the Philippines

By Yict.HE abaca plant in the Philip-pines grows in the provinceswhere the ground is alwaysmoist. The abaca plant dif-

fers from the banana in two importantways. Its leaves are long and narrowand its fruit is not edible, while thebanana plant has broad, short leavesand its fruit is edible.

To raise abaca plant we must firstplow and cultivate the ground thor-oughly. Since abaca plants cannotstand against a dry season it is wisealso to plant tall trees around so asto shade them while they are growing.

Abaca plant is reproduced chiefly bytransplanting the young suckers orshoots which spring up around every

A. Dasigyoung sucker reaches maturity is threeyears. After this time the abaca plantis ready to be harvested.

The stalk is cut down with a sharpbolo just two inches above the ground.After this the leaves are cut off thestalk. We know that the abaca likethe banana plant is composed of individual leaf bases. These leaf basesare peeled off one at a time and theouter part oI each is removed in strips.It is from these strips that the fiber isextracted.

Stripping is mostly done in the Phil-ippines by pulling the strips between afixed block and a knife pressed againstit. But this method rvill not bring ahigh price since the fiber is not clean.

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mature abaca plant. These youngsuckers must be planted in rows sothat it will be easy for the men to har-vest them. From the date of its trans-planting until the time when it is readyto be harvested varies in different 1o-calities. If the season is favorable toits growth it takes less time. But usu-ally the length of time in which a

After the fiber is stripped it is thendried as quickll' as possible because ifdelayed it u-ould soon rot. Usuallythe whitest fiber is made by the clean-est stripping and the quickest drying.

The characters of good abaca are thefollowing: Strength, cleanness andlightness, whiteness. and uniformity inlength. \\,'hen these characters are

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Pifia -Weavingin the

Philippines

By Jos5 M. F. Fuentes

HE weaving in the Phil-ippines is mostly, if notall, done by hand withthe aid of the crude and

inelhcient household looms ofthe natives. It is the flourishingirl,fustr\. o{ many provinces butsr-,tcialh- of lloilo and Capizr.,'irere large quantities of piiia clothare \ro\-en. Piiia cloth is producedir,-,r.ir the beaten fiber of the piiia ort,ireapple plant. It is the most beau-riitri. and one of the most durablecloths l,roduced in the islands as wellas the most erpensive. It is exportedro the United States in the forms ofla,lies' handkerchiefs and dresses, and.i,,ilies and the like.

In this country the pineapple plant

then shipped to foreign countries tobe made into rope and twine.

The most important usage of theabaca plant is in making rope. Rope-making in the Philippines at presentis not what we ought to accomplish.But the industry which the Philip-pines at hand is proud to mention lsthe weaving of the finest abaca fiberinto cloth extracted from this valuableplant. Besides, in every governmentschool of the islands, the coarse fibersof this plant are made into slippers,baskets, mats, hats, and many otherhousehold necessities which are ofhigh value among the American peo-p1e.

obtained in the Phiiippines by theabaca-producing provinces there is nodoubt that these islands will becomefamous for this product alone.

Since abaca plants in the Philippinesare mostly planted on places wherethe road is rough and hilly, it is alsoir.rteresting to know the method oftransportation. The fibers which hadbeen dried are separated into smallbundles usually three inches in diame-ter. These small bundles are againpacked into larger bundles enough fora man to carry on his back, or if it isto be carried on a carabao's back, thebundles are made even bigger. It is

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is planted and left to live alone with-out the particular care of the owner.This accounts for the fact that only alittle amount of fiber is drawn lromthe plant. After a year the plant bearsfruit and is ready to furnish good fiber.

The piiia fibers are prepared fromthe leaves of the plant. The leaves arescraped on the dull blade of a knife,and a piece of bamboo or othersmoother scrapers. The fibers thus ob-

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tained are washed in the water anddried jn the sun. They are separatedfrom each other and from the remain-ing pulp by drawing them through thefinger nails. This is not, however, avery safe method of cleaning for alarge quantity of the fiber is broken inthe process. A much safer methodmay be by crushing or cutting theleaves into strips and soaking them bybundles in salt water from six to eightdays. The bundles are turned over sothat a uniform decomposition shouidtake place. The putrified matter iseasily removed by squeezing andlvashing the pifia fibers in clean waterand drying in the sun.

Two kinds of piffa can be obtainedin a leaf, the finest being obtained fromthe under part of the 1ea{ and thecoarser from the upper part, Thesefibers are tied together, nested andreeled. They are then carefully ar-ranged on the upper ro11 of the loom.These form the warp of the cloth. Thewarp is passed behind a wooden barthrough the cards and are attached tothe lower ro11 with a long woodenrn'edge. Caution must be taken in ar-ranging the fibers so that they lie flaton the ro11. A considerable length ofthe fiber is wound on a bobbin for thewoof. The bobbin is placed on a boat-like instrument called a shuttle. Thematerial is now ready to be woven.

The cards are pulled one downwardand the other up. These cards take

with them half oi the warp down andthe other half up. The shuttle isthrown through the opening across thewarp, thus unwinding the woof fromthe bobbin. The woof is tightened bya strong wooden card other than thetwo mentioned above. This processis continued until the cloth is all$roven.

In case embroidery is required thecloth is removed {rom the ioom andplaced in an embroidery frame. Ilereit is decorated with beautiful flowerdesigns in plain and fancy colors. To-day the embroidery work is often doneon sewing-machines t'ith more rapid'ity and perfection.

The cloth is then prepared for themarket. It is soaked in lime watero\rer a night to brighten the fiber.Then it is washed rvith soap and water.Upon drying, the tu,o ends of the clothare sewed together. The cloth isstretched by tt,o bamboo poles, one ofwhich is held up and the other dorvnwith weights attached to the iatter.The cloth thus arranged is sized withrice starch. The hands are dipped instarch and made to sprinkle it on thecloth (by clapping). This method en-abies one to size the cloth uniformly.The cloth is allos-ed to dry in this po-sition. The ends are separated afterdrying and the cloth is carefully folded.

Such is the rvay piiia is woven andprepared for the market.

tree ca1led the coconut tree' A largenumber of these trees planted togetherin a field is called a coconut grove.

In planting coconuts, the seeds mustbe taken and selected from the best

CopraBy Marcelo Galimpin

OPRA is raised all along thecoasts of the islands of thePhilippine Islands. It is ob-tained from a large, tall Palm-

kinds of trees. The seeds selected mustbe put in moist, shady ground tosprout. While the seeds are yet in themoist ground for sprouting, the fieldmust be plowed and harrowed thor-oughly in order to be free from weeds.It takes about two months for theseeds to sprout before they are readyto be planted. At about the end of

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tlr.o months, holes seven meters apartmust be dug. Into these holes the),oung trees must be planted.

These trees while yet young are verygood food for the goats, cows, horses,and carabaos. Tcrprotect the plantsfrom destruction thefield should be fencedstrongly. The fieldshould be kept alwaysclear from weeds, oth-erwise the weeds mayexist and retard theirgrorvth. It takesabout six or sevenrears before the treesbegin to bear fruit.From then ofl, thetrees keep on bearingfruit unless visitedb1- long drought.

It has been ob-sen-ed by many coco-nut g'rowers that ittakes a year for thecoconut fruit to getmatured, that is, fromthe time when theyare yet in the bud un-til they are ready tobe gathered.

The coconut grow-A COCONUT GROVE, SEVEN YEARS O]:D,

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ers gather the coconut fruits monthly,These fruits are then cut open and putunder the sunshine to dry. There aretwo ways oi drying. One way is toput under the sunshine and the other

by putting over a slowfire, which is muchquicker than puttingunder the sunshine,but will not producegood copra. The meatis then extractedfrom the shells. Theextracted meat mustbe cut into square orrectangular piecesand exposed underthe sun for four orf ive days to dry.(This is the way thepeople of our towrrare doing.) This driedmeat is no.w calledcopra. Then it is putin sacks and so1d, andsent to the differentcountries in Europeor America where theoil is extracted andmade into butter,soap that floats, andinto many otherthings.

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How the Fisherman Saved HimselfFrom the Crocodiles

By Arsenio R. Cuevas

NCE upon a time a fishermanwent a fishing. Ilis house wasnot so far from the seashore.It was late in the afternoon

rrhen he began fishing.-\bout two hundred feet from the

beach rvas a huge rock. It was aboutnrelre feet high and five feet wide. Itrras lonr tide when he went a fishingso that the rock could be seen from adistance like a heap o{ broken stones'The rvater was not deeP between the

beach and the rock, so he waded to goto the place.

When he reached the rock, heclimbed and sat on it. Then he beganto fish. As he threw his baited hooka fish suddenly ate the bait, thus mak-ing itself his first fish. After catchingthree fish of the same specie hechanged the bait so as to catch anotherspecie but did not catch any, so hetook the bait from the hook andchanged it. He didn't catch any, and

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again he changed it for other bait.From this bait he seemed now to havea fish on the hook, for the line seemedto be jerking, He waited and waiteduntil he finally fell asleep.

It r.vas fir,e o'clock and the tide be-gan to rise. It was getting dark andhis r,,r,ife was waiting for him on theshore. She wondered why her husbanddidn't come. So she went and lightedthe fire and started the supper.

The water no\4' began to dashagainst the rock. The foot of the fish-erman was already reached b1, thewater.

The place where the rock l'Yas wasnoterl for crocodiles. Now, as thetide was very high, the crocodiles be-gan to play around the rock. \Vhi1ethcy were playing, one of them sawsomething on the rock, so he went nearthe rock to see rvhat it was. He foundout that it was a man, The crocodilewhich salv it did not te1l the othercrocodiles what was on the rock; hejust kept near the rock watching anopportunity to take the man withoutthe others seeing him. He waited andrt,aited until a big'r,,l,avc dashed on theman thus lr,aking him up. He beganto be frightened. He knew that the

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The Death of Apin'sPig

By Irineo T. Dominado

N a little village of Pulao near thecity of Dumangas there lir-ed aman with his wife and their onl1'son named Serafin. Thev nicli-

named him Apin. Apin's parents wereboth very lazy. They only worked forwhat they could get to eat for the dayand sometimes they did not get enoughrice to eat.

One day Apin was sent by his moth-er to buy some rice from the market.The boy happened to find a peso on thestreet. When he came home, he toldthem of his fortune. They tried to getthe money from him in order that they

place contained crocodiles and hewould be sure to be eaten by the ani-mals if he sli,am, so he shouted andshouted, but no one heard him.

'lhe other crocodiles heard him nowand one of them said to the man, "Weare very hungrv and we are too manyfor vou." \\-hen the man heard thishe did not knorv rvhich way to turn.After thinking manv u,ays in order toescape from these animals, l-re turnedto the crocodiles and said, "Crocodiles,how many are r-ou ?" The crocodilesanswered, "\\-e are forty." "Ah, youare great boasters. \-ou are only thirty-nine," said the man. "I bet you mylife if you are not. no\l-, come and setyourselves in a rou- and I will countyou."

So the foolish crocodiles set them-seh'es one br- one until the fortiethone reached the shore. Then he be-gan to count. He stepped on the backof the crocodiles and began counting:"One, trvo. three.'' until. as the thirty-ninth one u'as reached. he took a goodlong 1eap, thus throrring himself farfrom the innocent crocodiles. He saidto them. "Thank \-ou \-er\: much forvour artificial bridge. I hope to meety-ou all again. Good night."

"tt'grx ApI\ c.,\tIE HotIE I\ THE EvENTNG, HjjBROUGHT \\'ITH HI]I .T TTITLE PTG,,

should have enough to eat for three orfour days r'vithout rrorking. They triedto force him, but little Apin wept andran out of the house. \\'hen Apin camehome in the evening, he had with hima little pig which he bought with his

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.Tuanita belongs to the lgorot tribe who live in the northern part oI the Island of Luzon.t See map.) She is spinning thread b1, twisting the strands n,ith her lingers. Before ther:--issionaries came to this part of the Philippines the people kner'v nothing of spinning orr,.'earing. Under their teaching

illfi: |3:,J,;;":*.t?r:1,1t ,n" thread and r,veave the cloth

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Fun and Firecrackerstsy J. Gertrude Hutton

il f-l OM E BO DY please"D i:" T:

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sane' and have anyfun on the Fourth ofJuly !" cried Jack Martin,throwing himself on the

grass under the big maple."Fourth of July !" cried his cousin

Alice. "I suppose you mean the Firsto{ July !"

"No, indeed," returned Jack. "Whyshould I mean the first? Stay," hecried, striking an attitude, "I had for-gotten you came from Canada, andsomething tells me, fair cousin-"

"Oh, lack, don't be absurd !" saidHelen, his sister. "Of course you re-member the First is Dominion Day."

"And what may Dominion Day be,please ?" asked Jack with a teasing lookat his cousin.

"Our birthday, just as the Fourth isyours," returned Alice, spiritedly, "andwe celebrate it in much the sameway."

"And father says we are to beand sane' this year," said Jack,dropping back on the grass, witha disgusted look. "Pretty slow, Icall it."

"There goes that kid again,"exclaimed Ailen, his eyes on asmall figure trudging along thedusty highway just beyond thegate. "What do you suppose hehas in that pail ?"

"Water," returned Jack. "He

'safe

suppose he has to work tohelp feed them."

"Where do they live ?"asked Alice.

"In that tiny house by thebridge," said Helen. "Thereis a crippled girl in the fam-ily, too. I saw her at the window oneday when we passed.'

"They must think America is a hardplace to live in," said Jack, warmly,staring down the road.

!{Wouldn't it be fun to give them agood time here under these big trees,and let them know that we are theirfriends ?" suggested Alice.

"Let's do it for the Fourth !" criedHelen.

"And te1l them all about the Deciar-ation, and the flag, and-"

"We can get crepe paper and cutout lovely flags,"

"And the liberty bells, too-,""The little lame girl can take them

home to make her room gay-""And l,i'e li'ill have ice-cream and

cake and lemonade-""And firecrackers," added

Alice."A 'safe and sane' Fourth, I

te1l vou : Father said so !" criedJack, striking his hands together.

They all laughed at his vigor."No, we must have firecrack-

ers, the kind that not even UncleJohn could object to," insistedA1ice. "\\-ait ! I'11 show you."

She ran into the house, to re-turn a moment later with severalmailing tubes, a ro11 of red paper,paste and scissors. Quickly shecovered a tube with red paper,first closing one end with a pieceof paper pasted firm1y over it.(See Fig. r.) Then a piece ofbrorvn paper, folded and rolledto fit the top, with a bit of string

is. carrying it .to the workmen Fia .2who are repairing the road just *^b''around the bend."

"Pretty heavy load for such ayoungster, I should think," com-mented Allen.

"He is an ltalian," said Helen;then added soberly, "ITe has somany little brothers and sisters, I

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sticking out of the middle, made a stop-per, and it looked just like a very bigreal firecracker. (See Fig. z.)

"We can make enough for each childin the family, and fil1 them with can-dy," she said.

"l,Ve can use pop-corn and sma1lcrackers, too," said Jack.

"And a painting book and crayonsfor the lame girl would go in another,"said Al1en.

"There is one of the little sisters'whomakes wonderful crochet lace; I shailput some thread in hers," said Helen.

"Oh, Mother," called Jack, as he sawhis mother crossing the 1awn, "docome and hear our Fourth of Julyplans."

"That rs a fine p7an," assented moth-er." but I have just heard from AuntAnna, and we are all to start for Can-ada on the second."

For a minute, there was great dis-appointment. Then Helen had a bril-liant idea.

"We will celebrate the First in theStates," she said.

"And the Fourth in the Dominion,"cried Alice. "Don't you rememberthat Ruthenian settlement just at thenorth of our village, A1len ? Theywould enjoy a party like this as muchas these littie Itaiian children."

"Great," declared Jack. "And 1et'steach them all to sing that 1ove1y newAmerican song, 'Oh, beautiful for spa-cious skies.' "

"Yes indeed !" agreed Al1en. "I ams11re we can sing with all our hearts,

'And crown thy good with broth-erhood,

From sea to shining sea !' "

The Death of Apin's Pig(C ontiruuecl;' from. t)ag e 46)

one peso. Apin hoped that when hispig became big he would sell it andbuv a fine hat and shoes.

iTis parents were also very glad tohare the small pig, and they took itfrom his arm and tied the small animalunder their old bamboo bench. TheYrrere happy and enjoyed looking at thelittle animal under the old bamboobench. They then sat on this old bench.and began to talk of the smal1 Pig.-\pin's mother opened their conversa-tion by telling her husband she wouldbe r-ery diligent in feeding the pig' Shecontinued telling him that, when thesmall pig would be big enough so thatit could be sold for ten Pesos, theYrr'ould sell it and buy as many smallpigs rvith the money. Then, she said,rr-hen the small pigs would be big asthe one they sold, they would sell them

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again and buy as many small ones asthey could. Then after some yearsthey could be very rich and in thosedays they could build a concrete house.The husband ansrvered that he wouldpermit the construction of the concretebuilding, but it should have only a sin-gle window in order that there wouldbe only one window for him to open inthe morning and to close at night. Thewife insisted on having in it more thanone window, but the husband wasmuch lazier than she, so he would notallow to have more than one window.A quarrel between them arose and atlast they fought on the very benchwhere they were sitting. During thefight the oId bamboo bench fell and thepoor little pig was pressed to the floorand killed. Such was the fate of Apin'spis.

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The bamboo p1ant.''so abundantly in the ,used for almost .

houses, tables, beds. i.-lcages, hats, even alr;-,1organ has been mt':--bamboo reeds. In tlis.:the instruments aie '-

hamboo

A1l students at Silliman are recluired to take a 1'ear ofwood-\,vorking in the carpenter shop. \\'hen nerv build-ings are put up the students have a large part in the s'ork

Rice is one c,:products in th.farmer and l::.paring the sr,:.',:-

gro\\':

This class is shori'i::;

Filipino boys an,:rest oI us. ri orkthere's music. 'ligirls are por-rndi:.rice. The mnsi.- :

the boy at the risi:-.8.. .

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^.x thine -[-c]ts, bi'd-:.-:i-xde PlPeJ irom the

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:he leading farm?hilippines. The.-arabao are pre-

:'.,1 ior rice which::L Nater

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These Filipino "Benjamin Franklins" are.taught to slingtvDe. attend to the presses, the stitcher, the paper cutter,

the composing stones, Ior the plinting press

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Some Interesting Dates

Booran T. WasnrNc:roN

Booker T. \\rashingtonwas born in a slave cabinin Yirginia. He workedhis u-ay through HamP-ton Normal and Agricul-tural Institute. Then hestarted out to found an-other school just likeHampton rvhere coloredgirls and boys could learnto li,ork and study.

On July 4, r88r, theschool was opened in a 1it-tle shanty in Tuskegee.Alabama. Thirty stu-dents were present ; rflanymore rvanted to come.Every one was poor butevery one was ready towork. They soon setabout to build a newschool-building. Theymade brick and sawedlumber. They raised theirfood on the farm, the girlsdid the cooking, sewing,and housekeeping. Theyall studied their books be-tween times. The schoolgrew constantly. BookerT. Washington was theprincipal with rnaflyteachers helping him.Dr. Washington died lastOctober, but the Tuske-gee Institute is sti1l oneof the leading schools forcolored students.

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A CON'I'II)S'IWe s,ill gir.e The Land of the Golden llan, bound in

ctoth, to the girl or boy who sends us the best list ofnational holidays and $'hy they are celebrated, in differentcountdes. Such as:

July 1, Ilominion Day in Canada,July 4, Independence Day, in the thiteal States.IIow many can yotr add to the list? Search your geog-

raphy, histories, encyclopealia, and ask questions.

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Cyrus Hamlin

The story of Cyrus Ham-1in's life in Turkey is a won-deriul ta1e, and to know it allyou should read MY Li'fe andTi,rot. by Cyrus Hamlin.

Cyrus was a farmer boY inI[aine.

After he finished school, hervent to Turkey. He oPeneda school on the Bosporus Cvnrrs H,qrtrrN

new churches and schools.

Just then the Crimean warbroke out. Thousands of so1-

diers were dying in the hos-pitals. Into the misery cameFlorerce Nightingale withher trained nurses. Then eachmorning by order of the gov-

, ernment six thousand Poundsof wholesome bread came tothe hospital from the famous

TIamlin bakeries. Fresh, clean clothesalso were needed for the soldiers, andCyrus Ilamiin set to work again .andinvented a washing-machine by whichhe and his students washed thousandsof garments.

Wonderful as this work was,',thegreatest service of Dr. Hamlin to Tur-key was the founding of Robert Col-lege on the Bosporus, where thousandsof-1'oung men. mostly Armenians, havebeen educated. lt has been a powerfulforce in bringing liberty, justice, andChristian truth in Turkey.

The corner-stone of Robert Collegewas laid on July 4, 1869.

(see Your map) with twoArmenian students. The school soonsrew to large numbers. The studentsit.re t..y poo.. What could CYrusHamlin do io helP them ? He lookedabout, There were no stoves or fire-ojaces in Constantinople' The schooli,ad a workshop for manual training'He set the Young men to makingsheet-iron stoves'

There was no bakerY in the citYrvhere fresh, sweet bread could be

bousht. Ther- set to work, erected build-insl. set ,b the machinerY, builtor-?r.. gtou.rd the flour, baked . theb.e"d, iold the loaves, and

- received

ih" *ot "y for them. Then theY built

William Booth

thai Christ was a-strong, 1ov- -E;r-rg i.i.rrd who. rn'ould. help Wn'rrau

Enelish lad. When he wasfiftEen vears old he decidedto take'Christ Ior his friendand to serve him aiwaYs. Onlulr- ;, l86t, he oPened thei-ait

*London M ission. He

taught the throngs of PeoPle

thim to quit their evil habits,".1 git. them strengrf to. do .right'

Soin saloons were closed and ntetr

rrrnt to rrork, children went to school,mc,thers n-ere kind in their homes' Inother cities people heard of Williamgo"tl, and wtrat he had done in theEr=i l-o"aon Mission. TheY sent forhim to come. He preached to the pooranJ unfortunate and helped .

people

.il..ro-tr.t". Then he said, "The men

\\,i11iam Booth was al and women and children whotake Christ as their leader area great army. let us call themth; 'salvation Army'!"

He appointed offrcers forthe army-and set them all tow-ork.

-They provided foodand clothing for the verypoor, they nursed the sick,

Boorn tt-,ey found work for thestrong, rvhile General Booth,

as he was now called, was traveling inmany countries adding new recruits tothe armv.

General \Arilliam Booth lived to bemore than eighty years o1d. IIe waspresenterl to several kings and clieensind to more than one President of theIlnited States, all of whom honoredhim for the work the Salvation ArmY'ivas doing to help others.

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Ayisha, The Moro GirlBy

Katharine G. Buffum

BOM }Ianila, in the PhilippineIslands, where Rita and Pedrolive, it is a six-days' trip farthersouth on the inter-island boat to

the hot iittle island cal1edSu1u. Everything there isdifferent from America. Thehills are cor.ered with bril-liantly flowering trees, andfeathery coconut-palms. Thereis no winter at a7l, so that de-licious fruits are on the treesaii the year round. The peo-p1e are smaller than rve are,and dark and thin and strong,and often very fierce. Theyare called N{oro people, orl\{ohammedans.

There is a little nloro girlnamed {yisha who lives in the villageof. Buz-B:uz, one of the many villagesof Sulu built out ol,-er the water.

Thereare many

tiny, picturesclue. thatch-roofed houses,high up on ricketr- stilts. and connectedby ricketv bridges.

Ayisha's grandfather was a fisher-man and a pirate. He andhis faniih- and friends builttheir houses close togetherout or-er the s-ater, that theymight liecp their 1ong. sleri-der boats. ri-hich they manager-ith such ski1l. up under theirhouses. \l-hen the men wenton their sa\-age pirate raidsther- u-ould let down theirboats. raise great bright-col-ored sails and srviftly go tosonle island in the north.u-here ther- u-ould seize uponu-hole r-iiiaees. killing many

and taking others captir-es to 6e useias slar-es. Onlr- lately, since theAmericans har-e gone theie, have theseterrible raids been stopped. And nowAyisha's father and his tribe usually

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find it moreteresting

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than to

p1a)' a goodbaseball game

another

in their dark, ill- smellinghouse. On the floor sits Ayi-sha's mother, Annang, weavingsome beautiful silk. The other\x,Iomen afe crouching here and

againsttribef ight againstthem and kil1them, thoughman\- are stillverv fierce.

fia tri'#ii',--T#and Paddle together,

sometimes at night burningfirebrands to attract the fish,and with long-Pronged Poles

skiliullv spearing them.\,'is,la's fathei is a rich man in Buz-

Buz- and has several wives and manY

chiidren, as is the custorn of l\{oham-meclans. They live huddled !gSe-tlre1,most uncomfortablY, we would think,

there wear.ing baskets and bright-co1-ored mats, orlndolently moving about'

There is nott' a new school near Btz-Buz where Ayisha and her brothers and

sisters go.They are mostanxious tolearn to speak

Engiish and to read and write, andth& are very quicl< to learn. Someof ihe little Xloro boys just Ayisha'saqe have this Year beconle BoYSiouts. The little girls were disap-pointed to be left out, but PerhaPsihere will be something else for them.

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Prisoners East of JordanBy Frances Healey

SUMIIARY: Ranalall N{cKenzie and James ll'oraling, Iiving in Jerusaleu. rre on a trip East ofJordan with Mr. X'ortling, who is distributing Bibies. Ilarb, :rn Arab trader, .joins them at Jericho.Mosallem. the Christian, s'arns Nfr. X'ording of a feual between the Ruaieh and the Adwan tribesanal of tLe treachery of Harb. 'Ihe party continue their journey, however. and are the guests ofQuoblan, Chief of the Adlan Tribe. EIe t€Ils the missionary also of the feud anti asks him to actas peacemaker between his tribe and the Rualeh, which he agrees to do. ilhat night the camp isrogsed by the cry, "The enemy !" The Rualeh make a raid, tlrive off a llunch of camels, and cap-ture Ilandall and James who have impulsively tried to turn back the crrmels. llr. Irording alsolearus more of the treachery of lflrb.

Chapter VIIIN the Adwan camp there was greatrejoicing. No one had been killedalthough half a dozen had beenwounded seriousiy, and a dozen

more slightly. Quoblan himself hadgotten a nasty cut on his right shoul-der and a bullet had grazed his cheek.The main camel-drove was safe, theRualeh having captured oniy theeight animals they had taken with theboys. Mr. Fording alone was anxious.He supposed the boys were safe, eitheron the hill above the camp, or in oneof the groups that were gathered inr.,arious tents discussing the attack anddrinking coffee. His suspicion of Harbhad been justified when the trader hadshot at him, and he remembered withgrowing anxiety that he had sent theboys up on the hillside at the man's ad-vice. So Mr. Fording strode fromtent to tent asking for news of thebo1,5. As he went on, his thin, sun-burned face seemed to grow thinner,and his eyes seemed to pierce into theblackest corners of the tents trying todiscover some sign of his laddies.

"Please God," he kept muttering,"they sha1l come to no harm ! Randy,Randy, what shall I tell the doctor?"

After he had been to every tent helvent up on the hillside, now dreadingwith his r,rhole heart to find them, forhe kner'v if they had been alive and un-hurt they would have come into camplong before. Yet he dared not leave asingle hiding-place unexplored. Hewas joined by half a dozen men whohelped, but the cheerless dawn found

them facing eachthe hill with notery.

"Perhaps Harball !" thought the

other at the foot ofsolution of the mys-

spoke the truth aftermissionary, and the

"vA snetr !" rrn. ronntsc TNTERRUrTED, "yASHEIK, I{ORE TH-\S H^\RB enr IIISSING"

mad-caps did ride out to the east !"Again l\{r. Fording strode down

through the camp to Quoblan's guest-tent. Although it x,as not yet sunrise,the Bedouin were busy effacing thetraces of the night's adventure, count-ing the cattle, examining the camelsfor rifle wounds, straightening bowedtent-po1es. Boys and girls were look-ing or.er the ground in the hope offinding some treasure lost by the at-tackers,-a silver ring or amulet, orperhaps a sharp dagger or revolverthat had slipped from their equipment.Quoblan, his right arm held stiffly tohis breast, was sitting in the tent, the

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scratch on his cheek and the Pal1orfrom loss of blood, giving him a wanlook, discouraging enough to the mis-sionary.

"Thbu art hurt Ya Sheik !""It is nothing-alhamdu1illah l-it is

nothing !"NevErtheless Mr. Fording insisted

on seeing the wound in the shouider,and fourid it piastered with fi1th anddirtv rass. With hot water and a dis-infettani from his medicine case he

bathed it and tied it up, urging Quob-lan not to touch it under any circum-stances. In spite of his pain, the she-ik

rr-as highly elited at the success of thedefensJ of the camp. EarlY as it wasthe rrarriors began to droP in, even

rvhile the wout d was being dressed'Fresh coffee berries were brought'

My son and his {riend, Hawadja Ran-dall, have disappeared. None of yehave seen them?"

The Bedouin around the coffee-Potshook their heads.

"rrrv.r !" nE sero,-"HE SEALL BE PUNTSHED,

BUT Nor BY YE AND Not gY lts!"

roasted, qround, and boiled, and the.inty of ihe night's adventures talkedLij.i ",ith

*ucli e*rggeration and glo-rification.

"-\nd Harb has fled !""Fled? By Allah, where is the do-g-?"

Ouoblan leined forward. ignoring M1'Fording's restraining hand on his hali-dressed shoulder.

"\ar'. who knows? PerhaPs for this."r." 'h. sent on his servant with themule late last evening !"

"Ya Sheik l" Mr. Fording interrupt-ed. his deep voice trembling,. althoughhis finsers fastened the bandage firm-1r on

"the wounded shoulder. "YaSneit. more than Harb are missing'

"Marshallah !" exclaimed one, "Canthe Rualeh have stolen them ?-forransom ?"

The shoulder bandaged, and his facecleansed of the blood, Quoblan tookhis place in the circle, Mr. Fording be-side him. Although the missionaryrvas on fire to be doing something, heknew better than to hurry an Arab.

"The boys have disappeared !" hesaid briefly, the blue vein on his tem-ple pulsing under the stress of his anx-iety. "Morcover, when I could notsee my sons on the hillside last nightwhither I had sent them, Harb claimedhe sarv them riding towards the east.I galloped a{ter them with the traderc1o1e behind me, but when I could notfind the lads I returned to the camp,iust escaping the fleeing Rualeh.And,-" Mr. Fording paused. lookingslowly around the circle where everydark

-face was turned eagerly toward

him, "Harb shot at me five times !""By the splendor of Allah !" Quoblan

half rose, striking his knee with hisunbandaged hand, "By the life of theProphet, and by my father's life thedog shal1 be punished !"

-Eiwa !" Two or three of the oth-ers sprang to their feet. The mission-ary did not move.'"Eiwa !" he said so quietlY theY allpaused to listen. "He shall be Pun-ished, but not by y. and not bY me !

What, do ye forget my te_aching to Yethese twenty years, 'Vengeance lsmine' saith the Lord, and again, 'Loveyour enemies and PraY for them thatpersecute you'? tr-et Harb go, but helPme find my sons !"

"l{ow, by Allah !" began one of theyounger men who owed his life to themissionary's surgical ski11.

But Quoblan interruPted him."Peace ! Abu Yacoub speaks as one

of the Prophets of the AlmightY, andhis mercy is as the mercy of Allah.Nloreover he is a Christian. Let oneof the men who guarded the east of the

PRISONERS

camp come hither that he may speak.,,A warrior was hastilv summoned to

the conclave and he told of two riderswho had dashed down the hillside afterthe fleeing camels. He had, at thetime, supposed them to be Rualeh, butQuoblan agreed with Mr. Fording thatby some mad impulse the boyJ hadtried to save the herd, and that it wasthrough their efforts that the maindrove had been hurried back to camp.

There was silence around the campfor a few minutes and then the Sheikturned to Mr. Fording.

"Ya Abu Yacoub," he began grave-ly, "Last night thou wert willing to goto the Rualeh and treat with them forpeace for us. Wilt thou go now andtreat for the Adwan as well as for thvsons? See!" he included the rest o'fthe circle with a gesture. "The Rua-leh and the Adwan have made raidsagainst each other for years. Al1ahknows which side has advantaged !

And now unless we act quickiy therewill be not a state of qu.awru* but ofopen urar, and many will be killed onboth sides. Let Abu Yacoub still be

our ambassador. Let these be the con-ditions. He who is dead is dead-hisblood shall not be avenged. The cam-els, the sheep and the goats that havebeen taken in raids sha1l remain in thetribes where they now are, except-',he looked

^rourrj the attentive c'ircle,

pausing to give his words weight,-"except the drove o{ camels thit theyoung Effendim rescued from theRualeh last night. That herd shall bethe ransom for them if they are cap-tives. If they 21s dsad-" Mr. Ford-ing shuddered although he did notmove a hand,-"if they are dead orharmed the Rualeh shail pay ten-foldin lives and cattle all they have paidbefore l"

And so dt last it was settled. X{r.Fording mounted his horse, and setout for a neutral tribe where he couklget a guide to lead him to the camp ofthe Rualeh.

*Quawm is said to erist betreen tso tribes thatmake raids on each other. stealiug cattle, etc.,but irJjnq io aroid killing meo. It ersily driftsiIto a state of open wrrfrre.

(To be continucd)

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A Great SurpriseA TRUE INCIDENT

By Anna Hewins Brashear

1- was a day in June and the court-yard was filled with the odor offlowers. There '\ rere great rose-trees laden with red, white, and

low blossoms.Oieanders, pink and white, with

the flaming crimson of the pomegran-ate, gave color to the scene. In thecenter of the garden a fountain playedand the edge of its marble basin {ur-nished a rendezvous for the birds. Gayas the many-hued flowers were the cos-tumes of the women who sat around asteaming samovar enjoying theirmorning tea.

"Fatima Khanum, have you heard244

that to-day there will be a greattaltasho (show) just outside the city?""Te11 u-s about it !" came in a chorusfrom the others of the group.

"Well, I hear that the Prince and a1lthe nobi1it1. r,r,ill be there to see a won-derful heaven-goer. How I wish wecould go, but alas ! our Prophet teachesthat it is most improper for women tobe. seen in. such public gatherings.

'19"I plce is within thesJ high'walls, but I, for one sha11 have a woidto say to our Prophet when I meet himin paradise !"

Within this Persian garden thewomen looked like a bevy of gay but-

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terflies, flitting about in their short,fu11 skirts, little jackets, and gauzyvei1s. An echo had reached their earsof the balloon ascension to take placethat very day. Even as they talked, agreat crotvd was gathering to witnessthe rvonderful spectacle. The fat andflabby son of kings sat upon a raiseddais surrounded by his retinue.

The balloonist (an enterprising Yan-kee touring the East) bowed low be-fore the scion of Persian royalty, and,s:epping into the car of his balloon,s'as o1T. Up, up he sailed to a choruso: "fIashallah!" "Inshallah!" fromthenr,:,tley crowd below who gazed inrr''rnder and admiration upon his flight.

-{fter traveling the distance of sev-eral city blocks, our miracle-workerciropped into the garden of the vervharem where Fatima and her sistersfirst met us ! Who could describe theconsternation that reigned there ! Whata clatter of little slippers as the flying

feet carried the women to shelter ! Forinto the harem of this wealthy mer-c1:ant orl1y the master ever entered.

Now, a man had fallen from tireskies right into the center of the se-cluded spot! The eunuch who keptthe gate soon appeared and with ex-cited gestures threatened to beat theintruder.

Just as he was ready to carry outhis intention a shrill voice called frombehind the barred window. "No,Hodgie, do not punish him ! For Ithink that this may be that Frangeewhom they call the heaven-goer. Hehas committed a terrible breach ofpropriety and according to our law de-serves severe punishment, but he doesnot know our customs, so I commandthat you release him !"

In this way a great adventure cameto the women in their walled garclenthough they were not permitted to goout to see the tamasha.

Baseball, basketball and other\,.'estern athletic sports haveIeen introduced into the Phil-ippines and are very popular.Tirere are inter-class and inter-school games in all the leadings:hools. There is held everyt\\'o ]-ears a "Far East OlympicJfeet" in rvhich teams f romPhilippine Islands, Japan,China and sometimes theStraits Settlements compete.

Silliman Institute has beenthe leading school to introduce:.thletics into the southerni'hilippine Islands.

The r-rpper pictrrre shorvs the:.'...:rdine of the medals at one.: rheir field meets.

Beloir is the picture of the:::.r i.aseball team at Silliman:.'..:i.1 r'ears ago. It rvas dif-: -'.:-: :or the bo1's to learn all:,:.- :::les of the game. "Why.:::-.: r'or.t touch that boy?"

. .. . : :he coach to the third':...::::.:r. "I did," answered'-::. ' '.' on third base rvith the' :. :': his hand. "I touched. -- ::ir rn1' foot."

ffiMlffiW@,Everyland Nature Club

By A. Hyatt YerrillCare of Evcryland, f 56 Fifth Avcnuc,Ncw Yor& City

MY FUNNY PETS

LTEARLY all boys and girls are

I\ ::1"*ffih:,'1,X"':T,:T';oiand curious birds and animals;

and whenever I've been in queer, out-of-the-way places I have managed toobtain peculiar furred or featheredcompanions. I would like to tellEvrnyLrND readers all about the manystrange, funny, ancl interesting crea-tures f have had in tropical lands, butas this is not possible I'll try to tell theNature Club about some pets I had inCentral America.

My first was a native deer namedPepito. He was given to me when hewas a little spotted fawn, and as hegrew older and larger he became sotame he would follow me about like adog. lVhen we lived in the town, Pe-pito was kept in the open court orpatio of the house, where he ran aboutat will among the flowers and grassand could drink or bathe at the foun-tain in the center, But we often madelong trips into the country and Pe-pito always accompanied us. On thetrain he was perfectly at home, run-ning up and down the center of thecar, making friends with the conductorand passengers.

When at last we reached the little

village where we stayed, a red or blueribbon was tied about Pepito's neckand he was free to go where hepleasecl. All about were mountainscovered with forests full of wild deerand other animals, and every morningPepito would trot off into the woodsto spend the day with his wild cousins.Often, when out hunting, I would seea herd of deer and would be surprisedto see, Pepito come running {romamong them to greet me. Sometimes,when the others saw how fearless hewas and that I did not molest them,they too would come close and wouldfollow a short distance away as iwalked along with Pepito.

When the deer was about halfgrown a young peccary or wild pigralas brought to us by a native hunter.These animals are usually fierce andvicious and hard to tame, but this lit-tle chap, which we called Chico, wasan exception and from the first wasYery docile and affectionate. He'w'ould jump to my lap to be scratched,grunt at our door to wake us in themorning, and followed us everywherewe went.

He and Pepito soon became fastfriends and inseparable comrades, andit lvas a funny sight to see the two

ANS'WERS TO }IAY PAZZLDS

The aDimal in the Msy puzzle is the luarmoset from Brazil aBtl neighboring countries.The bird is the Bobollnk from easteln Unitecl Strrtes.Members of EVEnYLAND Nature Club who sent correct ans\vers to both are:Lydia W. Brown, Itlizabeth I{lrkwood, Ilazel ilIcConnell, EeleD Reeai, and Betsy Ross.The following namerl the blrd correctly:Elizabeth X'oster, Virginia ReDch, Eleanor }Ioyt, anal Louis T. Eamlett.

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trotting up the mountain path side byside on their way to the woods. Allthe hunters knew Pepito by his ribbonand took care not to shoot him by mis-take, and to protect Chico we tied abell about his neck.

Several months after Chico was add-ed to the family a friend gave us atame white-faced monkey named Tito.He was a very comical, inquisitivechap. His favorite toy was an old, bat-tered doll, and he would carry thisabout for hours at a time and was mostdejected if it was taken away or mis-1aid. But Tito's funniest trick, andthe one which gave him the greatestpleasure, was to wait in the doorwayand, as the peccary ran by, spring onthe latter's back and have a free ride.Chico did not mind this, and in fact Ithink he really enjoyed it as much asthe monkey did.

One day the monkey caught sight ofthe deer, and thinking Pepito wouldprove a better mount than the peccaryhe sprang on his back. The deer hadne\-er experienced such a sensationbefore and was frightened almost outoi his wits. Evidently his first thoughtrvas to make for the woods, and hedashed off with the delighted monkeyclinging fast to his back and chatter-ing rvith joy at his fine ride.

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Around the house there was abarbed wire fence, and when Pepitoreached this he sprang through be-tu,een the wires without the slightesthesitation. There was plenty of roomfor him but there was no space for hisrider, and the poor monkey was sweptfrom his seat and left hanging on thesharp barbs. He was badly cut, but hehad learned a lesson, and from thattime on Pepito's appearance threw himinto a fit of rage and fear.

Perhaps the oddest of all the pets Ihad in Central America was a queercreature known as a kinkajou, or fruitbear. This animal grows to be threefeet or more in length and has a littleround head, solemn black eyes, sharpteeth, and strong claws. The hair isthick, woolly, and dull yellow in color,but the most remarkable things aboutthe kinkajou are its tail and itstongue. Both are very long and bothare prehensile, or, in other words, theycan be used like hands.

IGnkajous are very fond of honey,and if they cannot get it in any otherway they will reach their long tonguesinto the bees' nests and lick the honeyfrom the comb. You can imagine thatsuch a creature would make a very in-teresting pet, and I can't begin to tell

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WHO KNOWS?

The correct names, togetherrrith those who send in theright answers, will be published

in September.

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The Finding Out ClubBY AUNT HELEN

Care of Everyland, 156 Fifth Avenuc, New York City

NOTE-Any reader of EYDBTT,aND may become :r member of tbe Illnaling Out Club by ansn'er-ing some of the questions or reporting of his owD anal asking to jolD the Club.

A membership'cdrd, a copy of the rules, and. a code by whieh to read the Orders in Councilwlll be sent to each new Dember. The members are bound in hotror not to reyeal the rules of theClub except to fathers or mothers or guardians who may be told in strict secrecy. A batlge pinmay be secured by sentling ffteen cents or it will be sent free as a premlum for one new sul]-Ecrlptlon to EvDRyr,aND. State whether you prefer eateh pin or stiek pin.

Adatress, The x'intling Out Club, care EVEBYT,AND, 156 n'ifth Aveuue, New York City.

fn greeting both the new and the oldmembers of our Club I want to sharefirst with you a dear letter from VeraA. Hunt of Ottawa, Kansas.

I was reading my Evnnvr-auo again thisafternoon and decided to ask you if I couldjoin the club even if I am seventeen years old,and if .so please send me the key, I haveinfantile paralysis and hav6 been to schoolonly two years. I am not a shut-in, for I rideto my papa's store nearly every day, but canwalk in the house a little. I can use but onehand, so time passes slowly as there is little Ican do. I would like to correspond with an-other lame girl or a shut-in.

About the stories in the Bible, ever since Iwas a little girl I have always liked the storyof the ravens feeding Elijah, the story ofJoseph, and the story of David and Jonathan.The books of the Bible I like best are Ruthand Esther. As for reading, I read lvhere mySunday-school lesson is. I found that the an-cient Romans used metal pens. A metal pennibbed like ours was found in the ruins ofPompeii. Now over twenty-five millions aremade every week, and one firm has a catalogthat has five thousand varieties. I found theoldest city in the u,orld was Damascus, theoldest city of the United States was St.Augustine, and the oldest city of Kansas wasI-eavenworth. I found in Sutton County,Texas, every family owned an auto.

You have discovered courage andcheerfulness, Vera, we know from thetone of your letter. I think EleanorAndrews and vou may enjoy corres-ponding. Send your first letterstamped and sealed in care of Er.pnv-LAND and u,e will forward it toEleanor.

\A,rhat will some of our keen-eyed,thoughtful members suggest that Veracan do to enjoy the hours that pass soslowly?

Eleanor Andrews is in the Ortho-pedic ward of one of our New Yorkhospitals. She sends two finds fromthe Bible:

There are ten Psalms in the Bible that besinwith "Praise ye the Lord." In Proverbs inthe 'first chapter the rvord Lord is only usedtwice.

I expect many of you have tLad apart in the Shakespeare terceritenaryfestivals this spring. It has been awonderful memorial to a great man.C)ne of our new members, JeannetteScha1l, of I\{inneapolis. sends this findabout one of his pla'r-s.

Shakespeare did not name his play "As YouLike It." After he had finished it he did notknow rvhat to call it, so he rvrote on it "Asyou like it" and sent it to the publishers.When it came back, he found that it wasnamed "As You Like It."

Shakespeare rras a Bible student.His rvritings gir-e several hundred ref-erences rl'hich shoq' that he must havebeen verl'familiar rrith it. How manyof our members n'ill send me a quota-tion from Shakespeare and tell me theBible reference it includes? That willbe a splendid test of vour knowledgeof the two.

Each month lve har-e received goodalrswers to the questions about theBrble. \\ie cannot quote all of them,but give two of the ansll'ers in a letterfrom Gertrude Sanduskv of Nlissouri.

I haven't rvritten to you for a long time, soI will send you a lot of finds. Here they are:

r. The Old Testament lvas u,ritten inHebre'r,v and the Ner,v Testament in Greek.

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z. We have a revised version of the Biblebecause, in the translation from the originalinto the English language, some parts ot 1t

r'vere not clear.3. We sent the indemnity money we- re-

cei'ved a{ter tlte Boxer uprising back to Chinaas a fund for educatinq Chinese young menand women in the United States.

a. At the rate of two hundred a minute, tocoirnt a billion it worrld take nine years, onehundred and eighty-seven days, five hours,twenty minutes, and two seconds.

<. fhe whitest thing in the world is puresilirer."'0.-b".

day at a mill in Berkshire, .England,some ordinary paper was berng made ano a

.ii.L.. wo-i,r' forgot to put in the sizingmaterial. The paper was regarded as useless'A short time alter the proprietor wanted towrite a note and took a piece of thls- was-te

oaper, thinking it was good enough 1-or !h.eburpot". To his intense annoyance the lnk.nread all over the paper. Suddenly theifiornlrt that it would do for drving ink in-stead of sand flashed over his mind' He ad-

;;;i.J his waste paper as "blotting" and

tr*i" !i.* io be such idemand for it that.the

-ifi-g1". up making anvthing but blotting-paper.

Helen Gibson oi MarYland sends fi\re

finds and adds:

I hope to be a writer when I- grow up, and

.o- *Jrtd like to correspond with MarySnowden.

Louise McCrarY asks:

Is there anv eirl T3 9r 14 years old wholvould like to correspond \4'lth mei I woutLr

h"";;;.;i;il; nlad to write to one who lives inN1*T"it -b..^rt. it used to be my home'

Kathleen Scudder is collecting post-age-stamps. Is there a member whorv-ould like to correspond with herabout them?

\\ie are glad to welcome Lois Rehmn-ho writes:

I am enclosing a find about spectacles and

.-.[-ri.. i *oiita love to become a ry-emb-e1;;'.;r;";pl*did Firdi,lg out Club' MaY I?lit" sistet. Edna Rehm. sent in her

-req.uest a

i'"i. "ar1:i'aso for a membership' Is it per-

fectlr- ail right for me to become a memher lri-a.;'t takE Evrnvr-enr? I want to be per-

,..-,i.1 i"it. Emeralds are very precious stones'

il.i: ";;'sr;,l it .olot. hut blue rvhen heated'

Ii they are heated excessively they melt lnto a

*llr" .tord, mass o t no valtte u hateler'Tir;:r;;-;;rllv found in the form o{-a short'+=:tiJ"a i^'st"i' Thev ararather so[t stones

::--,1 s-ere ereatlv prized in Ee-vpt' because tney

:t':ld he ian'ed. The largest emerald 'n tne

lvorld weighs over six pounds. In the lan-guage of precious gems, emeralds represent"success in love."

Yes, Lois, any reader of Ewnvi-r.No,whether a subscriber or not, may be-come a member of the Finding, OutClub.

Edna Rehm sends a good find aboutsteel pens. A hearty welcome to bothsisters.

A new member from Ohio, MildredPorter, tells us of her plans:

I surely enjoy reading El'rnvreNo, for ithas so manv good stories in it. I am 14 yearsold. I expect to be a nurse when I grow up.I take piano lessons and like them very much'I wish-to join by sending you a find. Thereare 32,ooo promises in the Bible.

Frances Sandusky writes about theelectrical storms which are so frequentin warm weather:

Thunder and lightning are caused by -thesame occurrence in nature, a discharge of elec-tricitv between clouds or between clouds andthe eirth. Both then happen at the very sameinstant. But we always see the lightning firstand do not hear thi thunder until a fervseconds later. The reason for this is thatiisht travels more ouickly than sound and so

the flash of lightning comes before the thun-de, reaches usi. By-remembering these -factsdurine a storm it is possible for us to deter'mine "with reasonable- accuracy how far awaythe thunder and lightning are.

The hardest thing Aunt Helen doesis to leave out letters, but the printercan't make room for all. Please writeagain if you miss seeing your letter,for I enjoy every one that comes'

X{artha Stockwell sends the follow-ing:

r. There are seven Bibles of the world: thet<oian of the Mohammedans. the Eddas ,ofrl',e Scandinavians, the Tripitaka oI the Budd-hists. the Five Kings of the Chinese, theihree Vedas of the Hindus, the Zend-A-ves-ta

of the Persians, and the Scriptures ot theChristians.

z. 'Ihe first real pair of shoes rvas made- ,inrO6g u"d the first piir of buckle shoes in 1668'

r. The largest library in the United Statesis

-the Consressional, and the next two, wh'cht .ih ha"e" ooo.ooo volumes, are the BostonFruii. r-itirry and the New York PublicLibrary.

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teacher and in order to do that I arm takinsall. the studies required for college, I arigo_ing to Vassar College in four years.

I am twelve years o1d and would iike to cor-resp_ond wilh some girl who is in the eighthgrade and likes athletics, also who is near"myage. tr am so glad that EvBnnr-axo is a month-Iy, and I am sure that Gertrude Brown is quiteright when she says, "A1l who read Evenyr,exoIove it-"

Virginia Rench of Ohio answerssome of the questions about the Bibleand sends two missionary finds:

_ r. John Eliot of Massachusetts publishedthe first Indian Bible.

z. Sequoya, a Georgia Indian half-breed,was a modern Cadmus to his people. He in-vented a perfect alphabet oI over eiehtv let-ters for his native Cherokee language, a"d byhis own zeal inspired his nation -with iove forwritten words. His DaDer .\,vas birch bark, hisink the juices of berries and weeds and hispen a stork's tail feather.

Betty Edmands of Buffalo, N. y.,writes:

. Ib" p. C. is very interestine, so I have de-cided to join. I know, when you read myfinds, you will think me a bov. but I am a eiiland very much interested in-wireless. I hivea set of my o\r/n.

r. A home-made wireless set proves moresatisfsq161, than one you can buy. (We haveboth in our house.)

z. A wireless message coming from a citvfir'e hundred miles away travelslhat five hun-dred miles in much less than one quarter of asecond.

Elizabeth Hudson in her first lettersays:

Mountain Lake was formed by my.grand-father and a lot of other men,

-salting'.their

cattle around a spring. The caflle st-amoedand stopped the outlet-and the valley filled upwith water. It was called Salt Pond untilabout 2s years ago when a hotel was built andit was made a summer resort. It was thencalled Mountain Lake, West Virginia.

Anita Llbil of California would likea correspondent. She writes:

I was sorry my letter could not be printed.!a9t 1i1n9, but maybe my finds can be pub-lished this time. I have found out that Fr6snoships enough raisins everv year to supplyevery man, \voman, and child in the UnitedStates a porrnd box. China made tlle first com-pass. China also learned to read, write,learned the art of printing, manufactuied sun-pon'der-and silk goods, and practised econ-o-ylong before the Errropeans .

-Please let Marion

Bean know that I would like to correspondwith her, as I am just her age.

Mary P. Hayden would like a cor-respondent 12 years o1d who lives inConnecticut. She also says that Cor-delia Metcalf, a friend of hers whoreads EVERYLAND, would write to Bar-bara Beach and Maybei Holmes. RuthIletcalf and Leila Andrews are eager!o_ correspond with Virginia Bliss.Ifary Stacy of California- is a newmember who has sent five good finds.Mary would like to have a corres-pondent. She is in the seventh gradeat school and spends her summers inMinneapolis.

W'e will hope to hear again from anew member from Okiahoma, ErmaRatledge, who writes:

This is my first letter, and if I see it inprint I may write again. r. Esau and Tacobw_er_e fifteen years old when their grandfatherdied. z. The book of Isaiah rvas -written

zooyears before Christ and has 6( chaoters.' r.Washington was inaugurated April '3o.

r7g;.4. President Lincoln was assasiinatea' aprlt14, 1865.

When you decipher Orders in Coun-cil you wili know why I have seemedto ask but one question this month.Letters have aiso been received fromVirginia Bliss, Ewing Bone, EdithCarte.r, Holland Harding, EiizabethLy9as, Edna Nlilton, Duirell Staggs,{-b.lf- R. S_trong, Eleanor W. Tha"yEr,Winifred II. G. Thomas, Dana" T.\\'arrcn, Eleanor Ho1't, and Will iamWheeler.

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-Every-wrexahvdvd is making_an zwhvmfgdv into gmpmaim fields. His evzdxsxzddrve him where he must-be bdvbrdvw to ivvf ;;;;rjs;i;" uiJ *r-t"ae. Hemvvle bzfrvmxv, evo, xa_mfdao and bvdevhvdvmxv if h; ?r;" 6'-J**,.rr*.. They ?re hzogzyov ivzbame for .eve-ry yak and trd;to-seu.-'n.ra'irrrrt Bzgo callsthem in.Tzozfrzme

_5'. zz. who will bL ihe first one to wrexahvd a h"dev-in-tiieUruts Xszbfvd of Nzffsvi about evou xamfdao;_ one in urdef xrd.mfs.rmi, iheFsrdfvvmfs xszbfvd about bzfrvmxv and in the'last1.*.n.. or-orrl""rrrr* r,-iothat fvooe the dvizdu, for those who bvdevhvdv ?

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"Aren't they fine ?" exulted Betty."But where are the people?" asked

Bobby."To be sure !" cried Mother, "we

must have a Noah, and a Mrs. Noah,and the children."

So she hunted through some oldmagazines, and finally found twoquaint figures that would answer verynicely, but she could find only two.

"Oh, we will use them for patterns,"said Betty, "and trace others on whitepaper. We can color them with our

crayons."Very soon the "people"

were finished, and stoodbravely. at the head of theprocesslon.

"\\rhat shall we do withthem ?" asked Bobby, whenthey were all done.

"Let's send them to NurseNorton, in the Crippled Chil-dren's Home," said Betty.

"Oh, yes," agreed Bobby;"her sick children will love

to play with them."So Mother brought a box, and Bob-

by and Betty carefully packed all theanimals in it.

"There, Mr. Noah !" cried Betty asshe tucked the last figure in the box,"go make the little crippled childrenlaugh !"

"And tell them we love them !"added Bobby.

Bobby and Betty Make a Noah's ArkBy Robert Russell

JT was a very rainy day, and BobbyI and Betty could not go out.I "W-hat shall we do, N'lother?"

they asked."This is a good day to mend your

books," said Mother.She showed them how to paste the

little strips of tissue mending-paperover the torn places, and how to fastenin loose leaves with book tape.

"But how shall we ever mendthese?" asked Bobby, after a little, ashe brought an armful of picture-booksto the table.

"Oh, those are our animalbooks that we had when wervere little," cried Betty. "Thecovers are gone, and some ofthe leaves, but there are everso mafly pictures."

"Why don't you make aldoah's Ark?" asked Mother.

"Oh, Mother ! How couldwe?" cried Bobby with shin-1ng eyes.

"Cut out each animal,paste it to some of this nice white card-board, to make the picture stiff enoughto stand, and then paste a little sup-port to the back oI each one," .saidXfother. (See Fig. I, for support.)

Bobby and Betty went to work witha rvill, and as each animal was finished,they stood it up on the table. Prettysoon there was a double row of themall the way round the table.

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moving outside. She looked out ofthe window and there stood a bigb-rown bear, his fore paws resting oithe window-sill and his wild eyes-fas-tened on the sleeping babe.

-Mother

trembling with fear rushed to the cra-dle, tenderly pressed her treasure toher breast, and with haste and all thestrength she could command climbedthe ladder and laid the babv on asheepskin mat. She came down againand looked for something to give thehungry animal. A box ofdried codfishwas found, and removing the smallu'indow mother threw out a large sup-ply to Bruin, who at this time was trv-ing to break through the door. Thebear tore the fish in pieces and ateravenously and picking up the remain-der started off.

When my father returned, he founda very frightened rnama. He vowedthat .he would not rest until he coulclget a shot at old Bruin. He did nothave long to wait. Within a week Mr.Rear called to pay another visit anrlmy father saluted him with an Eng-liph_ rifle, and - Mother slept thltnight.

you_ all the funny, unusuai things ourpet kinkajou did. He was just ai curi-ous as a monkey and was forer-er get-ting into mischief, but after licking-outthe contents of an ink-bottle or pullit gover the furniture with his Ai1, h;would climb up on my shoulder in suchan rnnocent way and cuddle down insuch a confident manner that his mis-deeds were always forgiven.

But his curiosity and his "handv',tail proved fatal to him at last. Oirenight he pulled a bottle of jam from ahigh shelf and with his

'ever-ready

tongue licked up the jam and broken

glass together. Even a kinkajou,stough stomach cannot stand suih adiet and the following day he died.

Besides these peti we had manvothers: such as sloths, mnca*., pri-rots, toucans, raccoons, {oxes, and evena young jaguar. The last would fol-low me about like a dog and was verygentle and affectionate with us. buihis strength was so enormous and heused teeth and claws so freelv onstrangers or any one to whom he tooka dislike that finally I was obliged toput him in a cage and send him ro amenagerie.

The Story of a Big Brown BearAs I Heard My Mother Tell It

By Regina F. CowanHE northern end of Prince Ed-ward Island was sparsely set-tled in the year 1834, when myfather leased a farm at Sea Cow

Bold. . There's a legend that the placederived its name from a herd of- sea-corvs which were driven ashore duringa terrific storm and perished there.. IIy mother went to housekeepingin a 1og cabin of two rooms. The iiontdoor opened by pulling a thong at-tached to a latch on the inside, and awooden button secured the door atnight. The upstairs was a small un-finished 1oft, reached by a ladder. Ahatch covered the entrance to the loft.Crude cod and whale oil in tin lampsand home-made tallow candles wereused for illuminating. The house washeated bv an open fireplace. Part ofthe cooking was done on a crane androasts wel-e prepared in a Dutch ovenin front of the fire. An unfailing springwell furnished what seemed t6e mosldelicious water on this continent, withits old oaken bucker.

My father was out on business oneevening, and baby Margaret wasasleep when Mother heard-something

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Groups of girls and boys in the Mis-sionary Summer Schools all over thecountry are enjoying Dr. Jefferson'snew boolg

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Have you seen the set of paper dolls,

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There is John from Great Britain, fromAustria, Russia, Turkey, and Belgium;though his name and his clothes changewith his country. Catherine comes fromsunny France, from Italy, Holland, Ger-many, and Armenia.

Ten dolls and ten costumes for z5c.;postage, 5c.

Every boy will want the fascinatingset of 916 FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS.They are 25c. a set, with 5c. additionalfor postage.

Boys and girls everywhere are urgedto "show their colors" by wearing aPEACE BUTTON. 5c. each; 5oc. adozen.

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