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EVENING NEWS. Buffalo, Saturday, April 28, 1906. SPRING VACATION. Matildy come frum boardin' school A week ago to-night, An', say, you ought the galShe's jest a reg 'lar fright; She's ben uway fer seven months, A-learnin' this an' that, An' now she's just SO full of style She don't know where's she at. She uses words goodness knows, We never heard before: An' dresses, gee! ought to see Her sweep acrost the floor.

She's got a gown of silk an' such, All trimmed with fancy lace, That rustles like as if a train Wus goin' past the place. She's awful strict on ettiket, An' when we're called to eat, We men folks have to git our coats Before we take a seat; She's teachin' ma an' Bill an' me To use an extry spoon, An' says she'll give us extry forks Fer pies an' such things soon. The critters are all creatures now, An' hogs ain't hogs--they're swine, An' nigger songs have took the place Of sech as "Auld Lang Of funny little odde an' ends The front room's got a stack, Which, though they ain't no good at all, Are Tildy's brick-a-brack. Them airs an' clothes ain't nat'ral-like Fer sech a girl as Til, An' of them nigger songs we think So, We though she wants to hurry 1 back, That 1 we have got our fill; figgered out today We'd keep her home an' train her in The good old-fashioned way. -Denver Post.

The Juror From Say. BY M. J. PHILLIPS, (Copyright, 1906, by D. M.

Parker.) "Indictment against Samuel J. Hawkins," read the indictment clerk in his voice. "This information charges him with perjury, in certifying to the presence in prison of fictitious persons, and receiving fees from the county therefor to the amount of twelve hundred and eighty-nine dollars and seventy cents; said Samuel J. Hawkins being at that time and at the present time the Sheriff of Bainbridge county. The indictment is before The grand jury, first of its kind for years, had been In session in Bainbridge county for forty-two days, and its labors had resulted in the voting of seventeen indictments.

The name of Sheriff Hawkins was last on the list 10 be considered. There was a motley crowd on the stairway of the court house, waiting to hear the resulte of the jury's deliberations. A deputy sheriff, his hands folded comfortably across his stomach, sat at the head of the corridor leading to the ground glass door behind which the jury was deliberating. Some of the waiting throng about him were attracted by motives of curiosity only, Others, restless and impatient, were there to gather crumbs of information for friends who feared. Then there were three or four newspaper men with pleasant, cynical faces and keen eyes.

was silence inside the court room after the indictment clerk had finished his reading. Juror Vanderbeck was first to speak. "I would like to hear from Mr. Scarborough on this matter." prosecutor smiled as he twisted his brown mustache. "'You can't shift any responsibility, gentlemen," he replied.

"The law does not me to dictate as to who shall be indicted. It's up to "Boys, I wish you'd hear me on this matter." The speaker was John Kerns, of Bay township, a silent, kindly man, who during the tedious weeks of the inquisition had thought much and said little. There was a rustle of interest black. spare, lined face was rompis tall, lanky figure in rusty of hard his powerful shoulders. smooth shaven, and he had the stoop John Kerns was only 30 years old, but he had never been regarded as young.

His intimates thought of him, though with affectionate respect that had nothins, of don't contempt believe in it, that as we'd "Old better John." indict Sam Hawkins," he said. "I know him as if he was my own brother, for we were raised on neighborin' farms, He ain't bad; he's only weak. Sam would never have got into trouble if you'd left him on the farm. "Oh, I know all about it, so does every man on this jury. and, party agreed to trade Sheriff for Register of Deeds, so you fellows put up a win Sam didn't know poor candidate, "But Jim Connors coull he was to be a sacrifice.

He went in to win, and he did win! He had to mortgage his farm to do it, and after he had been in a while he found out he wasn't wanted, and that he'd have to walk the plank at the end of one term. All the bosses want Jim Connors, and next fall he'll be elected. The same accident don't happen twice, Ain't that 80 Nobody answered, though several had shifted uneasily during his talk. continued the speaker, "Sam didn't feel very good when he found out what he's up against. The mortgage was still on his farm, and he had to get it off this term, or not at all.

They say he's made fictitious entries to collect fees and board bills from the county; you don't know, what you'd done, of I'd done, under the same circumstances. Now let's all shoulder A little of Sam's responsibility, and let him, pay that money back. The county won't be out anything, and to prosecute Sam would -would break hearts. I'm going to vote against a true bill." They balloted 'in silence. "None for a true bill: twenty three said the clerk, a little emotion even showing in the sing-song voice which had as a mere matter of routine blasted so many that afternoon.

"No further indictments." "This jury stands adjourned sine die," called the foreman. Laughing and talking like schoolboys, now that the long strain been removed, the jurors filed out of the room. Molly Dwyer was baking bread in the kitchen of her home, three miles from the county seat, and a pretty picture she made, her cheeks glowing from the ardent kiss of the fire while her eyes rivaled the coals In brightness. The snow was falling steadily. Suddenly Molly stopped to listen.

On tha crisp air came the faint chime of sleigh bells. The sound grew louder moment by moment. Molly went to the window to watch. Around the turn the road swept a cutter drawn by a fine team of trotters. A man In a big fur coat was driving.

It was Sam Hawkins, the Sheriff, and the light faded from Molly's eyes as she watched the team sweep gracefully Into her father's driveway and never stop until it had brought up by the porch of the house. The Sheriff Prang from the sleigh. and without waiting even to blanket the horses, rushed up the steps and into the house. With the assurance of the accepted lover he nodded and smiled genially to Molly's mother in the sitting room, but did not pause. Instead he rushed into the kitchen and with a cry of delight swept Molly Into his arms.

He kissed her eagerly on face and tips and hair. Althouch she submitted patiently to the caresses, the girl did not respond to them, and a half-unconscious sigh of relief escaped her when the young man finally released her and stood back beaming. to look at her. "Hurray, he cried, "the BUFFALO EVENING NEWS: SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1906. 3 MY LADY'S MIRROR.

STYLISH SILK COAT FOR MATRON. Coats of three-quarter length are exceedingly popular with the well-dressed middle tase woman and black silk the favored material. The illustration pictures a smart model built on Empire lines. Between the box plaits, which are pointed at top, are small pieces of heavy black lace insertion; similar lace is also used to make the top of flat collar. Puffed sleeves, which end at elbows have a double flounce of silk, each edged with black lace matching the insertion used on coat.

grand jury has adjourned, and I'm not indicted." "Was there any danger, Sam?" she asked, quietly, although her attitude expressed intentness. In his relief from the strain of selfimposed silence and gnawing anxiety during the six weeks when the jury had been in session the man was too wrapped up In selfish joy to notice anything amiss. "Was there any danger!" he echoed. "Well, I should think there was. I was caught with the goods, all right.

And who do you think saved me? Old John Kerns. Do you know, Molly," he babbled on, almost drunk with exhilaration, "I used to fancy old John was sweet on you, but I saw my mistake when I. heard what he did today." The girl was white about the lips, but her voice was low, almost gentle. "Then you did steal from the county, as they said you did?" Sam looked up quickly, for he had noted the danger signal. "Oh, no, Molly, steal is hardly the word; you steal from the county?" His face fell sullenly.

"You won't let me explain- he began again. "Did you?" some of them call it steal- I "I suppose ing; what of it? I'm going to pay it back." Then rage at the men responsible for this complication overcame him. "It serves them right. They put me up to knock me down. And they'll have to watch things the balance of my term; that's all.

But what of it, I asked?" "What of it?" her scorn and loathing seemed to crush him. "What of it? This much: No Dwyer ever married a thief, and I'm not going to be the first one. Here's your ring," -mechanically he took the extended bauble and slipped It in his before you go I want to tell you why John Kerns got you off. Because. he thought I loved you, and that it would break my heart if you were indicted.

That's why. And thank God I've found out before It's too late that John Kerns cares that much for me, -and she raised her head care for him just as much." Then she went crimson, for Kerns stood in the doorway. John advanced into the room with face alight the Sheriff slipped out without a word. The chime of his sleigh bells grew fainter and fainter, to die out finally in the distance. And all was well.

Among Women's Organizations. Gossip of Art, Literature, Women's Clubs and Fraternities, The Opening of the Society of tists' Exhibition. Last night the 12th annual exhibition of the Society of Artists was formally opened to members and the members of the Fine Arts Academy, with Mrs. John Clark Glenny, the president, receiving, and great enthusiasm over the exhibition itself was manifested by everybody. A small orchestra played during the two hours of the reception adding by their lively music an agreeable accompaniment to the picture viewing and picture gossip.

Of course everybody is on quivive to know is to receive the Fellowship prize this year, and still almost everybody seems to believe that the prize is already awarded and that the fortunate man and picture is Mr. Urquhart Wilcox, and his singing woman. The painting shows splendid technique and -ease of expression, with a world of grace in the swirl and flow of the lace trimmed sleeves and scarf about the shoulders. The head is thrown back, as with great satisfaction and abandon the girl sings her song and accompanied by her guitar. The coloring is after the last century Dutch school and the excessive of varnish on varnishing day gives a certain harshness which time will wear away.

To any one who has watched the progress of Buffalo artists and consciously noted the examples of their work, submitted year after year, the present collecting must afford great satisfaction for it 80 emphatically marks the advancement of almost every one. The place of honor in the collection is given to the painting of Mrs. John Clark Glenny, the president of the Society of Artists. It hangs in the central panel of the middle of the three northern galleries which are the ones devoted to this picture display. Mrs.

Glenny calls her painting, "Vert-Vert." after a famous parrot, immortalized by legend and story in one of the Spanish monasteries. The painting represents a dancing girl, almost life size, not after the Spanish Carmencita type, but still Spanish. Her low cut bodice 18 pointed and slender, from the waistline of which flares her rather stiff skirts. The fluff of hair over the forehead is dabbed with a red rose matching one fastened to her breast, and these are matched again by, the red rosettes of her white slippers and the sash which encircles her slender figure. She holds a pose, full of alert grace and lightness and in her outstretched palm rests Vert-Vert, 8.8 green as green can be and expressing almost human knowingness and trusting confidence.

The bird is beautifully painted and the face of the woman is finely modeled. Mrs. Glenny's Christ. catalogued is one of the choice things of the whole exhibition. This piece is in the sculpture room.

It 18 being seen publicly for the first time here, although it had a fine position the Salon three yeate was shown in St. Louis. There are some surprises on the walls, notably a little collection of WAtercolors, by Mrs. Carlton Sprague, mostly foreign subjects and place painted. Mrs.

Sprague has been so sincere a patron of art, has afforded so much encouragement and assistance to others, that It is a real satisfaction to know that she herself has something of this divine rift. With one exception, a head after the old Florentine school, set In a frame that surely must have come from an old Florentine palace, all are landscapes, minature landscapes, with colors very delicately laid on and managed as almost as if they edge of a gypsy's camp with a mettlesome horse, full of graceful action in the foreground, and by his side the Gypsy Miss king. Lena' M. Kinsley shows a still life, fruit painted admirably. A.

M. Farnham shows two fine examples of his work. Mrs. Belle S. Hubbard, a pupil of Mrs.

Flora T. McCraigs', exhibits a gray day on Loke Erie and Shady Point on Niagara River. Mr. Carl C. Rosenkranz shows three canvases which are among the -best things in the landscape paintings.

Miss Cornelia Bentley Sage exhibits a portrait of a lady in miniature, and Mrs. Kindlund, formerly Miss Anna Bell Wing is showing four miniatures that will hold place with the best miniatures ever shown here. Miss Clara B. Sacket exhibits a miniature portrait of Mrs. C.

C. Fredericks and a Sunny Court in Algiers. Mrs. Emma Kaan is represented by four large canvases, one all purple and gray with autumn haze and another all delicate greens with the delicious young verdure of early spring. Mrs.

William A. King shows a beautiful Dontello-like head of a child. Mrs. 0. H.

Schneider exhibits three The Arts and Crafts has paintings, all beautifully treatedit never before been equaled in Buffalo and has speciments of enameling which might have been done in Florence. The bookbinding also in this department show speciments of the work of Mr. John Clark Glenny, Miss Alice Glenny, Mr. John F. Grabau of Buffalo.

Cora Briggs shows a lovely azalea tree in flower, its pink blossoms, exquisitely painted. By the side of an autumn scene painted by Miss Douglass hangs a companion to Miss Lewis. Miss Douglass' picture represents a wood interior in the autumn and the gamut of the reds, browns and yellows, run its carpet of mosses and grasses and in the stately trees. Miss Josephine Barnard has two still life pleces, a copper kettle full of luclous fruit and a jar of red roses. The Woman's Investigating Club held a special meeting at the Twentieth Century Club Friday morning.

It was unanimously voted to hold the meetings for the coming year on Friday morning from ten to twelve o'clock in the Association Hall at the Twentieth Century Club. A reception will be held the first Friday of every month with special entertainments. The Wednesday Class of which Mrs. William D. Balliett is the new president will hold annual banquet at the Hengerer Tea Room Saturday afternoon.

A card party held the will be served at Toasts will first part of the afternoon. and dinner be given by the members and the history of the club will be read by Mrs. Wallace. The table decorations will be tulips. St.

Margaret's Play. "Peter's Return to Cranford," a play by Marguerite Merington will be presented this evening by the senior class of St. Margaret's School. Miss Matilda Jenkyns, Miss Grace Weber; Miss Mary Smith, Miss Gladys Champlain; Martha, Miss Hazel Doty; Miss Pole, Miss Ruth Nicholson; Miss Betty Barker, Miss Florence Francis; The Hon. Mrs.

Jamieson, Miss Florence Reynolds; Lady Glenmire, Miss Louise man; Peter Marmaduke. Arley Jenkyns, Miss Act. Miss Matty's Drawing Room. Act six months later. Act III.

-Miss Matty's Little Shop, one year later. The Alumni Association of School No. 59 has eleoted the following officers, Mr. J. Schorb, president; Miss Maude Ackerman, vice-president; Mr.

Henry F. Lavis, secretary; Mr. William E. Gaerttner, treasurer. On May 24th, 1906.

The Association will give a play and dance. Mrs. Flora T. McCaig has friends who will take take delight in her marked advancement and skill painting animals, sheep, almost always sheep because she can use them symbolically and because she has studied their ways and manners until they have no secrets from her. The beautiful shepherdess salting her flock on the hill top is sure to be one of the favorites of the exhibition and another group of a and beauty.

A flock of Is one dozen is painted with great, strength of the gems of the whole collection. Mr. John Harrison Mills 1s represented by an excellent portrait of Mr. J. N.

Larned, in which the artist has caught and recorded temperament as well as form. The portrait has the advantage of being a good likeness and Buffalo is fortunate in possessing SO characteristic and faithful a portrait of possibly its most distinguished man of letters. Mr. Mills is showing aiso one of the canyons of the Rocky Mountains. The brush work is not after Mr.

Mills' usual method, but is nevertheless remarkably fine and the painting is full of the mystery, and solemnity and solitude of rugged phases of nature untouched by human agencies. Mr. Charles Reiffel, a new comer In Buffalo, has recently made himself felt in art circles here, his pictures in the recent local exhibition establishing him a8 an artist of exceptional merit. Mr. Reiffel paints his night scenes after the fashion somewhat, of Thaulow with those blue black tones so beautifully managed, and SO harmoniously distributed through his shadows and highlightsand so interpretative of night.

His' foreign training Is written In knowingness all over his canvas and one can see that he has arrived through a course of proper training and in an environment of art culture and sympathy. Mrs. Louise M. Kamp shows an overturned copper kettle with onions falling over the copper, colored floor, and also she shows her skillful brush work in a jardiniere of yellow chrysanthemums painted with a careless grace that is the perfection of painstaking. Miss Josephine Lewls shows a wood Interior beautifully painted.

Wild flowers and hedgeweeds and grasses border the roadway which runs through an arcade of overhanging branches. The friendly intertwining of tree with tree, the pale blue sky showing through the openings are very beautifully painted. Mr. John L. France is again showing marines painted with great comprehension of the sea, and its atmosphere moods and meaning.

Mr. France is using more warmth in his coloring, each year, and while a certain seriousness that has always marked his work is not departing more brightness and cheerfulness Is permeating It and with this comes a certain gracefulness to take the place of what might, heretofore, have been more characterized ruggedness in expression. Mrs. Eurilda Loomis France is showing things quite new this year. New In treatment and very different from those beautiful exquisitely painted French flowergardens of hers.

Flowers and color and air and feminine figures predominate in the paintings, she is show. ing in this exhibition but more Impressimistic. On first looking at these canvases one exclaims they are like without being like those airy out of door things that Harry Thompson paints and then one remembers that Mrs. Loomis was the favorite pupil of this ish painter. THOUGHTS FOR EVERY DAY "Every heart has Its secret sorrow, and ofttimes we call a man cold when he is only sad." -SENECA.

"Look pleasant, please," said the photographer to his (more or legs) fair sitter. Click! "It's all over, ma'am; you may resume your natural Cleveland Leader. The Social Chronicle. Gossip and Comment of the Day From 4 to 6 o'Clock. Mrs.

Charles J. North will give a tea this afternoon in compliment to her guests, Miss Rosamond K. Bender, corresponding secretary and Miss Sarah Bache Hodge, treasurer of the National Society the Needle Work Guild. The ladies who will assist Mrs. North are Miss Love, honorary president, Miss Evelyn Walker, Miss Truscott, Mrs.

Charles Sumner Dakin, Miss Florence Lee, Mrs, Homer E. Dudley, Mrs. L. D. Bartlett and Miss Gertrude Dakin.

Miss Bender and Miss Hodge accompanied Mrs. North home from the National Congress of the Needle Work Guild which has been held in Detroit this week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sumner Jones are removing from Buffalo 1 to Danbury, N.

H. The Buffalo Chapter's May Meeting The Buffalo Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution will hold its last meeting of the season on next Thursday, afternoon, at 3 o'clock in the 20th Century Club. Something more than the ordinary meeting will be made of this, as the regent, Mrs. John Miller Horton, is leaving the week after, for a summer in Spain and France. The hostess for the afternoon will be Mrs.

Richard J. Sherman, chairman, Charles Rohlfs Mrs. John S. Noyes, Mrs. Charles H.

Williams, Miss Jennie Jewett Williams, Mrs. H. M. Gerrans, Mrs. Charles B.

Armstrong, Mrs. G. Hunter Bartlett, Mrs. John Provost. Mrs.

George Meadway, Miss Gertrude Dakin and Mrs. Walter Devereux. Mrs. Charles Daniels and Mrs. Harry Hamlin in Paris, where they have been joined by Mr.

Hamlin. Miss Jane Meade Welch is returning home on Monday from spending six weeks in New York. Mrs. H. H.

Hewitt of Lafayette avenue entertained, half a hundred guests at bridge yesterday afternoon. Tea was served after cards. Mrs. Clarence W. Cady has invited a score of Mrs.

Arthur E. Hedstrom's friends for an informal tea on Monday afternoon at the Garret Club. a Mrs. James M. Ganson and Miss Carolyn Adams arrived in New York on Thursday from Europe, and are now at home.

Mr. and Mrs. George B. Montgomery, who are now in Paris, will return to the Lenox Hotel on May 7. Mr.

Jaroslaw de Zielinski and Mme. de Zielinska were in Rochester yesterday attend the first annual banquet of the Rochester Symphony Orchestra. Mr. de Zielinski will be the speaker of the evening. Dr.

Jane W. Carroll will entertain the faculty and students of the Buffalo Law School from 8 to 10 o'clock this evening at her home in Ashland avenue. Dr. Carroll will be assisted by Mrs. Carlos C.

Alden, Mrs. Adelbert Moot, Mrs. Tracy C. Becker, Mrs. E.

B. McGowan, Mrs. Helen Z. M. Rodgers, Mrs.

Edward T. Smith and Miss Cecil Wiener. Evans-Fischer. The marriage of Miss Charlotte Fischer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

George Fischer, to Mr. Mark Evans of Pittston, was solemnized on Wednesday evening at the home of the bride's parents at 119 Weaver avenue. Coming and Going. Mrs. Arthur King Barnes of New York is in the city for the summer.

Mr. William Hagelin of St. Petersburg, Russia, and his daughter, Anna, Stockholm, Sweden, are the guests of Hagelin and Mrs. Charles A. Hass.

Mrs. Hass will accompany the visitors to Boston next week. The Pastor's Aid Society of the Church of the Atonement will tender a reception to the new pastor and his wife, Rev. and Mrs. Peter Altpeter, on Monday evening at 8 o'clock at Wind's Hall, Jefferson and Bristol streets.

The reception to the class confirmed on Easter and the new members received into the church on that Sunday, will be held on the same evening. mem bers and friends of the congregation are invited. Mrs. John V. Conley of Orlando street will give a theater party next Tuesday evening for the members of the Grippeld Euchre Club.

The Ida Saxton McKinley Tent No. 6, Daughters of Veterans will give a card party on Monday evening, April 30th in G. A. R. Hall, an exhibition drill, St.

Andrew's Sextette, and dancIng will be a feature of the entertainment. News Patterns 4752 0 AN INFANT'S PRINCESS SLIP. No. 4752. One of the new slip patterns for the baby is shower nite The skirt closing in back with pins or buttons, upon which the tender little back must, rest, Is now a thing of the long ago, as is the skirt, with shirrings about the waist.

The skirt shown opens on the shoulders, a feature to be considered for it not only affords protection to the chest and shoulders but is loose enough to allow of chest expansion. With this garment the child's body is evenly covered and one need not fear draughts nor have any use for shoulder blankets. The skirt may be made of flannel. cashmere, cambric or nainsook and requires yards of 27- Inch material. 4752-One size; 10 cents at the NEWS Pattern Department.

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No. 129--An Egyptian Acrostic. When the following words have been rightly guessed and written one below another one of the rows of letters, readIng downward, will spell the name of a famous Egyptian. An animal worshipped by the anclent Egyptians. 2.

A Greek king of Egypt. 3. A famous Egyptian king. 4. A Roman general who spent much time In Alexandria.

5. The early capital of Egypt. 6. A French invader of Egypt. 8.

A title given to the Egyptian kings. 9. Monumental tombs of the ancient Egyptian kings. No. 130-- Village Signs.

1. Part of fence, an adverb and concreted sugar. 2. The mark made by a blow or hard pressure, a verb and a letter. No.

181-Insertions. Insert a letter In the first word to make the second word. 1. Change to talk idly into 8 sea robber. 2.

Change hurried into water in drops. 3. Change to decay into revel. 4. Change sorrowful into remarked.

No. Puzzle. A town in Indiana. Key to Puzzler. No.

Spring Flower Hunt: Cowslip. No. Egyptian Acrostic: Fourth row- Cleopatra. 1. Crocodile.

2. Ptolemy. 8. Ramses. Antony, 15.

Memphis. 6, Bonaparte. Thothmes. 8. Pharaoh.

9. Pyramids, No. 130. -Village Sgisn: 1. Postoffice, Dentist.

131-Insertions: 1. Prate, pirate. Ran, rain. 3. Rot, riot.

4: Sad, said. A Goose Party. A simple amusement was employed the other day to amuse a company of little folks. A black sheet with a hole cut in it large enough for a person's arm to pass through was fastened between two portieres, forming a screen to conceal the person operating the affair. This person placed on her arm stocking shaped plece of white canton flannel, On the small end of which the head of a goose was fashioned.

Eyes were formed of black beads, and the mouth or bill was lined with red flannel. One finger- the first one- and the thumb operated this, and when the arm was through the black curtain a most lifelike goose was displayed. A little introductory speech was made, telling the children that a wonderful bird had been captured and would tipon being fed corn give to them a souvenir of the party. Corn was then distributed, and shouts of laughter followed as each child approached the wonderful bird. The bird sometimes held the fingers in his bill and pecked at them in a most natural way.

When the corn had been properly bestowed the bird withdrew behind curtain to reappear with his gift to the child. A Question. If a plaid-clad caddy laddie's daddy had a fad for adding, would the plaidclad caddy laddie's daddy be an adder? And if the plaid-clad caddy laddie addled daddy in his adding, would the plaid-clad caddy laddie's daddy make the plaid-clad caddy laddie Magazine. The Runaway. Oh, Johnny Jones resolved that he No longer home should stay, Abused by all the family, As he had been that day! His mother had said and said, His father, mean, had rapped his bead, The cook refused him gingerbreadAnd he would run away! He'd go to war-or sail the mainFor be had juet a8 lief.

The folks behind might cry in vain; He'd gloat upon their grief. And then in after years, behold, He'd come some day with fame and gold, A general, bedecked and boldOr mighty pirate chief! He stocked himself with things galore To last him on his trip Until he reached the seat of war, Or got aboard hie abipAn apple and a piece of cake: A marble, for remembrance sake; And half decided he would take His faithful crony Snip. That very night he forth would steal, And none but be ehould know; And only morning should reveal To all the dreadful blow. But when at tea he heard them state That waffles was the breakfast plate He thought perhape he'd better waitAnd thue he didn't go! Paid Him Back. Lily was not very old, as may be belleved when it Is told that she one day ran after some birds in the vain hope of being able to catch them.

A boy, Albert, several years older, told her that she could not hope to catch the birds unless she put salt on their tails. A few days after Albert was sailing his new kite and Lily was delightedly watching him. In some way boy dropped the end of the kite string, and up, up, went the kite. Lily, rememberIng Albert's advice to her when the birds flew away, called out consolingly: "Albert, I will tell you how to catch it. Put salt on its Nonsense.

Mary had a little lamb Inclined to press the button. The butcher did the rest, and 10P That little Jamb 18 mutton. Mary's papa bad a goat. He found it in the gutter: Though pop Is often out of bread. He always has the butter.

Little Bo-Peep she lost her sheep, And sought for them everywbere, Till the sheep she prized, she found disguised As "Lamb" on a bill of fare. -Philadelphia Public Ledger. A Study in Knots. The untying of knots In a string by string la a pretty feat with with those who care to learn it may amuse and mystify those who have never seen it done. It is quite easy, and there is no trick about It.

A careful study of the accompanying diagrams will make it easy to learn the feat, which can be performed with a stout cord or small rope. A simple knot Is made, as in the first diagram, and then the second knot made, forming what is known square knot, as shown in the diagram. The next move la to carry end of the cord marked through the firet loop. gram chows the and It thorot to pall make a hard and complicated knot. But the end A of the cord is now brought up over the outside of the first loop and is carried down through the second loop, coming out in the same direction with the end as in the fourth diagram.

Now, by taking hold of the two ends of the cord and pulling them the cord may be drawn out perfectly straight, the knots disappearing. The performance may be made more mystifying by asking a spectator to hold both ends of the cord, while the operator, concealing the knotted portion his hands, rubs the knots out, leaving the spectator in possession of a smooth and unbroken string. Possibly the spectator may follow the whole operation so closely as to be able to perform it himself on the first trial, but he will be apt to make a mistake in forming the second loop and reverse the twist shown in the second diagram. In that case he will succeed only in tying a knot that will be difficult to untie after the attempt is made to pull the cord straight. were painted on ivory.

Three or four of them were painted in Italy. Mrs. Charles Cary has a portrait of Mrs. Chauncey J. Hamlin beautifully painted, fresh and full of life and youthful beauty.

The flesh tints are excellent. Mrs. Hamlin is painted in her wedding dress, and the ivory white sheen of its satin folds are reflected in the rose which rests in her low dressed dark hair. Mrs. Robert Fulton exhibits a beautiful water color, one of her favorite themes, a wood interior' with roadway, overhanging branches all full of the atmosphere and out of door spirit for which artists strive always and which few attain in perfection.

Mr. Edward Dufner has some of the best things in the exhibit course, as he is one of Buffalo's most artists. His "Old houses at Barbizon," is a masterpiece and the exquisite sentiment shown in "When night comes down on the grass," very poetical and suggestive. The portrait of S. H.

Wheeler 1s greatly praised. Mary B. Coxe's "Ave Maria" is very beautiful and reverential in sentiment and shows the work of years In its careful composition and painting. Mrs. Ellen K.

Baker In "Les exhibits that wonderful comprehension and love she has for the innocence of childhood. Mrs. Beals has two paintings "Spring" and "The Island," lovely coves and inlets with rush and reed covered banks and sky and shrubbery, all alight with light and air. Miss Annie I. Crawford has five paintings, two portralts are remarkable.

One 'The Necklace' shows a woman in a coppery green dress with bishop waist and a string of copper colored beads about her neck, matching her copper colored hair. "Fulda" looks a8 if it were Burgstaller's Parsifal, lacking only Burgstaller's legs and voice. Miss Claire Shuttleworth is represented by three paintings, one very beautiful thing being the sunny court of an old Spanish Hacienda, with the walls and windows of all alive with lights and shadows. A realistic thought from the Industrial world is shown in one of the lumber wharfs of Tonawanda. Miss Shuttleworth's pupil, Miss Ethel Stern, is exhibiting for the first time a waterside summer resort, with a kind of a blue in the sky and water that is peculiarly like Child Hassam.

Miss Stern has evidently also liked the pink and red and varied colored roofs ar.d houses which Childe Hassam always builds, down by the waterside, and she has also chosen a certain size and form of canvas pecullar to this artist and on the whole for one who has been working silently and unobtrusively Miss Stern has achieved something quite out of the ordinary. Miss Eugenia Hauenstein has evidently also had In mind another artist's work when she painted, possibly her mother. that of Whistler's mother, which has hung tor year past in the Luxembourg. Of course In saying this nothing is intended by way of comparison, only Miss Hauenstein has seated her subject in an almost bare room, as did Whistler, and there is a bit of painting or a portrait on the wall. It is the composition of the picture that suggests Whistler's mother, Miss Arletta Lothrop exhibits a stretch of heath with a touch of life in the telegraph poles and wires which mark the way of the chemin de fer.

Mr. Hugh A. Sloan shows a watercolor, a sloping hillside, dipping to an Inland sea, in the waters of which one sees reflected the dark rolling clouds that forecast a thunderstorm. Mr. Otto H.

Schnider has painted the What Was It? Guess what he had in his pocket. Mables and tops and sundry toys Such as always belong to boys, A bitter apple, a leather ball? Not at all. What did he have in his pocket? A bubble pipe watch and a rusty broken screw, A brassy key in two, A fish hook In a tangle of string? No such thing. What did he have in his pocket? Gingerbread crumbs, a whistle be made Buttons, A khife with broken blade? A nail or two, with a rubber gun? Nelther offe. What did he have in his pocket? Before knew it, It slyly crept.

Under the treasures carefully kept. And away they all of them quickly stole'Twas a hole. -Exchange. Hidden Trees. Hidden Trees.

Each of the following sentences contains the hidden name of a tree: 1. I found them locked. 2. She spoke to a kind old lady, 3. I found them a pleasant location and returned home.

4. Anna shall not go over there. 5. I soon began to feel more comfortable. 6.

It is elther too thick or you do not understand the work. 7. We went up in every room. Mary Iced a rich looking cake for Helen's birthday. Key-1, hemlock; 2, oak; 3, maple; ash: 5, elm: 6, hickory; 1, pine; cedar.

A Rainy Day Race. Gather all the children in the playroom or -for this game is apt to prove rather rough on furniture arrange number of hazards, such as low stools, boxes up and down steps or a Jump from two rugs placed a short distance apart. Then give to each player a teaspoon with a spool standing upright in it and tell him he or she must hop on one foot over the entire course without upsetting the spool. If the spool topples over or the racer rests on two feet, even for a minute, he Is out of the game. The one' who gets over course with the least mishaps is the winner and can be given a small prize.

Conundrums. What goes up when the rein comes down? Umbrella. What runs from San Francieco New York and still they never more! Railroads. Around the house and around the house, and only one track it leaves? Wheelbarrow. Around the house and around house, and into the corner it When la a barrel like a blown over.

When a man like shooting. Why is a horse like Ice more you lick it the Why did George up while he 11e. When they settle.