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A R O U N D T H E O L D A R M C H A I R
THOMAS.
By Louella C. Poole.
A cosy nook behind the range.
Good food a-plenty, was it strange
That he was sleek and fat—
Por Bridget was a kindly soul.
"I love it, I love it,
And who shall dare
To chide me for loving
The Old Arm Chair."
is Clover. He is blooded and immense.
His weight has been estimated by experts
to be twenty-five pounds. The
most interesting subjectively is Piccaninny.
The color of Clover is the
conventional Maltese. Piccaninny is
Soft was his bed, well filledhis bowl; as black as a crow and nearly as
He was a happy cat.
mals.
glossy. He further reminds of "the
cloth" by his white cravat. He is not
blooded. He came to the rectory
through the tears of a maid, who had
saved him from drowning on the condition
that she would find a home for
Most dignified and neat was he;
With pride quite beautiful to see
He took the greatest care
Of his white vest, his velvet toes,
His bristling, curved mustachios—
Well groomed each shining hair.
But, oh, alas! one ill-starred day
The cook, kind Bridget, went away.
And 'twas not long before
The family on pleasure bent.
Away in whirling autos wen*
To summer at the shore.
him. If Clover has a disposition, it is
mild. He cares for nothing but eating
and sleeping.
There can be no question as to Piccaninny's
having a disposition. It is
diabolical. Still he is lovable—in common
with so many other folk of like
disposition. I am pounding away on
my typewriter. My arm is touched. I
glance over the shoulder to which the
touched-arm belongs. There is a chair
a few inches from the elbow of that
A meager bone or dirty crust
Comprised his scanty fare;
Consumed by thirst, mere ghost was
he
Of the fine eat he used to be—
He looked like grim despair.
THE CHRISTIAN NATION. Vol. 61.
position to come to the assistance of how to play. "Yellow," the newcomer
the mistress Can one know absolutely
what is back of an action upon the saving the lives of three homeless
is very happy, and I also am happy in
part of any other sentient being Are things.—Our Dumb Animals.
we paying enough attention to the
psychology of the lower creatures
May we not some time have to ac­BICYCLEcount for not having done so Pic­
MORE POPULAR TH L\
caninny may have been taking advantage
of the backing of the mistress
and the broom! At any rate his doing
was very much as might have been
that of an unregenerate human under
the circumstances.—Our Dumb Ani­
"NEW," "STRAY" AND "YELLOW."
By Sarah K. Bolton.
A lady called me on the telephone.
"There is a tortoise-shell cat around
here, very pretty, with no home, and
as I have three cats I cannot take
her in. My neighbors say they will
poison her. Can you take her in"
I had three tortoise-shell cats already;
two belonging to my dead sister,
and one that some little boys
picked up on the street and brought
to me because homeless.
But I could not see anything starve,
so I told the lady I would send a covered
basket for it. When she came,
the other cats were angry. They ran
after her, and tried to chase her away,
for fear she would crowd them out of
their good home.
She was black, yellow" and white,
very gentle, very hungry, and very
timid.
We called her "New Kitty" and she
soon learned her name, but nobody
played with her.
One day a little girl came with a
pretty gray and white kitten that she
EVER.
Boys and Girls Can Now Own Good
Bicycles at Very Little Cost
.v,^.^°Ju^ ^^^ "^° ^^^'•'^ t° remark
that the bicycle is comir - ' v ^,!
popular favor again. Bu '
are closely associated wit'
business are authority f(
ment that the bicycle hai
out—that there are more bicycleTin
use today than ever.
There are thousands of them in use
today that are never noticed. They
have become so general in use that
they are no longer a novelty, in the
cities and larger towns today hundreds
of bicycles can be seen on the streets
during the morning, and evening hours
when people are going to and from
their work. The bicycle has become a
necessary means of transportation for
workmen, boys and children.
In the old days when a good bicycle
cost a hundred dollars or more only
those with larger incomes could afford
them, and they were considered a
high-priced luxury for children. The
average family no longer has to make
a sacrifice to provide the boy or girl
with a bicycle for doing errands, riding
to and from school, and for littla
pleasure trips into the country and
through the parks.
Modern manufacturing methods
have brought about better bicycles today
for $2.5 than ever have been made
before at any price.
The boy who works in the summer
can easily save enough from his earnings
to purchase a bicycle that will
last him a number of years and repay
him a thousand fold in fun and heolth.
His bicycle will get him out in the
Barred was each window, locked each
door.
All desolation where before
arm. I go on with my pounding. The
Had home and plenty been!
arm is touched again. I do not show
And luckless Thomas, left behind.
that I have noticed the touch. It
Could neither food nor shelter find;
comes again. What can i do but stop
He grew wild, gaunt, and thin.
pounding and take the little black
rascal in my arms! And how he does
His once sleek coat all burrs and dust, ^^^^^^ ^„^ ^^^^ ^^ j embrace and
fondle him!
I cannot refrain from relating another
incident. Just before I began
writing I passed through my bedroom,
which is directly back of my had found under some bushes. The
study, with windows to the south. He kitten seemed half dead with fright,
One day, in a vain hunt for food.
was lying on the floor in the sunbeams,
sleeping. He could have been learned afterward that it had been to
as though some dog had chased it. I
With hunger mad, he dared intrude
Inside a hostile door;
more 'c oir^ortable and also in the several homes, only to be turned out,
A flying missile struck his head;
beams, on the cushion of a chair in or carelessly treated. I called him
Dazed, bleeding, down the street he
the room' of the mistress, to the east "Stray," and he soon made friends fresh, pure air and help him to grow
fled.
of the one which he was honoring. But with "New."
into Care a and robust, discrimination healthy, red-blooded are exercised
in managing the advertising de­
Deaf to its din and roar.
that chair and cushion the mistress The same week I was walking with man.
has interdicted his using—the interdiction
impressed by certain e.xperi-
where dozens of colored men and bicycles we must can be get first a convinced lot of very that inter­
an
my brother-in-law far in the country, partment Any boy of or the girl Christian who interested Nation, and in ^
There bowled along a lumbering van,
Beneath its wheels he blindly ran.
ences not over-pleasant to him! Italians were putting in a new railroad
track. They had just laid down page and patronage catalog that before is being his order sent is out acesting
advertiser information is worthy from of the confidence new 64-
As down the hill it sped;
iBut to my original purpose in the
Poor hunted vagrant of the street,
writing. The mistress was tidying-up their tools and were going home. A by cepted. the Mead We cannot Cycle Company agree to of become Chicago.
guarantor, nor to adjust petty misun­
His little heart had ceased to beat.
in the kitchen. Both cats were in evidence.
Piccaninny was sleeping on a after me. The men said, "It has been derstandings, but for a subscriber
soft-furred yellow kitten came crying
All limp i.e lay, and dead.
divan near the stove. He was not in in the woods for a month, and we whose account is kept paid up we will
Alas that human thoughtlessness the way. Clover was sleeping behind have given it bread and meat from gladly render any reasonable service
Snould bring such misery and distress, the stove. He was in the way. The our dinner uails."
in his dealings with advertisers in
Such suffering as that
mistress spoke to him. He did not The winter was coming on, and I this paper. Since 1911, investment
Poor Thomas knew, bereft of home. move. She touched him with the knew it would starve. I could not advertisements of every kind have
And left upon the streets to roam, broom. He did not move. She spoke leave it there.
been debarred.
A starved, abandoned cat!
to him more sharply. He did not In the distance I saw a fine home,
—Our Dumb Animals. move. She poked him- with the broom. and carried him to it. "It has been Deafness Cannot lie Cured
He did not move. She both spoke and here once, but we have dogs and cannot
have it," said a little girl on the the diseased portion of the ear. There is
by local applications, as they cannot reach,
\\'HY DID PICCANINNY POUNCE poked. He moved. In the meantime
OX CLOVER Piccaninny had awakened. He now porch. "1 have dogs, also," I said, only one way to cure deafness, and that Is
By Charles Josiah Adams, D.D. made a flyingleap, and came on Clov- "and I teach them to live together." by constitutional remedies. Deafness is^iius->
Recently occured in the rectory an er's back. What a fight ensued! How I offered the homeless kitten to two ed by an Inflamed condition of the nrecom
event which cannot but interest any the fur did fly!Clover was completeone
who has interest in either the ex- ly "done up"!
they did not wish the care.
tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sounffi
ladies walking along the street, but lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this,
ternal or the internal cat. The per- What was back of this action of Picsons
Involved are the mistress of the caninny Was he simply provoked car to my home, and "New" and
I brought him six miles on the street or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely'
rectory and two cats. The cats have over being disturbed Had he it "in "Stray" were delighted.
been inmates of the rectory with us for" Clover and found it impossible "New" mothered him as though he
for about ten years.
to resist the impulse ot the addition- were her own, and "Stray" played
The one most interesting physically al irritation Did he :ict from a dis- with him as only two kittens know
closed, reafnesa is the result, and unless the
inflammation can be taken out and this tubel
restored to its normal condition, hearing will}
be destroyed forever; nine cases out of tenj
are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but
an inflamed condition of the mucous surfacesj
We \Mll give One Hundred Dollars for mJ
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) thai
cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cura.
Send Sold Take F. for by Hall's J. Druggists, circulars CHENEY Family free. 75c. & Pills CO., for Toledo, constipat Ohio