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BlandheinsonPreviously the mail loan liaJ been an unimportant' per.vn with , Emcst Colling but he will never forget that persons rise to importance (with himself) on last November the Ltb.Colllna Is a prominent sewiekley mxan.lie la forty-six years old andsingle.lie had not boon visibly worried about hla state of singleness, but when £e received a letter from a lonely llttio cirl be realised, that he was really lonely, too.The letter waa from one Hortens* Kingston of 121Z Fifth street, South. Minneapolis. Minnesota.Hortens© infortned him thi»t hie aamo had beem given hex by a social oorrespondenoe dab.He scratched his bead and - didn’t try to remembfcr that he bad not Joined any anch club.This waa manna tram heaven.Hera are excerpts of tho first let-Abbut BOOKS -A BOOK FOR REAL BOYS—.THE CORAL. ISLAND. By R. M. Rallantyrie. Published by Thcmai Nelson And Bona, New Tork city.! Price SL$0.HERE U a nice fat book of Jli pages and eight'liluatrationa lanatural colors, that will bring Joy to ib© hearts of adventumojiRalph Rover, Jack Martin and FeteHdn, Gay, ranging in age from foartsefl ,to eighteen; boys full of Ilfs sod tha fPdrlt of adventure, lake ship for tbs Sooth 8*aa I• Tbay ar© shtpawreeked In a tori-1 ble aton»r«nd stranded on u coral u-Tland. T“ JWhile there they have a’l sorts ol breath-taking adventures with an!-mals and caimlbslq - Finally, however, as yoo have prob. ably guessed. everything comes out all rightsThis is the sort of healthy book that will delight youngsters and wiD make a good Christmas present. ——The- Glory THst Was Egypt—-THE j CIVILIZATION OP THI ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. By JL Both well Gojne. Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. New York, N. Y.This Is VoL I of the very r.ofel “Through the Eye Series’, whoa® motto is “Look and Und*rs*tahui.• It prclents th© facts of the won-derful Egyptian civijlratlon ir. plaia language that any child can understand. add most important of aii, ths book U j profusely Illustrated.There ; la no necessity fr usiaf 1 one’s'Imagination to .understand hov the ancient Egyptians lived.. It is all here in scores of ■excellent half*, ton i engravings on beaiy smooth paper.Nq side of ancient Egy ptian life U neglected. ■;Beginning with a description of th®people ok Ancient Egypt, the author discuses^, always in exceedingly simple language, their educational *y®* tem, the}professions and occupationj, amusements, architectures, sculpture and painting, science in engineering and astronomy, medicine, gorera-, ment add laws, religion and literature.’ There ar# many ponderous tome® on the subject of ancient KgyptLu tfvillxation, hat it is doubtful whether smy of them can give the reader a be^jer Idea of the glory that waa Egypt than Is given In this bool of onlyjldl pages.It certainly ought to be a wrlcotn® addition} to the library of the Negis family anxious to know all about this greatest civilization of colored people. —■ In Psfsnas of Missionaries —7- , BLACK TREASURE.^ By Basil Matthei'a. Friendship Press. New IYork City. Price 75 cents. ■ :The missionaries, particularly! those it Africa, have been critlcUed• great deal, often unjustly. jThey have really done a great dbl of good by stopping the slave trade, halting the liquor traffic (among ft®natives, building schools and helpingthe abo Iginea to adapt themsrlvesjto the modern conditions that have bee* thrust xipon them. 1• As the author of this book **!*» there ol-e good and bad goodand bad whites, and In any coaslder* atlon of the native “problem” In Alvina thin fact must be taken Into account. . 'Mr. Matthews fn this little bock of 114 pages tells about some of ft® great (difficulties and accomplishments iof the missionaries and ha-manltarians In Africa in curbing th®rapacitjy and cruelty of the unscrt*nnlffilk man KaIK »a . 1“I cm an orphan. An unde and aunt reared me. 1 a*n-nineteen years old have never been allowedto have any friend. A nsrse, a gov-smcss and two Swede maid® are my only associates. 1 would: like te marry a nice man with suflleirnt 'wealth to core for me. ’ p •“1 can sew, coc^k,1 do beauty .culture and play several musical instruments. But I atn miserable liere.“If you are interested, picas© answer at once. *' •' I“Hopefully, 1 Hartenso Kingston.” '« Littlo by Little Colllna began to show her that the wolf was not at hlu door.Letters sped backward and for-1 ward. IPromisee and endearing terms weighted them and spoclal delivery stamps and registry seals were employed to insure their safe delivery.This new Love was something like religion—too good to b« kept to him- j self.He eventually let his landlady, Mrs.Rznma Divers, tn on his magnificent secret jMrs. Divers is a woman of. iflde experience and kbo with mild tn difference suggested that ho “go slow, so slowP* 1’You don’t matm to insinuate that1 Hortens© isn*t an the level with me,!do ycruT* he glared, and Mrs. Divers very apologetic-like replied: '“Well, 1 don’t mean to Insinuate anything, but fnmkjy I don’t take to Hortcnse's letters so very well It Just doesn't seem proper for a ftan-©00 to. be hinting for money every time she writes- and her nvrw seeing him, either.'* »Colllna decided that Ms affairs were solely his own and after thathe kept-them strictly to himself “Daddy, Ac wrote a frantic letter In January, -Daddy, I hare something awful to tell you! Azzsrtls and Uncle ore trying to fores xss to marry FVed Raker. This Fred Baker has showered ms wUh easily gifts (she wed on to enumerate tbs contents af s faJrty wen stsrtesd Indy's •mportumj and I refnss ts socsgt them.; Because ha poses as a wealthy man they Insist that 2 shall marry him.Daddy. I Ami want Mm. Z have ’ given my heart to yoo- Please scad for ms al cmre' and 1 will slip away to yon.-Your Hortens©.*I CoHton Is an average man and an •Vcrage man, can’t 1st much of that 9*0* op. jHe stepped doi^n to the Western Union and did his part.Then be settled Into a bllasfnl period of wailing.It won’t be long now, bs kept humming.And then the next week .he received a letter. Just a plain every day letter, stating that cruel treatmeot had brought about a nervous breakdown on her part.She was v«ry%UL
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