. St. Nicholas [serial]. He did nt say anything like that. He justtold me our light was the bravest light along thelakes, and that we could keep it. He is going totell them in Washington that nobody can tend thePoint light so well as Madame Buteau and Pet-ronel Buteau. We could have told him that all along! saidHardy. It is just because his own folks wereon the boat that he knew how precious the lightcan be. But Petronel shook her head. Mother says that love is the light that burnsforever, and if he loved his own folks so, he willthink of the others who were saved too, andthank our light for i
. St. Nicholas [serial]. He did nt say anything like that. He justtold me our light was the bravest light along thelakes, and that we could keep it. He is going totell them in Washington that nobody can tend thePoint light so well as Madame Buteau and Pet-ronel Buteau. We could have told him that all along! saidHardy. It is just because his own folks wereon the boat that he knew how precious the lightcan be. But Petronel shook her head. Mother says that love is the light that burnsforever, and if he loved his own folks so, he willthink of the others who were saved too, andthank our light for it. And it happened just as she said, for only amonth later, when the big resort had closed forthe season, and the Point began to look bare withthe autumn gales, a long, official letter came fromWashington, with the appointment in it ofMadame Buteau as tender of Point au Manitoulighthouse. So it said, and justly; but everybodyamong the shore people, and on the boats thatsaluted as they passed, called it Petronels ENRAPTURED AUDIENCE: IT S PERFECTLY WONDERFUL HOW NATURALTHIS PHONOGRAPH SOUNDS. Vol. XXXIX.—113. THE BALEARIC ISLANDS BY DR. S. J. FORT If you will take your atlas and look at the mapof Spain, you will see three islands of differentsizes some distance from the western coast, thelargest being called Majorca, the next largest,Minorca, and the smallest, Iviza, the entire groupbeing known as the Balearic Islands. The nameBalearic is derived from a Greek word meaningthe slingers, and was applied from the re-markable skill shown by the inhabitants in the useof the sling, at one time the only rival of thebow and arrow as a missile weapon. Perhaps you will remember reading in historythat the Spartan boys were early taught to ride,shoot, and tell the truth, the most severe punish-ments being meted out to delinquents in thesefoundational principles of education. We arealso told that in the early days of the settlementof our own country, the boy who went huntinghad his
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