Show f ti I 1 44 AV the laughter Laugh of the crowd crowl let him not hope to do great deeds amio N ho tears fears that other men may laus laugh th the e bravery he shows who leads acost A host to battle is not half great as Is his fearlessness who dares though others laugh to try who has the strength and wi wt I 1 to pres ahead ze we I 1 knowing that the high shrill Is laughter ate r of tha the scoffers rin rans s who tv ho bearing hearing them builds on or sines sings men laughed at alexander ere I 1 ahe he world had come beneath his sway they la ched at byron who cou d dare I 1 io 0 sti I 1 keep on his closen way since man first sought success the crowd has aughee to ee the anxious try and onar on e they have won who proud and brave ave have made the laughter die who suffers men to laugh hl n down must not expect a victor victors s crown S E luser kiser toy water wheel A good toy Is a water wheel the that has a handle by which a boy can hold it in a stream of water and see it turn and of course the boy must make it for himself here Is the way to make it get the largest empty spool you can say one on which stout linen thread Is gen brally wound and on one end of it tack three strips of wood cut from an old cigar box the strips should be about five inches long and halt half an N inch broad and they should be tacked on the spool so that the six ends are equidistant equi distant from each other like the spokes of a wheel tack three strips on the other end ot of the spool in the same way exactly so that the strips at one end shall be opposite to those at the other the I 1 t L RZ 41 trying the wheel accompanying picture represents one end of the spool with the strips tacked on now bore a hole through h the strips where they intersect at both ends so that these two holes helps may be a con of the hole through the spool your next step is to cut six strips irom from the cf cigar ar box and having made them the right length tack them across from the Q t fps on one end of the spool to the strips on the other end na a paddles of i i real water wheel use small brads in all the tacking now take a piece of soft wood about six inches in length and with your I 1 nife trim part of it down to the right size to slip easily into the hole through the spool and let this part be long enough to extend halt half an inch out of the other end put a brad through it there to keep the spool from coming off the untrimmed part of the stick will serve as a handle for you to hold the I by and as it Is larger than the trimmed part of course the spool cannot get off that end it if you wish to see how prettily this simple little wheel will turn turu when you hold it in a stream try it under the hydrant with the water turned halt half on divide this plot 0 hera here Is a square plot of ground in the center of which we find a well W houses 11 II and trees T in different locations the problem Is so to divide this plot U 9 T tr T T that each one shall have the same shaped piece of ground each one shall have a house and a tree on that piece of ground and each have access to the well without trespassing tres it was the surveyor who solved the problem how many of our readers would like to try to solve it too how to secure wild pets the 19 gentle graceful little jumping nice mice white footed mice short tailed meadow rats and flying squirrels are to be found in almost any rural place in this country these interesting little creatures can he be captured wit with h ardi nary box traps figure fours or the square or round wire mouse traps the white footed mice or deer mice may be found in the abandoned nests ot of other rodents in holes in the fence rails and under clods of old plowed fields or bene beneath ith brush heaps in the fence corners sometimes birds nests are found with a neatly thatched roof over the bowl and a round doorway of access to the interior where snugly curled up in a warm bed of down the little I 1 footed mouse is sleeping you may capture these little fellows by hand if you use due caution in ap preaching cro aching their habitation and shield your hand with an ordinary handkerchief they will make delight tul ful pets and you will find them much more interesting than the common white mice give them a tall narrow cage with plenty of head room wire a branch containing a last summers ly box trap ba ted and set bird a nest to the side of their cage tor for sleeping quarters and feed the mice with bread seed and gram grain meadow rats are not climbers put them in a flat cage with a good wide expanse of bottom covered with sod of growing grass the roots of which they will eagerly devour feed them garden vegetables when grass roots are not available it if you are expert it Is sometimes possible to catch chipmunks by hand they will enter almost any ordinary sort of a trap and can best be cap aured in that way set the trap near the hole 1 to be occupied by one of these scolding rodents and give your captives a roomy cage with a dark corner for a nest they make gentle and amusing pets feed them on acorns and nuts crack the hard est eat nuts for them the simplest kind of a box trap which Is almost always effective when baited with a sl ce ot of fresh vegetable is shown in the illustration it is very easy to make and will capture your little pets without injuring them in any way origin of common vegetables the common cabbage is a native ot of europe and grew originally among the rocks by the seashore to this day it is found growing wild in such localities in denmark on the south coast of england and on the north coas coast t of the mediterranean in all probability it was cultivated very anciently and previously to that time was gathered in the wild state the garden cress so popular as a salad was valued in early times for properties of its seeds apparently it was a native of persia whence it spread into europe where doubtless it originated A well known proverb here Is a well known proverb or 01 rather the tile parts of one tor for as you N ya I 1 av CN 0 0 will see some of the letters have had pieces cut off them what boys and girls have to do Is to complete the missing parts of the letters and the answer will be seen assumed characteristics in this game some well known nov alist Is selected dickens for instance and each player chooses one of his characters to personate telling no one the choice then one ot of the players relates the life as though it were her own and portrays with voice and gesture the character she has assumed of course no names must be mentioned the person who first guesses what character is personated has the lege of deciding who shall be the next to tell her story the game of assumed characters will prove to be very entertaining it each played player daes her part and makes her narrative as amusing and interest ing as possible |