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Show Ua SElt h ctlci,, the Uttle Old Tomu ton. ed ani no,; Laughter of the Crowd. lThe Caw, WiTiQuIretJ 'T ' b, eman wtI, u tho (j;., to be a !a here. Let E ,(t u Mr. nt lldnt LACi al for q. t la i of I yood to laugh him down victor's crown. -- 8. K. Kiser. Toy Water Wheel. toy is a water wheel, ;oe aust make mow yoi. of Yuffers men not expect a the which a of water it turn. And, of course, the e ident was I laoiThtd at Byron, who could dare 't ill keep on his chosen way. man first sought success the crowd 1 laughed to see the anxious try, fiV they have won who, proud ( brave, have made the laughter that has a handle by tan hold it in a stream nan win dwell Hk led all oi, t that iu the pea, countrj t, m on Lthitt different locations. The problem 13 so to divide this plot world Liter. 8 strong T the The strips should be inches long and halt an road, and they should be tacked e 8 pool so that the six ends are fhstant from each other, like the H of a wheel. three strips on the other end in the same way exactly, spool Ik the strips at one end shall be ilte to those at the other. The lgar box. 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. It was the surveyor who solved the problem. How many of our readers would like to try to solve It, too? 4 fire How to Secure Wild Pets. The gentle, graceful little Jumping mice, white-footemice, short-tailemeadow-rat- s and are to be found in almost any rural place In this country. These interesting little creatures can be captured with ordinary figure fours or the square or round wire mouse traps. The white-footemice, or deer mice, may be found in the abandoned nests of other rodents, in holes in the fence rails, and under clods of old plowed fields, or beneath 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 whi ( footed mouse is sleeping. You may capture these little fellows by hand, If you use due caution in approaching their habitation, and shield your hand with an ordinary pocket handkerchief. They will make delightful 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 com d i the flying-squirre- E wasn't a! i over to nd wast-to a (i untaln tj; pile near . box-trap- d years : :he men:, bright u. (1 to be t ho locked . (1, rein1:;-- the nut, r replied vanterie New T. J I of a Ik le, no p bi. tell. re I'm well. r i ur w- a hole bore f 1 insure the o through the strips step is to cut six strips the cigar box, and having made the right length, tack them s from the strips on one end of to the strips on the other like the paddles of a Use small brads Orlgtn of Common Vegetables. The common cabbage is a native ot 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 coast of the Mediterranean. In all probability It was cultivated very anciently, and previously to that time was gathered in tho wild state. The garden-cress- , so popular as a salad, was valued In early times for proper ties of its seeds. Apparently It was a native of Persia, whence It spread Into Europe, where doubtless It originated. yellowing dress, once the aheoreat white, That shimmered In Joyoua pride She looka at It now with the glrla delight That was hers when she stood a brldix There Is a ribbon of faded blue She keeps with the satin gown; Buckles and lace and a llttte shoe; Badly she lays that down. A One lock of hair that Is golden still With the gold of the morning aun; Tea. and a dollie with frock and frllk-- Rh lift them all, one by one. She lift them all to her gentle Ups, Up there In the afternoon; n Sometimes from the eave trough thw-rsl- drips Tears with her quavered croon. real water in all the take a piece of soft wood, six inches in length, and with jhnife trim part of it down to the I size to slip easily into the hole ikli the spool, and let this part g enough to extend half an inch Box Trap Baited and Set the other end. Tut a brad birds nest to the side of their cage it there to keep the spool for sleeping quarters, and feed the coming off. mice with bread, seed and grain. untrimmed part of the stick Meadow rats are not climbers. Put ,ervfi as a handle for you to hold them in a flat cage with a good wide 'heel by, and as it is larger than expanse of bottom covered with sod rimmed part, of course the spool of growing grass, the roots of which t get off that end. they will eagerly devour. Feed them f ?h Up In the attlo where mother goea 1 a trunk In a shRdowed place A trunk with the scent of a withered "Dut It was you that I wanted to roe see, he protested. "You must have On the nntln and shoe and lace. known that; only None of u touches Its battered ltd, llut safe In Its nlehs It stays Aiy aunts message, Mr. Lyon, Is this: she wishes mo to say that you Bncred to all that her heart has hid Gold of the other days. must that Is, that you must not oh, dear! I am making a mesa of It! I dont know, how to say It; only you musn't ary more, you know. There! "Mustnt what? he Inquired gravely. I don't quite understand." W. D. N., In Chicago Tribune. Miss Pringle came Into her parlor at the Overmont with her head high In air sure sign with her of a perturbed spirit and an aroused temper. Who do you a'pose Is here, C'lln-dy- ? she asked, explosively. Why I can't guess, replied the girl, slowly. Is It anyone I know? I Anyone you know! Humph! should think you ought to know him; you've seen him oficn enough this last year to know him! Not began Ccllrda, tho pink roses suddenly biocmlng In the garden of her pretty cheek. Yes, 'tls, tco! srapped her aunt, A Proverb. "Roger I.yon! Now what dye think Hera Is a proverb 01 cf that for downright Impudence?" I don't really eee how It Is exactly rather the parts of one, for, as you Impudence,' auntie. Yes, It Is impudence, and you know It Is! replied that lady, testily. Here he has been traipsin after me all winter me cr my money, the Lord only knows which and ro sconer do I get Eettled down for a quiet summer than If he bobs up to spoil everything. that aint impudence. Id like to know what youd call It! I wonder bow he found out wh.rro I was?" Did the rtEcs deepen In hue In that rweet garden? If they did. Miss Trln glo didnt notice, for the shapely head Am serpent He says he was satllug his yacht near Kashong Point, when tho boat was slowed down by an obstruction. lie lifted the centerboard, and an the boat went ahead he saya he bbw the serpent astern. It was as big as a shark, round In body and had great yellow eyes. It kept up with the yacht for half a mile, when U sank. I wouldn't take that trip again for noHirv eV i !f: war. bert low. will see, somo of the letters have pieces cut off them. What boys girls have to do is to complete missing parts of the letters and answer will be seen. had and tha the Assumed Characteristics. novIn this gamo some elist Is selected, Dickens, for instance, and each player chooses one of hl3 characters to personate, telling no one the choice. Then one of the players relates the life as though it were her own, and portrays with voice and gesture the character she has assumed. Of courso no names must be mentioned. Tho person who first guesses what character Is personated has the privilege of deciding who shall be tho next to tell her story. The game of assumed characters will prove to bo very entertaining if each player doos her part and makes her narrative as amusing and Interesting as possible. Colors it J a tw" r undert -' ton po"- hotisfh' die Is t' a and U li V w nfr ll'jl - 4 , and . didn't know; he may Perhaps Just have happened to come here. You know Overmont is getting to bo quite a fashionable resort nowadays. Happened your grandmother!"'waa tho forcible; It not strictly elegant or He knew entirely Intelligible retort. I was hero, all right. The Idea of his thlnkirg that I want him! Why, hes nothing tut a bey! Not a day over ' If he 8 that twenty-one- , And MIs3 Prirg;ewho confessed to thirty years, but was ccyly reticent concerning the other ten which the family bible generously set to her credit, tossed her head In fine scorn. But theres just ore thing that Mr, Reger Lycp has got to ieirn, and that in very short order," she continued, net goin to have him snoopin 'round me any longer, and t want yon to tell him so, with my compliments. I I tell him so? gasped tho girl. The roses In that garden were white, ghastly while, now. Yes, ycu! Why not, Pd like to know? Somebody's got to do it, and ci course I cant; so ycu must. Why, auntie, I I couldnt do it! It's Impossible! Don't ask me. Ob, Indeed I Come In! called the older woman, cs a knock snurded at the door. "Con'leman In Parlcr A, mum," said the bell boy. presorting a card. Humph! Talk about ycu know r.ho, and you begin to smell brim-itonHero Is Roger Lyons card. Now you go right down and cxcu.ie me, ard give him to understand or.ce for ell that I wart him to let mo alone. On, I dont Know want you snail say," raising doprccacry hands tgalrst tie etorm of'- - Celirdas remonstrances. Say anythlrg, Pe polite, rf course, bu'. mako It plain that I wont have anything to do with 1 Ini. And sho fairly thrust the girl from the room. im It was a very Curbed ard embarrassed your.g laly who appeared at isr it ary lr'l thcBi rg will fl hi molt:-ne- la of the at lt since Tho first arch was capped by a are tho dominoes? "double ino with two pips or spots (a and Low have om. ; on consecutively so the checkers ore gone, too! 2) over it. and 'rrgo and Lew have em," repeat- - to the sixth arch, which was topped t domino with tno arle. by a double C, the bclug t they arent playing with both greatest uumbor of pips, there 4 anm time, are they? asked l2After those arches were constJ,c l urrrlHo. ? checkerboard don't small believe It, do you? said the 19 its ' shook his head Incredu-- ' on the floor, closed with Come upstair am! Ill prove pushed up against tho cntlr0J,ack a brace and the bridge, this forming out of iaw! The doml-- making six compnrtments Old Leon Bhown In drawing. dumped out of the box six arches ns checkers come r Now. where do the kero they had boon r, gliding what appeared to bo bridge. Thore were elx 'I dominoes were etn- - IMr oi,. . n the eonnt number of black-'- . an equal cot L th,,r Low that bo ruction, c lnl horrid?. r strong enough to re-- then they toed dom- Wl,cro J 1 hl Ith it t by" uuir with - 1 - 1 rV lnc'' blow. A domino it. race outward formed the top krcli, 0w ,.? "?. 7 missed them entirely In his first roll, hut on his second trial ho managed to penetrate the arch that was topped by the dmihlo Rlx. Each pip counted one point, bo George got 12, which put him ahead of Lew, who had managod to get only four and six on both hi two rolls. The game grew very exciting and was not decided until the last roll, when Lew won by a score of 43 to 42. They called this now game Combination, and If you wish to play It, here Is another way ot counting: In- the door of Tartar A a few minutes stead of taking only ten checkers, use later, and an equally embarrassed but as many as you llko, but fix on a cer- eager yourg man who sprang to meet tain number E0 to ICO as the win- her. ning number, and whoever reaches It Why, Ccllnda, ha stammered, Im hi pod' I hardly dared- -1 first wins tho game. 10 glad! Combination may not bo as scion-ISfl- c she ri;d'el demurely, "I "Yen, as its parent games, yet it's a lot I row that you wirt"l to rco ninth: It is a lut rhe was v ns busy, r.) sho met of fun. and ns na splendid pastime. uo with a a tr' ti; c cyo-traln- New York World. vnffnjast&jwmsMMssafrV Oh, you must uhderstand! I cant tell you!" I fear that I roust Insist upon you trying, ho said. "This Is a matter of tho greatest importance to me. Well, Its Its about your your following her about so much. She is Is angry because you have come here. She can't lo cant feel toward you In the way you wish, and your attentions annoy her! I seo. said tho man, thoughtfully. "Miss Prlnglo does me the honor to suppose that I am a suitor for her Land. Is that It? Yes, very softly. And flrding me ineligible she wishes mo to withdraw my claims and my presence. Am I still right?" Yes," as before. Of course you told her bet- ter?" I? did I Why krow?" why how could I? IIow Very rosy the face now. Such deep-tinteblossoms, In such a fair garden! must bav Oh, Ccllnda, you I he cried passionately. known! was cure that you understood; that j ou knew that when I sought your aunt it was you whom I was seeking; tnat I haunted her presence that I might bo near youl Didnt you know It? And would It have made any difference if yon had? Dear, I love you, and you oi ly! Will you come to me?" Whatever the answer, it must bav been eminently satisfactory; for after This sketch waa made by Edwin A. a lUilo a much tumbled bead of balr was lifted from Us pillow on a manly Abbey on the back of a card In am awer to a request for his autograph. Eliou dcr, and a happy voice sal'. Oh. Roger, what a goose you were Curse Seems to Hold Good. (0 rouit one woman when you wanted A recent drowning at Biddcford, another." And what a goose you were not to Mo., recalls the old legend of tha curse put upon the 8neo river by tho krow that yon were being courted! 'idlun s ptaw whore parooso was was the gay rcjdnjer. And Mbs Pringle, Just then looking thrown from one of tho cliffs In "The In at a partly opened door, carno to Narrows, by white men who wantod midden ci Hrhtei.mcnt, and stolo softly lo see if It could swim. That curso aas, as tho legend has It, that no year away, muttering to herself: And what a gooso I as to think .Mould pns.i without at loast threo whlto victims of tho rlvor. There that I wat bein courted when wa;;i.t! It arena that there are three h ivo already been two this summer. a kind of us, and that Im tho big-guCould Not Stand the Silence. gocre cf tuo thtcc!" A servant girl who was taken by a Che Was Too Enthusiastic. 'amily Into a quiet country place for Them is a wont in In West Phlladel iho summer la:it week, after a few lays announced to her mistress that pnla who is ths owner of a few houses whlib ih? rents, Lut wkkh are much dm didnt like It, and "would bo goto of tho time vacant. Elio Is a thorough- home the next day." On being quos-Monas to the causes for her dlallko ly good woman, a prominent worker in tho W. C. T, U. and tho church, and so .he said, Well, I have to pull the eatliuslnstle Is she on the temperance bedclothes about my head and ears to o :;hut out the dead silence of the night, question that (ho places tho Union and I cant stand It any longer. tho church. Tho other day a man, who work Gates on Norway Roads. keeps h!ra out ot doers, and whoso Gatos at frequent Intervals bar the complexion shows It, went to her to rent one of her tenements. She looked country roads In Norway, and are w I suppoo you nuisance to travelers, who have to him over and said: drink." leave their vehicles ami open tho bar-- 1 ilers. These obstructions murk the "Yes, malara." boundaries of farms, or separate th Hard? Yes. I do drink a good deal this hot cultivated sections from the wsst weather." lands. WhinUy, I suppose." No. Effective Coon Trapping. Then I Buppero its vllo beer." Aulxlon Phillips of Glovor, Vt . reNo." cently sent away over thirty handsome coon skin', tnowt of them of his "Well, what dOTCU drink? Water I have btn a total nhstala own trapping, with an order to make er nil wy hf x" them into a coat. a silicate lili' he said. Drawn by Famous Impresario. . I10 'jO $500, c. lCyeif' j Sea Serpent Chased Him. son Grover Wehnes, the of President Conrad Wehnes of tha Geneva, N. Y., common council," la telling ot an experience ho had a few days ago with a Seneca lake soa well-know- the rl. : Wetl-Know- dy coall reef hoards Tho things of the long ago. these scolding rodeut3, and give your captives a roomy cago, with a dark corner for a nest. They make gentle and amusing pets. Feed them on acorns and nuts. Crack the hardest nuts for them. The simplest kind of a box trap, which Is almost always effective when baited with a slice 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. well-know- v Im-'- J aiac-- erjr . .4 I tw who tA: :g- - r- great i T they intersect, at both ends, so these two boles may be a conation of the hole through the pool rind la . the Wheel. Vpanylng picture represents one li the spool with the strips tfleked ur next the cord: A Trying J re wrlttd lile not ei b prison A trunk am Its lid sho will oft unclose As It It were a precious hook. She kneels at Its hhIo on tho attic boards And tenderly, suit and slow. She count all the trcasuics she fondly It for himself, Get ye is the way to make It: Jtrgest empty spool you can, say, i which stout linen thread is gen- wound, and on one end ot It three strips of wood cut from an at Sea the moot; ty hl. 8eo how Prettlly I (I ,ES to mnlsh to this vegetables when grass roots wheel will turn when you garden are not available. 8tream 11 hvdrAV", der the try If you are expert It is sometimes the water turned half on. fearlessness I possible to catch chipmunks by hand. fi'dares, though others laugh to try; n,?. the strength and will to press They will enter almost any ordinary Divide This Plot knowing that the high, sort of a trap, and can best be capHere is a square plot of Sufhier of the seoffers rings; ground. In tured In that on or sings. hearing them, builds way. Set the trap near f which we flnd a "well rmiCewtGr the holo known to be occupied by one houses (II) and trees (w), 'anehed at Alexander ers (T) in of had come beneath his sway; to do great deeds tJ Vars hops tha.t other men may laugh! L.wrv he dhows who leads ra y battlehie is not half adlngj 10 simnfA Thera Is no wind but soweth Beads Of a more true mid oper Ufa, Which burst, unlocked fo. Into high- souled deed With wayside beauty rife. Wa And within these souls of our Rome wild germ of a higher birth. Which In the poets tropic heart bears flowers Whose fuigranco fills the earth. Within tha hearts of nil men lie Those promises of wider Which blossom Into hopes that cannot die. In sunny hours like this. All that hath been mnjeatlenl In Ills or death elm-- time began, la tiailve In tho simple beirt of all, The angel heart of man. James Bussell Lowell. t be-fut- |