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Show FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. elf, her sole companion the old lantern went out Deprived of her light she could not see a foot ahead of her, OUR BUDGET OP FUN. save when dazzling flashes of lightning BOMB GOOD JOKES, ORIGINAL revealed the grim outlines of the AND SELECTED. bridge and the seething waters beneath. Knowing that she had no time Iroolee, mm IturlM A boat llrm Olrls A to lose, the brave girl threw away the A Tirlit; of Jokes albas Selected Floteia esd Four uselesa lamp, and dropping on her Trick wltk Folded Paper Ml Original Jeteem from the Tide ef Humt Little Traveler The Origin ef Ice hands and knees, crawled from tie to tie across the high trestle. Having Witty Say lag. berge. gained the ground again, she ran the short distance remaining to the staThe Dream of tho Dnanm Foar Little Traveler. tion, told her story In breathless haste A little room In a little hotel Mary Alicia get forth for the east and then fell unconscious. She was, In a little country town. To see where the sun comes up; however, In time to save the express, On a little bed with a musty smell A man was lying down. And Edward Delaney went straight to- with the scores of lives It carried. A great trig man with a great big snore ward the north For he lay on his back, you see To search for a polar pup. And a peaceful look on his face he wore. A Trick with Folded Fapen For sound asleep was ha Margaret Anna repaired to the south. A very successful trick which will Where oranges flourish, you know; be sure to puzzle your friends, and In bis dream what marvelous trips be And Thomas Augustus struck out for which you can make with very little made, the west. What tremendous bills he sold! trouble, la the Transformed Penny. Where gold mines and buffaloes nobody failed and every one paid To make this, take a piece of colored And And his orders were as good as gold. grow. about and cut a piece paper, say red, He smiled and smothered a scornful Tis a very strange thing that I have seven and a half laugh by nine Inches In size. to relate Cut two pieces, of a different color, t When his fellow drummer blowed; he knew no other had sold the half .Concerning these traveled young from the red, we will say lavender for j For Of what his order book showed. folk convenience, both six and a half by i But the very next morning they all of got this letter- from home one day; eight Incnes In size; and two more ! He Dear Sir Weve no fitter term them found pieces of white, five and six Inches. To use in your case than simply to were In safe when their beds They Fold each of the two pieces of white say. they woke. Henceforth you are one of the Arm." paper neatly, creasing one edge over And a glorious change thus made In his Elisabeth I Gould. beyond then the opposite life. so the over that It will edge first, He now from the road withdrew. lap Rtorle of Brae Glrle. and then fold each end so that they And really soon got to know his wife, His son and his daughter too. During an attack by the Indians on will nearly meet In the middle. Fort Henry, a small establishment near The two pieces of lavender paper are And then he moved from his obscure the Wheeling creek, now Wheeling, W. to be folded In the same fashion, but flat To a house on the avenue; Va in the summer of 1777, the powder large enough to inclose the easily Lived swell, was happy, got healthy and of the garrison becoming exhausted, white paper after It Is folded. The fat. Ebeneser Zane, one of the garrison, re- two lavender papers are to be creased Respected and wealthy too. membered that there was a keg of the exactly alike, and then the backs when But with a thump, bang, wang, thump again, article in his house, sixty yards away. folded and to be glued together evenly. The landlord stood at the door, The man who should attempt to go for This will make the lavender paper Its purty nigh time for that 4:10 train! it would be exposed to the close and open on each side, and each lavender And the drummer's dream was oer. numerous shots of the Indians. Only paper Is to contain a white paper. one man could be spared from the fort All of this, which will appear to be He Woold lie Safe. tor the service. Col. Shepard, the com- - one package, is to be Inclosed within mander, was unwilling to order any the red paper. Crease all the folds, so man to the duty; he asked fora volun- that the package will lie flat, as you teer. Every man present eagerly of- do not want it to show that the lavenfered to undertake the hazardous du- der paper opens on both sides. ty. They contended so long for the Now in one of the white papers place honor, that It was feared the Indians a cent, and In the other (on the oppowould return to the siege before an at- site side of the package), a piece of tin tempt to get. the powder should be foil, flattened out and round in shape. made. At this moment Elizabeth The success of this trick will depend Zane came forward and asked permis- largely upon haring the lavender pasion to go for the powder, giving, as a pers folded quite flat, and exactly even, reason, that her life was less valuable and all the papers must be kept neatly to the garrison than that of a man. folded In the same creases each time. She was a sister of Ebenezer and Silas Now to perform the trick, open the Im going to ask your Zane the former the future founder red paper displaying the lavender one Youngun consent next Thursday." father's of Zanesville, O. and had Just return- inside. Now without raising the laMiss Bilson Why do you pick out ed from Philadelphia, where she had vender paper open the side which Is finished her education, and was hut uppermost, and this should be the one that day?" Youngwun "Because he has a hard little accustomed to the horrors of bor- which contains the penny, and last of der warfare. With other females, she all open the white paper disclosing the day's work to do at the bank, and hell be too tired to get at me when I had assisted In casting bullets, making penny Itself. first At rifles. Now fold the white paper, then the ask .him. cartridges and loading she was peremptorily refused, but so lavender, and then taking hold of the earnest were her solicitations that con- latter In such a way that the lower Criminal Neglect. sent was reluctantly given. She went folds will not fall down and show, take Managing Editor Well, I suppose out of the gate and fearlessly passed It up In your hand, and rap the old Mr. Wlckwlre will cancel his subthe open space to her brothers house. package against any convenient article scription tomorrow or next day. The Indians saw her and watched her as if to show that the penny is still City Editor Why?" movements. When she came out of within. Then with as little effort as Managing Editor In that account the house, and, with the keg of powder possible turn the package over in lay- of his sons funeral you didnt say that In her arms, sped with the fleetness of ing it down. If yon do this well no the young man would undoubtedly a fawn toward the fort, they sent a one will notice that you do turn It have had a brilliant career if he had full volley of bullets after her, but not over. Lay it In the red paper again, lived." Cleveland Leader. a bullet touched her person. open the lavender paper, and then the On July 6, 1881, a storm of wind and white as before, this time revealing the Opposed to Expansion. Are you an expansionist, Mr. rain burst over Iowa, and In an hour's piece of tin foil, apparently where the Scadds? asked young Mr. Hunker, time every creek was out of Its banks. penny has Just been. So sudden was the flood that houses, The trick seems plain when you un- who felt bound to talk to the old genbarns, lumber and all portable objects derstand It, but appears very myste- tleman while he waited for Miss within reach of the waters were car- rious until you discover how It Is done, Scadds to descend to the parlor. reried away. Looking from her window, -- J. D. C. No, I am an Is quite which In daylight commanded a vl3w Mr. 8cadds. My plied family Origin of Iceberg. now as. I care to have it" of the Honey creek- railroad bridge, sailor knows the danger ships as large Every darkFree Press. Kate Shelley saw, through the Detroit run of striking against these glittering ness and storm, a locomotive headlight. mountains of crystal that float southA second later It dropped; she knew Still Slipping Away. ward along the Atlantic coast until a that the bridge had gone, and that Sire," said the pretenders secreIn the warm waters of tho melted train of cars had fallen Into the abyss. Where do these lceburgs come tary, I am afraid we are losing There was no one at home but her tropics. from? All have heard the expression, ground." mother and her little brother and sisDon Carlos frowned and then asked: It Is steadily As cold as Greenland. ter, and the girl understood that if "What? Has Spain gone and recolder. Five hundred years help was to be given to the sufferers, growing another batch of islands 7 linquished comfortlived there very --Cleveland Leader. and the express train, then nearly duo, ago people Is almost frozen life now human warned, she would have to undertake ably; Greenland Is ' twelve hundred out the task alone. Otbsr Troubles. miles long and six hundred miles wide, Hastily filling and lighting an old covered broken engagement "Doesnt ice on an an over your sea, all by lanter, and wrapping herself In a of a new year make the at feet hundred The five beginning deep. average waterproof, she sallied out In the ice is Archibald?" you sad, unutterably very moving, though constantly storm. She climbed painfully up the man a die of a broken cant No; It vast forms In the valleys steep bluff to the track, tearing her slowly. when to he heart for his hustle has sea at are the the rivers that nearing clothes to rags on the thick undernext meal or go hungry. Detroit The a few Inches of a rate weight day. hc-flesh most growth, and lasceratlng Free Press. of the overhanging mass and the acpainfully. A part of the bridge still to cause waves the tion of pieces large remained, and, crawling out on this to Ho Wanted to Know. the last tie, she swung her lantern over break off. These float away. An such witnessed a who Arctic traveler, out called and of at the the abyss, top her voice. It was pitchy dark below, sight, says that a separation of the but she was answered faintly by the Iceberg from the land mass was prefollowed by engineer, who had crawled upon some ceded by crackling sounds, thunder. like others of the broken timbers, and, though Inwas a a heavy of as sound Then there jured, was safe for the time, being. From him the girl learned that It was gun fired near by, an Immense frag a freight train that had gone into the ment parted from the land mass, cachasm, and that he alone of that reening In the water, and sending huge train's hands had escaped, lie urged breakers along the shore. her, however, to proceed at once to the An Extraordinary Riven nearest station, to secure help for him, and to warn the approaching express Extraordinary qualities are possessed by the river Tlnto, in Spain. train of the fall of the bridge. It The girl then retraced her steps, hardens and petrifies the sand of its gained the track and made her way to- bed, and If a stone falls Into the stream The Doctor "Always sleep with ward Molngona, a small station about and alights upon another, in a few one mile from Honey creek. In makmonths they unite and become one your head to the south? stone. Fish cannot live in Its waters. Mulcahey "And pwleh way will 01 ing this perilous Journey It was necessary for her to cross the Des Moines put me fate?" The dress of Japanese ladle is regriver, about five hundred feet in length. Just as she tremblingly put ulated by their age and condition. More Trouble. her foot on this structure, the wind, You can tell at a glance, If you know There goes a man that Mrs. Peck rain, thunder and lightning were so the rules, whether any lady you meet you might well envy." appalling that she nearly lost her bal- Is married or single, and how old sbs Henry "Why? lies married. Isnt ance, and in the endeavor to save hei- - Is her ONE GIVES RELIEF. BOMB GOOD STORIES FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS. til Dont Spend a Dollar for Medicine until you have tried' i. 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