Show the future the floe darkest darken daas are still any A roys bead oma bert but let blin shrink in givan I 1 who A ho will tia I 1 11 II not pit in besl lr the 0 evil vii that la Is dreaded prows growa with avith every woeful qua quarto e the worst woral of all our ilia tire aro those that HC c from nothing make the dreariest drea riest and darkest day may still bo be on ahead yet et sin sanco we can call lui but gubb a it may why halt around in i arad the dainto iliac aliat men arn are arc aruffe auffe ol oer and or 0 our ur ator oft maker makei dan great that were ere but slight before why mav we tint not look forward to the fairest gladdest da daya daa a the future may KO go through none konc but atu they bas fa es ocr in ind doer ocr and setly who pee nep ghetia kaiang gonoir before re won on ind and tossed aside a I 1 13 kiser child ot of the arctic commander peares buttle daughter who was io as born in the hie arctic regions Is av JI VVO F i itie ills the arctic daby baby nine years old now she is the only while child over bom boin in the arctic and her name Is 13 marle marie ah nl ahito which Is 13 for snow daby baby she is a very latell intelligent igent anil and Is ot of literary us as well as exploring tastes in collaboration lab oration with her manima mamma she ehe has ritten a tory charming little book called children of the arctic it consists mainly ot of extracts irom from the diary which the youthful author kept ol of her adventures Edven lurea in the arctic region arcelon when she and her mamma inn uma went there to join commander peary As a specimen this little essay on the walrus way iray be given tho the walrus weighs more than a thousand pounds hut but his are tiny holes in ia his head so J can just put my linger finger into itic his ls mu bLache ache Is terrible I 1 N v i biad ad fathers Is not like it tho the ailes 1 are as big around as one of bothers oh e rs knitting needles but only as long as my finger and the ends are very sharp I 1 wonder onder it if mrs walrus hisses him sometimes more meanings of flowers heartlessness hydrangea heart withering AlE herlog in secret lily ol of the he valley high sounded ded seal let lily hope on spruce pine I 1 callant can biot give t thee ee lip up columbine I 1 dreamed 0 of thee thorn apple impatience balsam inconstancy evening primrose jealous french marigold let us never meet again yellow rose I 1 bofty and pure thoughts tall sunflower lovo love hopeless cinquefoil to es cs messengers rose champion loves memory red bay love bonci flower maternal love tuft ot of roses ble ranry syringa modesty I 1 blue violet old mald Sothern southernwood wo 0 a oracle reice pence olive pity pine poetry sweetbrier quiet happiness reconciliation hazel rosemary Itonia Roni ance nce azalea sadness dead leaves sensitiveness aspen tree ire S caration trumpet flower sincerity fc ru slander nettle nellie solace rel melgreen green thorn grass tears helen in lurn in tender reader thoughts pansy thoughts ht ot of heaven snowball tranquillity Geian luiu lurn welcome corne american Arric rican siar wort youthful glad gladness ness crocus gratitude of a dog olive thorne malle tells of a dog doe which belonged to a colonial tani fa catly ily thich T was particularly noted tor for his antipathy antl to indians indiana whom lie delighted to la track on one campaign against the french this dog insisted on accod partying pani ing his master although his feet beet vere tere in a terrible condition from havins having copen frozen during the previous pr elous winter during tile the light which 41 ich ended Is in the famous braddicks braddocks Brad docka docks defeat h lie become became separated from his master and the latter supposing him killed wont went home without him some weeks later however the dog appeared is in ills 1415 old home which was many miles from the battlefield batlle neld he was tired and worn orn but over his sore feet sort soft moc casini were ere fastened last ened that 1 a had been among and that they had taken especial pains to bo be kind to him thereafter though ua be showed great rest joy at being among his on n people peo iilo neither threats nor bribes could ever induce him to track an indian blindfold fun an ani using boort tor for a party Is to make a number of tissue paper bags say one apicco and fill them with candy nuts or malhins fill otte one or two ot of them nith flour instead ot of those things aben blindfold Ulai Kold each person in turn and let each one try to find a lag bag and brealy it ripen open auh IN ith a stick slick or cane it slie site succeeds the contents of 0 the bag are arc hers acra it if it should be the lour flour she hc will got get covered with that god and be laughed at for or her the best part of this Is that no one knows who Is going to knock the ones hied filled with flour as after atter they are blindfolded each person must lie be turned around and around until she have any idea in which direction she Is going so even if she know knew where the bags of lour flour hinging hanging she flie tell whether bether she was going toward one or not bettor better still salil have some scale one who iho la is not going to try hang bane up P the bags collace colors the various college colors are as follows amberst Aai herit purple and white bite bowdoin white drool brohn n anh drown and white colgate maroon and orange college of the city ol of new york bainder Lai La ender inder columbus university light blue and white cornell university carnellar Carn ellan and IN white bite dartmouth darl dark green grcen hamilton Ha mllton continental blue and buff harvard university crimson johns hopkins university black and old gold lafayette maroon and white I 1 cheigh university BroN drown vit and white leland stanford jr university cardinal new york university violet oberlin crimson and gold princeton university orange and black rutgers scarlet ct trinity Tri vilty dark blue and old gold union garnet university of chicago maroon aroon Bl university ol of Michigan Maize and blue university of pennsylvania red and blue U S military tary academy blaek Dlack and gray Wes lefta inn university cardinal and black williams college royal noyal purple yale university dark blue last weeks puzzle it 1 Is a remarkable tact fact that problems which some people call exceed too a a to a a vs is at a 8 a at is a a os too a a so a a a 4 is a e r st 0 F L fa 2 angly simple are given up in by others whose rhose well uell written letters show that they are by no means dul lards thus the dot puzzle which appeared on this page last week Is often solved in about half a minute yet it I 1 frequently happens that quite clever people fall to ind find the solution in less than five minutes last weeks problem was to draw a square entirely within the group ol of thirty six dots inclosing exactly twelve of cl the dots figure 2 shows the solution how to make halos make a saturated solution luJon eo of alum that Is dissolve in a small quantity of 0 water as much alum as the water will take up and spread a few drops 0 of it oer a small email piece of 0 window glass you bill find that the solution will soon cry crystall stallie ze now hold bold tile the smooth side ol of the glass close to your eye and look through it at the sun or a g gas as let et and ou on will see sea three halos at different distances from the light the one nearest the light will be whitish litti sti the next ono one he be partly colored with mith Us its blue rays outward and the third will be largo large and highly colored the halos balos are caused by the refract lion ot of the light by the alum crystals just juit as a halo around the moon la Is caused by the retraction refraction of the light by the ice particles in the lie upper air perfect magic square no less than different magic r squares q aares ot of 25 cells can bo be made with these figures on this principle but bu not many ot of so perfect as ai our specimen in it tile the total ca can be counted in 42 these comprise each horizontal row each perpendicular row main diagonals blended diagonals from every corner such as 6 alth 14 17 25 3 or 15 IS 18 11 with ith 21 1 7 center 6 18 5 12 24 0 15 22 9 16 30 3 0 19 1 13 1 3 25 7 Is 23 10 17 4 ita 11 4 0 2 14 21 8 20 I 1 a with any four equi dystant in outer cells any perfect st georgos georges cross ruch pitch as IS 18 22 1 15 9 and any perfect st andrews cross such as 6 22 13 5 19 difficult feat with a bottle we I 1 vant ant 3 you on it if you please to bal ance a bottle on the back of your youl head bead and then to stoop down and pich lip a silver quarter from the floal mith ith your lips and rise again all with out letting the bottle tall fall or touching U i bilth our hand baud it if you think the experiment might be latal fatal to the in of the bottle that in other words worda there might be a smashup smash up use a tin canister or something ol of that bat t kind instead of the bottle cut but tho the use ot of the bottle makes tho the feat decidedly more interesting from the very tact fact that it ft smashup smash up is possible the use ot of a tin vessel therefore mould be too tame lame to suit most boys now it if aou ou will follow our directions closely aou ou may succeed in the tha feat eat and bring tile the bottle out sale safe and whole first bond bend tile llie head bead forward until the chin rests on the breast then balance the bottle in its place on the crown of the head be sure to do the beginning well uell and the rest will bp be easier cabler than it loola looks bend the knees gently coming ja ta the floor on an one knee then lower the bands to the floor and thus support ed push the feet gradually and slowly bade back until the face Is able to reach the quarter clu artel resuming tho the first position Is mere ly goins going through these movements in 11 reverse order slow steady even careful movement Is tl secret ol 01 success in the teat feat trick of gravity place a longish stick slick upon a table leming elou enough h over the edge to exactly balance alae a pall lull full ol of water and in it a stick just longi long enough to rest on the bottom of 0 the pall pail with one end and to touch the abo stick on the table with mith the other the pail of 0 water can be hung on the projecting stick on the table and will not tail fall to the ground it if the trick Is done exactly right BUILDING A LOG CABIN ra f f w wy M alle abol mm raw 4 2 V us if ga r pill j 6 A log cabin Is made ot of logs logi laid one above another in square form joined fit at the corners cornera by means ot of notches figure 1 A door Is made figure 2 and hung figure 3 thon then a window la Is cut and covered with oil paper this la Is done while nothing la is built but a square pen ot of logs logi eight loss logs it should bo be about feet tle window feet and the door about feet the end Is built triangle shape fig uro ure 4 then a ridge pole Is nailed across the ends avid and rooted over alth ito plit logs split into boards at one end a rude chimney and lire place of stone should be built the chimney rel reading lebing just above the charty fidure 5 i the stones ostone should lie be with clay chay as should be the logs of the cabin and it Is fiats hed figure 6 the door should be fastened by a 4 latch string figure 7 at the end opposite the thorp there should be two or three thred blaskie figure 8 it ony eny one wishes directions how te tc build a bark canoe dugouts dug outs hark barteaux batt eaux snow shoos any kinds u f traps trapa or snares bed or skis how baraj or to cook any kind ol of wild meat to jerk meat plo call all on yours truly 14 you can build j just list a shelter for the right n by driving two forked stake irto the ground putting a pole across bond and piling filling brush over lt it the abe val vaga |