Show THE LITTLE KELLAR i 1 A Trick With Checkers Try this experiment with checkers and see tile astonishment of your I friends A number of tho round wooden wood-en men used In playing checkers aro piled in a column If the lowest one In tho pile Is dexterously hit with a paper knife or other suitable article It may bo knocked away from under tho rest without disturbing the pile This Is explained In this way Tho ono piece struck Is carried away before be-fore it can Impart any considerable part of the energy It receives to tho pieces above It The Story of the Pioneer Ono morning early in 1809 an old pioneer emerged from his log cabin Before him stretched the Atlantic ocean and behind him tho high office buildings of New York and Philadelphia Phila-delphia shone In tho last rays of the westering sun Suddenly from the waves there appeared threo big roundheads round-heads Long tusks protruded from the Jaws Walrus I exclaimed no as suro as Napoleon was licked at Waterloo 1 as the brutes galloped up tho beach toward him Ho hastened Into his cabin seized his gun and fired seven shots as fast I as ho could pull tho trigger Tho three great beasts leaped at him and ono almost managed to seize him with its sharp talons but tho steel clad bullets had been aimed well and Just in the nick of tlmo tho nnl mal fell dead A good afternoons work muttered mut-tered tho old trapper Ho returned to tits cabin and called up tho American Ameri-can museum on the telephone Word came back that a naphtha launch would be sent right down to receive the valuable prizes Tho pioneer immediately im-mediately sot to work on the carcasses car-casses and by the time tho electric searchlight of the boat shone over the sea ho had the animals skinned and carried tho pelts aboard Ho got 300 for them and thus his lucky shot enabled him to live in affluence for many years There aro exactly twenty mistakes In this story What arc they They Live In Tubes There Is a curious group of worms inhabiting the seashores which attach at-tach to themselves along tho length of tho body bits of shell sand and minute pebbles thus forming a sheath a tubular house Into which they may retreat From this funny chimney llko a mineral ragcarpet the worm expands Its breathing organs at the top where a beautiful waving bush of fleshcolored or scarlet tentacles or gills are seen moving softly in the clear water The worm is two to four Inches long of a palered tint and with markings on the back like lacework lace-work The striking terebella ot the North Atlantic coast is common among and under rocks and on muddy mud-dy shores and nothing will surprise the strolling naturalist more than this gay and ornamental 1 worm in its quaint selfmode hnmeBt Nicholas |