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Show ct a rcr c 1 'C5 think enthusiasm greater than laughter? is Do you Making a Sundial. upon the limb, fell upon the hand that had taken his life. Burying his teeth you can make a sundial out of a water in the palm be bit clean through to the tumbler. Take a plain tumbler and back and then dropped lifeless to the close lta top with a round slat of wood ground. into the center of which stick a lamPoor little outraged spirit. He had ing needle. On the outside of the never given one moment of pain to any living mortal, and yet his life was cruelly taken from him without rhyme or reason. Is It strange that he showed by the only means in his power hia sense of wronged Innocence? . If you ever should lose your watch 2 ends of the I or middle stick, and their ends are to be put under the ends of the sticks that form the X. It will take Borne bending to do this, so the sticks must be flexible enough to bend a little without breaking, but and grunted to each other in order to keep in touch. And so it is with all animals their habits come from remote ancestors." Harmless Infernal Machine. The name "Infernal machine" Is commonly given to a box containing dynamite or gunpowder with either a "time fuse," or clockwork to explode It at a certain time, or with appaH which will 6et It off when the bJ opened. Our infernal machine is barn provided that no papers or curtail The Ants' Suspension Bridge. inflammable things are ne; other Men build bridges of strong wire hand to catch fire when It is exph make them by clingropes, monkeys and that you look out for your : ing to one another's tail. There are, however, other creatures who make suspension bridges the duvio ant of 7 i';A,V Africa. It Is half an inch long, with a big head. A large ant takes hold of the branch ot a tree with his forelegs; he clings, letting his own body bang; then another ant climbs down the first one, to whose hind logs he clings, letting his own body hang; so the little fellows keep on until a long chain hangs from the tree. Then they swing until the one at the loose end catches hold of the tree they wish to reach, and the bridge is complete. As soon as the main body of the army has crossed the bridge the ant on the first tree lets go ot the branch and climbs All Ready for the Explosion. up his comrades to the second tree. The other makers of the living suspen- and your clothes. It is made of five sion biidge follow their leader's ex- little sticks of wood; toothpicks will ample, and they take their place at the do If they are very long, slender, rear of the marching column. tough and elastic, but you can cut slivers of wood that will suit the purTwo Well Known Proverbs. pose tetter. I.ay two of the sticks, crossed In ( the middle to form an X, on the botMT A?1 tom of an Inverted wine glass, lay a third stick on them like an I, running straight through the middle of the X, O t and hold these three sticks In position with one hand while with the other ;ou weave the other two sticks about What proverbs do these their ends. The middle points of the rebuses make? last two sticks are to be put over the r M well-know- To Guess Four Cards, per-son- A s have fixed thoughts upon: You take four rani, request Mm to select one of them in thought, and lay them aside. Then take out. four other cards, let a second person choose one of them, place these four cards upon the table beside the first four, but a little apart. I'roc eed in the same way with the third and fourth person. You nw take the first person's four cards, and lay them separately, side these four cards yon by side, of the second percards four the place son in the same order, and so with the four cards of the third and fourth person. You now show each pile to the four persons, one after the other, asking ea-In which pil? he finds the card he has thought of. As soon as you know ibis, you discover the cards thought of in th following order: The card thought of by the first person is, of course, th first in (he pile in which he says it is con talned; the serond person's card is the serond of the pile, so also the third and fourth person's ard Is the thir l and fourth of the pile. A Squirrel's Revenge. little Connecticut boy had frown very skillful fn throwing sling shots. He was so true of aim that he was sometimes tempted to use Ms power unworthily. One day he discovered a small squlrrrl perched on the limb of a tree, and without stopping to realize the consequences of Ms act he l"t fly Ms stone. It went strafgM to the mark. sn1 the poor Tif !! creature received his deathblow. With an heroic effort be twi'ched himself into a pol-ttoright over his thoughtless murderer, and letting go his dying grasp n for mechanical, and people; dividual J ' ' i nm - When the Explosion Takes Place, they are bent, to make the explosion effective. Now make a little human figure of cork, wax or putty with sticks for legs and arms. Set him astride of the middle stick, near one end, and apply a lighted match to the nearest corner of the infernal machine. In a second one and of fVie ;Hr'-,i - 1 the ring sely com- profet-tiona- l the inemployer. employe and customer; and consist of extractt taken by permiueion from the copyrighted letters, the lectures, nottbovkt and libraries of Karl At. J'ratt, Oak J'ark, Illinois. lie is hunting the whole world over for information of every day use to you, and he regrets his inability, personally to reply to contributors. So far as possible h wishrs to hare in ttit tpace the very idea you would like to find here, i'ou are at liberty to tend hint any suggestion you may care to. Ilia collection was startrd in Istj and now contalnt unpublished information dating back to 119U, with systematic plant extending to ihvj. Your short story of some example of forethought yicen to him may prove to be your most valuable yij't to mistakes? Can you recall a laughable rest- - shut eak- - seen and loor, e tube. erected himself upon his hind legs, steadied himself by placing his pawa upon the back of the chair, placed his mouth to the tube and began whining and mewing into it In this attitude he was found by his young mistress, who came into the room at the moment that he was trying to call someone to his aid. Mother Goose's Grave. Was there ever a real Mother Goose? That is a question often asked by boys and girls. Yes, there was, and she lived In Boston. Her grave Is still to be seen in the old "Granary" graveyard close to the old Park Street Church, which is next to the famous Common. Only a tiny headstone marks It, and on It are graven these words: "Here lies Mary Goose, wife of Isaac Goose. Died 16S0, aged 49." Answer to Last Week's Puzzles. Well begun is half done. What can't be cured must be endured. SIMPLE SUCTION PUMP. mm J I f , fr , reasoning? How could the accidents you know about have been prevented? Have you spoken to a stranger while thinking him an acquaintance? Have you been injured while watching to see if some other person would Men, Methods and Work, The manager, for a very successful money maker, Bald that he worried over the big things, while hl3 employer worried over the little things. The manager got along with the employes and the details better than the proprietor did, but the proprietor got along with the whole business much better than the manager could. Some men can keep anything running lovely if some one else will only see that pay day is passed in good shape. The man able to attend to pay-darequirements might rattle the whole concern if he were to see to little things. A man able to make a hundred dollars an hour may be able to hire for a hundred dollars a month a man who can do some things better than the employer can do them. Few are able to get a living doing just what they want to do, and very few are willing to limit their efforts to the things they can do the best. One man told me that more men failed in his line of work for lack of ability to handle men than for any other or all other reasons. Few men know how to interest, animate, educate, and keep on good terms with other men. In some cases the more you know the more in the background you have to go, due It may be to having more knowledge than skill. In one case, of an unpopular foreman going on a vacation and a popular workman taking his place for the day, the product was over twenty per cent more than usual. If ten thousand men of all kinds should find themselves out of work, one might create ideas, another execute them, another organize and manage the others. Some could do eome parts of the detail work twice as well as some of the others could. One would be a good buyer of material and another a good collector of accounts. Some would win honors and some would get disgraced, but they would finally drift or climb, fall or jump, to positions just as we find them Only this dffference the successful might make better use of their success and the failures profit by their expensive experiences more than they have been doing during this century. If this possibility were to be accomplished the next century would be more thpn a hundred years ahead, and the common humdrum life would be quite ideal. if our best Intelligence mere to accompany our every action much would be done. We all know why things are not bettor than they are. " cHJ ma-kir- .g Can you think of a good illustration of profitable politeness? Old or new or both. WTiat are two or three of the difficulties you haver to contend with In your work? Lending Money. Years ago I read that a young man should be satisfied with a low and safe rate of interest and take the advice of those more experienced to not know it all. I have been very fortunate in not losing money lent to friends. Frequently I give small sums to old friends who are now dcadbeats and wish to borrow for a few hours or days. I never get such sums back and never expect to when I let it go. But whenever I have lent $50, more or less, to a friend and expected it back it has come. I think this is due to my use of a discriminating judgment before lending. Once it cost me a good deal over a thousand dollars cash to disobey my better Judgment and go into a side-linbusiness with a friend. I did not get the counsel of those to' whom I should have r"ne, and I refused to follow my own feelings. I was "roped" In by talk. c rod is made of a thin stick of wood and another short piece of bam1oo d). The short piece of bamboo (d) is closed on on end by a piece of rubber s'milar to the lower part of the pump mentioned before. This piece of bamboo is fastened to the stick of wood with the help of cord and putty and must fit tightly fhto the pump barrel. The pump barrel will work satisfactorily f a small quantity of water is pourc. Into the upper barrel to get it start ?d. e Health Helps Money Making. I began talking with a man soon after we left the morning train, and some remark brought up the subject of his health. He said: "I have not been feeling well for three weeks." "Your health is generally good, Isn't it?" and I wish my vacation came in place of a month from . "How to take care of yourself while you overwork Is a pretty good subject to study." "Yes, I should say it was. I sleep pretty well, although I dreamt last night that I was a cashier in a bank and was taking an inventory of tho stock when the papers in the safe caught fire." to-da- That a man would moe his ofee furniture and al?o bii telephone without notifying the telephone eompmy Get the Right Plow. without doubt unwise in turn baen or bok back affer you have put jour band to the p7ow, but a great many have taken another I low and done the world gr;d and cut out a nb k for themsclvos in a mannr surprising to all their friends. It Is An author says; "The three degrees of a lawyer's progress are getting on, getting honor, getting y to-day- ." The Man Himself Studies. "What Is the caune of criminal carelessness? Two years ago a man asked me the above question. He had been having trouble and I have been thinking about the subject ever since. Hard to Believe. 4. I am usually as strong as an but I have been working too hard "fes, ox, That any one would try to rtart an orchard by planting dried apples. 2. That any one would stock a mule and then complain to the company that the telephone was no good that it. had not worked since be moved. Ibit this last act is on record and duplicated. Be'ect a thick piofe of bamboo fchcrat eight inches P,rg find withfully, it as smooth as pfnsiMe. Bore a small bole about two inches from one end to bold a smaller piece of bamboo which is to form the spout. A hallow piece of bamboo fc) somewhat thinner than the pump barrel is Inserted in'o the lower end of the pump barrel. Ue top of th barrel (e) is closed with a piece of rubber that is fastened with a small tack and can be moved np and down. The pumping get injured? 1. stock farm with mules. 3. That people would make a hole in the ground to fill another and keep on till they ran the bole out of town. st event? to-da- y. fl laugh-la- Have you a record of a fakir's funny y tin h friend offorethought, to reduce mutually tuintake. It it others. "Hogs grunt when feeding because their forefathers fed in dark woods To guess the cards which four 18721 Questions. Can you report something which was fine in theory but a fizzle in practice? What is your remedy for serious trouble due to foolish sport? What have you learned by expensive experience? What do you want to know which you would be willing others 6hould know? Are you willing to Join us in building lighthouse thoughts on life's dangerous rocks? Are little errors the sources of big This accuracy review department it for in informa- tlon on tht enetniet mercial mies. :glass paste a narrow strip of paper which has been soaked In oil. Then jilace the glass on a slanting piece of wood and the sundial Is ready. At 5 in the morning place the glass so that the needle throws a shadow on oae end of the strip of paper, and mark the spot with a lino and No. 5. After each hour mark the shadow of the needle, and at 7 In the evening you will have a reliable sundial. 7QqV they must also be strong and springy enough to hold firmly together when Reasons of Some Animal Habits. "Animal habits are easy to understand." said a farmer, "if you stop to think about them." "Why, for Instance, do sheep run to tho highest point whenever danger threatens? Simply because they originally lived in the mountains and fled to the peaks to escaps their ene- i ,0F, I j It may be due to ignorance. Some claim that people are not a good nor as bad as they appear to be if w knew more we would be better. But we will know more if we are any good and have our roal in Jie right place. The Idea that experience is a dear school but ffiols will learn in no other, might be revised to read: It is a wise man who learns by experience; fools never learn. Though a man is not to be blamed for being born Ignorant, be can be blamed fur remaining isnorant, and continued or repeated carelessness may be called criminal. One's Sphere of Usefulness. One cf the most imortant things for us to learn early. Is what we are able to do and not to An. As for myself, I believe I was born without s sense of money value, and as I loos" 1 ack and note my expenditures and investments, I fed that I might hav had a nice lift I? property today had I put my wasted dimes and dollars regularly In some trustworthy plac. It has taken r.:e a quarter of a century to recognize my inability to lend money commcrclrtlly, r in a wis? way so. nnlly, and I feel like saying to all young people the quicker yon can find out what you can do well, and what you are unable to do wen, the better It will be for you. |