Show OUR RIDDLE BOX bom this department will contain one once a week original puzzles for the young folks the tho answers will be given the following week our oar juvenile orienda friends are invited to send bend the solutions lut ions all who forward correct answers will receive due credit and their thein names will be printed in the NEWS no ilo llo NUMERICAL during duning the winter I 1 think you yon will find articles made of 1 8 3 89 10 and I 1 27 9 very useful and 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 for the weather Is I 1 cold enough to nip your 6 oss off old winter has of late had the gios 1 2 ot of this part of the W world rid ald and has been 8 eno enough to take tabe advantage of it at his 10 1031 3 1 IT 2 for fon which few of us 8 89 9 21 A him every 8 81 2 10 has retired until the stem etem cold holds hold a 9 2 1 A 4 sway the gardeners are all frozen uland upend have not even a 8 10 3 6 for 1 9 9 2 the tha fishes do better as they still catch 10 2 9 1 and 1 5 9 2 4 though the 4 2 3 Is disturbed and 9 3 if 1 4 are not yet in you can 4 2 10 old tim yonder onder with his 8 3 9 2 of finny prejon as his hib 3 if 1 4 going to market while whilo his 4 45 5 v 6 who la Is as 9 23 6 as himself stays at home with the little 93 9 3 41 4 1 AUNT clara ozara no ill lil CHARADE riest fiest rolling boiling swiftly elbr elir ger eer the plain freighted full suil of golden grain grains sometimes meeting fate most dire aire now and then destroyed by fire fine SECO scattered over all the earth of me sure gare there Is no dearth each one thinks hig his own the best beat and cares but little for the rost robt WHOLE these parts will form a flower so BO sweet surely burely find it very meet to place me in fair maidens hair to shed my fragrant beauty there alz ble no SEVEN HIDDEN ou on the lonely river a boat la Is moored and the fisherman sits bits in his cot chinkin thinking as he be watches the descending rays of the sun bun his fire no longer burns bump and his musings are so deep that he does not no tice the approach of two strangers from in the shadows of a neighboring ring old smithy his guests whom he will welcome aro are soldiers and anol there are sundry dents in their swords worthily gained in battle tor foz the right no ENIGMA I 1 prey upon your pantry stores I 1 wake you jou up at night I 1 break your dreams with awful roars neler I 1 go tonight to night fight I 1 sit beside your youn parlor fires an uninvited guest by aged maidens im beloved and veny very oft olt caressed in egypto land I 1 was adored and anu thought a wondrous eang thing and every e time I 1 went to roar the priests would chant and sing bing but bat now nom non when on the midnight air I 1 raise my cadence bold my mead meed la is but a missile brick or else a bootjack boot jsck old R no lit 11 BLANKS the words required for each sentence aro are pronounced alike but different in spelling and 1 said tom I 1 I 1 no anan prush would eter ever attempt to nish fish in the i with tb the water so high 2 44 ahmet ahmel ah met said uhe the amateur fisherman huu hau but I 1 can my boat bea t to a quiet place near tho tha island where the tha Is caged and then lure inre the nish fish by means of crumbs 8 well do as aa you will retorts tom torm but you jou wili will do well to take a 7 to rand r mand and eat while you yon are waiting for a of fishes to come up 19 uncle no IM ANAGRAM power rower have inot a plenty perda perea hark from russia frozen russia itu liu esla comes a ery cry down with totals flee from hence or dle die 91 bal san M maguill MAGUi nl |