Show P aalfs waifs ath faces net too soon with care they gilde along the street A cared seared look in the ees that stare tare into igo the eyes they meet As if it they would apologize for bringing to the earth the discord of their sobs mobs ind signs sighs that chill the soul of mirth those little faces lined with care those little feet ta T 4 olver in the frosty air 1 ase a wistful eyes I 1 meet thea the haunt lie no through the busy day and come to me at night when home 1 1 I watch my own on at a t ply play so glad of heart and bright thou father of the fat faters watch oer them all the way through tl rough ill P lifes life perils guide and bless the little ones we pray who e early arly face the orphan 9 woe woo and want while other others waste aaste the world la Is kind at heart but so thoughtless in its haste mr ireda meeds are email small I 1 ask not wealth and lesar less care I 1 for fame the one rich boon I 1 crave la Is health and strength of mind and frame that I 1 with deeds of love may sera rem the childhood of my own and stand b between tween tha the world and them thom till they can land stand alone IV L sanford in dallas news won hie his way to fortune once there was a boy of the namo name of hugh mcgowan who went to kansas city in search of work ho he found this at tho the stables of the street car company and the work consisted largely in currying mules the currying of mules Is not an attractive vocation but hugh never grumbled and be sent them out to work looking more fit than they over ever had in all the history of rapid transit in kansas city he ile those mules so faithfully that now ho he does not have to curry any ally more mcgowan Is now a rich man with millions of dollars bader his control he had reached the age of 40 before he be had earned so much as a month mouth no man ran an rise to tame fame by the mere process of currying mules but jt A this duty fall to his lot he can do it so well as to show what Is in him thus did lid mcgowan he attracted attract pd the attention of at hid big superiors and waa promoted to the driving of a car then be he got on the police force all stations li humble enough after a while the agent of a big concern visited kansas city and while welle there sought to find a suitable man to represent his concern mcgowan waa was chosen not merely because he had curried mules well but that he had hail gono gone into every field inspired always by the motive to do the best he could he Is now 43 years of age a solid citizen with a long bank account and a reputation that Is of far greater value than any great sum of money spiders that box the compass if you discover you are lost during the holidays on some bodaly country road first stop atil pull yourself together the next step is to fix the points of the compass that Is done you will be able to go in the general direction yoi yet wish find a mature tree which stands apart from its fellows even if it Is only slightly separated it will do the bark of this treo tree will be b hardier ardler drier and lighter in color on an the souta south bide side cn the north it will be darker and often at the cootu it will have a clump of mo mould uld or mosa on the south side of all evergreen trees gum which oozes from wounds or knothole kno choles 3 will be hard and amber colored on the north this gum la is otter after gets covered with dust and Is of a dirty grey hardwood hard ilard wood trees the tho oak ash elms hickories and so forth havo have moss and mould on the north leaves are smaller tougher lighter in color and with darker veins on the south on the north they are longer longerot lon gerof of darker green and with lighter veins spiders build on the south side cedars bend their tips to tho the south any cawed sawed or cut stump will give you the south side the heart of tho the stump la is thua thus nearer to the north side stones ore are bare on the south side and it if they have moss at all it will bo be on the north side filipino boy boye it kites just now low as we 0 came in off the street we saw a filipino boy about 8 years old flying a feather for a kite writes a tourist in the manila justic Justl cla la the feather was not mora than two inches long and an inch wide at the flaring end he ile naj haj thread tied to it in two places of course the belither fe lither did not fly much but the boy amused himself with it for more than five minutes ites that we watched him there were no other children about and he never said a word ord never complained when it did not fly or expressed any exclamation i of joy when hen it did these filipino boss will fly most anything A leaf out of a book a icat of a tree a piece of newspaper nevi shaper a beetle or a bee a ir it or a n bird for or making and flying graceful artis tic and bird like bites kites our homo home coys arc are simply not in it with the inoa boys their best flying kites reach a creat great beight and 11 nd tho the way they sail about in the air one would br ha observe to closely to to not mistake for a large bird it is it not to to see several of these kitie kit anu T same locality and they resemble ing hawks looting tor for arty sot ll 11 mysterious wafers in the presence or of your a place on each aide side ot of a table S anif three wafers take me the knife ly by th handle and turn it over several ump time to show that tho the wafers art all m request one of the party to take wafer ater from one side of the blade a tun it the knife over ty tw or three times and there will seem to be otly iwa two wafers on each side ride taku take off another an 0 0 er wafer turn the knife as before aad and I 1 will appear as if only ono aber vu as on e each side aide take the third wafer oft nd again pirn the knife dener dexter bously twice or thrice and it win an pear aa if all the wafers had bad disa feared from each side next turn th the knife once one or twice more and an three waters wafers will appear on each side as at the first arst in performing tb the etrick trick use wafers all of one size and color and always have havo one sido side 0 ta a knife uppermost so that the wafers nay may hi be taken ono one by one from that aide side three wafers will thus be left ua un touched on the other side and ana after you have hae made it appear that there are no wafers on either side you nay may to all appearance show three on each when turning the knife you must as you lift it up turn it completely round with your finger and thumb to as cincys to bring the same side op up Per most dont be a second class man you can hardly imagine a boy gar say ing 1 I am going to be a second class man I 1 don t want to be trot class and get the good jobs the high pay second clasa class jobs are good enough for me such a boy would be regarded as lacking in good sew sense it if not in sanity you can get to be a ceconi class man however by not trying to be a first class one thou sands do that all the time so thi second class men mea are ire a drug on the market remarks success second class things are only n anted when hen first class cant be had you w ear first class clothes if you can pay for them eat first class butter first class meat and first alais bread or it if you dont you wish you could sec see end class men are no more wanted than any other second class commod ity they are taken and used when the better article Is scarce or Is loo high priced for the occasion for work mork that amounts to anything first class men aro arc wanted interesting experiment experiments A simple experiment that many boys have tried Is the following fill a tumbler with water and on it place a sheet of paper place one hand orthe paper and then invert the glass remove tho the band hand from the paper and the water will not fall out another interesting elpe experiment ariment Is thus described heat a piece of thick brown paper before the fire flaw place it on the table and rub it with a clothes brush for halt half a minute then sail the piece of brown paper over some emall light body such is s little sheet of blotting paper and tha light body will jump in the most excited manner if tho the brown paper Is 1 held over head the hairs will immediately stand straight up two boy boys who avill all I 1 prosper arthur IV ba da ker marksville Marys ville ass K has complete completed his eleventh winter term of school last year be he paid his tuition in the modern colage col Co lege egr which Is eight dollars for a term 01 ten weeks by sweeping and bulldis bull din aln fires ho did the same this yer ye arthur in right tackle in the noer normal college 1 football team fred C S boston and a boy 0 f wheeling W va havo have a shop abel call themselves the junior roy roi after the Roy crofters of aut aurora N Y tha boys make odd od furniture employing scroll taw 1 and they have haire bight cig dollars in their treasury a and nd have 31 order for six dollars worth worth of filature they pot got nine dollars 3 table they recently mad run mile amile a mlle in run a mile the bos t nato out and it hides his eyes he I 1 if t ia h 3 touched by ono one boy who jr conceals himself with the others when hen it haa has counted coun ted loo or so he starts out to find the touche tou cne each player when discovered stepa from his hiding biding place but offers lio information ae as to the a 0 the I 1 ur less indeed aa bo htmat same saine in which cast case the el e riling oiling race to homo home occurs ana and if it gets there first he may tak task he pleases for the me tour her w to perform even to the running of i 2 mile but it Is rate rafe to atte 19 atis penalty is r fia ate teti paid |