Show fa f ew r 1 4 ac 0 0 LJ 09 the payers of blackmail dedicated to those american born citi ott tens cens who compound with rascality for the bake take ol 01 their business interests you paid them you whose fathers braved the cintr wintry Y 0 ocean cean and the unknown shore to serve the their ir god and save their souls from hell pray god they sleep unconscious of your shame hame but yo can have no blood from man I 1 ke these who was the slave that stole into his bed whose P agrim name you bear and gave you life lifee so 60 cr ed my shame and scorn but reason said unchanged in race they have but changed ha their god for F or mammon a m Is their god the hell they dread Is failure in full service at his shrine they fear not want but only lesser wealth S so 0 at their god s behest they pay the price S so 0 for his sake with humble cheerful ness they buy the right to ply their trades in peace full service this no more can master ask no more can servants in devotion pay their fathers god was seldom served so well richard M bradley in the century fun with figures this flits will be found a capital trick with which to mystify a little corn com pany of people and you may defy them to find out how it is done if the number 73 be multiplied by each of the numbers in the following arithmetical progression 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 the products will be 1090 1314 1533 1702 1971 here you see taking the last figure of each product you have the nine digits in order 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 now to perform your trick prepare a little bag of some kind of cloth and in it make two partitions into one of the partitions put six or eight little cards each bearing the number 73 into the other partition put nine little cards each bearing one of the num bers 3 6 9 12 lo 10 IS 18 21 24 27 the bag having been prepared in this way hold it so that a person will tal e the card out of the partition con the then dexterously turning the bag so that the other partition presents itself ask another member of the corn com pany to take tale out a card of course he takes one of the nine numbers given above now ask the two persons to multi ply their two numbers together and tell you the last figure in the product that being done you will give the other other figures of the product this you ou will know from the series of prod acts given at the beginning of this ar tide if for example the two cards tal en out of the bag bear the num bers 73 and 18 the product will be 1314 1214 and when they tell you that the last figure Is 4 you know at once that other figures are 1314 any an boy can make this trick a sort of stock in trade by having a nice little bag made and the requisite num her of cards cut and numbered bead chain design X 0 ox 0 X X 0 X 0 0 X 0 X 0 0 0 0 7 X I 1 I 1 I 1 X X 0 0 X X X 0 0 0 0 X 0 X 0 0 X 0 X X 0 0 0 0 X X dark green and gold beads mak i very pretty chain in this design the crosses are the green beads an at chala chain is made by putting be tween each design deign 12 rows of one gold bead four green beads and one gold bead honey pots honey pots is another interest interesting hig game A number of children do in a ro v clasping their bands under their legs one child stands in front of them and acts as owner or seller another acts as purchaser the purchaser in quires have you any honey pots for sale les plenty will you walk round and taste them the purchaser goes around Tre pretend tend tag mg to taste each one in turn inquires the price and weight finds fault with several one being too sweet and one not fresh enough and so on oil when one honey pot to the purchaser purchasers s taste is discovered she is lifted by the pur chaser and owner or by two children who act as weights and scales and then swung by her arms backward and forward to estimate her weight and price As long as the child can keep her hands clasped so long is the swinging I 1 ept up and as many times as they count is the number of pounds she weighs when sold the honey pot Is taken to the other side or home of the pur chaser the game goes on until all the honey pots are old royal ch idren s sport little prince s mary of wales 1 Is a clever child and both she and her are ier f nd of animals A favorite amusement of the royal chil dren Is to seek out lame or otherwise injured birds and then to take them home and nurse them back to health to do this they form a miniature hos pital and with the love of make be lieve natural at their years they then act doctors and nurses till their pa are well enough to be dis charged says home notes perhaps the next greatest joy to a patient s rapid recovery Is his demise for like other little people the royal children find the funeral of a bird or other small creature a most edifying bunc tion spectacle cleaners you war jo ne to I 1 roa qu u to ight r y aust ur oil ur br B for figure I 1 cut two pieces of cham in the form of a helmet over beltch together with brown ribbon it r aau Y w 00 1 tk to the st fur sute 4 your brsko it figure 2 is done in the sa same in e way except with red instead of brown verse in ink napkin ring trick while waiting for dessert at dinner it Is fun for the family at table to ex change tricks one Is the napkin ring trick holding your napkin ring in one hand 1001 from your glass turn tum bier bler to some large object say the sugar bowl pretending to hesitate between the two then pick up the glass tumbler and mutter safer to tale al e the smaller article then look around and say W vill ill any ol 01 you believe me when I 1 say that I 1 can p ish this glass full of 0 water through this napkin ringa everybody will laugh and say ho I 1 d just like to see you do it then you should set the glass down solemnly place your our napkin ring in front of it and with an impressive flourish of your hand thrust your fin ger through the napkin ring and give the glass a shove there you may exclaim in tri haven t I 1 pushed the glass ti rough the napkin ring amusing games clever tricks A very interesting game Is called A battle on paper this Is meant for not more than six players four being even better so that it is better to divide into two lots and have two games ames going at the same time the players are divided into two sides the indians and the pilgrims A large sheet of paper and a couple of pencils are all that Is needed to play the game on the left hand side of the paper up toward the top make 60 dots 10 in a row and six rows and in the lower corner of the same side draw a cannon as well as you ran can do the same on the right hand side of the paper and you are now ready to start have you ever come across a note written by one of your schoolmates which you were entirely unable to read not because of poor penmanship but because he or she had used some charac characters tes altogether strange to you and which you could not make out or understand that Is what a cipher alphabet or code Is tor for statesmen diplomats and detectives constantly employ cipher codes when they send messages of great importance which they want no one to understand ex capt the person to whom they are sent there are many kinds of ciphers some of them quite simple and some so complicated that it is almost im 1 playing one person from say th indians side starts with her pencil ot 01 her cannon keeping her eyes tightly closed and draws either a straight or 01 crooked line just as she pleases over i the pilgrims men or dots when she has taken up her pencil she counts the number of men she has passed over or killed and puts that number down on the score cards in favor ot of the indians then one from the pil grims side takes her turn and so on until one side has scored 60 points which ends the game you can mark some of the dots with red or blue pen cil ell for chief of commanders and if one of these Is touched by a pencil line it counts three so that it Is not feces gary to kill every single man before the game can be won A dot once gone over cannot be counte 1 a second time is as that man is considered dead and in drawing a 9 line you must keep on in the same direction although the line may be zigzagged that Is 1 it if you start out toward the right you cannot turn back toward the left and so on A few conundrums what wind would a hungry sailor prefers one that blows jowls and chops about what two letters do boys delight in to the annoyance of their elders two Ts why Is a good resolution like a fainting tainting lady at a ball because it ought to be carried out what Is that which a coach can not move without and yet Is not any use to it noise why Is a good like a water color artista because it draws and colors beautifully when Is a chair treated spitefully when you have it caned simply because it cannot bear you who killed the greatest number of ens hamlet a uncle did mur der most foul why cannot a thief easily steal a because he must take it off its guard af water causes fires that water can cause fire may at first seem a little unlikely but this Is 1 just what happened on the western coast of ireland only a few years ago the rocks which the great atlantic rollers had for centuries been slowly breaking down and piercing with great caverns contained great masses of pyrites and alum in their depths at last the persistent water pene trat ed to these and combustion dimmed lately took place producing heat fierce enough to set the whole cliff on fire for weeks the rocks burned like a volcano and great clouds of smoke and vapor rose high in the air when at last the fire died out masses of lava and clay burned to brick were found in every direction puzzles on the map t r the four lines above are the fou foux sides of one of our states cut the lines out leaving of course enough strips ol 01 paper to work with or bet ter paste on thin cardboard before cutting them out then fit the lines together till you get them in the right positions to make the outline of a state what one Is it FUN IN A CIPHER ALPHABET notes fell into the hands of another set it could not be understood at all 4 it set some of the more inquisitive teachers almost crazy for a while and x every time a cipher note fell into their hands it baffled them although most ell hers may be solved with a great deal of time and trouble by experts who make a specialty of it but these teachers and certainly the pupils were not experts and the ciphers remained bained unsolved until the boys and girls using them grew older and left school when the tad fad died out it Is lots of tun fun and a valuable mental training to write and receive letters in cipher it sharpens the wits and Is a help in writing terse concise english but the very best 0 CA 00 0 D 0 G 0 K 9 IV 0 P ck it s 0 D 0 00 D 9 G T D 0 0 W Y w X 2 b kit 00 aut a 04 Q 0 0 E e 0 0 A 6 cipher alphabet possible to solve them without a key and even then a great deal ot of work to find out what Is meant about twelve years ago cipher codes wre wire wi re very among bosq and girls who went to schools and every group or set of them had a peculiar cipher which they used ev eral times a day in writing notes perfectly confident that if one of their pirt part of it all Is to see the bewilder ment of some crowd who have found a note that one of your crowd hag has written A simple but verv ruhn ru dpi cr er which 1 Is very easy to genorie me norie from he construction of 0 its characters ji 1 printed here just ry it on some of your schoolmate aid and see what fun it t is f i mn i |