Show wild flowers scarce known by name they dot the ground with motley colors starry forms in them the sunset skies are found that follow after storms and blurs of crimson blue and gold graceful chalices unfold while mid the dead leaves pile ana pent humbly they live and d e content huge oaks above tl em lift their heads heids and drop the acorn shed the leaf the harvest field tar round them sheds plenty in many a sheaf and they halt fragrant brighten earth bow in the where there s dearth of pain or pleasure love or life far from the world s mad ceaseless strife they speak no message act no part they have no works to show jdeen hidden here they touch no heart and do not ak to know yet if one meet the eye of man it all unfolds the master plan the power that painted this tair bloom man can have no futile dooin charles W stevenson to new observer secret of a water light tt you were to announce some even ing that you could stick a lighted candle into a glass of water until it was submerged almost up to the wick and that the candle would not the candle in the glass igo out but would burn down to the very end of its wick instead wouldn t everybody laugh at you get a candle drive a vey ve y small nail into the bottom end the candle should be about three inches long a glass with water light the can idle and stick it into the glass the candle floats and the nail weighs the end which results in the candle floating perpendicularly as shown tn the illustration but what Is to prevent it from burn ing down to the surface of the water and going that Is the secret of the trick and not one person in a hundred would think of the true cause which Is very simple and natural the candle loses its weight as it burns the remaining portion growing lighter keeps rising to the top pull ing the nail up with it the water maintains the distance from the wick it bad in the beginning of the ex jieri ment and the candle burns mer away until it reaches the end of its wack when there will still be enough tallow left to support the nail if it Is small enough and then it is your turn to laugh the city of silence ancient greece hundreds of years ago was divided into several inde pendent states one of these was t parta and the men of sparta were wonderfully strong and brave and so warlike tl at all the neighboring cities and states were much in fear of these fierce men who fought tor the love of now about twenty miles south of sparta there was another city called which was still free al though constantly in dread of being captured by its northern neighbors there were contant reports that the spartans were coming and the peo pie were in such an excitement every time these false reports were spread that at last the leading passed a law forbidding any one to on sparta by name on pain of leath but at last the spartans did come and although some of the ans heard of their approach they were afraid to give warning to their fiends for tear of the punishment threatened so the spartans attached the city which was of course not in a state of defense and it was taken and the people made captives to their ene mies that was a time when strict obeal ance to a law caused dire results was it not tiny man whose pluck won everybody cannot be big and strong and handsome or even smart but al most anybody can try to get ahead in some way even if h is homely and freckled and awkward once there was a little bit of a dried up bov who elved down southeast somewhere in georgia I 1 think and everybody but his mother said he never would be of any account his folks were very poor and so it he had not been too sickly and too little to earn anything out at work he might never have got a chance to go to school but he went to school and kept getting older though his head was about all of him that got any larger finally he fin dished school and graduated from col lege and the day he was 21 he said to bis mother I 1 m a man now and I 1 must look after you and she said yes alexander you are a man at last but he only weighed ninety pounds after all pretty soon that little dried up sick ly man said he wanted to go to con gress where nearly all the great men of the country used to go sooner or later in those days why sonny said one of alexander s friends how can you all go to 7 you ain t much bigger nor a jackdaw why dont you send kane free mans big hog it ou want size weighs pounds said the little girled UD roan then everybody laughed then they stopped to think and ever after that alexander kept people laughing or th aking he went to congress and became the greatest man in his state he served in congress years and years and was governor of georgia when he died his full name was alexander H stephens and he was a wonderful orator don t give up because you are little or ugly or dull or weak because you never can tell you never can tell what will happen when you do your best novel fishermen the boys who live near a body of water containing perch bullheads or catfish can make large catches by deans of simple devices an old jug nell makes an excellent assistant after empty ing the jug and corking it securely take it to the place where you want to elsh and making a line fas bait your hook and carefully lower the jug in the water A tempting worm on a hook below a jug Is liable to result in a bite and then the jug commences to bob about in an amazing manner if the elsh is large it may tow the jug around the water for awhile but a heavy jug will soon tire out even a big elsh and then you can haul in the captive it jugs are not obtainable large bottles are effective although they do not offer the resistance the beav jug does and unless dark colored are hard to see on the water wh ch eye Is stronger heie Is a little test for your ees that oon show you chica cf them is the stronger an object about two h ches in diameter on a level with vou eyes and move lack from it b t ten feet then po we to it ai d take sight along th top ot your pointing rg an fn er until the object and the tip of our finger are exactly IL a line wi h the ev from which ym are sight ing open the other and see it the object seems to have moved tram the straight line I 1 it has not moved to one side apparent ly the eye with which you firt looked Is the stronger as the addition of the other s vision does not change the focas if the object seems to have moved it proves that the other eye is the stronger the difference being by the distance that the ob eject appears to hae moved try sighting with both eyes open first then bicok with first 01 eye and ihen the other and see hw far out cf line each makes the object dp pear the one that is farthest ou of line is the weal er eye story of the wood told A boy was sitting near the stove watching the fire burn all at once he fancied that he heard a voice speak to him and he thought it was a piece of wood the wood said once upon a time I 1 was a seed that had fallen off a tree I 1 lay on the ground for a week then some clouds spread over the sky and it began to snow the snow covered me and I 1 lay on the ground all winter in the warm snow when spring came I 1 be gan to grow I 1 grew until I 1 was fit teen years old one day a woodcutter came along and cut me down he put me into a wagon and rode down to the woodyard I 1 lay in the wood yard about a month and then your father came and carried me to your house this was all the piece of wood said ed simonson trick with a tumbler cut an orange into halves and from one halt remove the pulp leaving the peel entire in the form of a hollow hemisphere or cup with a penknife or a toothpick bore two holes in the bottom of this cup and put it into a tumbler forcing it down about half way the tumbler should be a little smaller than the orange used so that lou will have to squeeze the peel cup a little in order to get it in then it will press firmly against me glass and stay where you put it instead of dropping to the bottom put the cup in right side up that Is with the yellow peel below and pour red wine into it the wine will run through the holes and you must keep on pouring until the level of the wine in the glass just touches the bottom of the cup now nil the rest of the glass above the orange cup with water and await results soon you will see a thin red jet of wine rising like a fountain through the water from one of the boles at FIVE MINUTE SAILBOAT tige fl sr diagram of boats construct on here is a way to make fn flye min utes a boat which will almost any of the crack fancy boats your lit tie friends may boast with their three masts topsails balloon jibs center boards and all that ayour homemade boat will not be exactly beautiful but jt certainly will be able to sail get a thin piece of board and sharpen one end to a point to represent the bow now bore a small hola a little forward of the center and fasten a cre weye in the bow lust at the point and your deck Is corn easy isn t ita now tor the sail get a piece of hevy paper and through it thrust the three slender sticks in the positions shown in the diagram wedge the bottom of the upright or mast ma st the same time though you cannot see it so well a colorless stream of water flows downward through the other hole the two liquids do not mix much but merely exchange places so that in a few minutes the lower part of the glass below the cup will contain pos alon of the orange the water and the upper part will be filled with water this Is as it should be because water is heavier than wine and nat aurally goes to the bottom the curl ous thing Is that the wine and water do not mix but each selects one hole for itself it Is like he trick with the candle burning in a lamp chimney with a partition at the top so that cold fresh air goes down on one side while the hot air and smoke escape on abe other oil may be substituted for the wine or you may fill the bottom of the glass with water and then pour in milk or some thin colored syrup what sound Is it you were asked what Is sound you would probably answer that Is an easy question a sound Is a sound let us find a real alon when you walk what happens people bear the sound of your foot steps sound follows when you lay a book on the table so also when a ball bounces against the house sound is therefore caused by the shock when one body comes into con tact with another all very well you reply the shock is the cause of sound but that does not define just what sound is A practical example will best describe it stride gently upon the edge of a wine glass you hear the sound and a very pretty one it Is but before the sound dies away put your finger lightly upon the edge of the glass and then you will feel the sound as we I 1 as hear it the glass will tremble beneath your finger if you press heavily enough to stop this trembling the sound will stop also sound is therefore vibration a striking against the air of a moving body the surgeon s patient it happened that a bulldog saw its master s broken arm often dressed by a surgeon one day the same surgeon was surprised by a pawing and scratching at his door when the door was opened he beheld two doga his friends bulldog and another the latter held up one of its forelegs to the surgeon who saw that it was broken he set the broken limb in splints and in due course the bones reunited and the leg became whole on another occasion this very same surgeon was summoned to his door by the persistent yelping of a dog standing on three legs the doctor examined the fourth limb and found a pin sticking in it which prevented the animal from using it without great pain the pin was extracted and the dog went away in ease tom s home made engine toms sunshine engine was a con tr ivance of his own and he was very proud of it it consisted of a stiff writing paper flywheel eight inches in diameter a paper flanged wheel straw uprights to support the straw walking beam and the axle a split straw driving rod and piston and a paper cylinder the two upright straw supports of the flanged driving wheel each measured five inches in length and these were fastened to i discarded glass negative with sealing wax absolutely perpendicular you may be sure st nicholas firmly into the hole in the deck and 5 our boat Is almost complete now comes the novel feature of your boat get one of these fy bal loons which are so often sold by street venders you can get a five cent one at any toy store fasten a light cord about four feet long to the balloon and tie the other end of the cord to the screw eye in the bow of your boat and you are ready to launch her the balloon will fly at the end of tie cord high above 5 our boat which 11 skim over the water like a law As soon as the wind changes the balloon will yank around the bow of the boat and she wil head on a new tack then the square sail will fill and she will be away at a ing speed |