| Show jesus friend faith unchanging ahou art at our side through the stress and turmoil thou art still our guide oft our ees a e holde and we see rhee not oft in bitter anguish think thou hast forgot steiner was thy conflict fiercer was thy foe on the path thus trodden should we stumble so strength from trial garnered till the struggle a past to thy likeness bring safely home at last arthur seaton inches from the top of each piece and chisel out a piece from each as shown in the picture then make two pieces 4 inches wide on one end and 3 inches wide on the other end and make the length of each piece 8 inches after this has been done measure down 2 inches and chisel as before the hot torn piece should be 83 inches corn the work basket by nailing the parts together gen blackmarr Black mars drill story the late gen allmon W Black inar once told how he had overheard a cor drilling his squad in this fash ion now then no 7 the corporal said we 11 make another start that Is it you ve quite finished feeling it your back hair happens to be on straight this morning it s you I 1 m talking to third man from left on front rank I 1 haven t the pleasure of knowd your name but I 1 expect to be whitin it down tor an hour s extra work pretty soon now then look to your front sq lad tchun Lett dress turn your eyes to the left without tin like chinese dummies if you can stand up in the ranks too like soldiers not like a measly row of lop sided spindle cockney shop boys stick your chests out and put your somewhere out of sight altogether there s art of you with fingers e bags of potatoes strike me crimson i I 1 ever saw such a mob hi you in the center the ginger headed man I 1 mean don t arin like that this aint no perl shin beauta competition not by no manner of means great sold ers at early ages the following is a list of great gen brals whose superior capacity was exhibited in early manhood philip of macedon ascended the throne at 22 was the conqueror of greece at 45 and died at 47 alexander the great defeated the celebrated theban band at Chae ronea before arriving at the age of 18 as bended the throne at 20 and con the world at 25 an I 1 died at 32 julius caesar commanded a fleet be ore mitylene and distinguished him aielt before the age of 22 completed his first war in spain and was made a cons il before the age of 40 con gaul twice crossed the rhine and twice invaded britain before the age of 45 won the battle of kharsa lia and obtained supreme power at 52 he died at 56 the victor of five hundred battles and the conqueror of one thousand cities hannibal was made commander in chief of the Carth agian army in spain at 26 and had won all his great bat ties in italy concluding with candae at 31 scipio africans Afric anus the elder distin himself at the battle of ti cinus at 16 and at 29 overthrew the power of carthage at zama scipio africans Afric anus the younger had conquered the other carthaginian ar mies and completed the destruction of carthage at 36 genghis khan achieved many of his victories and became emperor of the mongols at 40 charlemagne was crowned king at 26 was master of france and the larger part of germany at 29 placed on his head the lion crown of italy at 32 and conquered spain at 36 A home made sled the russian boy who cannot afford to buy a sled makes a very good substitute from ice he saws out fl block that is longer than it is thick and high enough to make a comfort able seat then he scoops out a hoi low like a saddle a little way behind the middle of the apper surface and upholsters it with straw or rags the sled is then ready for its first trip down hill and if the rider is skilful he will make very good speed on it but carrying it back to the top of the incline would be too hard worl even tor a russian boy and pushing it up hill would be almost as bad A clever lad once thought of a better way and all others boys have copied him ever since he found a piece of straw and began blowing through it at the front of the block with the end of the straw close to the ice soon he had a little hole in the block a neatly drilled as a steel tool coul have done it in the course of ar hour and a half he had driven a hole slant wise through the ice comin out at the top just in front of th saddle A strong string passe through the hole and knotted COIE plated his sled which could then b drawn uphill almost as easily as the best coaster that ever wa made I 1 a boy Is careful of his ice sled and he Is apt to be careful for consider able trouble Is necessary to make one it will last all winter some queer dancers far down in africa the other side of the equator live the jolly apolos they are an honest light headed set of savages who tor several months the year do nothing but dance sing and drink palm wine when the sea son is over they settle down to their ordinary pursuits they hae many dances which would seem strange to an american girl or boy but the weirdest dance of all la performed upon stilts and Is called acuya or giant dance the acuya is an object made of wicker worl with an enor head of wood there Is no word hideous enough to describe the uell ness of this acua it has outstretched wooden arms and monkey skins form the hair and beard while a long skirt of grass cloth hides the stilt walker who places this grotesque monster over himself the arms are 1 ept out stretched and thus costumed the dance proceeds sometimes hundreds of the apolos taking part in it at once A queer occupation sometimes people choose queer ways to earn a living but I 1 wonder it you girls and boys know that about three or four hundred people in paris support themselves by picking up old cigar and cigarette stumps they fand on the streets 9 not a very pleasant way to live but since these cigar pick ers often make over a dollar a day by their strange occupation 1 suppose they do not care very much about the unpleasantness the cigar pickers are often old old men who are too feeble to worl at anything else but sometimes they are young boys they walk the streets for hours searching carefully and when they have found enough stumps they take them down under the bridges on the river seine and pre pare them for sale the end of the cigar that has been in the mouth is cut off and thrown away then the rest is carefully chopped and put into neat packages of tobacco which is sold to poor peo pie tor about a fifth less than they would have to pay for it in the stores A ball tournament here is a fine game of ball much enjoyed by french bos it Is a kind of tilting tournament and can be played either out of doors or in a boy s big play room draw a big circle in which the play ers range themselves after having been divided into two equal divisions then cut for the ball the side that obtains it are the knights and the other the horses the knights get astride the horses and the tournament begins the knight who holds the ball tosses it in the air three times and then throws it to his right hand neighbor who passes it on to the next knight and so on until the first player Is leached the latter then ahrews the ball out following any order it the ball Is missed by the player to whom it Is sent all the knights leap from their horses and take to flight but cannot go the circle one of the horses picks up the ball and tries to hit a knight it he succeeds the become horses it he misses his aim the knights remount and the game continues as before white races in other lands the dea that in remote parts of the tropics amid the dark skinned races there exists mysterious esolat ed white tribes bearing a strong resemblance to europeans has long pos hessed a curious fascination for the old world the early adventurers in central and southern america brought home many tales ot binary cities beyond the mountains and vague stories afloat in south africa thirty or forty years ago fur dished mr rider haggard with a for one ot his best known novels yet so strong a hold has the idea gained that even at the begin ning of the twentieth century the pos 0 the existence of a genuine white race Is not altogether scoffed at it Is less than four years ago that an american officer engaged in operations against the moros in the collected apparently sub stant lal evidence relating to a mys gerlous white tribe in the island ot mindanao the officer was so am pressed that he determined to con duct an exploring party across the center of the island but apparently the mysterious white folk had van ched for the world up to the present time has heard nothing of his search being crowned with success A mountain torrent the next rainy afternoon when no one knows what to do try this inter esting trick of making a mountain tor rent right in your own home place to ir books on a table at equal distances apart the books them selves must be of different sizes and apanged in regularly diminishing or der blacken with smoke a long strip of paper by pissing it above a lighted candle this done apply your band ot black ened paper on the backs of the books in the manner shown in the picture that Is waving from one book to the other the smoked side is upper most close to the last book the small est put a saucer to which the strip of paper leads then pour water from a spoon drop by drop on top of the farst book as shown in our drawing and you will see the drops glide over the paper without wetting it and after running down the mountains fall into the saucer why we say hello long long ago wolves were numer ous in all parts of the world especially in angland wolf hunting was a fa sport with the gentry and to kill wolves was regarded reg aided as the sacred duty 0 all englishmen in fact an old law reads all babions must hunt and chase i wolf four times a year french was the language of the court at that time so the burly old I 1 hunters used the cry of the brench wolf hunters which was au loup au loup to the wolf these worda heard at a distance sounded like a loo but the english who always put an II 11 on wherever they possibly can put it on the words A loo and when wolf hunting shouted ha loo the form we use when we call hello as no word has been found that carries so tar or so well as hello for this reason it Is the accepted form of the telephone companies the world over washington star A stamp menagerie it Is possible to construct quite a menagerie with the aid of postage stamps up to the present time there are forty nine quadrupeds thirty nine birds one elsh one mollusk one polyp seven reptiles and two insects ani mals represented on stamps A blank album artistically arranged and having the stamps classified ac cording to their designs in this man ner would prove very interesting and in addition the philatelist would have the satisfaction of knowing that such a collection can be made corn or nearly so when a man Is strongest the uplifting power of a youth of 17 years Is pounds in his awen bieth year this increases to pounds and in the thirty and thirty first years it reaches its height pounds at the end of the thirty first year the strength begins to decline very slowly at first washington AS FIRE LADDIE here is a picture of a fire engine of a century or more ago this engine belonged at one time to the virginia volunteer fire company george wash ington was a member of this company and history records that it was often pulled to fires with the aid of no less important a person than the lather of his country this is no v owned by the baltimore volunteer firemen s assoria tion of baltimore md of course it organ led the friendship Frield ship fire corn piny in alexandria va it soon be came a popular institution the first membership comprised those citizens who out of mutual friendship agreed to carry td every fire two leathern buckets and one great bay of osna burg or wide linen in the last year of washington s life a fire occurred near the old market house in Alx andrla As he was rid ing lown king street followed by his the washington fire eng ne las been on the retired list tor the last 60 years but hen the fire head quarters were almost destroyed b lames during the great fire of last year it was taken from its last resting ace and made to help it saved the ire headquarters from ue advancing lames and added a new honor second aly to the one it had won the honor having been hauled by ceorge washington to many fires aug 13 gcorge washington servant on horseback he saw the friendship company poorly manned riding up to a well dressed group of men standing in the streets he called out chy are ou idle there jentle mena it Is your place to lead in these matters he chiew the bridle of his horse to his servant he leaped off and seized he brakes of the engines followed by 3 crowd that had kindled to jarn at his words |
