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Show BflY Fishing Time. Bflfl, cannot nx my mind to-day On what I have to do; B A picture haunts my Inner co BBf Of waters swift and blue. BBBI 31y fingers Itch to cast a fly, BBBJ The belts of memory chime BBBj .And call mn to the woods and llcldi, BBj for this Is flshlng-tlme. 1 dream of mossy stcpplng-stonm In lazy amber brooks. Hf Of grassy banks with blomomi bright. And silent, shady nonks, Where I forget the world nf toll Bj And wash an ay Its grlmi- BB In crystal depths nf running streams BBB That sing of llshlng-tlme. BH I long to seu tho sunllnh play, H The minnows' merry schoo, BB The trout beneath tho shelving bank Or In his favorite pool. And all the silver finny folk j That throng the watery clime; flfl So hand me out the old brown coat HH I keep for flshlng-tlme. H Minna Irving In Leslie's Weekly. HH Surprise With an Infernal Machine. Bfl Think of constructing tn Infernal Bfl mnchlno out of live wooden tooth- flH picksl And when you got It all fixed and ready to bo "touched off." It will HB LaaBBaMBfa-MV HI. Ready For the Explosion. BW, make aa much fun aa any little device Bk you ever heard of. BJf Here Is tho way to make It: Select B five of the longest and smoothest AY toothpicks you can And, and placo flf two of them on tho bottom of a goblet flB or wineglass, turned upside down on, flf a table, in tho form of tho letter X.' :flf On theso two placo a third one, so flj that It will Ho lengthwise along tho BE mlddlo line or the letter. A Now place a pick at each end 30 jflf that It will rest on top of the mlddlo 9Wt one and under tho ends of the crossed Hj ones. This will make a littto bend In RflE the middle pick, causing enough pros- ffSJ sure to bold the device to gettier. The 3HJ picks may bo moro easily arranged If KjB you Ret soma ono to help you. MB? Oet a long cork and stick matches UB Into it to represent arms and legs. iflj An extra pleco of cork may bo carved LflJ Into a sort of head for tho figure, and feflj the effect will thereby bo made more jBx grotesque. Or you may mako the HE head with all the features out of new HBm. bread, which is malleablo enough for nw the purpose. A little water color paint jKi v'. w'" niake eyes, nose, ears and cheeks. B ' Now placo the figure astride of tho snM mlddlo toothpick, at one end, and you Bw have everything ready for the "going Vw off" of tho machine. To bring about MR tho catastrophe you havo only 'to SjR touch a lighted match to tho end of Sjg on0 of tQe crossed toothpicks, and CT. just as soon as enough of It has burn- C ed to reach the point of Junction tho !& wnole devlco will fly to pieces, and iflEV, as tho bent mlddlo toothpick will K spring up when thus released from S pressure it will throw tho figure into K space dismembered. fl lhe result ls botn startling and .' amusing. BJ Knot In Handkerchief. jBJ Tho task Is to fold a handkerchief lengthwise; to take hold of both ends IJflr with two hands and to mako a knot In HM the handkerchief without letting go HM tho ends. This is done with tho know I- 'gpf edge of a trick. && P)ace tho handkerchief boforo you, St folJ your nrms a la NaP,eon. and tako 'K ono end of the handkorchlef with the &jfjj left hand, which Jb now to the right, ISM and tho other ond with the right hand, H now to the loft. Ily unfolding tho arms SS mako a knot In tho handkorchlef and BK tho trick is done. BBfi About Your Lesions, Boys. Bfl The boy who used to boast of get-flH get-flH ting tho best of his teacher has been HB! heord from. Tho samo traits of char-Hat: char-Hat: "acter which tempted him to deceive BJ bis teacher into bellovlng that ho had 1H solved his problotns, ., i tompleted H bis tasks himself, led him to cheat his B$H employer, to Idle whenever big back BM was turned, and to shirk his day's Bf$ work, until ho finally lost his position. BJf His lack of education the result of BJB cheating his teacher has proved a E- perpetual handicap, and has lost him flv many a good situation. Ills dlshon BS osty, which started In tho schoolroom, BS has Krov.11 until nobody will trust hlra B9 and ho hns no credit or standing In Hf his community. SB As a boy, ho thought himself vcrj 3jB clover In being able to dodgo his IbK lessons and Impose upon his teacher; 12k hjj hut ho realizes now that tho person HJf cheated was himself. In thoso pro-h3r pro-h3r clous days of jouth ho robbed himself 1 t. ., ol pearls of great value which he ntci will be ahlo to recover. flio thief of time and opportunity often thinks ho Is enriching himself, btic ho awakes one day to tho truth thyl he ls poorer and meaner for tho tbft. The Sun Curve In the Sky. Oet a smooth piece of board, say tei, Inches square. Get a Bhcet of ruled note paper and a pleco of stilt card boird about three inches long and half an Inch wide. I-nsten this' card to the edge of the board with a tack. Plkco tho bonrd in n sunny window Just before 12 o'clock and -mark tho placo bo that you ran always placo In tho same position every day. Lay the sheet on the board so that the first ruled line touches the cardboard. At exactly 12 o'clock placo tho board so mat tho shndow or tho card will cover tho first ruled line. Just on the snme mlnuto of 12 innrk tho top of tho shadow on the ruled lino with a dot In Ink. Do this every day at oxactly 12 o'clock, using tie next ruled line. Cloudy dnys skip a line. Mark thu shadow on tho ruled lino for twontj dnys or longer, If there nro moro llt.es. When nil nro marked Join all tho dots together with an Inked ilno, and you will seo that the lino Is bent or curved. This curved lino shows tho curve In the Bky tho sun follows as the season chnnges. A Punctual Bird. What tempts the little humming bird that wo see In our gardens to travel every spring from near the equator to ai far north as tho arctic circle, leaving behind him as ho does, for a season, many troplcni delights? He Is tho only ono of many humming birds that pluckily leaves tho land of Bayly colored birds to go Into voluntary exile ex-ile In the north, east of the Mississippi. Missis-sippi. How It stirs tho imagination to picture tho solitary, tiny migrant, a mero atom of bird life, moving above the rango of human Bight through tho vast domo of the sky, says Neltjo nianchan in Country Life In America. He covers tho thousands of miles between be-tween his winter home and his summer sum-mer ono by easy stages and arrives at his chosen destination at approximately approximate-ly tho same dato year after year. Shadow Pantomimes. This amusement makes lota of fun for tho evening. Fix n white Bheet across the roorn, or, what Is bettor, over folding doors. Seat tho company before the screen, without lights. The nctora dunce and act behind the sheet, ou which their magnified shadows are cast by the lamp. Occasionally they Jump over the lamp, and thus appear to tho spectators In front as It they had jumped upward through the cell- BBBk' sSsvfwyjBBv jwB r ' The Struggle on the 8heet Ing. Somo amusing scenes may bo contrived with a little ingenuity-chairs ingenuity-chairs and tables may be called down from abovo by passing them across the light; a struggle between, two seeming combatants may tako place, and one bo seen to throw" the other up in the air on the samo principle. Of course, the actors must promote the delusion by their gestures, moving their hands and feet as it climbing upward. Care should bo taken to keep the profile on tho screrni as distinct as possible, and practice will soon suggest somo highly high-ly humorous situations. Fun In a Clock's Face. Somo amusement may bo had In a company of boys and girls by asking; them to draw a picture of the faco of a clock. Most of them would bo likely to draw tho lette'rs IV. Instead of IUI. for four, nnd would forget, perhaps, that nil tho letters of tho dial should stand with their baso toward tho center. cen-ter. It Is probable that most people read a clock dial by the position of the figures fig-ures or lottors and disregard the figures fig-ures themselves. Somo of tho larger clocks now mado for steoples have only a straight line at each hour placo and thoy serve their purpose admirably. admir-ably. It has boen found, however, that while most perso;u; have no accurate knowledge of dials, any marked departure de-parture from the usual method of marking them Is at once detected. A dial bearing IV. Instead of the four straight lines attracts everybody's attention. at-tention. An Egg Experiment. PJaco a large boiled egg In an egg cup In such a mannor that it will not touch the bottom, and the circumference circumfer-ence of tho egg must bo somewhat greater than tho width of the cup at tho top. If you now grasp the egg and the cup and, turning both upside down, strike the top of the egg against tho table, tho china cup will break nnd probably go to. pieces; but tho egg will remain intact', especially if it has a thick shall. Only tho point or tip of tho egg is to bo brought Into contact con-tact with tho table, nnd tho cup and egg must be firmly held while this is being done. " |