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Show 8unshlne Song. Would you make some Baddencd heart Juit n llttlo lighter? . , ... Would you make somo burdened tin Just a llttlo lirlgliter? Drop n woul of hope nnd cheer, Bet the ccroes rlnglni; With your notes or endless joy. As you eo tt-alnglng. Would you smooth tho rosed Pth Down alone llfe'B hlchway? Would you 1 Innt the rose of lore In some fonely byny7 .J Just n deotl of kindness done V. Clenrs the path brforo us; And tho lilies of GoiI'b lovo llloom and blossom o'er us. Just n. little word of cheer Lightens every duty. Just a smile will often show Knees wreathed In henuty. Bprlnkls sunshine as you go; Comfort the distressing. And your glnd rewnrd shnll be Heaven's choicest lilcsslnR. E. A. lirlnnlnatooL Plndertoy. This plndertoy, the gay drum major, can bo readily mado by outline out and fastenlug together the various parts. Scissors and a pla ouly aro needed. Why Cows Dislike Dog. Why should a cow so hato a dog? If only an Innocent little poodle happens hap-pens Into a pasture with a row you will see a lowering of horns and a stamping of feet that sends the poodle scampering for a placo of safety. The reason dates back for hundreds of years to tho time when all dogs were wclves and all cows wcro wild, shaggy cittlo almost ns savago. There was a constant warfare between them, and the wild cattle, nearly every day, had to uso horns nnd hoofs to keep themselves them-selves and their calves from being eaten by tho hungry wolvos. Dogs havo been for so many hundreds of yenra tho closo friends of men that they havo forgotten some of their natural nat-ural enemies, but tho cattlo have not, as you can sea almost any day In tho Qolds. 8tory of a Deadhead Bruin. As a passenger train from Codar Koys to Jacksonville was running at a lively rate, somo cattlo on tho track causod tho train to slacken speed almost to a stop. When tho tra... slowed up, to provont running over tbo cows, a large black bear trottd lelsuroly out of tho woods and Jllmbed upon tho platform of the car to seo, probably, If thero wag anything of an eatablo nature aboard. He had got on the front platform of tho express car, and, finding the door open, decided to continue his search In the interior. Inside In-side ho found throe nlco strings of fish, all of which he transferred to his Btomacb. During tho time tho bear was tnklrg his lunch tbo baggagomas-tor baggagomas-tor dlscoverod him and notified tho conductor, and the two men couu think of nothing to do but start the train. When the train started, the swaying of the car shut the door, and all thought an important capturo bad been made. Tho bear coon be-camo be-camo tlrod of his ride, and looked itoout for means of ogress. Nothing appeared so vulnerable to attack 1 6 tho windows In the side of tho car, which wero protected by Iron rods snout a half Inch In dlamctor. He selected ono of the and clawed the woodwork about It very badly. Ho thon ovldently caught threo or four of tho Iron bars with his paws, and, giving giv-ing them a hug, broke nnd twlstod thorn off clean. His lumbering body was thon forced through the aperaturo and struck the ground llko a rubber ball. He turned two or threo somersault somer-sault and amblod oft Into tho woods. Horse's Character. The favorlto pet for boys and girls Is a dog, but tho moat useful la a horse, only It Is moro oxponslvo to koop and therefore city boys nnd girls are dobarred from this pleasure. Out if you should buy n horso, big or little, bo euro you buy a good ono; a shying, kicking, biting horso Is worse than none. The simplest plan Is to buy a horse ytm "know"; a horso you have soen ridden and driven at least a year. If you don't know any horso you had bottor got a friend to buy one for you, or, better still, learn how to dotoct his good and bad qualities. A horso's head indicates bis character charac-ter very much nB a man's docs. VIco is shown In i' o oro snd mouth In tclllgenco In tho cyo and In tho poso, in tbo mobllo nostril and actlvo car. Tho elzo of tho cyo, tho thinness of tho skin, tho largo, open, thln-cdgcd nostril, nos-tril, tho flno enr, and thin flno man) and forctop, aro Indications of flno breeding, which, with good limbs and musculnr power, Insures a considerable consider-able degrco of speed In tho animal. Tho stupidly lazy horso that drivers call a "lunkhead" has a dull oyo, usually a narrow forehead and contracted con-tracted poll. He Is always a blunderer, blunder-er, forgcU himself nnd stumbles on smooth ground, goto himself nnd his owner Into difficulties nnd is gonerally lazy. Ho needs constant caro nnd watchfulness on tho drivers' part and you bad better let Ltm alono. Showman's Trick. An amusing llttlo game for boys and girls, ono which will produce mucn laughter nnd fun, la explained here. Let somo boy of the party pretend to bo a magician, claiming to bo nblo to show each guest any animal ho or sho wishes to soe. Tho guests, all savo tho boy acting tho part of tho magi-clan, magi-clan, nro Invited to lcavo the parlor, entering an adjoining room. A girt assistant stands at the door connecting connect-ing tho two apartments, and calls oco person nt a time Into tho parlor, closing clos-ing tho door securely again, so that tho as yet uninitiated may not sec tho fate of their fellows. On entering tho parlor tho boy cr girl Is OBked hy tho magician: "What animal do you wish most to see?" The person questioned names somo nnlmal, maybe a monkey, whereupon tho magician snys: "Closo your yes tightly, please." Thon ho quickly removes re-moves a small mirror from tbo lnsldo of his coat, and, holding .t In front of tho subject's closed eyes, ho commands: com-mands: "Behold the monkey." or nnmlng the animal, of course, asked for. Tho boy or girl opens his or her cjes to gaze at his or her own Imago and the laugh Is Indulccd In nt tho soiu ono's expense. Then victim No. 1 Is allowed to sit down and enjoy seelcg ench guest in turn sold In the same ridiculous manner, man-ner, nnd as tho crowd of spectators becomes larger tho merriment becomes be-comes greater, for all tho boys aLa girls present enjoy most keenly seeing their friends turned Into animals tt tuo pleasure of the magician. Getting Ready for Winter. All nature la now ge'tlng ready for the long, cold winter. Tho trees that leaf early in the spring nro protecting the coming buds with down nnd wool, tho birds and beasts are putting on their winter changes of plumago nnd fur and even certain of the Insects nre growing soft, warm coverings. Not only Is the fur of outdoor animals growing longer nnd closer, but most of them aro putting on underclothing of dense, short hulrs growing among tho roots of the longer fur. Tho beautiful beau-tiful cashmcro shawls nro made from this Inner wool on tho goat. Overshoes arc worn by a large num ber of uirdB. In tho into fall fringes of sharp points grow on tho toes of tho ruin (Ml grouse, and the feathers on tho fret of tho ptarmigan nro much broader nnd differ than In summer, and really act as snowshocs to keep tho feet from sinking Into the soft snow. At night, by the aid of theso feathers, these birds can scratch their way Into a drift and lie there well sheltered, or dig deeply Into the snow for tho wintergrccn nnd partridge berries ber-ries that llo closo to tho warm earth. Some of tho smaller animals also wear Bnowshocs. Tho hairs grow no long and so stiff on tbo feet of somo of tho rabbits that ono Western species spe-cies Is called the snowshoo rabbit. Fun Alive. Fun Allvo Is a game playod by any numbor of persons with eight largo cards, called "gamo cards," nnd forty smaller "forfeit cards." Tho game cards aro all blank except ono, called tho "catch card," on which the words "Fun Allvo" aro printed In largo letters. let-ters. On each of the forfeit cards a forfeit Is printed. The forfeit cards are spread, fuce downward, In tho mlddlo of tho tabic, and tho gamo Is HI begun by ono player's taking tho Hj gamo cards, shullllng them and pro- UJ scntlng them to his left-hand neigh- SB bor, who draws one. If It bo Uio catch HB card, ho must at onco draw a forfeit Hj card, and do as It directs. Then tho JH player who draws, ahulllcs tho gamo H cards and presents thorn to his left- H hand neighbor, and so on. When a BB player draws a blank card ho takes H no forfeit card, and tho next one H draws nt onco. The gamo contlnuoo jflj thus as long as tho players choose Bj Baby an Accomplished Linguist. H Llttlo Rcjano Lea, who resides wlta gm her parents In York road, Lambeth, H Is something of a "wonder child." She H speaks as many languages as she la H years of ago. H Although not qulto threo, Rejane H prattles fluently In French, Italian nnd H English. In addition, tho baby tin- H guist has invontcd a mlxturo of the mm threo languages which she addresses ErVfc exclusively to her dolls. Bg Rcjano was born In Cairo. Her V1BB mother Is French and her father Ital- Tr tan. Sho converses with both parents Bjf In their natlvo languages. BV A few months ago Rcjano was Hj brought to London and placed In tho B care of a nurse whoso linguistic at- BJ tntnments aro Inflexibly limited t flt English. H Rojnno Is a dainty, sprightly llttlo Hj miss with raven black tresses. Sha Bj explained last evening that "It was H very dull having no ono to convcrso H with. It got very lonely In time. Just H fancy nurso not being ablo to speak H cither French or Italian, and she Is Hj years and years older than I ami H Well, I felt I must speak to some ono mV or die! So I set to work and learned B English." When, In a fow weeks, Rejane MB reaches her third year, she Is to begin JBJ learning German. Afterward sho will Bj bo taught Arabic. Bj Her father Is an accomplished lln- Bj gulst, so Rcjane's Is ovldently a case BB of hereditary talent Londba Mall. BB Proof of Fine Workmanship. BB Mrs. Mary L. Hull of East Fairfield, H Vt., has In her possession a Bprcad tor JH a linen stand and a towel spun and (H woven by her grandmother and gxeat-j. B grandmother. B i"s A Whittling Arrow. TmM Doubtless you've read about tho wS whistling bombs or whistling rockets Em but did you ever hear or ceo a B whistling arrow? B It Is very simple to construct one. B Tlrst procure n section of thin, light B bnmboo; saw It Into several pieces of B varying lengths, the longest about two B or three Inches. Then cut a holo noar H the end of ench one and plug tho other B snd with a piece of cork. Tho open B end Is to be tho head. Tie each to tho B arrow's end by a string long enough B How Arrow Is Made and Shot. H to allow tho bamboo pieces to bang vwiiH over tho top of tho bow so they will 73 not Interfere with tho arrow's flight ' As the arrow Is discharged tho bamboo bam-boo pieces tall out behind It and tho velocity of tho arrow causes the nlr to rush Into their open bends and out again through the small holes which gives very nearly the same effect ef-fect ns a whlstlo. Tho stronger tbo bow tho moro whlFtloi will tho arrow bo able to sustain In Its (light with, oi course, a proportionately greater amount of nolso. A BOY'S CARD SKIMMER. - How to Hold the Card Skimmer. Thero Is Bomothlng for the boys. It docs not make n nolso like the dangerous danger-ous toy pistol, but It Is a moro amusing amus-ing and more interesting toy In every way. The Illustration shows how tho toy Is made. There Is a slotted handle on which la pivoted a slip of wood with n notch In tho uper end. Around tho notch nnd tho hnndlo Is sprung a strong rubber band On tho lower end f tho woodon slip Is a short pin snd a slight cone. To uso tho skimmer, you stick the card on tho pin, and pull back and suddenly rcloaco tbo slip. Tho card p3 swings around on tho pin, ntrlkoa tho Q cone, I thereby lifted off the pin nnd fl goes il ing through tho air to a great fl heigh, or dUtance. A llttlo practice M will onablo you to skim tho card 100 B foot. Study the Illustration and you can B mako tho sklmmor vri?irsclf. Bl |