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Show Little Brown Hsndt. rhty drive home the cows from the pasture. pas-ture. Up through the Ionic ahadr lane. Where the mull whutles loud In the wheat lleldn. That are yellow with ripening grain. They flnl. In the thick waving graaaea. Where the acarlet-llpped etrawberry grows. They gather the rarltut anowdropa. And the ftrat crimson buda of the rose. rhy toaa the new hay In the meadow; They gather the elder-bloom while: They And where the duaky grapes purple In the aoft-tlnted October light. , They know where the apples hang rlpeet. And are aweeter than Italy's wlnea; They know where the fruit hangs the thlckeet On the long, thorny blackberry vlnea. They gather the delicate aea-weeda. And build tiny castle of sand: They pick up the beautiful aea-ahelts Fair barks that have drifted to land. They wave from the tall, rocking tree-Where" tree-Where" the oriole's hammock-nest wings; . . And at night-time are folded tn slumber Ily a aong that a fond mother sings. Those who. toll bravely are strongoat: The humble and poor become great. And so from these brown-hanaea children chil-dren . ... Shall grow mighty rulers of state. The pen of tho author and stateaman The noble and wtae of the land The sword, and the chlaet. and palette. Shall be held In the little bro"1."41 Mary It. Krout. The Liberated Rope. Take a stout ropo about twenty feet loag. and hand it to your audience for In Position for the Trick. Inspection. After thoy havo examined It, lot ono of tuom bind your wrists together with a handkerchief. This being ono, havo ono end of the ropo passed over the handkerchief, and lot tho cords then bo held up by ono of tho company. Now request tho person holding the onds to pull one way, whllo you pull the other, to show that tho handkerchief Is tightly tlod. There Is apparently no way of getting get-ting tho rope off, oxcopt when the onds aro released or the handkerchief untied. un-tied. You soon oxplodo this Idea, how-over, how-over, for after making ono or two rapid movement of your hands and arma. you throw tho rope off and exhibit your wrists still tied. Wonderful as this all seems, It Is very simple, and requires but little practice as shown clearly by tho accompanying ac-companying illustration. Tho part of tho ropo marked "A" is rollod between be-tween the wrists, until it works up through the handkerchief and forma a loop, through which you pass one hand sod then, by giving the ropo a smart Jerk, It comes off easily. Anent Frogs' Ears, Some time ago Deatrlce Nathans of Philadelphia, wrote to St. Nicholas asking, "Havo toads and frogs ears?" Tho answer to her question Included Includ-ed tbo hearing equipment ot turtles and snakes as well, and was very Interesting. In-teresting. The ears ot a frog are tho thin, flat spots back ot tho eyes. Scientists call tho vibrating tlssuo over each spot a tympanic membrano. This vibrates vi-brates after tho manner of tho head ot a drum only, of course, on a very small scale. Thoro Is no opening as In tho ears ot higher, animals. Turtles have similar membranes a llttlo back ot tbo jaws, but thoy are smallor than In tho frog and do not show conspicuously. Indeod, unless you know Just whoro to look, you will fall to Cnd them, becauso thoy aro below thick skin, You can usually foci this membrane by pressing with thumb and finger on both Bides of tho head, as an elastic spot surroundod by a hard, circular wall. In most fishes the luterual ear-does not havo tho tympanic membrano, and tho "car" Is probably not for hearing, but an organ ot equilibrium (that Is, ot kcoplng right side up) only. Somo salamanders do not have this membrano, mem-brano, but others, and all the higher amphibians, llko frogs and turttos, havo tho membrano. Snakes havo no mombrano, and the hearing is right through the bono ot tho skull, which wo can somewhat understand by comparing It to our hoarlng noises or othor sounds through tho partition between two rooms ot a houso. Snakes are not charmed by music. Lessons In Manners. A woll-known lawyer Is tolling a good story about blrasolf and his efforts ef-forts to correct tho manners of his office boy, Ono morning, not long ago, relatos the Brooklyn Cltlzon, the young autocrat ot tho offico blew Into tho ofllco and, tossing Ills cap nt n hook, exclaimed: "Say, Mr. Wank, there's a ball gamo down at tho park to-day and I am going down." Now the attorney Is not a hardhearted hard-hearted man, and was willing the boy should go, but thought he would teach him a little lesson In good manners. "Jlramlo," he said kindly, "that isn't the way to ask a favor. Now, you coma over here, and sit down and I'll show you how to do It." Tho boy took the office ch,alr and his employer picked up his cap and stepped outside. Ho then opened tho door softly and, holding tho cap In his hand, said quietly quiet-ly to the small boy in tho big chair: "Please, sir, there Is a ball gamo at the park to-day. If you can spare me I would like to get away for the afternoon." after-noon." In a (lash the boy responded: "Wby. certainly, Jimmle, and hero Is 50 cents to pay your way in." There are no more lessons tn manners man-ners In that office. Dictionary Detective. A crime with a strange name haa been committed In Dictionary Land. If you feel fit and keen you may bo able to do a piece of brilliant detective) detec-tive) work. You must And the man who committed the crime and bring him to punishment. First, of course, you must find the crime. It was committed In DARR street In Dictionary Land. Just look sharply along there and you will find It. From Barr street go to CAPT street and you will discover the kind of a man who did It, You will not find him, but you will find that ho has departed, de-parted, If you will look In VOY street However, you can reach people who can catch him for you. It you hurry and uso a great Invention that you can find tn CARL street. With this you send something that you can obtain In MESSA street, and tho first thing you know you will get something In REPL street that will .tell you that the man you want has been caught and lodged In a place that Is PRI street. Now, which of you will succeed In this little piece of dotoctlve work? Babies Put In Holes. I have gone Into a field In Uganda and there found one of our womon at work with a hoe, writes a missionary sister in Donahoo's. I asked her whore her baby, "Maria," was, and sho pointed to a spot at some distanco whero tho banana trees wero thick. I walked under tho shade, and In vain I sought tho Infant. Tho mother was groatly amused, and urged me to search further, assuring mo that the llttlo ono was not far away and was fast asleep. I had to "glvo up," so the mother took me by tho hand and led mo to a bit of bark cloth on the ground. Under this rag was tho crown ot tho baby's head, whllo tho body was In a hole deep enough to rest en the ground. To my surprise and expostulations ex-postulations sho said In her own language: lan-guage: "This Is a good custom! When a Uganda woman goes to hoe It Is not good for her baby to llo asleep on the ground, as It might Injure In-jure Itself by rolling or. If It awoke, It might crawl away. Thcreforo, we mako a holo like this and lino It with soft, clean leaves and put our baby safely Into It so that It can neither crawl out nor roll away, and wo know exactly where to find it when wo como from tho fields." Sho said It was perfectly safo from wild beasts, becauso It was mid-day. Eskimo Girl's Ball Dress. Whon an Eskimo young lady goes to a ball she Is a gorgeous sight to gazo upon. Tou did not know that they had dances In her country? Well, tboy do, and a traveler reports just how a bello was dressed on such an occasion. ' Her dress was mado ot the Intestines Intes-tines of a seal, split and sewed together. to-gether. This makes a transparent garment, gar-ment, and tho girl trimmed It with olaborato embroidery of colored worsteds wor-steds and fringed it with strings ot beads. Her trousers wero whlto and mado ot Siberian reindeer skin cm-brolderod cm-brolderod with Btrlps ot wolt skin. Her hair was braided on each sldo with strips ot wolf skin and strips ot H beads. Heavy necklaces and pendant ,'HBJ of beads and tooth ot animals hung 'lE around her neck and over her shout fljjj dcrs. Snow-white gloves mado ot fawn flj skin were on her bands. Thoso fit ,?HJ ted perfectly and were ornamented nW with strips of skin from some animal VB perhaps tho seal. To complete thtl $ elaborate outfit this Eskimo bello car K2 rled in her hand not a bouquet bu M a long eagle feather. In fact, she car flflj rled two, one In each hand, which sht flflj waved as she danced. No doubt tali . SB young lady made a charming picture ' HB At least tho young gallants ot her M flR thought she did. ioX, Bees as Acrobat. IflB When wax Is needed a certain num- WBJ ber of self-elected cltlxens gorge with PS honey and hang up in chains or cur- jfl tains, each bee clinging by ber front BE feet to tho hind foot of the ono above flfl her, like Japanese acrobats, and there flfl they remain, sometimes for two days HE until the wax scales appear pushed on I HJ from every pocket, says Country Lift flfl tn America. It Is not hard to under iTOf stand that, since much honey 1b need Li ed for the manufacture of wax, a be after filling with tho raw materia! Jflj would produce much more wax b KJH keeping quiet than by using any ot lff the gorged honey for energy In mov- & ing about and working. But tho neceo- XhE slty of "holding hands" whllo this yfi work goes on must over remain to ffji us another occult evldenco of the clouo jjfi relations In tho bee commune. . jjH ' v mSj ' '" u HI J iTir r fm.ril f fl (-5? - I M I In suck 1o.cJcMT fe 1'rr. crd oj ft" I GMd Torn i cm I And oodneii me fc.5 you CcnAae: cKm aov-ely mcvni I Ironclads to Nature. "The primitive whale was a primitive primi-tive Ironclad," asserts an export on raonstora prehistoric. "It is a fact . that the earliest known ancestor ot tho modern whale bore heavy armor on Its back, In the form of strong bony plates. It was thought at one . tlmo that these plates were tho prop- v erty or gUantlc turtles. Not so. It has been found that they onco covered cover-ed enormous whales. Probably at the time when they carried armor whales ' ;l wero amphibious creatures, living on tho coasts and nedlng special protection protec-tion from breakers and from sharks. This Frog Files. A species of frog found In Borneo has very long toes, webbed to the tip. This creature can leap from a high tree, and, by spreading Its iocs, be aj supplied with four llttlo parachutes, which enablo It to enBlly descend. Henco It is called "tho dying frog." |