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Show I HOW f Story , FOOLED THE MAGIC LADDER. BOSS" MY A Young Man Who Cheated Himself of Success On a st eet a tine looking ai leieniH mmiiik mail I to twentv one telling how he managi.l to Trtck Which th Little ToU Can Perfoim ' v -- u i I i m -- i k- , entire tinu 1 had been atlmmiig this young man's sulking appiaiaine befoie he He had a splendid told his sioiv head, and a very strong face and had said to my sell, How I wish II could tell that oimg man what great possibilities are belore him if he is " Yet only equal to his opiKirtunity career of his on the veiy thieshold he was systematically cheating his em ployer, and glorying lu his c level ness In doing It There aie tens of thousands of men in the gieat tailuie arrav today, who thought they weie getting the heal of theii employ pi In Iher younger days because thev clipped them, hows Bhirked their work savs O S Marden Thev thought in Success Magazine on to were get going they in the world just as you do, but. befoie they realized it, they had fas tened upon themselves the habit of cheating, or deceiving, until they giad-uallthat they became so not only weie not promoted, but either lost their positions as well, or, when they started in business for them j selves, lost their credit, their stand and tng,- the eonftdnce of others gradualy went to the wall, or landed a the penitentiary. I - Amusing BALLS. and Mystifying at Small Expense. Results Get a bottle, closed by a hollow cork, In which Is inserted the pipe of a small glass funnel. Bv means of sealing wax make airtight and watertight all the cievices that might leak, both between funnel and cork and between coik and bottle Half fill the bottle with water, and throw in the two powders that aie used to make seltzer water, tartaiic acid and btcarhonate of soda, which may be bought at a drug store readv for use. Effervescence will at once take place, throwing off caibonic acid gas, and this will escaiie through the funnel But if you have placed within the funnel two or three little balls of wide-mouthe- d Showing How It Is Made . little boat below H up and A and C down, and make a shaip crease ut B. Then holding the ends A and 0 lightly in the left hand giasp one fold of the paper at B out of the bioken roll and keep on pulling gently and firmly The until Ihe ladder is complete sides of the laddei should be even, so that It may he shut up again, like Utile piaetice will a telescope make peifect In this and amuse little people and big The Strong man does this with an enormous roll of paper which he tears his fingers, instead of using wit scissois ' A Cry of Wolf! Wolf! youth who lhojight it was fun to alaim his companions swam round the boat in which they weie fishing and sank under water several times, pre At tending that he was drowning last he went down with a shout for help and no attention was paid him This time he did not reappear on the surface, and seaicheis were unable to find his body This, says the Youth's Companion, is the old story of the boy who cried "Wolf Wolf!" so often that when a wolf finally did attack him, he was left to his fate Not a Fair Deal. Two boys who managed to be rather unruly in school so exasperated their teacher that she requested them to main after hours und write their names 1,000 times They plunged into the task Some 13 minutes later one of them grew uneasy and began watching his companion in disgrace Sui enl.v the flist one buist out with despair between his sobs and said to 'Taint fair, mum! His the teacher names Bush and mine a Schlutter-meve- r Home Journal Mud Piet. Baby Meg was supposed to be say- ing her piece or poetry to her, father, relates the Boston Post Making the Balls Dance elder pith, or even of cork, the gas cannot escape except at intervals, for as one ball is lifted from the orifice another will drop down to close it By painting these balls in diffeient colors, you may produce a prettv effect.' The effect may be made more beautiful, says the Chicago Daily News, by cutting tissue paper in the form of a butterfly's wings and gluing them to one of the ball3 The halls wilt dance up and down in the funnel and the imitation butterfly will flutter as If over a flower - Little drops of water, little grains she lisped, but Just of sand, make then she flew off to catch the kitten, so at last hot fathei said "Come, come, Meg, what do they make" Mad A Hindoo" 1 !" j HtlW. 7 wipl Ant mmr I M bT 1m, wWa W mmZ Sr, whir, Sal f In,, run i - i.i .'!. i th. huh f i ulm dv ni Intel iinmi- - that .(,ini i was sup nf be ll'lt ii up m- w hit It b w ii i -- i ed seen bv whit nidi has as one of the git aim! ti of nieiUn In iiidti station I know him - But i he woman won lor point Even reason uml sense mu- -i give wav before tnt assaults, of a mother plead log for her child and the doctor eased his ousel, me wall the thought that it was not a veiy seiious case and the bov probably would come out all right anyway He knew that shf was unwise but love and wisdom tie not olten go hand in hand "But she must have assistant e." he said. There is practically nothing in the house and she has no money Ill repent the case to the relief au thorttlea at once Others who had gathered expressed approval of Ibis decision, and then left, feeling that the fact that the matter was to be put In the hands ol the proper officers relieved them of But Policeman Flynn responsibility was not satisfied His was s prac tical mind, and he wanted to do some c thing. 1( n tegarded ui h wonders fo find out whet hoi Ihe toiv way! true oi not the Denvii & Kto Giamie Railroad com pany leieiillv sent photogiaphers with their cameras Into the wild icgiona of the mountain Vfier mm h hard traveling Ihiough an unbioken wilderness the men leached Notch mountain, di icclly opposite Mount ol Use Holy Crons, and fioru the flist point of view thev weie led tir believe that one of the arms of ihe crows had actually As they Journeyed been destroyed upward, howevti a thin line of snow began to make Its appearance at the place when it was needed to form the missing section Flnallv they reached a point from whidi thev loubl see that the cross remained as jierfect and A comparison of beautiful as ever the new photographs with the first ones that were ever made of Ole Mount of the Holy Cross shows that the spots of snow and the masses of rock are exactly as they were 33 years ago. SCOTCH ye-e- PLACE 1 OF EXECUTION. r maade to I'ave that good an' sind th' bye to Th' th bosplttle, she sh'ud tbaL he ma-a- only wtay with thlm kind lv people n Is to M firm an ha ard; but, snake of bis head, how added, tlth -- - " He wao still Soliloquizing in this strain when be reached home and was calk upon to tell his wife all that had happened. When he had finished she mddenly asked: Where's ye-e- r sal'rj, Barney? He passed her some money, which she carefully counted. she They's tin dollars mlssln', The Tin Dollars," Insisted Mr. announced, but Policeman Flynn was Flynn. appsrcntly deep In a reverie. t.on on his financial management waa That fool Iv a woman, he muttJustified However, he was In a ered half to himself. facetious mood, and did not intend to lv th' woman, but Tb not surrender his temporary advantage at th tin dollars, said Mrs. Flynn once. T Is all th returned Pol"An' what'll ye do with it if ye lay iceman Flynn. She dobe-- g tool iv yeer ha ands on it?" he asked "Y a wciooib, Msry I'll not go back ea tell me I'm no ma an fr to be hand- that not wan bit; but" again lin iv money, but whatil ye he afther thoughtfully "we like thlm that I know waay, an ray-Ue- f doin with it officers is shlow. Oho! Ye're no idee, Mary, how shlow thlm .ve. T is like as not yell be shpend-iit on Mrs. Flaherty over be th fellRa- -" Beheading Stone at Stirling Preserved at a Curiosity. The beheading stone at Stirling was protected In 1887 by publie subscription, raised at the Instance of the Stirling Natural History and Archaeological society. It was then enclosed In an Iron rage. There la another relic of public execution la Stirling In the museum of the Smith institute In that etty. It ts tle howl which the public executioner used when he "went round the roarip taV Ing a measure ol meal from every farmer sack. This method of paying Th tin dollars, insisted Mrs. Flyia. 1 lift It with th fool Iv s woman, said Policeman Flynn, In desperation. G'tran. now, an don't be taalkfn' to me. (CopwlghL W)t, by Joseph B Bowles ) opyrtghL by the Century t . ) TEX TRAMPS SOLILOQUY. (t br-ro- the executioner obtained also in France until the time of the first M Del bier, who had a salary of 10,000 The office of M. de Paris bss been abolished, as no district of Paris will permit the guillotine to be set up within its boundaries. M. Delblere son may thus say, with Othello, "my occupations gone. 8NAKE8 FILLED THE OFFICE. wa-ay- la-e- d 'in in OIK t l ' Mi ,tf th- min )n nihri i nun Pi I hdii i id r( br't bout itOKh m !m r fil - M wnri m who will und i who was will also 4 hii aninim th it ii nl I i ilctvs Inwii n ih liiim ami th hnj jt s, ihlij. Iif nink; h uPl I crin nilb'i how wo pip iwitl fo n down fo tin imi hank m fhn iom Ultimo) ii Him .m. ' hop M Hi pinj.i i tOm to In m)i M.lhH hoppnis Is ji sf dth i iho mral xhI hart a built ti 1,) fnt to fhi lounfv Inn pn in u dob nr of il Mi. mil IhtauuK a hait throb inirndicprt with wood front Is on th in Hn Then bv - k' wood rmdatii days dAa Ihuiik slowly in tht whhI. th do, )il bHVFM fall .md mlt grape hunxs luMtroun flier ulf mil of irinuMm hun holy dav iirf coin art yellow, mellow fn ily purple Th Th Th Ihai Uupumpkin and tht fml It U Autumn r !aj The i Ahlt and dainty rloudlrt Th FiimmFr thmbtdiiK i hatit Im doo Th Ran'n la one f and nodlow frultfuln as ml No, Curly laic ks, this isn t poetry. 1 am Just telling you about the Autumn time when grasshoppers an ripe Well, vou go on down through the beautiful vista of color and ragweed, down the squiirel haunted hillside, through Ihe ravine wrhere Ole Thompson keeps his Durham hull, on and on over the hill and through Ryeatraw'n barbed wire fence to the river where the grasshoppers are sunning themselves free from rheumatism contracted during a frosty night There amid the beautiful splendor of the harvest time and with the dry leaves rustling all around, yon sneak ruthlessly upon the hopper crop and. swat It In the concentric with your old plush cap. As fast as you swat ' t one yon put It in your and keep on swatting inx-ke- Gee! how that one tickled the palnr of your hand! There Is only one thing that makes a mans hand tickle more than the aawy legs ol a grasshopper. It's when he gets backed into the-rea- r parlor with a grate fire slumbering in the chimney corner and a dimpled hand very much awake In hls The light Is low, very low, indeed, and ma and pa have gone to bed. Th di' glrl'x feair. Is berry .lirownj then! Jaw rose in each cheek, heaven In her eye and a tlcklfshness in her palm that, makes you want to yell for help. Then, all at once, you realise that she does not need any help and you hang onto her pulsing, warm and squlrmtngly announce that - the angels are singing ragtime when she Is ever nlgb. Yon tell her but to ee her was to love her and never love You tell her the fragrance another! of her presence Is Utopia on earth, that her orbs of sight are like great stars that ever shine a henedlclon upon your soul! -- bd n ma-an- ." imt fo t f ouce moie shu'd " laiinnu iiM MiiiiHt s i w ma an in f r ye, so s to keep him out iv th wa ay." he sug gested In the goodness of his heart. "If you do, she returned, "I'll cratch your eyes out." "Luk at that, now' he commented to himself, as he finally started foi home. ,She do be an unthankful woman, an' wan without slnite. She sup-porti- n in wftt dnn i Ill mill." asShe h a deser-rviwoman! serted Mrs. Flynn with an emphasis that showed her charity in that direction had been the object of criticism before. , " T is so," admitted Policeman Flynn, "but ye cant he woman ye ivery fool Iv a deser-rvicome acrost. Ye'd go an shtarve, ye Wu'd that. Ye see, Mary, : 't is this marri'ge'ls a lotthry, an "I've hear rd ye sa sy that befoor, interrupted Mrs. Flynn said Policeman Flynn, but 't is th thruth, and th' thruth niver grows old So I tell ye wanst more marrl'ge Is lotthry, an' ye. cant do much fr th gambler that loses iverythlng an' shtlll- - wont dhraw out iv th Mrs. gaame. Flaherty sb ticks to her "Hes a brute iv a ma an," asserted Mrs. Flynn. T Is so," assented the patrolman, "but while she shticks to himvt-i- s like tbrnwin-wathe- r into a sieve fr .to give to her. He's th that gets th most Iv it. Ye must put up with manny things in marrld life, hut there do be a limit, an T la no ixruse f r kapin' ba-a- d compny that . ye're married to th amid "Accordin' to that, Mra. I sh'ud Flynn, with biting sarcasm, Have ye, Barney." Th ma an sh'ud be over on the said the patrolman. Ignorisland, ing this thrust. "Yell not I'ave me d6 annything her?" said Mrs. Flynn, tnqutrtngly. "I will not. "Ye're a' ha ard hear rted ma-an- , BafWy!" 'l haave sinse man Flynn Now. as has been demonstrated be-- " fore, Mrs. Flynn has a mind of her own. and she Is ifot a woman with whom It Is safe to be dictatorial. In consequence, she was Just on the point of Usuing a declaration of Independence, with Incidental remarks on autonomy, when a neighbor suddenly put hfs head In the door and lit' bilk-- s yunr gr&feHhfp ! hn't day lf i ii.u i td Did.it vi tilnaw veei saiiy todemahdi d Mrs Mmri if may be said luie hv wav of explanation that Mr- - Flvim - tin inshiei of the and alwavs has pay day family mai ked on the lalmdai with red ink. Oho' t is ih money ve're afther!" Ye're exilmmed Bolueman Flynn If like all Ih i rest tv th women. veer good m a an do he ha avtn' a bit lv th com m tus clo es ye're worried till ye haave veer ha ands on it. Ye wa-ato la alipendln' iv it all lo H like th' confidence Give me ye-e- f ma an, ye are that cash' -- ays vou to me, an Ill give ve something that's worth more, fT all the w or rid like th nia an that' sellin th gold hr rick give it to mnociiu an unsuspectin', ye hem I aSk an what do ye get f r it that Mary what do I get fr it? Whv hash fr breakfast This impiessed Policeman Flynn as being so good a joke that he laughed over it himself hut hia wife replied, rather warmly, that if b did not give it to her to care for they would be begging for things to eat within a week after payday, and Policeman Flynn knew that this reflec- - l N ih. -- Fall Idyl. A ni H,! din i -- fr -- Nammg Hindoo Babies. babys name Is generally chosen by the mother, and bestowed 1J day after birth. Sometimes the father wishes another name rather In Than that selected by the mother that case the names are written and over each is placed a lamp, and the name over which the lamp burns the one which the ouili brightest recelTtY: Ut" rr i 1 ma-an- ' pies said Meg, who had qelte forgotten the rest of the verse. -- -- I i' Wanted It Short. When trchblshop French was dean of Westminster he delegated Canon Cureton. to preach on certain saints' days to boys of the Westminster school. The boys attended the service and then had the rest of the day as a holiday. While Mr. Cureton, on the morning of the day he was to officiate, was looking over his sernyon at the breakfast table, his son asked in a tone vibrating with anxietv, "Father, is yours a long sei nmn "No Jimniv, not voiy " "But how long Plea-- t tell me ' Well, about 20 min utes I should say But why are you so anxious to kuow" Because, father, the bovs sav thev will thrash me awfully if you are more than half an hour h . Kui tie bin ' In i i mn.ii-- i alu'e (loss on 'In 'noun' tins Naturally gr (I iba o' Tin w - iHiised bv e minor o! to ti -- in ' ion of the h i fi os- u ni : was fit si I Iniin hi sib -- ' ' w i Inm-f- lt 1 ? , ittiet i i and I liu a quiet ilnuiahful -- inoki when hi- - wife in I ti rri.pii d Ins mi d at i u -- he aid and there was Bainev luvo ll'l e repiuarh m hei tmi f i gut - min mg ! with an he Haavi I umption uf ignmami fm Jhe well j f knew to vv hat she rettired lv rum-- e ve have ve aggravatin! -- lie with asperity.! rna an M mm it he?" j what can iinw multiicd Hoik t man Fl'tm thought-- j f .11 v kmti mg lu- - blow -- i i .m ' Hvnrrhad' Just Bamcv Built cm in 1 1 i PREACHING AND PRACTICE 1 i DANCING h in mu by (olmado m ! l WITH for (diuoui - - in i - -- i - i i 1SII m iieil i iru "ii out ivi 'v t -- of an hotti amt i bait s of pa pi .iiioiii .1 mi hi - lot g bv siv w Ph so Roll n ion-- 1 I his ip tvinh a ai tlrneeei la lot InIs the stihsta'iM oi vim aid t He was out a a1 t i. a! w.th tin bo s and cot on m aw ant mil) about live and a lia't Itoins -- In a - in' t o' ti, ii p -as -- utlnnnt Tilt- - mu In pit night managed Id sit i an horn and a hait n a kite! Iivilottid lint -- which will maki ilie ioil look boat liapttl Hit u each da dm tug hi-ihorns the (I till ol I hi biillOui of the pie-- He w nl on to d c ihe a large don situated just bai k ot tit innate ot flee m the stole tttuh vaIkii open rut off quiti a litth imini of span in surh a d' that he tould set ludi himself there wpliout d uigt ol being In ini- - -- e ideil loitm -- eared1 been in a chan he iook-- a nap id an lioti' and a half eai h .lav Several of the otlu t i h t - knew about this, n-- t teat and tin' took turns during th da, mi that some one ot them was testing oi sleeping there inostof the da One of his t oinpanioiis asked the young man how he managed to avoid He teplied that the door detection opened into a passageway and was never closed in the daytime that the boss never had onastion to look be hind it. and that he would not be likely to nnss one clet k ..mong so many, and that even if he did there was alwavs someone who would give So togethei the young the signal men managed to elieat then employer out of tlie equivalent of one mans plojei - Report That Colorado Curiosity wa Destroyed Is Unfounded Have you -- n a stmug man do tricks Hup - a irut. vou ran do cm a ma'1 ulc whnli will make a verv hull J.ipi b lake a strip metheaul ot aim it niinianlwiis In at hi-- . em MOUNT OF THE HOLY CROSS- Fifty Serpents Escape from Express Box st Hsrtford, Conn. William 11 Dowling, of Rockwell, manager of the local offlee of the Ad ams Kx press companv has had a bt tie with burglats, but his worst experience came recently, says the Hartford (Conn) tm icspondent of the New York Herald After he had opened the office he moved a crate and "beheld in the corner a huge rat tlesnake ready to spring Dowling jumped back, but only to land lp ciose proximity to a bunch of ser pents In the opposite corner Then he saw the reptiles, crawling everywhere, over boxes and bundles, and ono wag entwined around a leg of his desk He called assistance from the street, and the Hptiles wre d'lven into barrels and bag- f a traveling Kinatly the ariivai showman explained the presi nee of ft doesn't seem to make an v dif the snaks The box of 50 snakes fereate what I do, there's always a had been consigned to the showman section of the criminal code forbid for exhibition at ihe Rockville fair dlM " t'ardboard aioiiml (he box having bren softrned bv tain the captives i Cadets Abandon Bridge There bad made Ihelr wav thiougb Reports fronj the United States naval KV'inl (badly ioion snakes In weie at Annapolis indicate that the the lot midshipmen have abandoned hazing sci Propose loyally to obey the at a Acorn Explodes an Egg. dem regulations. A new edition of W. S. Avn, of Marlon, O . hile In preparation by a hoard the was carrying a panful of fresh eggs rJH Include the new law relating Thef one of the eggs' exploded. Imbedded - ' to hing- ir. the yolk wa a latge acorn How J it got inside the egg is a mystery Slitting the Bills. is presumed that as th" result you wii give me your daughter, but it acorns of the swelling the egg burst. t'r, F always live with you you marry her and I will al- - The curiosity was placed on sahJM- : Uon I1-- ST "- Oh, you get away up In the air and come down with a thud when she asks you hoar much money you have eavedt Many a man. says she, sweetly, lips conkeeping her ripe, rose-buservatively In the background, "asks a woman to fly with him when he hasn't enough money to buy a pair of chicken wings In a Chicago restau- rant! And then you can't stand the tickling any longer and neither can she and your lips meet In a suction Well, any draught that Curtain! how, you begin to save after that and when you have 8 10 In the Junk your argument that the two of you can II v cheaper married than you alone can live single, takes root and you get married and begin to buy the baby-shoe- s' That's Just the way a giasxhopper tickles In your hand' Oh, yes, I was talking about grasshoper threshing. Well, you giggle around with your hands and your pockets full of grass hoppers until It is time to unwrap the fish line and gut busy. Then the black bass come to the banquet ami pay the penalty of their greed. Did you ever notice that greedy people always pay the penalty ot the!x folly? Whenever I am Invited out to dinner and eat so long my wite has to make the family countersign or kick me under the table, then I have dyspepsia next day and abuse my of fire boy! You just cant get away from It and neither can the boy when hia grandmother Is dead and the hae bail season Is over Now, of course, 1 bale to compere-mysel- f to. a fish since 1 got on ih ne water wagon, but, well isn't it to catch the flbh than to overIt's-harfeed him and give him dyspepsia on the grasshopper, i know but he has no business to be a grasshopmore-huma- d per' This reminds me nf that old conundrum. "Which would you rather do or go a fishing?" . So long, our visit's over for Come In again any time just after din ner and stay nnfil just before Bring your crochet work or nit! ts -- aswiwii |
