OCR Text |
Show r A y C' j these souls of ours. h the Mite OH Town v1 i i wind but oweth cihifi a mo true ami ojxr life h lai't into umooked Io eo u ft! ih'tda h With &Xis. high 4 I beauty rife I v th n there souN of ours will of a higher birth In iht 1011 a troph heait beni "w f v, tfct m a fills the earth S W) ' t U- lap-a4htrunkattic where mother goes a ahrCoweJ nook hents of ul) men he lull ihts of wider blla' m into hopes that caun it n hours like this In 1T oft undo A trunk ami Its lid rlie i , If you wish to see how prettily this garden vegetables when grass roots As If It wire a took i Let him not hope to do prat deeds are not available on thoattlc boards She kmc at Its s Who fears that other men may laugh; simple little wheel will turn when you ' And Untidy soft and slow ith U t n majestUal hold It In a stream, try It under the The kraver he show mho lead If jou are expert It Is sometimes tl uli m4 in time beg the She all trtasmes she fondly A host to hitiU is not half nitons m fie simple heart of ill hydrant with the water turned half on possible to catch chipmunks by band. As J?reat s is I is fejrlt i h tn it in kL art sr)s Who Cares though others faugh to trv things of the Ions ago -- Jaraii liueStH I owell They will enter almost any ordinary Who has the strength and mil to prta Divide This Plot sort of a trap and can best be capAhead mel knowing that the h ch, A yellowing dress, one the sheerest Here Is a square plot of ground. In tured In that a ay. Set the trap near Shrill laughter of th- - r offers rin-- s w hue Who hearing them builds on or sings the center of which we find a well the Jiole known to be occupied by one In shimmered That joyous pride lien (W), houses (II ) and trees (T) In of these scolding rodents, and gtve. She looks at It now itih the girl s delight laughed at Alexander e ri he world had come ben'Mth his sway was tors when she stood a brldw That different locations four captives a roomy cage, with a They laughed at bron mho could dare There is a ribbon of faded, bios ' The problem Is so to divide this plot dark corner for a net 'lo still krt p on his cNo n may make They She ker pa with the aittn gown; SJnce man first sought success the crowd Feed them Buckles and laoe and a little shoe; Has laughed to gentle and amusing pefs the anxious tr And only tlity bie won uliu, proud Badly she lays that down. on acorns and nuts Crack the hardAnd brave, have made the laughter est nuts for them die. One lock of hair that Is golden stilt Who suffer men to laugh him down The simplest kind of a box trap, Wj,th the gold of the morning sunt liuat not expect a victor a crown Tes, and a dollle with frock and frill d E IClser. which is almost always effective when She lifts them all, one by on. baited with a slice of fresh vegetable, She lift them all tyVer-gentl- a lips, . Toy Water Wheel. Is shown in the illustration It Is very Up there In the afternoon; A good tay Is a. water wheel, the will Sometimes the rain from the cava trough capture your easy to make and kind that has a handle by which a XT drips little pets without injuring them in Hy J. W. krNAKU Tears with her quavered croon. In can hold It a stream of water boy way. any C hi Ths Autkert 4 i, fry Comp4mf pymjk 9 TEC and see It turn. And, of course, the Up In the ettle where mother roes boy must make It for himself. Is a trunk In s shadowed place Common of Vegetables. Origin Here Is the way to make it: Get Miss Pringle came Into her parlor But It was you that I wanted to A trunk with the scent of a withered The common cabbage Is a native of rose the largest empty spool you can, say, Overmont with her head high In see, he protested. "You must have On the satin and shoe and lacav Europe, and grew originally among at the one on which stout linen thread Is gen sure with knowD a of her sign air that; perturbed To this only None seashore. of us touchea Its battered UA the rocks the by -and an aroused temper But safe tn Its niche H stays erally wound, and on one end of it My aunt's message, Mr. Lyon, is day it is found growing wild In such spirit Who do you s'pose is here, Clln-dy- r this: she wishes me to say that you Sacred to all that her heart has hid tack three strips of wood cut from an localities In Denmark, on the south ' Cold of tha other data, old cigar box. The strips should be she asked explosively must that is, that you must not oh, coast of England, and, on the north I I about five inches long and half an that each one shall have the same coast of the Mediterranean. I of mesa It! can am a t dear! the Why In all making guess replied Inch broad, and they should be tacked shaped piece of ground, each one shall dont know how to say it; only you It was cultivated very girl, slowly. ig it an one 1 know? probability a house and tree on that piece on the spool so that the six ends are have a I musnt any more, you know. There! Anyone you know! Humph! anciently, and previously to that time from each other, like the of ground, and each have access to the was "Mustnt what? he Inquired graveIn the wild state. The Should think you ought to know him; gathered well without trespassing. It was the garden-cress- , spokes of a wheel. so popular as a salad, youve seen him often enough this last ly. 1 dont quite understand." Tack three strips on the other end surveyor who solved the problem. was valued In early times for proper year to know him! YV. D. N., in Chicago Trlbnne. of the spool In the same way exactly, How many of our readers would like ties of its seeds. Apparently it was Not the pink began Celliula, to too? solve to It, eo that the strips at one end shall be try native of Persia, whence It spread Into roses suddenly blooming in the garden Sea Serpent Chased Him. opposite to those at the other. The Europe, where doubtless It originated. of her pretty cheek. Grover ion How to Secure Wild Pets. Wehnes, the 18 year-ol"Yes, 'Us, too' snapped her aunt, of President Conrad Wehnes of the x The gentle, graceful little Jumping think Now what Proverb. - -A "Roger Lyon! dye Geneva, N. Y common council, la mice, white footed mice, short tailed Here is a proverb or of that for downright impudence? s of an experience he had a few are to meadow rats and telling I dont really see how it is exactly of one, for, as you with a Seneca lake sea be found in almost any rural place in rather the parts ago days auntie Impudence, this country. These interesting little serpent Yes, it is impudence, and you know He says he was sailing his yacht creatures can be captured with ordiis! replied that lady, testily. Here it or box near the Kashong Point, when the boat nary traps, figure fours winme been all he has traipsin' after was slowed down by an obstruction. square or round wire mpuse traps. The ter me or my money, the Lord only He lifted the centerboard, and a white footed mice, or deer mice, may which and n sooner do I get knows be found in the abandoned nesta of the boat went ahead he cays he taw settled down for a quiet summer than other rodents. In holes in the fence the serpent sstern. It was as big a If he bobs up to spoil everything. a shark, round In body and had great rails, and under clods of old plowed , to like know that alD't lmpudeac-a- Id fields, or beneath brush heaps In the yellow eyes. It kept up with the , what you'd call It! I wonder how he fence corners. yacht for half a, mile, when it sank. out whrre I was?" found Sometimes birds nests are found I wouldnt take that trip again for Did the roses deepen In hue in that with a neatly thatched roof over the he said. New York World. 4 500," sweet garden? if they did, Miss Prinbowl, and a round doorway of access gle didnt notice, for the shapely head to the interior, where, snugly curled Drawn by Fanr.oua Impresario. was bent low. up in a warm bed of down, the little he he didnt may know; "Perhaps whl footed mouse is sleeping. 1 cant "Oh, you must tmderstand! just have happened to come here. You You may capture these little fellows Trying the Wheel, tell to be you!" is know quite Qvermont getting use due caution in apT fear that I must insist upon yout accompanying picture represents one by hand, if you a fashionable resort nowadays. end of the spool with the strips tacked proaching their habitation, and shield This is a matter was trying," he said. grandmother! Happened your an with hand ordinary pocket your on. to me. of the or Importance greatest if not the forcible, elegant strictly Kow bore a bole through the strips handkerchief. They will make delight- will see, some of the letters have had about knew its "Well, your your its retort. "He intelligible where they Intersect, at both ends, so ful pets, and you will find them much pieces out off them. What boys and 'lentirely idea of his following her about so much. She la The waajferoall right common more than the Interesting that these two holes may be a congirls have to do Is to complete the is angr because you have come 1 want him! Why hes tinuation of the hole through the white mice. Give them a tall, narrow missing parts of the letters and the thinking that a She cant lo cant feel toward here. over Not nothing but a, day boy! cage with plenty of head room, wire gnawer will be seen. spool. , and your In the way If you twenty-one- . that hee a 'last a branch containing summers Your next step Is to cat six strips And Miss Pringle, who confessed to attentions annoy herl from the cigar box, and having made Assumed Characteristics. I see," Bald the man, thoughtfully, thirty years, but was poyly reticent them the right length, tack them novIn this game some "Miss Pringle does tne the honor to which the ten other the concerning across from the strips on one end of elist Is selected, Dickens, for Instance, family blble generously set to her suppose that 1 am a suitor for her the spool to the strips en the other and each player! chooses ontf of his i credit, tossed her head in fine scorn. hand. Is that it? end, like the paddles of a real water characters to personate, telling no one Mr. very "Yea," softly. one But that theres Just thing wheel Use smalt brads in all the the choice. And finding me Ineligible she wishRoger Lyon has got to learn, and that tacking. one of Ahe players relates the in very short order, she continued. es me to withdraw my claims aud my Then Kow take a piece of soft wood, life as though it were her own, and Im not goln to have him snoopin' presence. Am I still right? about six Inches in length, and with Yes, as before. portrays with voice and gesture the 'round me any longer, and I want you knife of to trim part it down the your Of course you told her bet has assumed. Of course to tell him so, with my compliments. she character right size to slip easily into the ho Ip no names must be mentioned. V I tell him so? gasped the girl, ter? "I through the spool, and let this part T? Why why how could I? How The person who first guesses, what The rose In that garden were white, Box Trap Baited and Set be long enough to extend half an Inch did I know? is the has character white, privipersonated ghastly npw. out of the other end. Put a brad bird's nest to the side of their cage Very rosy the face now. Such deep be the next "Yes, you! Why not Id like to through It there to keep the spool for sleeping quarters, and feed the lege of deciding who shall " tinted blossoms. In such a fair garden! and do know? to her to tell story. it, Somebody's got off. from coming mice with bread, seed and grain. must havs Oh, Celluda, you course so must I of you cant; Tbd game of assumed characters Meadow rats are not climbers. Put The untrimmed part of the stick 1 be cried passionately. "Why, auntie, I I couldnt do it! known! will serve as a handle for you to hold them in a flat cage with a good wide will prove to be very entertaining vlf was sure that you understood; that Ob me. Don't ItS ssk impossible! her the wheel by, and as it is larger than expanse of bottom covered with sod each player does part and makes you knew that when I sought your the trimmed part, of course the spool of growing grass, the roots of which her narrative as amusing and interest- Indeed I aunt it was you whom I was seeking; woman Come older called in! the devour. as Feed cannot get off that end. will them possible. eagerly ing they that I haunted her presence that I as a knock sounded at the door. might be near you! Didnt you know said "Gen'leman in Parlor A, mum, It? And would It have made any difthe bell boy. presenting a card. If you had? Dear, I Jove you, ference know about Talk you "Humph! and you only! Will you come to me?" when and you begin 'to smell brim Whatever the answer, it must have stoca Here is Roger Lyons card. Now been use eminently satisfactory; for after and down ext roe, yon go right This sketch was made hy Edwin A. and give him to understand once for a little a much tumbled head of hair on the back of a card In anAbbey on a manly allthat t want hlm lo lct tne alone was lifted from Us pillow swer to a request for his autograph. vul-- i and voice a shoulder, happy Oh,l dont know what you shall say" Oh, Rogerf what a goose you were raising deprecatory bands against the Curse Ceeme to Hold Good. to court one woman when you wanted storm of Celtndas remonstrances. A recent drowning at Blddeford, another. Say anything. Be polite, of course, "And what a goose you were not to Me, recalls the old legend of tho bu; make it plain that I wont have curse put upon the Saco river Tjy tho krow that you were being courted! to him. with do anything Indian squaw whose papoose - was was the And she fairly thrust the girl from gay rejoinder. And Miss Pringle, just then looking thrown from one of the cliffs la Tho the room. Narrows," by white men 'who wanted inat a partly opened door, came to to sea If It could swim. That curse stole and softly u4 emj sudden erllghtenment, It was a very flushed was, as the legend has it, that no year barrsssed young lady who appeared at away, muttering to herself: And wbat a goose I as to think r.hould pass without at least three that I was bein courted when I white victims of the river. There wasrt! It seems that there are three have already been two this summer. of a kind of us, and that Im the big-goCould Not $tand tho Silence. goose of tho three! A servant girl who was taken by family into a quiet country place for She Waa Too Enthusiastic. There is a woman in West Philadeh the summer last week, after a few announced to her mistress that me pcli who ls ib-- e ser of a few bouses day? which rha rents, but which are much she didnt like it, and "would be gold-hoThe first arch was capped by a dots-in- o missed them entirely In his first roll, the next day." On beiijg quesUli Where are the dominoes?" of the time vacant She is a thoroughwith two pips or spots (a "double but on his second trial he managed to as to the causes for her dislike tioned worker a "George and Low have 'em. in ly goed woman, prominent over It, and so on consecutively penetrate the arch that was And the checkers are gone, tob!" 2) the W, C. T. U. end the church, and ao she said, Well, I have to pull the topped George and Lew have em," repeat- to the sixth arch, which was topped by the double six. Each pip counted enthusiastic is she en the temperance bedclothes about my head and ears to by a double 6, the domino with the one point so George got 12. which put shut out the dead silence of the night ed Marie. question that (he places the Union him ahead of Lew, who had managed and I cant stand It any longer. But they arent playing with both greatest number of pips, theref being church. the ... r to get only four and six on both Ms at the same time, are they?" asked 12. ' "The other day a man, whoso work After these arches were constructed two rolls. Roads. on Gates Joe in surprise. Norway and whoso keeps him out of doors, The game grew very exciting and You dont believe It do you?" said the small checkerboard was laid flat Gates at frequent intervals bar the shows It, went to her to cmplexion on increduthe floor, closed with its edge was not decided nntll the last roll, Marie, as Joe shook his bead rent one of her tenements. She looked country roads lu Norway, and are a Come upstairs and 111 prove pushed up against the entire hack of ahea Lew, won by a score of (3 to 42. I suppose you nuisance to travelers, who have to. lously. him over and sale! the bridge, this forming a brace end -- They called this new game Com; leave their vehicles and open the bar- - -' drink." This is what Joe saw: The domi- making aix compartments out of the bination," and if you wish to play It, riera. These obstructions mark themadam. Yes, here Is another way of counting: Innoes had been dumped out of the box six arches as shown in drawing. boundaries of farms, or separato the Hard? of A a few minutes door Parlor tbs -"Now, where do the checkers com stead of taking only ten checkers, usa on the floor, .where they had been cultivated sections from the waste deal a do drink this hot I good Yes, and but an equally embarrassed as many as you like, but fix on a cer- later, used in building what appeared to be in?" you ask. lands. who sprang to meet weather." Georgs and Lew quickly showed tain number 50 to 100 as the win- eager young'man a miniature bridge. There were six I suppose. "Whisky, her. arches. All tho dominoes were em- their use. George took ten reds, while ning number, and whoever reaches it Effective Coon Trapping. "No." Why, Ccllnda, he atammered, 1 m Lew got aa equal number of blacks; first wins the game. , Aubdoa Phillips of Glover, Vt. reI suppose its vile Wcr." ployed in their construction, so that "Then I hoped I dared glad! hardly to Combination may not be as scienthe arches were strong enough to re- then they toed a line afiout eight feet 1 cently sent nway over thirty hand-som- e "No. Yps" she demurely, coon skins, met of thorn of his sist the shock of blow. A domino away from the front of the bridge, tific aa its parent games, yet its a lot know that you replied drink? do what you Well, wanted to see auntie; with its face outward formed the topf from where they now tried to roll the of fun, and as an it is a but she was was bur), sj she sent Water 1 hate been a total abstain own trapping, with cn order to make checkers under the arches. George splendid pastime. ' of each arch. them into a coct er all my life. , me with a a The Laughter of the Crowd. I d- 1 - n THREE OF T A KIND T n t? equl-dista- d -- Well-Know- n well-know- n fiylng-squlrrel- yar rwsmm you-wla- well-know- n bo-lu- re - it eye-train- & V s |