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Show A Boy's Ambition. Forty yeara ago John Dunfrno of Ryracuae, N. Y., waa a ragged bootblack. boot-black. One day he sat down on the steps of tho Tike block In that city to eat bla lunch. The Janitor emptied a pall of dirty water on him from an upper window. "I'll own this block some day," said the Isd, "sud 1 11 lire you." The othor duv John Dunfren. the Imllllonstre contractor, bought Uie riko block, paying therefor I2r,.0(X. It la In ttie ceuter of the business district and hss ben a landm.uk la Syracuse for msny yeans.- Unfortunately the objectionable Janitor Is dead and the millionaire cannot "fire" blm. Boyish boasts are not always to be taken seriously, but John Dunfrve s made good, "I'll be governor of Indiana some day," said young Wright wson bis companion bodcarrlers worklug on Indiana's stale house msde fun of blm because be carried a book la bis pocket pock-et And he was. l)lessed la the boy who has a high, definite aim. He may not climb aa high ss he Intended, In-tended, but bis mentsl snd moral fiber will grow atrong In the climbing. Never lungh at a boy's Ideal If It Is honorable. It Is the divinity that stirs within him! It differentiates him from the crowd which has no Ideals worth having. Dosldns, If the boy Is of thn Dun-free Dun-free or Wright typo snd you poke fun at bis ambition bo Is likely to make Tou out a false prophet. Butterfly Trick. Get a bottle with a wide opening and close lu with a cork In which a glaaa funnol Is Inserted. Close sll crevices with shellac. Fill the bottle bait way with water, In which you drop the two powders belonging to a Soldlltt powder, Tne carbonlo gas generated tries to escape through the funnel. Hut by placing two or three small balls, mado of cork, In the funnel, fun-nel, the gas can escape only a little at a time, as one or toe other of the little lit-tle balls will keep the opening of tbe funnel closed, until tbe pressure of the gss becomes strong enough to force the ball up. In such a way a part of the gas escapee, the pressure la relieved, and another hall closes up the funnel opening. This will keep on until the kuh Is exhausted. Oracls In the Handkerchief. Kindly write a question iiuin this strip of paper. Wo will kco If the spirits will lavor us with un answer. I place the slip with tlto question upon It on the handkerchief snd mil It up, biding tho slip In thn Inside, until a small margin of tbe rliu la lert I roll it back again, and see wo have the answer to our question, written by a spiritual bund. Here, you cau road "1 Of course the handkerchief has been prepared before. The object, j which baa to nppcar later. Is placed on the handkerchief, snd tbe latter folded aa shown In I a, lu such a way ; that llio larger part (1) overlays part i 2 ss shown In II. i At tho performance tho allp of pa- i per containing tha queatlon Is placed ( on an I and the handkerchief la rolled I up, beginning at It When rolled up altogether, give It one mure turn and ' aTOsrsrase' let the rim of the smaller half of tha V handkerchief lay cn the table, while I you roll the rim of the larger halt back, nntll tho bidden auswur Gomes' I forth. . i Pattering Feet. T Bnmelhlng'a a-fool; hewara. beware! H.imrlhltit la rllmlilns the linlroom stair, Willi hire a aluinhlr, luul there a Blip, Into the pasnase-trlp, trip, trlpl Tripping bright on the passage floor. 1 l'p ttiey com to your iMidroum dourt Never was musla half so swed Aa tha pll-w-pat patter of tiny feet. Hear little voice,, high and clear, Itlng like a bell In the aleepvr's ear: Hmsll banda pluck at hie tousled himV "Daddy oh, daddy, gi t out of bed I ' Keeping tbe rules-It's all a game-Out game-Out they patter as In they ranie; Uut somehow the Bong moves rattles Blow As down tha passage snd off they ge. And It's eh. fur ths years that haW riseed awuy, And the feel that pattered St bresk si day! Now they srs heavily-hooted feet, Aud tlo-y tramp and stamp In tbe bust BtreeL And some of them seemed to lire ol fun, Bo Ihi-y wandered away till they met the sun: Hut he a.-nda them eliding aloag hla brams. To patter again In your morning dreams, Msks Most of Gifts. Personality has done wonders with both boredlty and environment. It has made luodorulo gifts accomplish marvelous things. Men with moderate moder-ate gifts, by patient and persistent application, ap-plication, huvu put .o shame tho splendidly equipped, who have Indolently Indo-lently frlttored sway their patrimony. Out of the moat untoward aiirround lugs men have found their way to tint grandest achievements. The boy from the log cabin bus ontm ripped the boy from tho palace. Tho barefoot bare-foot boy has iiuuirlppcd the boy of pampered Indulgence. Thu plodder has outstripped the geiilua. The tortoise tor-toise baa panned the liuru. Whether a man hu richly endowed or moderuto-ly moderuto-ly endowed, hu. success will depend on tho iisu ho n.iikes of what Ood has Klvon blm. Independent. |