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THE IKDLOTAPOLIS JTEWS, SATTJEDAT, MARCH 3, 1902.

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS' CORNER

OTH emt» w«r« cUUsoM by the UUM lttti« girl, wh<»« . iMun« wai EUa, bat •*»« did not Claim both *t th« aam# time, as

gone when th« gray kitty came to SHla's

^ ' home.

Oaa day. when Ella was a ▼ery little flrl, Black Kit ouna hobbUnff In and. jMmpiftgjm a cjjsWon In a little rocking* chair, rwide beraelf at home. Where ahe eaaaa from Ella nerer knew. Black Kit had but three feet, one haring been pulled

off In a trap* It was auMPoaed.

When BhMk Kit had lived about three moaths with Ella, a baby brother came to are with her also. ThJa must have BMde Black Kit angry, for she went as stralgtit aa aha could -to the bouse of a kttle friend of Ella'a, who lived acroaa tbe'itreet and, jumping up In a rockingchair, gave the folks to understand W this that Bhs‘ would take up her abode with them. Ella brought her Iwuik home, tut the cat would not stay, until, two or thres months after, a baby cams to her new home, and, concluding that wherever she went there was bound to be a baby,

Kit concluded to come back to Ella, she Ig^ up these spells of getting

gegry aa long aa ahe lived. Sometlmea she would leave Htia's home and go to stay with the other Uttle girl. Just because Botneone was sick at Ella's home. Then someone would come visiting to the other Mttls girl’s homo—some strange person— and Black KU 'would Iseve that house

and come hack to Elia

But the oddest notion Black Kit had fn her head waa that ah# could not raise two seta of her own kittens together. Just as soon as she thought her kittens .were old wiough to see after themselves she would coax ^hem to follow her away off. After she hml them so fer from Ella’s home they could Boot find the way back ahe would slip away from her chiidfW and come back heroelf alone. How ahe could manage to get away from them Ella never could gutaa, and ahe thought Black Kit a very unkind mother. Indeed. After Black Kit waa dead and Ella grown to be quite a large girl, aome per* ion unloaded a sackful of cats and kittens near Ella's home. and they all presented • themselves at the kitchen , door theW^g tor aomethitig to <eat. Ella's mother, who did not like cats one bit, said they should not stay, and ordered one of the boys to sack them up) again and carry thim away. Ella begged to be allowed to keep just one of the kittens, but her

mojhcr ssid no.

An hour or so after the cats were gone. Ella noticed one Uttle, gray kitten creep* to* from under the bushes where It had hidden when the boys were catching Its oompanlons. It came out crying for its mother. Not making her hear, it went up to an old gray hen, picking grass In the yard, and oegan to walk all around her and purr. The hen tried to whip It away, because she could not eat for it rubbing around her that way. and getting In front of her head, but Uie kitty would not leave “Because the hen Is gray. I suppose e reminds kitty of Its mama," said a. as she carried it a saucer of milk Jrank it and seemed pleased that the drank from the sauqer with It. After following the hen around all afternoon, tt went On the broad roost with her and cuddling down close beside her remained

there all night.

From that time on, the kitten attached Itself to the hen. not getting out of her |teht one minute If It could help Itself. When biddy went on her nest to lay an egg, the kitten climbed in beside her and lay curled up as close as it could get After a while Ella gave the gray hen eome sqm to hatch, and then there was trouble with the kitten, for It crowded the hen untU she flopped It and broke some of the Wgt. Elia covered the nest in a way thnt kept kitty out. and then he lay close by, as near os he could get waiting patiently for her tr come off. When the eggs hatched, he thought the little soft balls that came out of them were Intended for him to roll arotind, but his foster mocher grave him to understand he must let them alone. It was a surprise to him to be so

_^scratche<! and pecked, and he

the Wack kitty waaTlearned to keep a short distance behind

Wddy and her flock wherever she roamed. To stay at home did not occur to-hlm-Not for anything. It seemed, would he let the old hen get out of his sight. And ^ seem^ so glad when she left her chickens and went beck to the roost. As long as the hen lived, Ella’s gray kitten roosted with the ebickens But after that he <les..rted their company and took on him-

self ways- and manners mow

n cat. IDA BHEPXER.

HBBL.S.

Heels like this shew a good, littls child. Who stands up strslcbt and ftnsL Hsets like this iaxy childrra pr<w% ¥^0 on their heels recline.

Keels like this are hard to wear— They are the cause at many « mil. But common-sense shoes I like the best— For tbey have no heels at all.

A Bird's Flying MiKdilnery. Since man’s ingenuity has msule airship bufldlng not only a possibility but a probaMUty, with marked achievements promised In the very near future, more has been thought of and learned about the flight-feathers of bli^s than ever before. Han iiaa finally come to see that the close and Interesting study of the liihabltants of the atmospheric kingdom Is essential to progress in this new mode of navigation. How birds fly has always been a subject the naturalist has loved to discuss, but the recent bent of man's Inventive mind has brought It nearer to earth, to speak, than all the textbooks ever published. Its interest la, therefore, greatly enhan^ced, hence to some description we will go. The long quill feathers of a bird's wing show the greatest resistance possible with extreme lightness. The whole framework of the main quUl Is light and strong, a

Othe swallow.

bollow, horny tube that Is*elastic. But really the most wonderful parts of the feather are the small, halr-Itko veins which start from each side of the quill and form the part which gives the bird the power of flight. Viewed W the naked eye, tbey appear almost like threads, but under the microscope the real formation is seen. Each is In Itself a miniature feather and Its small veins overlap very much as the flight feathers of the wing pile gracefully upon each other. This overlapping can be seen by taking a bird's wing a,nd spreading tt wide. The longer veins of each quill feather over the shorter ones of the next quill give It a tremendous resistance in comparison to Its weight. In Just this same way are the veins’ small barbs made to overlap, the longer ones crossing the shorter ones to give i,Teat strength. Every lady who has rumpled a quill In her hat has experienced difficulty In trying to give It Its normal position. No matter how carefully It is pulled and worked, it Is impossible to bring It to Just the same smoothness agmln This is caused by the perfect overlap^ ng of these small barbs, which again bear small hoolu to hold them firmly In. place, making the whole feather a perfect web. TOese eveiy-day things which a cheap microscope reveals make the possession of one a great help and inspiration to the child, who soon learns to bring things which Its elders take for granted to a test by magnifying. Thus they learn for themselves Books are goocS things for the student of nature to have, hut a microcope teaches the lessorts first band, and such lessons are always remembered, while those from hooks are often lost.

OHlLa>19BN OP JKUU NATIONS.

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T it For Tyrolttn,

yodeii in«»t 1

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ihost big word, cause s sosrsB :s«wwi la cestmnw hhivmplew. Weariag stockings without test.

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ANDIRON TALES.

John Kendrick Bangs.

CHAPTER rv,

{Copyright, 1903, by John Xendrtek Banga] THE POKER TELLB HIS STORY. *1 suppose," said the Poker after the Andirons had iiassed out of hearing distance, "I suppose you think It a very extraordinary thing that I, who am nothing but a Poker, should be satisfied with

my lot, ehr*

"O X don’t know," said l^m. snuggling down on the cloud which he found to be deliciously soft and comfortabla "If you were a Poker who could only poke It might seem queer. But you can talk and ■Ing and travel about You dem’t have to do any work In summer time, and m winter you have a nice warm spot to stay In all the day long. I don’t think it’s

very strange."

“But I'm no different from any other Poker," said Tom’s companion. "They all do pretty much what I do except that most of them are always growling at their bard lot while 1 dp very little but sing and rejoice that I am what I am, and the story I was going to tell you was how I came to be so well satisfied to be a Poker. Would you like to have me do

that, Dormyr*

"Yes," said Tom. "Very much. Were you always a Poker?” “Not I,” said the Poker with a shake of his head. “I’ve been a Poker only two years. Before that I had been a little bf everything. What do you suppose 1 b^an life as?" “A railroad track," said Tom, bound to have a guess at the right answer, though he really hadn’t the slightest notion that

he waa correct

"You came pretty near It," said the Poker, with a smile. "I began life as a

boy."

"I don’t see how a %oy Is pretty near

a railroad track," said Tom.

"The boy 1 began life as lived right next door to a railroad," explained the

Poker. "See now?”

"Yes," said Tom. "But why didn’t you

stay a boy?"

"Because I wasn’t contented',” said the Poker, with a smile. "I ought to have been, though I had everything In the world that a boy cbuld want. My parents were as good to me as they could possibly be. I had all the toys I wanted. All I could eat—plenty of pudding and other good things as often as they were to be had. I had two little sisters, who used to do everything In the world for me. Plenty of boy mends to play with, and, as I said before, a railroad right next door—and oh, the trains and trains, and trains I used to see. It was great fun. I can see now that I look back on It, and yet I never was satisfied I usea to cry my eyes out sometimes because I hadn’t wings like a bird, so that I could fly. At other times I’d get discontented that I couldn’t run as fast as a dog—I never went to bed without feeling envious of somebody or something. "Finally one night I’d gone to bed feeling particularly unhappy because a big eagle I had seen flying about In the sky could do things I couldn’t. My nurse, thinking I had fallen asleep, went out of the night nursery and left me alone. Just as she went out of one door the other door opened and a very beautiful lady came In. " ‘Is that you, mamma?’ I asked. “ ’No,’ said sha *1 am not your mother;

I am a Palry.'

"I had been crying pretty hard. I can tell you,” said the Poker, with a shake of his head, "but as soon as I heard the lady say she was a Palry my tears dried

up as quick as lightning.

" T am a Fairy,’ she repeated, coming to the side of my little bed and stroking my forehead kindly. ‘My duty is to seek out one discontented person each year and see If I can’t do something to help them I have come to help you If I can. Don’t

you like being a boy’’

“ ’Not very much,’ said I, ’It’s awfully hard work. I have t6 go to school every day and learn lota of things I don’t care to know about, and most of the time I’m kept In an hour or two Just because I can’t remember how much seven times two are, or whether c-a-t spells dog or

horse, and I don’t like It’

" 'But you are strong and well. Your father and mother are very good to you and you have more good times than un-

happy ones, don’t you?*

'I never counted,’ said I. *1 don’t believe I do. though. I'm strong and well, but 80 is that eagle I saw to-day. and he can fly. and I can't. Then there> my little dog—he’s as well as can be, and my father and mother are kind to him lust aa they are kind to me. He doesn’t have to bother with school. He’s allowed to go anywhere he wants to, and never gets scolded for It. Besides, he doesn’t hava to be dressed up all the time and live in a bathtub the way I

do.*

" Then you think you would be happier as RoHo than you are as yourself?’

said she.

" ’Very much/ said I.

"’Then It shall be so,’ said she. ‘Ctood-

by!’

"She jvent out as quietly as she had come, and I turned over and after thinking over what she had said I feU asleep. Then the queerest thing happened. I slept right through unUl the morning, dreaming the strangest dream you ever

J fli^med that I had been

changed Into Rollo—and O the fun I had Life ^ ^thl^ but play and liberty, and then I waked. I tried to call my father and tell him I was. ready for the mondng atom but what do you suppose

I did Instead Y’

"Give It up.” said Tom. "Whatr’ I barked I looked down at my feet Sure enough. I was Rollo. and Rollo was I lying asleep in my bed. I was on the floor at the foot of the bed. Then the nurse came In and slapped me for barking, and I had the pleasure of being sent downstairs to the cellar, while Rollo himself, who had been changed Into me, want Into my father's room and got the

story.’

“Mercy!" said Tom. iorty about that"

"I was. a little." said the Poker: "but after I had been down In the cellar an

• beautiful piece of

steak in the Icebox, and I ate It all up It wasn’t cooked at all. but being i little dog, I liked It aU the better for that? Thrti I drank up a panful of milk and had a lovely time teasing the cat, un?U the cook came down, when my troubles tegan. I never knew when I was a boy that Rollo bad troubles, but I found out that day that he had. The cook ^ve me a terrible whlralng because I had eaten the Md I had hardly recovered from that when Rollo, who was now what I had been, took nw up into the nurwrv and played with me Just as X bkd alwavs Played with him. He bMd me up by ihe tail, he flicked me with his handkerchief; be harnessed me up to a small cart and made me drag his sister’s J<dl babies about the room for one whole hour, and then when lunch time came the wMtress forgot me and I had to |m hungry all the afternoon. Every time fd try to go Into the kitchen the cook would drive me out with a stick, for fear I would cat the other things In the cellar, and O dear. I

had a miserable time of tt " ,

‘The worst of it came two or three dars later.” contintied the, Poker. “It was RoUo’s both day, and as I was Rollo, of course, I had to take RoHo's bath, and my. wasn’t U awfuP I’d rather take a hundred such baths as T had when 1 was a boy than one like Rollo's. The soap got Into my eyes and I. couldn’t say

T guess ydu were

word. Then It got Into my mouth, and, bah! how awful It was. After that I was grabbed by all four of my legs and soused into the water until 1 thought 1 should drown, and rubbed until my fur nearly

came off.

"I wished then that X had asked the Fairy to leave her address so that I could send for her and have her come back and let me be a boy again. All the ftm of being Rollo was spoiled by the woes that were his to bear—woes I bad never dreamed of his having until I took his

place.

*T must have been Rollo a month when the Fairy came back one night to see how I was getting along. Rollo lay asleep In my crib, while I was curled up In a dog

basket at the foot of tt.

“ ‘Well,’ said the Fairy as she entered the room, ‘how do you both do” “ ‘I like It first rate,’ said Rollo. ‘Being a boy is ever so much nicer than being a

dog.’

" ‘I think so, too,' said I, ’and If you don’t mind, I’d like to be a boy again.* " 'What boy do you want to be?’ she

asked

" ‘What boyT said 1. ‘Why, myself, of course. Who else?’ “ ‘What has Rollo to say about that?* said the Fairy, tunfing to him—and I tell you, Dormy, It made my heart sick to hear that Rollo had anything to say about it, for there couldn’t be much doubt as to how he would decide." [TO BE CONTINUED.]

Tardy Tom. Tom Brown, the naughty chap. At acbooi was always lata, Ha couldn’t find hta cap. His mittans or hit alata And hurry u ha would. When ha want out tha door Tha clock hands always stood At half-past 9 or more.

A fairy came tme day And said, " ’Tls very strange That things gp on this way, And we must have a chang^l" And then, O ‘twas a shock' This fairy, grave and grim. Pot Tom’s face on the clock, ,And the clock's face on him! “And now,” the fairy said "You’ll never more be lata; The alarum In your heed Goes off at half-past 8." But when Tom went to school. He feir in much disgrace. He sat up on his stool, His hands before his face. —Caroline Wells

Good Books for Children. Johnston. Little Colonel. B 4621. Story of Dago BA 4821

Kaler (James Otis.) Toby 'Tyler; or Ten

Weeks With a Circus. B 4708. Kellogg. Forest Glenn series.

1, Sowed by the Wind, B 4732

2. Wolf Runs B 4733

3. Brought to the Front. B 4734. 4, Mission of Black Rifle. B 4735. •

Don’t.

Don't spend tha whole twelve houri In play. Try learning something every day. s

Forest Qlsn. B 4788.

Burying the Hatchet. B 4737.

Klngslmr. Water Babies. B 4775 Kipfii^ "C^tains Courageous.'

—Jungls Book. B 48M.

Second Jungls Book. BA 48IOi Lang. Blue Fairy Book. B SOIO.

(An of Lang’s fairy booka.) Trus Story Book. B mi.

Ullle. Colonel's Mon lothrop (Margaret 81

Pepper" books. _ ——- L Five Littls Peppers and How Ibey Grew. B 6330. _ 2. Five Little Peppers hOdway. B

6331.

——— S. Five Little Peppers Grown Up.

B 6334

4. PhronMe Peppw'. B 5338. MacDonald. At the Back of the North Wind, B 6428. . Major. Bears of Blue River. B 6475. Maud Wagner's Heroes. B 6746. Molesworth “Carrots,” Just a

Boy. B 6002.

Munroe. At War with Pontiac

story). B 6267

(Hampmatea (Indian story).

Derricr

B 6260.

Page.

ck Sterling. B 6261

Flaming Feather. B 6263. Fur Seal’s Tooth. B 626®.

Two Little Confederates. B 6861.

A’endleton, King Tour and the Run-

aways. B 6810

Perry. Hope Benham. B 6852. Pyle. Men of Iron (chivalry). A 6381. Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.

B 7194

Twilight Land. B 7193. Ray, Teddy Her Book. BA 7326. Reid. Afloat In the Forest. B 735L Boy Hunters. B 7362Rlchards. HUdegarde series. 1. Queen HUdegarde. B 744L —— 2. Hlidegarde’s Holiday. B 7441. '' ■ 8. Hildegarde’s Home. B 7441. 4 Hlldegarde’s Neighbors, BA 7447. 6. Hlldegarde's Harvest. BW 7446.

et serlei

iargare

Three

ree Margarets

rgarets t

1 Biargaret Montfort.

BA 7444. BB 7444

3. Peg^. BK 7441.

4 Rita. BA 7747.20.

6. Fernley House. BB 7441.1. Ruskin. King of the Golden River.

A 4370, B 7645, D 8838.

Saunders. Beautiful Joe. B 7860.

Little Boy Blue. When the cornBelde and meadows Are pearled with the dew. With the flret sunny shadow Walks little Boy Blue.

Oh, the

h, the N}rmph%aa< BtiU gleam on^ls

I and the Graces

eyes.

And the kind fairy faces Look down from the skies; And a secret revealing Of life within life. When feeling meets feeling In muaicai strife; A winding and weaving In flowers and in trees, A floating and heaving In sunlight and breese; A striving and soaring, A gtailneas and grace, Make mm kneel hUf-adorlng The God in the place. Then amid the live shadows Of lambs at their play. Where the kine scent the meadows With breath like the May. He stands in the splendor That waits on the morn. And a miute more tmder Dtsttlis frofai his horn. And he weeps, he rejoices. He prays, not in vain, Fot soft-Iovlng voices Will answer again; And the Nymphs and the Graces Still gleam th igh the dew. And kind fairy faces Watch little Boy Blua —Unldentifled.

Help the Kindergarten School. To the Editor of The News: Sir—Now Is the time for all friends of the kindergarten cause to come to the help of the Normal School fund. Here Is an institution, which has done more for the uplifting of the submerged tenth than any other—lurches not excepted. ’ Mrs. Eliza A. Blaker has labored long and faithfully and so modestly that the facilities she has at command should be called by a different name Thte school has never had a home, tand it is now time that It should have one, and a model one at that. Mrs. Blaker has been called to other cities to explain and Inaugurate kindergarten work. Mass .meetings have been called, necessary buildings provided and these very schools have become formidable rivals of the Indianapolis school. The citizens of this "no mean dty" should see that they are helping themselves and the city by providing sultalde quarters for this school, which has never had a home of its own. How long would we have a superintendent of public schools If in addition to the supervision of all the schools he was obliged to lecture all the afternoon in a crowded room, with two other classes receiving Instruction at the same time? I understand that about 823,000 of the 830,000 necessaryTor the beginning of a model building has already been pledged. Why should not churches, Sun-day-schools and clubs take up this matter? It Is non-sectarian. Concerted effort would now mean success. Let September see the Jackson Memorial Institute ready for pui^Is. If you can only give 81, give It now. A Q. P.

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THE eOOD OLD SUGAR DAYS

OLD-TtME AND FRE^ENT METHODS IN INDIANA CAMPS.

SUGAR OF THE HONEST KIND

Bolltd In the Pioneer Kettles No Hickory Berk in the Molaeeee— Pieeeuree of Camp Gone.

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[flpeeleJ to Tbe IndtanapoOs News.] BHBLBTVILLB, Ind., March L - The change In the weather from cold to a { warmer atmosphere has opened the In- > diana sugar camps and the season of | sirup and sugar making Because of the ! encroachments of purely agricultural pur- ' suits, 'the great sugar groves that once grew In this section of the State are fast disappearing. In fact, there are remaining nothing but remnants of these camps, once a thrifty, as weU as neoeasary Industry, wlGt the loss of a table delicacy and (ootbsome delight that can in. no artificial manner be supplied. Eighty years ago In Indiana the making of sugar-tree molasses and sugar was a necessity. Then there were no railroads to bring the New Orleans molasses and the yellow sugar of the same name to the doors of the settlers. Sugar they must have, and their method of securing It was from the sugar trees that covered much of the land ip the central part of the Stata Older citizens remember that in those good pioneer days the sugar season was looked forward to with the same degree of pleasure and anxiety as vrere the seasons of sowing and planting. Time has changed the method of making the molasses. Then each settler was largely dependent on his own resources and hla ability to make'*^the best use of the things which nature abundantly provided. Although these were unhandy and inconvenient, aa compared with presentday implements, they answered the piu’pose and brought to almost every home In the community a season of Joy, pleasure and profit, after the long and generally severe winter, during which there was little entertainment among the people. Old-Fashioned Implements. With the approach of this time of the year the thrifty setGer prepared his troughs for his sugar trees. Sycamore, or poplar timber was mostly used for these. In the hands of a deft workman they ..were quickly made. A tree of medium girth was cut Into lengths of alxmt two feet, the flat side oi which was hewed out with a hand ax. This receptacle was uncouth In appearance, but It had to serve the purpoSw because buckets were luxuries and tin buck9^ at 10 c4nts each ware as much of a dream as the telephone. Along the rivers. In low plaros, and where the soil was abundantly rich, elder bushes flourished in luxuriant growth. The stems of these. bushes were cut, the branches were stripped, each Joint, after the pith waa pushed^ outj furnishing a spile. One end of this tube was cut to a point and was then ready for use. But even a more primitive method waa need than this for tbe saving of the sugar tree sap. In tho place of the elder spile a notch was out on the south side of the tree, one end of which was slightly lower than the other. Into this the sugar water found its way and then trickled into the trough below. This was found not only to be harmful to the trees, but wasteful as well, and with the advent of tbe sugar this method ceased. * With these preparations made, and when the warm days of February and early March came, the sugar trees were tapped. This waa done by boring a hole through the hark of the tree and far enough Into the wood to tap the v^ns of the tree through which the sap flowed. This hole was made in the south side of the tree. Into this an elder spile waa thrust, the trough resting beneath. This done, the camp was ready for active business. Near the center of the grove was located the sugar house. It was made with four corner supports, with a fork on each ujgier end. In these forks were placed saplings on which rested t^ roof, which was generally of clapboards. Three sides of this building were open. Supported on a mud-daubed furnace were generally two large iron kettles. In which the sap was boiled. As tbe troughs filled with the water, aa It dripped from the trees, It was gathered into a barrel, placed on a sled and drawn by a horse to the sugar house. When the season opened, the work progressed day and night until It closed, unless Interrupted by a “spell” of weather that caused tbe sap to cease flowing. Tbe labor, while not hard, was exacting and the person whose business It was to boil the sap down Into molasses and sugar and keep tt from scorching, had a task that required good Judgment, aa well as much patience At the sugar camps gathered the young

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people of thd community at night, where they enjoyed taffy-pullings, baked potatoes in the ashes, danced to tbe music of a single violin—tbe girls in homespun dresses, the young men not Infrequently In buckskin suits. Maide sugar in many homes waa the only sugar known or used. For friends who could be reached it was molded into the bowls of small gourds. Into egg shells, teacups and Uttle cake pans, and In all Its purity and deUclousness It never failed to be an acceptable giftThe Present Season. The present season promises to be a good one. The ground being froaen very deep, will retard the quantity of sap, but the dryness of the soil wlU add to its sweetnesa During the coming week every camp in the county will be open. The old elder spile has given way to one of metal, on which Is a hook. To this is suspended a light tin bucket, the trough being only a remembrance. There are but few kettles used, these having been supplanted by the evaporator. In the "good old days" there existed no method of adulterating the sugar tree products. Sometimes tbe sirup and the sugar of to-day has a taste and a grain that was not know', then. Modern Inventors say their Inventions have nothing to do wltn this, but there is a demand for the quality of sirup and sugar of bygone days that wiU nevermore be satisfied.

Mr. Dooley on European Intervention

BY P. P. DUNNB.

tCopyrlsfat. 1908. by S. 8. Koatm Ca] In the picture you will notice a medley of feet, tails, legs and heads belonging to

five different animals.

CJan you properly put together these animals, ^vlng each his right head. tail,

etc.; also bis name?

’These five anlmaJs are all familiar ones.

dom a head. Trace In carefully. Look out for the'body part which strikes you as bdonging to the head, and trace In. fitting It to the head; and so on tUi tbe animal is complete. (Continue the work till you have drawn all five animals. If you make a mistake It Is easily rectified by tearing up the first sheet and retracing the picture. Ftnally, name the antmala and keep your

one is domesticated, the balance are more jdeture till n«i Saturday, when we will or lejw wild. print the finished portraits of tjicae anl- * ~ ' traoing paper—any mals with their tight names that you may

per wll

Obtain a piece of fairly transparent

jpaper

It over tbe cut-tip pict

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*Th' question befure th’ house Is,” said Mr. Dooley, “which wan Iv th* Euro-peen powers done mos’ fr us In th’ Spanish war. " "I thought they was all again us,” said Mr. Hennessy. "So did L” said Mr, Dooley, "but I done thim an injustica I was crool to thim crowned heads. If it hadn’t been ft some wan power, an' I can’t make out which It was, th’ Cubians to-day wud be opprlssed be th’ Castile instead Iv be th’ beet sugar •thrust, an’ th’ Fillplnos’d be shot be mausers Instead Iv krag-Jorgensens, Some wan power gthretched out Its hand an’ said, *No, no.* It said, “thus far but no farther. We will not permit this misguided but warrum-hearted little people to be crushed be th' ruttyan’power Iv Spain,’ It said. ‘Nlvcr,’ It said, ‘shall hlsthry record that th’ United States Iv America, nestlin’ there In Its cosy raypubllc frim th’ Atlantic to th’ Passyfle, waa desthroyed an’ th* hurtage Iv liberty that they robbed fr'm us wasted because we did not give thim support,’ it says. An* BO whin th' future looked darkest, whin didn't know whether th’ war wud last eight or be prolonged f’r tin weary, thraflo jninylts, whin It se’emed gs though th’ Spanish fleet wud not sink unless shot at, some kindly power was silently comfortin’ us an’ sayln' to Itsllf; 'I do so hope they’ll win. If they can.’ But I don't know which wan It was "At first I [thought It was Eln-laad WhlnlXer.ye hear Iv anny counthry helpin’ us, ye thtak It Is Englknd. That’s because Englarid has helped us so much In th’ past. Says Lord Cranbure In reply to a question In th’ House Iv Commons; T am reluctantly foorced be mesllf to ^lushin’ly admit that but f’r us, people on their way to CHilna to-day wud be gettin’ up an’ lookin' over th’ side Iv th’ ship an’ aayin’. "This Is where America used to be." Whin war was first discussed, mesllf an’ th' rest Iv th* fam’ly met an' decided that unless prompt action was took our cousins an’ Invlstmlnts acrost th’ sea wud be damaged beyond repair, so we cabled Lord Ponsyfoot to go at wanst to th’ White House an’ Inform th* Prlaldlnt that we wud regard th’ war m a crool blot on dvlllxatlon an’ an oiftnse to th* IntUlygince Iv mankind. I am glad towy our inthervintlon was Iffycacl^ War was Irameedjately declqged. I will not tell y^ow high our hearts beat m we r-read th’ news trim day to d^. Ti^ toow, I will on’y say that we Instbructed Lord. Ponsyfoot to do Ivryto^ to We power to helpW Idnsinen. he WtMuIIy li^ cut^ his ordhera. ^e pryuacally Uved at th' White House durttt* th' thryto' peeryod, an’ his advice to th’ Prtridlnt. such as; "If ye ©« »tth this htnnyfi-

cint war th’ United Powers will knock ye’er head off.” or "I think I can secure fav’rabte terms fr’m th' powers if, ye will abdicate to favor Iv a riprislntatlve iv th' House Iv Bourbon aa* cede New England to Spain,” done more than annything else to put heart Into th’ American forew. I will add that dJrin this time we was approached by gii am^sauure Iv wan Iv th’ poWera who ast tn to Inthervene. 1 will not say which power It waa. excipt that It was Austhrya-Hungary, an' I’m prevlnted be th’ obligations Iv me office fr’m mlntlonln’ what powers was behind th’ move beyond hintin’ that they wae as follows: Germany. France, Rooshya, It’ly, China, Turkey, Monaco. San Marino, Boolguhrya, Montlnaygro, Bodoochlstan an* Pershya. Pah’s reply to th’ ambassadures was, "I will do all I can." as he kicked him downstairs It ill becomes me to say what else we done fr that home Iv freedom— an’ hiven knows I wisht It’d stay there an’ not be wandherln* over th’ face Iv th’ wurruld—but I’m not proud IV me looks an* I will remark that Tlddy Rosenfelt was capably directed be th" iditon Iv England, thim hearts iv oak, that th’ American navy was advised be our mos’ inargetio corryepondints an’ that, to make th’ raysult certain, we lint a few British gln'rals to th* Spanish Cud fri'ndshtp go farther? Aa they say In America: “I reckon, be gosh, not."' ‘■Well, whin I read this speech I was prepared to hang th’ medal f’r savin* life on th* breasts iv th’ hands acrast th’ sea, where there’s always plenty Iv hooks f r medajs But th’ nex' day I picks up th’ pa-aper an* sees that 'twas not England done it. but Germany. Yes, sir, ’twas Germany. Germany was our on’y frind. They was a time whin It looked as though she was goin’ to shoot at us to keep us fr’m th’ consequences tv our rash act. They'se nawthin’ (Sermany wudden’t do for or to a frind Yes. It was Germany. But It was France, too. La Belle France was there with a womid Iv encouragcmlnt an' a glance Iv affection out iv her dark eyes that kep' growIn* darker as th’ war proceeded An’ It was Rooshya. Whin th’ Czar h»*erd Iv th* war, th’ first thing he said was: ‘I’m so sorry. Who is th’ United States?* An’ 'twas Italy an’ Booloochlstan an' Boolgabrya an’ even Spain. Spain was our frind till th* war was over. Thin she rounded on us an’ sold us th’ Ph’Up pines "They was all our frlnds, an’ yet on’y wan Iv thlro was our frind. How d’ye make It out. Hlnnissy? Hogan has a Bayin’ that onaisy lies th’ head that wears a crown, but It seems to be as alsy f’r Home Iv thim as f’r th’ mos’ dlmmycrattc American, But wholver it was that saved us Fm thankful to thim. It won’t do Fr ye to look at th' map an’ say that th’ pow*rfol protictln’ nation wud be hardly big enough f r a watch charm tr a man fr’m Texas, or that Buro-pe«i assistanoe fr America Is about aa useful as a crutch f r a loot runner But f*r th’ Inthenrexition iv our unknown frind. we'd've been aonihllated. Th’ powers wud've got together

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an* they wud’ve slnt over a fleet that wud've been turrble If It didn't Wow up an’ th’ crews didn't get eeaslek. Tbey wud've slnt an Irreslstjito arirmy Uks th’ wan that Is now onudHf th’ Boers with th’ Infirmities Iv old’ ^Hkan’ fin’Iy, if all else failed, they wud food. That's goto’ to be th’ unsIsiMBI blow Iv aimy war that to' parishes^^ Europe wagecr again us. They will decline to eat. They will turn back our wheat an’ pork an' short rib They'll starve us out an’ if left to their own resources, os Hogan says, Europe cud outstarve America to a month." "I’m not afraid Iv thim," said Mr, Hennessy. "Whin I was a young man I cud take a runnto* Jump acrost Germany or France, on' as tr England, w«'d hardly thrto over It In th’ dariL" "Perhaps ye'er right," said Mr. Dooley "But If afl thim gr-reat powers, as they say thlmsllves, was fr to attack us, d'ye know what I’d do? I’ll tell ye. Fd blockade Armour‘an’ Comp’ny an* th' wheat lllvators Iv Mlnnysoty. F'r, Hlnnissy, I tell ye, th’ hand that rocks th’ scales In th’ grocery store. Is th’ hand that rules th’ wurld.”

A Ungulti (Le Cri d» Pulal Some years ago Lord Salisbury was the guest of Kto|i( Osedr of Sweden. One morning, on coming to breakfast, the King, who had already worked three hours, 8bow4d to the English Premier six letters that* he bad Juat written t« six different languages. Lord Salisbury, aatofilsbed at so much knowlsdse. asked the King how much time It required to learn a forelsm language. ’ hres days, to be able to write a letter," responded the King. "But not Chtort»T’ "Even Chinese^ I will wager you a basket of champagne." * The wager was taken. At the end of three days the King brought to dinner an immense parchment filled with cabalistic stoa It was a letter to the Emperor of China. Lord Salisbury had lost. He paid tbe banket of champagne. He was wrong. The letter was really sent to the Emperor of China, but was never asnwered. It is doqbtful if It was written to Chinese.

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