Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1905 — FOR THE CHILDREN [ARTICLE]

FOR THE CHILDREN

A Great Trick la FlcarM. A trick In figure* that Is always mystifying to those who are not acquainted with Its secret Is the five line addition. Ask some one to put five figures in a row. Suppose that he puts these five down, 21908. Theu you will place on another piece of paper these figures, 221900, but don’t show this to any’ one as yet. Ask some one else to place five figures beneath the first live. Say he Jots down 31780. Then you put down 08219. Another in the party puts down, say, 22774. You finish with 77225. The sum with its answer as added will be: 21968 317X0 6X219 22774 77225 221966 Produce your paper and show the answer as you had made it after the first five figures were set down. The way to do the trick is: Place the figure 2 before the first of the five figures submitted and subtract 2 from the final figure. When two rows have been submitted add to the second row figures that will add up to 9, as In the example: 31780 68219 yopff Do the same tiling with the fourth and fifth rows. The answer will be invariably correct if care Is tAken.

Author of Pamlliar Hymns. Sarah Flower Adams of England wrote “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” She was a well known literary woman of her time. She died in 1849. Eev. Dr. Muhlenberg wrote the well known hymn “I Would Not Live Alway.” In 1819 Reginald Heber, son-in-law of the great divine, Dr. Shipley, wrote In less than an hour the beautiful hymn “From Greenland's Icy Mountains.” On the day of his conversion. May 21, 1738, It Is said Charles Wesley wrote “Oh, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing.” He was converted while ill with pleurisy. Sir John Bowing, scholar, member of parliament and governor of Hongkong, was the author of two well known and popular hymns, “Watchman, Tell Us of the Night,” and “In the Cross of Christ I Glory.”

What Can a Bor Dot This is what a boy can do, because boys have done it: He can write a great poem. Alexander Pope wrote his famous “Ode to Solitude” when he was only twelve years old. He can write a great book. Macaulay wrote his first volume, “The Primitlae,” which took the literary world by storm, before be was in his teens. He can write a successful play. John O’Keefe, the famous Irish actor and playwright, wrote a play that is considered good today when he was only fifteen. He can enter a great university before he is thirteen. William Pitt did it. Basle* Mate but Once. The married life of most birds could be taken for a model even by members of the human family. There is. for instance, the staid, dignified and homely baldheaded eagle—the glorious emblem of the American republic. He mates but once and lives with his one mate until he or she dies. If left a widower —even a young widower—the baldheaded eagle never mates again. He remains alone and disconsolate in the nest on the rocky crag or in the branches of a tali pine that formed his domicile while his mate was alive. No other female eagle can tempt him to forsake his disconsolate life. With him, once a widower, always a widower.

Don't* For Bor* and Glrla. Don't lose your temper because it rains on a day'when you have planned for an outing. The elements cannot postpone work, but you can postpone pleasure. Don’t risk meeting with accident to prove yourself brave. Many persons ure seriously hurt through foolhardiness and u desire to “show off.” Don't laugh nor talk loudly in public places nor in any way attract undue attention. It is vulgar to force oneself on the notice of others. Don't grow old too rapidly. The world Is sweeter in youth than old age.

Hon u Man'. So«o Supported Him. There was once a man who was deaf ami dumb and in consequence had difficulty In earning enough to support himself. As often oecurs, those'who arc deprived of one sense have another in an unusual degree, lids was the case with this man. lie had a sense of smell so remarkable that lie became an expert in detecting the presence of oil wells. His nose was purchased by a big company (naturally the man hlmaelf went along with ids tioseh and lie managed to eke out an excellent living.

IliK Bln«<>r*H Bon. A little four-year-old girl while calling on a neighbor was asked, “la Mr. Hutohingsou your sister’s beau?” She did not make any reply, but on arriving home she ran to her sister and eagerly inquired, ”Eva, is Mr. Hutchlngsou your ribbon?” A Croaker. A bumblebee and a pollywog • Were criticising an old bullfrog:. Said the bee: “No doubt*it’s n famous Joke, But I with you'd give our friend a poke And aak him to stop that senseless croak.” The serious eyes of the old bullfrog Were Maned on the bee and the pollywog. And the awkward silence he slowly broke By calmly repeating his little joke.. And maybe you'll And some other folk Who love, like the bullfrog, to sit and croak. —Washington Star.