Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1901 — YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT. [ARTICLE]

YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT.

The King'll Broken Bromine—To Decorate a Girl's Deu—Armor Plutetl Boys. Victor Emmanuel, king of Italy, Is fond of hunting and goes to the mountains to enjoy this sport. He often is far in advance of Ids party and meets with adventures that amuse him greatly. One day he found himself alone on the mountains and with a stream to cross which tvis turbulent He was too good a hunter not to recognize the danger of wading in a stream so deep and which lie did not know. While looking at the stream and questioning what he would do a very tall, strong man came through the woods to the stream. “You must carry me over!” said the king. The man refused unless he was paid. They agreed on the price, the man stipulating that his passenger must sit perfectly still. If he moved, he would throw him in the water. The king agreed. The man stooped, the king mounted his shoulders as the baby does papa’s, and they started across. When in midstream, the king got troubled about his dog, lest he should not follow, and turned to look. The man was very angry and declared he would drop his passenger In the water. The king was contrite, and the man went on. When they reached the other side, the man demanded double pay, “for,” he said, “you put both our lives in danger when you turned.” The king thought the demand was just and paid it. “Is there anything else I can do for you?” qsked the king. To this the man replied: “I have long wanted a donkey. If I had a donkey, I could sell my vegetables in Turin. It is a good market.” “Would not a horse be better?” queried the king. “No,” was the man’s reply. “The donkey could live in the cow shed. The horse must have a stable. I have no money.” The next day the man was working in his fields when his wife called to him that the king had sent him a horse and a bag of money. The man laughed at the idea. Why, the king did not know him. The wife insisted that the man should come to the house. There the king’s messengers told him who it was he carried over the stream; that the king realized the danger he had placed the man in when crossing the stream, and the horse and the money to build a stable were the king’s recompense for forgetting for a moment his promise. Long afterward, on an occasion of state, the king was in Turin. The man to whom the king had given the horse and the money for a stable waited till the king's carriage came, when he rushed out into the street and thanked the king and pointed to the horse harnessed to a cart filled with vegetables. A writer in the German scientific periodical Prometheus, declares that over-indulgence in tobacco will prove the ruin of South American peoples. Not only do children of 2 or 3 years smoke all day long, but mothers have been seen trying to quiet their babies by putting cigars in their mouths.