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OLD GAMES FOR THE YOUNG
Blindfolded Player Must Recognize
Others by Feeling With Large
Spoon Instead of Hands.
In the game called "A Spoonful of
Fun," Instead of feeling with his
bands in, order to discover who it is
that he has caught, the blind man is
given a large spoon which he uses as
a wand. As in "Silence," the players
must all remain perfectly still. Direct
ly he succeeds in finding some one
the blindfolded player tries, T)y deftly
touching him here and there with the
spoon, to discover who it is. As it is
much easier than anybody who has
not tried can possibly imagine to dis
cover the Identity of a . person by
spoon touching, it is best for the un
blindfolded players to try and disguise
themselves as much as possible.
Some might stand on tiptoe to make
themselves appear taller, others tie
handkerchiefs round their necks or
wrap themselves up in shawls; and
the boys might remove ' their telltale
collars or put on their overcoats.
CLEVER AFTER-DINNER TRICK
Plate May Be Lifted by Common Rad
ish by Butting in Half and
Pressing Against Surface.
Cut a radish in half, press the low
er surface firmly against a plate, as
is shown In the diagram, and you can
Radish Lifts Plate.
lift the plate, to which it clings as
closely as a boy's wet leather disk to
the pavement.
Young Financier. "
Freddie came into the house one
day and said . that the woman . next
door had offered him a penny if he
would tell what his mother had said
about her. ' ,
"I'm so glad you didn't tell," re
marked his mother. "I wouldn't have
her know for anything that I even
mention her. You're a wise little boy,
my dear."
"You bet I am," returned Freddie.
"When she offered me the . penny I
told her that what you said was some
thing awful and it was worth half a
dollar."
BOY'S WORK AND PLAY IN THE COUNTRY
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A Boy's
One of the most serious troubles
that I had when a. boy was the ecold
ings I received from farmers for dig
ging up their pastures and meadows
In unearthing woodchucks. Rail
fences and post piles had to suffer
when old Shep, chased a woodchuck
into his hole or under them: One of
the boys would usually keep an eye
out for the farmer, while the rest of
us would throw posts and rails and
did for Mr. Woodchuck. '
One summer nearly every boy in
our neighborhood had. a pet wood-
chuck,that was kept in a cage, and
some of them became very tame and
would eat , from our hands, clover,
grass, apples and sweet corn,' which
MISS MUFFET AT FOOD SHOW
How Much Did She Weigh After Eat
ing Seven Kinds of Food and Gath
Bering Many. Packages. ;
You "remember that In Mother
Goose Miss Muffet was very found of
curds and whey. She liked other
things, too. Listen:
When Miss Muffet visited the food
show she ate seven different kinds of
breakfast food and gathered : ten
pounds of sample "packages. Then
she stepped on the free weighing ma-
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Miss Muffet at Food Show.
chine and found that her weight had
increased 10 per cent; whereas, if she
had eaten twice as much breakfast
food the gain would have been 11 per
cent.
Can you tell how much Miss Muffet
weighed when she arrived at the food
show?
At the food show Miss Muffet
weighed 111 1-8 pounds when she ar
rived. She ate one and one-ninth
pounds of breakfast food and gath
ered ten pounds of samples, which in
creased her weight 10 per cent.
RIDDLES.
What cannot be called a disinter
ested act of hospitality?
Entertaining a hope.
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Why are the stars the best astrono
mers? . i '
Because they have studded (stud
led) the heavens since the creation.
Why is a schoolmistress like the
letter C?
Because she forms lasses into
classes.
What two words contain all the
vowels and In their proper order?
Facetious, abstemious.
Why is it impossible for a person
who lisps to believe in the existence
of young ladies?
Because with him every miss is a
myth.
Why is an old chair that has a new
bottom put to it like a paid bill?
Because It has been re-seated (re
ceipted). ,
When does a . man sit down to a
melancholy dessert?
s When he sits down to wine and to
pine.
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What is the difference between a
mother and- a barber?
The latter has razors to shave, and
the former has shavers to raise.
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are their favorite articles , of food,
s. Woodchucks usually burfow near or
chards or pastures and are easy to
trap. A No. 1 or No. 2 trap is usually
used and is.set in their holes arid cov
ered with -leaves and dirt. This is not
necessary, however, as they are not
suspicious animals and are. easily
caught in a trap.
They are very much disliked by
farmers on account of the danger of
farm animals breaking a leg by step
ping in their holes. ;!
A full grown woodchuck will put u;i
a game fight against a dog, and when
in thin flesh in the spring it' takes
good dog to master one. X
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DIVINITY OF WORLD
Nothing Can Be More Worthy of
Worship "Tj nan the Mothers
of Men.
We shall sometime find out that the
real divinity of this world is the moth
er. A few know; it now, but the most
prefer strange gods. ''':
Because men always have and still
do worship, it is fair to assume that
they always will.
Every man exalts something or
some one to . whom' he pays homage.
Every man has some one place more
sacred than all the rest," where he
stands in awe. '"' '
No man can worship without taking
upon himself the image and likeness
of the being or thing which he adores.
Everjr heart that loves has the divine
right to be the first wooed and won. '
The man who said that' .God com
mands men to love Him ,did not under
stand the nature of the human heart.
The old religion and the old worship
have done about all they can for this
world. The old themes are thread
bare, they make no impression. ' It lb
probable that for every man who read
the Bibla this morning there .were
thousands who read the newspapers.
Current Events Interest.
What the editors and correspond
ents, who are on earth now say today
is of more interest to the average man
tnan what Paul or Habakkuk said tne
day before yesterday. The current re
ligion is archaic. It belongs to the
past. The time has arrived for a new
divinity, and that divinity is "The
Mother." Men have worshiped vari
ous and useless things. There is
nothing more worthy than the moth
ers of men.
- It requires but the slightest effort
to adapt all we think or fancy of God
to what we know of the mother. Men
speak of God as being a mystery,
providence and power, author . and
preserver of life, the inspirer and help
er. We do not know that he is any
of those things, we do not know what
he is. But those terms are applicable
to the mother of men. She is the vast
and sacred mystery, tha keeper of the
miracle and sanctity of life.
Lying beneath her loving heart in
the mysterious birth sleep, fashioned
by Nature's deft and unseen hand, life
awaits the moment when with sur
prised and startled cry it comes upon
the shores of this strange world.
If ther.e is anything about our
thought of God that we cannot trans
fer and adopt to our thought of moth
er and . motherhood then our idea of
God is poor and mean and our idea of
motherhood is meaner still. The Di
vine Providence is a theory a theory
that is not warranted by the facts of
life and the world. The maternal
providence is a fact without which
mankind would perish from the earth.
All that they claim for Christ, all and
more, may be claimed for the mother.
Sufferings of Mother.
They say he suffered " for us ; that
he died that we might live. But the
suffering upon the cross has been
more than , matched thousands of
times. The sufferings of the man
that was crucified was less than the
suffering of the mother who stood over
there in the darkness and heard the
agonized cry, and then, when her son
was dead, knelt at the cross and
clasped his feet and covered,, them
with kisses and tears.
The deeper and more tragic pain is
that which the heart, feels. The moth
ers of men "have - tasted death for
every man."
The old religion has much to say
about the necessity of forgiveness. As
a matter of fact, most of the sins of
this. world consist of wrongs commit
ted against mothers and the children
of mothers. If motherhood' were hon
ored as divine, if throughout the so
cial, the industrial and the business
world no injustice was done, no wrong
committed against a mother nor. her
child, sin would disappear- from, the
earth.
We should nothen build cathedrals
and temples for the gods, and poor
houses for women and children.' -
The time will come when we will
take our divinity from the skies. and,
having domesticated it, make for it a
house in the world that is now. .
Our Christian civilization will then
be succeeded by a humane civiliza
tion. All that is of value in this world;
all of virtue and excellence, all of par
manent good, depend upon the respect,
the reverence, the adoration in which
the sons of men hold the mothers of
men,:-Rev. John Emerson Roberts.
. Essence of the Divine.
"If there be any Virtue, if there bo
any praise, think on these things.""
To admire what is admirable, to
adore what is adorable, to follow what
Is noble, to remember -any such ex
amples that have crossed our earth
ly pilgrimage, that have brightened
its darkness and cheered its dullness,
this keeps alive before ' us the ideal
of human nature and the essence of
the divine nature. The good thoughts,
the good deeds, the good memories,
of those who have been the salt and
the. light of the earth, do not perish
with their departure. They live on
still, and those .who have wrought
them live in them. '-
Better Than Before. '
" Prosperity is a painted window,
which shuts out much of the cleat
light of God, and ohlywhen the blue.
and the crimson, and the golden tinge
are removed, is the glass restored ta
Its full transparency. Adversity fchus
takes away tingo, and color, and dim
ness, and we see our God Car bettel
than before, if our eyes are prepared
for the light. Spurgeou. - ' "
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HOW MONEY CAN BE
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A String of White Wyandottes.
. (By KATHKRINE ATHERTON
v GRIMES.) . ,
People who go to the market tO'buy
eggs or poultry always want the best
they can get And the only way they
can tell is by the looks. So if you
want to get good prices for your poul
try products, you must make them
look nice. '
At this time of year your most im
portant product will be your eggs. The
boy with only a few hens will hardly
be able to dox any shipping on v his
own account, but must depend on his
home market. There are, however,
several ways in which he can get a
little more than market prices for his
eggs.
One way is to arrange with , your
home dealer to furnish him strictly
fresh eggs, graded and guaranteed,
for his 'finest class of trade. Any
grocer likes to get eggs that he knows
he can recommend, and is willing to
pay a good price for the .same. As
many town' customers buy their eggs
just a dozen at a time, it adds to the
attractiveness and salability of your
goods if they are put up in neat car
tons holding just that number.
Of course your eggs must be clean.
If your hens are of several kinds, you
are likely to get eggs that are not uni
form in color. Sort them so as to put
each color by itself. - If you have
never tried this plan, you -have no
Idea how much nicer your eggs will
look, and anything that adds to their
appearance helps your price.
Not long ago the following little
every-day occurrence was noted in a
grocery where many eggs were being
brought in. A great bucketful had
been offered for sale, and the clerk
was busy counting them out They
were like Joseph's coat, of "many col
ors," but It is to be hoped his coat
was not like them in being stained
and " dirty. -
"Anything with a shell on passes
for an egg with some folks," grumbled
the disgusted clerk, as he gingerly
fished out two or three specimens that
were most indisputable "old," and laid
them carefully to one side. "If these
old things didn't come out of a last
year's hen's nest I'll miss my guess."
At last he finished his counting, and
returned to the counter to settle with
their owner.
"Twelve cents is the best we can
do on that grade of eggs," he said.
"TXTa,ia avavIao lol trffV tlQTr TrTi 9
"I thought you were paying more
than that," protested the woman who
had brought them in.
"I had to lay out over two dozen
ESSENTIAL PART
IN TOMATO CARE
Pruning Vines Is Most Conven
ient Way to Secure Stronger
; Vine and Stalk.
(By J. J. CASEY.
The tomato is raised in this country
almost entirely for shipping purposes.
They are' dedicated as a, food for all
classes of people, the' laboring classes
especially, who buy them, of the mar
keters. I find the tomato easily grown, but
I also find they must be cared for in
the proper way and manner. One of
the most essential parts in the culture
and production of the tomato is the
pruning of the tomato vines in the
most convenient way and manner, to
aid in a stronger rvine or stalk, and to
give growth to a larger crop of to
matoes which, without doubt, will give
to1 the grower the i premium much
above his work, j . ; - , - ,
If the pruning Is not done, the plant
will grow slender, tall, and . have an
ugly shape, and when; the crop "of to
matoes get to a very . great size the
plant will bear down, to the ground
and the tomatoes will rot. ' .
Another thing is if the tpmatoe3 set
well on the unprunod plant they; will
not get to any size, for . there ' is too
much of the leaves and stalk to sup
port. ' . '-.. ' "
. The first pruning is to take place as
soon as . the plants- take a start to
grow after they have been set In the
six-Inch cold frame. The plants should
be, about, eight inches high, and y only
the top pinched off. ; Next, In a day or
two, pinch the tops off of the second
to the bottom, suckers, and so on un
til the whole plant la gone over, wait
ing a day or two between each prun
ing of the Buckers.. About every two
weeks the tops of the stalks should
be pinched out, thus'causlng the stalk
to become greater in diameter, which
aids "in the supporting1 of the heavy
load of tomatoes. It 13 good to prune
once after setting i;i the field- .
Eggs to Chicks.
; Chicks should be, fed hard; bo.ied
sgs only a few daya. . , .
MADE WITH POULTRY
that were cracked, or otherwise unsal
able," replied the grocer. "If you had
sorted your eggs I might have done
better for you."
Of course she did not like it, but
whose fault was it if she could not
get the highest market price?
A little later another lot was
brought in. There were two boxes of
them, in each of which were twelve
cartons, holding a dozen eggs each.
One box was full of white-shelled
eggs, clean as pearls, uniform in size,
and packed with the small end down.
The other held brown-shelled eggs,
some cartons being light brown, and
others dark brown. The clerk smiled
as he lifted them out.
"Eighteen cents a dozen, and glad
to get them. Orders waiting for them
A Dual-Purpose Hen.
right now. Jim, go and 'phone to Mrs.
Grant and Mrs. East that we've got
those eggs they want."
And that is the difference. When
the grocer knows what he can depend
on, he is willing to pay for it. He
does not have to hunt a market for
his best eggs, any more than you do.
Another good way is to sell your
eggs directly to Individual customers,
thus making the middleman's profit,
too. There are many people who are
willing to pay from five to ten cents
a dozen more than the regular mar
ket price for eggs that they know will
be fresh and good. A very good plan
is to mark each carton with your
name, the date the eggs were gather
ed, and the words "quality guaran
teed." It does not take 16ng to work
up a fancy trade in this, way, but of
course it takes a little more time than
to sell direct to the " grocery.
PREDICTIONS OF
RAINY WEATHER
Horses Neigh, Cattle Low, Pea
cocks Scream,, and Ducks and
Geese Are Noisy.
(By A. V. MEERSCH.)
It is well known that animals and
fowls give, notice of the approach of
rainy weather by their peculiar ac
tions. Dogs and cats are less ener
getic and show an unusual disposition
to sleep. Sheep crowd together in a
shelter place. , Horses neigh, cattle
low, peacocks scream, guinea fovals
squall, and ducks and gee3e are more
noisy than usual.
All this Is due to the decreased sup
ply of oxygen in the air and to the
depressing effect of damp air on their
nerves. ?It gives them some difficulty
in breathing and makes them listless
and uneasy. ; '
Another sign of rain is seen when a
cat rubs her ears and sometimes ev
ery part of her coat that she can
reach. . This is due In part to the
dampness of the air, which penetrates
the hair and. makes the skin itch, but
Is chiefly due, perhaps, to the air be
ing heavily charged with electricity.
The! hair of . the cat becomes heavily
charged, too, and she rubs it to make
it smooth, and to' brush away, the
peculiar sensation electricity causes
Perhaps you have noticed that the
leaves of the dandelion and clover
fold up and go to sleep, so to speak,
when the rain is near. As these plants
never open their leaves without the
stimulating influence of sunshine, the
cloudy sky puts them to sleep. An
other reason for the change is the ex
pansion of the air vessels ' ' of the
plants, due to the damp "air which
causes the leaves to contract and
close, Just as paper curls when qne
side , of it is moistened.
Most Useful Blrd.
t' The common plover is one of the
most; useful .birds in the land, as it
destroys snails,' wire worme; beetles
and all sorts of obnoxious ' insects.
In Scotland these birds are protected
by law !; -W'v ' -' ' -
Conducted by the National Woman'
- Christian Temperance Union.
TEMPERANCE IN MUCH FAVOR
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Many Crowned Heads of Europe Are
Teetotalers Characteristic
Words of the Kaiser.
' In an' article by an "Ex-Attache." re-
gently published in the Chicago Trib
une, an interesting list of sovereigns
who are abstainers ia given. Accord
ing to this writer, teetotalism is the
rule, rather than the exception, among
the rulers of the old world. He says
that "Alfonso XIII. of Spain, and his
mother, Queen Christina, ' are both to
tal abstainers. So, too, is Victor Em
manuel III. of Italy, as well as Queen
Wllhelmlna of Holland, and her moth
er. Queen Emma, the two queens . of
Sweden, and King Gustave Adophue.
Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, and
George V. of Great Britain."
"In Sweden," explains the writer.
'the present king and his consort
have undoubtedly been Influenced in
becoming teetotalers by his mother,
the dowager Queen Sophia, who for
over forty years has been the most
powerful supporter and advocate of
the temperance movement in Scandi
navia." Of the ruler of Bulgaria he remarks
that his habit of total abstinence is a
matter of policy due to the advice of
his' wonderfully clever mother and
most sagacious political adviser.
King George of England quietly cut
off all alcohol without any fuss or
publicity, while he was still prince of
Wales. Queen Mary allows no alco
holics to the princes of the royal
household and has displayed a keen
nterest in the emperance movement
in England.
The German emperor, though not a
total abstainer, is doing much to en
courage temperance among his sub
jectsl We recall his words to the
navy :
"Nerve strength is endangered and
undermined by the use of alcohol.
Those nations which, take the small
est quantity of alcohol win the day."
PATHETIC APPEAL OF A WIFE.
Heart-Rending Letter Written to Edi
tor of Oregon Paper by Spouse
of Confirmed Drunkard.
A drunkard's wife recently wrote a
most heart-rending letter to the editor
of a daily paper in Portland, Oregon:
"I come to you with my trouble," she
said, "because your paper seems to
have a mighty power, for good against
evil. Can't- you start something
against the saloons, or have we drunk
ards wives got to endure hell on
earth continually? Whisky is bad
enough for the drunkard, but oh, I
have not words to express how awful
it is for a drunkard's wife. ... I am
only one out of a million who endure
this torture and unsually without a
word of complaint because of the ;
shame and disgrace.- I would not tell
my name for anything. My husband
is a business man, makes plenty of
money, and when sober is very kind
to me. Sometimes I pity him as a
mother might a crippled child;, some
times I hate him, thinking oh, I can't
tell what I have thought!"
This, and much more, is confined
in her desperation to the editor, and
she concludes with questions that
must strike home' to the heart and
conscience of every voter:
"But, oh, why are the saloons? Why
are saloons? Must we endure this suf
fering worse than death so that the
pockets of a few may be filled with
money? Must our homes continue to
be broken up, our children made fa
therless, or have such a father that
is worse than none? Must our boys
be given up to these saloon hells?
Must our girls marry them and suffer
as I have suffered? Where, oh. where
is help?" ' : '
MUST KILL LIQUOR TRAFFIC
Stands Convicted of Many Crimes Be
. fore Courts and People and
Therefore l! Must Go.
Whatever endangers the public
health is a public nuisance and MUST
GO.y
Whatever corrupts the public mor
als, is a public crime-breeder and
MUST GO. v y
Whatever impairs the public intelli
gence is a public nuisance and MUST
GO. - f
Whatever contributes to want and
waste is a public pauperizer . and
MUST GO. -y
Whatever debauches American
citizenship is a public peril and
MUST GO. :
Whatever destroys the home is theN
nation's worst 'enemy and MUST GO.
1 The liquor traffic stands convicted
of all . these things before the courts
and before the. people,-therefore the
liquor traffic MUST GO. .
, Not Boasting About It. .
With great satisXaction the liquor
papers publish the statement that St.
Louis has six saloons for every church.
They seem to think this to be an, ideal
condition. WewiU guarantee that a
a city; St. Louis is not 'proud tf the
fact, if it is a fact," and we would like
to see . any prospectus of real estate
boards or organization of business
ben which sets I'orth , this) claim as
an inducement for manufactories and
families to locate in that, city. Ex
change: V-,- ' ' ' '