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Disastrous Results from Youngster’s
Intended Visit to Relatives in
Country.
School had closed for the summer.
With two months at his disposal, In
ventive Sammy naturally began to
think of what he should do in this va
cation period, says the Philadelphia
Inquirer. His experiments and inven
tions had proved so expensive of late
that he did not like to ask his father
for money to go away on a long holi
day trip. Neither did he wish to
stay at home.
“Father," said he, thoughtfully, at
the breakfast table, "If you could
spare me the donkey and our little
pony cart I could take a jaunt through
the country, stopping at the homes of
our relatives. They live most every
where about here, you know, and
I’ve promised ever so many visits I’ve
never paid.”
"The very idea!” exclaimed hia
father, who had Just been wondering
how to provide an agreeable vacation
for his brilliant son.
Sammy was quick to avail himself
of the permission. That very day he
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Made a Mammoth Kite.
started upon his travels, bearing a
volume of messages from his parents
to different relatives with whom he
would spend days.
,«Now it chanced that Jock, the don
key, had had vory little exercise.
Therefore, he kicked up his heels and
capered along the highways at a de
lightful pace. The boy was feeling
as happy as a lark when he came
to a place where the road shelved
steeply down an embankment to a
creek ford.
“Hold up a little!” he cried to the
donkey, and tugged with all his might
upon the reins.
But the donkey never paused. Down
ward he plunged, rattling over the
loose stones at a terrific rate of speed.
And disaster came, ns one might have
expected. Near the bottom of the
slope the frail cart careened against
a bowlder. A moment afterward it
was a mass of splintered wood in
stead of a handsome pony cart. Then
It was that Jock stopped in his head
long dash, and, returning to where
his master had been pitched upon the
stones, gazed ruefully with Sammy
upon the ruins. But his obedience
had come too late for any good.
Across the creek stood a farmhouse
where lived folk who gladly would
have lent Sammy a cart with which
to drive home. The lad declined with
thanks, however. Assuring them that
now he had an opportunity to work
out a new- Invention, he began the
construction of a mammoth kite.
Across the middle of the contrivance
he nailed horizontally a light board
capable of holding his weight.
Then he rigged the kite to Jock’s
back by means of the traces and long
Away Flew Jock.
mpp extensions. Having led the don
key to the straight, level road. Sammy
announced to the people gathered
round that he was about to fly home.
"Get up. Jock!" be shouted, whack
ing the donkey briskly with his whip.
All went well until there came a
brisk wind. ITp flew the kite in the
air to a position several feet above the
donkey’s hark Jock passed beneath
the lvw-hanging bough of a tree. He
passed—but the kite didn’t!
Jopk had reached home by the time
Sarnmy became conscious of what had
happened. Then, with one last, angry
look at the fragments of the kite,
which, like himself, had been battered
against the treacherous limb, the boy
Inventor limped slowly toward homo
and mother. His vacation, though
short, had been eventful—but not al
together a happy one.
More than 200,000 pounds of human
hair are exported from Hongkong to
this country annually.
THE SONG OF THE KITE.
Mary must alt.
On the grass for a bit.
An.l Tommy must run with the string
Yes. that's all right:
Now I'll toss the kite
Up, up, on the breeze's wing.
It wriggles Its tall
O'er the meadow rail.
And wheels about In the air:
Then up to the sky—
It will soon puss by
The lark that is caroling there.
Up. up It flies
To the clear blue skies.
Let’s sit on the grass In a row.
And watch the flight
Of our fine new kite
As far as Its string will go.
COW TREE WONDERFUL SIGHT
Grow to Great Height in South Amir
ica and Are Milked by the
Natives.
Groves of cow-trees, such as are tc
be found in hilly districts of certain
pnrts of South America, are said to be
a wonderful sight. These trees, which,
it need scarcely be said, do not acta
ally resemble cows, grow to great
height, yet for lengths of perhaps
fifty feet they are quite without
branches. Near the top they expand
Into thick heads of foliage, however,
and display a matted texture of leaves
and branches. The leaves are thick
and ribbed, and often grow to be a
foot long. To walk in such a grove,
among the bare trunks and under
neath the obscuring upper foliage, la
not unlike passing through some dim.
old pillared temple of past ages.
And If you remained long enough,
until daybreak or evening, you might
have the surprising pleasure of seeing
the natives come to milk the cow
trees. A hole Is bored into the heart
of the trunk. From this hole th#re
pours a milky fluid much esteemed as
a dnink by some. If this fluid Is put
aside for some time a thick white
cake forms at the top of it, while
beneath there remains only a clear
liquid.
The fruit of the tree is also es
teemed as food. It is of moderate
size, and contains one or two nuts,
which are said to rival strajvberrioe
and cream in their flavor. And this
is not all. A kind of bread is made
I from the bark of the tree, and is said
to be almost as nourishing as wheatei
! bread.
—
THE LITTLE TUMBLER.
_______
Make a figure of a man out of any
very light substance, the pith of the
elder tree for instance, which is soft
nnd can be easily
cut into any form.
Then provide a
h e in i s p h e rical
base. of some
heavy material,
such as the half
_ of a large leaden
bullet and take
53 away all the im
perfections which
may be on the con
'.ex pari, r asten tne figure to the
plane Burface of the bullet and In
whatever position it is placed, wher
left to Itself, it will immediately rise
upright.
A Strong Motive.
Robert Louis Stevenson tells or a
Welsh blacksmith who. at the age of
25 could neither read nor write. He
then heard a chapter of Robinson
Crusoe read aloud. It was the scene
of the wreck, and he was so impressed
^|»y the thcught of what he missed by
his ignorance, that he set to work
that very day and was not satis
fied until he had learned to read In
Welsh. His disappointment was great
when he found all his pains had been
thrown away, for he could only ob
tain an English copy of the book.
Nothing daunted, he began once more
and learned English, and at last had
the Joy and triumph of being able to
read the delightful story for himself.
A strong motive and a steady pur
pose overcome the greatest diffi
culties.
A Balancing Feat.
The only thlngH required for the
game here described are a large
clothes-basket, a broomstick, two ap
ples and tw'o chairs.
The broom-stick Is first put through
♦ he handles of the basket, with the
protruding ends resting on the two
chairs. The apples must also be
placed on the chairs.
A person then sits astride that par*
of the broom-stick over the basket
with his feet resting in the latter, nnA
endeavors to knock the apples o.T the
chairs with a walking-stick.
The occupant of the basket will In
variably press one foot down more
than the other, which causes the bas
ket to tilt sideways and himself to be
thrown out on to tho. floor.
One-third of all the tonnage under
the American flag la employed on t>*
Great Lakee.
mprrit-M.iAW.bj u»» Author. \V.8. kOson.)
Based on the Apocryphal Book of
the Song of the Three Holy Children.
The Book as Part of Daniel.—The Greek
translations of Daniel, like that of
Esther, contain several pieces which are
not found In the original text. The most
Important of these additions are con
tained In the Apocrypha of tho English
Bible under tho titles of "The Song of
the Three Holy Children.** “The History
of Susanna." and the “History of Bel
and the Dragon.” The tlrst of these
pieces is Incorporated into the narrative
of Daniel. After the three confessors
were thrown Into tho furnace (Dan.
3:23), Azartas is represented praying to
God for deliverance (Song of the Three
Children 3:22); and In answer, the angel
of tho I><rd shields them from the lire
which consumes their enemies (23-27).
whereupon “the three, ns out of one
mouth." raise a triumphant song (29-6S).
of which a chief part (S3-66) has been
used as a hymn In the Christian church
since the fourth century. The additions
are found In both the Greek texts, the
I.XX and Theodotlon, In the Old l.«tin
and Vulgate, anti in the existing Syriac
and Arabic versions. On tbe other hand
there Is no evidence that they ever
formed part of tho Hebrew text, and they
were originally wanting In the Syriac.
Various conjectures have been mado ns
to tbe origin of the additions. It has
been supposed that they were derived
from Aramaic originals, but the charac
ter of the originals themselves indicates
rather tho hand of an Alexandrine wri
ter; and It Is not unlikely that the trans
lator of Daniel wrought up traditions
which were already current and append
ed them to his work.
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^ PART OF THE SONG. ^
a ns Sons In Christian Y'
y Church Since Fourth Century.) 0
0 O let the earth bless the 0
A Lord; praise and exalt him A
A above all for ever. A
A O ye mountains and little A
Shills, bless ye the Lord: praise 0
and exalt him above all for ever. A
A O all ye things that grow on A
A the earth, bless ye the Lord: A
A praise and exalt him above all A
A for ever. A
A O ye fountains, bless ye the A
A Lord: praise and exalt him A
A above all for ever. A
A O ye seas and rivers, ble6s ye A
A the Lord: praise and exalt him A
A above all for ever. A
A O ye whales and all that move A
A In the waters, bless ye the 0
A Lord: praise and exalt him 0
A above all for ever. A
A O all ye fowls of the air, bless 0
A ye the Lord: praise and exalt A
A him above all for ever. A
A O all ye beasts and cattle, A
A bless ye the Lord: praise and A
S exalt him above all for ever. 0
O ye children of men, bless ye A
A the Lord: praise and exalt him 0
A above all for ever. A
A O Israel, bless ye the Lord: A
A praise and exalt him above all A
Sfor ever. A
O ye priests of the Lord, bless A
A ye the Lord: praise and exalt A
0 him above all for ever. A
A O ye servants of the Lord, A
A bless ye the Lord: praise and A
A exalt him above all for ever. A
A O ye spirits and souls of the A
A righteous, bless ye the Lord: A
A praise and exalt him above all A
A for ever. A
A O ye holy and humble men of A
A heart, bless ye the Lord: praise A
A and exalt him above all for A
A ever. A
A O give thanks unto the Lord, A
A because he Is gracious: for his A
A mercy endureth for ever. A
A O all ye that worship the A
A Lord, bless the God of gods, A
A praise him, and give him A
A thanks: for his mercy endureth A
^ for ever. A
THE STORY.
BLESSED are the ministry and dis
cipline of the trials and afflictions
of life for out of them Is born faith’s
tong of hope and trust.
So Is the child of (Jod able to de
clare In all ages of the world’s his
tory.
Centuries ago when Babylon was
In the height of her power, and she
had stretched out her mighty arm
and had crushed the fair Jerusalem
and had taken her people and placed
them In esile In the country far to
the east, there were three devout
Jews In the service of the king named
Ananias, Azarias and Mlsaei, or ac
cording to the names given them by
the king and recorded In the Book of
Daniel: Shadrach, Meshach and Abed
nego.
Now It came to pass that the
mighty king, Nebuchadnezzar, had
caused to be made a great Image of
gold, Whleh he had set up In the great
plain before the city. And when he
had gathered all the people In that
place, having arranged a great feast
In honor of the Image, he command
ed that the people should bow down
before the Image and pay It rever
ence, ns unto a god.
So It was that at the sound of the
music all the people threw themselves
prostrate before the great Image
which sparkled and glittered with
sur^mal glory In the brilliancy of the
nornday sun.
And In accordance with the king’s
command all the people were gath
ered before the image and when the
sound of the music burst forth every
one In that vast throng fell to the
ground save these three Jews.
Now when the king had caused It
to be decreed that any who should re
fuse to bow down to tho Imago and
worship It should bo cast Into a fiery
furnace, and when It had been report
i ed to him that these three Jews had
refused to pay homage to his splen
did image, his wrath was kindled
mightily and he commanded that tho
furnace be heated seven times as hot
as was its wont, and that if these
! Jew* refused to bow when the music
! again sounded, that they should bo
thrown therein.
Again the great silence as tho raul
tttude waited the momentous signal,
again the burst of music, again tho
prostration before the image, and
again the three erect forms in tho
midst of that great concourse of peo
ple.
With fierce haste did the great war
riors of the king who had been as
signed the task descend upon these
men. and having bound them securely
proceeded to tho mouth of tho fur
nace from which In plain view of all
the people could bo seen the leaping
flames waiting to devour the luckless
l Jews who had dared to disobey the
king.
"One last chance,” cnme tho word
from tho king just before they were
cast within the furnace. “Will you
not bow down to the imago and thus
escape an awful fate?"
"Nay!" replied Ananias, Azarins
and Misael, as with ono voice, “wo
dare bow down and worship none
save the C.od of Heaven. We will
serve only him. Ho Is ablo to deliver
us from the hand of tho king and
from the flames or tho furnace, but If
not, be It known that we will not bow
and worship the image of tho klug,
and If wo perish, we perish."
Having said this the servants of the
king, being men of great staturo and
mighty In strength, seized the three
mm and raising them far above their
heads they ran with great speed to
ward the furnace, and then with ono
mighty effort tossed them Into tho
very midst of the flumes, which with
fiendish eagerness, seemed to leap
forth to receive them.
i no eyes or tho people were Intent
upon watching the Jews which were
cast Into the furnace, nnd for tho mo
ment those who had cast#them there
in were forgotten. But now a cry of
horror arose from the throng as tho
scorched nnd blackened forms of tho
men were seen lying before tho fur
nace. And while panic seized the
people at the sight of tho work of tho
flames, the threo men which had been
east Into the furnace wnlked In the
midst of tho Are. praising God and
blessing his name, for they were not
touched by the flames.
Then Azarins stood up and prayed:
’ '‘Blessed art thou, O Ix)rd God of
our fathers; thy name Is worthy to be
praised and glorified for evermore.
For thou prt righteous In nil thlngB
that thou hast done to us; yea, truo
are nil thy works, thy ways aro right,
and all thy judgments true. In all tho
things which thou hast brought upon
us, nnd upon tho holy city of our fa
thers, even Jerusalem, thou hast exe
cuted true judgment; for, according
to truth nnd judgment didst thou
bring all these things upon us be
cause of our sins. And thou didst do
liver us Into the hands of the lawless
enemies, nnd now wo cannot open our
mouths. We aro become a shame and
reproach to thy servants, and to them
that worship thee. Yet deliver us not
up wholly, for thy name’s sake, neith
er disannual thou thy covenant. Put
us not to shame but deal with us aft
er thy loving kindness, nnd according
to the multitude of thy mercies. De
liver us also according to thy mar
velous works, and give glory to thy
name, O Lord; and let all them that
do thy servants hurt be ashamed. And
let them be confounded In all their
power and might, and let their
strength be broken; and let them
know that thou aro Lord, the only
God, glorious over all the world."
Now It. came to pass that while
prayeu inni me names in the
I furnace burned with Increased fury
and leaping forth In great forking
. tongues of liquid fire, so that those
standing nearest to the furnace like
the three men who had cast the Jews
into the furnace, were stricken to the
ground and consumed.
But the angel of the T,ord came
down into the oven together with Az
arins, and his fellows, and smote the
flame of the fire out of the oven, and
made the midst of the oven as It had
been a moist, whistling wind, so that
the fire touched them not at all, nelfh
er hurt nor troubled them.
Then the three, as out of one mouth,
praised, glorified and blessed God in
the furnace, saying;
"Messed art thou, O Lord God of
our fathers; and to he praised and ex
alted above all for ever."
Winning the Kingdom.
"Through many tribulations.” said
the apostle missionaries to their Gala
tian converts, "we must enter Into the
kingdom of God.” It was at the cost
of hitter persecution that these Christ
Ians, won from amongst the heathen
in those days of beginnings, held fast
to their new faith. But how glorious
was the result of such suffering brave
ly endured. In the lives strong and
noble which eame out of It.
We live In times as different from
that early period as the modern
threshing machine Is from the rude
trfbiilum. People do not, In our land,
stiffr'/ for their religion In the same
way as did the first followers of
Christ. Put it Is «t.Ml true that, only
through discipline, sometimes sharp
and severe, do human lives become
worthy of the kingdom of God. There
may be much in our present lot that
Is hard to bear, hut a blessed outcome
is certain to all God’s children.
Have something to do. something to
lore, end something to hope for.—
Chalrae*—
y-Qood Jokas
GIRLS AND MUSICIANS.
"The late Paul Stanley, composer
of ‘Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay,* took no great
pride in that Bong’s success," said a
San Francisco musician. "He had
hoped to succeed as a composer of
grand opera.
"When ho lived hero ho often talked
wth a quaint kind of melancholy about
tho high ambitious of his youth, nnd
how thoy had become humbler us he
got older.
“ ‘A man's ambitions dwindle,’ he
once said, ‘like a girl's matrimonial
aims. At 16 a girl wants a fairy
prince and nothing less. At 20 sho
is resigned to a millionaire duke.
At 25 a members of congress is good
enough. At 30 a country minister will
do nicely, and at 35 she’ll take any
thing, from a song-writer down.’ ’*
Worse Than a Hired Man.
"Yeas,” drawled tho postmaster of
Bacon Ridge, "that's old Zeb White,
tho laziest man In the state.”
"In what way Is ho so lazy?” asked
the coffee salesman.
"Why, every Sunday ho takes tho
two chickens thoy are going to have
for dinner and ties them as near to
tho plko as possible.”
"H’m! What is that for?"
"So the racing automobiles will
whiz their fenthers off and he won’t
have the trouble of picking them.”
Hard on the Receiver.
"No,” drawled tho mnyor of the fnr
wostorn settlement, "tho boyB had
some money tied up in that thar bank
rupt telephone company an’ thoy Just
didn’t llko tho way tho rocelver was
handling tho business.”
"Didn’t eh?” commentod the tourlsL
“Well, what did they do about It? ’
"Oh, they Just hung up the re
ceiver.”
Good Memory.
Yenst—Has ho got a good mem
ory?
Crlmsonbeak—Excellent! Why, he’s
tolling us tho Bnme smart things
his six-year-old boy says that tho boy
who is 12 now said when he was six
years old!—Yonkers Statesman.
BEFORE THE COOLNE8S.
1 - 1 1 1 1 ” ■ -
Hasbeen Henry—Aw, 1 wuz a flossy
Buy wunst. 1 usetor smoke quarterr
cigars.
Thoughtless Thrlveasy—Wot wuz do
matter—wuz do sports too stingy to
t’row away half ones?
Will She?
If she tho pantaloon gown don*,
I wonder will she, too,
Roll up the bottom* In the way
Our coIIcko students do?
A Tale of Tennyson.
Tennyson was once dilntlng to n
friend on the charms of a pipe boforo
breakfast.
"It Is tho most delightful smoke of
the day,” said he,
"Yes, yes!" replied his friend. "The
first sweet pipe of the awakened
bard!”
Thereby making a reconstruction
from Tennyson’s own works, needing
the change of but one vowel,—Har
per’s Weekly.
He Could Tell,
Ostend—Pa. what Is mamma read
ing about? I Just heard her say "It's
an outrago.”
Pa—Oh. some writer has been rid
iculing the suffragettes, I guess.
Ostend—Then she Just said: "How
true It Is!"
Pa—Oh, that’s some other pen push
er lampooning us poor men, my son.
Not the Same.
Him—Queer what a difference there
la in a woman's actions before and
after marriage.
Her—How do they differ.
Him—Before her marriage she
coaxes a man to come to her parties
and after she marries him she expects
him to stay away when she gives
one.
Realism.
Critic fas the composer plays his
last piece)—Very fine. Indeed. But
what Is that passage which makes the
cold chills run down the back?
Composei—That Is where the wan
derer has '.he hotel bill brought to
blm.
What Could He Have Meant.
"Do you ever write on an empty
stomach?" asked the mere man.
"Hir!” * xclaimed the literary per
son, “I an. a poet, not a t^ too artist!"
— Buck.
Considerate Judge.
Patience—And was the Judge con
siderate?
Patrice—Very; be asked me my age
before he swore me.—Yonkers States
man.
FATHER AT THE 8UMMER COT
TAGE.
He has two weeks to rest, and so
lie hurries up to Shady Nook.
"Now. here." says dad. "1*11 tot thing*
KO.
And lounge around and read a book."
Next day his wife's relations comsw
To entertain them was his Job;
And every day It was tho same.
Of friends ho always had a mob.
He dug the worms and minnows caugM
That they all might a-llshlng go;
He ran the naphtha launch and taught
The children how to swim and row.
He cleaned the flsh and baited hook^
To got the water was hla chore;
Ho had no time to spend with hookas
At night ho slept upon tho floor.
AFTER THE PROPOSAL.
Doliy—So your father hundled him
without gloves?
Molly—Yes; and it yould have been
hotter for poor, dear Cholly If he had
done it without shoes!
The Wings.
Klohos have wings.
There’s no doubt of that.
For wlllo requires ’em
To trim up her hat.
Called His Bluff.
"Yes," said young Wlndig, boast*
ingly, “I pass most of my time be
tween Chicago and Now York.”
“Tliat’a what your cousin told me,"
rejoined Miss Cayenne.
“My cousin!” replied Wlndig.
"W-what did sho say?"
“She said,” replied Miss Cayenne,
"that you lived in a little town in
Ohio”
News for Dad.
Tommie—“I see wood yields about
one-flfth us much heat as coal.”
Hobble—"I guess my dad don’t
know tlint.”
"Why?”
“Hccause, when he ‘warms' me hs
always uses a shingle!"—Yonkora
Statesman.
Natural Thought.
Redd—Tills paper says there is
on exhibition in a window in Saco the
largest lobster that has been landed
in these parts for yearB, If ever.
Greene—Does it glvo the name ot
the lady who landed him?—Yonkora
Statesman.
ALA3I
w
Mr. Rore—Re sure to tell me whea
you want mo to go.
Miss Rlunt—It’s an hour too lata
for that!
Advice. »
If you would climb to height* of fam*
Young man, bear this In mind:
Don’t envy those who are In front
Nor scoff at those behind.
Place for Trunks.
" Where did you put the elephants
on the ship coming over?’’ asked the
funny man.
"Downstairs In the hold, of course,"
replied the circus man.
“I thought they only put tho trunks
In the hold that were not to be used
coming over?”—Yonkers Statesman.
Too Tame.
"Great bargain rush at Sklnnlm*a
to-day.”
"Anybody hurt?"
"No."
"It must have been a dress r»
hearsal."
About the Size of It.
Freddy Rhymer—What Is a "poena
of passion," pa?
Mr. Rhymer—It’s the stamp-devour
ing one that travels on round-trip
tickets and comes home to roost
Short-Handed New York.
Daron—I so? that New York haa
16,00<> stenographers.
Egbert—Is that all? Looks aa If
New York might be short-handed.—.
Yonkers Statesman.