The way He Used To Do. Sometimes when I come in at night And take my shoes off at tne state, I hear my pop turn on the light And holler: “William, are there?” And then he says: “You go to bed— I knew that stealthy step was you.” And I asked how and tnen ne said: “'Cause that's the way 1 do.” used to Sometimes when I come home at six O'clock and hurry up my chores, And get a big armful of sticks Of wood and bring it all indoors, My pop he comes and feels my head And says: “You've been in swim min'-—you!" When I asked how he knew, he said: “Cause that's the way 1 used " ' uo, Sometimes before a circus comes, When I'm as willing as can be To do my chores, and all my chums They all take turns at helping My pop, he pats 'em on the head And says: “You like a circus, too?" When I asked how he knew, he said: “ "Cause that's the way I used to do.” And lots of times when he gets mad Enough to whip me and declares He never saw another lad Like I am-—well, at last he spares Me from a whipping and he lays His rawhide down: you * 'Canse do.” Foley, in the New York Times. that's the way I used J. W, H SPEAKING SILENCE PEP DW PW IN PGP Ps SULPNIPY Up from the eastern horizon, where midnight sea met sky, a sharp, silent, flery line leaped zenithward, until it ended in a burst of flaming blue balls. The portent caught the watchful eye of Boat Keep er Silas Eames, busy over the halyara. coll in the spray-iced box abaft the mainmast of pilot schooner Number 1. which for four and nights been cruising between Bulwark Shoal and Half-Way Rock Thirty seconds passed. Again. as if traced on the black areh by an in- visible pencil, the thin line burned; this time it burst in white. seconds more and the signal appeared in red. It was the familiar code of the Allan line, and intimated the approach the long-expected Saxon PEPE P NPD vd > stariess January days had of where soundly. “Turn “Boat's signals.” Taking from a ets, Pilot Somers was sleeping Hen!” I've out, coming he shouted. just seen her three rock red, the deck, against the V.shaped staples near the binnacles and lighted the locker papered respectively he the blue white and returned to ile leaned frig iuse, sparks Eames sent hav ing } liner, note Light, with wheel] replied hing at the compass to of Western Head slow for hot e¢ 12 glanced bearing went bo the and the iTen drowsy still “chalked” er in charge of Lookout Ze Half an came on five miles away sparkled Somers and the schoon nas Horne hour later, when the deck, the steamer's light red and green through he night-2lass A strong breeze from the north had roll ed ap a heavy sea, and flurries harbingered a Larger and lights, until ghostly prow, whistling snow. winter storm brighter them white-gsheeted shone the beneath loomed a with ice to await her pilot Eames had already placed a lighted lantern in cleats on a temporary af terthwart of tie dory. which was now swung the rail He sprang aboard and held the boat for Boomers, A stout pull with pairs of oars through a choppy half-mile brought them to a windless haven under the lee bow of the Saxon “Below there!” velled a red-faced, pea-jacketed officer behind the icicled aver two the dory between whisked a rope coil. it, and paid the boat back. until she was under the ladder end amidships. He then took two or three turns with the line about the boweleats, his companion shipped an oar in the scull-hiole astern, Watching his chanee, the nllot ed the man-ropes and the fey alde, Get back to the schooner as quick as you can!” he shonted to Eames. A sailor on the bow of the Saxon drop. ped the rope overboard, and the dory was free, As the boat-keoper sheered from the side of the steamer, a bull's the two rowers anly scrambled uy a cheerful burst of talk and laughter, The occupants of scme stateroom were celebrating their approach to port. Out whirled an empty pickle bottle, and dropped squarely on the lantern, smashing the globe to flinders and putting out the light, The unconscious mischief-doer with in closed the bull's-eye again and Fames jumped to his oars in the dark. ness. The breakage of his lantern, a longer row, however, for he now had no means of attracting the notice of the pillot-boat. He had plenty tern was useless, As he passed out from the shelter light of the schooner, which hs knew had run down in that direction after dropping the dory. But a shriek blast, thick with snow, blinded he couid not see ten feet, Al the steamer had disappeared: he was alone on the stormy midnight sea, It was no time for aimless drifting. Sweat-beads formed and froze on the boat-keeper's face, as he watched the steamer passing. He groaned in despair. Just then the hoat slowed down and Out shot the pale, trem- ulons beam of her psearch-light, until boat came Ten him. Soon a white ing that the squall would soon be over and that then he would find himself close to the pilot boat. Gradually the squall went by. the flakes thinned; the oarsman, who was facing seaward on his thwart, looked from right to left for the cheer- ing light. It was nowhere visible. He hundred greenish blur rapidly across the face of the wind. It port lantern of the schooner, With all his strength the boat-keen- the But his efforts Wind, waves and tide, were now united in coalition that could not He fought gamely, al though all the while conscious he was losing ground. Zenas Horne was anxiously striving up his lantern glimmer; but there was absolutely nothing the dory- man could to make his He might split his shouting, but against the gale would not carry a hundred Was to futile. his former allies, a hostile Oars, he do with yards, The and the light brightened, She some distance to the north- The green glint disappeared for and was then replaced by red; she was returning on the other Swiftly the eye shot wind. ! Ding-dong! clanged The an how flakes the schooner now ceased, west. a moment, single the Ding-dong mile to Grindstone notes thrill, was the bell on melancholy unpleasant rapidly he the Atlantie no real doubt aboard at last to windward in the leeward ledge Eames rr thoy Eave for hey told drifting out into Hitherto he had felt about getting Now, the pilot-boat a chill not night stole over him. What if Horne, after vainly cruising back and forth, should ion his quest! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! A little nearer and louder. How fast he was drifting! louder, ever nearer, pealed the melan. choly bell. up yet. Far in the northeast the pilot- boat had Hght still to Longingly safe 8 he saw how far persisted wholly from “a : i abar windward! following her almost due east, glimmering points, the corners an yellow above, red Familiar with the the of iosceles and green below. this Pet. one of her as he that government buoy-tender, craft, dorvman felt was the sure from trips of As nearly inspection § Was it would be twelve or thi off ; minutes before she passed. There was t t not chance in twenty hat she one a ueh for hir IH for nin would hail her attention? On Eames’ Come near *n How life probably i twenty years upon 2a single feasibl sxpedient, d., novel, desperate Ding-dong! keeper gw boat fowar The raight Grindstone ourse ex: ¥ opposite to painfull; tide #80 and strokes striven re enforced his he rove down on the clanging dell the buoy appeared, rocking white with the heavy suri rocks. as tiavnnd it gsevong it black fow holled over the Soon only a nosa of the dory eylinaer Eames, with his st true Just the prow were about splinter eon the steel, splitting his craft from stern fo stern, ue gave a skilful twist, boat shot by At the same instant sprang forward, painter in hand; the gunwale rubbed the icy feet separated the the pitching now in the ering-oar, held seemed from alert as it if to as He<canght it with one hand as the buoy rolled down. His fingers slip ped. he grasped the support. Just then the painter twitched away, and the boat was swept off into the gloom, Eames cared little that the loss of his craft fastened him on the rock- buoy for better or worse, suecosoded, would not If it failed, nothing Close his dory 3 he need an ne i { boat save him to with its clangor. He locked northeast, was coming on rapidly, The steamer The rushing He could see under her prow. The mo- the “bone Ding-dong! Dingdong! Ding-— The pilot had seized the fce-cold tongue, and oniy the breakers boomed on Grindstone Ledge. Eames's sole hope was that to the watch on board the Petrel the sil. ence of the bell would speak louder than its sound. It was her duty to care for all buoys. Grindstone Ledge lay right off the channel in the path of the big liners. It had a black rec. ord before the placing of the bell. Petrel—Youth's Companion. LITTLE CARPENTERS. Children of Five and 8ix Make Arti. cles of Value to Themselves. Bove and girls of fivemnd six vears of age busiy working at diminutive carpenter's with such sup- posedly dangerous tools as real saws bencnes fails to draw ex- from visiting visitors, a “Aren't dangerous little chil give them school which rarely pressions of surprige One of woinan, sald to an instructor: to give such complicated tools to Why don't you these you afraid and dren? instructor. the most the one of said is “A knife? knife If the knife is sharp with the child is li: To cut himself with a saw he must place his fingers deliberately under the and saw for some time. And can give a child. to work cut himself.” This belief that saw and plane are proper tools for little children, girls as well as boys, is the result of long first try the experiment with such children. And the results of the of “simple” tools have been so satisfactory that bench work has been made a regular feature of the In fact, a portion of the has been devoted to to use large workshop the director, has designed and had built a diminutive work bench fully fitted up for the kind of work boys and girls of this age are allowed ards, At this work bench, as part of thelr course, these children wood and by means school saw and plane to them In their games. The articles fashioned in this way are ex ceedingly simple in construction. Teo them the child must plane or saw wood into a given length or width then nail, without any effort at the several pieces together A block of wood with a strip nalled to it becomes a chair; a handle and a flat make a shovel, three pieces similarly mailed make a sled; a bandle, a cross plece and some nalls for teeth give a rake; pieces from a curtain pole make use piece of six and seven grat grade take cut windows The children vears of age in the wooden box, in it and finally build on the top of it which makes plarhouse All otf without the of it a things complete are made ’ advantage of children to “The teaching tools v educational such little EAYS8 AND only use thege instructor, “lies that simple broad ements and adjustments hild and tan obtained which value to the child's has something to show for it always leads The planing and hammering not anything lke the of skill that the simplest use of a knife The saw can cut direction, the more than a each of these in the fact mov by the that can be of the small When through he to himself the werk is of value because some motions of saw process to ing, do require degree NOCARRATY in general shave off in one certain thickness the blade of which is fixed a given angle.” In the case of a the child would bave to hold on to a small handle and then, in ad handle, the blade to the wood The siightest wariation of angle of this blade varies the cut. The knife made for all sorts of cutting, at an angle or straight, de. | Such attention and skill are not to be ex pected of tiny fingers, and to attempt to gecure them is to lay a burden on make impossible any en. Joyable products of his work, and to free movements and broad muscular con trol minutine of advanced mus ular action, The saw and the plane, with do not require, for elementary results, the finely Jif. muscular adjustmonts,” New York Tribune, “Only Once.” “The Scotch,” sald Secretary Wilk son, of the Department of Agrienl ture, “are certainly a witty people. Now, there was a visitor in the little town of Bowdoin who, on looking about, saw no children, but only grown men and women. He wondered at this and, finally, meeeting a weazened old man on the street, inquired: ‘How often are children born in this town? “ ‘Only once,” the man replied, as he proceeded on his way."-—Saturday Evening Post. . —— The length of the foot should be one-sixth the height of a well formed person, Sn nin Great Britain owns more land of North America than the Unlted States, ‘Just Supposing. —— — BATTELL LOOMIS, that There is very little doubt tha airship an accomplished fact, What boots a vear or two when time is flying as swiftly as It By CHARLES 18 doeg nowa days? But anyone considered the new dangers that will in the wake of the new machines? Does anyone imagine that life for him will be the old, carefree existence that it been for most of us: that when the air is filled with iron and steel and wood, man will go his way, un- heeding upper ether as of old? Of course, in the very nature of things, the first to equip themselves with aerial will be the reck- less devils who now run gasolene jug. gernauts on our highways Is it Casy imagine what they will do when they got up in the alr? Will life on the surface of the earth have any semblance of safety while “white eagles’ afd ‘red hawks" are careering In upper air spilling out tools, and now and then an occupant? In these pleasant days, if a man is walking about New York all he has to think of are the trolleys, the mo the ordinary the automobiles, the dear old CATs and the other horse drawn vehicles including the fire engines and the am- bulances. If he is alert and spry hie chance of life is as good as that soldier in a secondary skirmish adversaries are all on the level, speak, and he can see what {8 coming without raising his eves to heaven, a thing that mankind fell the habit of doing ages Ago But with the upper ah ships, and the ships full of and many of the people full of the intoxication born of life in the vold, why, I would not write any pe- destrian’s insurance without ing a prohibitive premium Let suppose two i; in an airship. "Hand me There's has follow has racers not to tor cycles, wheels, horse of a Hig 80 to out of full of people {reo hore. CHAarg us responsibles that wrench, Bill something the matter with this nut, and I want to take it off Look out! you just missed hit ting that chimney Can't vou Oh, idiot! What You drop that wrench for? It the north light in that studio ing Let's get away, qui that you've killed the i nothing of losing have Hello, did old chap fell out of pink machine, and I'm blamed didn't grad the spire Church, and there he is! “Shall we rescue him?" "Rescue nothing What's the ter with his own people doing it” ‘Well, I'm going wrench I don't (oe glear? did YOu careless stro artist 0 Bay we that? An wrench mat- down after that any commotion FIIOES ‘he airship turns, goes back. drops the then L i8 about five feet north light man d ropped king a cone of above and who 3a Yi } i Artist hear anything drop? a A opened skyli an in a moment later a and an excited m ¥ u makes his louze appearance Did you drop that wrench?” awfully sorry Did » A ow anaing ¥ a f § 1 aeaq, an ii YOu » 4 instead of wore an airship, 1 uaving #8i0N worth the The The Net Profit, A New England proaperous Connecticut f Of a pain. who man tells farmer, in matiers iarried a widow of Greenwich in her own right the ten thousand dollars Shortly after the wedding a friend met farmer, to whom he offered congratulations, at the same time ob- serving: “It's a good thing for vou. Malachi Af marriage that medns ten thou sand dollars to you.” ‘Not quite that, Bil” farmer, “not quite that.” “Why,” exclaimed the friend, “1 understood there was every cent of ten thousand dollars in it for you! “1 had to pay two dollars for a marriage license,” sald Malachi, with a sigh.—Harper's Monthly, fully exact money 1 pos sum sessing Of the said the Educated Not Broken, “Long before sundown I have my wild horse not broken, but educated, and spoiled in the handling, he is safe, gentle, kind and a pleasant ani- mal to ride or drive, a true friend in time of need and a faithful servant you can love and trust. He kas never had a blow. he is not brok- winded, jaded, discour- aged and worn out, but comes away from his first day of education fresh, pleased and proud, with confidence and affection established between himself and mankind, and a long and useful career before him."”-—From Mary K. Maule's “Breaking Horses With Kindness,” in the Century. LAL 8H ABO. Good Use For It. 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Une less it is thought absolutely ing those scarecrow days called the “dog-days” allow him all liberty, for often the rope, chain or muzzle will make the dog, so used+«to sweet free. dom of action, quite 11] and restless, thus creating a sort of panic among his two-footed friends to whom he cannot appeal in any way save by barking, whining and against his restraint. But too much caution eannot be observed in the matter of allowing your pet dog to run about with avery four - footed Tom, Dick and Harry that happens te come prowling around during the very hot weather, for a fight—which is lable to ocenr between the pet and the tramp might result in something serious, for dog bites—even when in dog flesh——might prove very troublesome If not dangerous. Birmingham Age Herald. In ail kinds of Marble av Uranite, Dent Bll Ww ol my prios, S LADIE SETRCLAN ath prices, tend. hy overs $s ric ip Eo fe LEE'S coe A NEW LIFE TEA ALWAYS CURES CONSTIPATION,
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