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
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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.
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ABOUT PET DOGS
Boy or girl, don't think that
cause
can “eat any old thing and sleep In
any old place,” for dogs are most sen-
sitive animals and should
and kind consideration thelr
Young masters and mistresses. There
is no truer friend that a good dog,
and he should always have the best
of treatment
If you have no clean, snug place in
a big barn doggie’s
bed, then you must of necessity build
him a little house all to himself. And
bo-
have
from
or outhouse for
!
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is kept in neat order
should be good, wholesome
plenty, fed to him from a cl
or dish. Doggie’s drinking vessel
should be kept clean and full of fresh
water During the summer
and
or two.
old adage, and if
thi} rule your dog will
during the hot season.
a dog needs—and
water on the outside as well
the inside.
you
will
not get sick
ag
So see that he has his
Joy disporting in the water.
A dog seems born to comrade a
boy; indeed, no boy's life in complete
without a dog for a chum. And it is
not always the Sine blooded dog that
makes the best pet or learns
rarest tricks. The writer has seen
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most valued little pets and most af-
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Never keep your pet dog tied up;
it Is cruel.
he shows symptoms of illness call in
and prescribe a course of treatment
~~which in the cases of well fed and
watered dogs is always simple. 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
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