I I Swinging Ring an Indoor Game. Here Is a pastime that Is real fun, for it depends on skill. It Is fun even when played alone, for you can try to beat your own best previous score, and every time you try It you become Just so much more expert. It Is for girls as well as boys. You need two nails, a string and a ring of some hind, about six Inches In diamctor. If you have no old curtain ring or something else of that sort, you can easily make a ring that will serve your purpose by getting a thin piece of board, marking a circle seven 1 The Swinging Ring. Inches In diameter on Its surface, and inside of that another circle six Inches In diameter. Now drive a nail In the celling, if there Is no hook for a lamp or chandelier already there, and an other nail In the wall, with Its bead pointing upward at any angle of about 45 deg. Suspend your ring from the nail In the celling by a string Just long enough to allow the ring to swing its center over the nail in the side wall and catch there. Now you are ready to begin. Stand by the nail In the side of the wall with your right hand holding the ring close to the nail. Now push the ring away from you, trying to make it swing back and hook over the ring. There! Of course you didn't do it! The ring came back and struck the nail but did not catch on it. In order to catch on the projecting nail the ring must swing In a circle. If you do It once out of your first 10 trials you are lucky. It requires a very nice sense of distance, a careful eye and a light touch to do it Just right. Not so easy as It seems. Is it? It takes a lot of practice to score three out of five tries. Get your brother to try It with you, and he will be astonished to find he Is no better at this than you are. In fact, girls are best at this game, and, strange as it may seem, their Judgment of distance Is more accurate. Try a game of 50 points, with "in nings" of 10 points each. Of course, the winner is the one who rings the nail the most times out of the CO trials. Conundrums. Why are ladles the biggest thieves In existence? Because they steel their petticoats, bone their stays, crib their babies and hook their dresses. An old woman in a red cloak was crossing a field in which a goat was feeding; what strange transformation suddenly took place T The goat turned to butter, and the old woman became a scarlet runner. Why is a miss not as good as a mlleT Because a miss has only two feet, and a mile has 6,280. Why Is an avaricious man like one with a short memory? Because he is always forgetting. Why is the letter A the best rem edy for a deaf woman?' Because It makes her hear. What time is it when the clock strikes thirteen? , Time the clock was fixed. On what did Noah live when he was in the ark? On water. "Rushing Old Maid." This Is an amusing round game, but we want a pack of cards for this. The number of cards dealt is accord ing to the number of people who are pluylng. If there are four players only, tho court cards and aces will be needed. If there are five players the tour nines will be required, and so on. Four cards are dealt to each player, and when the captain says "Pass" everybody passes on one of his cards to his next door neighbor. The aim of the players is to get four knaves or four queens or kings. When a new card is passed to a player be keeps it if it helps his "hand," and gives away one of his old cards the next time the captain says "Pass." Direct ly a player has collected four court cards of one kind he throws them flown on the table, exclaiming "I am courted!" The, cards then have to be gathered up and dealt over again. When the player gets tour more court cards to match, he says, "I am en gaged," four more are required be fore ha can briskly tar, "Banna up," and four more before ho says, "I am married,", which means that he has won the game. When the game Is fin ished all the players are In different stages some are courted, some en gaged, and some have got as far as getting their ' banns put up, whilst others have no adventures at all. If a player calls "Banns up," before he has been "Engaged," he has to re main where ha was. An Interesting Game. Among stirring games, one that is always a success when played with energy. Is that called the Schoolmas ter. The one of the party who volun teers to be master of the ceremony places himself In front of bis class, who are all seated In a row. If agree able, he can examine his subjects In all the different branches of education In succession, or he may go from one to the other discriminate. Suppos ing, however, ho decides to begin with natural history, he will proceed as follows: rotating to the pupil at the top of the class, he asks the name of a bird beginning with C. Should the pupil not name a bird beginning with this letter by the time the mas ter has counted ten, It is passed on im mediately to the next, who. If suc cessful, and cnlU out "Cuckoo" r "Crow," etc., In time, goes above the one who has failed. Authors, singers, actors or any thing else may be chosen, If the school maRter should think proper, as sub ject! for examination; but. whatever may be selected, the questions must follow each other with very great ra pidity, or the charm of the game will be wanting. The Game of Mosaics. Here is a game that gives one an opportunity to exercise ingenuity and taste. Oet some stiff cardboard, the kind that has one color on one side and another on the back. If you want to use cardboard taken from old paste board boxes, color the sides with water colors. Then cut out two squares, one an Inch square, the other an Inch and three-quarters. Cut one And finally two triangles, an Inch and a quarter and two inches and a quar ter at the base. The more colors you have on these pieces the more com binations in mosaic you can make; and oblong an Inch and a halt long and one-quarter of an inch wide, and an other three Inches long and half an Inch wide. Cut out two circles, one an inch in diameter and the other an Inch and three-quarters In diameter. If you wish you may add to them by making other circles, etc., of various sizes. If you have made the parts well, cutting the edges porfectly, the Here is an artistic calendar that you may have on your wall during the coming year. If you prefer blue rib bon bows at the top of "true blue" and also each little square all the way down on each aide, so as to look as. if each month was a card strung on the ribbon. Now gild or paint a deep yel low or pink the fancy, edge all the way round. The letters of each month paint a different color. The border A CALENDAR TO PAINT, l-gj APRIL 0 f( v Cm -fl ifrLf? iS tiia il is w ) ? i5Z0l lyvVM V 17 18 n aolai aa as l hW 3 OA if D . v fO V I "tjav i Q 11 jC sk-toCv'? J iiViTiWiTTyrr (Q ffV M"''?. 11 3 4 5 6 7 Vl ir Ks4t r Wwi 9 io ma il 14 t U tSV -Mlr 15117 18 19 30 31 71 Iv ) i lsjiii i'lntis 7 9 WrVf rtewf NsANtf 19 30 2133 33 34 35 CI ) jlj 7 36j37339j30.... M pieces will fit together exactly, and all kinds of pretty and amusing figures can be made on the table or floor of the playroom. A few of the funniest I cl.mnj ne BUould never eat meat or combinations are ahown here, but yon ,0tnt0l.a will be able to make all kinds of," things for yourselves, bouses, I Tne Rnsslnn Government gives a churches, ladders, lanterns, wagoni, I golden medal to every couple that eel- forta and boats. It would be good ; practice to try to copy some pretty picture from a newspaper or maga zine with mosalo cardboard, and per baps you will be a great maker ol Inlaid work some day. Funnel Fountain Easy to Make. Boys always love to fuss with water or to watch a fountain play. Making the Fountain Play. Now here is a sort of fountain and pump combined which is so slmpli that it would be a pity if any boy should be deprived, through ignorance, of the pleasure of seeing It work. The apparatus needed is only a com mon tin funnel, the bigger the better. It Is worked by plunging It with th mouth down, in a bathtub or washtub half full of water. If you press th funnel down rapidly and forcibly the water under It, not being able to get out of the way quickly enough, will be pressed up Into the funnel, and, because of the tapering form of tht latter a Jet of water will be forced out of the small end of the funnel and and will rise to a height that will sur prise you. With a funnel which has wide mouth and a small tube, you can make a fountain ten feet high. Of course, you understand that the fountain does not play all the time, but that a Jet shoots up each time you force the funnel down. You see, aUo. that this Is not a pan lor entertainment. The trick should be done out of doors, If possible. It not, you might try It In the bathroom or the laundry. If you remembei that It is neither necessary nor de sirable to force the Jet quite to the colling, nor yet to make it shoot across the room. Needle Book. Take a piece of brown leather and cut out a maple leaf from it. . Then take a piece of pink leather and do the same. Then stitch these loaves so a to show the veins. After that cut three leaves from flannel cloth, Buttonhole stitch them with either pink, white or brown. Tl all together with a piece of ribbon, and I you will have needle book. around each month should be pf the same color as the letters of the month. Now paint the flowers and leaves in their natural colors and you will have as pretty a calendar as one oould wish to see. It would be well to paste the complete calendar on to pasteboard or stouter paper before beginning to paint it. The first throe months have been given, and the re maining months will be given la suc ceeding Issue. rjl psv"s a pretty, but simpis I Safety phis arc peculiarly American. The United States uses muoo.OOO of Ihetn each year. A Chinese hospital has been estab lished In New York where Chinese pa tients are treated according to the methods followed in their own coun try. Dr. Arthur McDonald, the criminol ogist In Washington, now soys that mint a nurmin ivnnts to become a 0irate their golden or diamond wed- ding. Last year six hundred and rour teen couples received medals. Salt water tanks are to be attached to the sides of some of the German railroad ears, for the purpose of con veying live Hull from the seaboard to the Inland cities and towns. The Metropolitan Art Museum of New York has Just purchased an old chariot for f.W.OtM). It was unearthed near Rome some time ago, ami is 2000 years old and splendidly preserved. The palm tree, as Is well known, puis forth a branch every month, so the ancient Egyptian used a spring of palm having twelve shoots upon it as their Christinas tree, as a symbol of the completed year. There Is a man In Warsaw. Folaml. who has the long distance record for bigamy, bar I'tnli, Turkey and a few such places. He has seventeen living wives and each and every one of them Is glad that be Is In jail "Only Prlntr." "He is only a printer." Such was the suocritig remark of a leader In a circle of aristocracy codllsh quality, Who was the Earl of Stanhope? He was only a printer. What was Prince Edward William and Trlnce Napoleon? Proud to call themselves printers. The Czar of Russia, the Crown Prince of Prussia and the Duke of Battemberg were printers, and the Emperor of Chi- na worked In a private printing olllce almost every day. William Caxton, the father of English literature, was i practical printer. What were J. P Morris, N. P. Willis, James Tarkor, Horace Greeley, Charles Dickens, James Buchanan, Simon Cameron Schuyler Colfax? Printers nil, nnd practical ones. Mark Twain, Amos J, Ciimniings, ltret Havte, William Dean Howells. Joel Chandler Harris, nnd Ople P. Read were plain, praetiea printers, as were Artemus Ward, Pe troleum V. Nasby, and But Lovlngood, Senator Plumb, of Kansns, and James J. Hogg, ex-Governor of Texas, were nil printers, nnd the loader of science and philosophy In his day made It bis boast that he was a "Jour" printer. In fact, thousands of the most brilliant minds in this country are to be found In largo cities and towns. It is not every one that can be a printer brains are absolutely necessary. Ceutury Magazlue. A Bars Dleeme. Mrs. Juniper entered the doctor's efllce, dragging by the baud an over arrown boy of fourteen. She was ex sited nnd impatient; he was dogged and glum. M0, doctor, ho has lost his voice! He bosn't spoken a word for two days, she said. The boy looked at her sullenly, and suffered the doctor to hold bis face up to tho light. "Open your mouth. H'm! Tongue all right?" "Ya-ah.H "Hold your head up and let mo look at your throat. Seems to be nothing the trouble there. Push your tongue out. Now pull it back. Feel all right?' "Ya-ah." "Why, Mrs. Juniper, thero is nothing the matter with him," snld the doctor, impatiently. "Boy, why don't you talk?" "How can I when I ain't got any thiug to say?" Cool. "Glad to meet you, old chop," he said, as he linked arms with a friend whom he had met In the street. "Just lend me a sovereign for to-day." "Would be delighted." the friend re joined, "but I buve not got it; see!" He opened his purse Its wbolo con tents was a half -sovereign. "Must do, I suppose, for the pres ent," snld the prince of borrower, as he picked the coin out daintily with thumb and forefinger. "Ta, to; take care of yourself," and walked away. But he returned hastily. "Miud, dou't forget you owe me a half sovereign." "I owo you!" gasped tho automatic lender. - "Of course. I meant to borrow a sovereign from you I only got a half. You owe mi the other hitlf. See? There's no hurry, of course, but I like punctuality. Name your own day and pay up pMiittuully." An ITureanoiialile Woman. "My wlfo mid I uiado a compact at the beginning of the year. Wo agreed to arbitrate all our differences of opin ion and give up having foolish spats." "How Is tho plun working?" "It's no good. What's tho use trying to get a woman to be scnslblo about such things? Tho other day, when we had a misunderstanding, she wuutud to hnve it arbitrated, when I knew I was right uud she'd have seen that she was wrong if she hud been at all reasonable. By George. I Just hud to get up on my hind legs and swear be- f..ia ttliaM viva Inl" rMil,n.vt Tiltiiina I TROUBLE-PROOF; Never raina where Jim is- People kickin'. whinin'j He poci round innintin' "Sun it almost shinin'l" Jfever's hot where Jim In Whrn the town in ewentin'i He W Krts nnd nnntvnrii "Well, I ain't a frettin'l" Ncvcr'i cold where Jim is None of in misdoubt it, Seem we're ni(li frozen! He "ain't thought about It!" Tliinan that rile up others Never eeem to slrilte him! Trouble-proof," I mil it Wisht that I H like him! Edwin h. Sabin, in LlppincoU'i. Humor of lo-tmy . Ofileer Phnwhon "Whafs your big sister gettln' tenched up dere at der school?" Teeny O'Tuff "Aw, electro cution, physical torture, and stuff like flat." Puck. He "I think the bride was wonder fully lucky In receiving so many beau tiful weddjng presents." She "Oh. she always was lucky In that respect." Brooklyn Life. Church "I see n Jersey man Is com plaining because his wife thought more of a dog than she (lid of hi in." Gotham "Well, perhaps the dog growled less." Youkers Statesman. "What makes you think she has a saving sense of hiinior?" "Because she laughed so heartily when she de scribed the way you proposed to her." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Then you have tio sympathy for the deserving poor, said the charity woris er. "Me?" retorted the slf-iiiade man. "Why, sir, I have nothing but sym pathy." Chicago Dally News. Section Boss "What Is nil that or piling down the road? Foreman Wbv, the man operating the steam roller Insists that we shnll call blm a chauffeur." Philadelphia Record. The lass who turns to literature The neliing In-art she homriimea wrings With speech and manners so demure, llovr can sue iuiiik suen nwiui iiiiiik'. Washington Star. Chicago Man "I do think our cub drivers are the worst In creation." New York Man (with the pride of conscious superiority) "My dear fellow, they re innocent angels compared with ours!' Chicago Tribune. Nodd "Awfully sorry to hear your house burned down. Did you save any filing?" Todd "Oh, yes. After some pretty lively work we succeeded in getting out all the things we didn't want." Town and Country. Tenant (angrily) "The cellar of onr bouse Is full of rats. What are you going to do about It?" Landlord (calm ly) "Nothing. What do you expect for 817 a month, anyway a cellar full of white mice?" Chicago Dally News. The Very Hood Man "He's forever prating about what his conscience tells him. What does his conscience tell him, anyway?" "It usually tells him, nnuiirentlv. whnt awful sinners his neighbors are." Philadelphia PreBs. Mother "Yes; and when the Trodlgal Son was sorry for being so bud and re turned to bis home his father killed the fatted calf " Bobby "But what bod the fatted calf been doing? Had ho run nwoy, too?" Boston Transcript Thero was a great swell in Japan, Whoso name on a Tuesday began it Instcd through Sunday Till twilight on Monday, And sounded like stones in a can. Harvard Lampoon, "I shall not be content until we see eur son making forty or fifty thou sand dollars a year." said tho fond mother. "My dear," answered her husband, "what do you want hlni to be, a Jockey or a prlzoilghter?" Washing ton Star. Visitor "You say you call your horses Biscay and Bengal. Aren' those decidedly unusual names for horses?" Farmer "Ef the Joggrafies hain't changed sense I got my scboolln' them's mighty good names fer a pair o' big bays." Baltimore American. The Fnble In Itussln. This fable, dealing with the fall of Wltte, tho Russluu Amines minister, is related lu a recent brochure entitled "A Glance at the Secrets of Russian rollcy," published at Vienna: "The Czar dreamed the following singular dream. Ho saw thn i cows, one fat. one lean, and one blind. The next day ho sent for tho metropolitan rulladlu and begged him to explain the dream but the metropolitan declined. The Czar then sont for Father John of Kronstndt, and made the same request to blm. Father John stroked his long curly hair with bis band and made re ply In the following words: 'Your majesty, I understand your dream in this way: The fat cow is the finnnce minister, tho lean one Is the Russian people, and the blind one ' 'Don bo afraid: co on." said the Czar. 'Tb blind cow is your majesty!'" Olitest Slilp Afloat. There Is at present lying at New castle a schooner which Is supposed to bo the oldest ship of her kind sailing under the Union Jack. Her name Is the Dart; she was built at Carnarvon seventy-eight years ago, and ever sluco has beeu In constant employment. At one tlmo she sailed between Carnarvon and Liverpool; she Is now engaged in the coasting trado between Arbroath and ports o:i the iiorthenst coast of England. The Durt has another distinction be sides her age. Sho Is manned by tho oldest crew sailing the high seas. The captain Is seventy, tho mate seventy two, the cook soventy-ono and a sea- man sixty-one a total of 352. They have been with the Dart for some I a T'm... r.aintiA ; years; ana were all uoys lofcreiuer. jnttiiniinmtnnimniinmiiinimtHniinninininiHinHHts THE JEFFERSON SUPPLY COMPANY Being the largest Merchandise in this jjoaiuon to rm the - best sjuautj ot rooas. Its aim Is not to sell you cheap cooas bat when quality is considered tha pr& will al ways be found right. Its departments are all well filled, am on the specialties handled mar be i fc tloned L. Adler Bros.. Rochester, K. Y Clothing, than which there Is sons better Bide; W. L. Douglass 6hoe Co., Brockton, ass,, 6hoes: Curtice Bros. Co., Rochester, M. Y., Canned Ooods; and Pillsbury's Flour. This Is a fair representation of the elaat ef goods it is selling to its customers. iiiiiiaiiuiiiiiiaiaiuaiuimimtiiimmiuiimimmmiuii LABOR WORLD. Coaeh builders r.t Barcelona. Spain, are on strike for higher wages. Canninkers at San Francisco. Cal.. w-III demand a ten per cent, increase in wages. One hundred unions are already rep resented In tlie new Trades Council at Toronto. Can. The t'nlted Brotherhood of Carpen ters nnd Joiners will soon organize locals In the Philippines. A State organization of Building Trades Councils Is In process ot for luation In Massachusetts. Actors at San Frnnclsco. Cel.. have formed n union nnd have ntllJlated with the American Labor Union. In Tarls. France, seven thousand people are employed In the prepara tion of human hair for the market. School teachers of New Brunswick. Canada, have formed a union, and have agreed on the minimum scalo of salaries. London, Engh.nd. postmen are com plaining of their low wages, and m:.y organize to procure better working ad ditions. Traveling baths on one of the Rus sian railways are the latest provision for Its employes comfort in outlying districts. The Chicago Bricklayers' Union has Just voted .f-so.ooo to improve nnd build nn annex to its store, olllce and hall building. N'lnety -eight per cent, of the men employed In connection with the build ing trades lu Minneapolis, Minn., are union men. Transfer drivers, at St. Louis, Mo., will receive an Inerens . In wages vary, ing from i to $7 a mouth beginning February 1. Delegates representing sixteen cities and more tbnn 40M engineers of Mas sachusetts have formed a Sute organ- Uatlou of engineers unions. NEWSY CLEANINCS. Connecticut rrutt growers fleeinf, their peach crop this year will be very sma'l. The French Senate rejected the bill for the compulsory abolition of em ployment agencies. Fire Chief Croker was reinstated by a unanimous decision of the Appellate Divlslou of New York. Five single-turret mo.iltors built dur ing tho enrly days of the Civil Wv are to be sold for junk. Mrs. Sonora McCarthy, of South Shaftsbury, Vt., Is preparing to cele brate her 114th birthday. rhe Nationalist party. It Is said, will bring the Panama case before the French IIouso of Deputies. Navigation in the Mississippi has been rendered impossible near Arkan sas City, Ark., by floating ice. The Government has arranged for early tests off New York Harbor of the four wireless telegraph systems. New regulations ore about to be In. trod need in Itussln n prisons In regard to the application of the bastinado. The anthracite coal sent to market during 1U03, according to the olllclul figures, amounted to 5!),3t2,Sol tons. The total railway mileage In operation In the United States in 11)02 was i:i. 132 miles, against 1Gu,Tu3 miles In lS'JO. "Monk" Eastman, tho notorious East Slder, was twice Indicted, for at tempted murder and assault iu New York City. Firemen fought two Hons with streams of water at a Are which burned the eteamer Treniont iu New York City. The seats of iighty-one members, of the German Reichstag n"e being con tested on tho grouud of irregularities in the election. The Labor party made great gains the re:eut Federal election in Atis alia, due largely to the support of ,te women voters. Representative Samuel Bronson Cooper, of Texas was in the senate commute room trying to find out why . ... i - .itll m Kill in which h IS in- terested had not passed. Senator Cul- bertson or - , - -- the committee, tried to pac fy him. "Where's the spittoon?" asked Mr. Cooper of the committee clork. 'Oyer there in the corner," answered the clerk. "What! Only got one spittoon m the committee room?" Hr. Cooper asked "Yes, sir. You know there is only one member of the committee from Texas." answered tho clerk. In South Africa the white anta have been found to destructive to wooden tie that steel has necessarily been i adopted. distributor ef Qmml vicinity, It always la BUSINESTCXRDS. H. BtoDOKALS. ATTORKEI AT LAW. Kotsry Puhlln, rat !! tfnt, PsMatr icur4, coilnctlnn tra-l promptlf OIZLM In Sfnileau bullJInj. lljnoiclilll9. Fa. D a b. b. noovmt, ItETNOLDSVILLE, PA. Resident dentfat. In th Hnnmr bsllaiaf Ifftln vtreet. 0ntlnfl In operating. jya. L. L, MEANS, DENTI8T, Odlo ea Mcond floor of Viral Matloaal ulldlni, Uitln atrcet. JJR. R. DlVERE KINO, DBNTI9T, ea am seeond loo tUynoldfvflla Baal faff Bids. Mslastr BynoUlUU, Pa JJR W. A. HENRY, DENTIST OSIm o. Moond Soar at Henry ! Man aiiuinii, mm Main icre. E. JUSTICE Or THE PEACE And teal Estate Anas, BeraelasTtlta, fa. gMITH M. MoORElOitT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Rotary Public and Baal Bstata tint, tot otlonl will racnlra nromnt fcttantlnn. OMnm r,.7,; -n. ' ' I xrrTTMr o PLANING MILL You will find Sash, Doors. Frames and Finish of all kind9, Rough and Dressed Lumber, High Grade Var nishes, Lead and Oil Colors in all shades. And also an overstock of Nails whicb I will sell cheap. J. V. YOUNG, Prop. WHEN IN D0U1IT.TRY toodtnetMtafyaaM. and hive Cured Ikmultl i Omwmt af Ktw Du-wa, una aa DtkUltr. DLiiiam, tlmUa, nM aad Vartcocale, A.treply.4 They clear the kraia.in-tetraea the circutatloa, make dlCMdea Deriecl. and uanarf a aaaliaa lae la the vhole Mag. Aft araiaa aaa iota are eaacaaa f Irene-1 vain Hrwuuumtlf, Valaai aauaati ftrwuuuwtlf, V alaai a)ueUatHAIUU. trm areearlv aured. aaefr Saa a&ea varrlra tbara lota latanlty, Ceaei art preveNT aurea, aaai Sae at Death. M.ll.e Meled. PrUe ti per aaa: t aaaaa, vita Uaa clad legal guana tee M aara er aaaaa ika BVMey.t. Seed tm aaa Week. tot sale bt Sr. Ales Stake. EVERY WOMAN Sometime aeada a reUeaa eaoataly regulaUa Bursal DR. PEAL'S PENNYROYAL PILL8. Are prccppt eefe and oertaln la reeull Tbe - tea CI. JeJX) Barer lUaappotal, tlM D4iT teen0aa3e&JajreV. The Lobster Locomotive. Th Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fa railroad appeara to maintain a mo nopoly ot tne biggest loooraotlves. says Victor Smith In the Now York "Press." As soon as any other com pany approaches the Santa Fe'a le viathans In size or capacity th AtcW ton management orders something big ger and stronger. The latest tvp-. the decapod, la a favorite ot President Ripley for heavy freighting. Includ ing Its loaded tender, this locomotive veJghs 450,000 pounds, and can haul en a level track a train of loaded can more than one mile long, equal to a weight cf over 6,000 tons. "What is u decapod!" an engineer of the Erie road was asked by a protagting .o-ni-muter. "President Underwood needs one for hJ fast exrress." "A. deca pod," replied the faithful ipmp-loye ad dressed, "la a lobster." Whether he was aware of it or not, the answer was absolutely descriptive. The nam waa derived from these crustaceans whlcU have 10 feet and ar deliberate of motion. Th lobster baa 10 feet and moves slowly. The decapod lo comotive hat 10 driving wheels and la slow. kTT W I I I 11 I 1