CHILDREN'S.
THE ROBIN AND THE BEE.
"I suppose you know it's autumn?"
Said the Robin to the Bee
., ".And the leaves are getting thinneT
On the most courageous tree.
You have noticed that no butterflies
Across the garden rove?
And that every single chestnut
Has been scattered in the grove? .
It's a fortnight since the swallows
Took their passage o'er the sea
So perhaps you know it's autumn,"
Said the .Robin to the Bee.
. "Old Winter soon gets busy,
When the feeble sunbeams fade,
And he turns the flower-beds over
With a white and frosty spade.
Ee rolls the gravel pathways
Till they ring like iron roads,
And the twigs on ell the bushes
' With a sparkling cloak he loads.
That's right! Let s both fly Southward
Until May once more we see
.When we'll find a warmer welcome,"
Said the Robin to the Bee.
1 John Lea, in St. Nicholas.
CONUNDRUMS.,
What are trying times? Visits to
the dressmaker.
What is the best illustrated paper?
A bank note.
If you put a stone In boiling water
what does it become? It becomes
wet. Philadelphia Record.
WHY THE KETTLE SINGS.
Do you know why a kettle "sings"
when the water Is boiling?
It's like this: When the water be
gins to get hot, little bubbles form at
the bottom of the kettle and rise to
ward the top until they burst.
At first they burst only a little way
from the bottom, but as the water
gets hotter and hotter they rise high
er and higher.
At last, when the water Is boiling,
they burst right on the surface
hundreds of them one right after an
other and It Is the noise of their
continuous bursting which makes the
sound we call "singing." Philadel
phia Record.
j" EARS AND TONGUES.
Once upon a time a peasant went
to heaven so runs a story that Jap
anese mothers and fathers tell to
little hoys and girls who do not mind
their manners and the first thing he
saw was a long shelf with something
very strange upon it.
"What is that?" he asked. "Is it
something to make soup of?" (The
Japanese are very fond of soup.) .
"No," was the reply, "those are
ears. They belonged to persons who,
when they lived on earth, heard what
they ought to do in order to be good,
but they didn't pay any attention to
It, so, when they died, their ears
came to heaven, but the rest of their
bodies could not."
After a while the peasant saw an
other shelf with very queer things on
It.
"What is that?" he asked again.
"Is that something to make soup of?"
"No," he was told, "these are
tongues. They once belonged to peo
ple in the world who told people how
to live and how to do good, but they
themselves never did as they told
others to do, so, when they died, their
tongues came to heaven, but the rest
of. their bodies could not." Home
Herald.
BOY RECOMMENDED HIMSELF.
John Brent was trimming his
hedge, and the snip, snip of his shears
was a pleasing sound to his ears. In
the rear of him stretched a wide,
smoothly-kept lawn, in the centre of
which stood his residence, a hand
some, massive, modest structure
which had cost him not less than
$90,000.
Just beyond the hedge was a pub
lic sidewalk, and two boys stopped
opposite to where he was at work,
he on the one side of the hedge, they
on the other.
"Hello, Fred! That's a very 'hand
some tennis racquet," one of them
, said. "You paid about seven dollars
for it, didn't you?"
"Only six, Charlie," was the reply.
"Your old one is in prime order
yet. What will you take for it?"
"I sold it to Willie Robblns for one
dollar and a half," replied Fred.
"Well, now, that was Billy," de
clared Charlie. "I'd have given up
three dollars for it."
"You are too late," replied Fred;
I have promised it to Willie."
"Oh, you only promised It to him,
eh? And he's simply promised to pay
you for it, I suppose? I'll give you
three dollars cash for it."
"I can't do It, Charlie."
"You can if you want to. A dollar
and a half more isn't to be Bneezed
at."
"Of course not," admitted Fred,
"and I'd like to have It, only I prom
ised the racquet to Willie."
"But yeu are not bound to keep
your promise. You are at liberty to
take more for it. Tell him that I
offered you another time as much
.more, and that wllJ soUle it."
"No, Charlie," gravely replied the
other boy; "that will not settle It,
neither with Willie nor with. me. I
cannot disappoint him. A bargain is
a bargain. The racquet Is his, even
if It hasn't been delivered." -
"Oh,' let him have it," retorted
Charlie, angrily. "Fred Fenton, I
will not say that you are a chump,
but I'll predict that you'll cever make
a successful business man; you are
too punctilious."
John Brent overheard the conver
DEPARTMENT;
sation, and he stepped to a gap In the
hedge to get a look at the boy who
had such a high regard for his word.
"The lad has a good face, and is
made of the right sort of stuff," was
the millionaire's mental comment.
"He places a proper value upon in
tegrity, and he will succeed In busi
ness because he Is punctilious."
The next day, while he was again
working on his hedge, John Brent
overheard another conversation. 'Fred
Fenton was again a participant In it.
"Fred, let us go over to the circus
lot," the other boy said. "The men
are putting up the tents for the after
noon performance."
"No, Joe; I'd rather not," Fred
said.
"But why?"
"On account of the profanity. One
never hears anything good on such
occasions, and I would advise you not
to go. My mother would not want ma
to go."
"Did she say you shouldn't?"
No, Joe."
"Then let us go. You will not be
disobeying her orders."
"ButI will be disobeying her
wishes," insisted Fred. "No, I will
not go."
"That is another good point in that
boy," thought John Brent. "A boy
who respects his mother's wishes very
rarely goes wrong."
Two months later John Brent ad
vertised for a clerk in his factory,
and there were at least a dozen appli
cants. "I can simply takes your names
and. residences this morning," ha
said. "I'll make inquiries about you,
and notify the one whom I conclude
to select."
Three of the boys gave their names
and residences.
"What is your name?" he asked,
as he glanced at the fourth boy.
"Fred Fenton, sir," was the reply,
John Brent remembered the name
and the boy. He looked fit him keen
ly, a pleased smile crossing his face.
"You can stay," he said. ?I've
been suited sooner than I expected to
be," he added, looking at the other
boys, and dismissing them with
wave of his hand.
"Why did you take me?" asked
Fred in surprise. "Why were ln
quiries not necessary In my easel
You do not know me."
"I know you better than you thinlc
I do," said John Brent, with a signifi
cant smile.
"But I offered you no recommenda
tion," suggested Fred.
"My boy, it wasn't necessary," re
plied John Brent. "I overheard you
recommend yourself;" and as he felt
disposed to enlighten Fred, he told
him about the two conversations he
had heard. This is a true story.
Philadelphia Ledger.
"I WISH. v ,
A dog saw a cat on lop of a high
wall, and said: "I wish I could get
up there! It must be so nice to sit
up so high; but I cannot climb."
And he was cross', and would not wag
his tail.
Then he came to a pond, and saw
a fish in it. And he'said: "I wish
I could live In a. pond all the day!
Then I should not be so hot as I am
now." And he would not look at the
fish, but shut his eyes, and lay down
on the grass.
Then he heard the fish say: "Oh,
I wish I could lie down on the fresh,
green grass, like that dog, . It does
look so nice and warm out there!"
The dog sat up, and went back by
the read he had come.
As he went, he saw the bird, and
he heard it say: "I wish I could play
all day long like that dog, and have
a house made for me to live in! I
have to make a nest, and my wings
are so tired! Yet I must fly to and
fro, day by day, till it is done."
Then he saw the cat on the wall,
and heard her say: "There goes that
spoiled old dog home to get his plate
of meat I wish I was as well off,
and could get meat like him! I have
had no food all this long day. I wish
I was like that dog!". The Nursery.
POOR BESSIE'S EYES.
Little Bessie, three years old,' look
ing around for something to amuse
herself ,with, found a large onion,
and then Bhe found a knife. So she
sat on the floor with her back against
the wall and began to hack away at
the onion. 'Pretty soon she began to
wonder what was the matter with
her eyes. She rubbed them with the
back of her little fat hand, but that
did not seem to help them any, bo
she kept on hacking at the onion.
But, oh, how her eyes did smart!
and how the tears, did run! She
wondered what she was crying about.
Finally, overcome by self pity at
this unknown grief, she got up oft
the floor end trotted into another
room, where her father was sitting.
She stood before him with a most
woe-begone expression, and the water
running in a stream down her cheeks,
and wailed out earnestly, "Poor Bes
sie!" "Poor Bessie!"
Her father with a twinkle in his
eye reached out his hand and took
the onion away from her, and sent
her to her sister to have her face
bathed and to be comforted. ip'ab
bath Heading.
HANDLING THE GIANT GUNS
FOUR STEPS IN THE PRACTICAL USE OF A TWELVE-INCH PIECE,
WITH DISAPPEARING CARRIAGE.
1 Gun raised on its massive carriage in position for firing. 2 Low
ered for loading, out of sight of the hypothetical enemy. 3 Gun-crew
thrusting home the shot. 4 The discharge. Photographs by W. E.
Adams,' In Leslie's.
Ye Water Clock.
The measurement of time by the
trickling of water or sand from one
vessel to another dates as far back as
the days of the Babylonians. The
clepsydra, or water clock, was In com
mon use both by the Athenians and
Romans, and was employed In courts
of law to limit the length of the
pleadings. ThuB, a counsel was al
lowed so much water, Instead of, as
we should say; so much time, to ad
dress the court.. Clepsydrae were also
UBCd by the Romans In their camps,
chiefly for the purpose of measuring
am; fi$s Lrl -d
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accurately the four vlglliae Into which
the night was divided. It is believed
that the first water clock was brought
Into Paris about the year 1695, from
Burgundy. Tho ono illustrated will
probably be a relic of those days. It
Is dated MDCCX.
It is three feet one insh in height,
and the framework is made of oak.
The cylinder and dial plates on tho
upright posts are of brass. The hours
are marked from VI to the following
but one IX, twenty-seven hours, so
that the cylinder requires to bo wound
up once every twenty-four hours. It
THE TRIUMPH OF
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Husband "Oh, I say, Hilda, your dressmaker has charged a pretty
figure for your new ball dress."
Young Wife "Now, dear, don't say anything about pretty figures until
you see me in it." London Weekly Telegraph.
OF OUR COAST DEFENSES.
Is hardly a very trustworthy time
keeper, but, as an exceedingly Inter
esting old curio, it has a .very promi
nent place in a certain hall.
The small cooper-jug hanging on
the right-hand side Is used for filling
the cylinder. -Philadelphia Record.
Larch 2000 Years Old.
Italy can boast of a larch tree
the age of which Is estimated to be
2000 years. It is situated on the
northern flank of Mont Chetif, in the
direction of the huts of Plan Venl
above Courmayeur, a few steps from
the footpath that skirts the limit ot
the meadow land.
Due allowance being made for the
extreme slowness with which the
larch grows, for the altitude above
sea level (1650 meters) at which it
Is rooted and for Its northerly ex
posure In the near neighborhood of
the glacier, where the cycle of Its
development is barely five months
every year, this venerable larch, un
touched alike by woodman's axe and
thunderbolt, cannot be less than 2000
years old. Scotsman.
Every Watch a Compass.
That every watch is a compass Is a
fact probably unknown to most peo
ple. To prove that such is the case,
lay your watch flat on the palm of
your hand, with the hour hand point
ing to the Bun, as shown in the ac-
companying sketch. The point ex
actly midway between the hour hand
and the figure 12 will be due south.
It is well to remember, however,
that during the time from 6 in the
afternoon to 6 in the morning our
rule gives the north point instead ot
the south. In the southern hemis
phere the rule will be reversed.
Good Literature.
The Spanish Main. .
The Spanish Main meant the circu
lar bank of islands forming the
northern and eastern boundaries of
the Carrlbean Sea, beginning from
Mosquito, near the Isthmus, and In
cluding Jamaica, St. Domingo, the
Leeward Islands and the Windward
Islands, to tho coast of Venezuela, in
South America.
There Is a lot ot poverty In Man
hattan Island, but the assessment
rolls give $2000 in taxable property
to each inhabitant.
FEMININE ARTIFICE.
The New Healing has
Conquered Science
The Truth That Thought la a Dynamic Force is
Now Universally Accepted
By Mdbel trotter lOagget,
T is psychology that shows
why it has worked through the ages. Tho fundamental facts or
the .revelation are these: In the soul ot man there resides
curative power. , -
The Creator evidently placed It where it Is for our use.
There is reached the triumphant conclusion that it can make us
keep us so. And prayer, expressed in the psy
terms of auto-suggestion and telepathy and cosmic de
well and
clMloglcal
mand, .becomes one of the mlehtlest
ago from the most orthodox of hymnals we sung: '
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
Uhuttered or expressed.
Prcof ot the power ot thought to produce physical Tesulte Is common.
How long have we heard of the fear that turned a man's hair white in a
night? Every doctor knows that anger has bo affected a mother's milk as
to cause the death of an infant And the United States government In experi
ments at Washington awhile ago demonstrated that each bad emotion pro
duces a corresponding poison In the human system. If there Is in the mind,
then, this very evident power to creato adverso physical conditions, may It
not also create favorable conditions?
By this reasoning, the principles of the new-old healing are sufficiently
founded on every-day experience to remove it from the domain where it
used to be lightly disposed of as the itWt mouthing of fanaticism. Today the
scientist reverently admits them, for at the shrine of the soul he has learned
that there is no more ipotent suggestion known to psychology than religious
faith. From the Delineator. '
High School Boys and
Girls Must Be Separated
By Dr. William Lee Howard.
1ST, get this clearly in your mind, no matter what the cost, the
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sexes must be separated. . Not nere separation in the buildings,
separate entrances and class-rooms, but segregation school
buildings far apart from each other. Baltimore has a common
sense plan. The boys' high school Is near the center of the city
male teachers 'While the girls' high schools are distributed la .
three or four sections of the city.
The women teachers in the mixed high schools attempt to give their dls- -s
Interested scholars academic fancies regarding the physiologic effect of a
Klass of beer meanwhile oblivious to the adolescent's Ellent appeals for some
true statement concerning the laws of nature.. We need a new code ot
ethics of the sexes. A Eciencc of sex is necessary to a. proper understanding
of Christian sexual ethics. We can mature a perfect ethics of the seSes
amid moral innocence, 'but not amid physiologic ignorance. '
The boys must be instructed by virile men, and each adjusted to hi
capabilities Under these conditions the boys will bo happy in their work,
and we shall turnout U3eful citizens. -
What kind of an interested boy are you going to get when his prude ot
a New England old-maid teacher tells him he must stay In after school for
saying 'Meg, for limb? How often have I told you that the other word is In
decent? Now, you stay in until you learn to remember what 1 say." , .
I heard a female teacher say to a-stxteen-year-old lad who stood in a .
class of young women: "Jones, you should be whipped for coming before
ladles with your shirt torn like that. Go home at once, and don't come back
until you are properly dressed. The' Idea!" American Magazine.
Says Woman Is
Only a Pawn
By Professor Thomas,
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1HILE woman's demands
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worUl, it is noticeable that sho Is herself only a pawn In -the
industrial game played by man. Her Individual possessor uses
her as a symbol of his wealth, and tho captains of industry make
her and her changeable and expensive fashions the occasion of
a market for the costly and changeable objects which fashion
able habits force her to accept. New fashions are not always beau
tiful; they are even often ugly, and women know it; but they embrace changes
as frequent and as radical as the ingenuity of the mode-makers can devise.
Women do not wear what they want, but what tno nianuiacturers ana trades
people want them to want. The people who supply them also control them.
This does not, however, niter the fact that the general tone and pace of
social life are deeply influenced by woman's emphasis of finery and form.
There is an old story of a lady who purchased a pair of brass andirons and
then by degrees persuaded her husband to refurnish the whole house to match
them. Just so, when silks and furs nnd gems and lace and the unmlnted gold
are attached to the person of woman, it follows also that the household and
the world in which she moves are transformed -to harmonize with her showy
taste and appearance. Beginning with tho rugs, tapestry, porcelain, sliver
plate, fine linen and tho rich and gaudy furnishings of the home, the factitious
personally of woman pervades and bedizens everything. The baffling array of.,
silver at the twelve-course dinner and the costly box at the costly opera are
equally a part of woman's dress. This situation Is the despair of men, but It
is "society." American Slagaziner
The Enormous Bill
For Women's Dress
By Professor Thomas.
HE dress of woman has, in fact, become so incorporate In busi
ness that, as Sir Henry Jlaino has pointed out, the greatest
calamity which could be conceived as befalling great populations
would be, not a sanguinary wart a desolating famine, or a deadly
epidemic, but a revolution in fashion under which "women
should dress, as men practically do, In ono material of one color.
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There are many flourishing and opulent cities in Europe anu
America which would be condemned by it to bankruptcy or starvation, and it
would be worse than a famine or pestilence in China, India and Japan." That
is to say, any great change in our industrial system must be gradual not to
be calamitous.
An inventory of the activities of the world will show the extent of busi
ness carried on by man largely as a means of supplying woman with those
accessories which she uses to charm him. The materials which she demands
are rare, costly, varied and changeable, and the members of the learned, pro
fessional and artistic occupations combined are outnumbered by those whosj
business is to manufacture nnd Bell objects relating to woman's dress. In
France alone there are more than two and a half millions df workers on cloth
ing and the materials of clothing, nnd about a million of workers In textiles.
The annual silk output of the United States and Europe Is valued at four
hundred million dollars and the textile output at nearly four billions all
mainly for women. American Magazine.
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Why
Do Boys Leave
The High School ?
By Dr. William Lee Howard.
HE question, "Why Do Boys
ly seen In educational journals. The answer Is plain to a man
of the world.
I know a young woman cf twenty-four years of age who
takes a position this year as teacher In a public school. Ker
knowledge of boys of adolpscent outbursts la absolutely nil.
Her mother' is one cf those injurious Puritans who deny their
daughters the right to understand tho biologic and physiologic laws of life
and tholr direct effort upon the physical nnd moral growth of every living
thing. Consequently this girl's assumed knowledge of mt n and things Is twist
ed in.rniatton, and her fancies morbid and curious all the misinformation
she received from classmates at the normal school. Think of sending a youth
to be under the nilseonstructlve control of such a person!
Women teachers do not appeal to boys' spirits. A boy who prefers to
talk with his woman teacher rather than fight grows up to be one of those
disgusting Individuals all men despise ys, and all true women. Unconscious
ly the fpmalo trains such a lad along her own psychic lines, and such training
Is bound to be Injurious to tho budding Bisn. American Magazine.
clearly why psychotherapy wofM:
scientific forces in the universe. Long
occupy so large a place In the Industrial
Leave the High School?" is frequent-
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