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;V «Hother> Way. HI was young, I recollect, mother had a way oppin' all my nicknames .1 chanced to disobey. 4r when I tried to shirk my ;By arguments or games. )Tmenib«r how ahe'd chanpe my mlpd |By simply saying "James!" r'aumttr how- X unt to kick VJjWhen mother wanted wood, :l|ow If she called me "Jim" 'twaa safe _|T» whine. I understood, At how I shot out to that shed Far fuel for the flames When mother paused and turned around «*Aetly said "Jamas!" IPs tklrty years or thereabouts ,".(S!noe she called "James" to me Ait thirty years ain't long enough To hill that memory. ^fib-day that word from mother's lips 'US be the king of names rd gtre the world'to hear onct mors OM nether call me "James!" --Kansas City Star. The Counting Puzzle. Bore Is the way to place the de­ tached squares on the dlagrani of nine ftiarss as given in the puzzle of last week 90 that there shall be four •quarca In each row, up and down, •cross and diagonally. jthe word "rang" in It, while the word Just before must end with "o," and that Just folio wine begin with **e." Thus, "They danced a fandango, rang Edward's door bell, and behaved very wildly." It will be seen that the word is thus "busied" much more deeply £han in the other example given. Tale of Two Badgers. Two French peasants, accompanied by a " dog, happened one day to. start a badger, to which the dog gave chase. The animal liid beneath a tree, but it was got out And killed. As the commune or parish gave a reward for slain badgers, the peasants proposed to convey it to the nearest village, a few miles off. Making a rope of tough twigs, they dragged it behind them. By and by the squeal of an animal was heard, and they then saw another badger following them. Although they attempted to drive it away, it took no notice of them, but came up* to the dead badger and began to lick it. The men now gave up trying to frighten it off, and again fell to drag­ ging their burden, whereupon the live badger lay down beside the killed ope, seized it gently by the ear, and thus allowed Itself to be dragged to the village.. Here neither dogs nor men nor boys could force the faithful crea­ ture to leave its mate. King Is He Who Gets the Most. If this game is played out of doors, a large bowl or basketful of smal> pebbles will do; indoors a bowl of small white beans or peanuts would answer. This bowl is placed at an equal distance from the equally divid­ ed party. There is a captain on each side. He or she says: "The king is he who gets the most. One, two', three." At this the opposite captains run to the bowl, grasp as many pebbles or beans as he can in one hand, and dashes back *o his place. Then the next two in litie become captains, and do the same. After all have tried a count is taken, and th6se who have the most all go upon one side. There may be fewer qn that side, but they ought to be the best equipped, though they may not be at the second try. At this *bount the strength of the two parties is decided. Where Turnips Are a Luxury. la "A Woman Who Went to Alas ka," the woman herself tells of her first encounter with a vegetable gar­ den on the way down the river from Dawson. Such luxuries ase the ordi nary "truck .,patch" represents are practically unknown on the tables of the Yukon Valley. "As we neared the delectable spot," writes this many ex­ perienced woman, "the river banks were lined with canoes; many natives stood looking at us from the shore, and while stevedores handled the wood, many passengers visited the town. It was not long before they came back with handfuls of turnips. Just pulled from the ground, which, had these been the most luscious fruit, could not have been eaten with more relish. "I tried to buy one from a young mam, but he had evidently been long away from such luxuries, for he re­ fused to sell. Afterward his gallantry got the better of him and he politely offered me one-half of the turnip, which I took with thanks. "As my brother peeled the precious - thing I asked him how long it was since he had eaten one. 'Two years,' he promptly replied. "Knowing that he was especially fond of such things I ate a small slice and gave him this remainder." Bee's Tongue. . Moat and Fort Puzzle. Here is a puzzle that is likely to prove very hard, although some peo­ ple think of the solution at once. The inside square is a fort, surrounded by a moat or ditch represented by the out­ side square. The distance from the outside edge of the moat to the wall FORT, MOAT. ant does not sleep through the whple night; ahe takes a nap two or three hours Ions. She does not "have to undress, bnl whenever she gets tired she lies down on the ground, curls her si* iegs up to her body and goes to sleep bo soundly that you could urush her with a feather without waking her. When she has had her sleep out aha gets up, stretches her legs and yawns, just as you or I might do. Then she washes herself carefully all over. After that she is ready for her day'a work again, and a busy day she has, too--tending the babies, making new rooms or getting food for the big family. Names of Four .Birds. One Couple's Easy Method of 8tartlng . Housekeeping. A curious story concerning an easy method of starting In housekeeping comes frpm Jefferson county. A Wat- ertown lady owns a house in a small village and occupied it prior to May 30 last, but on going to that city to live she locked it up, leaving the furniture Inside. A few days ago she went to the village to sea how her property was getting along, and greatly to her surprise she found that the furniture had disappeared. A little later while looking around in the vicinity she saw a brand new pump, which she had re­ cently purchased, in the well on the premises of a neighbor. Following up this clue she called at the house, and there found her entire outfit of furni­ ture, carpets and dishes. The dwell- """teg was occupied by a man and his wife^ who had been married only * oouple of weeks, and the former said he had found the bouse of the Water- town lady open, and believing that the owner would not object, he had bor­ rowed the goods. He was evidently repentant, readily returned the furni­ ture, and paid the lady $10 for its use. This seems to be an Instance where housekeeping is one thing and furni­ ture keeping another.--Utica Journal. THE PRAYER OF A CHILD. Little One Enjoys Offering Up Evert­ ing Petition. A writer in an English magazine gives some amusing stories of child­ ren's prayers. "I know," he says, "a young lady who has been promoted to say her prayers to herself, but scorns such dull business and when it comes to a petition for blessings on relatives and friends will settle down to enjoy herself like an actress in the crachrt scene of a play. Her parents come* .first; then all such relations as are present, the suppliant keeping half an eye all the time on each person to see how he takes it; then a long list of her mother's 'young men' and her own, which, her acquaintances being chiefly military, gives her audience the impression that she Is going straight through the army list. Occa­ sionally the name of one of her hear- ers is ostentatiously left out, but not oiten, because the young person likes numbers. Her petition is an elabo­ rately displayed visitors' list In which quantity and quality are equally Im­ portant." * of the fort is nowhere less than Six feet Some soldiers who wanted to get to the fort had only two planks, each exactly 5 feet 11 inches long, to make a bridge with, and they had no nails to fasten the planks together. How did the soldiers, get to the fort? The bee had a long tongue--after tho manner of a busybody. He has teeth, too, but Instead of chewing his food vertically, he cuts it by a side- wise motion of his mandibles. How the Ant Retires. Of course ants go to bed and if you watch them you .may see them do it. An an,t hill, you know, is made of tiny pebbles, which are piled about an entrance hole. At night the ants take these pebbles in their mouths and, carrying them to the hole, pile them one upon the other, %s men build a wall. After the hole is filled up, except one tiny place at the top, the last ant crawls in and 'with her head pushes sand up against the hole -from the 'fnside, thus stopping it up entirely. Then all night not an ant will be seen, b".t about 8 o'clock next morning, if one looks very closely, one may see a pair of tiny feelers thrust out through the chinks between tne stones. Then an ant pushes- its way out and begins to carry the pebbles away. Just behind the first comes an­ other, and another, until the whole family comes Journeying out. riut an Pastor Was Left Alone. Friday, August 21, 1863, had been appointed by President Davis, of the Confederate States, as a day of fasting and prayer, writes Z. A. Armstrong in the Indianapolis News. In obedience to the proclamation a service was be­ ing held in the old Presbyterian brick churcjj, which stood on the corner of Seventh street and Marketror "Main," as the Union soldiers and the war cor- * respondents called the principal thor­ oughfare of the little town of Chatta­ nooga. (This church had afterward a long and honorable career as a Union hospital.) The Rev. Dr. Palmer of New Orleans, even then a white- haired old minister, though he lived until only a few years ago; conducted the service. Dr. Palmer had bowed his head for the long prayer, when suddenly, without a word of warning, the first shell whistled from an angry iron mouth. Over the old church Bpun the missile, quickly followed by an­ other. Breathlessly the people listened, more to the whir than to Dr. PalmerSs eloquent prayer; but unmoved, with bowed head and closed eyes, the ven­ erable minister continued in his. ap­ peal to the Preserver of mankind. The third shell fell too near for comfort, for the bripk walls trembled from the shock. One by one the audience has­ tily left so uncertain a fort. When Dr. Palmer finished his prayer and raised again his head he was tlone! Not one of his congregation had re­ mained! A Master of Tact. Dr. John Brown, the celebrated Eng­ lish divine, had great tact in dealing with strangers. A recent writer says: His way was on being introduced to move his spectacles up to his fore­ head, and some frank, cordial, original or unexpected smiling remark, some odd touch of humor, some pleasant reference--perhaps to something the other had - done or made himself fa­ mous by--broke down at once the bar­ rier of nonacquaintance, I asked him once how he contrived to get into the full tide of easy familiar talk with a lady who happened to sit next to him at dinner but whom he had never met before. 'Oh, I find out who is her minister,' he said, 'and then there is no difficulty.' He once said to a lady who had come to announce her ap­ proaching marriage: 'Are you not ashamed to be going away all alone with a man in this way?' 'Oh, no,' she quickly replied, 'so many have done the same thing before that I don't mind.' He was delighted to be !hus Instantly met on his own ground." Can -You Guess? When Helen Fiske was 8 years old she had a birthday party, and all her little friends were invited. They had a delightful time playing games and singing, and after supper they amused themselves guessing rid­ dles for a time. The children toid some very good ones that were hard to guess, but the one that puzzled them most of all was the one that Mrs. Fiske gave, and this is what she said: "You all know, children, that this is Helen's 8th birthday. Now, I never have had but seven birthdays, and yet you know that I am a great deal oldefr than Helen. Can you tell me how that can be?" Mrs. Fiske was not joking and final­ ly one little girY guessed how it was Can you guess, too?--Youth's Com­ panion. Buried Words. Burled words is a game played by two or more persons, one of whom gives a sentence in which a word Is concealed by being formed partly of one of the words in the sentence and partly of one or more immediately foK lowing. Thus the word "London" Js concealed or "buried" in the sentence, "Do not let the rain fall on Don Car­ los," as viH be seen if the proper let­ ters be capitalized, thus, "Do not let .the rain falL ON DON Carlos." The one who gives out the sentence must state that the buried word is the name of a city, person, flower, article of food, or whatever it may be. and the first one who guesses it correctly scores a point. 'lhe guesser then gives out another sentence, and the game goes on for any length of time agreed on, or until some one has scored a certain number' of points. After a little practice words can tbus be buried very skilfully. The hardest ones to guess are those in which pro­ nouncing the words gives no clew. Thus in the following "buried fruits" the former can, be guessed by pro­ nouncing the sentence slowly, while the latter cannot: "Some fairy OR ANGF-l must have done this," "The baboon and aPE ARe both curious an­ imals." The best plan In burying a worl is first to see whether it contains an­ other word within it Thus in burying the- word "orange" it iu seen that the weed "rang Is so obtained. A sen- •mat now be constructed with CARPENTRY WITH PAPER AND TOOTHPICK8. t With scissors for tools and paper and toothpicks to take the place of lumber and beams, boys and girls can get lots of fun by making little ob­ jects. To make a chair, cut the figure (a) twice out of a cardboard or a play­ ing card. Where the design is marked by dots, bore small boles and stick the ends of toothpicks through them, al­ lowing only the extreme ends to stick out, and the chair is. ready (b). The aame way you can make a cradle (c). Beresford's Plastering Job. The late British ambassador, Sir Michael Herbert, was a guest at a dinner at one of the clubs In Wash ngton not many months before his death. He was one of the speakers of the evening and was to be followed by Rear Admiral Charles Beresford. 'I am to be followed by a little sailor man," he observed after an extremely felicitous speech in a more serious vein; "at least he has been a sailor, believe he is engaged at present in the plastering business." There was a lit­ tle polite laughter from those who felt sure that a Joke was intended, while others waited, believing that the final touch was to come. "I see you don't understand my joke," said the ambassador, taking In the situation. I mean that he is engaged in cement­ ing the good, relations between Eng­ land and America." QUAINT OLD VICTORIA R e s t f u l C i t y a t t h e D o o r o f t h e P a c i f i c > a;c ••AJulfe OftRE 8'*»•© N M Victoria, B. C., Is said to be one place, above all others on the Amer­ ican continent, where an English­ man may feel at home. The oaks and laurels and hollies of Victoria make it seem like a bit of old Eng­ land dropped down at the door of the Pacific. The history of the place is insep­ arably linked with the honorable And ancient Hudson's Bay Company, which won this portion of the conti­ nent for Britain's red banner in the long ago. While other coast towns are alive with the prospect of their future, Victoria is complacent In the glory of her past. She is proud of OCN OE) organization was ever more success­ ful in dealing with the Indians. The red men were not allowed free access to the forts, but were always treated with civility and sometimes with hospitality. A lookout had to be maintained for bad Indians, and sometimes serious trouble could not be averted. ^ One account tells how some early traders came to grief. AS a ship loaded with provisions came to an­ chor in a harbor it was boarded by Indians and every member of the "ex­ pedition killed put one. The one member of the crew who succeeded in secreting himself managed to ¥;> A C0K0RETE CISTEli?f' FULL DIRECTIONS FOR ITS SUC. CES8FUL BUILDING. - W. G. 8.- construct a above ground. To build a square cistern abovefc,^ ground, first it must be excavated be>. '$£- low the frost line and one foot largei**-^?^ than the cistern, to allow for a footing . ? course. After the footings are down nail two planks together lengthwise, and stand them on end for the four outside corners and a 2x4 inch scant* ling for the the Inside angle, and one foot apart, so as to make a wall one foot thick; wire these together at the bottom and nail strips at the top t<* Y keep them from spreading; brace the,N, > outside planks to stakes in the ground - ;-- -" to keep them plumb. Stand 2x4 incl£. scantlings on every five or six feet H both inside and outside of the wall ! ̂ and opposite each other, and eighteen inches apart, so as to allow for & foot wall, & two inch plank and an inch wedge on each side of the wall. Wire brace them at the top, the same as the scantlings at the bottom and the corner planks. Place two 2x1% inch planks on edge between the up­ rights, the outside one flush with the corner plank and the inside one flush with the scantling at inside angle. Put in inch wedges between the planks and uprights one at the top and one at the bottom and spread sticks between thai- planks one foot long; these will keep the planks firm to their place. Fill t the planks with concrete, ramming It well when putting it in. Stones can be used as fillers, but care should be taken to keep them one and a half or two inches apart and the same die- ¥ In Victoria Harbor. her honorable age. /Her people hold fast to their old traditions--^and that's English. Victoria has every reason to be proud of its association with the Hud­ son's Bay Company. The history of this old corporation reads like the fanciful tale of some adroit story­ teller. It was organized in 1670 un­ der a royal charter granted when Charles II was king. It was dubbed the "Honorable Company of Mer­ chant Adventurers of England." The first sale of 3,000 beaver skins took place in a London coffee house, and Dryden, the poet, was there to write a verse about it The first Hudson bay traders went so far from home that it took seven years for those at the most remote stations-to get returns from their hardships and reaped rich rewards. Tho account of one expedition states that after all their stock in trade was disposed of, they added $20,000 worth- of furs to their cargo by trading old clothes, bits of iron and trifles that otherwise would have been thrown away. That it took a strong man to qual­ ify for service with the Hudson Bay is shown by the fact that when car­ rying was necessary, each man was expected to move eight or ten pack­ ages a mile every day, carrying two pieces (168 pounds) for a quarter of a mile without resting. Some of the men performed wonderful feats of strength and endurance while moving the goods. The record was estab­ lished when one husky burden bear­ er carried six pieces (5C4 pounds) one mile without resting. The old records give some Inter­ esting accounts of'how the great busi­ ness was conducted. The chief fac­ tor was responsible for the good con­ duct of all. He was the exalted functionary and lord paramount. His word was final and his will supreme. He clothed himself in such a halo of dignity that his person was almost held sacred. The crew were required to lift him in and out of his boat. In camp his tent was pitched apart from those of his men. He had a sepa­ rate fire, which the crew had to start before they looked after their own wants. The explanation is of* A Curious Error. A distinguished French clergyman was making his first visit to America and among other things was having a tussle with the English language. Little by little he conquered it,- but occasionally a new word and its mean­ ing staggered him. He had on one oc­ casion some "kippered salmon," for supper, and he aBKOu what kippered meant He was told that it meant preserved. Not long after the clergy­ man was asked to make a public prayer, and he amazed his hearers by imploring God Jtpr kipper" the con­ gregation. touch off the powder magazine while the Indians were pillaging the cargo, and over 100 of the marauders were blown to pieces. While the lesson was a costly one, it taught the In- dians that the whites were danger- our to trifle with, and that the best way to yet along was the peaceable way. V Victoria was the creation of the Hudson Bay Company. It was the outcome of a political necessity. When the Oregon boundary question became so acute and the inrush of American pioneers to the valleys of the Columbia and its tributaries in Washington and Oregon occurred, the Hudson Bay people saw clearly that they would have to remove farther north if they were to remain under the protection of the British flag. Victoria owes her existence to this move. As a great commercial enterprise the Hudson Bay Company had but one rival who accomplished more, and that was the East India Com­ pany, which won India for the British empire. Victoria's more recent claim to at­ tention arose from its being the great port for sealers. When the unre­ stricted slaughter of the seals was in full swing, the fleet from Victoria probably took as many hides as the hunters from all United States ports put together. The industry was at its best in the early nineties, and the fleet of vessels hailing from Victoria at that time numbered sixty. There are now forty-two vessels in the fleet, and half of them are at/anchor In the harbor here, with nothing to do. They are dead capital to their owners.^- The Victorians are still very ^bitter- over being barred from the Behring sea sealing grounds. They assert that a rank injustice was heaped upon them by their government allowing the United States to bulldoze them out of their rights. They further assert that as long as they were forcibly ejected from the field, and their livlihood taken away from them, one government or the other, either Great Britain or the United States, should have bought their vessels and let them out of the deal without loss Cross 8ectlon of 8quare Cistern. Cement Kitty's Picture. I took my kitten yesterday To have her picture made. They wanted me to hold her still. Because she was afraid. I never had my picture took. Because I always cry When it begins to stare at me-- That awful camera's eye! My kitty wiggled all about. And stood upon her head. And I forgot the camera. Until "All done!" they said. But when the picture came. It VU . The queerest thing! You see, \ The kitten didn't show at all, The picture was of me! --Abble Karwell Brown in A Pocketful of Posies. o A--2 by 12 In. plank. B--2 by 4 In. uprights. C--1 In centres. D--94-in. rods. E--%-ln. bolts. F-- Curb. G--Concrete wall. H--1-ln. boards. I--Waste pipe. tance from the planks. After the space between the planlu is filled re» move the wedges, lift the planks up, allowing them to lap down one and one-half inches on the wall, drive in the wedges and spread sticks and fill with concrete again and repeat until the spring of the arch is reached. If desired the wall can tte built with bolts and clamps, instead of uprights and wedges. This is dene by sawing notches one and one half inches deeg> and three-quarters of an inch wide in the bottom of both the inside and tho outside planks; and opposite each. other to allow a bolt to go in; at the top of planks have a clamp made of 2x2-inch stuff with a 2x2-inch block nailed at each end so as to fit over the planks'to keep them from spread­ ing, and spread sticks to hold tho planks firm against them. In building the arch lay down a plank on the Inside of the cistern next the side walls; stand 2x4-inch up­ rights on these planks every two and^ a half feet, and on the top of these place a scantling horizontally to hold .up the centers for the arch. Take a bpard (or if one cannot be got wide enough two will do by nailing cleats on the sides of them) and cut a circle on one side of it, with a two-inch raise to every foot In width; that is, if the Section of Wall Showing Building. Form for "Old Beaver," First Steamer on Pacific Coast. > A double ladder (d), a rocking chair (e), a stretcher (f), a pushcart (g), atfileigh (h), a wagon (i), a house (k)c a bench (m), can be mtfde by the same simple means. . A table (n) is made by bending a square piece of cardboard, as shown in the picture, and inserting four toothpicks into the two places where the paper is bent under. A basket is made out of a round ring or a square (r and s) and a smaller round or square piece of card* board, as shown in the Illustration. Pig Iron Production. The consumption of pig iron In the United States for the year is estimated at 20,000,000 tons and the furnaces have been producing on that basis, but 1,000,000 tons of pig iron has been bought abroad. This has depressed the market, so that a number of ftar- naces have blown out. Journalistic Tramp*. M. P. V. Bounef, said to be a Bul­ garian Journalist, bas arrived in Paris on a journey around the world on foot with his wife. They expect to do it In fifteen years andf to pay expenses by the sale of postcards bearing their portraits. fered that all the ceremony was con­ sidered necessary because it has a good effect upon the Indians, and added to the dignity of the factor In the eyes of his subordinates. The effect upon the factor was often as bad as the result upon the Indians was good; he frequently became so conceited as to be intolerable. 'The company's post on the coast of British Columbia were described *8 being mostly quadrangular posts, surrounded by tall palisades. Small cannon were mounted on these and kept loaded, ready for any emergency that might arise. The gates were closed to every one after 9 o'clock at night, and a watch was set The history of operations of this jmt company shows that. no other of money. It is said they still tertaln the hope of selling out** Folinded Two Scholarships. John A. Mooney of New York cfty, who was accidentally shot iii the Adl- rondacks, leaves to Archbishop Farley $2,000 to found two gold medalships, one for the' girls of the Catholic schools for the best essay on "The Importance of Virtue to. a Happy Life" and the other for the boys for the best essay on "The ImporteBee of Frugality to a Happy Life.". Russian Newspaper In Japan. A dispatch from Vladivostock states that in the near future a Russian newspaper will bo published la Nag* «iakf A--Concrete wall. B--2 by 4 in. up­ rights. C--Wedges. D--2 by 12 In. plank. EJ--Wire. F--Braces. cistern is six feet wide the arch should have one foot crown. These center pieces should be directly over the 2x4-lnch uprights so that they will not settle. On toy of these centers place Inch boards closely fitted togeth­ er. There should be %-inch iron rods placed at the spring of the arch every eight feet to -eep the walls from spreading. Cover the boards with concrete, making the arch eight inches thick at tte spring and six inches at the crown. For the man­ hole make a box twenty inches square and place it on the boards, building the arch around it. After the arch is built make an­ other box twenty-eight inches square and place over the one already In andf fill in with concrete between the two^ this will form a four-Inch wall for tho curb. At top of curb build in four %x8-inch bolts, allowing them to come up two and a half inches above tho concrete to bolt a 2x4 piece on to hold the cover of the cistern. After three or four days the centers can be taken out, the bottom put in and the walls given a thin coat of plaster or cement inortar. The intake pipe can go in at the top of the curb and the overflow pipe through the side of the curb Just over the top of the arch. Census of Krupp Worka, A recent census taken for the shows that the Krupp works in Get-:" many employ in all 41,013 person?, cf; whom 4,046 were classed as PAaueS-j gers, clerks, bookkeepers, overseers,! etc., and 36,967 as workmen. The t®»! tal number of persons supported t»yi these works. Including employes, thelri wives, children and other dependents,! was 147,646. The average wages paid j last year were 4.52 marks, or 11.09' •i s' " i v*. •'M