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? 1?"? !i.;v?• >54 ••.£ V-i7:--. ••;•.• < , I . !< ! • . * [ 'H I LI 'ii'il . THE SPENDERS A Tale of die Third Generation By HARRY LEON WILSON > • t Copyright, by Lothrop Publishing Company, CHAPTER VIL--Cohtihuid. "Of course It's art," Percival agreed; i "er--all--h»nd painted, I suppose?" "Sure! that painting alone, letters i IA& all, coat $450. I've just had it put tp. I've been after tnat place for /ears, but it was held on a long lease by Max, the Square Tailor--you know. You probably remember the sign he had there--'Peerless Pants Worn by Chicago's Best Dressers,' with a man in his shirt sleeves looking at a new . pair. Well, finally, I got a chance to ? buy those two back lots, and that give ; me the site, and there she is, all fin- ; ished and up. That's partly what I ' come on this time to see about. How'd you like the wording of that sign?" "Pine--simple and effective," replied' Percival. "That's It--simple and effective. It goes right to the point and it don't slop over beyond any, after it gets there. We studied a good deal over that sign. ' The other man, the tailor, had too many words for the board space. My advertlsin' man wanted it to be, first, 'Higbee's Hams, That's All.' But, I don't know--for so big a space that seemed to me kind of-- well--kind of flippant and undignified. Then I got it down to 'Bat Higbee's Hams.' That seemed short enough-- boy stood with his kind-hearted, lib­ eral old father. "Say, maybe Henry wasn't in cold storage with the whole family from that moment. I see those fellows in the laboratories are puttering around Just now trying to get the absolute *wo of temperature--say, Henry got it, and he knows nothing about chemistry. "Then I jounced Hark. I proceeded I to let him know he was up against it --right close up against it, bo you couldn't see daylight between 'em. 'You're 25,' I says, "and you play the best game of pool, I'm told, of any ot the chappies in that Father-Made- the-Money club you got into,' I says; 'but I've looked it up,' I says, 'and there ain't really what you could call any great future for a pool champion,' I says, 'and if you're ever going to learn anything else, it's time you was at It,' I says. 'Now you go back home and tell the manager to set you to work,' I says, 'and your wages won't be big enough to make you interesting to any skirt-dancer* either,' I says. 'And you make a study of the hog from the ground up. Exhaust his possibili­ ties just like your father done, and make a man of yourself, and then some time,' I says, 'you'll be able to give good medicine to a cub of your own When he needs it.'" "And how did poor Henry tak» all that?" s "Well, Hank squealed at first like he was getting the knife; but finally when he see he was up against it, and especially when he see how this girl and her family throwed him down the elevator shaft from the tenth story, why, he come around beautifully. He's really got sense, though he doesn't look it--Henry has--though Lord knows I didn't pull him up a bit too quick. But he come out and went to work like I told nim. It's the greatest but after studying It, I W What's t ever happened to him. He ain't the use of saying'eat? No T so fat-headed as he was, already. Hen- think, I says, that a ham is to paper ^ be a man ^ hig dad,8 through the walls with or to stuff sofa cushions », with-so off comes 'eat' as being su- „But weren>t the young peopie dis- perfluous, and leaving it simple and olnted?» Mked perciTal; "weren't dignified Higbee s Hwn8- they in love with each other?" "By the way,' said Percival, when <<In lQve?„ In an effort to they were sitting together again, later --- - in the day, "where is Henry, now?" Higbee chuckled. you 8uppOSe a gjri like that cares for "That's the other thing took me b^ck loye? ghe waJJ dead ln love W|ti1 the this time-the new sign and gett ng ^ ]ong yellow_5acks that rve piled Hank started Henry is now work ng up becauge the pubU<j knowS good ham ten hours a day out to the packing bel Jn house. After a year of that he'll be taken into the office and his hours will taken Into the: offlceana nis nours say yQung feUow you,ye gQt gome. be cut down to eight Eight hours a • . New York day will seem like sinful idleness to Henry by that time." Percival whistled in amazement. "I thought you'd be surprised. But "I thought you a De surpriseu ouj nigh(. aQd day for a rlch huB. the short of it is, Henry found himself for ,em a]| u fa8t M facing work or starvation. He didn' want to starve a little bit, and he final­ ly concluded he'd rather work for his dad than anyone else. "You see Henry was doing the Rake's Progress act there in New York--being a gilded youth and such like. Now being a gilded youth and •a well-known man aiwut town' is something that wants to be done in moderation, and Henry didn't seem to know the meaning of the word. I put up something like $180,000 for Hank's gilding last year. Not that I grudged him the money, but it wasn't doing him any good. He was making a mon­ key of himself with it, Henry was. A good bit of that hundred and eighty went into a comic opera company tlfit was one of the worst 1 ever did see. Henry had no judgment He was too easy. Well, along this summer he was on the point of making a break that would--well, I says to him, says I: 'Hank, I'm no penny-squeezer; I ^ike good stretchy legs myself,' I says; 'I like to see them elastic so they'll give a plepty when they're pulled; but,' I says, 'if you take that step,' I says, *if you declare yourself, then the rub­ ber in your legs,' I says, 'will just nat­ urally snap; you'll find you've over­ played the tension,' I says, 'and there won't be any more stretch left in them. "The secret is. Hank was being chased by a whole family of wolves-- that's the gist of it--fortune hunters "THEN I JOUNCED HANK." --with toshes like the ravening lion In Afric's gloomy jungle. They were not only cold, stone broke, mind you, but hyenas into the bargain--the fa­ ther and the mother and the girl, too. "They'd got their minds made up to marry the girl to a good wad of money --and they'll do it, too, sooner or later, because she's a corker for looks, all right--and they'd all made a dead set for Hank; so, quick as I saw how it was, I says, 'Here.' I says, 'is where I save my son and heir from a passel of butchers,' I says, 'before they have him scalded and dressed and hung up outside the shop for the holiday trade,' I says, 'with the red paper rosettes stuck in Henry's chest' I says." "Are the New York girls so design­ ing?" asked Percival. "Is Higbee's ham good to eat?" re­ plied Higbee, oracularly. "So." he continued, "when I made up my mind to put my foot do#n I just casually mentioned to the old lady-- say. she's got an eye that would make liquid ait" shiver--that oold blue like an army overcoat--well, I mentioned to her that Henry was a spendthrift and that he wasn't ever going to get another cent from me that he didn't earn just the same as if he wasn't any relation of mine. I made it plain, yea bet; ^he found just where little Henry i . i1. when they taste it. As for being in love with Henry or with any man-- thing to learn about those New York girls. And this one, especially. Why. it's been known for the three years we've been there that she's simply band. She tries for 'em all as fast as they get in line." "Henry was unlucky in finding that kind. They're not all like that--those New York girls are not," and he had the air of being able if he chose to name one or two luminous exceptions. "Silas." called Mrs. Higbee, "are you telling Mr. Bines about our Henry and that Milbrey girl?" "Yep," answered Higbee, "I told him." "About what girl?--what was her name?" asked Percival, in a lower tone. "Milbrey's that family's name--Hor­ ace Milbrey--" "Why," Percival interrupted, some­ what awkwardly, "I know the family --the young lady--we met the family out in Montana a few weeks ago.-' "Sure enough--they were in Chicago and had dinner with us on their way out" "I remember Mr. Milbrey spoke of what fine claret you gave him." "Yes, and I wasfe't stingy with ice, either, the way those New York people always are. Why, at that fellow's bouse he gives you that claret wine as warm as soup. "But as for that girl." he added, 'say, she'd marry me in a minute if I wasn't tied up with the little lady over there. Of course she'd rather marry a sub-treasury; she's got about that much heart in her--cold-blooded as a German carp. She'd marry me-- she'd marry you, If you was the best thing in sight. But say, if you was broke, she'd have about as much use for you as Chicago's got for St Louis." CHAPTER VIII. SOME LIGHT WITH A FEW BIDE LIGHTS. The real spring comes in New York when blundering nature has painted the outer wilderness for au­ tumn. What is called "spring" in the city by unreflecting users of the word is a tame, insipid season yawning into not more than half-wakefulness at best. The trees in the gas-poisoned soil are slow in their greening, the grass has but a pallid city vitality, and the rows of gaudy tulips set out primly about, the fountains in the squares are palpably forced and alien. For the sumptuous blending and flaunt of color, the spontaneous awak­ ening of warm, throbbing new life, and all those inspiring miracles of regen­ eration which are performed elsewhere in April and May, the city-pent must wait until mid-October. But spring is not all of life, nor what at once chiefly concerns us. There are people to be noted; a little series of more or less related phenomena to be observed. One of the people, a young man. stands conveniently before a florist's window, at that hour when the sun briefly flushes this narrow canyon of Broadway from wall to wall. He had loitered along the lively high­ way an hour or more, his nerves tin­ gling responsively to all its stimuli. And now he mused as he stared at the tangled tracery of ferns against the high bank of wine-red autumn foliage, the royal cluster of white chrysanthe­ mums and the big jar of American Beauties. He had looked forward to this mo­ ment, too--when he should enter that same door and order at least an arm­ ful of those same haughty roses sent to an address his memory cherished. Yet now, the time having come, the zest for the feat was gone. It would be done; it were ungraceful not to do it, after certain expressions; but it would be done with no he^j-t because of the certain knowledge that no one --at least no one to be desired--could possibly care for him, or consider him even with interest for anything but his money--the same kind of money Higbee made by purveying hams-- "and she wouldn't'care in the least whether it was mine or Higbee's, so there was a lot of it." Yet he stepped in and ordered the rosea, nor did the florist once suspect that so lavish a buyer of flowers could be a prey to emotions of corroding cynicism toward the person for whom they were meant From the florist's he returned direct­ ly to the hotel to find his mother and Psyche making home-like the suite to which they had been assigned. A maid was unpacking trunks under his sis­ ter's supervision. Mrs, Bines was in converse witn a person of authoritative manner regarding the service to be supplied them. Two maids would be required, and madame would of course wish a butler-- Mrs. Bines looked helplessly at her son, who had just entered. 'I think--we've--we've always did bur own buttling," she faltered. The person was politely interested. "I'll attend to these things, mm," said I*ercival, rather suddenly. "Yes, we'll want a butler and the two maids, and see that the butler knows his business, please, and--here --take this, and see that we're proper­ ly looked after, will you?" As the bill bore a large "C" on its face, and the person was rather a gen­ tleman anyway, this unfortunate essay at irregular conjugation never fell into a certain class of anecdotes which Mrs. Bines' best friends could now and then bring themselves to relate of her.- But other matters are forward. We may next overtake two ,-peopie who loiter on this bracing October day down a leaf-strewn aisle in Central park. "You," said the girl of the pair, "least of all men can accuse me ot lacking heart." "You are cold to me now." "But look, think--what did I offer-- you ve had my trust--everything 1 could bring myself to give you. Look what I would have sacrificed at your call. Think how I waited and longed for that call." "You know how helpless I was." "Yes, if you wanted more than my bare self. I should have been helpless, too, if I had wanted more than-- than you." "It would have been folly--madness --that way." "Folly--madness? Do you reme>n- ber the 'Sonnet of Revolt' you sent me 5 Sit on this bench; I wish to say it over to you, very slowly; I want yon to hear it while you keep your later at­ titude in mind." " 'Life--what Is life? To do without avati The decent ordered tasks of every day; Talk with the sober; Join the solemn play. Tell for the hundredth time the self-samt tale Told by our grandslres in the aelf-same val« Where the sun'sets with ev«n, level ray, And nights, eternally the same make *«y For hueless dawns, intolerably pale--' " "But I know the Verse." "No; hear it out;--hear what you sent me; " 'And this is life? Nay, I would rather see The man who sees hU soul In some wild cause; The fool who spurns, for momentary bliss. All that he was and all he thought to be; The rebel stark against his country's laws; God'B own mad lover, dying un a kiss.' " She had completed the verse with the hint of a sneer in her tones. "Yes, truly, I remember it; but some day you'll thank me for saving you; of course it would have been regular in a way, but people here never really forget those things--and we'd have been helpless--some day you'll thank me for thinking for you." 1 "Why do you believe I'm not thank­ ing you already?" 1 "Hang it all! that's what you made me think yesterday when I met you." "And so you called me heartless? Now tell me just what you expect ft woman in my position to do.' I offered to go to you when you were ready. Surely that showed my spirit--and you haven't known me these years without knowing it would have to be that <fr nothing." "Well, hang it, it wasn't like the last time, and you know it; you're not kind any longer. \ou can be kind, can't you?" Her* lip showed faintly the curl of scorn. "No, I, can't be kind any longer. Oh, I see you've known your own mind so little; there's leen so little depth to it all; you couldn'i dare. It was fool­ ish to thi&k I could show yo» atf mind." "But you still care for me?" "No, no; I don't. You should have no reason to think so if I did. Whea I heard you'd made it up I hated you, and I think I hate you now. Let us go back. No, no, please don't touch me--ever again." Farther downtown in the cozy draw­ ing-room of a hous4 in a side street east of the avenue, two other persons were talking. A florid and profusely freckled young Englishman spoke pro- testingly from the hearth-rug to a woman who had the air of knowing emphatically better. "But, my dear Mrs. Drelmer, you know, really, I can't take a curate with me, you know, and send up word won't she be good enough to come downstairs and marry me directly--not when I've not seen her, you know!" "Nonsense!" replied the lady, unim­ pressed. "You can do it nearly that way, if you'll listen to me. Those westerners perform quite in that man­ ner, I assure you. They call it 'hig* tling.'" "Dear me!" "Yes. indeed, 'dear you.' And an­ other thing, I want you to forestall that Milbrey youth, and you may ^e sure he's no farther away than Tuxedo or Meadowbrook. Now, they arrived yesterday; they'll be unpacking to-day and settling to-morrow; I'll call the day after, and you shall be with me." "And you forget that--that devil-- suprose she's as good as her threat?" "Absurd! How could Bhe be?" "You don't know her, you know, nor the>old beggar, either, by Jove!" "All the more reason for haste. We'll call to-morrow. Wait. Better still, perhaps I .can enlist the Gwilt- Atnelston; I'm to meet her to-morrow. I'll let you know. Now I must get into ihy tea harness, so run along."* We are next constrained to glance at a strong man bowed in the hurt of i great grief. Horace Milbrey eltil alone in his gloomy, high-celllnged library. His attire is immaculate. HI* slender, delicate hands are beautifully white. The sensitive lines of his fine face tell of the strain under which to labors. (TO BE CUNTINV&D.) Our Springfield Letter Special Correspondent Writes of Thins* of Interest at the State Capital. Springfield.--The Illinois civil serv­ ice commission is preparing to hold examinations for a large number of positions in the charitable institutions of the state. Foremost among these will be examinations which will be held in Chicago^ July 25 and Lincoln July 2C for matrons, assistant ma­ trons, housekeepers, house-fathers and house-mothers and attendants in other institutions than the hospitals for the insane. There are 56 assistant matrons with an average salary of $35 a month. Six house-fathers and six house-mothers at St. Charles re­ ceive $75 a month.. Applicants for St. Charles should be married couples who can take charge of cottages. Ma­ trons receive $50 a month. Six house­ keepers receive $40 to $C0 a month, and 22 positions have salaries ranging from $20 to $35 a month. Attendants for children are paid from $18 to $30 a month. In addition to the salaries given, all these positions include board, lodging and laundry. The com­ mission will call examinations for lit­ erary teachers, teachers of art, do­ mestic science and physical culture in the School for the Deaf at Jackson­ ville. These positions pay from $45 to $130 a month. One year's training for teaching the deaf or actual exper­ ience in teaching the deaf will be re­ quired of applicants. Because of the scarcity of teachers with- this experi­ ence, this Examination has oeen opened to teachers outside of Illinois. Besides the foregoing, the commission will call examinations soon for physi­ cians, assistant physicians, patholo­ gists, druggists, trained nurses, super­ intendent of nurses, business mana­ ger, stenographers, assistant superin­ tendent, head carpenter, musical di- r«sctor, engineers, electricians, steam- fltters, plumbers, firemen, carpentcrs, masons and plasterers. These posi­ tions pay from $50 to $150 a month. All communications concerning these positions should be addressed to Jos­ eph C. Mason, secretary, Springfield, 111. Young Illinoiean In Charge. Huntington Wilson of Chicago has assumed the duties of his new posi­ tion as third assistant secretary of state. Old heads are wagging In dip­ lomatic circles over the "young man's rule" which Is found in the state de­ partment. Secretary Root has sailed Seek to Oust Commissioners. Leave was granted the people of Il­ linois, on relation of John B. Sweet, by Judge Creighton in the circuit court at Springfield, to file informa­ tion in a quo warranto proceeding to oust William H. Patton and John Easley from the office of drainage commissioners of drainage district No. 1 in the town of Divernon. Ac­ cording to the facts as stated in the petition the defendants were appoint­ ed two of the highway commissioners at Divernon and they created a drain­ age system there known as the drain­ age district No. 1, assuming the title of drainage commissioners. It is re­ cited by the relator that Charles Browning, David L. Hare and Henry C. Barnes were elected drainage com­ missioners March 2, 1904, for the dis­ trict in dispute. Notwithstanding this it is asserted that the defendants have assumed authority and intruded into the office wrongfully and in other ways harass and injure the property located near the district, George W. Davidson, who is also a highway com­ missioner with Patton and Easley, it is said, refuses to style himself a drainage commissioner with the de­ fendants. The attorneys for the plaintiff say that information will be filed within the next few days, with a request that the writ of quo war­ ranto be issued. Testimony Favors Reaugh. Testimony taken, before Commls sioner Matheny, who was appointed by the supreme court to take testi­ mony in the case against State's At­ torney Reaugh, of Clay county, evi­ dently was a surprise to Assistant At­ torney General Eldridge. Instead of supporting the contention that the State's attorney had been in a con­ spiracy to sell the decision of the supreme Court in the Huddleston will case the witnesses examined took the position that Reaugh was actuated only by a desire to secure evidence against the conspirators. It has de­ veloped that no effort has been made to apprehend Bradford. He has re­ peatedly returned to Clay county since he was cited for contempt, has disposed of his holdings there and has moved to Ohio. This feature of the case threatens to develop another scandal in connection with the mat­ ter. lacts £/ ranoes /br Lads § Lassies fl TOY STEM ENGINE. ' • • V, • v ; Huntington Wilson. for tlM Pan-American congress at Rio and left the department in charge of Assistant Secretary Robert Bacon, who is far from being an old man, and is certainly young at diplomacy. Sec­ ond Secretary Adee is an" old-timer, but Mr. Wilson, the latest addition to the list of departmental executives? is barely over 30 years old. Governor Denies Charges. Following a hearing by the railroad and warehouse commission and Gov. Deneen regarding published charges that the Louisville & Nashville railroad had been classified improperly be­ cause of the governor's friendship for the road's attorney, the commission issued a statement branding the story as false. The representative of the Inter-Ocean who wrote the story was present at the meeting and was de­ nounced vigorously by Gov. Deneen. 8tate's Attorneys' Association. The Illinois State's Attorneys' ciation elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, J. Bert Miller, of Kankakee county; vice president, William S. Jewell, of Fulton county, F. J. Tecklenburg, of St. Clair county, and Richard R. Fow­ ler, of Williamson county; secretary and treasurer, Herman H. Brown, of Schuyler county; reporter, F. A. R. Coggeshell, of Champaign county. A new constitution was adopted. Gen. Barkley Again Chosen. Gen. James H. Barkley, of Spring- rieldfield, was elected for the fifth time as brigadier general of the Illi­ nois brigade, Uniformed Rank, of the Knights of Pythias. It was the annual meeting of the fieid, staff and line of­ ficers of the Uniform Rank, and 150 officers from various parts of Illinois were in attendance. Arrangements were made for attending the national encampment, which will be held October 15 ln New Orleanp, in con­ nection with the supreme meeting of the Knights Of Pythias. Charles ft. Bose Badly Hurt. While engaged in celebrating the Fourth of July, Charles R. Rose, of Springfield, son of Secretary of State James A. Rose, was painfully injured at the Chicago club on Lake Miltona, Minn. The news was conveyed in a dispatch received from Alexandria, Minn., in which it was stated that Rose was injured while exploding a giant firecracker. His right hand was badlj torn, but the physician hopes to save all the fingers. Rose is at a hos­ pital in Alexandria. A toy engine can be easily made from old implements which can be found in nearly every house. The cylinder, A, Fig 1, is an old bicycle pump, cut in half. The steam chest, D, is part of the piston tube of the same pump, the other parts being used for the bearing, B,*and the crank bearing, C. The flywheel, Q, can be­ any small sized iron wheel; either an. old sewing-machine wheel, pulley wheel, or anything available. We used ing the cylinder, and in Fig. 3 valve, B, has closed the steam inlet,' and opened the exhaust, thus allowing ., * J"-At : THE VALVE MOTION. the steam in the cylinder to escape. The piston is made of a stove bolt, E, Fig, 2, with two washers, F F, and a cylindrical piece of hard wood, G. This is wound with soft string, as shown in Fig. 3, and saturated with thick oil. A slot is cut in the rod, H. The valve, B, is made of an old bicycle spoke, with the nut cut in half and filed down as shown, the space between the two halves being filled with string, and oiled. The valve crank, S, Fig. 1. is cot out of tin, or galvanised iron, and is moved by a small crank on the shaft. This lip1 ,A&.' Baptists Bad Chautauqua. july 10 marked the closing day of the. State Baptist assembly, which has held its annual chautauqua at the state fair grounds at Springfield. While the public attendance this year has been smaller than any preceding year, many more campers were reg­ istered at the grounds, there being fully 150 altogether. The total re­ ceipts this year were rather discour­ aging, as the amount received was about one-third that of last year. State C. X. Convention. A party of Christian Endeavorers, numbering 30, from Springfield, will attend the state biennial convention which will be held at Shelbyville July 2C. Miss Stella Mitchell of Springfield was elected state secretary two years ago and Rev. F. M. Burnham of Deca­ tur is the president. It is provable that many of those who attend from the capital city will make arrange­ ments to remain for the chautauqua which follows the convention. Old Settlers to Meet August 8. At a meeting of the vice presidents of the Old Settlers' association of Sangamon county, held in the county court room „ ln the courthouse, at Springfield, it was decided to hold the thirty-eighth annual reunion at the central Illinois assembly grounds at Mechanicsburg, Wednesday, August 8. Highway Commission Busy. The Illinois state highway commis­ sion has a number of experimental stretches of road constructed in dif­ ferent parts of the state. One of the most interesting of these Is a two- mile stretch on the Clear Lake roAd. The part of the road in which the commission Is taking an interest be­ gins near the entrance to the White City and extends two miles east. The chief work that has been done on the two-mile stretch has been to drag it with an ordinary field harrow. This has been done eight times since April 6. This Experiment has been under­ taken chiefly to ascertain the cost of maintenance for an ordinary country dirt road. The macadamized stretch of road south of Springfield which the commission's engineer is about to be­ gin has been delayed a few days on account of the failure to obtain the right surface drain pipes. The work will be taken up in a few days. VALVE MOTION AND CONSTRUC­ TION OF PISTON. a wheel from ap old high chair for our engine, explains the correspondent ot Popular Mechanics. If the bore in the wheel is too large for the shaft it may be bushed with a piece of hard wood. The shaft is made of heavy steel wire, the size of the hole in the bear­ ing, B. The base is made of wood, and has two wood blocks, H. and K, % inch thick, to support bearing B, and valve crank, S, which is made of tin. The hose, E, connects to the boiler, which will be described later. The clips, F F, are soldered to the cylinder, and nailed to the base, and the bearing, B, is fas­ tened by staples. The valve motion is shown in FlgB. 2 and 3. In Fig. 2 the steam is enter- ENGINE IN OPERATION. crank should be at right angles to th« main crank. The boiler, Fig. 4, can be an old oil can, powder can, or a syrup can with a tube soldered to it, and is connected to the engine by a piece of rubber tub­ ing. The heat from a small gas stove will furnish steam fast enough to run the engine very fast. THE GAME. OF CLOCK GOLF. No doubt some of our boys and girls are expert golfers, but most of them have no opportunity to play the game because one must have regular links, and they are few and far between, owing to the great stretches of ground they must cover. However, you can all play clock golf, and get nearly as much fun out of it as others do from the more pretentious game. Your own lawn, or a neighbor's, will afford ample room. You need but one stick, a "putter," which you can buy for one dollar, or you can easily make v T. Wheat and Oats Good. Threshing of wheat is the principal occupation of the farmers. Reports from correspondents give the yield all the way from 25 to 60 bushels per acre, with perhaps an average of 35. The quality generally is good. The acreage exceeds that of recent years. The oat crop, which early ln the spring was thought to be a complete failure, is turning out to be fairly good and those farmers who let their Sown crop stand will reap a satisfac­ tory yield. PLAYING CLOCK GOLF, one just as you make a "shinny" stick in the winter, or, better still, your old hockey club will be found just the thing. , Get 12 pieces of cardboard about four inches square and number them from one to 12. Then get some heavy wires or slender sticks, sharpened on one end, and glue one of the cardboards to each. . Get a larger cardboard, mark it center, fasten it to another stick and place it in the center of the plot of ground you are going to use. By this center post dig a hole deep and wide enough to contain a tin can without a top. Sink the can in the hole so that Its rim Is just level with the ground. Stick the other numbered cardboards ln an uneven circle about the center and, making your circle as large as your ground will permit, build a littis "tee" or pile of earth by each number, and try to drive It into the hole in the center with one stroke. It is not at all likely that you will, but it will prob­ ably take you four or five. Then mark on a card the number of strokes you had to use, and go to the second tee, and so on until you have gone "all around the clock. Place the ball on the tee by No. 1, and try to drive it into the hole in the center with one stroke. It Is not at all likely that you will, but it will prob­ ably take you four or five. Then mark on a card the number of strokes you had to use, and go to the second tee. and so on until you have gone "all around the clock." / Place the ball on the tee by No. 1, and. you are ready to play. Tour ball should be the regulation golf ball. After a little practice, says Good Lit­ erature, you will be making almost every hole in two strokes, but It will be a long time before you can do it in | "bogie," or the least number of strokes possible to the ordinary player. Some very fine players beat "bogie," which is usually placed at one stroke for every other hole, and two strokes for the remainder, or "around the clock" In eighteen strokes. You will improve your game almost every time you play, and you will find "clock golf* the best sort of practice for real golf. Clock golf is not to be despised by any means for lots of golf professionals play it a great deal, as it is the finest kiaMi' training in putting. . t l •>» £ . , i & Earth Growing Warmer. That the earth is growing temporaT* ily warmer is shown by the mountain glaciers. These are made by varying temperature and moisture to In­ crease and diminish in size dur­ ing i«eriods of years that may be found to be more or less regular cycles, and a period of quite general decrease began about 45 years ago. f i Too many people look for their duty, next door. \ *1 A NEW PENALTY GAME. Prepare Topographical Haps. . The preparation of topographical maps of the state, in accordance with surveys now in progress,, has been commenced. The work will embrace four tiers of "blocks'" or "sheets," each representing 236 square miles. One tier will extend east and west through central Illinois, a second will extend across the southern end of the state, a third across the northern end, while the fourth will cut the state diagonally northeasterly and south* westerlv. -j*. There Is no pastime that will give you more amusement and at the same time put your wits better to work than this new penalty game. One player puts on a piece of paper a number of dots corresponding to the number of letters in. a well-known TT -- proverb or quota­ tion, or a short verse, and the oth­ er player must guess a letter at a time, which the first player must put in its proper place, until enough letters are there for the guesser to know what the dots all stand for, and then the game is finished and begins again, with the two players changing parts. If the guesser names the letter E, the first player could rut it anywhere in the line that it belongs, as at the end of the first word, "strike " If he names E apain it could be placed at the end of the second word or the third; but in the latter instance one would £uow alihost lot- mediately that the third word waa "the." The object is to place the named let­ ters in words where they will be the least likely to be guessed. When the guesser "guesses" the provery, he wins the game. Now for the "penalty." On a piece of paper known as the "penalty paper.** a rough outline of a gibbet is drawn, as in A. At the first letter named by the gueaser that is not in the proverb, the first player puts a circle, represent­ ing a head, at the end of the rope. At the second wrong letter, he draws a line for the neck under the circle at the end of the neck fer the body, and so on. a line for each arm, hand, leg jmd toot, one UfftS for each blunder. If the guesser make mo many bleat- drawn before the proverb la guessed, ders that the figure Is completely says the People's Home Journal, tee loses the game, and the penalty Is pai4 ln hia "hahging." as shown In G» ^ V ^ '