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\Vhen all the nursery dolls and toys
Begin to dance and play.
Then little boys and little girls
May lie in bed all day.
\Vhen donkeys learn to sing and dance,
When pigs talk politics;
When London is a town in France.
When two and two make six:
\Vlien drops of rain are real pearls.
When coal is clear and white.
Then little boys and little girls
May sit up late at night.
G. Clifton Binclmm.
The Snake’s Tail.
The Japanese children play some
good games that might help American
youngsters through a wintry after—
noon. The girls, big girls, too, have a
very pretty ball game that they call
“yomari,” which means hand ball, but
it is not at all the same thing as the
hand ball we know. A number of
them stand in a circle, one of them
takes the ball—they use one about two
inches in diameter—and throws it per—
peni‘licularly on the ground. As it re—
bounds she strikes it back with her
open hand. This she does as 'often as
she can do so without moving from her
place in the circle, but when it re—
bounds'nearer to some other girl—as
it will be sure to do soon—it is the part
of that girl to strike it down. So the
games goes on till some girl fails to hit
when she should, or to make it rebound,
and then she is cast out of the circle.
The game goes on till only one girl is
left, and then she has the honors of the
game, “kachi,” or victory, as the girls
call it. , _
There is another merry game called
“catching the snake’s tail.”
er is selected to be the catcher, and the
rest range themselves in a row, one
behind the other, each child putting
his or her hands on the shoulders of
the child in front of him.
The catcher stands in front of the
row some feet away, and when the row
is ready the game commences, and it
consists of the catcher’s efforts to catch
the last child in the row, while the row
refends its tail, the snake’s tail. This
is usually the smallest child playing,
for the. row is graduated by size; the
catcher must not. push any one. in the
row, and the chain of the row must
not be broken; either action constiu-
tes a “foul;” when the “tail” is caught
that child becomes catcher, and the
catcher becomes the tail. '
.‘A variation on this game is for the
catcher to cry out that he will catch
a chil'. “Which child do you want?”
asks the head of the row, and then the
catcher says third, or fifth, or what~
ever he will, and then the row tries to
defend that child under the same con-
ditions as before.-—Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
Monkeys as Miners. .
A traveler arriving from the Trans-
And kittens wear . .
1am. mp5; vaal tells of an inhabitant of Pretoria,
And ply.- tlieirsis'ers a gold miner, who owned two little
new-r tease. monkeys—intelligent animals that
were accustomed to follow him into the
galleries. They saw the workmen en-
gaged in picking up the mineral, and,
in virtue of their gift of imitation, they
did the same.
Distinguishing easily the traces of
the precious metal they soon became“
expert collaborateurs and the propri-
etor thought he saw a career plainly
indicated for other monkeys.
He procured a force of twenty-four
of them, which, initiated by the two
first, soon became so expert as to re-
place five or six workmen and to pick
up the ore nicely in little heaps.
These monkeys, it appears, were
very honest, not having been'perverted
by the human miners. They did not
think of stealing or hiding the nug-
gets. they did not drink, they were not
difficult in the matter of wages, they
did not dream of organizing a syndi-
cate. In short, they are model work“
men.
Kitty a Good Electrician.
An ingenious Augusta boy has found
a new way of putting in electric wires
that deserves to be patented. His
mother had given him permission to
have an electric light in :his room if
he would put in his own wiring. In
order to do this it was necessary to
carry the wires from one room to an-
other. How to do this in a neat and
workmanlike manner was a perplexing
problem, but the young man was equal
to it. He bethought himself of a pet
cat which was greatly devoted to him
5 and would answer readily to his call.
One play- ‘
A good stout string was attached to
Kitty’s tail, and she was put under
the flooring and called through from
one room to the other. With the aid
of this string the wires were soon in
place, and in a manner, too, that would
have done credit to the best workman
in the city.——Bangor, Me., Commercial.
“So your new star made an instan—
taneous success?” said the manager’s
friend. .
“Yes," was the reply. “That comes
pretty near expressing it. She made a
good impression when she did come on
the stage; but it was all over in a mo-
in,ent.”——-Washington Evening Star.
FORGET ME NOT.
HIGH VOICE
Andante sostenuto
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(Caroline Hoffman
VERGISS MEIN ’NICHT.
The English Words by W. J. Westbrook.)
Know for \Vh at You Breed.
The time is long past when the all-
ourpose animal found ready sale. The
breeder of horses must know for what
use he intends the animal. The breed-
ers of cattle want animals for beef or
for milk. Milk and beef are no longer
eminently contained in the same ani-
mal. They must therefore, be bred
specially for one purpose or the other.
Sheep are no longer largely bred for
W001 and mutton. They are now
bred principally for mutton, and inci-
dentally for wool. Fortunately, good
mutton sheep produce wool which
brings a high price in the market. In
swine the leading breeds are Poland-
Chinas, Berkshires and Duroc-Jerseys.
They have but one use—the slaughter
pen. |
In fowls for ggs and flesh the As-
iatics and the American breeds, lily-
mouth Rock and Wyandots, are consid-
ered the most valuable and me now
broken up into many varieties, all good
with enough diversity to suit rte taste
of individual fanciers. For eggs alone
the Leghorns are probably-more large-
ly sought than any other one of the
non-sitting breeds.
Horse breeders are not having an es~
pecially happy time. Prices are low
for all classes of draft and general
driving animals and common pings. are
not salable at any price. Anions: rat—
tle for beef. the breeder has his choice,
chiefly of Shorthorns. Herefords, and
Polled-Angus. The strictly dairy
breeds are principally the . Jerseys,
Guernseys and Holstein—Friesiaus, with
Pollcd Durhams, Ayrshires, and Brown
Swiss good seconds. There are indi-
vidual animals, in fact some milking
families, in Shorthorns that are good
and lasting milkers, but they are not
common, nor can they be depended on
to be as uniformly good milkers as can
the true dairy breeds.
Hardiness of the “’ickson Plum.
Wickson, the new Japanese cross—
bred plum, which was originated by
Luther Burbank, California, and first
fruited by him about 1893, has been
successfully fruited in New York, and
is attracting the favorable atten.:.ion of
nurserymen and fruit growers. Some
of the features which recommend it for
testing by those who are interested in
plum culture are its extremely large
‘size, fine flavor, good quality end at-
tractive color. Even when picked
' rather green it colors and ripen: well.
The skin is thick and uniformly cov—
ered with red shaded with reddish pur-
ple. It was producedflby crossing
GRABEN-HOFFMANN, Op. 85, No. 3.
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Kelsey with Burbank. Like Bin-hank,
it is a cling, with amber yellow flesh,
juicy, yet so firm that it keeps and
ships well.
The Wickson makes a good nursery
tree, being a vigorous upright grower,
with rather narrow leaves, the edges
of—which have a tendency to turn in-
ward, so that the tree reminds one or
Prunus Simoni. ~Taklng all things in-
to consideration, it is not surprising
that nurserymen are increasing their
,stock of this variety.—New York Ex-
periment Station.
How to Make a Wire Reel.
, For a homemade wire fence reel Sim-
ply convert an empty barrel into a
hand roller. Across the open end, two
pieces are nailed at right angles and
in the center of this, as well as the
bottom, a hole is bored to admit an
iron rod. The push frame can be
made of light pieces of hard wood hrac»
ed across and on the under side a sta-
ple or book is inserted to carry a can
or paint bucket with tools, staples, etc.
This may be suspended from the rod
just inside the ‘open end of the barrel.
by means of an S—shaped wire, but is -
not quite so convenient. In removing
wire, one end is stapled to the barrel
and then it is a simple matter to push
the contrivance before you. In this
way the wire is not dragged through
the dirt and so does not gather much
litter. If it is a temporary fence, it is
frequently necessary to move it but a.
short distance and then it can be push-
ed all the way, but if the removal is to
a greater distance, the rod can be taken
out and the barrel with its coil of wire
lifted‘into a wagon—J. M. Shull, in
Agruculturist.
Scanty Dairy Rations Un profitable.
Though nature's statutes are plain
and unadulterable, there are in every
community some who think 20. cows
can be kept on hay enough for only
‘12 or 15. Another class feed hay but
think it impossible to provide grain.
“On my farm, last season,” says a far-
mer, “we were short of hay. I con-
cluded to feed a little more grain and
less hay.
yield of cream to the pound of grain
fed than under the usual conditions.
The grain ration consisted of wheat,
rye, bran, gluten and cottonseed meals.
The cows averaged about 288 lbs. of
butter for the year and the income,
not including skimmilk but corintry
calves, was 64 per cow. The cows
were not kept in fancy stables, but re-
ceived good care. The cream from
grain-fed cows will produce better tut-
ted.” '
Butter For. and Cheese Yield.
Whe‘n fat in milk increases. the case-
in and cheese yield also increases, in
general, although in special cases the
casein and cheese yield may increase
while the fat remains unchanged, or
the fat may increase while the casein
remains unchanged at even decreases.
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A BRIGHT BOSTON IAN
IN TWO YEARS SHE BECAME AMERI~
CA’S GREATEST EGYPTOLOGIST.
From Just an Ordinary Doluesticuted
“'onian with a Sunday School Class Slit
Advanced to the Front Rank of Our
Scholars in a Very Short Time.
Mrs. Marie N. Buekman, an unas
suming little New England woman,
was teaching a class of boys in Sun-
day school one day when the subject
of the Egyptian influence upon the
Israelites was taken up. At once she
felt an awakened interest in thelessoc
that seemed strange to her. She grew
enthusiastic at the thought of the rial;
life of the people who lived along the
banks of the Nile agesjago and left
such enduring witnesses of their Still
and art for the instruction and enjoy-
ment of the nations that were yet to be
born. ' v
The grandeur of their civilizatior
and the sublimity of their history
touched her as nothing ever had be
fore. She announced to her class that
during the week she read everything
she could concerning the Egyptian:
feeling all the time that it was strange
ly familiar to her, although she knew
that she was reading it for the firs1
time.
MARIE N. BUCKMAN.
Sunday after Sunday, whatever the
they would take up the subject fox
further study the coming Sunday, and
formal topic of the lesson might be
something of the lore of Egypt would
creep in, and the boys in Mrs. Buck
man’s class gained a wider and deepei
knowledge of ancient history than is
usual in the conning of the routine Old
Testament Sunday school lessons.
In an almost incredibly short time
after Mrs. Buckman had first. followed
the children of Israel into Egypt she
was ready to measure swords with the
most erudite Egyptian scholars of the
present ~day. _Her studies and investi
calls ,
gations brought her in contact with Dr
William Copley Winslow and Dr.
Charles H. S. Davis, as well as with
famous Egyptologists abroad. all'ol
whom treated her opinions with the ut
most respect.
Certainly no' woman, perhaps no
man. in this country has done or is
doing as much practical and effective
work inthe cause of Egyptology as
she. About a year ago she was ap-
pointed the secretary for the United
States of the Egypt Exploration Fund
of which Sir John Fowler is president
and Charles Dudley W'arner. honorary
vice-president. - _
Mrs. Buckman is as Oriental in hei
pgsonal appearance as in her mental
trend, and the art students in the
Museum noticing her, a pale, spirit-like
creature, with dark eyes in which
mystery seemed to dwell, named her
the reincarnated Egyptian princess,
She is not a learned woman in the or-
dinary sense of the term. She was
never drilled in the classics and no out.
side influence was brought to bear up-
on her to turn her mind in this
direction. It was a natural and almost
irressistible impulse, for which she is
no more able to account than any one
else. .
She states as a simple fact that when
her interest in Egyptology v'as first
awakened she used to be asked the
meaning of certain emblems and
hieroglypliics and would answer with-
out hesitation. never stopping to think
that she had not ascertained it for her-
self. but in looking the matter up she
invariably found that she had given
the correct interpretation.
The language, too. which would
naturally be supposed to be difficult
for one to acquire who was master 01
no tongue but the English. came. to her
with rare facility. “It is so simple and
so musical that one cannot help rc-
membering it,” she explained on being
asked how it was possible for her to
commit to memory the long selections
which she has ever ready at her ton-
gue’s end.
Theosopliists would doubtless ex.
plain her intuitive knowledge of every-
thing pertaining to Egypt, as well as
her physical personality, by the rein-
carnation theory. Mrs. Buckman
neither accepts nor rejects it. She is
an orthodox Christian and merely
smiles when asked about the possi-
bility of her having lived a previous
existence in a palace by the Nile.
Therefore Popular.
“They say ladies wear costumes now
in Which fishnetting is conspicuous,"
said Mr. Whistles.
“Yes,” said Mrs. Whitles, “they’re
very durable.”
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