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BEAN-B‘AG‘ SONG.

Bean-bag. bean-bag
flying through the
510'.

Come and let me

catch you——

Do not fly too high! 1

,, Now 1 send you back
again;

Do not fly too low. ,

Fall into my hands. and then

Up again you go!

Bean-bag, bean-bag. sailing in the sun,
way do you come down so soon -
When your flight’s begun? .
Spread your wings and fly away!
I’d change you to a bird
Were I a fairy who could say
The secret, magic word!

Bean-bag, bean-bag: wouldn’t it be funny
If I were but a princess.
And you a bag of money?
But if you fell upon her nose
"1' would make the princess scold!
Beans are safer, I suppose.
Than silver or than gold!
—CIhristoper Valentine in St Nicholas.

 

Tricks in Swimming.

Plain swimming, with its attendant
diving, treading water, floating and
rolling in the warm sand, is quite good
enough sport for most young people.
But there are a number of tricks and
games in swimming which will help
to make the sport more fascinating
than it is. ,

Few people realize how very nearly
the human body comes to floating.
Drop your arm loosely in the water,
and it will rest near the surface, buoy«
ed in its place by the pressure of the
water. It it were not for the weight

. of the head in proportion to the Weight

of the body a man would swim as eas-
ily and naturally as a horse or dog.
With these facts in mind. the good
swimmer or floater. keeps, as much of
his body under the surface as he can.
0n the same principle a swimmer may
keep himself afloat by holding a very
small piece of wood ineach hand, pro.
vided‘he aIIOWS himself to sink deep
into the water. It merely requires .-1
little confidence in letting the body so
deep into the water.

A boy who falls overboard from a
ship. if he keeps cool and does not try
to raisehimself out of the water, as
many frightened people do, can keep
afloat for some time by paddling gen-
tly, his clothing acting as a float until
it becomes well soaked,

One of the greatest sports “in swim-
ming" may be had with a rubber tube
ten or twelve feet-long. Two large

empty spools should be fastened to .

the ends of the spool by crowding the
rubber into the hole in the middle of
each, which has first been enlarged
with a jack knife. The swimmer al-
lows one of‘“the spools to float on .the
surface of-the water or fastens it near
a stone or log on shore or next to a
stake driven into the water. Then he
places-.the‘ other spool in his mouth

and sinks "out of sight under the wa-

ter. Of course he can breathe through
the tube, and boron remain a consid-
erable length of time without rising
to the surface. Any boy can readily
imagine the various pranks he may
be played with“ such an invention. It
will also be found useful in diving
for lost objects—Boston'dournal.

‘ IPaddy Po ian’s Bath.

‘ It was the day of “the greatest show
on earth," the “Eleven Elephant
Show,” and all the little ragamufiins,
in town had followed the circus wa-
gons from car to show ground, and
from there to the river, where the
eleven elephants were to be given the
unusual treatof a bath; or rather the
chance to bathe themselves, and one
another.

The small boys of the place spent
most of their summer days “going .11"
also; but among them was one little,
pug-nosed, freckle-faced little fellow-
Paddy Polan by name—who could
neither be coaxed nor driven into the
.Water

Paddy was the most mischievous, as

5well as the dirtiest, of them all, and

no sooner had the creatures from the
circus entered the water and began to
enjoy their clumsy gambols, with loud
trumpetings and the dashing‘ of foam
tains of air over one another, than
Paddy stationed himself on the edge
of the bank and began to throw stones
and unkind remarks at them.

The elephants, whose drab velvet

coats had been changed to black satin

by the water, were at first too happy
to be teased, but their keeper, who
had walked beside the baby elephant
to the river, carrying in his arms a
great milk bottle from which she took
her dinner, warned Paddy not to hit
the baby, as the mother elephant,
Beatrice, was very cross.

Paddy foolishly kept on, and soon a
stone struck the baby, and before the
boy could make his escape, the moth-
er, with a yell of rage, had seized him
in her trunk, and taken him out into
the middle of the river.

The crowd was silent With horror,
expecting to se e poor Paddy dashed
to pieces or his life trampled Out by

the herd. But, no, the others all stood ‘

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back, and let Mme Beatrice punish as
she would.

She dipped the struggling Paddy in 1
the water, then taking him to whom
the baby‘stoo'd she used him as a
scrubbing brush, or sort of a wash rag
on his fat back and Sides.

Then, while every one screamed with
laughter, " she threw Paddy on ”the
bank, a sadder, wiser and cleaner b037,:

and there a ciroros'-5o-f5- voices g1ceted

him, crying:
“Paddy went in' Paddy Polan went
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The‘Cult of Ulicanrntlol-aliij';

The careful cult of unconventional-
ity began among the smart set in Lon-
don some years ago, and it has been
taken up and propagated by the smart
mt here. The most superficial signs
of it are the most harmless. To wear
bicycle clothes at formal dinner par- 1
ties, to drive about Newport withhut
.1 hat to smoke in a lady’s diawme,
room, to garnish one’s speech at all
times with blackguard slang, -.to de-
scribe everything, from the weather to
a social function, as 5rotten”—-these
are the silly, though none the less rep-
rehensible signs of the truly uncon~
ventidnal person. A far more seri-
ous phase of it is seen in the change
that has been introduced in the sphere
of social intercourse between the
sexes.

The finest of all the old conventions
was that which imposed upon a man.
and upon a woman a certain reticence
with regard to various themes and va-
rious facts of life. This reticence
sprang from the respect which every
man was supposed to feel for every
woman and from the respect which
every woman was supposed to cherish
for herself. It was a part of the
slight but very real barrier Which ex-
perience had shown to be essential to
protect the woman, and to prevent a
brutalizing tendency in the man. And
it «is the undermining of this conven-
tion that is to-day a cause for a very
serious reprehension.—New York Post.

 

. The German Emperor's Fad.

The kaiser has issued the most amaz-
ing sartorial decree to his officers, and‘
despair has seized upon hapless lieu~
tenants with limited incomes. For the
fiat has gone forth that all officers are
henceforth—or until it shall please the
emperor to say otherwise—to wear
surcoats of palest gray, lined with
satin to match. The coats are beau-
tiful to look upon. but they are" ruin—
ously delicate and costly. With their
moustaches turned around to their
noses, a .l’Empereur and in their pig-
eon-breast colored overcoats, the gay
officers look like pretty comic opera
soldiers.

Clothes have become quite a fad
with the German imperial couple. The
emperor dresses gorgeously and adopts
the most resplendent uniforms on the
oddest occasions. while he has further
undertaken the‘supervision of his con-
sort’s wardrobe, she in turn demanding
that all her- ladies shall'be dressed
Formerly the
German empress took very little heed
wherewithal she was clothed. She
.liked' tailor made gowns and rich eve-1
ning dresses. but paid little attention
to details. Now all is changed. The
emperor will have his empress in the
height of fashion, and, it is said—but
rumor is not always reliable in mat-
ters concerning the kaiser—that he de-
signs many of her costumes himself. -

’hiladelphia Ledger.

 

How to Lacquer Brass.

“If your brass bedstead tarnishes,” .

said a dealer in beds 1 and bedding,
“you can send it to a repair shop and
have it newly lacquered for anywhere
from $2.50 to $5. It will look as, well
l8 new and last as long ”

He said it in all gravity, but there
yes a sort of expression in his eye
which suggested a. hidden meaning
and roused curiosity.

“How 'do they do it?"

“Why should I tell you a trade se-
cret ?’1' [he replied. “But, after all, this
is hardly a trade secret. It is common
0 so many trades; all those which use
brass fittings, in fact. The gas fitter
and the picture frame maker, as well
as the furniture man, the dealer in
grates, the candle stick maker as well,
111 make use of it. Nearly all brass
work, except that on ship board, is
wcquered to, prevent corrosion and
wold the labor of frequent polishing.
The lacquer is simply gum shellac dis-
solved in alcohol. This makeb a thin
"5arnish, which is applied with a small
saint brush. Ten cents’ wofih of ma-
terials will lacquer your brass bed-
stead, 5and‘an ordinary workman will
10 the job inside of an hour at a total
cost of from 35 to 60 cents."

 

A .‘ ove' Employment.

Miss Anna. Estell Wilson of New-
York has found a'decidedly novel oc~
cupaition. She prepares music for in-
valids. She says that although the
healing power of music is as yet dim-
‘y perceived, nevertheless physicians
;cknowledge that its proper use pro-
“.11ces-Thigh beneficial. results. Under
he influence of certain kinds of mu-

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sic the nerve cells, if depleted or too
relaxed, may be stimulated to more?
vigorous action. Music of an oppo-
site character will diminish too 'great -
nervous activity and tend to produce a
11.dition of peace and restfulness. 3
several ‘ physicians commend 'Miss '
Wilson’s system; She does not say
anything about how many different
iiseases of ,the- nerves one piano in. a
at house is capable of producing in a
wery short time—New York Sun.

Form for a_ \V-‘Iinu ’ l‘ 151'. ~

The question of the proper form for
:1 widows card is one often discussed.
‘Juthorities on card etiquette usually
uncede that a widow may retain her
ziisband’s' name upon her- cards if she

esires, though the maiden name is

 

1 mariied son of the Same name she
1' add senior, after her name. If
she uses her husband’s. The English

_1-1_1stom of designating the widow as
.“dowager” is one that has manifest
advantages

 

 

Keep the Tools EVA-“ll Sliarpen- (I.
Above all things a farmer should
keep his toms, from harvester, sickle
and piowshart +1- 111111 .lurz.
sharp and bright. No man can do
good and eii‘ective work with a dull
tool, and every farmer. should be
ashamed to have a rusty .one about
his place. There are sickle grinders
on the market that will make a sickle
as sharp as a razor' in a few minutes,
while they are so nearly automatic
that about all one has to do is to set
the sickle in a frame and turn the
handle. A light team will draw.a
mower fitted with a sharps sickl'e‘
through the heaviest kind of grass
with ease, while it’would- almost kill
a heavy team to draw a dull sickle
through it.
blacksmith draw the edge of the
plowshare out very thin and then

SC) rut ‘

touch it up a little every morning and

noon with a heavy file, while others
keep an anvil and beat them out ev-

1 ery morning. This latter operation re-.’

quires some skill and good eyes, as
well as a second person to held the
plow If a man has no handy power
to turn the grindstone, it should be
set in .51. frame with a seat and two
treadles, so that one man can run it
with ease and grind any tool rap-
idlY.

 

 

Starting an Asparagus Bed.

Asparagus roots may be planted in
spring or fall, but unless the ground is
well drained, spring is preferable.
Good strong one year old roots are
best. The'soil should be made as rich
as possible. If very stony the stones
should be removed, as they are much
in the way of cutting the stalks. I11
garden culture it is best to dig tren-
ches about. three or four feet apart
and 12 inches deep; then put in a lay—

er of manure to fill about half o-f.the,

trench after it has been packed .down.
On this put two or three inches of soil

on which place the roots, spreading, ,
them out in all directions, and cover 2 '

with fine soil, packing down all
around. The plants should not-stand
closer than two feet in the rows, and,
as they start to grow more soil should

be drawn into the trenches until the;

surface is level again. All that is 5nec-.
essary during the season is to keep the
ground loose and free from weeds.
To raisea first class crop the bed has
to be manured every year by scatter-
ing’manure over the plants in the fall.
If white or blanched asparagus is
desired, the roots have to be set deeper
and the rows have to be billed up simi-
lar to what is done with celery—Amer-
ican Agriculturalist. -

 

Use for Lani A‘ on: fledgerows.‘

A great many farmers who have
hedges around-their farms complain
of the waste of ground for a few feet
on either side. -. Even when kept well

trimmed, corn, wheat, oats and such

crops will not thrive there, and in
consequence a strip is left uncultiva-
ted each season. 1\‘ nw this need not b1
'ifth’e farmer really desires to utilize
that ground ..along «his hedges. '1Usu-
ally the soil has become very. fertile 011
account of the decaying-of much foli-
age, and by running a barrow. merit
the ground is prepared for turnip or
A gnod crop of turnips.
can be grown along those com. omnmi
hedge rows and Iwill be out of the
way there.‘ These. products ivill sell
in the market .or will furnishfoodfor
stock.
wheat may be sown along'the:~ hedge.
and its blossoms will furnish. them
ways to
utilize these vacant or neglected bits

of land it we will stop to 1111111:.—-.s..i

11. Gibson.

 

Rats as Insect Des oyore.

1Dr. C. F. Hodge of Clark Univer-
sity, Worcester, Mass, writes about
bats as insect destroyers. loan 1 1-
ard near his home he found nine
grubs of the codling month in one
minute. ,Chancing to Visit another
urchnrd not a 1111111 1‘1an the first he
found only four grabs in an hour’s
search. The owner of the farm said
that in an old barn near-by lived sev-

enty-five to one hundred bats, and his

apples were always free from worms.
Dr. Hodge caught a, bat and offered
it some of the grabs, which were
greedily accepted. He also took a doz-
en bars 115 e and 111—1111 .11111 ..11
the parlor. They made their home in
the top folds of the window d15ape15~
ies, flying about at night and some-
times in the daytime. - From time'to
flying insects
were released in the room and,,never
one remained in the morning The
bats took everything, from a spider to

1 a polyphonic-us moth. One morning the

doctor counted while a bat devoured
sixty- eight house flies.

 

A Superior Paris Green Mixture. ’

The main difficulty in successfully
spraying potatoes is that rain washes
the poison off the vines, frequently
within an hour after, its applicatIOn.
An easy and inexpensive wayto spray
potatoes in wet weather is to use ten
pounds of flour to a barrel of water

and about one-half to one pOund of
-Paris green. _-

Mix the flour in -a bucket
or buckets to the consistency of thin
cream, mix the paris green into this
liquid then add to the water and keep
agitated while spraying. The flour

. keeps the poison in suspension in the
barrel and when the liquid- falls on
- the vines forms a paste which holds

the poison on the vines and will pass,
through many rain storms and com
tinue to destroy bugs. With this

method one spraying will kili all bugs
‘ and save IIIthé crop. .

' warfare

Some farmers have the'

If bees are kept then-buck»

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Are '1?qu ofSoup 5 ' '

The samples of various thingS de-
vised for the comfort or soldiers and. .
the models of implements- to be usedréfin ' ’
received by the PreSidem
would, if placed on exhibition, eclipse 3-5." :3"
the sights in the Nat1onal museum. ‘ t
The secretary of the Navy is also de-
luged with all. sorts of. contrivances
and devices, as Well. as samples of. im-‘5 7
proved methods of cooking and cloth-- 5
ing. In one of the rooms of the Navy
Department are shown some of these
“supplies,” and they are more interest--
ing to see than the famous Hotel Clu-
ny in Paris. One man has actually 5
‘fbouillon capsules" that you swallow
at one bolt, then drink some water.
and lo and behold! your stomach is full
of soup. Another genius has sent to ‘
the depaitment specimen bottles. of , 55
prepared ,castor oil, to be used in con-
mention with the edibies. A benevolent
old gentleman of Pennsylvania. sent a.
recipe, there are sixteen pages of it,
for preparing all kinds of food for sol-
diers sans teeth, who have only their
gums to depend upon and who must
either swallow soup or starve.

In the War Department- the same
story is told. One bright genius has
put. up specially prepared packages of '
paris green and wants Secretary Alger
to require every soldier to carry one in
his knapsack. The idea is that all the
bugs of Cuba will thus. be kept at bay.
as if the troops were tomato plants.

Some of the patent medicine men have
evolved “yellOw pills,” which are war-
ranted to cure yellow fever. Then there
are patent splints for setting broken
limbs, which almost dispense with a.
doctor, and litters on Wheels. This last
invention is the work of a well known '
artist, Mr. Remington. It is nothing
more nor’less than the ordinary bicy-
.cle wheel, carrying ,.the' framework for
a cot, upon which the wounded are
placed and pushed to the, hospital. An~
other curious invention offered to the
government is an apparatus for peer-
ing into the depths of the ocean to hunt
for cables, and keep a. sharp lookout
for submerged mines and torpedoes.
The invention is called an aquascope.-.
Army and Nav;r Journal.

 

 

How a, Panic was Avertod.

The tales of the panic .on board the
Burgogne, ’which was sunk recently,
brings to mind a story the Hon. Ben.
Cable of Illinois, tells of an experience
of his in midocean. The day was fog-
gy, and most'of the passengers were
below listening to twoevangelists who
were holdings. particularly fervid gos-
pel meeting in the saloon. Suddenly
and without the slightest warning
there was a. terrific crash and the en-—
gines stopped. Every one rushed on
deck. The steamer had run into an
iceberg. Nobody knew what damage
had been done, and everybody was
ready to fly into a. panic. The boats
waredowered, and then for the first
time the two evangelists who had been
forgotten in the saloon, appeared on
deck. They were their overcoats and
their hats and theycarried rugs and
handbags. They elbowed their way,
rudely to the rail, with-the evident in~
tent of securing for themselves first
places in the boat. It was just at a time‘
when a breath would have sent the 5
passengers: panic-stricken into the
boats. The, sight of the two evangel-
ists was about to undo the workof
cool-headed officers when a pert little
cockney stepped up to the gentlemen
with the rage and handbags.
,“Beg'pardon,” said he, tipping his
cap, “’ave a cab, sir?”

And in the general laugh the danger
of panic was averted. —WashingtonI

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. A Material. Amendment. . i ' A

A brace of Mormon elders have re-‘ _ w ’
cently been carrying on .a mission in ‘
Los 'Angeles' county, says the San i
. Francisco News Letter. In a locality ;
where the residents are very ortho- ' i
dox, according to the 'New England . I A
standard, these Utah missionaries ob-' "i
tained the use of 5a. school house for ‘
their meeting by'cailing themselves
“Latter Day Saints," which sounded
very evangelical in the ears of the good
Protestants of the section.
, At the meeting one of the elders ,de-1
claimed very fervently‘on the unity
of faith, maintaining that there is only
one right religious way-~of course.
Brigham Young’s way-~and nailing his
argument by quoting very frequently
the bibhcai text, “One Lord, one faith,
one baptism.”

Then the speaker invited remarks or
questions from anyone preSent, with a.
view of clinching his proselyItingI ex-

pedition.
A sweet faced old lady arose, but
completely Spoiled the effect of the

Mormon’s oration by remarking de-
murely: '

“There are, no doubt, three New Tea-
tament units-~one Lord, one faith, one
baptism. But there is also a. fourth--
one wife."

 

. a Bull mgn‘e’ror the s. P. c. A
It has never becurred to the average
Spaniard, who in all ranks of life is a.
courteous and obliging gentleman, that .
his barbarous bull fight is anything but '
a form of dramatic entertainment,- a": ‘
legitimate 5as those of the Lyceum or
Comedic Francaise.'1‘h,e.y tell a IStory
which may probably be true. that
when the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals proposed to estabo
lish a branch in a. leading city of Spain
the municipal body cqurteously ac-
cepted the proposal and offered to hold
'a grand bull fight at Once to furnish . ,.
the funds. —London Review. , 52.,

 

 

“I Wish that I could acquire a repu- . . . , " I 1 I:
tation for1 being5 1ght,’? said Willie ,‘
Wishirigtdh: “ ' 5‘ '1 '

“There is nothing easier,
Cayenne... “All . , .~
Iyou", haye heard it before whenever;
any one says anything clever. Warns :1.
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