? . AT SCHOOL. i I like to sit in school and look At all the girls I know, .When every nead above a book Is bending very low. They are so mucj alike, you see, And yet so different, too? For come have eyes of brown like me And some nave eyes of blue. (When we're admiring Marguerite,. AVl'.OSO hmitla lire lnnir nnil lino Bin- cays site thinks that curli are sweet, Like Josephine's or mine. But Josephm.* and t believe f'tnisiit liaiv is lovelier, 'And look at Marguerite and prieve \Yc ore ntt uiore like her. 'And so-ie have shiny t:a::cn hair; And others urown or biack; wc*:- ;* - >ort: and ot.iers wear Two p.vi.a! i down the beck. Aim some i . e bows of ribbon gay? Hair pati.'d < the side. Bin every girl likes be t the way L-uaie other's bair is tied. Ju t thin'.:, if all the little girls Coal'1, veiling, change tneir state, Tlmn u.l t si-.- pip tails won id be cur.s And a.l t e i v:v!s be stiainhl. And 1 should look lute Marguerite, And Marguerite like me. And eve v ?,ny nt school we'd meet? llow S unity it*would be! ?i.thrl 11. Kelley, in St. Nicholas. A EOT'S ECGAY ON POLITENESS. Politeness is rather a difficult thine, especially when you are making a start. Many people haven't got it. I uor.'t know why, unless it is the start. It is not polite to fight little boys, except they throw stones at you. Then you can run after them, and, when you've caught them, just do a her that all little boys arc simpletons, or they wouldn't do it. It is not the thing to make fun of a little chap because he is poorer than you. Let him alone if you don't want to play with him, for he is as good as you, except the clothes. When you are in school, and a boy throws a bit of broad or anything at you over the desks, it is not polite to put your tongue out at him, or to twiddle your fingers in trout of your nose. Just wait till after school, and then warn him what you'll do next time; or, if you find you are bound to hit him. be pretty easy with him. Don't keep on eating after you arc tightening, ami you will bo far happier. Never eat quickly, or you might get bone3 in your throat. My father knows of a boy who got killed over his Sunday diuncr. It is not polite to leave victuals on your plate, especially anything you don't like. If you don't like turnips, it is better to eat well into your turnips first while you are hungry, and you'll eat the meat and ( potatoes easy enough afterwards. Boys should always be polite to girls, however vexing they may be. Girls are net co strong as boys; their hair is long and tiieir faces are prettier; ?o you should be gentle with them. If a girl scratches you on the cheek, don't punch her, and don't tell her mother. That would be mean. Just hold her tight by the arms till she feels you could give it to her if you had a mind to.?Children's Answers. TICK-TOCK. "Yon must not climb into the bottom of that clock, Gertie." Ecrtii! crept out of the low, oldfashioned clock door with a wheedling smile. "But, mamma, I squeedge In just lovely!" "And jar the clock, dear, so that It loses time. The other day It lost half an hour, and Uncle John missed his train." "How can a little boy like me make a big clock like you lose balf an hour?" he asked. Several days later mamma came downstairs and called Eertie, who sat waiting to accompany her to see a great ship sail away with Uncle John. "Tick-tock?tlckcty-tock!" ticked the big clock solemnly. "You are right this morning, I hope," said Eertie, softly. "I crept In so softly last night. One leg at a time." But a troubled look shone In his bright eyes. "Tlckcty-tock?tlckoty!" answered the deck. I And then Dobin drove them to the i station, where mamma looked at the station clock, and instantly her face grew very sad. "Our clock has lost twenty minutes i again," she said. "Uncle John must u sail away alone. Bertie, listen to me. j Go home, my boy, get Into that clock ] and stay there until mamma comes." j Bertie trotted gloomily home. ' "Tlckety-took!" wheezed the clock as he climbed into it. And it kept on saying that, until Bertie felt sure it was the slowest j work in the world for those weary ! ttckr to grow info hours. Everv I fecart-broken thought he had about missing Uncle John and the beautiful hi;? tho clocli beat sharply into his I memory with Its constant "Tickety- i i, took, tickety-tcck! You never saw a j Ship or a dock." At last mamma came and lifted feini out, stltf and miserable. Ho | & dung to her rock, and never said a I The neat day tho moon looked down with a sldewlse smile at him. ? Bertio shoal: his head sorrowfully. "1 oba'c't ever come to seo you any ffxnd tho cjnoer old clock said, approvtar\y, "Tlck-tock?ticl:ety-tock! Bertio la going to mind?tock!" Whoa Undo John came back BerMl wout to moot him. for tho clock P apM Jnot right.?Lillian Prtco la m * " . . * PIGEON'S RACE FOR LIFE. The passengers on the ferryboat Piedmont, from Oakland, Cal., were treated to the spectacle of a speed test between a sea eagle and a carrier pigeon, In which the smaller bird won, saving Its life. When the boat was opposite Goat Island, P. H. Schlotzhauer, a pigeon fancier of Alameda, released five birds. Among them waf the famous five-year-old homer, Duke of Richmond, who has proved his right to a title of nobility in more than a score of long distance flights. The pigeons rose into the air and circled several times. Four of them turned toward the cast, but the fifth, which was the Duke of Richmond, was seen to flirt and drop towards iuv i iviiiirjiii. i in :i me iiHSseiiKera made out that the I'l^eon was being pursued by a large bird. The two bird3 were at an elevation of one thousand feet wlicu the chase began, with the carrier a short distance in the lead. As by instinct he dropped straight for the place where his master had released him, and landing upon the ladies' deck of the Piedmont, fluttered through the cabin door. The sea eagle was so confident that it wctpld strike its prey that it did not check its pursuit until within ten foot of the rail of the ferryboat. Then it wheeled suddenly, and hovering about the stern of the boat for a few moments, winged its way back towards Goat Island. Once Inside the cabin, the frightened pigeon ran down the aisle until it came to a passenger reading a newspaper. As if sure of protection, It fluttered up to his side and perched on the arm of his seat. There it was caught by Schlotzhav.er and safely caged.?San Francisco Chronicle. "i AN EMPEROR'S LESSON. When the Emperor William was a small boy he had a strong objection to being washed in the morning, and his governess, having had some unpleasant experiences with him and being in some doubt as to what she had tetter do, appealed to his father, tho then Crown Prince Frederic. Frederic answered: "The next time he gives you any trouble on this score j leave him alone to his own pleasure and report to me." Naturally It was not long before the young prince refused to go through the purification process, and the governess followed the orders received. Now, the boy had a little carriage and was very fond of driving out in the morning, and he generally orrlprpd flip l>na?hni!in in nn hu li-air nt the Brandenburg gate, as It amused and flattered him to see the soldiers in the barrack, just inside the gate, turn out and present arms as the heir to the empire passed their quarters. Accordingly, on the morning of his disobedience the order was, as usual, "To the Brandenburg gate," and the carriage rolled rapidly thither. But' what were the amazement and the rage of the princeling, on arriving there, to see no sb'.diers encept those on guard, and they took not the slightest notice of him. In a towering passion he ordered the coachman to return to the palace, where, rushing into his father's room, ho complained of the indecent behavior of the guard and demanded their condign punishment. But his father only smiled and said, in the gentlest voice: "Fuer ungewaschener prinz wlrd nietuals praesentirt" ("An unwashed prince is never saluted").?Youth's Companion. i'nwn *! i '> i I I {K^nNPU5,TR,lAa|| [i.vnsgP' In Paris they call radium le metal conjugal, because it was the joint discovery of husband and wife. It was Mme. Curie who first suspected the qualiilta of uranium and drew her husband's attention to the sub* Joct. In the reports of the recent Antarctic expedition frequent allusion is made to the prevailing southerly wlnd3 and blizzards. The fact that these winds continue to within such a short distance of the South Pole throws doubt on the view that a great anti-cyclonic area lies over that region'. If such were tho caso light, variable breezes might rather be expected so near the pole. In Franco Monsieur Ilardy has Invented an application of tho microphone to detect fire damp in mines. This is it3 principle: If sound waves from two pipes of equal pitch impinge on microphones connected In series with a telephone, a clear noto is heard; but If or.e of the pipes emits a slightly different note, beats will be board in tho telephone. Here is the Hnn la vv1aaa/I ? * tho mine, the other Above ground, and they are blown simultaneously. If the air in the mine is charged w ith fire damp, it will produce a different note from that produced by clear air, owing to tho dinerer'je of density, and in consequenco a series of beats in the telephone gives warning of the presence of fire damp. The same apparatus is very sensitive to the presence of coal gas. fc?? > ???n A SEASONABLE FOR ?Cartoon BOY WHO SHOT WEE 'I Don't Know What Made Kane, Ag( Burlington, N. J.?Declaring that he deliberately Bliot three-year-old Frances Lord, but unable to explain what Impulse forced him to the act, eleven-year-old "Joe" Kane, held for the slaying of the little girl last Saturday evening, made a complete confession to Assistant County Prosecutor Robert Atkinson and Policeman Claude Sell, of Burlington, at the City Hall jail. "I knew it would kill Frances and I I know they hang people for doing things like that," said the youthful I prisoner. Then recovering some of the braggadocio he displayed when arrested, Kane said he had been inspired to play "robber" by moving picture shows which he had witnessed. "All the boys play robber," con imuea joe. "sometimes we use stlclcs for swords and hold up all the kids that come along, but It's more fun to use a gun, because you can scare all the kids with that. "We often used the old gun when we were having 'fun' playing highwayman. I came near shooting Freddie Roberts once when I pulled the trigger and the gun went ofT just over hts head. We used to swipe caps and shoot them off on the gun when there weren't any other loads in it, as there was this last time when I shot Frances. My brother had loaded It to shoot blackbirds laBt week. Sometimes I'd chase the whole gang out of the yard, telling them I'd shoot them. Once I got a pistol and made a fellow run like sixty. "But I never had a fight with Frances. She was just a little girl," said the boy, in tears for the first time during the interview, and he added remorsefully, "I don't know why I did it. | "When Frances ran up to see what wo were doing I said, 'I'm going to rhoot you!' She says, 'Please don't shoot me!' and put her hands over her face and peered through her fin- j gcrs. She started to run and I shot the gun at her. The old gun kicked so hard it nearlv knoo'ipri m? nror "My mother and father told neighbors it was an accident, so I just said it was an accident and blamed it on Tommy Ocas. I knew it wasn't right to kill her. I didn't mean to shoot her, and I don't know why I did. We were having such a good time playing robber!" "Ever go to Sunday school, Joe?" asked the prosecutor. | "Nope, but I'd like to go. Never got any good clothes to wear. I ain't a bad boy. though. Folks say I'm bad when I'm just having fun." Kane had an opportunity to tell his story again before a coroner's jury. Local ofTcials who listened to the boy's story believe he suffered a sudden attack oT insanity, and assert that his case is a study for alienists rather then a jury. | The boy prisoner seemed to enjoy his experience on the trolley trip to J the county seat with Patrolman Claudo Sell. "I wonder if they'll I bang me for this," he asked the policeman. When assured that hang-I ing was no longer in force in New Jersey the boy seemed easier in his I mind. MAY WARD C Removal of Large f rites tl Backs Up I London.?As the result of investigations at St. Mary's Hospital, London, Dr. Distaso, of Paris, says he has [ verified the theory of Professor Metchrlkeff that old age can bo warded ! off "* will be recalled that Professor | Mctchnikoff declared it to be his conviction a couple of years ago that the large Intestine was the breeding place of the majoritv of harmful germs In the human body, and that when this IntflftlnA wna Vrtmntforl ? .vun/*6u ?-uu liitvjuruy of germs remaining in the body were beneficlrl, with the result that life was prolonged. Dr. Distaso's investigations were directed to comparing the germs found In normal Individuals and In those whose large Intestine had been removed by operation. He no satisfied himself bjr his studies Ex pertinents to Be Made With View to Supplement Telephone. Washington. D. C.?In order to ascertain whether the heliograph can be successfully utilised In the National forests to report fires and transmit other messages In areas where there Is no quick method of communication, experiments with Instruments like those used In the United States Army will be made du^ng the summer. If satisfactory, heliographs will be naed to supplement the telephone lines. J Iff* ' r^ffp f ? __ \ \ M OF RACE SDICIDl \| by Berryman, in the Washington Star. "GIRL TELLS OF DEED Me Kill Frances,** Says Joe scS Eleven. "I wish I was out in those woods," he exclaimed as the car passed a shady grove. "That's a bully place to play robber." "Playin" robber" seems to be the boy's chief Joy in life. He was "playin' robber" when he killed Frances Lord. "Joe's" eyes bulged and ho wept a llttlo TV' VlOn f Vio r\rtllrtotr?nw ' - ? I ..??.V f. uvu vuv iJUUV,CUiilU ICU 111LLX U \J I the steps of the old county jail, but he recovered quickly and chatted with the turnkey and Sheriff Worrell before he was assigned to a cell. What to do with "Joe" Is becoming more of a puzzle to the authorities every day. He Is too young to be put on trial for manslaughter, and local officials wish that he might be turned over to some "home society," and saved from the reform school. Testimony of Mrs. Lord at the Inquest that she saw her daughter shot, and of eleven-year-old Thomas Ocas, a boy companion of Kane's that the latter deliberately shot Frances after threatening her life, destroyed j the theory that the shooting was an I accident. | "He said, 'Me shoot you: me shoot you. t rances." She cry. and then he shoot her," the Ocas boy testified in broken English, when Prosecutor Atkinson asked him to describe the tragedy. Kane at first charged Ocas with the shooting, but afterward confessed that he did it himself. Smiling and crying alternately as he answered the prosecutor's questions, the Kane boy was by far the most interesting witness at the inquest. Rather small for his age, with his round face plentifully freckled, the defendant seemed a perfectly normal boy, and a murmur of pity ran through the room as he was called to the witness stand. I The prosecutor asked him if he | knew what would become of him if i he told an untruth. "Yes. you'd send me to the reform I SChoob" nnR*.vov?rl (hn lt/?v "But If yon died, what would become of you then. Joe?" "I'd pro to the bad man." The little prisoner then rehearsed the events leading up to and surrounding the tragedy, which were substantially the same as he had given in part In earlier confessions. He again changed the story to deny that he shot the girl deliberately. "Tommy had the gun and I took It away from him; Frances came around the corner. 'Lookout, I'm going to shoot you,' I said. She began to cry and then the gun went off," the witness testified. "I had my hand on the trigger," he continued, "but I Just pressed It a little. I didn't mean to kill her. We were good friends and played together." For nearly an hour and a half the Jury deliberated before returning a verdict which was the mildest form under which the boy could be held. Mrs. Kane. Joe's mother, broke into tears as the assistant prosecutor read the verdict, and fainted when Coroner Blsblng remanded him to Jail to await the action of the county authorities. Joe gravely shook hands with several boy friends, who said they were BOTry for him and hoped he would get out soon. But he didn't cry. )FF OLD AGE. ne Urged by Doctor Who wtetchnlkoff. of the truth of Professor Metchnlkoff'B theory that he unhesitatingly says that every child ought to have | its large Intestine and appendix removed when two or three years old. He further affirms that almost every chronic disease can he traced to the action of these Intestinal | germs, among others heart disease. | arterial sclerosis and most kinds of | headaches. Everybody would get I along better without the big Intestine, but those who care not to sumbit to Its removal by onrratlon oug' want to live long, to eat v i . little meat, once dally being pi \ h green vegetables, and only at other mealp. Water should be drunk a'., i orly throughout the day, but no i''. (fetor spirits. IKmployers Declare That Union May Drive Them Out of Lynn. Lynn, Mass.?A thinly veiled threat to deprive the city of Lynn of Its chief Industry, that of shoe manufacturing, Is made In a statement Issued from the office of the Lynn Shoe Manufacturers' Association, which Includes practically all the manufacturers In the city. The statement, given out by Seeretarv H. A. Sawyer, refers to the alleged domination of the shoe Industry here by the labor organisations, charaeter| Istng ljt as "undue interference.* % \2^ THE a r&ULTRY YARD. Tw * ^\J^*yyandotte Male. Tht H V i*cture shows the Ideal Q fowl?i// ^\.mp body, full breast g and stated \^ge. The Buffs are strictly Wy in all else but f color, except i J^ey are just a trl- I He larger than ^ Xjiver Laced. In t general appearauv^FVy resembie the c Buff Plymouth Roc_ Vxcept that the 8 ?atter have single combs and the former have rose combs. They are splendid market fowls, and are good layers during the fall and winter months. They are very docile and do well in small yards, though if allowed freedom they roam the fields and orchards as much as some of the smaller breeds. Fruit and Poultry. A profitable combination on a small farm within easp reach of a good market is fruit and poultry. Hens, to do well, require a liberal range that contains bushes or trees enough to supply partial shade. They also require a variety of green stuff, with a sprinkling of Insects. Such a combination may be easily supplied by planting the land to fruit and enclosing It in poultry netting wire. The hens do not know that they are confined. They dig little here and there, but quickly abandon the task to chase a moth ?r a grasshopper. If the trees or bushes are mulched they work in the little to their entire satisfaction, destroying many Insects. All .the bush fruits are benefited by poultry, provided the soil Is made soft enough for them to scratch. Bush fruits cannot thrive well in ground | that Is packed down hard or covered with a mat of grass. But if the plow and cultivator are operated as they should be early in the season, the ground is put In condition to yield fruit and benefit the fowls, which Is the most profitable way to get two crops from the land at once.?Farm Stock Journal. A Lean-to Poultry House. The above represents a very convenient and comfortable poultry house, built against a stable or other outbuilding. The portion adjoining tho other wall is eight feet high, and the lowest part of roof is six feet. The r : . un b } :!. ting ?: .1 the i ' {Ml plat i 01 .i- * ? that have -hat J ! th? r f?-aib?'vr < '' ?' with a p.eriJ-- j i r.M.Jii nuule of , e;f disj solved m t'.colii !. 11 ns not Use the bitter taste. Board floors in the chicken house are better than wet ground, but dry ground is best of all. Vegetables of some kind should be fed the poultry the year round, cabbage, potatoes, beets, turnips, etc. Shredded alfalfa, which costs about two cents per pouhd. Is a fine green food where yards to provide the same fresh are not available. It can either be fed dry In boxes or scalded then added to a one-third bran xnaah ?-fsed thus ones a day. i THE PULPIT. j ,N ELOQUENT 8UNDAY 8ER *$N BY THE REV. 8YDNEY H. COX. 41 j( Theme: What Is It to Lire? Brooklyn, N. Y.?Sunday morning he Rev. Sydney Herbert Cox, pastor 1 the Church of the Evangel, reached on the special subject, "What is It to Live?" The text was * ^ rom Matthew 4:4: "It Is written? rlan shall not llv ut by every wor >ut of the. mouth <' ?x m j laid: It is written! Dtute<- 1 momy, the second >lw- law. he recapitulation - periep.r.w vith God, and . ?"f hereof. It is decl < mething raor , . **"* Iderness of 1 ' < d <>" harvests. e temptatlor e through c v I i - ' Ity must ps Latt of spiritual -1 ^ man face to face i- '! ?. questions of his wj life? Why are we tempted, and how? ^ .J What is sin, and how can we be free from it? What is to be the end of the battle, with its deep failures and few successes? What does it mean to live? The answer of Jesus includes a denial and an affirmation. He sets * forth (l) the unity of life. His reply to the tempter was surely unexpected. He does not say, I am divine, I am unique, Kam in a social sense the Sou of God. \He speaks for the > race as its representative and refers to a fundamental li.w that man has , experienced, though^ ~ra\ely Interpreted. Man does not live \^y bread alone. His living is something more * than the means to live. Thelre *8 one life. Only part of it depfnds on bread. Bread, like the plow\and the soil, is but an agent, a tool. \ 11 Pre" ? serves the body, but the body\also is only a machine in which the \person r who has life for a little while *wellsThe answer of Jesus does not |deftne life, but declares the source * fullest expression. "Your fathers eat manna in the wilderness and are dead. The bread that I will give, ^ a man eat, he shall live forevg-." There Is a distinctness of the life inat is purely physical, or intellectual, or moral, or spiritual, but with the distinctness there is also the impossibility of separation. The source of each, and the unity of all, originate in God. This, then, is the denial of materialism. Man does not live by bread alone! God has given to each phase of life its need, and no lower nature in us can supply the needs of the one ' above it, though it may influence it more or less. A bilious body may cause a pessimistic philosophy, but it could not be the sole cause. The pugilist acquires a perfect physique, without gaining an atom of intellectual force, moral perception o.' spiritual desire. The skeptic may Inherit wealth without faith, and the hypocrite may own libraries and art galleries. These live?that is to say, they exist; the/ eat, drink and are merry, because the bread of the world, the things of time and place and of the present are theirs in aoundance. But in the deeper, profounder, timeless, ageless sense of life, in the vision of the true, the beautiful and the good, do they live? Jesus denies it. He affirms the reality of the spiritual. All things proceed out of the mouth of God. The soul must receive life by an incarnation. That is the representative miracle or ? sign of the being of Christ. God must pass into oar consciousness as He had always been in that of Jesus, dominating our nature, but only with ur voluntary acquiescence. What is it to live? To have the force of the *0*7^ lifer of God put in control of our human forces at the command of our , own will, the higher controllng the lower, and yet making more of the lower. The spiritual, feeding on the ' vision of God and then expanding the moral, the intellectual, and th? nhvs. icai, so that, for the whole man, limits disappear; time, death and the grave are but temporary expedients and all his nature cries, "1 live, yet not I, Christ livo.th ii^ne." Thus life * eternal is something ntore, and something different from Ufe prolonged. ^ It is a new quality of life, involving the recognition of God's share in the making. It is God lifting man into the new spirit of being. Man lives? ^^ by the things that proceed out of the mouth of Jehovah, said the Deuteronomist. He does. The words of God are symbols of his volition, whether his will reveals a new harvest, a new J idea, a new duty, or a ne* sacrifice. M The spiritual man greets either of these words of God by giving them their holiest expression because now m he lives! He lives in growing harmony with the perceived will of his eternal Father. He has a stronger "* life than the pugilist, because his physical powers are only at the service of the world's need. He Is * mightier than the physical champion, because his superb bodily endowment cannot escape his spiritual Idea'" of service. His mind towers above the skeptic's because, in spite of poverty <>v bodily weakness, or many sor or grave problems of truth, he as tne power to prevent these t) ' , . from obscuring his vision of a cl. <# f'mplicity, a woman's tenderne . a man's courage, or those larger iccesses seen when races struggl p * through fearful toil to days of la t lit<-. thousam id avo risen a ov ^ 1 lead selve he finds . r monej I ind, nor pc i'lxuri, , n:i*< explained in-? primal forces that nave urged 1:1 d > on. The eternal choice. And always that choice Involves sacrifice. It did for .lesus. It must for us. He desired nothing more eagerly than the rapid conquest of His people by Hit Ideals and mission. His triple temptation suggests Improper ways of secaring It. His public ministry wu quickly filled with opportunities for 7 gathering disciples, prestige and ju power. Tet he denied Himself am easy popularity, a legitimate pleasure. * worldly wledum and current methods 41 of success, la order that absolutely all that He was and did might be d - * a. - - J ~ J- jk