The Wahpeton times., 1891-10-08
YOUNG PEOPLES CORNER R
MATTERS OF INTEREST AND IN
STRUcTloN TO THE YOUNG.
Getting Rid Of Surplus Plants--
Swift Travellng--A Sure Mark
--What Was lnside--Chil-
dren's Discoveries

/ SWuS iToVeuN8--A sure MARK
| --What Was lnside--Chil-
dren's Discoveries
Getting Rid Of Surplus Plants.
Marian" he said thatnight "there
are several ways for you to get rid of
your plant surplus. You can throw
them away"
"Go on, Mr.. Bailey"
COR you can put sign out on the
road: plants sold here, and maybe"
"Go right on, Mr.. Bailey. You know
it's two miles to the main road"
"Or, which l cordially endorse, you
can give them away"
"Now you IRE sensible, John. That
is what I wanted to do. But to whom
shall we give them that is the ques-
tion."
marian, do you not remember
that once last year we drove seven
teen miles to the head of the valley,
and in all that distance there was but
one garden, and that a very shabby
one, and do you notSremember that
there is a school-house two or three
miles away, a rusty old shanty by the
County road? Now, suppose you
should try to get the school children
to take your surplus stock. | know
something about the district. Nearly
all the farmers are renters, and the
attendance tiuctuates a good deal.
After a bad season people move away,
until perhaps, there will not be more
than four or five children in the dis
trict; at present there are more than
forty. will drive you over there
some afternoon and you can talk
with the teacher and the children"
A few weeks later Mrs. Bailey gath
cred some OF her rose-buds, and filled
several boxes with little plants, all in
the incest possible condition for
transplanting. Her husband took
her to thefolorn-looking gschool-house,
and they introduced themselves to the
elderly and tired-out teacher, Miss
Sanborn. In few minutes Mrs.
Bailey was persuaded to venture up
on a "talk with the children" which
she managed in q way that appeared
to John nothing less than pure genius.
She told them how beautiful flowers
were, and how ready to repay good
care. Every one might have garden,
and at such slight expense. She de-
scribed her own garden, and some of
her methods and experiments. Then
she wanted to know if there couldn't
be garden in the school-yard, close
by the well, and if each boy and girl
would not like to carry some plants
home, and see whether they could be
made to grow. The idea took at
once, and the dear little lady gave
each child q share in the "surplus" OF
her garden.
"Now, children, come and see me
some Saturday afternoon and tell
me how they are growing" said she.
"Then we will find out who has the
best garden. Perhaps we shall be
able to have Il flower show in few
years, and prizes for the prettiest
roses. Remember, lots OF water for
your plants; lots OF hoeing about
them, and lots of attention all SUM
mer. Then you'll have loads OF flow
ers."
Before she was half done, every
child in the school-ro.m III was determ-
ined to have garden.
Swift Travelling.
A stirring incident took place not
long ago in Courbevoie, when Paul
Leprince, the aeronaut, and one ofhis
friends, made a balloon ascension.
They had reached an elevation OF fif-
teen hundred feet, when they began to
hear a peculiar whistling sound. Le-
prince climbed upon the ring, and dis
covered tear, few inches long, made
by the branch of a tree, against which
they had swept in their upward pas
sage. What followed is related by
Leprince in ILLUSTRATION.
At this moment, the sun dispelIed
the clouds and shone with all it's force
upon the balloon. This produced such
an expansion OF gas that the valve
was not sufficient to lessen the strain,
and the fabric tore apart, with noise
like the rustling OF leaves. Through
the opening poured the gas in great
volumes.
1--WE are lost" cried my friend.
@The ballastn' shouted l. ",rhe bal
last!'
In an instant two bags were thrown
out. 1saw by the barometer that we
We're nearly five thousand feet from
the ground, and then the fall began.
Wethrew outeverything OF any wei ight,
and prepared to east off our clothing,
and resolved to cling at the moment
OF striking, to the netting above.
Fortunately there was q strong
wind blowing, which carried us along
at the rate of thirty-fve orforty miles
an hour, and enabled us to fall at an
angle, thus softening the shock.
The balloon was violently shaken in
its flight, and kept swinging and sway
ing iii a horrible manner, but this mo-
ton was, after all, what saved us.
During one of the most vigorous of
these movements, the lower part of
the balloon was thrown to the upper
part of the netting, and rested there
against the valve, in the shape of a
dome, forming an immense parachute