Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-02-13

of them or coaxed or scolded into 60
ing. The trip in itself is an event
frought with as much interest as if
he could see the sights along the way
and hear the cries and the music OF
the street. and, in a way, Tom does
see and hear more than many a. boy
would in passing over the same route.
How many people are in the tar?"
he spells with his inquisitiye little fin
gers into the palm of his teachers
hand What kind of lady sits next
to me. and what does she wear? What
street are we on now?Are the buildings
high or low? What is there in the
shop windows?"
These questions go on from the time
he starts until he arrives at his des-
tination. He knows the route so thor
oughly that he can make diagram of
it in the sand he uses for his geog
raphy lessons, naming the streets over
which he passes without mistake,
and would doubtless find his way alone
if it were safe to trust him without pre-
lection on the crowded streets.
HIS SKILL WITH TOOLS.
He uses the same kind of tools in
MS WOOQWOIh ludI INC OtutI DOyS uO,
except that his rule has to have raised
figures on it, and in marking off he
uses an awl instead OF a led pencil.
Tom is neat, orderly, careful and eX-
act in his work, and rarely makes a
blunder of any kind. His intuitions
are so keen and his senses of touch
and smell, upon which he depends, are
go highly developed that he can detect
the slightest variation from the model.
If his work does not match the rule
and square perfectly he is miserable.
Tom is a most successful driver of
nails Every blow of the hammer falls
with unerring aim upon the head of the
nail and he can send it through the
tbinnest piece of wood without split
fling if. Seeing boys who smash their
fingers and splinter the wood in their
andeayor to drive nails look on in
wonder at Toms feat.
Tom began his woodwork with
s;mnlv constructed little stool, in
which he used only saw, hammer and
nails Since then he has made a score
If articles. including boxes and other
l,riclr.lsnacks suitable for Christmas
r,raeants for his friends. One of his
,,,ost ambitious efforts, and one in
which he manifested the greatest in
forest was a bird house, in making
which he used twelve different tools.
ACUTE SENSE OF SMELL.
when Tom is in doubt about the
IND Of wood he is handling. he helps
out his fingers by smelling the wood,
ous i - +bis sense alone is able to dis
t;-a,ish eight different varieties. He
is not only painstaking and careful IN
h;s work, but keeps an accurate and
40 1.rs+amafic record Of all that he does,
ssssorih;ng each article that he makes
u uu setting down the length of time
ha a was occupied on it and other de-
tails.
rJ;s mechanical bent finds express
c;on even in the summer vacation
witch he passes on farm. He spends
. considerable part of his time in ft-
Iinp IN contrivances which require
sl;Tl and natience. Last summer he
rugged up an elevator IN the parh WITH
ouf assistance or direction from any
cne. getting the materials, consisting
Of !. rope. pulleys, blocks and chain,
together himself, and so adjusting
them that he could pull Amself up and
left himself down again.. lie IS ex-
trenaely active and venvlresome, but
seldom gets hurtA He climbs trees as
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