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make as much fun as any llttie deVlce
you ever heard Of
Here is the way to make it: Select
five of the longest and smoothest
toothpicks you can find, and place
two of them on the bottom of goblet
or wineglass, turned upside down on
a table. in the form of the letter X.
On these two place third ore, so
that it will lie lengthwise along the
middle line of the letter.
Now place a pick at each end so
that it will rest on top of the middle
one and under the ends of the crossed
ones. This will make little bend in
the middle pick, causing enough pres
sure to hold the device to gether. The
picks may be more easily arranged if
you get some one to help you.
Get a long cork and stick matches
into it to represent arms and legs.
An extra piece of cork may be carved
into a sort of head for the figure, and
the effect will thereby be made more
grotesque. Or you may make the
head with all the features out of new
bread, which is malleable enough for
the purpose. A little water color paint
will make eyes, nose, ears and cheeks
Now place the figure astride OF the
middle toothpick, at one end, and you
have everything ready for the going
off, of the machine. To bring about
the catastrophe you have only to
touch lighted rlatc-. to the end OF
one of the crossed toothpicks, and
Just as soon as enough of it has burn
cd tO reach the DOint of junction the
whole device will fly to pieces. and
as the bent middle toothpick will
spring up when thus released from
pressure it will throw the figure into
space dismembered.
The result is both startling and
amusing.
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Fun in a Clocks Face.

Some amusement may be had In .
company of boys and girls by asking
them to draw picture of the face OF
a clock Most of hem would be likely
to draw the letters w. instead OF I'LL.
for four, and would forget. perhaps.
that all the letters of .he dial should
stand with their base toward the CEN
ter.
1t is probable that most people read
a clock dial by the position of the fig-
ures or letters. and disregard the fig-
ures themselves. Some of the larger
clocks now made for steeples have
only a straight line at each hour place
and they serve their purpose admir-
ably.
1t has been found. however. that
while most persons have no accurate
knowledge of dials, any marked de-
parture from the usual method OF
marking them is at once detected. A
dial bearing ". instead of the four
straight lines attracts everybody's at'
tention.
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This Landlord Hates Docs.

There is a curious clause in lease,
which a gentleman in Paris was asked
to sign recently: Il hereby agree not
to bring any dog into the apartments
which | am about to occupy and not to
permit any dog to remain there. Fur
thermore, ! authorize any person who
may at any time find a dog in my
apartments or in the garden or court
yard or on the stairs leading to the
apartments or on the steps at the
front entrance to make away with him
Immediately in any manner that he
pleases. and ! hereby promise that
will never take legal action on ac-
count of the disappearance of any
such dog"
1t is rather s;rprising,' says a
French paper. that this landlord, who
has such a horror of dogs. does not
append to this clause another one, as
follows: Be it understood that chill
dren come under the same category as
dogs"
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DESERT INctres 70 PogTRv.
Writer Discovers Beauty Of Sort In
Cesoiatjoo,

/ know a desertlike place that Is
not wholly a desert. Nst 1T is neither
oasis nor fertile land, says Werner z.
Reed in the August Atlantic. IT. is
what might be termed semi-desert,
and it has mood that is different
from that of other deserts. 1t seems
q philOsoDhic. well-contented sort or
place, that has much knowledge, much
wisdom, and that extracts wise en-
joyment from the days that pass over
it. 1t is nearly related to tall peak,
and is akin to a nearby range OF
mountains, and to the air and the SKY.
Flowers grow upon this seml-desert--
sunfiowers, and bergamot, and blue
bells, and Mariposa lilies, and many
other shaggy little steps that bear blue
and yellow and white and seYen-huea
blossoms. 1t knows sage-brush, too,
and yucca, and various pysmy cacti.
It is field and farm and native land
for many well-established, ancient and
wise nations OF prairie dogs, and It
is the world and the fullneSB thereof
for thousands of republics of ants.
This semi-desert stretches away from
the mountains and runs its way in
pillows towards the East. We know
It reaches to farms and towns and
work and trouble. and that its next of
kin, the prairie, goes on to the great
rivers whose banks are lined with the
covers OF chattels, bat we like TO think
that as desert. it stretches away be
yond the horizon, and passes un-
CHANGED on 10 infinitV and across Il is
the road to eternity. ana eholeSS
growth OF soul and JOY cf effort anc
cOnSuInmatiur.
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a Grand Dukes Costume.

BY all accounts Grand Duke Boris
was a spectacular feature of the
horse snow in Newport the day ne at
tended that function. The rather
Kaleidoscope costume of his royal
higness included suit in large gray
plaids, a lemon-colored shirt, and sill
yer gray tie; tan shoes, a white and
tan belt, fastened by a snowy gold
buckle. and white straw hat trim
med with light blue. A jeweled snake,
curled in three glittering coils, form
ed his ring. and the much written
about bracelet was in evidence when
ever he gesticulated with his left
arm.
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Warm conoressionai Campaign.

The redistrcting of Mississippi had
a curious result. Three Democratic
congressmen-P&tri Henry of Vicks-
burg. John Sharp Williams of Yazoo.
and Charles Edward Hooker of Jack
son-suddenly found themselves in the
same district. All three wanted to go
back to the house; only one could.
Williams has won out in the primary
and remains in congress. Williams
canvass is spoken Of as one of the
greatest ever seen in Mississippi. The
last day OF it found him in his shirt
sleeves in a reputedly hostile ward of
Jackson Speaking alternately in Eng
lish. German and French. His own
county went for him solidly and he
made surprising inroads in the coun-
ties Of his competitors.
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The Struggle on the Sheet.

across the room, or. what is better,
over folding doors. Seat the company
before the screen, without lights. The
actors dance and act behind the sheet,
on which their magnified shadows are
cast by the lamp. Occasionally they
jump over the lamp. and thus appear
to the spectators in front as il they
had jumped upward through the cell
ing. Some amusing scenes may be
contrived with a little ingenuity
chairs and tables may be called down
from above by passing them across the
light; struggle between two seeming
combatants may take place. and one
be seen to throw the other up in the
air on the same principle. OF course,
the actors must promote the delusicn
by their gestures, moving their hands
and feet as if climbing upward. Care
should be taken to keep the profile on
the screen as distinct as possible. and
practice will soon suggest some high
ly humorous situations.
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but I don't know. Fate downed me
years ago and her grip is still on my
throat. Where I see others leap and
stand upright, there is for me only
spasmodic, ineffectual efforts 10 set
upon my feet. Still, living on the
back is not such an uncomfortable
position and a grip never annoys un-
less one struggles against it; and
gave up struggling long ago..
The man of means turned upon
her eagerly.
Who wrote that letter."
THAT none of your business" she
laughed, ARE you satisfied as to your
skill--'
Il insist on knowing who wrote that
letter"
Insist as much as you please.
Business women do not betray con-
fidences.'
He stood up and looked down an.
Srily into her smiling face.
If | told you that all my hopes of
now and hereafter depended upon see
ing that signature. would you show it
to me?'
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Tonight the bone of contention was
the self-made man.

with that saying of George Eliot'5
about the folly of expecting trees
Topped of their bravest branches in
youth to be anything but gnarled and
ugly in their old age, she will easily
grow to believe that she is more or
less mutilated and let herself grow
lopsided at her leisure. Self-pity is
a dangerous element to Introduce into
any life, when. an excuse for all tor ms
of self-indulgence and Incidence
stands ready at our elbow. the
chances are thousand to one that we
will be self-indulgent and indolent to
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woman may be strong enough to go
on living straight, honest life she

woman may be strong enough to go
on living a straight, honest life she
never quite gets over a mishap of the
neart. Don't you believe that?"
No" he replied with a rough
laugh. Il havo seen too many women
recover from heart-breals."
COR think that you have" she sug-
gested. Il doubt if even your astute-
ness can say what is in sealed can
that is not labeled
There is nothing of the sealed can
about a woman's heart" he said, and
there was q rasty slur in his tone
that fired the literary woman's blood.
You know so much. Listen to this
from the pen of a woman who all
unite to call strong and conteuted,
she took a written sheet from the
drawer and ran her eye over it search
ingly. Here it is: Perhaps it is in
me to do better work and more OF it,
The Jennings daily record., 1902-11-26
Good Move of Y, M. C., A,

The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation of the Bowery, New York, has
leased a farm of 130 acres in New
Jersey. The farm is intended tc
serve as temporary home for men
who are awaiting employment. They
are not expected to remain there
longer than two weeks. While they
are working on the healthy upland the
extensive employment machinery oi
tereStS.
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Fishing Time.

I cannot fix my mind to-day
On what ] have to do:
A picture haunts my inner eye
OF waters swift and blue.
Ny fingers itch to cast a fly,
The bells of memory chime
And call me to the woods and helds.
For this is fishing-time.
I dream of messy stepping-stones
In lazy amber brooks,
OF grassy banks with blossoms Drlght'
And silent. shady hooks,
Where ! forget the world OF ton
And wash away its Crime
In crystal depths of running streams
That sing of fishing-time.
l long to see the suntish play.
The minnows' merry schoo-,
The trout beneath the shelving bank
OR I'm his favorite pool,
And all the silver finny folk
That throng the watery cline:
So hand me out the old brown coat
/ keep for hshing-time.
-AIinna Irving in Leslies Weekly.
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LIT TLE !,
1z57uS Wol

half an inch wide. F'astSn thls c
to the edge Of the board with = t1eofSt:!
Place the board in q sunny Wtu1oo,
just before IL o'clock and marx -
place SO that you can always pIAc0
in the same position every day. -
the sheet on the board so that the'
first ruled line touches the cardboAFd,s
At exactly IL O'Clock place the bo1r4l
so tnat the shadow OF the card viii
cover the first ruled line. Just ~
the same minute OF 10 mark the tOv
of the shadow on the ruled line with
a dot in ink. Do this every day -
exactly 12 O'Clock, using the next
ruled line. Cloudy days skip line.
Mark the shadow on the ruled line
for twenty days or longer, ii there are
more lines. When all are marked join
all the dots together with an mixed
line, and you will see that the line is
bent or curved. This curved line
shows the curve in the sky the sun
follows as the season changes.
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The old town stands at the door
Homesick women and weary men.
She welcomes them all once more.
The rooms are all furnished and drest
for you
We have been saving the best for you!
The echoing hills have kept your name;
Meadow and woodland are still the same;
Lane and love-nook-nay, do rot weep!
Nothing is changed that our love could
keep"
The children are coming home to-day
Av. children, if twice two-score!
Men and women with heads of gray.
But the old child's heart once more:
Never a word of how bad you've been,
How far you've travelled, how sad you've
been.
Door and heart are alike flung wide:
The mothers cheek is aslOw with pride:
The good you have done or have tried
to do
These are the things she has heard of
YOU.
The children are coming home again
Harl to the names we knew.
The dear old love-names-Will and Ben
And Mary ana Dick and Sue!
Coming from half Il world away.
,Glad TO be far from the world away,
Men and women, they all come back.
over the dusty or Erass-Srown track;
And We know why the Lord of the un-
defiled
Said heaven is near to the heart of a
child.
Anna Burnham Bryant in Boston
Transcript.
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A Simple Explanation.

A man in public life noted for his
brusqueness of speech was under in
formal discussion in cabinet circles.
There's one thing to be said in his
favor. however" said Secretary Will
son, "and that is he never importunes
the department to get promotions or
positions for his friends. That's read
;ly explained" commented Secretary
The Jennings daily record., 1902-11-26

the handkerchief without letting go
the ends. This is done with the knowl-
edge of trick.
Place the handkerchief before you.
fold your arms la Napoleon, and take
one end of the handkerchief with the
left hand which is now to the right.
and the other end with the right hand.
now to the left BY unfolding the arms
make knot in the handkerchief and
the trick Is done.
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tention.
A PunctuaI Bird.

What tempts the little humming bird
that we see in our gardens to travel
every spring from near the equator
to as far north as the arctic circle,
leaving behind him as he does, for
season, many tropical delights? He is
the only one of many hunming birds
that pluckily leaves the land Of gayly
colored birds to go into voluntary ex-
lie in the north, east OF the Missis-
sippi. How it stirs the imagination
to picture the solitary, tiny migrant,
mere atom of bird life. moving above
the range of human sight through the
vast dome of the sky, says Neltje
Blanchan in Country Life in America
He covers the thousands of miles be-
tween his winter home and his sum
mer one by easy stages and arrives at
his chosen destination at approximate'
ly the same date year after year.
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FIFTY WEARS AFTER.

of
in mine
oh Forty lin
bu1nsa snlemory
tin each hillside and dravine
pck In a o
one the for gold o
Rockies
front o
he
der
To the CLOWN valleys the
nc
Ever
who went out
robert Mac in
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Brooklyn much interested in her work
slightest anything she He is always playing with his
OF hey
whom
in cart"
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The Sun Curve In the sky,

Get a smooth piece of board. say
ten inches square. Get sheet OF ruled
note paper and a piece of stiff card
board about three inches long and
The Jennings daily record., 1902-11-26
Knot in Handkerchief.

The task is to fold a handkerchief
lengthwise; to take hold of both ends
with two hands and to make a knot in
The Jennings daily record., 1902-11-26

Surprise With an Internal Machine
Think OF constructing an Internal
machine out of five wooden tooth
picks. And when you get it all fixed
and ready to be touched Off" it will
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charged with concamen Of
I'VE BEEN caused a
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carried out in the German
weight average solder can
injuring his heart
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Latest experiments the speed of birds is
miles The
distance, is ff.fve miles an hour
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They have an original way of manang boys IN
small
him girls in the
ishtful for he anything seriously And the boys made
this higher
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q tine country
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as % ra % tn sos unless @ s n A no 5n % @ yh @ % @ ns sh i
a h % a a G ask u n ] e has w sp at @ H m @ h % bo the the
other day and the little girl made discover Uncle Robert is great
time and the small girl had been sitting watching him refusing to be
drawn into conversation and apparent deep meditation Finally she
%i yhst is it tt
hair off aatns'
family the
,oorea @ cook and ] goon special a gap @ @ 1.-THE m % % sS % % s % oo Dn3na
the small boy with masculine assurance played the part Of
baf in way whc children
of his Little visitor He had
dark M s m m s for look al an ssrss snsD ss su
elders crying:
ed the ,,r who m trying ns solve the problem how
] p{s pn pns in' trops do exactly the anu 's more
nt @ mn saee oes a s m % @ we p~ ~a m psp people % nRe
behind my nS do fact ' % s s s w1a sm % spra na
s sss sss n smile or gesture but the back has one entirely
Latest experiments
ea~paa,se rsns asssy o %t
The aqpeeuet
@ niles tes nss sss second
,ns ss vsS s Ss4 are rPs
usually drowning accidents each
s , his ss s5 %s tns spsa son rhs ne RE
% @ all sensible a M nss mn @ the " "
Cardinal Kopp
left by lady @ ] German % convent vent % in @ m M % as daughter successfully
The result of recent
aass % mspen pennSs Without tnt in5urins % his heart
% @ fifty pDnotD'es in the ehds body such
e the country posssss such deposit
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The aoueduct conveys water from Thrmere to
tEnp the longest That from Lake Vrynwy
S7 mes comes Marselles th
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The Earth's Disturbances.

Mother Earth has evidently started
in this year to break all records dur
ing historic times of gigantic destruc-
tive disturbances.
For the first half of the year we
have to charge her unusual restless
ness with 4S,90O lives through vol
canic eruptions and earthquakes. sHer..
tornadoes have hurled 465 human Oe-
ings out of existence, and cyclones
have added 240 more to the list, while
other storms in great numbers, but OF
less dignity in name, have placed 7zO
to the direct account of violent winds.
Floods have swept 345 persons from
life, tiday waves have drowned 110,
and waterspouts have destroyed is.
To all of this we must add 2S3 lives
charged to the destructive force on
avalanches and snowslides, and we
have a total of 51O7S. an astounding
mortality from these fierce. agencies
of destruction in one>half Of q year.
stQasi
An Egg Experiment. II
Place large boiled egg vi N en-
cup in such manner thxN u Mill not
touch the bottom, and the cifcutnl h
ence Of the egg must be som8W
greater than the width Of the c3iS
the top. If you now era u
and the cup and. turnin9g
down. strike the top Of the
the table, the china cQI
and probably 80 to paeq
will remain intact
a thick shell, Qp4
~.
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Cardinal Kopp the
the alleging that her mother was insane
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Greenand population, the recent is 1924 57
hundred
usually twenty twenty-five fatal drowning accidents each
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what his religion and he replied
of asked egc
sensible men "Sensible never tell"
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Old k.onle Meek.

The children are coming home again!
The old town stands at the door
Homesick women and weary men.
She welcomes them all once more.
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Shadow Pantomimes.
This amusement makes lots OF fun
for the evening. Fix a white sheet
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For esfe
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-11

Al least 10000 persons in this eoun-
try are victims of morphine and 10 per
cent of American physicians are slaves
to opium in some form. according to
statement adopted by the Medical
News. All recent estimates the same
authority asserts moreover. indicate
that the use of morphine not only as
a drug to allay pain, but also as an
intoXicant. is daily becoming an in
creasing evil. A physician recently
said:
The demand for morphine in the
drug stores is increasing at an alarm
ing rate. Traffic in the drug is re-
stricted by law. but the law is practi-
cally Intellectual. Any morphine tiend
who needs a supply knows how to OBJ
tain it, and does obtain it readily
enough and apparently one user of the
drug makes many more.
Before long there is sure to be a
cry for increased restriction. What is
needed, however, is not so much a new
law, but the stricter enforcement of
the present one and vigorous prosecu-
ton of those who connive at the Illicit
traffic in the stuff"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-11
UNIQUE HOTEL ON LONG ISLAND
Hulk OF Historic Frieate Now Serves AZ
Quaint Tavern.

Hulk OF Historic FriGate Now Serves
Quaint Tavern.
Only few steps from the sandy
shore where the claim digger pursues
his vocation, and in the foneliest part
Of City Island. Long island, stands the
Macedonian Hotel. When the wreck
of the famous British frigate anc
prison ship Macedonia was bleaching
her hulk on the shore of Harris ISL
and, directly across the water from
City Island. native conceived the
idea of putting the solid and age pro-
tected timbers to good use. says the
New York Herald. With boats and
assistants he made many trips to the
old hulk. gathering the timbers and
towing them to the beach in front of
piece of property which he owned
close beside the shore.
From the wreckage he erected what
has ever since been known as the
Macedonian Hotel. and on its side are
inscribed these words, which tell OF
the history of the famous old house:
This house is the remains of the
English frigate Macedonia, captured
on Sunday. Oct. %. 1872. by the United
States frigate United States, COM
lAoduSu ny Sapt. StSpASh iSSA'"i, -
S. N
This action was fought in lat. "a
deg. north, Ion. 20 deg. 80 min. west
That is about 600 miles northwest of
the Cape de Verde islands. off the west
coast OF Africa. and towed to Cow
bay in 1874"
The main room. used as bar, on
the first floor, is framed of the heav-
lest timbers from the old ship. To
many of them are still fastened the
old hooks to which the sailors of the
British fighting ship hung their ham
mocks. An old cupboard from the gal
ley of the ship serves as bar, and
the cabin used by the petty officers is
used as the place wherein mine host
of the Macedonian keeps his stock or
ripe old liquor for dispensation among
his customers and the clam dlggers
who work along the beach in his
neigh borhood.
On the second floor is a music
room" that is none other than the
main cabin of the Macedonia. In re-
| moving the lumber from the ship those
| who did the work took pains to pre-
| serve each piece and place it in its
proper place in the Macedonian Hotel
| The old 1SX24-inch barred windows on
the man-of-war were carefully pre-
served, and these now let in the light
| to the music room of this unique hotel