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PLAYING INDIAN.
BALD EAGLE TELLS ABdtar ERNEST THoNP-
son sEToN's wopptRAFTERs.

BALD EAGLE TELLS AB6t.'T ERNEST THoNP-
son sEToN's wopptRAFTERs
ToMAHAwK Observation-Disclosures TRIBES.
Copyright 1904, by Kathsrine NJ Birdsan)
The season is not yet too late to get up
tribe of Woodcraftefs to play Indian.
Any three or more boYsr may do it, The
woods and fields are aat their best all
through September and October. and no
time in the whole year is finer for the
games than these two months. Boys who
want to know just how to organize aud
how to build their tepees. etc, would bet
ter write at once to Mfr. Ernest Thompson
Seton, Cos Cob, Conn. for a COPY of his
little Red Book. 1t costs but 10 cents and
tells the whole story.
The hundreds of tribes now encamped
are having glorious times. Many of them
have frequent encampments right at home
in gardens, lawns or even back yards
with one or more longer outings for the big
games Besides a splendid list of athletic
and Woodcraft stunts that Mr.. Seton pre-
scribes there are various other games, such
as deer hunt, bear hunt. hostile spy. buff
falo hunt tomaha tournament and the
like, in which the victors earn feathers Cor
| their war bonnets.
| Every brave should have his own toma-
| hawk.
Bald Eagle has seen some beauties made
| by the boys themselves. combina ton
l. toma hawk and war club may be ma de
| in some such way as this:
| For the head take piece of heavy wood
six inches long, about as thick as your
| wrist, and like the wrist, somewhat fiat
| tened Whittle the ends to any desired
| shape either rounding or pointed, or edged
| like IA blunt Ratchet. Across the middle on
| the fiat sides cut out fiat groove or notch
| as wide as two fingers. Unless you have
| a saw and chisel for this you may help
! the St.tting by the use of a red hot iron
| on wire The grooves on the two sides
| must come exactly opposite each other and
| be so deep that a strip rather less than
| haitian inch thick remains.
| FGr the handle choose strong. straight
| round piece an inch and half thick and
| about eighteen inches long. Carefully
| split one end exactly across the center. and
| into the split push the thin strip of The
h...trs ting the halves of the split end
| fit ~,.%4ssIy into the two grooves. The ends
| of tna handle should project half inch
| beyond the head.
The next step is to fasten head and han
| die firmly together by tying. An Indian
| would use leather thongs. You may use
! strong wrapping cord. The tying must do
| two things. bind the handle SO that it will
| not split farther than was necessary to
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who miss simply drop out None but the
most skillful will have a chance at the
squirrel, and 1t will often happen that all
players have missed before the fifth round
Any number of rounds may be played On
returning to the tiger every player wins
whose total scores foot up highest.
With so many games to play, with
dances. ceremonies and athletics, there
may be danger of neglecting some Of the
real fine points of woodcraft and Indian
lore. Are you learning to know every tree
in The woods, every bush and shrub by the
roadside. every flower In the fields? Can
You recognize every outdoor sound you
hear. whether of bird or animal or insect !?
And are YOU learning to know various
tracks? Those of you who have read Mr..
Seton's Two Little SavageS' will recall
the picture of the boy Yam on his knees at
the foot of a tree rawing with pencil and
paper the tracks of a coon. while the coon
himself sat a limb up the tree cooliy
watching Perhaps you thought Yam
might Ia Their have been looking around for
the coon than for his tracks, but the young
savage was doing the right way to learn
WOodCraft.
a good Indian game is to let n small
party of Graves start off in n certain di-
rection. keep together. but use no pains to
conceal their trail. and in ten minutes let
one or more others follow, trying to find
the first party by means of the natura
wood trail Indeed. the trail may be
slightly marked at first if necessary. by
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Height of Thunder Clouds,

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
great cumulous thunderhead cloud,
towering up on the horizon like a huge
flamboyant iceberg. is often higher than
the highest Alps would be if they were piled
on top of the Himalayas. 1t is not unusual
for these clouds to measure five, six and
even eight miles from their fiat, dark base,
lowering mile or two above the world, to
their rounded, glstening summit, splendid
in the sunlight And in these eight miles
the changes Of temperature are as great as
those over many thousand miles of the
earth's surface. These clouds contain
strata of temperature. narrow belts Of
freezing cold alternating with large dis
tances of rainy mist and frozen snow and
Ice particles. Hailstones, which are formed
from snow particle that falls from the
upper strata and is frozen hard in the
freezing belt and coated with added ice on
the wet belt. are often found with a series
Of layers In their formation, showing that
they have passed through this succession
Of cloud strata more than once on their
way from the spper air To the earth
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aunt and Cousin Leonard just rounding the
bend at the foot of the hill!

aunt and Cousin Leonard just rounding the
bend at the foot of the hill!
The boys glee turned to terror. Cousin
Leonard had barely time to drive his horse
and surrey away out of the road and up
against the fence when the phaeton dashed
madly past. Aunt Lizzie screamed. Uncle
Henry exclaimed, well, l vum,' as he
got out of the surrey and hurried down
the hill Cousin Leonard had all he could
do to keep his horse from running away.
ton was a marsh at the bottom Of the
hill. Into this the phaeton plunged so that
it's stop was somewhat gradual. Still it
was abrupt enough to send both urchins
blowing through the black muck among
the boys. They were thoroughly doused
and smeared and considerably bruised as
they marched ruefully up the hill in front
Of Uncle Henry.
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HOW BOB PAID HIS FARE.
BY JULIA *. Hu.DRETH.

TIE stout ship Falcon, leaning gallantly
to the wind was making her way down the
English channel. bound for America. The
sails had been rcelcd. the cables coiled. and
everything made snug for the night. Capt.
PARKER paced to and fro on his quarter
deck. Eruttly humminE a little song Capt.
rarkers song was Interrupted by sudden
connection in the forward part of the YES
81 There was a sound of angry voices. n
hasty sCufiiing of feet followed by the
frightened sobhinS of child
Hello! exclaimed Capt. Parker what
is the meaning of that row.
"A stowaway, sir answered one of the
men from below
"A stowaway ON my ship" growled the
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captains face. he felt relieved and rather
enjoyed the excitement.
Suddenly, Just as the captain was shout
ing an order through the trumpet vast
billow seemed to rise out of the gloom ana
bear down upon the ship. 1T struck the
vessels side with awful roar. throwing
tons of water on the deck Before he could
save himself the captain was lifted from
his feet and flung overheard into the sea
Almost at the same instant small ngure
was seen to leap upon the rail. cling there
a moment and then spring outward into
the darkness and disappear.
Man overheard,
The terrible cry rang above the roar of
the tempest For moment all was panic
and confusion. Then. under the mate COM
mand the ship rounded to with her
head to the wind and boat ordered TO be
lowered
No USE said one of the men to the
mate who stood by the rail near where the
captain had fallen overheard We could
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least sixty or seventy-five feet. To strike
I've largest animal counts one point the
next smallest two points. and 50 on up to
five for the smallest, this being. of course,
most difficult to hit.
To commence the game the players
come. each in turn to the throwing base.
which is directly in front of the tiger
each throws his club and at once steps
aside for the next. When all have thrown
they go to recover their clubs. Somebody
keeps score.
For the second round the base is directly
in front of the lion, and only those who
score in the first round take part in this.
Next the successful warriors line up in
front of the wild cat. At each round those
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Goats and a Nations Fate.

From the London Truth.
The frontier between British India and
Thibet traverseS districts where there are
mountain pastures, and our main grievance
was that certain Thibetan goats which
were ignorant of the line of demarcation
were In the habit of straying into British
territory. What particular harm the goats
did by browsing occasionally on British
grass is not very clear. In any case, the
damage could not have been considerable.
In 1879 We went to war with Spain on ac-
count Of the ear of a certain Jenkins, which,
We asserted, had been cut off by some
Spanish official although 1t was commended
that the ear was still attached to Jenkins
head. 1t has, however, been reserved to
this century for this country to engage
In war that promises to be extensive, on
account, professedly, of few wandering
goats.
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A Game That Japanese Children PLAY.

The children form line, each resting his
hands upon the shoulders of the player in
front. One who is the Catcher remains
out. The first player is called the head. the
last the tail. The catcher stands fifteen
feet from the head. and at a given signal
tries to catch the tall or end player with
out pushing any one else. Others defend
the tail by moving about in any way they
choose, except that the line must not be
cred caught. and must become the catch
En-" while the catcher goes to the head. Of
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DOUBLE ADDITIONS.
Change the words described below by prefixine
and affixing the same letter. Example: Change to
devour to one who estimates. Answer: R-ate-r.
l. Change having power to a book Of blank paper
2. Change a personal pronoun to a kind of vehi-
Gle.
8. Change in like manner to leisure.
4. Change to consume to places for sitting.
5. Change to listen to dish.
WORD PUZZLE
Fiji the blanks with words that sound alike but
are spelled differently.
1. Is 1t that you should perform the
--...
e. 49, that the animal species
8. The wind the paper out upon the
4. Did you that she was coming ----.
WORD SQUARES.
Al. To run. e. To wander. s. Above. 4. A
limit.
BIZ. A measure Of weight. 2. flower. B. In
Quifies. T. mixed mass
DIAGONAL
The diasoaals Of the words defined below spen
holiday. -
/. Soft olatnent, =. Attractive. .. An aninal
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4. Precedent = To prosper O. One selected for
Office. l. Hateful. An Institution OF cduca tion.
BEHEADINGS.
l. Behead TO make loud noise and leave in
str'Iment for rowing.
. Behead I've II and leave the plural Of man.
g. Behead perfect and leave trade.
l. Behead not far and leave the organ Of hear
ing.
The behested letters spell moisture falling in
drops,
NUMERICAL. ENIGMA.
l am composed OF ten letters and spell vehicle
which carries its own motor power.
My 3. 2. 7. 10 Is "A hollow cylinder.
NY 3, Ii. : il an abbTeyiation OF u mans name
My 9, & 10 Is 4 falsehood.
My T. 4, l is serpent.
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POSTMAN'S BAG.
j. Harp-hap. =. Month-moth 3. Copy-coy,
L. Dodge-dog. j. Shad-sad.
UNITED WORD SQUARES.
Il CLOT
RON LOR e
NJ OLD o ORAL
T. y ID A l. I T. l. l.
A G L Il
l. IRE
: AT EE NJ A SH
LOVE AXLE
AVER SLOW
FER VI HEWN
CONCEALED FLOWERS.
/. Sweet pea. ,. Pansy. 3. Astcr 4. Clover
j. Daisy.
PRIMAL ACROSTIC.
l. Astray.
.. Ugly,
3. Goose
4. Utter.
s. Stable
O. Tousc
AUGUST
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Unreasonable.
Fr0H Puck.

FroEa Puck.
Mrs. Jason-T am afraid you mix water
with your milk!''
Milkman-''Well. mA'am. you can't exc
pect me to mix powdered sugar. cracked
quart, can Lop !sss....
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WORD PARALLELOGRAM.

DOUBLE CURTAILING AND BEUEADfNc
i. Hoar-se. 2 Sh-rug. ). Escape. 4. ABB
use. ). Melton.
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WORD SQUARES.

Tne dIhEodah o. the W0tdS Defined below Speu Q
holiday.
/. Soft olntnent, =. Attractive. 4 An animal.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-06-25
WAS Te IN DAIRY FARMING
NO other Branch of Agricultural In
dustry Shows So Much Loss in
Labor and Money.

The Keynote to profitable dairy farm
Ing is to be found in a close study and
mastery of economic effort of labor We
DO not believe there is a business ON
earth where there is as much waste of
TABOR ume and money as is found on
the average dairy farm of the country.
There is the waste of poor cows. the
waste OF unscientific feeding. pouring
costly food unsuited TO the purpose of
economic milk production into the COWS.
and waste of unhealthy food and disease
breeding stables. the waste of moor
methods of soil culture and its conse-
Quent waste of fertility. the waste of
poor care Of young animals in the first
year OF their lives, whereby they are
not worth half as much i'm the market,
and finally the great waste of brain and
thought, or rather the waste that comes
from lack of brain and thought.
Such a host of men there are who pre-
fer to be ignorant of what it means
TO be a good economical farmer, who
are contented as can be in having no
hunger or thirst for the knowledge
that shall build them up and make
first-class men and farmers of them.
From one end to the other Of it, sue
cessful dairy farming calls for man
who has SO much pride in the mastery
of his business, in his possession of
important ideas and methods, as have
the best professional men in the coun-
try. Such dairy farmer will be
ashamed to be found ignorant, or have
his sons ignorant, OF what science is
doing for him. Such men are the ones
who show the largest profits and who
win, besides, honor and fame among
men.-Hoard's Dairyman.
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GOOD CARE is IMPORTANT.
Poor Cows Frequently Are Improved
by Comfortable Quarters and
Suitable Rations.

Much is being said in all the dairy pa
pers on the dual purpose COW and much
does depend upon the breed, but does not
very great deal depend upon the care
the cow receives and upon the milkman?
asks milk maid in the Epitomist
This is very pointed query and may be
answered very emphatically in the af-
hrmative. Some farmers think that the
care expended upon the milk cow is lust
so much time lost, and that she can be
led on just anything. and if she then
gives small quantities of milk, that there
is nc use wasting good feed upon her.
lhls is very grave mistake. as a poor
milk cow is often improved by comfor-
table quarters and good feed and the best
Oh dairy cows neglected will give very
little milk. Good feed and care not only
cause an increased flow of milk, but a
richer product. l have seen milk from
neglected cows that instead of having
thlck, rich cream on top, had only a
thln whltlsh covering of cream: and for
the DAIRY was not worth attending to.
A milk COW should never be con-
oemned until given trial by at least
Two mixers, as often the trouble is more
win the mixer than with the COW. One
COW that has been MIXED regularly for
weeks by one mixer gave one quart
Oh milk when calf was large enough to
wean, when by accident a change of
mixers proved her an excellent dairy
COW, and that the calf had been given
an unnecessary amount of milk night
and morning. simply because the milk
man did not care to attend to his work
Warm comfortable quarters are very
important and if COW is compelled to
wander around in mud knee deep in
winter 1t is more than likely that she
VIII not give enough milk to pay for the
milking 1t will not pay 70 Keep your
own cows and buy your butter half the
time There is more waste here than on
most anything else on the farm. ton
oollar calf runs off with $50 worth of
cream and milk. while the family do
without cream, milk and butter.
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DAIRY AND LIVE STOCK.

The separator must be kept in perfect
repair and well oiled.
Cows should be MIXED. watered. fed
and cleaned at regular intervals.
Ii is i'm the care of the cream that
the most important work OF butter
making is done
Set high standard for heifers and
send to the block any that do not come
up to IT,
Cream from the deep setting system
should be kept cold until enough has
been collected for churning, then
ripened.
1t is better to feed to young calves
little linseed jelly in addition to bran
and oats. Prepare by placing table,
spoon old process oil meal in earthen
jar or dish. add boiling water and mix.
It is readily eaten and is beneficial to
the digestive organs.
had fat beef TO sell sld cattle
buyers offered only SOS for the steer
alive. butchered him and sold the
meat to hotel for 1870 The hide
paid for the slauehtering and the offal
made doe and chicken feed.-Idaho Let
ter In Farm and Home
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VENTllATING A COW BARN.
Simple Plan That Can Be Made To
Work in Any Stable by Any
one Handy with Tools.

A basement stable barn with which
we are acquainted having space for a;
least so cows. has been ventilated the
past winter so that the air seems sweet
and fresh all the time by putting in
Two fues two feet square, made prac-
dcally alright from matched boarding
and setting them so they start about
a foot above the stable floor and ex-
tend upward TO the roof and project
three or four feet. A little roof over
the ventilator keeps out snow or rain.
A handkerchief held near the opening
k strongly drawn towards the openiny
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Fat in Cheese Production

Skilled cheesemakers say that the
more the curd is stirred and agitated
the more it throws out fat. which later
is taken from the whey and made into
what is called whey butter. When the
amount of fat appearing in the whey is
J. large, 1t is sign that the curd is being
excessively stirred. The good cheese
maker tries To incorporate in the cheese
all the fat possible, as this improves the
quality of the cheese Under proper
management of the curd the whey
should not test more than three-tenths
of one per cent. butter fat.
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WANTS TO GET WIFE.
SMALLEST MAN IN THE WORLD
READY TO BE A BENEDICT.
He Is Nearly Forty Years of Age, Is
Just Is Inches High, Weighs
But 80 Pounds and Owns
Much Property.

Maj. Charles Gantz, of Fairfield. Ia,
who claims the unique distinction OF
being the smallest man in the world
has decided that he wishes to get
married. He offers the girl or young
lady who will be his bride "a happy
home, loving husband, plenty OF
money and her own way"
Maj. CAN'T is indeed a curious being
but is as sharp a little person as ever
lived, is born trader and can hold
his own In any line of business
he has been named by his friends
at Fairfield The Merry Midget" The
little man is an entertainer of much
merit. loves children as we'll as the
ladies, was born August 81, 1866
thinks that he has lived single lone
enough and states that he has money
enough to keep wife, and as for him.
self it does not take much to keep him
he is so small. He weighs only &c
pounds and is Is inches tall.
He has lived with his parents al
Fairfield and was born on a farm and
lived on the farm until about six years
ago.
He started to public school when
II years of age and attended school
pretty regularly until he was 90 years
OF age, being taken to school by his
larger brothers and sisters from the
farm each day.
1t was never much of a task for the
little major to get his lessons, and he
always learned very readily and east
ly. His father, Andrew CAN'T. was a
Co.
county, Iowa. and the young lad had
great ambition to so on exhibition,
but the father and mother seriously
objected to their son being placed in a
mdseum. gzz
Mr.. Gantz, the father, is a man six
feet tall, and his wife is an ordinary
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sized woman in stature and weighs $50
pounds.
The New York World says there
were ten children in the Gantz fam
lily, five boys and five girls. and all
were of ordinary size except the ma
jor, who jokingly remarks that he was
the smallest one in the bunch, but
not the baby
When the little major lived upon
the farm he dealt a great deal in live
stock, and no matter who came to the
farm to decker the major always did
that part of the work and was afraid
of none OF them. He still trades stock,
farms, bank stock and the like and
says that he would much prefer TO
trade than eat
AS result of all this trading in
stinct, Maj, CAN'T has accumulated
much property, owns several good
sized tracts OF land, some residence
property, much money and notes,
some bank stock, horses, car
riages and wagons. He thinks that
he will be able to support the right
kind of a wife and is now DESTROYS
OF getting her. He wants them all TO
write TO him, sending along photo
graphs, and sign their right names.
The major says that he loves the
ladies as much as any ordinary-siZed
man, that his heart is as big as a
giants, that he has been in love twice
and knows the feeling.
Those that | want can't get and
those | can get | won't have" is his
answer to the query what he is going
to do about it. He delights in talking
about the ladies and feels quite sure
that the time is not far distant when
he Will be able to call some girl his
wife, but where she is coming from
at this date he knows not.
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Whitewash for Cow Stables.

Whitewash is valuable adjunct in
keeping the COW stable clean. Our milk
men have learned this long ago, at least
those that have 10 sell milk 10 exacting
buyers. Visiting the farms in the vicin-
ity OF Elsin, Ill, one is struck with the
frequency of the whitewashed stables.
one OF the great advantages of this wash
Is that IT shows dirt readily, and when
1t has been applied stable cannot get
very dirty without the attention of the
owner being called painfully to that
TACT As a germicide whitewash ranks
high, and dairymen should use il more
than they Go.-Farmers, Review
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-06-25

OF the shaft, showing the forcible up-
ward current of the air. This opening
is placed near the floor so that the i'm
pure air which is heavier will be taken
out by the strong draft first. This shaft
should extend up through Che roof that
the foul air may escape outside of the
barn. To admit fresh air SO that Il
Will not chill the cows or Immediately
be drawn into the ventilator before
serving its purpose several small
square boxes are made and set in the
side OF the barn like studding with an
opening into the box from the outside
near the bottom OF the stable and an
opening into the barn at the top of the
stable. Thus there is current of pure
air constantly entering into the barn
without injury TO the cows, and as fast
as it becomes impure is drawn up out
side. BY having some traps i'm the
shafts to open or close the temperature
can be controlled in very windy wealth
er. This plan can be made to work in
almost any barn by anyone handy with
tools.-H. G. Manchester. in Rural New
Yorker.
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Fresh Meat in Africa.

A recent traveller in South Africa says
that many kinds of meat are eaten
there which no one in this country
would think of eating, some of which
are very palatable, even to fastidious
Anglo-SaXon taste. Among those
which he considers especially delicious
he mentions the giraffe, the Gland, the
zebra and the guinea fowl He also
found baked elephants trunk, baked
young elephants foot and hippopota-
mus calf bacon excellent eating. Among
the African dishes which do not ap-
peal to an Americans taste may be
mentioned lions, ostriches, aIligators
and snakes.