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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

Ho YOU want a, jolly game that you can play outdoors or indoors, as you please? Here is--the game or Bounce Battle.
 Each of the players (who play in pairs, by the way) must bend over until his elbows are below his knees, and clasp his hands about his shins. Then some one should thrust a stick - smooth round one--through the aperture pe- tween his knees and elbows.
 Now, trussed in this fashion, two players should attack each other. each trying to push the other off his balance, SO that he will roll on his back. where he will be quite helpless to rise, unless he unclasps his hands and removes the stick. But while trying to push his op- ponent each one must be very careful 10 preserve his own balance.
 A gentle shove with your shoulder, a nudge with your elbow or a jolt with your hip will do the trick, if you strike vour opponent at @ moment when hls balance IS uncertain. Il.
 Be careful not to hop against him IT he is on the lookout and bracea TOT ,.l,N SnS be fataF to your own balance. But it ls
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

VT WAS during a visit to beautiful .t Norfolk Island in the south Pacinc E that I became acquainted with Dead a whales V % fl furnish the bait that draws the sharks to the surface and makes them easy to get at. and the shark hunters do their work at the times when the lwhaleILen are busy, The whales pass Norfolk Island. go- ing south on their way to the Antarctic feeding grounds. about the end of July each year, and they come back past the island about the end of October. and these four months are the whaling and sharking season.
 the boats crews were all sitting about { smoking and yawning for 1t had been a poor whaling season1, when suddenly some one called out the whaler.s cry "Hell0l White water thereP' and, sure enough, out came the black back of whale, causing ring of foam, not 400 , yards of shore.
 Down he, he wen. again, and In another as thin spurt of water rose like. fountain and blew away in spray.
 A dozen Whaleboats, clean and tidy sd stsinf tssa s aSwn & to tss se ass nSpp 9f one after another, into the tossing water hy the hands of the whole male popu- All are in the highest spirits: and the
  stone pier When all are launched and ready. there is a hush, and then the sehoolnlaster, an old whaler himself, whose brothers are in the boats takes qfr his hat and begins q hymn. All Join. h. and every hat Is off: then. when 1t is done, there is cheer after cheer, and the boats begin to look out for their chance to get over the dangerous bar where the great Pacific Ocean rollers, slow-swing- ing but mighty. are combing their white locks over the cruel sharp reef rocks. High in the stern of each boat stands the captain, looking out across the bar to pick the right wave. then gives the word. and his boat dashes off like an arrow.
 But as this stoAy is about shark hunt ing, not whale hunting, 1t must do to tell you that in the end the men kill their whale and And it to be a seventy footer.
 The moment the whale Is dead Mastef Shark noses him and sends the word around, and the water is soon alive with his friends and relatives
 Also, the sharkboat puts off from shore and comes about a quarter of mile out to meet the whale being towed in. Now. the first thing that has to be done to the whale before he Is towed to shore is to tie up his mouth. His under jaw drops when he dies, and the mouth would act like great draw; so, one man must dive down under the whale with a rope, while another chambers on his back and takes the rope and hauis
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

tistical1y as we coulds and really. the result was bully!
 Last of all, we banked up enough earth all around the foot of the house to keep the rain and rats out, covered 1t with nice sod that we cut from a vacant lot around the square, and then we planted trumpet-vine and morning glory and honeysuckle. which soon grew up and covered the entire house. making 1t ai- most as pretty as you can possibly irn- agine.
 The girls were awfully nice about fur nishing the house; they have 1t all 10 themselves Saturdays, and we boys stay out doors and play ball.
 It's great fun and we wouldn't DO without our club house for anything, es- pecially on rainy days. We get together and play all sorts of inside games ana read Scott's and Stevensons and Hen- tvs works aloud.
 Oh, it's great.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

as the roof was wide, and commenced lower edge, tapping the next strip two inches over the last, and so on to the top. This made a good. waterproof roof.
 placed three or four jolsts on the ground so as to raise the floor a few inches above the ground and keep It dry.
 Jack Burns got window sash from his father, and another boy got door from his dad. And that just fixed us np prime.
 Mex thing, we took thin strips of wood and nailed them on the outside of every crack that we fUund And we tackled brown wrapping paper all over the M side walls and ceiling. Then over s1t we pasted wall paper that our mothers gave us. We didn't have enough Of any one pattern to do the business. SD we combined several patterns as ar
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

~ ONE of the boys in Peytonsville, A suburb of one of our large cities, \ got up a mighty nice looking club
 house summer or two ago, which win be a good model for any of you boys who want to make yourselves one.
 The best part of this one is that 1t cost almost no money-oniy time. Of course, during vacation, boys who do not pretend to earn their living cannot justly call their lime worth money.
 One of the boys. writing description Of the club house, says:
 We drew the plan on sheet of paper first. and figured out roughly about how much wood we would need.
 Then we got our wood in hand. Father had a number of packing boxes inelud- ing a piano box, and one of the fellows got his father to give him some old studding that had once been part of the chicken house. The other boys con- tributed boards of various lengths and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

eighteen feet long, when snddenly it rushed for the boat turned over on it's back and opened huge pair of jaws like a cave They measured the jaws afterward; they would have been DIS enough to swallow an oxl
 It seized the boat before the steera- man could swerve away and just crunched 1t up. Its occupants ell went into the water. But, fortunately, no lives were lost and all got ashore,
 And when this lad, who had been slf- ting just where the shark caught the boat, looked at his trousers. he found that it's teeth had actually torn the cloth, so close had 1t been to getting Q grip of his legl
 When the shark is brought to shore, his valuable parts T the frs and tah. which the Chinese value for soup; the liver, which makes good cod-iiNer oil, and the jaws, with their four rows or beautiful gleaming. milk-white Ivory teeth, which. when mounted. make very attractive charms and scar1pins--aTe CUE away and sold for about Szo, while the
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

a number of boxes and nails.
 Then we set to work and used the studying for our framework. In two places we had to nail two short pieces of studding together to make the cor rect length.
 forgot to say we put the club house in the corner of our back yard, so it wouldn't be in any one's way. Each corner of the framework was bt1ilt fn d foundation which we made by sIrlling aS great stone or a few bricks ia the ground. ..
 We were particular to make the framework perfectly solid and strong before we tried to nail the siding poaruz . After we had boarded up the sides and fitted them around the window and door openings as nicely as we could, then we got at the roof.
 First we covered it with boards at about one inch distance from each other. Then we cut strips of tar paper as pns
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19
A Familiar Figure.

The little ones were being taught to read by the word method and had learned to recognize the word 'cat' wherever 1t appeared. The next lesson was the expression "a cat, and the teacher, not knowing but that Junior hsS Learned some of the letters at home. ,,et-te5 +o the word 'a'' and asked him what if was. After studying 1t closely sor a moment or two. with many a twist and wriggle, he suddenly an- uounced. - ,,
 AaS ""'' --I Att1A chnnnial@-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19
To Salute the Flag.

wwANy bovs would like to know what Ms fhe proper form to use in salut- ing the American flag. The military sa- lute is as follows:
 Standing at attention. raise and carry the right hand smartly to a point over the right eye, thumb and fingers extend ed and Joined, hand at an angle of 45 degrees. Drop the hand smartly to the
 A good form of salute for boy not in uniform or engaged in military exercise is that of raising the hat with the right hand and drawing the left arm to the left side.-American Boy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19
Back-YArd Party

body to ask for as many renIlings as he
 Have a lot of good. easy coa@aarnEs~ to ask
 Be prepared with some funny stories and recitations from some or your fal- eDted friends. read or recited quite off- hand-perhaps without even fislng from their chairs.
 Tine natural wit and friendliness Of the guests will supply the fun and rrolac for fhe remainder Of the evsnssss
 Ice cream and wafers will do a1ss-v- for refreshments-plerlty of it, so that every one may feel free to accept sec Ond or third helping.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19
Simple as A, B. c.

ToHNNIE was his mothers joy and
 the pride of his fond fathers heart. He had just been sent to school, and his parents expected great things of him.
 He's simply wonderfull" said his mother proudly, to some friends who turned up one night when Johnnie was on exhibition. Listen to the childi Now, Johnnie darling. let every one see now, what's the feminine for h-e-i-r?" ''RabbItl' answered Johnnie promptly. Anybody knows thatF'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

IVY AVE you ever tried making a A fountain, boys and girls?
 Ask your mother for three tin
 baking pans, one quite large, one smaller and the third smallest of all.
 Next get a yard-long section of gas pipe from the plumber, also length or rubber hose, tiny rubber ball and a yard or sd of fine wire.
 Ask the plumber to run the gas pipe through the three pans and solder the openings to prevent leaks, That is, do so if you think you cannot do the job Now fasten one end of your fine wire to the little ball and run the wire through the pipe. fastening 1t at the lower end so as to keep the ball resting loosely on the upper end.
 By this time your fountain is nearly ready The largest pan is at the bot tom and the other two pans are above 1t at intervalssof about 12 inches. the pipe rising 12 inches above the smallest
 Now set the fountain wherever you wish it to be, close to spigot or reser- yoIr Take your rubber tubing and ftt- ting it over the lower end of the gas pipe, connect the latter with the spigot nf' Your water pipe or reservoir.
 Tilrn on the water and 1t will play nicely out of the top of your pipe, lift ing the ball as high as the wire VIII let it rise. hole in the pipe between pans, and tnaS onenings through which to play.
 Paint the whole fountain white or green and 1t will be real good looking.
 HOW to Whittle a Chain.
 If isn't every boy who knows how to Vvhittle A beautiful chain out of wood.
 But every boy dearly loves to whit,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19
Nwhat's. the Usepo

Suppose the giant Whats the Use' Went striding through the land, Destroying with his vain excuse
 The peace on every hand. Where is the boy who would not try To hinder him from passing by? If whats the Use" set out to make
 The nations all his own, How many boys would undertake,
 To place him on his thrOne9 l think they'd rise on every hand, A revolutionary band. A world Of busy builders keeps
 The way of purpose fair; No sentinel on duty sleeps,
 There is no time to spare; And few there are who make a truce no aid the giant What's the Use" Frank Walcott Hut, in the Morping
 Star.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19
pollv Evans' Puzzles.

Here is Cinderella about to enter the carriage and go to the Palace.
 Can you find her slippers, two of her m i c e, that W r e changed to horses, the face of her hand some Prince and the face of one of her horne1y sisters
 Mark t h e m with lead pencil.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

low orders to the men rowing; up bit--steadyi Pull your right one Hfroke~-
 Up goes his hand. out goes the har< poorl. and there is whirl and acsrry of foam and blood. alld nlg nlteen-s planted well fla his back close to tho top
 The rope is coiIed la a tub. and fl goes out like lightning. A shark dOea not .'sound," which means so straight down for the bottom, like whale that is harpooned, but dives and darts here ana there and everywhere. As soon ~ ne can, the harpooner. and the steersinau, too, get a hold on the rope and begin 70 pull on it, to put more strain on the shark and check him.
 This tires him, and the wound of the harpoon begins to take away his strength. He Is hauled in and in till he. perhaps, another Iron is put into him or, d lance is used to dispatch him. Ihls ig shorter than q harpoon. and at 70 not thrown, but thrust into his heart, just behind the fin on his side. And ln a few minutes. if all goes well, ne IS q
 lf If 1ii' ali E goes weliFf An. there's the rubl If all doesn't so we'll. it is not very nice to think about. You will nna yourself in the water with mad allarks furious with pain and bent on repayin1 you.
 A whale Is stupid animal, and t is very rarely that he shows fight and gets the notion of using his vast strength fo turn upon the boat that is sivin& htln the pain and smash 1t into spiinfersi and even if he does, he only hurts me
 But a shark often turns on the boat; he goes straight for 1t; he can crunch N aE
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19
Wisdom of the Anclents.

An honorable death is better than aH inglorious life.-Socrates.
 Abstinence is the best medicine proverb.
 Are you not accusu v at home when you abuse othersr--
 He who does not advance lecedes.-- Latin maxim.
 Adversity has, no friends.-Tacitus.
 Advise not what Is most pleasant, saa what is most useful. .--aolens
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19
central Acrostic.

All of the words in the followini Read the third column down to ffna tn answer. Nv first a sweet oblivion brings;
 My next is oft adorned with wings; Without my third an orchards bare. My fourth is seldom found with care; TO get my fifth mankind works hard; My sixth has many a passage barred;
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

tle. and no real boy who is permit ted to carry knife would dream of being without one. So every boy VIII be interested in studying these pictures and seeing how well he can work out the directions with his own good jack
 if your knife has two finely temper ed biades-one large and one smalt-t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

something in the grass; selzing leaf, he lifted 1t and placed it on another, bind ing them together with silken eords; then he quickly ran after another leaf and repeated the process until he
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19
Thoughtfulness.

Thoughtfulness is always doing little kindnesses Thoughtfulness has an in- stinct for seeing the little things that need to be done, and then for doing them. -Ruskin.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19
Bounce Battle

old game. It was played by knights of old. And it is played by the soldiers or the British army to this day; also py the schoolboys of Eton and other schools in England.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

.n excellent idea to pretend to hop against him; that Is. hop toward him, linen suddenly hop aside. He is likely to topple forward. If he does not, sur nrise him presently by hopping against him after all, and he will Keel over The greatest fun is to get up a Bounce IesttIa Tournament. Pit six, eight or a dozen pairs against each other, and then nit the winners against each other, ana SO on till all but one have been aeieaI- ed. .,
 Always pit boys or girls or equal size and weight against each other.
 If is said that Bounce Battle Is very
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

AAA tlA1 I44W - N-A*- h a v6 you at hlM m rcy; and h@ means to do 1t, i1 he can. It takes q cool head and nin- ble pad ding to dodge him till he tires and dies.
 Perhaps sonae Of you boys X n c v those 1iness
 "No game was ever
 yet worth a rap
 For a r aN l 0 n a ]
 man to play, Into which no acci-
 dent. no rnishap,
 Can possibly find
 It's way"
 Shark hunting is real sport. you ms be sure. for it cer- tainly has its spica of danger.
 A son of one of the missionaries liv~ ing in Norfolk Is land--only a lad went out In a shark boat one day just for the sport.
 They got fast to q big ar about
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19
Anothar Central Acrostic.

Another Central Acrostic. Look up the following on your map. set the names leach five-letter worl down in a column. What word do the central lines spell? A river in Denmark
 Lat. 5533sN. Long. s.45 P. A river in the United States
 Lat. 43.3O N. Long. 123.2s w. mountain in Queensland-
 Lat 25.5 S. Long. 147.1S E. An island in the North Pacific Lat. 6.20 N. Long. s0.30 w. A town in British East Africa oo .o r <A Lat. 327 S. Long. 39.Ss k. A town in the Argentine Repupilsez-.s e. .s xv n tsland in line North Sea- ]Ai' '''e Lat. 53.5 N. Long. AT E.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

Riddle. P friends. s1 dolls. 2 cats. s1 kits. To- tai. 21e
 Buried Places. l. Peru. 9 China. 3. Spain. 4 Pekin.
 Conundrums. 1. Because the man in the moon gets only a quarter a week and keeps that
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

to get full on at the end of the month. 2. When she drew little profit (proph- etl from the rushes on the bank. q If you don't check 1t, 1t will go too 4. Adam and Eve. when they sewed fig leaves together.
 Drop-Letter Puzzles. 1. Potomac.
 2. Severn.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19
Charade.

If you can supply the correct three syllable word in the last line of the fol- lowing charade verse you will ind 1t 10 be the answer to the charade. My whofe's a merry art. forsooth. < The sport of wit and sage;
 Some say it's never good in youth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

8. Hudson. 4 Delaware. 5. Ohio. G. Mississippi. 2. Sacramento.
 What Wordp i. Hearts. 2. Heartily. 8. Hearth. {. Heartburn. 5. Heartless. 6. Heart ache 2. Heart-sick. S. Heart-rending. Q. Heart's-ease. 1O Heart-whole-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

August Flowers. What two August flowers are the fol- Iowing2
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

How to whittle a Chain.
 If isn't every boy who knows how to whittle a beautiful chain out of wood. But every boy dearly loves to whit,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

fffl. :. ..f. D .t Ia. Last comes the cowboys paradise; My whole in each year happens twice. To solve the. riddle please to read The central lines as agreed.
 Drop-Letter Quotations. Following are two quotations, one from Longfellow and one from Emerson. See If you can supply the dropped letters and read the quotations:
 'tJ-y md t-mp-r-nc- an- Fps Sim th- d-o- n t-e d-ct-r'- n-s-. ssG-o- m-nn-r- IT. med p f p-t-y s-cr-f-c-s."
 Enigma. My whole, consisting of IS letters, is the fivc-word title of one of Scott's pos etical productions. See if You can find what 1t is from the following descrip- tion:
 My g, S, 5. is a colt or Ally. My 15, Is, 12, 13 is part of vessel My 2, II, 1 is covering for the head. My g. 6, Is grass dried for fodder NV 6. 8, A, 10, Il is tho end of life.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

AVE you ever tried making 8 fountain, boys and girls2
 Ask your mother for three tin baking pans, one quite large, one o.. ...a AL. kI.f.+5 nxsnoffaSf Faf all
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-04
Germ Diseases

In the past few years scores Of diseases
have been traced to germ attacks. All
OF these diseases. until few years ago,
We're attributed to other causes, and
treated In various and ineffective ways,
The list Of known germ diseases now
numbers about one hundred, It Includes
most of our minor ills. and most OF our
serious sickness. And there are very
few diseases which are known not to bs
due, directly or Indirectly, to ~ germ
Infection
Some germs-as In skin ,troubles-dl-
srectly attack the tissues. Some create
toxins. causing such troubles as Rheu-
matIsm, Blood Poison, Kidney Dlsease
ranl nerve weakness. Some destroy vital
organs, ns in Consumption, sonle--like
the germs Of Calirrli--creats inhammns
ton; SONS cause indigestion Directly
orindireetly, nearly every serious ailmentl
\ Ia q germ result ,is 81 W.
Any disease which calls for a sermi-i
eide; orFafor q cnto;T callss for Liquozone,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-04

gave several delightful recitatlons, as I'D
also little Miss Mary 'Nucltols.
A peanut party was given in the home
of Mrs. Forest Mitchell Tuesday even
ing from $3.50 to $50 by quite n number
of the little folks of the neighborhood. for
tho benefit of the Fairmount Christian
Church. The little folks amused them
selves In playing various games, and
eating peanuts Rev. II. d. Loffee. Mrs.
Forrest Mitchell and Miss Mamie Cork-
lin looked after the youngsters, and eu-
tertained them In most charming man
ner Among those present were Misses.
Edna and jamie Thorp, Sarah Parsons.
Ruth Mitchell, JAMIE, Ruth and Isabel
Adams. Maggie and Bessie Martin, Augor
Adams, Eula Wright, Gertrude Harris,
Florence and Lillian Perdue. Mamie,
jamie and Isabel Mitchell, Ruth Adams.
VIOLA Mccarthy, Gladys Akers, Nina
Meeks, Ola Williams and Masters clyde
Abrahams George Williams, Louis
Wright, Forrest Mitchell. Leonard Fox,
Clarence and Charles Mccarthy. Lin
wood Sharp. James and John Mitchell.
Irwin Martin, Jesse Meeks and Edwin
Rapby
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-04
POLE GREEN

John c. Basket accidentally cut his
foot to the bone very severely last week.
he is getting along very nicely now.
Austin Timberlake. one of the most
prosperous young farmers near Rivel.
! was carried to Richmond last Sunday to
be operated on for appendicitis.
Virgil Deitrick. of the Eastern Shore
brother. DIR. j. l.. Detrick, during the
| week.
| Miss Daisy Hughes has returned to
Newman's. after spending a few. days in
Richmond and Ashland.
Mrs. L. j. Coleman, of Newman's, who
has been quite i'll, is now convalescing
james Holt, of Ruel, gave dance In
his home last Monday night for the en-
joyment OF the young people Of that
community.
The rural mail route No, I, which ex-
tends from Ellerson, will be heightened
several miles. The inspector went over
the distance last Monday to determine the
length of extension.
Miss Elizabeth Beadles has returned
to her home. near Walnut Grove. after
spending several weeks with her brother
at Highland Springs
Mrs. A. G.. Quarles, of Atee, has Just
recovered from an attack of grip.
Ryland Ball recently visited friends
near Enon.
Mrs. II. f. Hughes is quite sick in her
home, near Gethsemane.
Hunter Traylor has opened black
smith shop across the road from S. A.
Hazelgrove's old grocery stand, near
Alice.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tucker. of this place.
spent part OF last week with friends
near Gethsemane.
Not nn,.ly, ho. fa1 nvf% TOW,
of carrying the mail from Ellerson to Old
Church.
Mrs. Edwards still remains quite sick
| in her home near Newman's.
Roll OF honor for No. 12 School-Clara
Glass, Essie Glass, Mabel Henry. Nellie
McGregor. Iric VIA Winnie Via. Irene
Southworth. Edna Hicks. Callie South
WORTH Bertha Carter. ELLA Taliaferro,
| Lesse Southworth, Mamie Tate. Lula
Southland, Elise Taliaferro, Clarence Car
ter, Otric Glass. Royal Tyler, Linwood
Atkins. Nflner Taliaferro.