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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-13
HOW TO
 MAKE A WHIPLASH.

IF any of you < boys do not
 know the best knot to use in braid ing a first . class whiplash. here 1t is for you to copy:
 Fasten one end of your thong on line; make a loop, pass ing 1t over your left hand: keep hold of the other end witk. your right hand: i: with your left grasp the line above the other hand. and form a loop through the first loop; draw 1t tight; form an- other loop through the second loop; draw this one tight, and so on until you have braided as long Q lash as you desire.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-13
Where He Lived

A naughty small boy when asked where he lived, replied. with a twinkle in his eye:
 Tn the closet, mostly"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-13

strsteb.a sTssl1s ] paper a G-----.l>AB each end, and pin- e hole pierced through NC)A each. Put one end. N
 notch and all, into
 your mouth and laugh or sing or speak. and oh, crackee! but 1t sounds funny. Something like playing on a comb cow cred with paper.
 Well, well, how nicel am sure MT. Grimes will enjoy listening to all all those those neighbors at the other end of the street with your music, Jimmy. then. when you are tired of playing. come down here to my house and have some nice fudge. I shall always have a plate- Did Jimmy.s eyes shine? Well. you may be sure they did Summer could shiny day, maybe Jimmy didn't plant himself upon MT. Grimes curbstape and open his third season with the>yoice disguiser. -
 The window flew open.
 Grimes. softly. at first, but when Jimmy failed lor refused) to pay heed he raised his voice. Jimmy here's a nickel of the street, won't you? Mrs. Green will be so sorry to miss your music"
 But Jimmy stayed and Jimmy played.
 What was nickel compared with fudge.and Mrs. Greens incomparable fudge?
 The days went by. After the voice disguiser came the pumpkin vine fife and the fishing pole fife and the pump kin vine flute And after that some- thing that Jimmy called a locust singer, consisting of a horsehair with loop at one end and weight at the other. The loop was thrust over the grooved end of a pine stick. the groove having been we'll smeared with powdered rosin.
 Swinging the weight rapidly around. Jimmy produced an awful sound like 2 locust's call, which was quite too much for Mir Grimes sensitive ear.
 'I wonder why Jimmy persists In sticking to this end of the square" thought MT. Grimes; The spurns my other end must be bribing him" He watched, and sure enough! witnessed Jimmy's smiling acceptance of Mrs. Greens daily offering of fudge some time that afternoon.
 'swell, well: so that explains it," nut tered Mir. Grimes. Well, now, her fudge and my nickels together ought to spare us both the infiiction of Jimmy's ], So that was the secret of MT. Crimes proposal to the widow Green very soon afterward. They were duly married and Jimmy was at the wedding. And the following summer
 Well, would you believe it7 Jimmy had in the meantime taken sudden and wholly unlooked-for fancy to the violin. And the next gummer-wny, objectionable violin exercises from the attic.
 So, as mutual protection against hid eous noises, the Grimes-Green marriage was a failure for Musical Jimmy" had turned musical, indeed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-13

.sPenknife" Allow three marks to the one writing A spool of black cotton. No. 50," but only one mark to the one who only remembered having seen a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-13

D REPARE q score card, like the
 one shown here, for use with
 i've games, one for each of our five senses:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-13
Beheading.

Tan vou take perpendicular lines. ,Sd b and get 5 for the result?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-13

And I'm going to try fife made out to make, though.
 Then I'm going to have another thing what Cousin Dick calls a voice dis cornstaik about three inches long. witi, 2 notch cut near each end. and piece
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-13

or JImmyB 3 nrSt IrIustcI 1 strument--a blade of grass stretched edgewise netween his thumbe penetrated her sensitive ear.
 Mir. Grimes, the widower, residing at No. 2624, said nothing, indeed; but as a reward for keeping away from his end of the square he quietly bestowed. an every-other-day nickel on Jimmy--a clever scheme, bringing profit to the boy
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-13

from Q Visiting cou- sin. It was a block bird singer, consist ing of two blocks of
 pine, small enough to hold between his
 front teeth. They were hollowed out in
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-13

rRoM the time. he got out of kits.
 Jimmy 10 distinguished himself for = making noises and hideous din
 that the entire nefghborhood urii- ted in sarcastically clubbing him Musi- cal Jimmy"
 Was ever a street afiiicted with 2 greater nuisance?" sighed Mrs. Green.oL No. 2610, to her next door neighbor, .tne first summer after the kits. when morn ing, noon and night the piercing notes
 of Jimmy's first musical m-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-13

and peace to the man, but an unkInd one, since 1t caused Jimmy 70 spend most of his vacation days sitting on or near Mrs. Greens curbstone, and there pouring his small soul out in shrih grass-blade notes.
 s'But boys will be boys" croned Mrs. Greens neighbor, of No. 26OS, and it s q whole lot better than aog-f1ghts and boy-fights, such as had bothering me many a time over on Gorsuch street. Better be thankful for your mercies, Mrs. Green, that's my advice"
 The other neighbors, too. either were not so sensitive or they were more long-suffering, for Mrs. Green and MT. Grimes were the only ones during this first summer who paid any direct at- tention to Jimmy's genius for noise,
 Fortunately they were spared close acquaintance with his second fnstru- ment. which he learned how to make
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-13
Beleading.
rithmatical Puzzle.

Tan vou pehead an animal (take away ,,So Iefters) and leave gift?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-13

A box of tn contains 2a5 sheets; a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-13
Arithmetic Puzzle.

Can you make a certain animal larger by beheading IL
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-13
Arithmetical Puzzle.

What long tailed domes.:s animal is .his fO0 Q 8?
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but in the same position. But the
great gate house, through which the
amorous king rode, is exactly as it
was in the year 1926, when Anne Bo-
leyn's tragic courtship began With
its battlements, machicoulis and the
gateway in which are three fortcullis
grooves, it is the very picture of
fortified castle of medievaldom.
The exterior of the building is
singularly perfect and well preserved,
leaving little that even it's present
millionaire owner can do it, Appar-
emily its walls are good for a thou
sand years yet. Many are the vicis-
STUDIES that have befallen this old
castle. 1t is supposed that the origi-
nal building on this site was erected
in 1872. Sir William Hever was one
of the early owners of the estate. In
the 18th century it was purchased by
Sir Geoffry Boleyn, great-grandfather
of Anne Boleyn. He built the main
part of the existing edifice, which
was completed by his son, the unfor-
tunate Queen Anne's father.
There is a popular notion that Anne
Boleyn was born here. Historians
now discredit this, and say that the
brilliant, short-lived queen first saw
the light in Blickling hall, Norfolk.
But, at any rate, Anne Boleyn was
brought to Hever Castle when a very
young girl, and here were passed,
beyond doubt, the most romantic
years of her life.
1t was in the courtyard garden at
Hever castle that King Henry VIII,
visiting his faithful henchman, Sir
Thomas Boleyn, met the beautiful and
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What's the matter with Eaton
was he ever jilted?" asked Perkins
lighting a fresh cigar and gazing
curiously at the receding figure of the
confirmed old bachelor of the club
as he walked into the dining room
t'Why?" asked Brown HAS he been
showing you bunch of sour grapes?"
well, 1 should think So replied
Perkins came in and said he had
heard / was about to be married and
was sorry he couldn't congratulate
me. Was compelled to offer me his
deepest commiseration' instead. When
I began to bride said he didn't know
the lady SO there was nothing person
al about it but wanted to record his
warning that no fellow ever knew
anything about a woman anyway and
when he married just put his foot in
a trap. Might be reasonably happy,
he said, but if so it was purely
happenstance as no man could fathom
a woman's mind or her ways. Did
some fair damsel do things TO him?"
Didn't you ever hear his story?"
asked Brown refiectively.
mo; fire ahead, old man. responded
Perkins. ut must been aplenty."
cit is a strange story" said Brown
old college chums and about as close
as any two fellows ever were and
went into business together, Pixley &
Eaton it was. and a very successful
firm. Well about the time they got
their business started in fine shape
and were ready to clean up and real
lie big money Pixley fell in love with
Edith Morton and married her. Well
1t seems Eaton who was Edith's Sec
ond cousin or something of that sort,
had been heels over head in love with
her, himself for years but had not
pressed his suit When the announce
ment of her engagement with Pixley
was made it nearly broke his heart
but the marriage did not estrange him
from Pixley. He didn't lay it up
against him but came out beautifully;
did the bless you my children, bless
YOU, act and all that. He settled
down to business harder than ever
and the firm simply leaped to the
front. After the first blush of the
honeymoon was over Pixley took
new hold too and they just tore
along.
well, money began to come easy
and Pixley got tangled up with lot
OF pretty swift fellows in a business
way and being a sociable. convivial
fellow, liked the pace. AS conse-
quence he began to spend more of his
spare time at the clubs and card
tables and one place and another then
he did at home-and more than the
exigences of business strictly required.
He was kind and indulgent husband
all right but his interest was divided
with the preponderance constantly
growing away from home. Now Mis-
tress Pixley was deeply in love with
her handsome and dashing husband
and by that same token she was more
or less jealous of his interest and his
time. Gradually she came to believe,
with considerable truth. that she and
the children were an incident in his
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under the roof are being restored as
far as possible to in every detail cor
respond with the time when the fair
maid of honor inhabited them. A big
canopied bed of the Tudor period, and
all the hangings and the articles of a
woman's toilet will be supplied. 1t
was in these rooms, tradition says,
that coQuettish Anne Boleyn, on more
than one occasion, remained and re-
fused to see her royal lover because
of piQue or some fancied slight, to
teach him, with woman's caprice,
that even though he were king, he
must not be too sure of his suit.
Poor Ann Boleyn in those romantic
days little dreamed of the fate await
ing her when her handsome kingly
lover, after making her his queen,
should cause her to be led to the
block in the tower of London, and
her pretty head severed, while he rode
gayly to the hounds, blowing the self
same bugle that used to sound his
approach to Hever castle.
From this home Anne Boleyn went
as maid of honor to Henry's court.
To Hever castle she retired during
the dreadful pestilence, known as the
sweating sickness. It was then that
the king wrote the most ardent love
letters, to which Anne Boleyn replied
in the most endearing terms, a cor
respondence that has since become
famous in love literature. Here, too,
in Hever castle, Anne Boleyn was
stricken with the pestilence, and the
king sent his own physician to attend
her.
Such associations as these are well
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in other directions; that she consider
was thankful that she need have no
further communication with the
nemesis who had pursued her dear
husband to the grave
1T nearly drove Eaton to suicide
because he still loved her with all the
ardor of his unselfish soul and cared
more for her good opinion than for
that of all the rest of the world put
together.
81 reckon he would have committed
suicide but the utter injustice of the
letter aroused his anger He sold the
entire business and sent her a check
for the exact difference between the
amount he had sent before and the
amount she named in his letter. 1t
took his entire fortune and since then
he has done modest little business
making just about enough to support
himself in comfort and has lived with
out ambition, lonely, bitter, future
less life"
Perkins whistled softly:
by jove" he said Il remember hear
ing Edith Pixley say one time that
Mr.. Eaton was such a strange, cold
man, that he had scarcely spoken to
her since her husband died although
they used to be great friends before
that"
Women are strange creatures"
concluded Brown as he rose and
sought his favorite corner in the din
ing room.
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fascinating daughter. Upon return
ing to his court the king said to Car
dina1 Wolsey:
Il have been conversing with
young lady who has the wit of an
angel and is worthy of crown
This garden, where the king fell
in love with Anne Boleyn, is now be-
ing remade in such a wondrous way
that the royal lovers of nearly four
centuries ago, could they now look
upon it, would not know their first
trysting place.
Tradition tells us how from that
time forth King Henry stole away
from his court at Ethan or Green
witch, whenever opportunity offered,
and rode at full speed on his swift
est horse to his lady love at Hever,
as any good knight of the period
might have done. On these hurried
trips he was always accompanied by
his faithful aides, Weston and Nor
ris.
A hill near the castle, and within
Mr.. Astor's grounds, is still pointed
out as the place where the king
sounded his bugle, announcing his ap-
proach 1t was the sound that fair
Anne, up at her window in her oak
paneled chamber in the castle, was
ever waiting for, and the warders in
the tower had orders to be ever on
the alert to hear, and lower the port
cullis. At the sound of the bugle the
drawbridge was lowered, the gates
thrown open, and King Henry gal
loped through into the courtyard with
a lovers impatience-
1t was in the vaulted gallery of the
castle they usually met At that time
it was hung with family portraits and
tapestries, and adorned with all the
gifts and trophies that an infatuated
monarch could bestow upon the object
of his love or give to her sire. Mr..
Aston is sparing neither money nor
pains to restore this old gallery to
more than its original splendor- Tap
estries said to have been woven by
Anne Boleyn and her maids have
been purchased at fabulous cost to
hang on its walls. Old portraits of
the Tudor dynasty, to which Henry
VIII belonged, have been secured to
give an added impressiveness to the
| grimy old stone-walled ROOM
Anne Boleyn's apartments, high up
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WW.AStM St0rtIe Europe

William Waldorf Astor. expatriated
American, in the settled melancholy
of his fifty-eighth year. is absorbed in
a new diversion-the rebuilding and
renting of Hever castle. Magnificent
Cliveden, with it's wonderful garden of
roses, that attracted Queen Victoria,
has LONE since ceased to interest Mr.
Astor. Carlton House terrace. almost
a palace, in London's- fashionable dis
trict, is like a closed house, while its
owner lives gloomily in a few little
severely furnished rooms at the Astor
estate office on the Thames embank-
ment.
The American millionaire's sole di-
version now seems to be the making
over of old Hever castle. For two
years and half he has had from 1000
to 5000 workmen engaged on the
work, spending more money in the re-
construction than the historic castle
cost it's original builders and for all
the remodeling and repairs of four
centuries to keep it in habitable con-
dition.
Not only is Mr.. Aston rebuilding the
castle, but he is constructing an en-
tire village, to represent the vassalage
attached to a manor house of the if
teenth or sixteenth century. Cottages
made of stone, brick and cement, with
red-tiled roofs, peaked gables and
quaint old-fashioned chimneys, are
now taking form under the workmen's
hands.
Every building is different. An eff
fort is being made to represent a viii
lage that grew up naturally, and the
strange variety of form characteristic
4 Itch, he ctr md
masonry are being stained to repre-
sent the weathering of centuries. Most
of the buildings are on one long, wide
street, with little park at one end of
it, But there are also little narrow
side streets, with stone paving and
tagging, as crooked as some of Bos-
tons highways, giving a still farther
suggestion of age and natural growth.
In every point Mr.. Astor is seeking
to carry out the impression that this is
an English village of the Tudor period.
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fitted to make Hever castle an object
of veneration by the people of Eng
land. Whether Mr.. Aston will here
after close the castle to the public,
or permit them as of yore to visit the
historic courtyard, galleries and
chambers, restored to more than old
time splendor, is now a much dis
cussed point. If he should follow his
previous course, at Cliveden, of ex-
Guiding the public from their long ac-
customed privilege of fishing from
the banks of his estate on the
Thames, he will be more unpopular
than ever. If, on the other hand, he
admits them to historic Hever castle
he may win popular favor.
1t was with sorrow and distrust that
they saw this beloved old castle pass
into the hands of an American, par
ticularly one SO little liked for his
past acts as Mr.. Aston. Hever Castle
has had long succession of owners
since Anne Boleyn's time. In 1857,
when the Boleyn family had Efllen
into disssvor, i was sold to I'd.
ward Waldegrave, chamberlIt to
Queen. Mary. From his family the
castle passed into the hands of Sir
William Humphrey, a lord mayor OF
London, in 1716. 1t afterward came
into the possession of Sir T. Waldo
whose descendant, E. W. Waldo, held
it up to the time of Mr.. Astor's pur-
chase.
1t is a small building for an Eng
Hsh castle, but an especially well
built one, a model of the quandran-
gular castellated manor house of the
18th century 1t is really a fort, and
was impregnable in feudal times
But William Waldorf Astor, with
his 100000 of American money to
spend each year, and nothing to do
but amuse himself, found in Hever
castle rare opportunity. He con-
ceived the idea of restoring it to re-
gal splendor- In fact, the English
people assert that he is quite over
doing it; that Anne Boleyn and King
Henry VIII never looked upon such
highly finished panelings, and such
elegant tapestries in old Hever castle
as now adorn it.
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Capt. Martins Timely Caution,

Some fifty years ago Capt. Richard
S. Martin was well known at the
West End and a familiar figure on
School street, in the vicinity of the
city hall, says a writer in the Boston
Herald He had run with the ma
chine" and been captain of "Old
Barnicoat,' and was later an engineer
of the Boston fire department. He,
also carried on the painting business
at 10 Chapman place.
1t was his custom to be at his shop
quite early two or three times a week,
to see that his employees were all on
time. If any one arrived late, the
same dialogue always took place.
One morning Bob" White was the
victim, and was accosted by the pro-
prietor, who said: Mr.. White. you are
thirteen minutes late this morning"
"Y-y-yes-yes, sir; but, you see, II
was married last night" To which
Capt Dick replied:
every well, very well; but don't let
1t occur again"
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EAGLE skILLEuL IN STRATEGY.
Cunning Devices Used by the Mon
arch of the Air.

arch OF the Air.
Ornithologists are inclined to dis
courage the idea that eagles are in
the habit of attacking large animals,
but a contest witnessed by an observ-
er dispels such theory. The battle
was between an eagle and stag.
The bird singled out from a herd
one particular buck, which it succeed
ed in driving from the rest. 1t struck
the animal with it's powerful wings,
knocked it down and finally killed it.
A still more remarkable spectacle is
well authenticated. An eagle attack
ed a fawn in the highlands of Scot
land. The cries of the little one were
answered by it's dam, which sprang
upon the eagle and struck it repeated
ly with its forefeet Fawn, deer and
eagle rolled down a declivity, the bird
was dislodged from it's hold an the
fawn rescued
Many traditions are extant as to
the carrying off of children by eagles.
The most recent case bearing close
scrutiny is one which happened in
South Africa. A Boer farmer whose
stock had been harried by eagles lay
in ambush for the robbers and saw
one of them descend and carry off the
5-year-old child of one of his Kaffir
servants. He shot the bird, which,
with the child still clutched in it's
grip, fell into a thorn BUSH The bird
was dead, but the child was little
hurt
Two eagles will stalk a covert in
concert. While one conceals itself
the other beats about the bushes with
great screaming, driving out it's quar-
For fHo Ii
down upon. An even more insidious
method has been observed. An eagle
seeing a sheep on the edge of a prec-
ipice flew at it, screaming shrilly and
with forceful beat of wing hurled it
into the valley below, where it could
devour it as leisure. In the light of
such records there is good reason for
believing the legend of the eagle drop
ping a tortoise on the bald head of
Aeschy1us, the Greek poet, and SO
causing his death.
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Be Ready for Instant Battle.

A man should keep his mind up to
the standard; he should keep it dis
ciplined and ready for action To do
this it must be trained, drilled every
day in mental tactics, SO that it will
be strong, vigorous and alert, ready
to act in an emergency with the maxi
mum efficiency of which it is capable
What condition for sea fight would
our navy be in if we. for five years,
dropped all gun practice and allowed
all the naval officers and sailors to do
as they pleased and have good
time.
Your mind is your personal navy
Your faculties are your ships and
men; and IL you are not ready for
life's great battle, ready for an emer-
gency, how can you expect to con-
ouer when the crisis comes Success.
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fide her troubles to him and with his
great admiration and his knowledge
that Pixley was drifting the wrong
way not only in his marital affairs but
in business also-he was losing vast
sums in gambling and neglecting bust
ness sadly-he was in full sympathy.
In the meantime Pixley, resenting his
wife's expostulations and her growing
GOODNESS, threw his anchors overheard
and got into almost open relations
with another woman-maintaine an
other establishment and all that.
Finally Eaton's sympathy with
Mrs. Pixley got the better of his dis
cretion and he called Pixley to the