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"FIVE GEESE IN A FLOCK"
Particularly Amusing Game to Play
When Your Little Friends Come
to Pay Short Visit;
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When your friends como to seo you,
play "Five Geese In a Flock." The
children sit on the Brass, or on a
bank or bench, sldo by side. Ono
ntands ns Market Woman opposite tho
row of players.
She walk's along tho row and
touches each child, beginning whore
Children Making Merry.
she pleiiblc, hiiu bii.s word of
the following rhyme to each as sho
touches her: v
'TleaBe good former cut the
corn,
Keep tho wheat and burn the
thorn.
'Shutr your gate and turn tho
lock,
Keep the 'flvo geeso in a
flock."
As soon ns she says tho word
"flock." tho ono first touched Jumps
up and runs away. Tho market wom
an pursues her. Dut while she is
catching her, the other geeso have
fled, and sho has to catch each play
er and reseat her In her place before
tho game can begin again. Tho ono
first caught becomes in her turn the
market woman.
"Den" is a good out-of-doors game.
Each boy takes tho nnmo of a wild
beast and has a tree to himself, which
represents his den.. Any player who
leaves his den Is llablo to bo tagged
by tho next one out The best runner
generally starts out first, a second
pursues him, and so on until nil may
bo out at once. If a player can tag
any ono he has a right to capture,
he takes him home to his own den,
nnd the latter must help him, to take
the rest. Tho pursuer cannot be
tagged whilo bringing homo a pris
oner. The children sit In a row with hands
folded to play "Button, Button, Who's
Got the Button?" Ono takes a button
and, holding it between both hands,
pretends to give it to each ono of tho
players, who open their hands as if
to receive it.
As she does this tbe leader says
to each one, "Keop all I give you."
Wben she has finisher she puts tho
question to each ono in turn, "But
ton, button, who's got tho button?"
The answer is "Next door neighbor'
When sho returns to tho head of the
line and asks "Who'B got the but
ton?" tho player mentions the name
of the one she thinks has it The
successful guesser takes the leader's
place.
Acting Animals.
This is a game called acting ani
mals. One child pretends to bo somo
kind of nnimal and acts Just as that
animal would act Then tho other
children guess what he is trying to
be. T'flo child who guesses correctly
may bo tho next ono to represent an
animal. It 1b really very funny, espe
cially if you try to imitate something
like a stork standing on one leg or a
rhinoceros or a turtlo or oven n
mosqrilto, for insects are Included as
well as animals. Sometimes It Is well
to allow tho guessers threo questions
that may be answereM by "yes" or
"no."
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Tom and Vera Have Secret Detween
Them and Each In Burst of Con
fldence Tells Friend.
Tom and Vera bad a secret between
them. In n burst of confidence Tom
told It to a mutual friend. Will; but
regretting bin action, obtained a prom
ise from Will that he would never let
Vera know that the secret bad been
told.
Will, however, told Vera that Tom
had let him Into the secret but made
hor promise not to tell Tom that he
(Will) had Informed her of having
obtained tho Information from Tom.
A little later Tom decided to let Vern
know that hp hitd told the secret to
win, out lnstructea ncr not to ion
Will that ho (Tom) had admitted to
giving away tho secret to Will.
Vera went to Will and told hlm that
Tom had confessed to having lot him
Into tho secret, but she mado Will
promlso not to let Tom Know that sbo
had given him this information. Sho
also went to Tom and told Jilm, In
strict confidence, that Will had told
her about having learned tho secret
from him,
Will next went to Tom and Inform
ed him. of Vera having stated that ho
(Tom) had admitted to giving away
tho secret Tom retorted by saying
that Vera had told him that ho (Will)
had advised her of being lot Into
tho secret. They both promised not
to toll Vera of having given awny
tho confidences which sho had late
ly given.
Dut this is the question: Wero any
moro confidences necossary? Or had
all of the three friends heard enough
to bo convinced that the others know
everything that could bo told?
Sue'n disposition was so sweet
Sho couldn't bear to cross tlie strcet
And I havo even heard her beg
Iter mother not to beat an egg I
GREAT STADIUM AT TAC0MA
Structure Is Shaped Like a Horse
hoe and Will Comfortably Seat
Twenty-Five Thousand
f
Tacoraa's high school, which plays
an Important part in Pacific-Coast ath
letics, Is tho only high school in Amer
ica having an Olympic stadium, If not
the only ono In the wholo world. It
la a ponderous mass of steel and con
cretc, Just completed at a cost of moro
thun $100,000 In a gulch at ono sldo
of tho high school building. Tho gulch
happened to bo Just tho right shnpo
for tho stadium, so but Uttlo excava
tion was required. Tho structuro Is
shaped llko a horscshoo, with the open
end overlooking Commencement bay.
It will sent twonty-flvo thousand peo'
pie, has a center sufficiently largo for
baseball, football, track and field
events, and will also bo used for out
door musical concerts and entertain
ments.
A movement is already on foot to
securo tho next Olympic games In
America, the peoplo of Washington
believing that in the Tacoma stadium
they havo ono of the best arenas In
the United States for such an ovent
Baby on Its Hind Legs.
Little Besslo was so accustomed to
seeing tho baby crawl around tho
room that sho thought it was his
natural mode of traveling. Ono day
when he succeeded in standing up
with the aid of a chair sho was much
astonished and, running to her moth
or, exclaimed: "Oh, mamma, como
quick! Baby is standing up on his
hind legs'
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SS SGDOJS 0? SftflO(L8S TO
acta oa&a Aiaa awow.
Kansas Farmer Stakes $30,000
on the Weather.
Has Tried It Five Timet and He's
Out 175,0O0 If He Ever
Wins He'll Be
Rich.
Colby. Kan. "Jim" Flko Is trying to
got rich betting against toe weather,
Last August ho staked $30,000 on the
ehanco that it would rain within
three months. If it had rained, as he
bot it would, ho would havo mado a
quarter of a million nnd got his $30,-
000 back, too. But It didn't rain. Tho
weather Is a frcakifh thing out on this
high plateau, and Fiko will be mighty
thankful If tho $30,000 Is returned to
him bo ho can havo It to tako another
flyer against tho weather this year.
Fiko calls his method of fortune hunt
ing "Gambling against tho weather."
Ho has been at it now for flvo years
and has never won.
"But," ho says, 'Til mnko tho big
killing ono of theso years, Just ns
euro's shootln', nnd whon I do I'll put
on patent leather shoes and go to tho
seashore."
Fiko has staked $176,000 In flvo
years on tho chnnco that there would
bo onough rain and seasonnblo weather
to gtvo him a bumper crop of whent.
Each year of tho five something went
wfong, either it dldn t rain enough to
start tho wheat right, or It didn't
frcezo enough to glvo It a good Btand,
or tho high winds blow most of it out
of tho ground, or the drought hindered
it from maturing; but thero was
enough of a crop in the worst of the
flvo years to return him nearly all ho
bad ventured, and In several of tho
years ho mado n profit of a moro $20,-
000 or so.
Tho thing ho 1b after Is a crop that
will average twenty-flvo or thlrty-flvo
bushelB of wheat to tho acre. If over
ho gets that he may go to tho seashore
Buro enough, or to any old plnco. And
it 1b a suro thing that ho will get It If
ho stays with tho gamo, for In 1003
"Jim" Flke In the Field.
thousands of acres of wheat in thli
county yielded 42 bushels to the acre
and many Holds cut 35 bushels nnd
.hotter.
You can figure it for yourself. Ht
has 17,000 acres in wheat this year
and It was planted wua less cost thnn
any other wheat in tho state. Hit
traction plows tore up tho earth, har
rowed It and seeded It, all In ono op
eration, at tbe rato of. ono hundred
acres a day. It cost him $30,000 when
tho 17,000 acres wero in. If h
should happen to get an average of 26
bushols to tho acre ho won't, because
tho weather won tho bet this year bul
it ho had won and tho nverago yield
was 25 bushels to tho aero, thai
would bo 425,000 bushols.
Now, tako your pencil again: 425,
000 bushels of wheat at, we'll say, $)
a bushel; that's $425,000; enough
profit thero for somo carloads of pat
cnt leather shoos and trips to the sea
shore and around tho world.
Flko sat scrooched down in his of
flco chair in this town tbo othor day,
an old slouch hat pulled down ovci
his eyes, his muddy boots up on his
desk, and be looked through tho win
dow at the drltzllng rain.
"Pity that rain didn't como last fall
Jim." said ono ofnis nolghbors.
"Y-a-a-s," Fiko drawled. "But il
didn't It's a gamble," be said
"We've struck flvo poor years. In a
bad year wo got bIx or seven bushel!
to the aero and barely pull out. In n
good year it's easy to cut 25 to 3E
bushols here. In that kind of a year
with the rains coming right, raising
wheat In this country Is llfco shooting
fish In a barrel. That's the kind ol
a year I've been flgurln' on getting
If I once get It I'll tell old Rockefel
ler to go chase hlmeolf. But It's been
a scrap, l'vo been increasln' my acre
age faster than I've boon gettln
whent A fulr year with, Bay, fifteen
thousand acres In, would mnko me
better than $200,000 clear profit, and
a. ringer, mat's wnat I am waltln' for
r ringer, I'll clean up a good quarter
of a million in one crop, and If several
good crops follow ono after another,
bh they have dono In times past, and
as they auroiy will again, you can put
my name with tho other millionaires'
In tho Who's Who In America book,
that book with tho red covers' nnd
gold lotters on tho back. 'James N.
Flke, millionaire wheat king of Kan
sas bow'll that look, hey?"
VICTIM OF AIRSHIP WRECK
Ho Is n lawyer and wna for mony years
Bordeaux. Ho was minister of Justlco from 1890 to 1002, has been vlcc-preaU
dent of the sonnto, where ho Bits ns sqnator of tho Glromle, nnd wns n former
deputy. He has been decorated with tho Grand Cross of tho Order of tho
Whlto Eagle of Russia.
Tho doplorablo accident, which caused tho 47th donth from that Bourco
within threo years, will not interfero
where nlready hundreds of aeroplanes
French army. Bather, It will causo stringent regulations In tho management
of crowds at aviation meets.
GATES TELLS TRUST SECRETS.
John V. Gates furnished tho open
ing Bonsntlon In tho Investigation
when ho revealed tho history of tho
United States Steel corporation. Pros-
cnt at tho birth of tho greatest stool
manufacturing concern In tho world.
ho described how It wns tho natural
outcome of what ho described ob tho
refusal of, Andrew Carneglo to bo
bound by tho "gentlomen's agree
ments" that marked tho enrly day of
open competition In tho stool busi
ness. Ho told of millions lost nnd crentod
almost tn n breath; how tho Carnegie
mills, npprnlBcd at $1GO,000,000, wero
recognized as worth $320,000,000; tho
grim clash in tho formatlvo days,
whon John D. Rockefeller was dis
suaded from Joining in tho creation
of tho corporation, and the manner in
which others wero proventcd from
engaging in tho steel trado.
Rotating how Carneglo had been
forced to abandon plans for extending
mlttod tho gigantic industrial combination was formed to throttle competition,
nnd ho surprised tho commlttoo with
D. Rockefeller had sought to enter
through by which tbe Standard Oil magnato was forced to soli out for 40 cents
on the dollar.
Because of the marked discrepancies In tho accounts of tho absorption of
tho Tennossco Coal and Iron company
In tho panicky days of 1907, aB glvon
tho Stanley "Stool Trust" commltteo
on that deal should bo obtained, and
d6 with it should bo examined.
HEAD OF A BIG EXPOSITION
the burden of responsibility for currying out every detnil of exposition man
ngoment. Tho appointment of all exposition ofllclals and dopartment heads
will devolve upon him nnd to hlm every dopartment chief will bo responsible
MEXICO'S NEW
Benor Do la Barra's successor In
Washington is Senor Zamaconn, whoso
father was minister to tho United
States from 1878 to 1882. During tho
fathor's tenuro of office tho son lived
with him In Washington, so that our
government nnd tho ways of things
nt our capital are familiar to tho new
minister. Zamaconn Is about forty
live years of age and for tbo past two
years has been Mexico's financial rep
resentative In London. Pre.vlous to
this ho served at director of tho In
ternational roenue of Mexico and
also represented tho Mexican govern
ment's Interests in tho Mexican Cen
tral railroad. Uo Is a man of brains;
If ho has discretion In equal quantity
he will provo an acccptnblo successor
to Do la-Barra.
Senor do la Barra provod himself a
gifted ard altogether welcome repre
sentative of Mexico In Washington,
doing mu;h to strengthen tho bonds
of friendship between the two coun
tries. Ho Is nn advanced thinker, thoroughly In sympathy with tho advance
ment of civilization nnd tho growth of popular government.
His worth was rocognlzed when President Diaz, forcod by tho gathering
strength of tho rebellion, called him from Washington to bocomo ono of his
now and modern cablnot, and especially so when both tho FedorallBts and In
surroctoB, the latter led by General Madero, chose him to serve as tomporary
president to succeed Diaz until an election can bo held some half a year
hence.
That was n terrlblo accident which
happened in Franco, when n runaway
aeroplane plunged Into a crowd of
spectators gnthorcd to witness tho
start of tho Paris to Madrid raco for
heavier than air machlnos, killing
Minister of War Bortoaux, severely
Injuring Premier Monls, and qulto
badly wounding sovcrnl othorB.
Premier Monls, whoso portrait la
shown hero, was burlod bonenth tho
wrcckago of tho monoplane Ho was
taken out as quickly as possible, and
examined by military surgeons, who
found that ho had Buffered compound
fractures of two bones In the right
leg, that his noao was broken, hie faco
badly contused, and that there wero
bruises on tho breast nnd abdomen.
Antolno Ernest Emmnnuol Monls,
proralor and minister of tho Interior
of Frnnco, who camo Into power on
tho fall of tho Brland roglmo on
March 1 this year, was born at
Chatoaunoufsur-Chnrcnto (Chnronto J .
an ndvocato In tho court of appeal at
with tho progress of aviation In Franco;
nro In uso or ordored for tho uso of tho
his steel business, Qntes frankly ad'
tho further Information that when John
tho steel business a deal had boon put
by tho United States Stoel corporation
by John W. Gates and Elbort H. Gary,
of tho houso decided that further light
thut ovory person who bad anything to
ChnrlcB C Mooro of San Francisco
has boon unanimously, chosen by tho
board of directors of tho Panama-Pacific
international exposition company
as tho active as well as tho formal
hoad of tho 1915 exposition. Tho qucs
tlon of oxecutivo leadership has boon
settled finally. Thero will bo no dl
rector gcnoral of tho Panama-Pacific
exposition. Mooro, ns president, will
combine tho functions which havo
boon divided In all previous world's
expositions between n president and1 a
dlroctor general.
Tho board of directors of tho expo
sition has adopted a complete plan of
organization, dlffortng In Us essential
features from that of any exposition
that ovor has been bold. Tho 1915 fair
1b to bo conducted as a business propo
sition, orgunlzed upon tho lines of
great business corporation, Mooro, as
oxecutivo head of the exposition, will
bo tho ono man upon whom will rest
AMBASSADOR
Mis Hone, she up en shuk huh hftld
En Mow she ttahed o' wcnliln
Deta iimn olS blooms ontlll she's dsld,
En' Mlstah Phlox come tenhliv
Krroun' de plot en sny hit nay I
"1's thoo wld dls or blossom 1"
Ho nnyi "lilts out o' style tordny
J-ct's (nice dem oft en toss 'em."
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Den Mlstnh Phlox en young: MIm Hose -
Dov rouse un nil dn tuddens
En shout: "Come on I Let's Kit new clo'es,
Po' slstchs cn do bruddehsl"
Miss Lily sho nx fo' now styles,
En Mo'nln' Glory, wlnnin'.
Bayt "Pet I'se dono a million miles .
Dcss cllmbln' up n twlnln'."
Don of Mis' Applo Tree say. "Hush!
You' tnouehty foolish chlllun.
Don't ro nt dls tn ecli a rush
Yo's nil o' yo' too wlllln',"
nut, huh! Dey dont henh huh nt all,
HflO mnlr ilitv Iaavaii nil frnrkleil.
Miss Daisy clomli up on de wall
ltn sit unn, red en spocxieai ,
Out enmn da Indies den, oompooh!
I toll yo' dey Is fussln'.
Dey scol' dem Howehs thoo en thoo
Almos' Ink menfolk cussln.
Dey sAy Miss Rosa Is plum gone daf
En Mlstah l'hlox is silly,
En nil o dem deis luff en lnft
When dey look at Miss Lily.
De 'elusion yo' mus' draw turn dls
Is dat do bes' to do Is
To do yo' bes' eh neveh miss
Do chnnco to bo whut true Is.
In co'so da llnwclm mado folks smite
When dey nil chnnxed doy trlmmln
Dey didn't know dnt changln' style
Wu on'y meant folk wlmment
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Tbe New Disease.
"What arb hla symptoms?" asked
tho doctor to whom tho mother of
tho young person has come for ad
vice
"Ho scorns to have an insano desire
io buy post cards. Why, It's worse
than tho clgnretto habit with him. He
buys two or threo dozon of thom overy
day and sends them off by mall. Ho
droamB about post cards, ho talks
about post cards, and unless he Is
glvon tbe opportunity to buy and mall
as many of them as ho likes he al
most gooa Into collapso. I am afraid
IiIb heart Is affected, ho gotB so nerv
ous and excited whon ho Is crossed In
his wishes in that respect."
"Yes," says iho physician, thought
fully rubbing hla eyeglasses. "The
symptoms you montlon Indicate card
iac disturbances. Wo might call thorn
poBtcardlac."
Without a umllo he writes a pro
scription for something that will taste
llko tho gum on tho" back of a stamp.
Knew the Sex.
"Sir," said tho, eminent woman's
rights agltntrcss to the colobrate geog
rapher. "I havo called to protest
against your unfair discrimination."
"In what way, madam?" asks the
geographor, looking up from tho map
ou which be Is marking the new bound
aries of Manchuria.
"You do not glvo propor recognition
to my sex In tho names you give to
countries and places. For Instance,
you have the Isle of Man, and there Is
no Isle of Woman."
"Your complaint Is perfectly Just,
madam,' courteously says tbe geog
raphor, "and tho difficulty you apeak ol
shall bo remedied In tho noxt geog
raphies. Wo shall have an "I'll ol
Mun" and an "I'll Not of Woman."
Uusually the Case.'
"It In awful," moralized tho profe
nor, "to seo how somo coquettish worn
en will lead a man on."
"Lead him on I" exclaimed the dam
sel. "I've noticed that after a man
has followed a woman until she oludei
him ho sets up tho plea that be wai
led."
Innocent.
"Splggles," says the host, "You nr
a Judge of tobacco, aren't you, I'd
llko you to try ono of my Imported Ha
vann cigars."
Tho host Is lifting tho lid of his cl
gar Jar when Splggles enters a utaj
of proceedings.
"l'vo tried 'em. They're not guilty.'
Her Curiosity.
"They say Flossie announced hot
engagoment to Mr. Gatsap beforo b
had proposod to her,"
'Y'es. Sho said sho wasn't going to
accept him until sho know how hoi
friends would regard hor engagoment'
Preference.
We dislike people who are cold
The trnlt Is only human.
We'd rnther have our shoes half soled
ny some good, whole souled ulioeman.
