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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 see you,
play "Five Geese In a Flock." Tho
children sit on tho crass, or on a
bank or bench, sldo by Bide. Ono
stands as Market Woman opposite the
row of players.
Sho waltfs along tho row and
touches each child, beginning whoro
Children Making Merry.
she pleubuo, unu tii.fe ouu word of
the following rhyme to each as sho
touches her:
"Please good farmer cut the
corn,
Keep tho wheat and burn the
thorn.
iShuU your gate and turn tho
lock,
Keep the 'flvo geeso In a
flock."
As soon as sho sayB the word
"flock," the one first touched Jumps
up and runs away. Tho market wom
an pursues her. But while she Ib
catching her, tho other geeso have
fled, and sho has to catch each play
er and reseat her In hor place before
tho gamo can begin again. The ono
first caught becomes in her turn the
market woman.
"Den" Is n good out-of-doors gamo.
Each boy takes tho namo of a wild
beast and has n treo to himself, which
represents his den. Any playor who
leaves bis den Is liable to be tagged
by tho next ono out. The best runner
generally starts out first, a second
pursues him, and so on until all may
be out at once. If a player can tag
any one ho has a right to capturo,
he takes him homo to his own den,
and the latter rauBt help him, to take
the rest. Tho pursuer cannot be
tagged while bringing homo ft 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 Bhe does this tho leader says
to each one, "Keep all I give you."
When she has finisher she puts tho
question to each ono In turn, "But
ton, button, who's got tho button?"
Tbft answer Is "Next door neighbor'
When sho returns to the head of the
line and asks "Who's got tho but
ton?" the player mentions tho name
of the one she thinks has It Tho
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 animal and acts just as that
animal would act Then the other
children guess what he Is trying to
be. The child who guesses correctly
may be the next ono to represent an
unlmal. It Is really very funny, espe
cially If you try to Imitate something
Uko a stork standing on ono leg or a
rhinoceros or a turtlo or even a
mosquito, for Insects are Included as
well as animals. Sometimes It Is well
to allow the guessers threo questions
that may be nnswerctt by "yes" or
"no."
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Off afliaa a PiaMO'i? got go? a ff&wm.
Tom and Vera Have Secret Between
Them and Each In Burst of Con
fidence Tells Friend.
Tom and Vera had a secret betwoen
thorn. In n burst of confidence Tom
told It to a mutual friend. Will; but
regretting his action, obtained a prom
Iso from Will that he would never lot
Vera know that tho secret had been
told.
Will, however, told Vera that Tom
had let him Into the secret, but made
her promise not to tell Tom that ha
(Will) had Informed her of having
obtained tho Information from Tom.
A Uttlo later Tom decided to let Vera
know that hp hd told tho secret to
Will, but Instructed her not to toll
Will that ho (Tom) had admitted to
giving away tho secret to Will.
Vera wont to Will and told him that
Tom had confessed to having let him
Into tho secret, but she mado Will
promise not to let Tom Know that sho
had given him this Information. Sho
also went to Tom and told him, In
strict confidence, that Will had told
her about having learned tho secret
from him,
Will next went to Tom and Inform
ed htm 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 ndvlsed hor of being let Into
tho secret. They both promised not
to toll Vera of having given away
tho confidences which sho had late
ly given.
Hut this Is the. question: Wcro any
moro confidences necessary? Or hnd
all of the three friends heard enough
to bo convinced that tho others know
everything that could bo told?
Sue's disposition was so sweet
She couldn't bear to cross the street
And I have even heard her beg
Iter mother not to beat an eggl
GREAT STADIUM AT TACOMA
Structure Is Shaped Like a Horse
shoe and Will Comfortably Seat
Twenty-Five Thousand
Tncoma's high school, which plays
an Important part In Pacific-Coast ath
letlcs, Is tho only high school In Amer
lea having an Olympic stadium, if not
tho only ono In the wholo world. It
Is a ponderous mass of steel and con
crete, Just completed at a cost of moro
than $100,000 in a gulch at ono sldo
of tho high school building. Tho gulch
happened, to bo Just tho right shape
for the stadium, so but little excava
tion was required. Tho structure Is
shaped Uko a horseshoe, with the open
end overlooking Commencement bny.
It will seat twenty-flvo thousand peo
ple, hns a center sufficiently lnrge for
baseball, football, track and field
events, and will also bo used for out
door musical concerts and entertain
ments. A movement 1b already on foot to
securo tho next Olympic games in
America, tho peoplo of Washington
believing that In the Tacoma stadium
they havo one of tho best arenas in
the United States for such an event
Baby on Its Hind Legs.
Little Bcsslo was bo accustomed to
seeing tho baby crawl nround 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
er, exclaimed: "Oh, manima, como
quick! Baby is standing up on his
hind legs'
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SM0G,B&A(aB SCABS'?.
Kansas Farmer Stakes $30,000 !
on the Weather.
Has Tried It Five Times and He's
Out $175,000 If Ho Ever
Wins He'll Be
Rich.
Colbv. Kan. "Jim" Flko Is trying to
got rich betting against tho weather.
Lost August ho staked $30,000 on tho
chanco that It would rain within
threo months. If It had rained, as ho
bot It would, ho would havo made a
uarter of a million and got his $30,-
000 back. too. But It didn't rain. Tho
weather Is a frcnkleh thing out on this
high plateau, and Flko will bo mighty
thankful If tho $30,000 Is returned to
him so ho can havo It to tako another
flyer agalnBt tho weather this year,
Flko calls his method of fortuno hunt
ing "Gambling against tho weather."
Ho has been at It now for flvo years
and has never won.
"But," ho says, "I'll mako tho big
killing ono of theso years, Just as
suro's shootln', and when I do I'll put
on patent leather shoes and go to tho
seashore."
Flko has staked $176,000 In five
years on tho chanco that there would
bo enough rain and aeasonablo woather
to glvo him a bumper crop of wheat
Each year of the flvo something went
wrong, either It didn't rain enough to
start tho wheat right, or It didn't
frcozo enough to glvo It a good Btand,
or tho high winds blow most of It out
of tho ground, or tho drought hindered
It from maturing; but there was
enough of a crop In tho worst of tho
flvo years to return him nearly all ho
had ventured', and In several of tho
yearn he mado a profit of a mere $20,-
000 or so.
Tho thing ho Is aftor Is a crop that
will average twenty-flvo or thirty-flvo
bushels of wheat to the acre. If aver
ho gets that ho may go to tho scashoro
suro enough, or to any old plnco. And
It Is a suro thing that ho will get It It
ho stays with the gamo, for In 1903
"Jim" Flko In the Field.
thousands of acres of wheat In thli
county yielded 42 bushels to the acre
and many fields cut 35 bushels and
hotter.
You can figure It for yourself. He
has 17,000 acres in wheat this year
and It was pldnted wun less cost than
any other wheat In tho state. Hit
traction plows tore up the earth, har
rowed It and seeded It, nil In ono op
oration, at tho rato ofono hundred
acres a day. It cost him $30,000 when
tho 17,000 acres wero in. If he
should happen to get an average of 25
bushels to tho acre he won't, because
tho weather won tho bet this year bul
If ho had wou and tho averago yield
wan 25 bushels to tho aero, that
would bo 425,000 bushels.
Now, take your pencil again: 425,
000 buBhcls of wheat at, we'll say, $1
a bushel; that's $425,000; enough
profit thoro for somo carloads of pat
ent leather shoes and trips to the sca
short) and around the world.
Flko sat scroochod down In his of
flee chair in this town the other day,
an old slouch hat pulled down ovei
his eyes, his muddy boots up on his
desk, and be looked through tho win
dow at the drizzling rain.
"Pity that rain didn't como last fall
Jim," said ono ofiils nolghbors.
"Y-a-a-s," Flko drawled. "But II
didn't. It's a gamble," he Bald
"We'vo struck flvo poor years. In
bad year wo got six or seven bushels
to the acre and barely pull out In a
good year It's easy to cut 25 to 3E
bushels here. In (hat kind of a year
with tho rains coming right, raising
wheat In this country Is ltfco 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 toll old Rockcfcl
ler to go chase himself. But It's been
a scrap. I'vo been Increosln' my aero-
age faster than I ve been gettln
wheat A fair year with, say, fifteen
thousand ucres In, would make me
better than $200,000 clear profit, and
a ringer, mars wnai l am waltln' for
a ringer, I'll clean up a good quarter
of n million in one crop, and If several
good crops follow ono nfter another
as they have dono In times past, and
as they surely will again, you can put
my namo with tho other millionaires'
In the Who's Who In America book,
that book with tho red covers' and
gold lottors on tho back. 'James N,
Flke, millionaire wheat king of Kan-
eas,' how'll that look, hey?"
VICTIM OF AIRSHIP WRECK
Ho Is u lawyer and was for many years an advocate In the court of appeal at
Bordeaux. He was minister of Justlco from 1899 to 1002, has been vlco-prcsU
dent of the senate, where ho sits as senator of tho Glronde, and was n former
deputy. Ho haB been decorated with
Whlto Eagle of Russia.
Tho doplorablo accident, which causod tho 47th death from that sourco
within throe years, will not interfere
where already hundreds of aeroplanes are In use or ordored for tho use or mo
French army. Bather, It will causo Btrlngent regulations In tho management
of crowds at aviation meets.
GATES TELLS TRUST SECRETS
John W. Gates furnished tho open
ing sensation In tho investigation
when ho rovenled tho history of tho
United States Steol corporation. Pres
ent at tho birth of tho greatest stool
manufacturing concern In tho world,
ho described how It was tho natural
outcome of what ho described as tho
refusal of, Andrew Carneglo to bo
bound by tho "gontlomen'a agree
ments" that marked tho early day of
open competition In tho stool busi
ness. Ho told of millions lost and creatod
almost In a breath; how the Carnegie
mills, appraised at $160,000,000, wero
recognized aa worth $320,000,000; tho
grim clash in tho formatlvo days,
when John D. Rockefeller was dis
suaded from Joining in tho creation
of tho corporation, and tho manner In
which othors wero prevented from
engaging in tho stcoL trado.
Rotating how Carneglo had boon
forced to abandon pinna for extondlng
mlttod tho gigantic Industrial combination was formed to throttle competition,
and ho surprised tho commlttoo with
D. Rockefollor had Bought to enter
through by which tho Stnndard 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 Tennessee Coal and Iron company
In tho panicky days of 1007, aB given
tho Stnnloy "Steol Trust" commltteo
on that deal should bo obtained, and
d6 with It Bhould bo examined.
HEAD OF A BIG EXPOSITION
the burden of resnonslbllltv for carrying out every dotal! of exposition man
nKoment. Tho nppolntment of nl exposition officials and department hoads
will devolvo upon him and to him every department chief will bo responsible.
MEXICO'S NEW
Benor Do la Barra's successor In
Washington Is Senor Zamacona, whoso
father was minister to the United
States from 1878 to 1882. During tho
father's tenure of office the son lived
with him In Washington, so that our
government and the ways of things
at our capital are familiar to tho new
minister. Zamacona Ib about forty
five yearB of age and for tho past two
years has been Mexico's financial rep
resentative In London. Previous to
this ho served an director or tho In
ternational rcienuo of Mexico and
aleo represented tho Mexican govern
ment's Interests In tho Mexican Cen
tral railroad. IIo Is u man of brains;
If ho has discretion In equal quantity
ho will provo an acceptable successor
to De la-Barra.
Senor do la Barra proved hlmsolt a
gifted ard altogether welcomo repre
sentative of Mexico In Washington,
doing mu:h to strengthen tho bonds
of friendship betweon tho two coun
tries. Ho Is an advancod thinker, thoroughly in sympathy with tho advance
ment of civilization and tho growth of popular government
Ills worth was recognized when President Diaz, forced by tho gathering
strength of the rebellion, called him from Washington to bocomo ono cf his
now and modern cabinet, and especially so when both tho Federalists and in
surroctos, the latter led by General Madero, chose him to serve as temporary
president to succeed Diaz until an election can be hold some half a year
henct.
That was n torrlblo accldont which
happened In Franco, when a runaway
aeroplane plunged Into a crowd of
spectators gathorcd to wltnosB tho
start of tho Paris to Madrid race for
heavier than air machlnos, killing
Minister of War Bertoaux, Bovoroly
Injuring Premier Monls, and qulto
badly wounding several othors.
Promlor Monls, whoso portrait Is
shown hero, was burled beneath the
wreckage of tho monoplane Ho was
taken out as quickly as possible and
examined by military BurgeonB, who
found that ho had suffered compound
fractures of two bones In tho right
leg, that his nose was broken, his faco
badly contused, and that thoro wcro
bruises on tho breast and abdomen.
Antolno Ernest Emmanuel Monls,
promlor and minister of tho interior
of Franco, who camo Into power on
tho fall or the Brland rogtmo on
Mnrch 1 this year, was born at.
Chatcauncuf sur-Oharonto (Charcnto) :
tho Grand Cross of tho Order of tho
with tho progress of aviation In Franco;
hta steel business, GatCB frankly ad'
tho furthor Information that when John
the steol buslnoss a deal had boon put
by tbo United States Steel corporation
by John W. Gates and Elbort H. Gary,
of tho houso decided that further light
that ovory person who had anything to
Charles CJ Moore of San Francisco
has bcon unanimously, chosen by the
board of dlroctors of tho Panama-Pa
clflc International exposition company
aB tho active ns well as tho formal
head of tho 1915 exposition, Tho ques
tion of cxccutlvo leadership has boon
settled Anally. Thoro will bo no dl
rector genoral of tho Panama-Pactflo
exposition. Mooro, as president, will
combtno tho functions which hnvo
been divided In all previous world's
expositions betweon a president and a
dlroctor general.
The board of directors of tho expo
sition has adopted a complete plan of
organization, differing In Us essential
features from that of any exposition
that over has been hold. Tho 1915 fair
la to bo conducted as a business propo
sition, organized upon the lines of a
great buslnoss corporation. Moore, as
executive head of tho exposition, will
bo tho ono man upon whom will rest
AMBASSADOR
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tCJSJ j WILBUR. D NEfBIT
Miss Rose sho up rn ihtik huh hnld
Hn 'low she tinned o' wcahln'
Desa same olS blooms ontllt she's dsld,
Tin' Mlstah Phlox come teahln'
lSrroun' da plot en any his snyl
"fa thoo wld (lis or blossom!"
He sny: "Hits out o' style terdny
Let's take dem oft en toss 'em."
i
Den Mlstnh Phlox en young Miss Itose
Dry rouse un nil da tuddehs
En shout! "Como on I tot's nit new clo'cs,
IV alRtehs en po' brurtdehsl"
Miss Lily she nx (o new styles.
icn mo nin' aiory, wninin-,
Bny: "lift I'e dono a million miles
Dcss cllmbln' up en twlnin ."
Don ol' Mis' Apple Tree says "Hushl
You mouehty rooinn ciuuun.
Don't go nt dls In sch a rush
vo's ell o' yo' too wlllinv
Hut, huh! Day dont limit huh at all,
Dry mok dy leaves all rrecKied,
Miss Daisy clomb up on do wall
Kn sit dah, red en speckled I
Out come de Indies den, oompoohl
I toll vo' dey Is fussln'.
Dey scol' dem flowehs thoo en thoo
Almos' Ink montolka cussin'.
Dey sny Miss Ilnso Is plum gone daf
Kn Mlstah Phlox Is my.
Kn nil o' dern dess lnfl en lnfC 1
When dey look nt Miss Lily.
De 'elusion yo mui' draw fum dls
Is ant do lies' tn do Is
To do yo' bes' eh neveh miss
De ehnnco to be whut true is.
In co'eo do itowehs made folks smile
When dey all chamred dey trlmmln
Dey didn't know dnt chanuln' style ,
wus on'y mcnnl fo wlmmenl
The New Disease.
"What are his symptoms?" afaked
the doctor to whom tbo mother of
the young person haB come for ad
vice. "Ho Booms to havo an Insano desire
lo buy post cards. Why, It's worse
than tho cigarette habit with him. Ho
buys two or threo dozen of them every
day and sends them off by mall. He
dreams about post cards, ho talks
about post cards, and unless he la
given tho opportunity to buy and mall
as mnny of them as ho likes he al
most goos Into collapso. I am afraid
his heart Is affected, he gots so nerv
ous and excited when he Ib croused In
his wishes In that respect."
"Yes," aays tho physician, thought
fully rubbing his eyeglasses. "The
symptoms you mention Indicate card
iac disturbances. Wo might call thorn
postcardlac."
Without a smllo he writes n pre
scription for something that will tasta
ltko tho gum on the' back of a stamp,
Knew the Sex.
"Sir," said the omlnont woman's
rights agttatrcBS to tho celobrated geog
rapher. "I have called to protest
against your unfair discrimination."
"In what way, madam?" obUb the
goographer, looking up from the map
on which he 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 Islo of Woman."
"Your complaint Is perfectly Just,
madam," courteously says tho geog
rapher, "and the difficulty you apeak ol
shall be remedied In tho next geog
raphies. Wo shall have an "I'll ol
Man" and an "I'll Not of Woman."
Uusually the Case.1
"It Is awful," moralized tho profea
sor, "to see how somo coquettish worn
en will lead a man on,"
"Lead blm on" exclaimed the dam
set. "I've noticed that after a man
has followed a woman until sho oludci
him ho sets up tbo ploa that ho was
lod." V
Innocent.
"8plggle8," Bays the host, "You are
a Judgo of tobacco, aren't you. I'd
like you to try ono of my Imported Ha
vana cigars."
Tho host Is lifting tho lid of his cl
gnr Jar when Splggles enters a Btnj
of proceedings.
"I'vo tried 'ora, They're not guilty.
Her Curiosity.
"They say Flossie announced hoi
engagomcnt to Mr. Catnap beforo he
had proposod to hor."
Y'cb. Sho said sho wasn't going tt,
accept him until sho know how hei
friends would regard her engagement"
Preference.
We dislike people who are cold
The trait Is only human.
We'd rnther have our shoes half soted
. Dy some Good, whole souled shoeman.