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"Th'l'o' IIntl/lIt / hut lull , " I said , and ]
1111"11'11 ! once note ,
1'0 w..elllll' . nil with Fitte ;
And then I heard II litho voice In1ll01'e ] ,
" 1)(1 lIot I'ellilollll ) , hilt 'IIIt. "
" 'I'hPl'1 ! 1/1 / no Joy III life 01' love or art , "
I 1111111 In nly ' 1I1'1I1mlt' ;
And Ihl'n I helll'lI I your laughter In 111)
hl"'I ,
And smiled 10 henr It there.
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'l'hel' III no pence , " I sighed In hope-
Ierlslless-
1I1'Id fllllt III Hlnoll1'R emhmce ;
Anil then I fllt'our tender hllnds caress ,
Your IIIII upon my fuce
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'J'herf' I" no IJrOlllllle. low can Ire-
Jllcu ?
' 'l'n-nllll'I'IIW' figs fIJ't lIumh !
AIIII still I hel\l' your tender , hopeCul 1
yule' :
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1'110 IIUII\I11 days will come ! "
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Fortune-Telling Trick.
To II/'ell\ro the fluid with which
Son are to tell the fortunes of you r
friends you must put some qulcllImo
Into a Illmrt hottlo and then fill the
bottle with colt ! \11101' Shake It well j
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every now and hon t , allli at the end
of the lit ) ' set It away where It will 1
nol. ho touched during the night.
'rho next morning pour off the
water Into another hot tic , leaving the
sediment In the first OI1C. And now ,
ha\'ing provided , yourself with sons
clean straws , such us are used it eI
drinking , \ lomonalle , you are ready to
begin your fOl'tuno telling.
As fortune toilers should not be (
exposed to the pUblic gaze while the ) '
are engaged ( with their "vlcllms , " yet i
should take your \ sent at u table be
hind n screen , and invite thom , one
lit n time , to consult you there Ho
fore doing that , however , it might he
well to fill privately a wino glass with
clear limo water and hold It up to the
light for the company to see , toiling
them that It is the Fluid of Fortun
When your \'Icllm" seals himself
nt the table with you , say something
111 ce this :
"Tho crystal water will tell you the
truth. Take this straw and ! hlow
through it in the water , as If yo 1.I
were blowing bubbles , for , after nil 1 ,
fortune is hut a buhhle. If you arc to t
be prosperous In life the water wlIl
change to milk , proving that you wlIl
live In a land flowIng nllll and hone ) ' . "
In the course of a minute or two ,
the water will become apalescent , and l
then as white as milk , to the wonder
of your subject. Caution to keep his
secret , and then you call for the next :
6U bject.
Ha\'lng poured out the fluid that
your first subject turned to milk , reo
rlll the wineglass from the bottle
and have another glass hy you filled
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The Sorceress 2t Work.
with pure water. This time let 'our
subject choose between the glass es.
If ho chooses the plain water , turn
aside his suspicion by saying :
"You must dip your fingers In this
glass before touching tae magic
straws. "
Then give him the glass with the
lime water In It and let him blow ate i .
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It through the straw , when the result
will bo the same as at first. The ef-
fect would ho hotter if you perform
Homo sort of nocus.pocus over the
glass , such as wa\'lng your hands or
pronouncing strange words or even an
Incantation.
It you don't care to tell fortunes
with the lime water , you can use It
to perform a little tent of mnglc. Tell
the company that you will turn the
water Into mlll merely hy blowing
Into i It , and not one of them will guess
how you do it.
A Pretty Experiment.
Hero is a little experiment that will
amuse 'Oll. Talw a piece of wood
thick enough to rest on a table In an
upright position. Bore several holes
of different sIzes In It , leaving some at
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them straight-that is of the same
diameter all the war throllgh. Others
you must make of a conical shape by
cutting + away some of the wood on
n table , supported , if necessary , and
fHlSIOnd ) before it nt It little distance
on the side of the large end at the
conical openings apiece ot paper.
This may ho hung ] from the chandelier
but It must ho low enough to be op
pestle to the holes In the wood
11 you now blow through the
straight toward the paper it will
naturallr ho blown way from you ;
hut blow through the small end of
the conical opening and the paper will
remain stationary or may oven he
drawn toward 'ou. Try It with n
cunlllo flame and a similar result will 1
fOllow.
The explanation Is that when yet t
blow through the straight halo the
air current is kept together in a col
umn and forces the object away fror.1 I
It. When you blow through the small
end of the conical hose the air cur
rent is spread { , or dispersed , and goes
off around the object , leaving It un
mo\'ed.
In blowing very hard , for instance
If you should use a bellows , or even
with the breath blow hard , the air
back ' of the wood around the hole Is i
sometimes blown through the hole toe ,
and a return current of air Is thus
made to fill the space of that dim ,
placed , causing the paper or flame
to he drawn toward the hole Instead
of away from It.
North Pole Candy.
It is not very pleasant to hear tal. I
Iowa. the marrow of the reindeer
called candy , yet such they may be
considered , because they delight the
children of the cold as much as 'ou
arc delighted with a box at chocolate
In Eskimo land there is a kind of
water fowl called do\'elde They are
about the size of a duck , arc quite
black ! , with webbed feet ot a brilliant
red color. When the men have killed
the do\'eldes the women cut ofT their
bright red feel and draw out the
bones ; then h ) ' blowing Into the ski ns
they distend them as much as possible -
sible to form pouches. When these
are thoroughly dried they are filled
with reindeer tallow and the bright
red packages are regarded by the E S.
klmo children as their greatest tre at.
Another kind of candy Is the mar'
row from the shinbone of the reindeer
of which the Eskimo Is'er ' fen d .
When the meat Is stripped from the
bones of the reindeer's legs , these
hones are placed on the floor and
cracked with a hatchet until the m ar .
row Is exposed. The bones are then
forced apart and the marrow dug out
with a long sharp spoon made from
the tusk of the walrus. When this
lId.blt Is frozen and cooked It Is said
by people who have tasted It , to be
very palatable-PhUadelphla Press.
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Found HIs Level.
Once there tins a bachelor who moved
from lint III lint I. .
I'el'r line hud children , and he wouldn
slllnd for thll I.
Found one where they weren't allowed-
then with rage was torn ,
1"01' In tilt rooms above ! him , was a habr
born !
: : Moved Into another IJlnee-then refused
10 slay ,
When ho not ( ced children In the house
across the war.
Final ) ) ' he died , and , its Is Q\'cr'bollY'1I
Cate. '
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Found himself a-Imocklng at St. Peter
golden gat" ;
"Can't come In-whr not ? " Hays he
Says the saint , "Oh dear !
" 'm afraid you couldn't stand the way
we I un things here ;
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Children , children , all IIbout-no , It Isn t
fall' ;
You RO to the other piace-rou'll find no
children there ! "
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BIg Bag of Jack Rabbits.
Thlrtr.nlno jack rabbits were killed 1
the other night nt one shot by 1\1rs.
William Boyd of Miller , S. D. , who
p eked the barrel of her shotgun
through the Icltchen window. The rah
hits came to the farm in droves , nib
bled at the haystacks and played ) havoc -
oc with fruit troes. Boyd had shot
nHmr and his wife bet him a pair of
car muffs against a barrel of apples
that she could hill more rabbits atone
one shot than ho could carry on his
back at one load. I\lrs. Boyd slrlnl ) .
led a bushel of oats in a II/Ith. The
rabbits gathered by scores until there
was a long row of them eating outs
in the bright moonlight. The woman
fired , and her aim was accurate. Boyd 1
loaded himself down with more than
roe pounds of dead rabbits , then sank l
Inlo I the snow and his wife had to pull
him out.
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Sewing With the Tongue.
The AJedizinischeVochenschrIft r e-
ports a curious case of a girl. \Vhen
6 years old she suffered from ! a s e .
yore brain disease , which left hCl' n
limbs l paral 'zed. Her tongue , howo\'er ,
remained flexible , and this organ she
began to train. She gradually acquired
a certain facility In writing and en I-
broidering. She would tale ends or
thread In her mouth and knot the m .
With scissors fastened in her mouth
she cut out dolls' dresses , and stir k-
Ing a needle into the table In front ! of
her , could thread it. Her embroider '
was quite wondorful. Her tongue : ,
while retaining Its usual breadth , Increased -
creased In length , so that she could
easily touch the tip of her nose with
Its loint. ) She died recentl . .
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Dog Went 300 Miles Alone.
The remarkable attachment for Its
home place Is shown in the case of
Carlo , a fine water spaniel belonging
to James Dingman , who several week
ago left Stoud , O. T. , for Idaho. Carlo
was tied in one of the cars with the
stock.
Ho stood the trip for 300 miles , hut
the desire to get back to the old home
place ) evidently grew upon him. 1\11' .
Dingman thought It was safe to untie
the dog , but no sooner had the nn i
mal been loosed than it jumped out of
the car and made a tree liner for
Stroud. It never stopped ) until It had
traveled the whole 300 miles , and
reached home almost stal'\'ed.-Knn'
sns City Times.
Crowing Competitions.
The feature of an entertainment
held at Slt\'erton , Devon , England , was :
cock.crowlng competition. Owners
of birds had to bring them to the village . -
huge schoolroom and set them a . cro w-
lag one , against the other For these
cockerels which crowed the loudest
and longest prizes were given. The
winner easily beat all heg
comers , crowing ! :
firt ' -one times In seventeen rnlnut es.
The second and third birds crowed
forty-one and thlrty.three times
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spectl\'ely . In the same time. . Belgian
workmen are fond ot cock . crowi ng
compeUlJons. The
other day one
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rell . trained bird crowed no fewer than 1. . 4
4G3 times in the course of an hour. -r . . , :
Errors Made by Geologists.
The construction of the great Sim-
pion tunnel has proved once more that
geology Is largely a matter at theo-
ries which mayor may not fit actual
ronditlons , even close to the surface .
of the enrth The engineers have dls- ' * .
covered that the geologists were en-
rely at fault as to the temperature
which would bo encountered , missing
the marl 25 degrees at the point
WHere hot water was found. The
water conditions in general were un-
11I\0 those predicted , and the engin-
eers found that the dips in the rock
strata , which had been declared on
theory to be mainly vertical , were ,
in fact , horizontal.
Bar Music as Anesthetic. , - - . - "
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A Paris dentist was recently fined
$5 for using music in extracting teeth.
The ground ! was that such a specific
was not contained in the phnrmaco
poeia. The dental surgeon thought
hl' had discovered a war both novel -
and ingenious , to lull nervous patients
to insensibility by sweet strains ot
harmony and the striping novelty
drew crowds of customers. But often ,
when the melodious anesthetic failed ,
the doctor resorted to nitrous oxide
or vulgar laughing gas The court
severely reprimanded the modern Or.
pheus.
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Shows Pollution of Air.
Air drawn br huge fans Into the
school of technology at Manchester ,
England , Is washed lr a spray of
water and filtered through a screell of
corrugated sheets of galvanized iron.
After the recent fogs the wash water
was found to he inky Ilacl < . The pro
portion of solid matter was large , but
analysis showed little soot , but con-
sldorahlo iron ( probably from the - - _
screen ) , with ammonia , lime , magnesia -
sla and a trace of arsenic.
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Making Mall Carrier Useful. ' )
The rural free delivery carriers
have got a reputation as wide as the
state among the Maine farmer women ,
hut the request that one of thorn me-
delved there lately was a surprise
even to the genial agent of Uncle Sam
most interested. Ho found a note
Ip111110(1 on a mall box asking him to
get a leer from under a door mat , enter .
tor the house , and put some water In
a pot ) of beans that was baking in the
koven in the Idtchen.
Money In Skunk all. --4
The trapping of skunks for the pur-
Jose ) of extracting the all Is being fol.
lowell by several North Brookfield
(1\Iass. ( > . people. The oil sells for U
a quart. Alfred Letourneault caught
seven full grown skunks under the
, James Duncan barn and lost another ,
which gnawed out of the box trap He
founJ that the skunks averaged a
lInt ) of oil each , so that his seven
skunks from one barn netted him
$3.50.
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Gave Him the Idea.
utVhen in the course at some good-
natured banter a friend told Clarence
Webb of Greenwich , Conn. , that he ,
thought a certain school teacher 'po
would marrr him he IHtt an idea ir I + : o
of'eUU's head. The next night when
school closed Webb was on hand with
his horse and sleigh to take Miss
Caroline Saxton , the teacher , home.
An hour later she was Mrs. Webb ,
according to the laws of the stato.
Aged Lady Keeps Busy.
Mrs. Charlotte Montgomery at Ran "
dolph ) , Vt. , is now In her 97th year.
She learned to crochet lace but a few
years ago and In the past five or six
wyears has made enough lace tour
Inches wide for over sixty-five aprons
or nearly 100 'ards.
Immense Sums Spent in Cabs.
A statistician has arrived at the
conclusion , that $25,000,000 Is spent
reearly by the public In London on
ccbB He also estimates that ot that :1.
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great sum perhaps $7,500,000 repre- J
gents tips and overcharges. '