For Boys And Girls

LADY COW, WITH y o u r sweet, sweet breth, And eyes so soft and kind, I wonder where in the pasture land Such creamy milk you flnd! llaybe the daisies are the milk, The buttercups the cream, And the butter is the marigolds That grow along the stream. I've guessed your secret, Lady Cow? Don't look so very sad; I wouldn't teil a word of it, I couldn't be so bad! - Our Animal Friends. Sonie South Afrlcan Birds. Following the example of other members, I thought I would write and teil you about some of our birds. My brothers and I have just been talking about the blue hawk. It is not a particularly large bird, and is grayish-blue in color. It is comparatively harmless, its chief prey being rats and mice. lts nest looks like a pile of sticks roughly laid together, but at the bottom of the nest it is very soft. This is the description my little cousin gives of its eggs: "If you were to take a pure w'.iite egg and rub it all over with blood, leavSng a few white specks, it would be just like a blue-hawk's egg." In shape it is round, and the color is really a dirty red. The bird's cali sounds very much like that of a cross fretful baby. Another peculiar bird here is the hammerhop. It is a large brown bird, and has a crest upon its head which looks like a hammer, henee the name. It preys upon the frogs. It makes a tremendous nest in the shape of a hut on the top of a high rock. I am told that it piasters the nest on the inside. One of our prettiest birds is the gilded cuckoo or diedrich. The color of its back is green, and looks as if a lot of bronze dust had been sprinkled on it. lts breast is white spotted with brown. Like other cuckoos, it lays its eggs in other bird's nests. The color of the eggs is pure white. It has a very musical cali - "deedee-dee-diedrich." The aasvogel is a species of vulture. It is of a dirty white color, and has no feathers at all on its neek. Almost as soon as an animal dies the sky is darkened by aasvogels flying to prey upon the body. The leader or king perches upon it first, while his followers sit round waiting until he is finished. He claims the eye as his portion, as a rule. As soon as he has satisfled his hunger he nies away, leaving his followers to have their share. Tne aasvogel builds hls nest of sticks on the top of some inaccessible krantz (precipice). The eggs are white, I btüeve, spotted with brown. - Isma Finchara in Harper's Round Table. Godlinees Is Profltable. The thought brought out by H. N. Jacks, secretary of the Oakland, Cal., associatlon, at the noon prayer meeting in the Chicago associatlon building the other day, that godliness is profltable even in this life is one' that is sometimes lost sight of, even in this practical age. Even from the utilitarian standpoint there is no stronger argument for Christianity than the fact that it helps a man to make the most of this life. The Christian is not promised great wealth or prosperity - few Christians could stand this- but he is promised a sufflcieney, and prosperity in earthly thlngs often follows in the wake of Christianity. It is but natural that it should be so. Christianity means diligence in business and the best use of the talents God has given each individual man. It means also honesty between man and man, which In the end is the best policy. It means temperance, self-control and the right use of all the powers of body and mind. It means the strength to embrace opportunity. In fact the Christian man Is the only man who Is living in harmony with nature's laws, and as such he can not but be successful in the highest sense of the word. On the other hand, the man who disregards God in the affairs of his life opens the door to all kinds of evil indulgences. Many start out with the false notion that it is manly to drink intoxicants, to gamble, to occasionally sow their wild oats, forgetting all the while that they are forging the chains that will bind them for this life as well as for the next. The man of dissipated habits can not be a success in any posltion. He is unworthy of confidence. No employer will trust him. Quickly he loses place, respectabillty, character and manhood, and aa he finds himself an outcast from society he is reluctantly brought to the conclusión that "the way of transgressors is hard." - Toung Men's Era. Effect of Kxeroisp. In a recent pamphlet issued by the University of Wisconsin are given statistical results of investigation on the part of Dr. J. C. Elsom, the professor of physical culture and director of the gymnasium. It will be remembered that Dr. Elsom was formerly physical director of the Minneapolis association. The students at the University of Wisconsin, at their second examination, where asked certain questions as to the effects of exercise. Out of seventy-five answers, selected at random, fifty-eight men testifled to an improved state of health and strength as a result of the season's work. Following are some of the results of exercise reported by these students: "I have been more free from biliousness and kidney troubles." "The gymnasium has greatly improved my digestión and sleeping." "Health generally improved, especially my chest and lungs." "Scarcely ever now have a headache." "The exercise has caused many of the eruptions on my skin to disappear." "Am freer from cold in head and throat." "Appetite better, digestión Improved; formerly hart speils of dizztness. Have dlsappeared. " "The exercise has enabled me to stand stralghter, and I feel better generally." "One stated that he noticed a better concentratlon of mind a.id freer and qulcker antion during study, as a result of his exercise." "The effect has been gratifying. I flnd that I can study much better." "My standings last term were better than ever before." "I can spend one hour In the gyir.nasium and study as much In three hours as if I studied four hours in succession." A IVrriíieil Seiton. "Never but once have I entirely fo'rgotten my dignity in the pulpit," said a ministerial friend. "It was on a stormy Sabbath evening. My congregation was small and seated at my request in the front of the church. During servces one of the rear lamps became disordered and I called the attention of the sexton to it without disturbing the congregation. "Taking down the offending article, an Dld-fashioned side lamp, and holding it at arm's length, he tried to extinguish the blue blaze that was fillingr the chimney. His fright was so apparent and his efforts so comical that it was with difflculty I continued to address my audience, still in total ignorance of the serio-comic state of affairs in the rear. Their flrst intimation of danger was a sharp report accompanied by the terrified exclamation: 'There she goes!' "All heads turned to behold the old ?exton with eyes and mouth distended, ïlutchirig tightly the empty bowl from tvhich chimney and burner had just shot skyward. Beheld and beholders presented such a ludicrous appearance that my gravity gave way and I sank into a. chair in uncontrollable merriment."- tda Kays, Kelly, Kas. What a Copyright Is.] A copyright, dear Sir Harry, is a legal rigrht to a copy. Suppose you and your friend Delano, four doors away, should publish a book that proved as popular as - well, let us say Trilby, or Ben-Hur, or Únele Tora'a Cabin did. If you sent out a few copies and put upon them no legal proprietary mark, other persons seeing the demand could and would take your work, make copies of it, sell them, pocket the money, and give you nothing for what perhaps cost you a great deal of effort. If, however, you observe the legal forms, and your book proves saleable, other persons are prevented from making additional copies. Those who want copies must buy them from you. The legal form is very simple. Before you publish the book, paper, print, or whatever it is, you mail two copies to the Librarían of Congress, Washington, with $1. He returns to you a paper, duly signed, setting forth the fact that for a certain number of years that article belongs to you. Tou state this fact on each copy published, and then the profit is yours, and the law proteets you in it. - Harper's Round Table. Pafs Pride and Fall "Dennis," said a minister to new member of his flock, "I am told that you were seen flghting last nig-ht." "Oi was, your honor, and its sorry Oi am for it, ïotwithstandin' the insultin' spalpeen hit me a shlap on the cheek." "But don't you remember the text of my last Sunday's sermón, Dennis? 'If a man smite thee on one cheek turn to im the other also.' " "Oi remimbered it well, an' thought o meself 'twas an illegant chance to how the sinner how good a saint Oi was, for he hit me an aisy tap; but when Oi turned the other cheek, as meek as yes plaze, he shtruck me sich a murtherin' swipe that Oi lost me patience entoirely. 'The devil fly away wid the villain that would tempt a converted Christian,' Oi yelled, 'and make the commands of the Bible of none effect!' an' Oi paid him back in his coin wid interest thrown in." Too Liberal Theolofjy. Pat and Jamie had been converted under the preaching of repentance for sins. They applied to become members of the Presbyterian church. Appointment was made for them to meet with the session for examinatlon. Pat carne ïrst and it was deemed best to refuse to admit him at that time. He was sorrowfully making his way upstalrs when iie met Jamie coming down. "Jamie," he said, "how many Gods are there?" "One," replied Jamie. "Ah," said Pat, "you had just as well go home, me boy; you don't stand the ghost of a chance. They a.sked me that and I told them there was a hundred of them, and they wouldn't let me in; you never in the world will get in with only one God." - Rev. G. W. Bull, Opelika, Ala. Kill Hlm Where He Is. Charlotte Cushman, a celebrated actress, was filling an engagement at the operahouse in B . A man in the gallery created such a disturbance that lt seriously impeded the progress of the play, and flnally brought it to a standstill. Immediately the audience, furious with anger, cried: "Throw him over! Throw him over!" Miss Cushman stepped to the edge of the footlights, and in a sweet and gentle voice exclaimed: "No, I pray you, don't throw him over. I beg of you, 3ear friends, don't throw him over, but dll him where he is!" Pat's Defense. An Irishman was on trial for committing a burglary, and had conducted hls own case. The evidence against him was strong, and the judge, after summing up, remarked, while looking at the prisoner, that he could detect the rascal and villian in his face. "Hold there!" shouted the prisoner. "I obiect; that is a personal reflection." A Facetious Vlsitor. "See yat 'Ittle boy over zare?" sald Mabel. "Tat's my 'ittle buzzer, an' hls aame is Nat." "Indeed?" said the vlsitor. "Well, I think gnat Is a very good name for a ouzzer." The Littlo Collector. I don't care much for the postag stamps Themselves - 'tween me and you; The fun I get collectlng comes From sticking 'em in wlth glue.