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THE FORGER BEATS THE METAL
INTO SHAPE
ATROUSERS pocket, after all,
isn't the most cheerful place to
be in, especially when that
pocket is sticky with the remains of
etveets. So you can't blame the
Pocket-lcnIfe for condescending to
address the copper Penny. Nowever,
he was an exceedingly dignified pock-
et-knife, possessing all of three
blades, and his manner was haughty
as he said to the Penny:
"If you are feeling lonely, I shan't
mind you clinking against me new
and then. It may glve you confi-
dence." --- •
put a little information into that idle
head of yours," Said hn therefore,
I shall tell you. eamethIng about the
creation of us members of a great
and noble family,
"In the first place, X nnd many of
my kindred came from Sheffield,
England, The faetories of this cite,
fwbich le the center of the cutlery in-
dustry of Great Britain, turn out
knives by the millions.
"From the rolling mill the steel
comes in 'strings' about twelve feet
in length. These aro of such shape
as to give least labor in working
articles from the metal. Some of the
steel bars are broad and thin; others
are narrow and thick; while for cer-
tain artleles—of which scissors are
an example—one edge is sharp and
the other blunt, in order that the
blades may bo readily sharpened.
"At the forgo my blades wore ham-
mered out of the glowing steel; then,
after a nail mark had been placed
upon them, they were dropped into
cold water. This last process made
the steel very brittle. So next the
blades were placed on a hot iron
plate over a fire. When they assumed
a bluish color they were removed,
as they had now gained temper and
flexibility.
"From the forge my blades were
taken to a man who sat on a wooden
'horse,with a revolving Wheel Of wet
sandstone before him. Here the blades
were ground and then placed in lime,
which absorbed all moisture. More
panelling took place on a leaden
wheel and a wheel faced with
leather.
"Next, all my fourteen different
GRINDING THE STEEL
"When you've traveled about the
country as much as I have, old fel-
ler, you'll have more reason to tallt
about self-confidence," the Mare.
spectful Penny replied.
"You're an ill-mannered rascal,"
angrily retorted the Pocket-knife;
"you don't seen to realize how un-
important you are when compared to
me, who have three blades and as
many as fourteen parts."
Tho cent, nowise abashed, grinned
cheerfully. "Your remarks are vary
gutting, Mr. Pocket-knlfe," sill he.
"and I suppose I ought to be quite
envious of your three blades and
your fourteen parts. But I have 'an
Plea that long after you've been oast
on the rubbish heap, I shall still be
rendering service to mankind. I
should be very much pleased, how-
ever, to learn more about your four-
teen parts,"
For some minutes the Pooket-knife
preserved a chilling silence. But at
last the temptation to chattelbe-
came too great.
"It cortainlet won't do any harm to
parts were assembled, end I appeared
much as you see me now. The blades
were sharpened on an oilstone, and
the polishing was completed on a re-
volving wheel covered with a soft
skin.
"Nor have I told you of the proc-
esses that all of my parts go
through. In all, there are about 100
of them. If ono man made the whole
knife, he would be kept employed for
two days. Of course, I am a very
expensive knife and of the best Work-
manship. To purchase me it requires
many pennies like you.
"Yes," observed the •Penny, "but the
same pennies that have purchased
you may possibly aid in buying your
successor when you are unfit for
further service. And, In spite of your
fourteen parts, .I believe that the
coinage of pennies is quite as inter-
esting as the manufacture of cut-
lery."
The Pocket-knife had already re-
tired to the other side of the pocket,
however, and pretended not to hear
the Penny.
1/Y Lel
f AND must the rest of my lift bo
utterly worthless!" muttered
Granny, bitterly, to herself. Nor
5a8 thio the first time that the good old
Woman had so complained, For many
months elle had worried and fretted. Un-
til lately every house in the village had
known the cheerful presence of Granny
es Oho sped Upon her innumerable er-
rands of mercy and Comfort. Never
had elle concerned herself about her own
effairs. Always waif her thoughts of
P there. Now, since elle had bectOme too
feeble to go forth from her little cottage,
She sorrowed because elle feared her
nsefulneee was ended.
Then, aa Granny Sat before hoe spin-
nleg wheel, it seemed that ehe beard a
voice, And the voice was saying:
"No longer Will you Suffer lonellnese.
'feting and old will 00016 to you daily
for advice. For hereafter there will be
magic: In your spinning. Ae your Visitor
stands before you, wafele 5105,10
"'
thread S
you H, ". oy. "
you Will read
• oretthis th
napes, Ole at -abalone
the life to the "perton whom you may
ve by good eeeneel."
So letcarrie about, Never ft day passed
but genie one nailed to see the old lady,
Silo never raised her head from the
thread 08 it mune from the spinning
wheel, yet she told of things that
etartlecl her hearers, Their averY
thought she seemed to road, Marvol ng
greatly. they Would go thence to toll
their friends of the old woman's wis-
dom. People flecked to her. But ranch
of the information which Granny could
readily have imparted she kept to her-
self. In the futures ot some among
those who called sho read many tin -
n1000001; troubles and Male, the =lure
of Which she had not the heart to dis-
close.
The menthe Passed. Granny was al-
Waya at her wheel new, and hardly an
hour during the day passed that she
woe not melted for sage advice. Yet,
even now that she had become me use-
ful again, she wee not honor. For the
future Woes and burdena of many Of her
,visltors preyed mion her mind; rtor 00010
brie eitee ler—Illee of her NOW
Oho longed wiif
fatal *gift "
e.nowledge ti-ealeen trohl
but soinellOW She felt inipelled to
remain at the Wheel,
can etarld it no longer," she walla
Moan at the Close of each day',
And so at boat the epirit heel 00141130;1-
E1ton 011 GnIlliii, 0110 day the spinning
wheel Wes quiet, and these Who eared
to eeek her,eeencle,that Granny In ber
spinning had Inutile, reedited the end of
her own theca& of life. Se, tee, the
meek; be the dream !spindle bad de -
mole& '
er
eHE MAN DOCTOR WOULD EXAMINE JIMMY FREQUENTLY
JIMMY considers himself a much -
abused chimpanzee. And perhaps
Jimmy Is right. In the first place,
it wasn't very nice to be taken away
from a. pleasant home in western equa-
torial Africa, where Jimmy was just be-
ginning to enjoy 1100. Ile had outgrown
his mother's care. No longer need he
sit In the nest high up among leafy
boughs, where the restraining hands of
his mother would seize him when he
leaned too far over the edge to peer at
his father, squatting beneath. And he
was now able to scamper away with the
• otber young monkeys, playing among
the trees and eating nuts and luscious
fruits. Truly, Jimmy had glorious times
then.
But the day came when Jimmy was
Cousin Alice
EVER was any little girl more of
a tomboy than was Alice. Leav-
ing her playthings, her household
duties, her work -basket, oven abandon-
ing ber_eoll, she perched herself upon
a limb of the old apple thee and thought
for the hundredth time how much hap-
pier boys are than giriS.
Alice's parents, tired of hearing the
little girl repeatedly wish that she were
a boy, decided to make a certain test.
They sent her to the home of her boy
Cousins, where she was to share their
work and play and be raised in the same
fashion as they.
Tho boy cousins were given fencing
lessons regularly. Alice was to learn
this sport, too. At first she thought it
Was great fun—an immense improve-
ment upon sewing doll's clothing—but it
was not long before she became weary.
Then she indulged in all tho games she
had once thought she would enjoy se
well. But now when she played /eap-
frog and other rough games she reeelvea
so many bumps and • hurts that she
would have been glad to quit had she
not been afraid of her cousins' ridicule.
Indeed, while playing a game of "rob -
bars" Alice was struck so hard by one
of her cousins that she felt quite 111.
She stole quietly to a, room, where she
could be all alone. And when her aunt
discovered her she was bending affect
tionately over an 010 dolly.
Tho next morning Alice was sent
home. No longer did she wish to be a
boy. From that time sho busied herself
in 011 the girlish plays and duties she
had once despised.
Trees and Lightning
,--2-au3R. is a popular belief that cer-
tain trees are less likely than
' others to be struck by lightning,
and that during a. thunderstorm It is
quite safe to stand under a beech, for
example, while the danger under a res-
inous tree or an oak is, respectively,
fifteen or twenty times greater. This Is
disputed In a recent writing by Dr, A.
W. Bothwick in his "Notes of the
Royal Botanical Garden of Edinburgh,"
The doctor says that no tree is im-
mune, and the 'beech is struck quite as
frequently as any other epodes. Appa-
rently the taller trees In a neighbor-
hood are the Ones most likely to be
struck. Contrary to what Is believed
by some people, the tells are not "rup-
tured or torn by the formation 00
eteam, as might happen if the heating
by the electric current was very great.
The cells collapse and hrink up, but
are never torn," The root system does
not seem to be ever damaged by light-
ning,
captured by bunters, carried a long die-
tance through the forest and then placed
in a big ship, which bore him thousands
of miles across the ocean.
So Jimmy came to live in a. cage near
a great many chattering monkeys,
Jimmy himself did not feel like chatter-
ing, He was too sad to utter the harsh,
piercing cries that: he used to employ in
calling to his playmates in A.frica. Not
that these Men People did not treat him
rightly; oh, no; they tried to take the
best of care of him. In fact, Jimmy was
regarded more highly by them than he
was among the Chimpanzee People. But
here there wore no trees to climb—nO fun
to be had. And the climate didn't agree
With him. When the Man Doctor would
examine Jimmy—as he did every now
and then—he would frown and shake Ills
head. Of course, the doctor must have
known that all that was necessary to
bring Jimmy back to health was to send
him home. But Jimmy wasn't sent
home. He must be kept where the Men
People could look at him.
It was hard for a chimpanzee 19
be contented amid such surroundings.
jimmy really began to try his best,
however, and now ho plays in a friend-
ly fashion with his keepers, talks to
'them in queer little grunts and even does
amusing little tricks. Yet he cannot for-
get his grievance against tbese cruel
Men People, and at times—especially
When he's feeling worse than usual—ho
curls himself up in a corner and dreams
and dreams of the Chimpanzee Folk in
Afriea, and wonders why the Man Doc-
tor and the keepers, who really seem
quite fond of him, don't prove their
friendship by sending him back to his
own home and his own people. Jimmy
is sure the Chimpanzee Folk would never
capture a man and keen him prisoner
among the trees in Africa just for the
chimpanzees and gorillas and monkeys
to look at.
Why She Liked It
ACERTAIN clergyman .net a little
boy outside the rectory.
"Do you go to church, my boy?"
he asked.
"Yes, sir," replied the boy; "and rna
does, too. She says she always likes the
day that you preach."
"Yes? And wily so?" interrogated
the much -pleased clergyman.
"Why, sir, she says she can always
get a good seat then!"
THEY ENTER .A. MAORI RUT WHETtli) LIES A SICK
SKINS OP WILD ANIMALS
DELIGHTFUL as had been their
voyaging from San Francisco,
Roy and Bon felt that much
time had been wasted when
first they came in view of their des-
tination, the southwest part of New
Zealand, And the closer they drew
to land, the greater grew their rap-
ture. First, there were the great
rocky cliffs, which rose directly from
the water. The coaat, too, was in-
dented by Innumerable fiords and
bays, Same of which Uncle Will said
were at least twenty miles In length.
Then there were visible to the eye
great forests, and snow-capped moun-
tains reared themselves in the dis-
tance.
"Isn't It a wonderful sight!" ex -
MAN DRESSED IN
where, looking up from below, the
waters seem to come from the clouds.
And as they fall they rumble In
curioils sort of monotone.
Ben had been silent for the last half
hour, engrossed In thought. He nova
came close to Roy, and whispered:
"What do you say to deserting the
folks for a little while? I'm sure they
wouldn't give us permission, so we'll
have to steal away; but we can leave
a note telling them we'll be back soon.
With our rifles we ought to get all
sorts of game. 'We'll here a bully
good time,"
As Roy was' 14—just a year younger
than Ills brother—he was, of course, just
at the age when such an adventure
would appeal mightily. 1.18 wasn't long
IN years when knights fought valiantly to win falr ladye's smile,
When heroes slow their dragons, and magicians practiced guile,
Through highways and through byway, with merry wit and song
And instruments full well attuned, blythe minstrels tripped along
A -fluting and a -piping day by day,
Of all the clever troubadours .700 visited the court,
There ;were two minstrels unexcelled, according to report;
Their carolings and warblings even birds 10 liet would come;
Each player round his hearers wove a spell that held them dumb,
'While flitting and a -piping joyous lay,
"Now let us have fair trial," said the Icing unto the rest,
"That we may see which minstrel can the other minstrel best" -a
Forthwith there went with glad intent a messenger to bring
Musicians both and bid them come to play before the king,
,d-iluting and a -piping measures gay.
Together the competitors burst forth irt melody,
And yet surpassing sweet the sengs—no discord could there bo;
So wondrous well they played that each the other charmed to sleet)/
They slumber still and in their dreams continually keep
A -fluting and a-plping—well-a-clay!
AT THE BASE OF SUTHERLAND FALLS
claimed Roy, as the boat passed be-
tween two toweling rooky ' walls,
nearly a mile in height and only a
quarter mile apart, giving entrance to
Milford sound.
"Yes, and you'll see many more In-
teresting sights before our vacation
is over," replied 'Uncle Will, "This
country seems to have borrowed
beauties from almost every country
and every clime. There are geysers
like those of Iceland, Switzerland g•la-
Mere, Alp -like mountains and fertile
plains. Every kind of scenery you
have. And it's a glorious land to
roam about in."
"You said something about a hermit
the other day, Uncle Will," interrupt-
ed. Ben, "and I meant to ask you for
the story."
"You mean Hermit Sutherland, of
Milford sound? Not so very long ago
he and Ills deg were the only inhab-
itants of this region, He wandered
about exploring the country. It was
he, you know, who discovered Suther-
land lealle which we shall visit short-
ly. Just think of it, boys—falls that
are 1004 feet In height! For six years
Sutherland lived alone, and then he
was joined by a companion,"
The boy'S father and mother and
Aunt Margaret now Joined them, and
together they admired the view about
them,
"Do you know, Ben, 1 hate to leave
this place," muttered Roy. The partY
had been looking at Sutherland Fella,
making up his mind.
AT tirst thought an. old newspaper
would 800111 to offer little mar-,
tunity fOr amtleowient, Yet yen
tannot imagine hOW ninny artletie de.
Signs enn be 'Made from this Old rieWa-
paper Without the aid of any other 001
Or Materliti.'
Let UM describe, tor instance, tha
"mariner 0 wheel," shown in Figure 8.
first take a whole ma-W.014)er sheet (oe
four pag s) and told it down the °enter,
rat in Figure 1, 0�w your 'paper ha
tho form shown in tigure 2. Vold along
the cent r lino, according to leigere 2,
And then fold upon a dotted lino indi-
toted 11i rigare 8, When this is cora,
pleted yen should have all the open ends
00 the paper at the bottom.
Voiding upon the clotted lino shown
on Metre 4 yoe obtain Pigure 9. You
are never ready 1.0 tegill tearing the Pa-
per. Be sure that all the felded 0011200
of the paper aro on the right-hand nide.
Tear Alen the dotted 11110 noted in
'Figure $. 'Upon opening the resulting
forM—Flgure 1,-yOu have your "mar-
Iner's wheel."
Pleasing variations; of the "tnevinerei
wheel" may be obtained by tearing the
paper, When In the position of VigUre 0,
along clotted 1I11e elsnpit ID VigUra
ViglIrO.3.0 and Vivra 1
Their plans once perfected, the boys
gathered together what little provisions
they coUld. This they did secretly and
without exciting suspicion. That even-
ing they stole away.
Roy and Ben failed to realize the dan-
gers of their exploit until they found
themselves, upon the afternoon of the
following day, without provisions, and
lost in the forest,
"I can't hold out much longer," gasp-
ed Roy, as he stumbled and almost fell;
"I'm tired and I'm hungry."
"011, we'll be all right soon," replied
Ben, encouragingly; "we're certain to
shoot something, and once we have
decent meal— Hello, what's that?"
Suddenly the two had eome out into a,
small clearing, in the middle of which
P08 a but, such es the Maoris build.
Quickening their pare, they soon came
to the door, As they received no answer
to their call, they entered.
Upon a rude not they found a -wild-
looking man, tossing from side to side
with fever, Over him lay skins of wild.
animals.
"Looks pretty bad," observed Ben,
Further investigation about the but
revealed some dried meat. After the
Inds had partaken of it, and then drank
refreshing water from a spring nearby,
they discussed the situation.
Ben sbook his head decidedly. "It
stands to reason *we've got to stay and
try to do something for the man."
So for two days the eouple watched
the slok man. Meanwhile they had been
able to kin some game and replenish
their larder. The fever now left the 111
host. His gratitude to the boys was
heartfelt, Well it was for them, too,
that they had shown this kindness. For
aeon the men—a hermit, he wae—was
able to guide the boys back to then..
relatives,
The lads were greatly ashamed of
themselves when they found how Innen
worriment they had caused through their
thoughtlessnese. But although they
derma breath the subject, they did
Wish their father and their uncle 'Weald
decide to Spend a time camping in the
mountains. In spite of the attendant
hardshIpa, they felt sure they Would
enjoy themselves immensely. Those gen-
tlemon, however, seemed to think thee
Ilen and Roy had done enough explore
ing in the forests,
Was Watching Him
TWI2tri::tolyellnanialso ?atop ,ofwtelil.oemspewalgluda
of the ease With which some pick.
pockets operate. One Of the gentielnen
eald:
"Why, My friend, pieldeg peekets bo
Observe .now Ifelir Pocket
is gaping. I could aally have picked
it."
"No you touldn't," cried the /CAMS,'
stn in the other &climb/m*1 lap,
„ 'oiuso 9 Ivs.s leettre out for yottl”