THOUGHTS
ON BOYS
By J. S. KIRTLEY, b. D.
Author af the "Youn*
Man and Himielf,” etc.
HIS PLAY
(Copyright, by Joseph B Bowles.)
He is a prodigious toiler—at play.
As a toiler he is also at times a ter
ror. Davie lived, as a lad, in southern
California. One time his father sent
him to spend awhile w-ith the lad's
uncle in northern California because
down there they were expecting an
unexpected visit—to use a Hiberni
cism—from an earthquake and wanted
the moat precious things out of the
reach of harm. The next week came a
telegram from the uncle saying:
“Come and get your boy and send me
the earthquake.” And yet he was just
playing. It was pure fun, not a bit of
meanness in it. Playing is a very
serious business with him and fun
ranks among the solemnities.
It is not for a moment claimed
by him, or any one of his anxious
friends, that play Is not hard work.
Digging postholes or worming tobacco,
or carrying a hod, or feeding a thresh
ing machine, or driving oxen, or sell
ing goods from a bargain counter is
light and lithejjm" work as compared
with tha labor of a lad at play. That
Is where most of the fun comes from.
If he could be induced to put that
amount of physical activity and mental
absorption and emotional rapture and
nndeflled conscience into some well
planned enterprise he rould achieve
wonders and make fortunes. But there
would be no fun in that, and, besides,
it would require him to give up his
Job of being a boy.
An outlet for his energies is neces
sary, and to the innocent bystander
this is the most agreeable of all the
outlets. For his growing muscles and
bones and his unstable nerves give us
the only form of perpetual motion that
students of mechanics can, as yet,
point to with confidence. This partic
ular outlet is the one that nature ar
ranged for in advance and. in order to
make sure that he would utilize it,
gav* him the play instinct, seif-opera
tive and irrepressible, so that it is
play or perish. We can easily see then
that the more work required in play
the more nature is succeeding with
her alee little scheme of giving his
energies plenty to do, and the boy gets
all the benefit of It. Going fishing is
no sinecure, with cutting poles and
digging halt and climbing over banks
and wading info the water at critical
moments and carrying home the heavy
catch of—colds and explanations of
the poor luck. Mowing the yard is
nothing to it, but that is undisguised
work. At school the strenuous work
begins with the morning recess and
reaches the perspiring point during
the longer play hour at noon. And
that is the most attractive part of the
school to him, except when the teach
er has bone-felon or influenza and can
not come at all. The ordinary noon
meal is not especially enticing, though
he is always ready for It. Yet a pic
nic lunch, designed for the noon hour,
can not be kept on the outside of him
later than 9.30 a. m. He is anticipating
the time when, in his later boyhood,
play will gradually give way to the
encroachment of work and he will try
to find solace in special gastronomic
feats. I recall it as if it were yester
day. Apples lasted in our cellar till
May or June and the lining of my coat
pockets was gone, so that the coat and
its lining formed one mammoth pock
et. As I went out to plow in the morn
ing that pocket was full of apples and
on my return at noon I was full of the
apples, yet with no lack of room for
I dinner. History would repea* Itself
| In the afternoon. In those days the
apples were the substitute for play.
Another peculiar fart is that there Is
n low grade of diseases, like stomach
ache for instance, that, entirely unfit
n boy for school or chores, but put
him In prime condition tor play.
If. as it has been said, going to
school and work generally are the
prose of his life and play is Its poetry,
play with his own crowd is the dra
matic poetry, play with his opponents
the epic and play with his sweetheart
is the lyric. But perhaps he is not
interested in this analysis. With his
6,000,000 cells all on the jump, he is
finding poetry in exploring woods and
ca'es. digging for hidden treasure,
living a few days in a tent.
Besides being an outlet for energies,
play has vast possibilities of a prac
tical kind. It is an index of his at
tainments. They say that his infancy
period ends at six and ends the period
of greatest physical activity in his
whole life. But boyhood proper then
begins and the play Instinct with it.
You know his age by the way he plays.
The imitative play belongs to infancy.
The play with others, not for the sake
of comradeship so much as for help
in playing—every fellow for himself—
that is the play of boyhood proper.
At about 12 he is at another stage,
when he is aware of social relation
ship, and then he plays in team work.
So his plays first express his physical
activities, then turn instincts into per
sonal habits and finally undertake to
shape his social ideals. His plays
msy serve his intellectual needs, by
being a study of history—Indian and
pioneer history especially. They may
even be work, provided they are work
dBgulsed as play. As he plays aright
and under wise direction, he is grow
ing in truth and honor and unselfish
ness aud loyalty. It pays to play.
Matches.
Three millions of matches, accord
ing to the statisticians, are turned
out every minute of the 24 hours of
the day by the civilized natives of the
earth. This is a consumption of sev
en billions a year, and it is said that
half of them are burned in the T'nited
States. Matches are cheap and very
insignificant compared with some oth
er articles of wood, but the manufac
turers complain that they tire begin
ning to find the raw material for their
produet scarce. Only the choicest por
tions of the host trees are suitable.
Sapwood, knotty or cross grained lim
ber will not do. Instead of being a
by-product of other articles of manu
facture, the little match is turned out
at hundreds of mills over the country
where thp by-products are bulky ob
jects like doors, sash, shingles, siding,
posts and cord wood. The pines, lin
den, aspen, white cedar, poplar, birch
and willow are the most suitable
match timbers.
Savings and Losings.
The British P. O. savings bank Is
raising hob about carrying petty cur
rent candy accounts of the kids. Say
bootblasks and newsboys w ill deposit
a quarter, and take it out two cents
at a time. Now, every such transac
tion costs the government evactly 11
cents, same price as a $100 trans
action Still, it sterns to Tin if a
youngster can put in a shilling at in
terest, and has candy resistance
enough to purchase only two cents'
worth at a time, such young Roths
childs should be encouraged, even if
it does cost the government a matter
of a thousand or so pounds more or
less per annum.—New York Press.
Two Ideas of a Kind.
Want of fruit is best concealed by
abundance of foliage, and want of
argument bv ;ile nri'’nee of verbiage.
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The Wonderful
Hour
By VICTOR ROUSSEAU
The lights of the stars, of passing
vessels, of the Jersey shore flickered
back from the still waters of the Hud
son that warm spring evening, and :
the voices of children playing along I
thp drive were heard in the distance
And then, just a* he turned away
hopelessly, he saw her coming toward
him, walking as she had always
walked.
Nothing seemed to have changed
after those five years. They might
have met yesterday. He kissed her,
just as he used to do, and they sat
down in the old place. Then for some
time there was silence.
“Well, Dick, I have come, you see,”
she said. “I got your letter.”
He took both her hands in his and
looked at her.
"Yes, you have not changed,” he
said. "It might have been yesterday
we parted. And you are wearing that
old white hat, I am sure. And
violets.
She laughed a little bitterly.
‘‘And you love me just the same,
don't you?”
“I was a fool,” he said.
“You left me to make your fortune
abroad. You were going to paint
great pictures and win fame. You had
to choose between your pictures and
me, you know, and the choice was not
flattering to my pride. Well, have you
painted them?”
"No,” he said, quietly.
"And so you thought you would
have me again as second choice. O
my dear, how w’ell I know you. So
you remembered the white hat and
the violets? Well, I wore them pur
posely. Just a glamor, a little re
minder of the old times, and you are
at my feet, again, you incurable senti
mentalist. But I have been growing
older and wiser.”
“1 told you everything. 1 confessed
the wrong I had done you. Why did
you come to-night if you did not love
me?” •
"Some sentimental folly. I thought
I, too, would like to see you again,
to meet you here where wo used to
meet. I wanted to learn my power,
to know whether I could still wield
it, or had grown old and homely. Van
ity, I suppose. Does the charm
work?
“You speak very bitterly.’’
"So you imagined I would still be,
free. That I have been eating out
my heart alone all these five years.
O. the vanity of man.”
He started violently.
“You are married?”
“1 am going to be. But you do
deserve to be comforted, poor Dick,
who did at least think of me when
his art deserted him.”
She nestled closer toward him, but
he sat silently beside her. The mock
ery of the pretence crushed him. She
tapped her foot impatiently.
“Five more minutes nave gone. O,
Dick, don't you want to be companion
able? Talk to me, old friend. Tell ,
tne, will you be sorry to lose me for
ever?”
A dull resentment was growing in
his heart. At last he found his speech.
“I don't complain or your mockery.
But if I treated you nadly, at least 1
left you hoping to win a fortune for
us both. My thoughts were always
with you. 1 left you in pride; I fought
hard and was beaten; I have returned
a suppliant. At least be honest to
ward me. Good-by.” He held out his
hand.
He saw her eyes shining in the
dusk. Their hands clasped and ling
ered.
“Are you going?" she whispered.
He looked at her incredulously. A ;
great hope dawned in bis heart.
“Suppose I told you that I loved you
more in your defeat than when you
went out to conquer?” she whispered.
If 1—pretended—just pretended that
I couldn't bear to lose you again,
ever—”
His arms were round her and she
was weeping against nts shoulder.
“It wasn’t untrue when I said 1 was
going to be married—was it?” she
murmured.
Why He Returned.
Last winter Mrs. Clifford A. Neff,
who resides in that part of liratenahl
still known as Doan street, sorted out
her husband's castoff clothing- To
the first applicant who came along she
handed a complete suit of clothes
which she thought had seen enough
service, and the man went off rejoic
ing and volubly thanking her.
This week he reappeared at the
Neff home, where he was immediate
ly recognized.
‘‘Last year, madam," in* said with
a bow. “you were kind enough to give
me a suit of clothes. In the pocket of
tlie coat 1 found a dollar bill, all
crumpled up, and—"
"And you waited all this time to
return it?" interrupted Mrs. Neff
"No, madam," replied the panhand
ler, with a bow ; “I called to ask you
if you hadn’t another coat to give me.”
—Cleveland News.
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Instructor—How about the barn
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Visitor—Can you read the past’’
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Mayor, E. IT. Williamson.
Recorder, Jas. B. Ketchem.
Treasurer, H. E. Hawthorne.
Marshal, J. F. Morgan.
Aldermen.—J. H. Holderby, G. W.
Price, E. E. Allen, R. T. Madness and
Dr. L. G. Poe.
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Christian church, services first and
fourth Sundays in each month at 11 a.
m. and 7:30 p. m. Rev. J.H. McDon
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day at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., Satur
day before fourth Sunday at 7:3o p. m.
fourth Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7.30 p.
m. Rev. J. L. Brown, Pastor.
Methodist church, services at 11 a.
m., and 7:30p. m every Sunday. Sun
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every Sunday afternoon at 0 o’clock.
Prayer meeting1 Thursdays at 8 p. m.
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usual voting places in the various
townships of Independence County,
Arkansas, for the purpose of taking a
list of the personal property of each
resident of said township and the per
capita tax of such as are liable to pay
the same for the year 1910, on the days
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Assess in person if possible, as no
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