Courage
There are who. bending supple knees.
Live for no end except to please.
Rising to fame by mean degrees;
But creep not thou with these.
They have their due reward: they bend
Their lives to an unworthy end—
On empty aims the toil expend
Which had secured a friend.
But be not thou as these, whose mind
Is to the passing hour confined;
Let no ignoble fetters bind
Thy soul, as free as wind.
Stand upright, speak thy thought, declare
The tiutli thou hast, that all may share;
Be bold proclaim it everywhere;
They only live who dare.
—Sir Lewis Morris.
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(Copyright. 1905. by Daily Story Pub. Co.
Mr. Philip Thompson s eyes strayed
over to a map of the United Kingdom
hanging against the office wall.
“A dangerous coast the northeastern
part of Scotland, Captain McLeod.” he
said carelessly, ”a likely place for a
wreck.”
‘ Ferry." assented Captain McLeod. |
“Then there's the Orkneys and the
Shet lands, bad places those in a fog, j
Captain.”
The Captain nodded and looked at
Mr. Thompson, then he looked out of
the window.
"You are going to take the Curlew j
to Gottenburg,” continued Mr. Thomp- :
son, "and you'll come back in ballast.
You'll probably take a northern route
which will about bring you off that
coast. It’s autumn and the season for
fogs, so be careful. Captain.”
“Et wad be a bad thing for me. a
sheepwreck,” said Captain McLeod.
“Aw might be a year finding another
sheep.”
"No. no,” replied Mr. Thompson,’ I
know you are a careful skipper, and if
Providence ordains that the Curlew
should be lost I’d see you’d another
ship. More, I’d obligate myself to
pay you a hundred pounds to tide you
over until you did get a ship. Then
you could pay it back.”
"Wad ye put that in writing?” in
quired the skipper.
"Certainly. Give me a shilling, Cap
tain.”
Mr. Thompson wrote rapidly and
then handed the paper to the skipper. !
Captain McLeod read, “For the sum
of one shilling, received, I insure Cap
tain David McLeod against the wreck
of the steamer Curlew on the passage
fiom Gottenburg to Shields, in the
sum of one hundred pounds.
(Signed) “PHILIP THOMPSON.”
’ There,” he said, “you see what a
careful skipper I think you.” Captain
McLeod read the paper carefully, put
it in his pocket and went down to the
docks.
Mr. Thompson put on his overcoat
and attended a meeting of the vestry
of St. Barnabas church.
That evening Captain McLeod went
aboard the steamer Moray, loading for
Reval. She was commanded and
owned by a fellow' Scot, Fergus Mc
Cliesh. The two skippers talked earn
estly until late in the night and part
ed with a gleam in their eyes.
The morning of his departure Cap
tain McLeod read prayers with his
family and cautioned his daughters to
avoid invitations to places where
there was dancing.
“Eet’s the devil's own game,” he
said, "and wha eet’s going on ees na
place for the daughters of a godly
man.”
"Be very careful. Captain,” said Mr.
Thompson as he bade the skipper
farewell. "Don't let anything happen
to the old Curlewa”
"Ees she eensured. sir?” inquired
the skipper.
"All my ships are insured,” replied
Mr Thompson. “The Curlew is in
sured for five thousand pounds.”
Mr. Philip Thompson, who had been
tor a whole year vainly trying to sell
the steamer Curlew', watched her de
parture thoughtfully.
Capt. McLeod, standing on the
bridge, looked back at Mr. Thompson
sianding on the w harf and shook his
head, thoughtfully.
Two days later the Moray, Captain
McCUesh, cleared for Reval.
The Curlew had a prosperous pass
age to Gottenburg, but she was slow
l I
“Wad ye put that in writing?” inquir
ed th„* skipper.
in discharging cargo. When she had
taken on ballast and was ready to re
turn to Shields Captain McLeod wired
that fact to his friend Captain Mc
Cliesh, who was then at Reval and
ready to sail on his return to England.
The shilling which Captain McLeod
had spent in having Mr. Philip Thomp
son insure his safe passage from Got
tenburg to Shields did not appear such
«i bad investment that night of the
twentieth of October when the Cur
lew, enveloped in as thick a fog as
ever crawled over the German ocean,
tossed in an ugly swrell off the north
east coast of Scotland.
I That Captain McLeod was a care
[ ful. conscientious skipper was evi
j denced by the fact that when night
added its blackness to the fog he
would trust the helm to no one save
himself. He telegraphed so frequent
1 ly to the engineer that he must have
been navigating with great care, but
accidents will happen to the most
careful, and the Curlew took the
giound with a jar which threw the
mate prostrate on the deck.
Sailors and stokers rushed on c’^ck
panic-stricken, for a grounding on that
part of the Scotch’coast meant, usual
ly. death to all or part of a crew.
“There’s na use in standing by her,”
Swore deeply and profanely.
said the Captain, “get awa the boats.”
With remarkable luck or skill Cap
tain McLeod piloted his shipwrecked
crew over that ugly swell safely into
a small fishing harbor and then it was
that Mr. Philip Thompson heard that
the Curlew was lost, and smiled, and
old seamen visiting Lloyds in London
read of the wreck and, shaking their
grizzly heads, wondered what a ship
bound for S|hields was doing so far to
the north.
Capt. McLeod was not the only nav
igator who, for some reason, lay a
course to the northward. When the
Moray came out of the Baltic instead
of clearing sou-west, or even west.
Captain McCliesh pointed her nose I
nor-west as if he had a cargo to de
liver at the Shetland islands.
Mr. Philip Thompson was astound
ed to receive the news that the steam
er Moray had arrived at Aberdeen
with the Curlew in tow, having pulled
her off the shore on the northeast
•oast of Scotland. That the news was
not altogether welcome to Mr. Thomp
son may be inferred from the fact
that, though a vestryman, he swore
deeply and profanely when he heard it
and even shocked Captain McLeod,
who had arrived in Shields that morn
ing. by swearing in his presence.
“There’s na man has the luck of Fer
gus McCliesh,” muttered Captain Mc
Leod. “Everything turns to siller in
, his hands. Aw’ve no sheep, and ma
eensurance ees na guid since the Cur
lew’s saved.”
Mr. Thompson commended Captains
McLeod and McCliesh to a region
from which St. Barnabas church was
doing all it could to rescue people
and fell into a brown study, from
which Captain McLeod made no move
to arouse him.
The salvage awarded Captain Mc
Cliesh was a generous one, and .Cap
tain McLeod called to congratulate
him.
“Ye’re a navigator, Davie," re
marked Captain McCliesh with a grin.
“A hundred yards above or below
where the Curlew grounded she'd ha'
been smashed like an egg. Mon, ye're
a navigator."
The board did not agree with Cap
tain McCliesh as to the ability of Cap
tain McLeod as a navigator. They
deemed his being so far out of his
course ground for the removal of his
certificate. Oddly enough, this mis
| fortune did not depress Captain Mc
Leod. He deposited in the bank of
Aberdeen a check for several hun
dred pounds, which check bore the sig
nature of Fergus McCliesh. With this
sum the skipper bought an interest
ir a fishing business and gave up the
sea.
“Davie,” said Mrs. McLeod, as she
and her husband walked to kirk with
their two daughters, most becoming
ly attired, in front, “I hope ye did na
get this money in a sinfu’ way.”
“Woman,” exclaimed Captain Mc
Leod, “w-ad ye think it sinfu’ to hit
the deil wi' a chunk of his own breem
stcile?”
Mrs. McLeod's countenance cleared
and she smiled with pride at the ex
cellent appearance of her two daugh
ters.
Scholar’s Services Recognized.
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy has
conferred upon Prof. Charles Eliot
Norton of Harvard university the dec
oration of* Grand Officer of the Order
I of the Crown in recognition of his
services in translating Dante’s works
into English and his other services
to Italian literature in America.
RENDERED VERDICT IN RHYME
Foreman of Texas Jury “Dropped'’
Into Poetry.
A correspondent calls our attention
to an interesting verdict which was
rendered in the District Court of
Travis county, Tex., in 1857. The de
fendant. Frank B. Rafer, at that time
a well known citizen of Austin, was
accused of gambling, which was not
regarded as a very serious offense in
Texas in those early days, especially
if the offender chanced to be a prom
inent citizen. The prosecution was
generally treated as a pleasant Jest,
but was nevertheless carried through
in earnest, and a jury composed of
lawyers brought in the following ver
dict:
We, the jury, lawful men.
Fine the defendant dollars ten;
A guilty man beyond all doubt,
Let the defendant pay himself out.
Thus we've said this freezing morn.
Your obedient servant, A. 0. Horne,
Foreman.
The composition of this verdict is
attributed to A. W. Terrell, who at
the time of his service on the jury
was a young lawyer. Afterward he
attained great distinction in practice,
served as a District court judge, and
was United States minister to Tur
key under President Cleveland. Other
members ot the same jury who after
ward achieved renown were Charles
S Wfcst. who rose to be a justice of
the Texas Supreme court, and F. W.
Chandler, who became one of the lead
ers of the Texas bar.—Law Notes.
ANSWER TURNED AWAY WRATH.
Neat Mingling of Affirmation and
Compliment.
The late Prof. Edwards A. Park
of Andover was not only of great repu
tation as a theologian and orator, but
was also noted for the scimetarlike
keenness of his wit and his readiness
at repartee.
On one occasion he preached in the
seminary chapel a sermon on total
depravity. The inexorable logic of his
mind compelled him to push the doc
trine to its remotest consequences, and
to postulate total depravity not only of
men and women, but also of infants
and children.
In the congregation was a young
mother, the wife of a theological stu
dent, who, attracted by the great repu
tation of Prof. Park, had come to the
service, bringing her three-months-old
child with her. Her indignation was
naturally aroused at what she heard,
and when the service was completed
she pushed forward to the pulpit. The
baby had slept all through the service
and was now laughing and cooing.
“Prof. Park.” said the young moth
er, as she held up the smiling little
one in her arms, “you don’t mean to
tell me, do you, that this dear little
baby is totally depraved?”
“Certainly, madam,” said the pro
fessor in his most courtly manner. "It
looks like an unusually bright child.”
Some Fabulous Confabs.
Zeus had been enthroned and an
nounced that he could do up all the
other gods by his sheer strength, but
the king of heaven didn’t seem to be
in a very good humor for all that, and
the rest of the divinities wondered
what was wrong. •
Taking Hebe to one side, Zeus que
ried:
“What was that stuff I drank last
night, and why under the shade of
Olympus do I feel like the second
joint of a stewed owl this morning?
You served the drinks. I think; maybe
you can tell me what's wrong.”
“Huh!” snorted the pert young dam
sel of the wine cup. “You ought to
know. It’s your funeral. Don't you
know yesterday was inauguration
day?” •
“And was I inaugurated?” asked
Zeus in a stage whisper.
“Sure; don't you feel like it?”
And the dread monarch, pressing his
hands to his aching brow, wondered
if the game was worth the candte
after all.
Bobbie's Notion of Church.
church is a place whare yu go when
Sunday comes and yu wud rather stay
hoam. when you git reddy to go to
church yu put on yure best does and
then when yu git to church yu see
some peeple that has got better does
and yu doant think about what the
teecher says but moar about what
yure frends is waring that is better
than yures.
i doant go to church but Ma makes
me go to Sunday school and she makes
Pa go to church, i doant think he
wants to go but he is afrade of Ma
and he puts on his hat and cote and
says Well I wish thare wasent any
preechers to tell me whare to git off.
Then Ma sniffs and says Yu wud be
a pritty sight if preechers dident help
yu from going to the Dogs. And then
Pa says yu dident think I was going
to the dogs when I married yu, i
guess thats whare i began going to
the dogs, and then Ma and Pa go to
church and sing I want to bee a Angel.
—Milwaukee Sentinel.
If I Wait.
I do not hoar the message that'
The robin hears in spring.
Which brings hini homeward from afar
On swiftly living wing:
But still 1 know he's coming, and
Will find his nest and mate.
In the tree which now is leafless—
So I wait.
I cannot feel th-' shiver that
The startled leaflet feels.
As autumn's breath, frost laden, through
Its vivid greenness steals;
And yet the change is coming, though
To me it may seem late;
And the grem leave? will turn crimson
While I wait.
I cannot grasp the meaning of
Earth’s happiness and pain;
Yet both I know await me if
Life's best I would attain;
Each step I trust leads onward, and
God’s universe is great;
To find no Incompleteness
. If I wait.
—Helen M. Richardson.
Myth for Moderns.
Wounded Ares showed Zeus the
immortal blood flowing from his
wound, and begged revenge on Athene.
“Sit not by me and whine, thou
renegade! Truly thy mother’s spirit
is intolerable, even Hera's; her can
1 scarce rule with words. Therefore
I deem that by her prompting thou
art in this plight.”
“Well, then,” impertinently retorted
insatiate Ares, “It’s hereditary. Don’1
blame me. Go after her!”
And the stern-visaged cloud gather
In sheer despair told Paean to heel
the spear wound, while Hera chuckled
behind her fan.
WORK OF BUREAU OF FORESTRY
Planted Groves and Natural Timber in Parts of the
Two Dakotas and Minnesota.
Butts of Yellow Poplar Logs Wasteful y Left in the Woods.
The agents of the bureau of forest
ry detailed to investigate planted
groves and natural timber 1ri the
eastern half of the two Dakotas and
the western third of Minnesota have
completed their field work. The re
sults of their investigations will be
embodied in a report which will be
published as soon as the data collect
ed can be tabulated and definite con
clusions drawn.
Throughout the region investigated
f. good deal of tree planting has been
done to meet the requirements of
the Timber Culture act or for protec
tive purposes. Local benefits have
been gained by this planting, and a
study of the results gives a good basis
for suggestions looking toward still
better results in the future. The spe
cies most generally tried are those
which grow naturally in the river bot
toms of the region, together with
some which have been introduced
from Europe. They are cottonwood,
boxelder. green ash. silver maple,
white willow and white elm. These
trees have some admirable qualities,
but are in some respects unsuited to
the region.
The ideal tree for planting on the
prairie is one which is able to resist
extremes of drought and temperature,
is free from insect enemies, makes a
rapid growth, and is at the same time
valuable for both protective and com
mercial uses. Some of the conifers or
evergreens have these characteristics
it: a high degree and enough planting
of certain species of pine, spruce and
larch has been done to prove their su
periority. For future planting in this
section the Bureau will probably rec
ommend the substitution to a large
extent of cone-bearing trees for some
of the species which have been in
common use.
In the past the timber value of trees
was a secondary consideration. Trees
were planted for their protective
value and for ornament. But by a
proper choice of trees a direct profit
can also be reaped. A species which
meets commercial requirements will,
in most cases, answer all other re
mands. This additional commercial
benefit in tree planting the Bureau will
emphasize in its forthcoming report.
The region examined is prairie land,
very fertile, and for the most part de
voted to profitable farming. But the
hot. dry winds from the southwest are
very injurious in summer, while the
crops are maturing: in the long win
ters the piercing cold winds from the
northwest are a menace to livestock
as well as a source of great discom
fort. Hence windbreaks along the
south, west and north sides of farms,
buildings and inclosures contribute
largely to the welfare of farm life. It
is of the first importance that the
kinds of trees composing these wind
breaks should be those which will
most quickly reach the size demanded
to furnish eflicieint protection, and
at the same time permanently hold
their ground and perform their office.
In addition, they should yield good
commercial returns. The careful con
sideration which the Bureau has giv
en to this side of the question should
make its recommendations of great
value to the farmers of the region.
MONEY IN OLD BATTLESHIPS
Ship Breakers Need Capital, but Busi
ness Is Profitable.
A first-class battleship, which costs
about a million to build and fit out,
takes upon an average three years to
construct, and nearly as long to pull
to pieces after being thirteen years or
more in active service.
Ship breakers are sold battleships
on the strict understanding that the
vessel is pulled to pieces in “home
waters.” and it is not generally known
that in the great majority of in
stances the admiralty buy back from
the purchaser certain parts of the old
ships for nearly the same amount of
money paid for the warship at the
auction sale.
The most valuable of a first-class
battleship is the armor plating, and it
is in consequence of this and the
enormous amount of trouble entailed
in stripping it off the hull that the
authorities pay so heavily to regain
its possession.
Several ship breakers estimate
that the price of an old battleship—
say $150,000—is about the amount
obtained for the armor plating when
resold. The natural conslusion is that
the remainder of the vessel is “a gift,”
as it were, to the ship breaker, but
such is not the case.
Many thousands are spent every
year that the vessel is in the hands
of the breakers, and a large and ex
pensive electrical plant has to be
installed to unrivet the armor plating
and for other purposes.—London Tit
Bits.
His Wife’s Point of View.
“Yes.” said the gray mustached
merchant, “my wife always takes a
personal interest in the selection of
a typewriter girl for my private of
fice. She tests their ability and
passes judgment on them. The other
day there were two candidates for
the vacancy and my wife examined
both of them in spelling. To the first
girl she put such words as disinter
estedness, and a lot more jawbreak
ers, anti, of course, the girl missed
several of ’em and had to take her
hat and go. To the other girl my
wife gave words like cat. hat. mat and
bat and the other girl stood the test
triumphantly.”
“But that wasn’t exactly fair, was
it?” the listener inquired.
“It was from my wife’s point of
view. You see, the first girl was very
pretty, and the other girl was very
1 plain.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
HEALTH OF RURAL TEACHERS.
Subject to Greater Mortality Than
Their City Confreres.
In this country, so far as we know,
no effort has been made to determine
the comparative death rate between
city and rural teachers. In Europe an
investigation relative to this matter
has been carried on. It was found
that the most common diseases among
teachers are consumption, chronic
lung catarrh and acute diseases of the
respiratory organs, such as intlamma
tion of the lungs and pneumonia and
bronchitis. Rural teachers there die
young. The numerous inconveniences
and the accumulated troubles to which
rural teachers are subjected, such as
poor dwellings, much school dust, de
fective warming and ventilation in
school rooms, over-crowded classes,
ungraded schools, small salaries, long
hours, additional service in church as
organists and choir leaders, which ne
cessitates outdoor walking in all fcinds
of weather, and, above all, the greater
responsibility, cause a greater mor
tality among rural teachers in central
Europe than exists among the teachers
in c’ties. It is probable that the same
condition exists among rural teachers
in the United States.
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Blasphemous Defence.
An amusing instance of how ignor
ant some magistrates can be when
legal knowledge is required has re
cently leaked out in a borough not
forty miles from London.
A gentleman of a legal frame of
mind was requested by a car inspector
to show his ticket, which the wyid had
suddenly blown out of his hands. It
was never denied that he had pur
chased one for the journey, but being
unable to produce the ticket, was un
willing to buy another, he w'as accord
ingly summoned to the local police
court.
The defendant pleaded the adequate,
even if ingenious, defence that it was
“an act of God.” The bench inflicted
a rather heavy fine, and it is stated
that the chairman considered the de
fence gross blasphemy.
Pet Coyote.
In the Woman’s Home Companion
Ernest Harold Baynes has the fol
lowing interesting talk about a pet
wolf:
“As he grew older and stronger I
took him out for w'alks with me. He
always got very much excited at the
prospect of a walk, and besides wag
ging his tail and smiling, he would ex
ecute a rather ridiculous prancing
dar.ce, indicative, perhaps, of unusual
joy. Sometimes, when out for a walk,
he would show considerable skill in
catching meadow mice, apparently
noting their whereabouts by the
movement of the grass blades, rnd
jumping upon them to hold them until
he could thrust in his muzzle, now
long and sharp, to drag them out. If
he happened to be hungry, he would
eat the mice on the spot; if not, he
would'dig a hole with his fore paw
and bury them for future use.”
Kite Photography.
It is stated that Emile Wenz, of
Reims, France, has recently applied
kite photography with success to geo
logical pictures, and ’t is predicted
that the field geologist of the future
will find a kite and its camera essen
tial to his outfit. M. Wenz succeeded
in taking good photographs from a
height of G50 feet, and found them
very valuable in the production of
maps.
Eben D. Jordan's Perseverance.
When the late Eben D. Jordan was
a clerk in a small store In Hanover
street, then the “court end” of the
town, one day a customer came in to
purchase a dress. After looking the
goods over, her choice narrowed
down to two patterns, both of which
were so pretty she could not decide
which to take, and so went home “to
think it over.”
The young clerk, feeling sure he
could sell one of them, hurriedly tied
them both up, and, tucking them un
der his arm, followed the young lady
to her home, where he once more dis
played his wares, saying: “I felt sure
you wanted one of these; which is
it?”
“This one.” she said, and the sale
was made.—Boston Herald.
Practical Education.
There is a strong demand to-day for
the practical in education. The lack
of it has caused many pupils every
year to drop out of the schools before
completing the prescribed course. Do
mestic science and manual training
are doing much to keep the children
in school.
THOUSAND-MILE BIDE
LONG TRIP, WITH HEALTH AND
PLEASURE THE OBJECTS.
Correspondent Writes of Journey in
Texas and Mexico With a Party as
Guests of the Southern Pacific Rail*
road.
Gilson Willett, special correspond
ent of Leslie’s Weekly, writes enter
tainingly of a thousand-mile horseback
hunt in Texas and Mexico with a party
as guests of the Southern Pacific rail
road. The members of the party rep- 4
resented twelve different states. At
Sabinas, Mexico, he says;
“Over half of the thousand-mile jour
ney has been completed—and the fel
lows who are here for their health are
now hard as nails; those who came
|
along with an appetite for pleasure
are well-nigh satiated; and the sports
men have brought in, day after day,
incredibly huge bags of ducks, geese,
rabbits, squirrels, and no end of small
game, not to mention big hauls of
deer, bear, wild turkeys and fish. All
of which is due to about the most
healthful region in the Union; to a
section of country where pleasurable
diversion is eternally at hand, and to
a territory that is literally a sports
man's paradise hitherto untrod and un
shot and unfished.”
Mr. Willett bestows a deserved
eulogy on the splendid hospitality of
the Southern Pacific and the hearty
welcome accorded the party in south
ern cities from New Orleans onward.
Visitors to southwrest Texas will not
need to be told of the really marvelous
work done by the Southern Pacific in
building up that section of the coun
try. Mr. Willett says:
“Then we again boarded our train
and railroaded on for the most of a
day, through a country in which the
Southern Pacific has caused a blade of
grass—not to speak of stalk of corn,
cane or sugar, and blossom of cotton—
to flourish where none grew before.
“Thirty miles farther inland—on the
San Diego ri\er—we made our first
camp in Mexico. After that our
camps were from twenty to fifty miles
apart. And thus we have progressed
on our thousand-mile horseback hunt,
passing through strange villages and
seeing queer peon customs, visiting the
headquarters of mighty ranches of a
million acres, where the owners escort
ed us to the front door with six hun
dred white horses, or six hundred
black horses, or six hundred bays, as
the case might be, and having all
sorts of diversions of big hunts, and
witnessing many kinds of unique
sights in primitive and quaint old Mex
ico.
“Our first three or four camps were
made on one of the largest ranches in
the world—the Trevino ranch of 1,000,
000 acres. Of this great ranch—as
big as a New England state—as on all
the other great ranches we have trav
ersed, the Southern Pacific manage
ment obtained all hunting and fishing
privileges.
“It was on the great Trevino ranch
that the healthseekers of the party
first discovered that they were get
ting in Mexico exactly what they had
come for—a new constitution. The
sportsmen of the party, too, were out
late and up early on “the chase that
pleaseth.’ The motto always was to
kill only such game, however plentiful
it might be. as was actually needed for
consumption at our table, for the
Southern Pacific stands for the kill
ing of game for food only.”
Many interesting stories of the dis
trict traversed are related by Mr. Wil
lett. He concludes:
“Thus on this trip every promise
made by the Southern Pacific railroad
has been kept to the letter—just as
similar promises will be kept on the
second annual thousand-mile horse
back hunting party already talked of
for next year.”
Dust Your Foliage Plants.
All plants which are grown for their
foliage effect and which are, therefore,
to be kept for any considerable time
in the home, must receive attention
at the tops as well as at the roots.
In the cleanest of houses dust will ac
cumulate. and this, settling upon the
leaves, blocks up the breathing pore3
of the plant. The only remedy is re
moval of the dust, to which end a
sponging of clean water, say at least
once a week, should be given.
Every housekeeper should know
that if they will buy Definace Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because it
never sticks to the iron, but because
each package contains 16 oz.—one full
pound-while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up in %-pound pack
ages, and the price is the same, 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem
icals. If your grocer tries to sell you
a 12-oz. package it is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts in Defiance
He knows that Defiance Starch ha3
printed on every package in large let
ters and figures “16 ozs.” Demand De
fiance and save much time and money
and the annoyance of the iron stick
ing. Defiance never sticks.
Fancies of Great Men.
A tea made from sage was the fav
orite concoction of Johiy Wesley, while
a ginger tea was quite a weakness
with Coleridge, the poet!
Uneducated Russian Soldiers
Nearly one-half of the soldiers ln
the Russian army are unable to read
and write. In the German army the
percentage is only 0.07.
Ix>ts of women would like to stav
at home and look after the children
and the house, but if they did thet
friends would say their huVa 'J"
were brutes. ' nusbands
with s^hin^'witrgolden^111 ^
the true henneries the key o7ray.
It is from the remembrance nf i
we have lost that the arr7 f joy
flletion are pointed.-MacSe *
his importance* VnS?*. a° Pr°Vl
step the mark. mcl,ned to °vei