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who is no longer young, while they are still young and strong. . The little woman took over the mortgage, and she gave the third chivalrous knight 25 payment on it Then she spent her-temaining $25 stocking the store and waited. That is all she did wait. The ham and other meat she had bought spoil ed. There was no business. The peo ple' in the neighborhood regarded the third knight as a gambler and would not patronize a store that no one made a success of. But the little woman remembered that the third knight -had said he would sell the place and get her one more suited, if she couldn't make it a success, so' she sent for him. His representative called. "We are a rich concern' he said, "we cannot bother with little deals like this." Then the little woman said if they wouldn't sell it so she could get back say $50 anyway,- she -would have to close it; she couldn't keep it open. That aroused the ire of the chival rous knight No. 3. Ciose the store when another month.'s rent was due! That would never do. He went out in his automobile to remonstrate. She must keep it and pay the rent anyway. . Funny kind of chivalry, the way he tallied to her, but he left her without doing anything, and after spending two more days, hoping, praying and crying, the little woman locked up the store and came away. The third chivalrous knight threat ened many things. He was going to placard the house, amongst others, but finally he signed a document kindly releasing her from paying the balance of $275 .on the mortgage in consideration of the $25 she had al ready paid, and he called it square. Two days after that the same store was advertised for $485. And un doubtedly some other woman will buy and go through the same torture. , But the little woman who trusted to the chivalry of men has nothing, now-'-not one penny. And a year ago, before she sampled men's chivalry, she had three rooming houses. . Truly, we need to be educated to understand that in dealing with men we must .be as shrewd as they, and even more so, for a man will 4eal with a woman as he would, fear to deal with the most stupid of men. Chivalry? DAVIDSON ON HAND TO HELP MINERS IN FIGHT Calumet, Mich., Jan. 15. William Davidson of British Columbia, mem ber of the executive council of the Western Federation of" Miners, ar rived in Hancock to take charge of the conduct of the copper miners' strike. Davidson refused to outline the policy which he would pursue ex cept to say that "it would be a fight to the finish." Three strikers were arrested at Ahmeek on warrants charging them with assaulting mounted deputies. The prisoners also will be forced to face contempt of court charges for alleged violation of the injunction against strike violence. OPERATORS ALTER DECISION Big Rapids, Mich., Jan. 15. A tele gram sent to Gov. Ferris by Allen F. Rees of the legal staff of the Calu met & Hecla Mining Company at Cal umet informed the governor that the operators had altered their decision not to treat with any members of the Western Federation of Miners or other union body in negotiations looking toward a termination of the strike. The operators, Rees stated, now were willing to meet with their former employes, regardless of their union affiliations, but that they would persist in the 'refusal to treat with the Western Federation of Miners as an organization. o o Wife Charles, wasn't that a good box of cigars I gave you at Christ mas? Husband I never saw a bet ter box, my dear!