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THI’RSI 'AV, JULY «. 191«.
'—v 4 ’WSdS27
OF
-We will never bring disgrace to this our city
by any act of dishonesty or cowardice, nor ever
desert our suffering comrades in the ranks. We
will fight for the ideals and sat red things of the
city , both alone and with many; we will revere
and obey the city's laws and do our best to incite
a like respect and reverence in those above us
who ore prone to annul or set them at naught;
we will strive unceasingly to quicken the public’s
sense of citrtc duty. Thus in all these ways we
Will transmit this city not only not less but
greater, better and more beautiful than it was
transmitted to us ."—Oath of the Young Men of
Athens.
The Subject is Booze, In
Four Chapters; a Tragedy
In Every One of the Four
Deserted by her husband, the wife of
John Prishon, in Highland Park, was
managing to get along and support her
two children, by keeping boarders.
It was some months ago that Prishon
dug out, putting the heavy load on his
wife’s shoulders.
A few weeks ago he returned to his
home, on a Sunday, but not to tell the
wife he had regretted his act or to prom
ise to take up the obligations of hus
band and father where he left off.
The wife was at her work in the
kitchen when Prishon came in.
He drew a revolver from his pocket
and shot his wife dead, with the children
looking on.
Then the children saw the father turn
the revolver on himself; saw' a flash;
aaw an ugly black and red stain appear
where the bullet entered his body; saw
him stagger and fall near the mother.
Prishon recovered.
In the hospital, when his senses re
turned, he asked for his wife.
He is in prison now, serving from 20
to 40 years for his act.
By the way:
IN THE POCKET OF PRISHON’S
COAT, AFTER THE KILLING OF HIS
WIFE, THEY FOUND A HALF
EMPTIED WHISKY BOTTLE.
Neighbors of Mrs. W’illiam Sampere,
who lived at No. 165 Casper-ave., had
% k>ng pitied her.
They knew she was frequently the vic
-4 tim of a brutal husband.
Sampere beat her.
One night the neighbors saw him
drive her from the house.
It was a cold night in winter and she
was thinly clad.
It was last week that Sampere came
home and again attacked his wife.
She ran into the yard.
Sampere followed her. caught her by
the arm and dragged her up to the fence.
Holding her helpless with one hand, he
reached into his pocket with the other,
brought out a jack-knife and with it
•lashed and hacked at his w’ife’s throat
until she fell dead in her tracks.
Then Sampere tried to kill himself
with the knife.
He will recover and will go to prison
for a long term of years.
By the way:
WHEN SAMPERE KILLED HIS
WIFE BY CUTTING HER THROAT,
HE WAS DRUNK, ON WHISKY.
Last Sunday two men, with their
wives, were returning in an automobile
from a drive to Birmingham.
The newly-paved road from Royal
Oak to Birmingham is very narrow.
Drivers must proceed with the utmost
care to avoid a collision.
There is little danger if drivers have
their wits about them.
The driver of the car coming in from
Birmingham looked ahead and saw an
automobile coming against him on the
mnonf side of the road, but reasoned,
naturally, that tho approaching car would
eventually got over where it belonged.
Hut it didn’t and the two machines
met, head on, with a terrific crash.
They picked one of the men up, dt id.
The other man was seriously injurt i.
The wives of both men wore injure
also, and it is reported from the hospita
that one of them cannot live.
That will make two deaths in this ac
cident.
Bv the way:
IN THE CAR THAT WAS ON Till'
WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD AND
WHI< H WAS RESPONSIBI F. I 1 -
THIS TRAGEDY. THEY FOUND TWO
CASES OF BEER AND TWO QUART
DOTTLES OF WHISKY.
After an absence of three days, George
Lapeer, returned to his home, No. 3"*S
Mt. Elliott-ave.. on the Fourth of July,
to pack his clothes, he said.
Hi- wife remonstrated with him, ■
whereupon ho became infuriated.
Offering her a razor, he told her to do
fend herself.
She screamed, turned and fled.
Their children, aroused by the moth-j
er’s cries, saw the mother attempt to
|escape from their maddened father.
Overtaking his wife, Lapeer attempted
|to kill her, slashing at her with the
razor.
The wife will live, the doctors say, but
| Lapeer is dead.
He cut his own throat.
i By the way:
LAPEER WAS DRUNK —drunk or.
j WHISKY. _____
The Guessinff’s Good, Anyhow.
—i
And now is tho time when every man has the
right to exercise his quadrennial privilege of
figuring upon the presidential vote.
Justice Hughes Is being flooded with pledges,
promises and predictions, remarks the G. O 1 .
press. All three are cheap enough, but political
pledges and promises are slim-y things, and pre
dictions mere guess-work—as this is, bv the way
Speaking of pledges, it recalls to our mind the
hoary story of Judge Brown, a candidate for
Justice of the peace down in Texas a few years
ago.
The day before election Brown announced that
he had one thousand votes pledged, enough to
easily elect him.
He polled two hundred votes.
Asked for a statement after election, he re
marked •
“All I’ve got to say is. that there are 800 of
the biggest liars in the world, right here in
Texas.”
Getting down to figures, in 1912 the Demo
cratic ticket polled 6.293,019 votes; the Republi
cans 3,484.956.
It is likely that both parries will poll their
normal stand-pat vote; with a fair prospect of
Wilson increa.-ing his. since in politics the “ins
always have the edge.
The Progressive vote is, of course, an un
known quantity, but short of some political
miracle-working, the Progressives are going to
be pretty badly split.
There are lots of normal Democrats in that
party, to say nothing of the extreme radical
Republicans, who will not vote for Hughes un
der any consideration or suasion.
Should the Progressives put out anew ticket,
a majority of the voters of the party ma> sup
port it. if not, the party will split three ways,
some going to Hughes, some to Wilson and some
not voting at all.
The latter may well be tallied in the Wilson
column for a vote not cast is a vote for him.
In 1912 the Progressives polled 4,119,507 vote 1 *
Allowing that a bare 20 per cent, of these
swing to the Democrats, Wilson’s vote will ap
proximate 7.200,000.
Should Hughes bag all the balance of the 1512
Progressive vote, he will still be lacking a mat
ter of half a million votes of a popular majority
Guess work, we have already admitted, but as
good a guess as any.
And you can make another guess by guessing
how the women will vote.
From Another Point ot View
By C. T. S.
A woman has sued a Detroit doctor,
claiming he rendered her arm useless. It
may be that some of our pitchers have
met this same doctor.
a a •
Hetty Green, who laid away many
hundreds of millions, has now l>een, also.
• * •
The last heard of the transport Mon
terey by the navy department, she was
running into a typhoon. Some little con
cern is felt because, upon occasions of
this kind, the typhoon rarely gets the
worst of it.
• • •
For Men Only.
From a liner page, under “Help Want
ed":
Active woman, about 35, to work for
husband's room and board.
* • *
John D. Rockefeller will he 77 day after
tomorrow. In an interview he will prol>-
ably tell us to save our jK.*nnies, when
gasoline is an even 20 the gal.
» • m
The Dead sea for ten thousand years
Has rolled and rolled, 'tis said;
You’ll note, if this report is true,
It’s been a long time dead.
• • •
“Tire blew up on me last night/*
“Get out."
“That’s what I did."
• * •
Let’s see; who are the vice-presidential
candidates?
• •
Strike a ripe canteloupe yet?
• • •
It can’t be did.
DETROIT TISVSES
Our Boyhood Ambitions.
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A f3ACR RIDE* 2 - ,DRESSED
MFC. PlM<3- C O STUM El , -POWMThL AISLUOF
TMe CHURCH /AMP /MARRY HE K- WHILE
Foers casfep with horror. -
WsAT W* * 'ecu US 1 /
(Cef>r\ft!t. 1916. t*y H T WeNtcr*
LITTLE THINGS COUNT.
BY H. ADDINGTON BRUCE
Author of The Riddle of Personality “Peychologr and Parenthood." si'
All over our land thousands of (
young men and women, having said
farewell to school or college, are
setting out to make their way in
the world They will find many un
expected obstacles to overcome, and
many hard lessons to learn In busi
ness life.
Also, many of them will find them
selves seriously handicapped by
unfortunate characteristics which
schooling has failed to correct. i)n<-
such characteristic of common oc
currence is inattention to detail.
The tyro in business too often
fails to appreciate the Importance
of the little things that enter info
every form of business activity. De
tail to him is a matter of no great
significance.
He Is too Impatient—and, alas,
often too careless —to systematize
his work so that, everything, no
matter how trivial It may seem,
shall be done accurately and
promptly.
"Any old time ar.d any old way
will do.” seems to be his motto.
The other day I happened to en
t* r the office of a New York busi
ness friend at a painful moment.
He was fakirs his stenographer to
task for an error she had made, j
heard her half defiant, half apolo
getic explanation:
“I know you told me how you
wanted if done. But I thought this
way would do Just as well. 11l copy
it again after lunch.”
“No," said my friend, quietly.
“It has to be mailed now There
is no time to copy it again."
The stenographer stared out to
get her luncheon. After her depart
ure my friend handed n e one of
the sheets of paper she had been
typewriting.
He i* the publicity manager for
a large enterprise The sheet con
tained a statement he was mailing
to the newspapers of a city some
distance from New- York.
“I knew,” he explained to me.
“that this story was too long to go
on a sinele sheet of paper if typed
in double space throughout.
"For psychological reasons that
you will appreciate I wanted to keep
It on one sheet, it would took short
er than if it ran over to a second
sheet, and therefore it would have
a better chance of getting Into
print.
"So I told the girl to type the
last few lines single space You see
Thl.« month of all month* in the
your ho careful not to ovorfood
baby. It may
It rriof* no mattor
whether tho baby bo breast fed or
bottle f# and
Ftut undor no circumstances food
a baby nnv'hlng othor than mother's
milk, without tho advice of a |>hy^l
cian. Thin is most important
Tho mothor should »a» plain. well
rook'd food and t-hou’d m>p that all
hor digestive organ* aro kopt In
good condition
Remember ’hat three months colic
in baby I* apt to bo throo month*'
indigestion from Inipropor feeding
An abundanoe of pure, fresh row's
The Keep Well Column
FEEDING.
what she has done. She ha* s;nc'
spaced, not the la*t f> w lines. ) .•
the lines between * \ *>r\ j..,ragr:ip
"The result 1» a she*' so hard to
read that I'm afraid a c-k 1 n. ms
of the editors won't bother to read
it.”
To this stenographer th mode of
typing this particular cat-men' was
a petty detail, too trivial to he at
tended to accurately To :nv friend
it was likewise a dt ’ail, but by n<<
means n petty one.
And the more you stop to analyze
any successful business, the more
you will realize that it 1- built on
seemingly trivial derail* that aft-r
all have a farreaching significance.
Neglect the little things in busi
ness and you may fe*»l tolerably
sure that you will not long h v* hi.:
things to which to pay aft* n':on At
tend to the little thing* faithfully
and ever bigger thing- will d
mandlng your attention
These are elementary far*<= v-hl
the buslne.-x beginner < mnot too
soon take to h*art.
r Read the Second Inaugural
The worst thing about all this war
business is that it tends to put a
quietus upon all effort for the im
provement of so* ial and economic
conditions. A great deal of our
preparation for the war against
crime, di-ease, ignorance and pov
erty, one*- well under way, is neces
sarily postponed, because of the de
flection of interest to armies, navies,
mobilizations, alarums and excur
slons Appropriations for construe
tive work of betterment arc Hhejv* 1
Private energies nre directed to
wards war charities. News of sor
tie?, ambushes, impending battle?,
crowds everything else out of tin
papers. War is the enemy of all
the reforms which so much Inter
ested us erstwhile. much of if
as is now imminent for us threatens
disaster as great as ha* befallen the
Liberal program that w'a« in progress
of application In England before the
cataclysm of July, 191 i In thi*
sense, at least, war excitement Is a
tremendous backset for so- lal pro
gress. And during the war excite
ment many evil things will become
more firmly entrenched in our so
s ial svs*em because the public 1? not
watching lii that direction Patriot
ism is a happy refuge for many
f rotlk should ho drunk dally hy tho
nursing mothor.
lieenuse baby Is colicky do not
change quickly to anotbor food ton
■lit your physician and ho will ad
vise you what, to do.
Remember that baby pot ; thirsty
j'i-t a* grownup folks do Th'-n
1 foro on hot days give |t mop*
cooled, bolkd wafer and le « milk
10* c ilarlfy In feeding Is one of
’he n ost Important thins* In th
' of a baby. Irregularity In food
: insc load* to overfeeding In
, oa-.* and overfeeding la tho ran
;of most illnoss among babies In
[ *mnmor.
Fresh air will Improve tho bahv'*
'appetite and digestion and mnk<*
[ 'ho cheeks glow with nil slcn of
health
Time may be money to err r^ ’*»d'
bn* the loafer.
-- Hv Webster.
:«cn. of fx nimdr* a fostering- j
• for anti social interest* and
! tin? Amid arms, reforms are !
*:hir benumbed Mexico moan'
>■ »!• lay of the fruition of many
v s'. hope* of advancement, if not
■;r pernianert defeat. Hut war is
.» -• v* fair nr human lif** and gov
* rnm.**nf, and it i« a condition tha*
must b*» no i H cannot be dodged
and out of it may possibly come
sum** of *}■ . good- we have been
-eking j r.»>r ’ > Its coming War is
d*-f rurtive .>f morr than human life
and prop. rty. hut probably many
.food things have to to “scrapped’
.n such convul-ions in order that
the path may be cleared of worse
thing*. War is to t>e deplored and
to t> prevented or abolished, if
po*-*iM-*. bur the process of abolition
111 .;..* fil vv. and so the best thing
tt.e r* former iun do confronting th
great evil is to console himself as
did l.im oln. that th*- judgment** of
the I/ird are true and righteous al
t oge* her I don’t know anything
j •► •.■r for tr ie believers in God and
man to r* ad at this tune than Presi
din' Lincoln’* - onnd inaugural
U* *dy s Mirror. St. i/nils
Thought Tlet jens a Spy.
Paul Tie'jcr.. . the ynur.g Ameti
'•an composer, i* again safe at home
in his New York studio after a long
and nerve racking experience in Eu
rope. He was in Berlin, ail ready
for ti e produ< ?ion of his first Ger
man opera. when the war broke out.
The production was on the stage, the
company hal completed rehearsals,
r he opening had be*>n announced and
th*- tickets were on sale
Then came the upheaval. Tlet-
Jen*' elaborately planned project wax
suddenly abandoned. The singers
were discharged and the acenery
f or* 1. He derided that It would be
some time before Berlin would be
ready for his opera and that, after
*”. the t'nl-ed States was a pretty
good p!.vo for an American citizen.
He had she trunks when he left
Berlin, arpl In th* m were the scores,
books plot and ske'ches of years
of wi.rk at various musical composl
t on» for the stage.
When he reached the border only
two trunks were left, and these con
taised his personal • fTects His man
uscripts, correspondence, music, bus
men contracts and books had all
been confissated He reached Lon
don all right, but another of his
trunks was misHng and he found
hlm«e|f the object of much stispl
cio i-* scrutiny HP name has a Ger
man twht to p a rd his baggage was
covered with German labels. lie
might have escaped trouble, hut he
continued to trace letters back to
Germany In an < ffort to locate and
rrgn.r bis precious opera.
He was arrested and confronted
wl'h hi own intercepted letters, arid
'he my v ter inti larcon Os Stage, stij
dio mu* ' contracts and appoint
men's w i'h which the enrrespon
dence wa- larded, seemed to hint at
n secpi f < o*)o Ilf - tnlsfer possibilities
XU his Xmerlcan letters and means
of Identification had disappeared
, with Its tnmk“. and In vain he tried
to conr nee Scotland Yard that he
was a S* T/Oiiis, Mo, American and
'bat h« w • the author of *he com
rigopfa which has made Montgom
et v and Stone famous - "The Wizard
nt Or" N|x on that stuff Thev
.never heard of Oz nr the Wizard, nr
Montgomery or S’one, epher. and If
wj«s the Jug for Tie*Jens.
Then i* *iC'*.i: i* and to him that Fred
rrie! W \v» il an American newspa
per cr.rt*- potident. who also had a
mor* or l<fhijlflrg escape from
I F*rt - ;» few wr*ks before, was In
, T.ondnn. He eontlived to get word
to Well, who e .-nt) German book
«.r just then ,r log hit In England,
and e re cm- ensued f*»hn H. Haf
tery. In the New York Telegraph,
The Daily Reminder
TOO O'* AXXIVKN* %It IKS
17ii* •Joshua Harney, w n-> win* >
C"inmodiir« In the l' S iim\ * b* f**r*
he MM* 24. horn in Baltimore 1 >*•• 1
in I'litsbutgli !)#«• 1, i*is
17Tt» —on the news of the declara
tion of imleiicntlrnce ihe lend, n M.i
tin .If the king of England in N< w
York was made into bullets.
1717. American giniiaon under
Gen. St. Flair abandoned Ticondor-*
km and retreated through Vermont
1116 -toe was formed to the thick
ness of common window glass In
New York and New England
ISIS First auction eiile of put'll*
lands In Michigan took place in l'e
trolt.
IX3! Maximilian, the til-fated em
oarer of Mexico, horn in Austria
Executed at uueretaeo June 1:• lx*>.
1144—The t'nited States r« ogntse |
the Independence of the Sandwich
Islands.
1 ».'.*• —An armistice w»* agreed i*n
in the war between France and Aus
tria.
lx«4—Th* Karl of Derby became
premier of Great Britain for tto
ikil '. time.
1193 Marriage of Prince ilecrge of
XX'alee (George V t and Princess Vic
toria Maty, of Teck
!*<** -Mobson and his comrades
taken prisoners by the Suamaids ut
baatlHgo, were exch.mg-ut.
1903 M I.OUbet. pi. -dent of the
French republic, arrived in England
on a visit to King Edward
ISt.'« Frank Holt, dynamiter of th
capitol at Was hum ton »nd who fir. I
a shot at J *’ Mm gan. k'lled himself
In the Nassau county. N X' . Jail
o\kC VFAH Al.o TOIIAt 1\ THE
\X \ It
Germans mad.- tierce attacks on
i? jins, along K.iwka.
p- • -h rei. -t*d , pturc of more
i .. .m tr.i- north <f Ypres
< • ,i> I . .in • vor*- attack w th
i ' I ;tl A1 -ace.
* J. «euh Ferdinand of
i pn*u»d Kussl/ins n.-rthward
'' t - .... b»ttl- of K:\\<nik.
Toll ti> iii it run tit
I'- .--a V- tors, si «*»r of K n2
V l in I' \. ;irs a« > toil y I
i• M Nl K eun.i nan -lh>r 1 |
•' . . u .(|. . m the British nilnl«-j
* \ I -i n iii l.ondoii >«.*>*» .ik>> t*>*
i, n•. -v-lton Williams. . ot* ft* l'-r j
f t . i-. i. n \ h-.rn in I’owlistan
. .;>! \ \ I "il X.-a*s :i|.i t'«dav
'. • | ,m| K.vere Pr. -t hln c ham. !
• . Xrltnirton-sl
■ rn at Jamaica I’latn. M.i**
\ i * a • t <dsy
K •l •• n- ' celebrated the.
o*. il tl ;01-r born it N wt.ir \
pit Ho.. Kl \.i rs ago f. da v
Th-n in G >!lsi; '»r r- |-re». u tat I ve
in i -tiKr.-«s . f tn-- Eighth I.tin 11
I'lstt ■*. born at t'oncord. N H . j
>• irs nno today
"t. phen F o Neill. rat--h'r th*
Cleveland \-- • r ti !• .•• • bas*
t« mi l-oi n at Mnoka. Pa. !t year
ago t'*dS V
p, x IKrtisll. utility <ntflelder of
th- N'-w X'ork Amol m le-igu* in*'
i >ll *-»n<. Kirn In St Lotu- "' \ n
ut today
[“■ "—' ” "" ]
A Poem a Day
ii \r\ \hi» i i.t« imi pom
Poor are p. . r and profligate in
deed.
Ye*, w•• the very flower of our race.
Endowed with opportunity to lead.
With intelle-t. a.ilty and grace
To |cirn the master a from th- pu
pils ; s >■
H'm have *•> me.intv ii|intnd*re 1.
.lay and night.
Our gleim ng opportunlflea of place.
Tl. pr>‘S- the precious rose of >• 1 il ’. K
delight
lln sedulous avoidance of our lofty
right
I Yet Harvard had her faults a« we
our >iu n,
J Contributory to our p.>vert
I Harvard ahidea not question, she has
g i ow n.
tri'l grown In dl*r* •>* f ■ * *pi■» 1' ty,
| I tl iriK th. glor> nt T l i< *• -I'xi.-ie
X inillton men-at-arn’s n n*'V*r
p.i le.
And mil' ion eyes, h' w*v*r cl>ar they
Se».
If wever s.-ek to pier* - *- their ri- -rtsf
veil,
** iU arc more Mind th.-.n *vrl. <* M i
t«>n. st.ll must fed
The mensure of all fh'ngs l« quit ♦v
F-.ur wall* have n.-vei m.i.l*- .» *■• I
leg*- yet.
And never shall, though student
corr pan v
Fr'-n distant end* i t earth togeth*-
met
; pej...\ 4 unnumbered t m** Its fost.r
debt.
j Yet w c> can say in how true - in or
when’
; The ilill.ird legion Is r f worthv -• et
To sup* rsede th>- bright. Industrious
ten
Civ*- u* a university of minds, not
men ’
Robert '"'utler in Boston Po«t.
Pointed Paragraphs
And often t_h*' shoplifter find** it
difli* ult to take things * nsy.
f>ead men tell no tales, but some
of 4 heir w idoxvg may draw pension-
A;i long at a man can keep bis
temper he Isn’t his own worst in
»my.
A woman’s Idea of nn entertaining
man is one who sajrt nothing and
listens.
Hpendthriffg may be no railed he
entire they have nothing in common
with thrift.
A Rirl’s best Insurance aeninM
trouble In to make a coniidtnt of bet
mother.
And a strong-minded wife not,
fimen keepn a light-weight husband
from going up In the air.
When a young man kieser. a girl
the flrnt time *>he tries to n< fa. If
it were her first experience.
It’s a woman’s natural faith that
enables her to believe only the
things she wants to when site known
she doesn’t.
P'atforms and Prop*.
No party platform In any stronger
than the personal timber that lormu
the props.—Washington I’ort.
The Old Gardener Says
That no harm In done by cut
ting long sprays of flowers from
th** rambler roses, but that the
plants are rather Improved by
this practice And these sprays
are exceedingly decorative when
properly displayed Indoors. The
amateur should make a point of
seeking out some of the new
hardy climbers this month In or
der to make a choice for his own
garden next season. Such va
rieties as Fvcelsa, Hlnwaths,
Silver Moon. Dr. Van Fleet, and
Tftusendshoen are wonderfully
beautiful and far ahead of the
old time ramblers.
THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1916
Too Late.
BY DR. FRANK CRANE
(Copyright, 191 b, by Frank Crane)
It is never too lute.
Os all the t\ ai-fop-jeii lies thnt shuckle
the human spirit one of the cruellest is
implied in those two words: ‘Too Intel
Among souls nothing is irrevocable.
We men and women who are alive lie
about on this earth, little glowing sparks
of divinity.
There is no rain of circumstances can
put us out. There is no iron heel of
catastrophe or malice that can cover and
crush us. Nothing can extinguish our
burning but the exhalations of our ow’n
despair.
If I have wasted my youth, well, I have
yet my life, which still can be shaped to
my will. If I have missed an education
in the proper schools, the school of days
is always open, the school of spare hours,
of running time; I will attend, with my
self as master, indomitable, with myself
us insatiable pupil.
What are habits? I made them. lean
i»r« ak them. If it hurts 1 will not whim
per. I will take myself in hand.
All about the walls of my room I will
write: “I can. I can. 1 can. I can.”
I will not weep, nor go with those who
weep, over lost opportunities. For every
opportunity lo*t 1 can find ten new ones.
Opportunity does m*t knock only once
at a man’s door. That is a sickly fancy.
Opportunities stand in line at my door
every day. crowding to get in.
Old? My body may be. liut my soul
never ages. I will face the wind and
weather till the last. When death comes
he will find me plowing and sowing on.
My self-school shall never close. I w-ill
never regard my condition as fixed. I
will be an eternal boy. Fvery day I will
be improving, learning, in training.
I never expect to grow up. I shall
never be an adult. To the end I shall be
adolescent.
(.ray hair are and there upon
me, but on my soul’s cheek the young
! beard is downy.
My feet are not as fleet as at fifteen.
Je n’ai pa* me* jambes de quinze ans.
But my thoughts are as nimble as a
young dancing girl’s legs, my fancies are
swift as the sparrows of spring, my hopes
rise yet as the mounting lark.
In me burns that unquenchable fire of
Prometheus- life. And life —any life—
any smallest fragment of it—means po
tfntial force. Matter, and the creations
of matt r. must give way before it.
“I came from God, 1 am going back
tn God. I v-ill have no gap of death in my
ife ” s lid Ge >rge MacDonald.
Too late? lam at the doorstep of in
finity. Before me is the uncharted ocean.
Its salt scent intoxicates me. I feel the
Bing of endless adventures.
Too late? Let dogs say it, or horses,
or apes; not man, not me, whose w’ings
are sprouting.
Too late? When you all gather around
me and are sad, and say it’s all over with
him, you will be deceived, for all will have
just begun. For then I shall know the
truth of the deep guess of the old Greek:
“For what if death l<‘ life, and life be
death?”
Too late? Perhaps, for some, but not
I for spirits. 1 am a spirit.
Said Olive Schreiner: “It is never too
late for the soul of man.”
BITS OF INFORMATION
In<!la rubber trros, tapp*-*! f'Vf'ry other flay,
continue to >l*-ld sap for more than 20 years.
Frisrlrinfl has strengthened Its holfl on the toy
market, but Japan Is forging ahead as a com
petitor.
America heafls the list with rtf. flf>2 postofflres.
G*-rmnt) v L< teTond, well 49,515; England,
with 33.738.
Pur** water will corrod** glass.
Tl * re nr** fewer suicides among miners than
nny other workers.
it* ri nt observations of Saturn at the Lowell
observatory show a remarkable r.hnnKe In the
eolor and brightness of the planet’s ball, which
Is now of a pinkish brown tint and strikingly
darker than the rings.
Lewanlka. king of Barotseta.sfl. Africa, who
Idled a month or so ago. ruled n territory as
large as Germany and was the twenty second
in a rovnl line that dates back to the beginning
of the seventeenth century.
Yearly on February 2 and for forty-fire day*
aft, r. a mysterious tire breaks out In Ariyaka
bay on th** west eoaat of Kyushu, Japan, bum-
In*; both on land and sea. the origin of the eon
: flagrntlon being a complete mystery.
The nervous shook from exploding shells la so
great that It oftentimes brings horses up In
their tracks, apparently Incapable of moving.
Horses occasionally fall down and give every
; appearance of having been shot, though actually
nnhurt. Hogs suddenly and unaccountably go
lame, though untouched.
Several American Arms with unusually heavy
mailings use a postage meter which. Instead of
affixing th** usual stamps on mail matter, makes
an Impression In th** tipp* r right hand corner.
The new postal rn«t« r performs several tasks,
such as sealing, tamping, facing and counting
, approximately 2f,(t pieces of mall matter a
I minute
( OMMITTKI).
Wife You believe In being prepared, don’t
j you?
l Husband I certainly do
Wife Then 1 know you’ll approve of my get
ting irv complete outfit for summer before the
licit weather sets In.—-Judge.