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SCHOOL HAS WEALTH OF Last Night’s Dreams FIBROUS PLANTS —What They Mean DAYS V’»«» au >»«»■«, J*«. 1 H I <>.»< « U . Ì •*. V . « » am* » > » £ « t u l i O l l l u l ÎM- toW D ID Y O U fcâaâi J u á i F o l k s ! Rann-(lom Reel* By EDGAR A. GUEST By H O W ARD L. RANN T H E CHANCE. Another started where he stood And he had certainly made good. Thé task was very commonplace, And Irksome, too, and hard to face. But several men their spurs had won Because their best they’d always done, And past this humble post could see The better Jobs that were to be. From humbler stations, too, I learned, That others had promotion earned. They’d hadn’t felt they weren’t com pelled To failure by the Jobs they held. With vision they had clearly seen That there’s no duty quite so mean. But, well performed, within it brings The chance for bigger, better things. I f you’ve a Job then never wall That you're a victim, doomed to fall. No man can hide what you can do, So thoroughly from sight ns you. Your worth the meanest place will tell I f only you will do It well. You’ve got a chance to rise or fall I f you possess a job at all. (Copyright by Edgar A. Quest) -------- O-------- r,y.v.-.v.v.v.-.v/.v.v.w.v.-.v.v.v.............. R V .VA\V AVAV .V.V .V AV A% X *»K W J>!«'>!W !{'iiH T H E P IC N I C HE picnic Is a place where people go to relax from labor and study the bug family. There is no place on earth where the lmblts and personal eccentricities of the wandering and dissatisfied bug can be studied to greater advantage than at a picnic, when the tablecloth has been laid di rectly over a smoldering ant hill. Picnics are held in the summer time, when the grass is long and green and Insect life Is more animated. Great care is taken to read the weather fore cast and pick out a day that winds up in a moist rainstorm. This tenches us that the United States weather bureau. T L ook AT THEM MACK’m CLOUDS - W£R£ G onna kav £ A VT' tit : rsl" V wat v»oN7trtTH£pO^BOC>y lio o ff -ne J fitta a IH». Jh>*M Ktodt 3 O'CLOCK. eat M-r Th e Man W ho Is First to Get to the Table but Never Can See Anything to Do Except Prophesy Rain and Fight Fliea. O - MILITANT MARY M g rfL Most (jirk-tohe Ir l '| ^ t norri° 9 e' W>tly JO KE- We m e e t'll blindfolded — AND* GET A PIGGIEIN-A POKE! KEUD states that modern dream books are but plagiarisms of an cient Eastern writings o f the same character and are necessarily bad ones because In nearly all cases the East ern Interpretations of dreams hung upon a play upon wonts which is, of course, lost in turning them Into anoth er language. This statement may be open to doubt and it is rather probable that the modern empiric interpretation of dreams has gradually grown up through a mingling of Teutonic, Celtic, Gallic and ancient Roman and Greek superstitions, which would account for the divergence of the Interpretations with regard to their symbolism. The most famous dream prophecy depending upon a play upon words is that given by the soothsayer, Arls- tandros, to Alexander when that mon arch was besieging Tyre. Alexander was much disturbed by the stubborn resistance o f the city and the conse quent delay in his plans o f conquest. One night he dreamed that he saw one of those goatllke mythological crea tures, a satyr— Greek Satyros— danc ing on his shield. He demanded of Aristandros the meaning of the dream. At once the soothsayer replied by di viding the word into Sa Tyros (T y re) Thine Is Tyre. Alexander took the city. Although Freud cites this as an ex ample o f his statement it will be no ticed that the play upon words was Greek and not Oriental. Satyrs were o f the male sex and had the horns, tall and legs of goats. They were mis chievous creatures and sent the night mare. To meet them or dream of them was accounted by the ancients as unlucky, in spite o f the dream of Alexander. This would seem to ac count fo r the dictum o f the modem mystics that to dream o f a billygoat Is unlucky, though to dream of killing gne or seeing one killed Is u favorable omen; the latter probably originating from the killing o f a goat as a sin of fering mentioned in Leviticus. And the Interpretation of a dream o f see ing only the goat’s horns— that It fore tells bad luck— is easily traced to the prophet’s dream of the fight between the goat and the ram in the eighth chapter o f Daniel. A few o f the em pirics say that to dream o f nanny- goats, especially if white, is good luck. (Copyright.) ■--------o -------- Upon the shoulders of the past we stand. And to the future turn our questioning eyes. What doth she hold In store, what pre cious prize, That we may wrest from out her close- shut hand? Care 11 “ but it-isn't any A B O U T G O A TST Book CM. hat which Is supported by the patient, per spiring taxpnyer, Is a lugubrious and agonizing Joke. I f congress would quit distributing free garden seeds and give out trustworthy barometers in By GEORGS M A T T H E W ADAMS § stead, few er picnic parties would have to be hauled home in a hack and wrung dry by anxious parents In the NE o f the greatest enemies to So ciety as a whole and to the In dead o f the night. Picnics are composed o f people who dividual in particular is Indifference. Indifference unopposed eats its way go and people who provide. Why is silently yet surely, and twines its it that so many people are able to go death-gripping tendrils into almost to picnic after picnic and never have to furnish anything blit n bubbling every avenue of human endeavor. laugh and two baking powder spoons? Care— Care I It Is Indifference that is filling the The injustice o f this arrangement has divorce dockets. It is Indifference rankled in many a feminine breast and that is feeding Graft. It Is Indiffer has caused close neighbors to refuse ence that is constantly slapping the to speak to each other except at face o f Good Government. It is In prayer meeting. There is also the difference that blocks the way of ad man who Is first to get to the table, vancement o f every grent and good but never can see anything to do ex project or purpose of people, of towns, cept prophesy rain and fight files. That we are a humane and tender-hearted o f nations. people Is shown by the fact that these Care— C a re! two classes are always welcome and It is Indifference on the part of are even given some o f the white workers In the store, the office, and in m eat public stations that keeps them down Men are Invited to picnics on ac and rusts their very souls— while oth count o f their lovable attributes and ers pass on and up. their ability to produce a fire out of Care— Care I water-soaked brush. A picnic with For if you don’t Care— if you don’t out a few men to build the fire and pull off your coat and roll up your eat ail o f the surplus potato salad sleeves and with cheerfulness and w ill would be a greater failure than an at ingness In your system enter upon tempt to sell envelope chemises on the your daily tasks, you have no one but African coast. Unmarried men are yourself to blame If hind-end condi much sought after at picnics, as they tions dwarf you and push yon out of know how to hang a hammock and the path to useful Accomplishment. also how -to disport themselves there Care— Care! in. One o f the most pathetic sights In -------- O-------- life is a picnic party composed entire ly o f old maids who have no more use for a hammock than a bald-headed man has for a set of military brushes. Picnics would be more popular if they were held on high, dry ground, where the death chant o f the coarse, aggressive mosquito could not be heard. f DREAM F TO* Copyright “ I ’ve never had a chance,” said he. His statement Interested me. I traced his record back to find Just what had kept that man behind. I found that one imfliensely rich Had one time filled the station, which This grumbling fellow occupied. He hadn’t felt his hands were tied. -* -----— --------- r-rnijiT C T r.iff; ! wrriT Am u 1 tkm/ l C * L h <U* 1 ,«y» ' i t » 4*»€»<J»W , I,* bi»C 1 »«y» “ if yo» •••■*<*» * * '“ • * * ■»*«', *»>» i.* *»Ky. ru W .n « 4 » y+* • t i l \ I l «0O W « Electing M exico’s New President (Copyright) Ham Balia. s Take three-fourths o f a cupful of minced ham, two cupfuls o f mashed potatoes, one tablespoonful of melted butter, two eggs, two tablespoonfuls of rich milk, and pepper to taste. Beat the potatoes until very light. Mix the ham with the potatoes, add but ter, eggs and milk. Form into balls and fry in a little fat in a frying pan. Prune and Pineapple Marmalade. Take one pound of washed, soaked and steamed prunes. Remove the stones and put through a meat chop per, add two cupfuls o f pineapple (grated), one cupful o f sirup, a little salt. Cook very slowly until thick, stirring often. Baked Bananas. Remove the skins from four banan as, cut In halves lengthwise. Put In a shallow pan. Mix together one tu- blespoonful o f melted butter, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, a dash of salt and one and one-half tablespoonfuls of lemon Juice. Pour half the mixture over the bananas and bake In a slow oven. Baste during the baking with the remainder o f the mixture. Combination Marmalade. Take half a dozen oranges, half a pound of carrots, put through the meat grinder and cook until tender In Just ns little water as possible. Cook the rind o f the oranges cut In hits in wa ter to cover until very tender; add to the cooked carrots. Add the pulp and Juice of the oranges and four pounds of tender rhubarb unpeeled, cut In small pieces. Cook all together until the rhubarb Is tender, then add seven cupfuls o f sugar and cook until the mixture Is thick. Seal In Jelly glasses. Tom ato 8uccotash. Take two cupfuls o f ennned toma toes, two tablespoonfuls of minced on ion, two tablespoonfuls of minced cel ery, one tablespoonful o f sugar, one teaspoonful o f salt, s dash of paprika, two cupfuls of cooked lima beans and two cupfuls o f canned com Cook all together for a half hour. Pour Into a buttered baking dish, cov er with thinly sliced bacon and brown the bacon In a hot oven or under the gas flame. ------ O---------- W riters Who Died Young. Among poets and writers who died In the thirties are Charles Churchill, ( C o p y r i g h t . 1 H # , W t w r n N « w » p » p « r U n io n ) • -------- o -------- thirty-three; the earl of Essex, thirty- four; Mack worth Praed, thirty-seven;! Practice Cheerfulness. Adelaide Proctor, thirty-nine; Sir John | There Is no physician like cheerful Ruckling, thirty-three, and Charlotte thought for dissipating the Ills o f the Bronte, thirty-nine. Keats. Chatter- body; there Is no comforter to com ton and Marlowe died In their twen pare with good will for dispersing the ties. shadows o f grief and sorrow.— Alien. Decline of Coffee and Rubber Trade Brings Revival of Old Industry in Brazil. GOVERNMENT AIDS IN TESTS More Than 100 Varieties Furnish Ma terlal for Jute, Brushes, Hats and Cordage— Country Haa Enor. moua Resources. Washington.— Brazil, although cov ered with fibrous plants. Imports $5,- 000,(Xk) worth of Jute and Indian hemp annually. ’1 he traveler, who watches u long line of cargadores staggering un der the weight of bags of coffee in the port of Santos, has only to turn his glasses toward the neighboring hills to see some of the best specimens of fiber- yielding plants. 1 he answer Is simple. The country Is so huge and at the same time so un derpopulated that all of Its resources will not be developed for years to come. The recent announcement that the federal government was ready to receive 40,000,000 Immigrants will give some Idea o f the existing rntio of the population o f this South American state to its area. Lately, with the decline of the rub ber Industry, caused by the difficulty In competing with the rubber planta tions of the fur East, and since coffee raising has become less profitable be cause of overplanting, the country has turned its attention to the commercial value of fibrous plants, nnd their devel opment has begun to attract the atten tion of Investors. Nearly every Bra zilian Is fam iliar with their fibers, and an Insistent propaganda 1ms begun for their exploitation. The government Is assisting, and experiments have devel oped several fibers of assured commer cial value, some of which are described In a bulletin of the I’an-Amerlcan Union as fo llow s: Only Fiber Exported. “ The only fiber that figures among Brazilian exports to the Uulted States Is plassava, a kind o f hairy, pliable berk. One eompnny lias 6,000,000 trees on Its property north of Bahia C ity; another Important source o f supply Is the valley of the Rio 1‘reto, In northern Bahia. The fibers measure from 8 to 15 feet in length, the longer ones being used In making ropes nnd twine and the heavier, coarser kinds cut Into short strips for a number of uses, chief Calling the roll In the chamber of deputies for the election o f Provisional President Adolfo de la Huertu. o f which are the manufacture of brooms, brushes, hats and, to a limited extent, snndnls. ‘‘The exportation o f this fiber from Bnhln nnd Uheos to the United Stntes and Europe, hs well as other parts of Brazil and South America, Is Increas ing yearly ns new applications are found for It. In the United States It Is used only In the manufacture of snow sweepers that are supplied to street car companies. “ The traveler sailing up the straits that lend Into the picturesque Utile Bay o f Victoria, w ill notice what at first glnnce appear to be bundles of huge broadswords tied together ut the hnndles nnd pointing In every direc tion. A closer examination reveals these bundles as green bushes, the roots of which must certainly he past ed against the sides o f the cliffs to keep the plnnt from falling Into the wuter. A common stalk cannot be de tected and, In fact, does not exist, the bush being simply a collection of mam moth leaves, from ten to twelve feet long, that sprout Independently from a single ro o t “ It Is the pltelra, a cousin o f the famous agave of the Philippines, which hus the distinction of being the first Many Scots Are Coming to U. S. Rush on to Canada Also Be cause of the Unrest Pre vailing at Home. STEAMSHIP^ LINES SWAMPED Confusion Into Which Industry Has Drifted as Result of Stopping of W a r W ork Adds to Gen eral Diecontent Glasgow, Scotland.— A t the moment there are more people desirous of leaving this country, and going to America than ever before. All the available steamship berths from Glas gow are booked until the middle of summer. It Is estimated that already there have been more applications for passages to New York than there were In the early months o f any year before the war. To Canada there are also so mnny prospective emigrants that the ship ping companies engaged in the Gins- gow-St. Lnwrence service cannot guar antee passages earlier than July. It is evident, therefore, thut there Is a generul Inclination to leave the Uult ed Kingdom, and to take up life in the Uulted States or Canada. For a short time after hostilities closed It seemed that settlement at home would appeal strongly to ex-service men. The government promised them land and houses on reasonable terms. But the process o f Industrial and social re construction has been slow and the land and bonnes seem still very far off. Besides, there Is a gooif deal of unemployment, caused mainly by the confusion Into which Industry has drifted us a result of the stopping of war work, nnd the lack o f new^lndua- trtes to absorb all the war workers. Then again, although wages are high, the cost o f living Is even higher In proportion, nnd there seems no Imme diate prospect o f any nsluctlon In the prices of food or cloth«“*. There Isa continual call for a greater production of manufactures for export so that the rate o f exchnnge may he put right, hut the great mass o f the workers jiersist In looking upon higher wages ns of more imitortnnoe than Increased pro duction, nnd the output, even of new ships, remains rnnch too low. Apathy Among Shipbuilders. The tonnage launched on the Clyde during the first quarter o f this year wns somewhnt better than that o f the first three month* of 1010, but was much less than the average for the corresponding quarters o f pre-war year*. This Is explained, to some ex tent, by lack o f steel, which again Is explained by lack o f ships to enrry ore from Spain. Ilut that there Is a certain amount of apathy in Industry Is undoubted. Tills Is the reaction aft- er the Intense activity of the war. The genernl effect of nil this lias been to breed a form of Imputtence with things as they ure nnd a desire to emigrate to other countries. Con sequently there Is a rush fo r passen ger accommodation on the New York und St. Lnwrence steamers. I f there were plenty o f steamers this would be all right. But there nre less thnn half the number o f pre-war passenger ves sels. On the Olnsgow-New York serv ice before the war the Anchor line had four flrst-clnss vessels— the Columhln, the Culedonla, the Cnllfomla and the Cameronla. O f these only the first named remains. The others were lost during the war. When “ the four C.’s” were running they maintained a regu lar weekly service. One boat of the four left New York nnd one left Glas gow each Saturday. It was a service nearer to that o f trains run to a time table thnn nny other from Glasgow. Now the company finds It totally Im possible to resume any such service. Americans Get the Berthe. One or two vessels have been char tered for single runs, but they nre not fitted for carrying large numbers of passengers, and they can do little to relieve the situation. So the chunces are Hint ninny of those people desir ous o f going to America will lie unable to do so. For tills Americans themselves will he somewhat to blame. Large num bers o f them have already hooked passage eastward, and also return passages later In the year. The round trip Is booked In New York, and the offices of tho lines here nre simply In formed that so mncii westward ac commodation for such nnd such trips Is filled. The Americans will be com ing over In large crowds early In July and returning In September or Octo ber. TtiU mean», that berthage which would hnve been utilized for Immi grants in the latter months tins been taken up by American* who have money to spend at.d wish to see Eu rope. It Is a pity that this should have been the case In a year In which there would certainly hnve been a boom In Immigration. AVe have been building enrgo boats uniII we seem to have enough, hut we are only now get ting on with the building fif liners. Of these there nre many on the stocks In different parts of the United King dom, hut few o f them will he In serv ice this year. By next spring there should he a large number, nnd then there should be no lack o f traveling facilities. Chicago Fortune Heiress Sticks to $2-a-Day Job Cincinnati.— A modest Clilcn- go fortune o f $50,000 Just claim ed by Miss Jessie M. Evans of this city, a stenographer, will not change In an lota the Inten tion o f Miss Kvnns to contluue a working girl nt $2 per day In the office of the A. C. Lawrence Leather company here. Miss Evans nursed her Chicago aunt, Mrs. K ale II. Roberts, during her recent Illness, nnd wus re warded by being rnude her sole heir. fibrous plnnt to be cultivated by Euro peans In Brazil, where the first Portu guese colonists found the Indians gathering the leaves o f this plnnt for use In the making of moccasins. The plants require from four lo six years to mature, but live from twelve to six teen years, In comparison with sisal which lives from ten to twelve years. The fiber Is lighter thnn Indian hemp and finer than hennequen from Yuca- tnn. Spectacular History. “ Araratnn, or gunxfina toxn, has a rnther spectacular history. Repeated experiments In Africa, India and Bra zil so encouraged botanists In the lat ter country that an Intense propagan da for the manufacture of coffee bags from this plnnt wus begun nnd result ed In the building o f n factory In Sao I’aulo for that purpose. "Although the factory nttnlned an output o f 800,000 bags a year, and found ready, enthusiastic buyers, diffi culties so Increased that nfter a few years o f operation the fnctory was de voted exclusively to the manufacture of bags from Jute. The failure was not due to the poor quality 'of the hags, but ruther to the luck o f co-operation among the plunters. “ In addition to nrnmlna, which Is su perior to Jute, Brazil can boast’ of an other fibrous plant growing wild In the central part of the country which, if cultivated and used In the manufac ture of hogs would eliminate the In dian product from the list o f her Im ports. It la the Papoula de Sao Fran cisco sometimes called I'erlnl fiber from Its once supposed discoverer. The fibers have the qualities o f linen nnd hemp with certain advantages In printing and dyeing. "These represent only fibers o f high commercial value and do not Include a hundred other species that grow In Brazil. Uses for the others will be found later." BRIDE LOSES DURESS SUIT Husband Discharged by New York Court When Chargee Were Not Corroborated. New York.— Angfdo Fezzn, twenty- four years old, was discharged when arraigned In Adams street court, Rrooklyn, on a chnrge o f compelling Catherine Oormley to he married to him. Miss Oormley had Fezzn arrested, no- sertlng thnt he met her on an elevated station and threatened to kill her un less she married him. They forthwith obtained a license nnd were married. Then she went to the district attor ney's office and tol l her story. Magistrate Wnlsh discharged Fezzn because the girl’s account o f the af fair wns not corroborated and nlso he- enuse she had not told the city clerk that she wns marrying Fezza under duress. Die Following Th a lr Bell Weather. Paris, Ky.— Tw o tenants on the far.n o f Fred Roberts caught a large rat and tied a small hell about Its neck, nfterwnrd libers ting It. The rnt dis appeared In a hole In the barn floor, appearing again In a few moments, closely followed by a continuous stream o f rodents o f all sizes. The two men killed nits until they were tired, bnt hnve not figured yet Just why the rats followed the one with the bell.