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FIBROUS PLANTS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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
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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
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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.
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“ 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.
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Ham Balia.
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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.
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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 )
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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.