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gods, who Is himself divine, and the highest object of reverence. Hence when Togo received instructions from his majesty to abandon the strategic an- chorage be had chosen and cruise down along the southern coast to await the mysterious fleet of the enemy. be called his captains together and laid the facts before them. He told them that the information he had received from his scouts and spies, as well as his own judgment, convinced him that the Rus sian fleet was intending to attack him in the Straits of Korea, and he had de cided to await It there, nOtwithstand- ing the orders of the Mikado. He fully appreciated the significance and real ized the penalty of such unheard of disobedience, but he believed that his majesty had acted upon mistaken infor nation, and he was willing to accept the responsibility of disobeying his or ders, because the honor, and perhaps the fate, of Japan was at stake. He did not ask any of his captains to share the awful responsibility with him. Those who declined to do so would be relieved of their commands by men who were willing to make the sacrifice. To those who would stay by him in de fiance of the Emperor he would be ac- cordingiy grateful. He gave them twenty-four hours to think the matter over and consult among themselves.
 The captains were so overcome with amazement at the audacity and the enormity of the offense proposed by their commander that they made no re ply. Many of them left the flagship suspecting that he had lost his reason. Even to suggest or to think of doubt ing the wisdom or of dlsobeying the sacred voice of the Emperor was the highest treason. and here was Togo de liberately determined to defy 1t. As may be imagined, nothing else was dis cussed or even entered the thoughts of the captains that day, but they were careful that the cause of their anxiety should not become known to their sub ordinates. They had no conference, for none was necessary. The mind of every man was made up from the moment that Togo mentioned his purpose Not one of them hesitated for an instant as to the course he should pursue, and when they met in the admral's cabin on the flagship the next morning there was no controversy, no explana tions, no difference of opinion.'
 As Togo called them one ofter anoth- CT he found himself unsupported, and when he asked their opinion they told him that they did not believe he could find a single officer upon any of his ships who would stand with him against the orders of the Emperor. They laid their swords upon his table and resigned their commands.
 With tears rolling down his weather beaten cheeks, Togo asked them to re consider their decision. He argued with them for an hour, giving the req
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OAK AND PINE.
The Value and UsefuIness of These
 Glasses of Woods

Glasses of Woods.
 Though generally assumed that oak Is the wood capable of being put to the greatest variety of uses, 1t Is known, as a matter of fact, that the pine Is really the most used, on account of Its great abundance. Nevertheless, the timber of the oak combines in itself the essential clements of strength and durability, hardness and elasticity In degree which no other tree can boast, unrival- ed as a material of shipbuilding, also superior In architecture, cabinetmak- ing, carving, mill work. coOperage and lnnumerable other purposes, while the bark is of great value as furnishing tan and yielding a bitter extract in con tinual demand for medicinal purposes.
 But of uses for the pine details would be we'll nigh endless. The timber Is lu- valuable In houses and ship carpentry common turpentine Is extracted from It in vast quantities, and immense sup plies of tar. pitch, resin and lampblack. Tn the manufacture of matches, and, above all, paper pulp, thousands and tens of thousands of acres of pine for ests are cut down every year, and, briefly, the timber of this tree, consti- tuting as IL does the chief material of English and American builders, may be said to be more used than all other kinds of wood put together.
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sons why he believed the Russian fleet was coming up the Straits of Korea, and every captain heartily indorsed his judgment, but the Emperor had spoken, and they must obey him, right or wrong. There was no alternative. Togo asked them what they would do in his place, if the responsibility was upon them. They answered with one voice:
 "Obey the Emperor"
 He dismissed them sadly, again af- flrming his determination to meet and fight the Russians In the straits even If he had to meet them alone, and asked them to return for a final con ference the following morning
 They met again, as before, even more determined than at the previous coun- els, and, finding himself without sim gle supporter or sympathlzer, Togo an. nounced his intention to solve hls di- lemma by taking his own life. His judgment as sailor, his conscience as a patriot, would not permit him to abandon the spot which he had chosen for an attack upon the Russians, and his reverence for his sovereign would not permit him to disobey his majesty's orders, although he was confident they were wrong. Therefore he would re lleye the situation by suicide, and the next in command must assume the re- sponsibility of carrying out the Elm peror's orders.
 The admiral's farewell to his com mand was interrupted by an orderly, who brought the news that Rojest- vensky's ships had been sighted, and In short hour every captain was at his post and the line of battle had been formed. The result Is well known.
 After the war was over and the ad- miral returned to Tokio to receive the honors he had so richly earned, he asked private audience of his sov- ereign and frankly related the story of his disloyalty that I have so tamely told. None but the two men know what was said at that Interview, but It was satisfactory to both.-William E. Cur tls, in the Chicago Record Herald.
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TOGO NEAR TO SUICIDE.
Rather than Obey Emperor Against
 His Judgment, He Would Die.


 His Judgment, He Would Die.
 It seems that there was decided diff ference of opinion among the military and naval authorities at Tokio as to the intentions of Admiral Rojestvensky, who came out from Cronstadt with the great fleet of Russian ships. Most of them believed that he had instruc- tions to attack the southern coast of Japan and divert attention from the struggle in Manchuria and the siege of he would attack Kobe and Yokohama and other ports and try to reach Tokio. If he failed there they expected him to sail up the eastern coast and at tack Hakodate. At any rate, they were absolutely certain that he would not run the risk of almost certain destruc- tion by entering the China sea or try to pass through the straits between Ja- pan and Korea, where Togo lay in con cealment waiting to bounce upon him. This conviction was so positive that the council of war at TokiO, which was composed of cabinet ministers, veteran generals and admirals, and that nota- ble group known as 'the older states men," ordered Togo to come out of his lair and patrol the southern coast, so as to be near by when the attack came. Togo remonstrated. He was convinced that Rojestvensky had come from the west to yindicatc the Russian navy and not to invade a fortified coast. His ar guments were earnest, but they had no weight with the Tokio authorities, and he was again ordered to come down to defend the coast To their amazement he refused to obey, and they finally appealed to the Emperor, who. at their solicitation, repeated the order.
 It Is a tradition in Japan that no man ever disobeyed an order of the | Emperor. who Is descended from the
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sHARPENs SCISSORS

sHARPENs SCISSORS out entailing the employment of skilled labor. It con- prlses a base, which is clamped to a table or other support. On the base Is sharpening stone or other suitable abrasive material, while at the opposite end is an upright arm from which de pends a movable clamp
 The scissors are held in correct po- sition over the stone by means of the clamp. The latter is then moved back and forth across the arm, thus moving the blade of the scissors across the sharpening stone. Where scissors are employed to a great extent this simple means of sharpening the dull blades should prove both valuable and econom- tcal
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when the cork fits tightly In the neck of the bottle and refuses to be removed until the bottle has been placed between the knees and the corkscrew tugged at for several minutes. Then It invariably comes out with sudden jerk, throwing the contents In all directions.
 After the corkscrew proper has been inserted In the cork, the upright arm forming a wedge Is placed on the neck of the bottle. Using the handle as a lever, the most obstinate cork can be readily extracted without endangerinS
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take the credit to himself But the who goes to the devil always somebody else of having creased the way. This Is not denying that there Is force In heredty, and in early environment and train Ing, but It Is force that except in instances be rightly directed And out of inherited faults often bloom great virtues The belief that you have weak spot Is to especially guard yourself therea that the with the right stuff In him will obey. There Is nothing in the world that is tyrannlcal, yet tractabe, than the human will. Your will Is either your best friend your enemy By cultivation make 1t whichever you choose Des Mones News.
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It is the title that appeals to certain women. To be called princess or a countess, or even baroness, they will cast their all into foreign venture. The prince may be miserable rake, the count not half So high as a Ken lucky colonel and the baron of abso- lutely no importance. and yet the glam- our catches the title-seeking female and she turns over her money to a person who could not make S10 a week in hon. est work if his life depended upon 1t. But why bother? There will always be such women, and there will always be such men So long as there is money to be won in the game of international marriage.
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The Truth About serpents.

IL has been discovered that our snake sense increases with snake knowledge AS a matter of fact. the creatures dc not sting with their tongues, nor dc they charm birds or people. They dc not chase and attack persons without provocation, for the reason that they do not seek man as food and have ab- solutely no use for him in any way, except that of asking to be let alone. Of course snakes have been known to attack innocent persons, but even then It Is said that fear of the agTessor makes the reptile take the defensive.
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Contracts for furnishing single and double teams to the city of Boston were recently awarded to a woman Her bids, tendered in open competition with men. were by far the lowest submit ted. and she demonstrated her ability to fulfill the obligations. The award was popular. for tie uniformity of the figures submitted by the men gave color to the charge that an agreement had been made among them to maintain a certain price. The woman made her own figures independently, and won.
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ther, the moral tendencies not communicated at all They find little transmission of troubles any other diseases
 More airng lies and self-dcusions have been hung on that excuse heredity" than any other perhaps all the lexicon of spacious sophisry Heredity is so easy way of accounting for wrong tendencies that 1t appeals as irresstbly to certain classes of scientific experts" does criminals drunkards and loafers Quacks gain repute for profundty by holding forth on the laws of heredity" If they were mysterious ukases issued behind natures veil which few understand and resist Nine-tenths of t all, ac- cordng to the Dutch doctors Is mere tommyrot.
 Every man. If he is at all is master of hs conduct. Yes he Is master too, of his thoughts, purposes ideals and everything of high importance in the makeup of his character and the control of his life of Americas greatest actors transmit ted by his father double tendency, for the stage and the other the bottle The cultivated the first and repressed the second and achieved worldwide fame According the commonly notions concerning heredty should have reversed the order and gone the gutter.
 The who gets ahead in life Is usually content to
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The conference of Governors to con- sider the preservation of the national
 resources has already brought forth fruit. The Governors suggested that the President appoint a national coa- seryation committee to advise him and to cooperate with similar bodies in the States. Acting on this suggestion, Mir. Roosevelt has reappointed his com mission on inland waterways, with some new members to fill vacancies. He has also constituted commissions on forests, on lands and on minerals, and an executive committee to harmonize the work of all four bodies. Now we may expect to see the growth of the sentiment that the minerals. lands, for ests and waters of the country are na- tioual wealth. In the conservation of
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sists of metal plate, which fits be- heath the shank of the shoe. 4 piece of leather or other flexible material ex- tends from the metal plate around the heel, with the other end over the in- step, both connecting by buckles and straps to piece of leather extending from the opposite of the metal plate.
 It will be obvious that shoe provided with this protection braces the shank and ankle of the foot of the wearer.
 Moreover, shovel can be readily pushed Into the ground without injury to the shoe. The protector Is quickly attached to or detached from the shoe.
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From a summe Resort.

Dear husband, we've been here week. Pve had no chance to write, For things have followed in streak
 To tax me day and night. Dams had the collie awful bad
 From eating unrpe quince. Jack tumbled in the creek ands had
 An ague ever since. Mas suffered from mosquito bites
 Till she Is most insane, And poison Ivy has made frights
 Of Sue and Mary Jane. A tree on Patrick fell and cracked
 His skull. He bled a stream. The nurse with agony is racked
 From country fair Ice cream. "E'en Pug has not escaped. A taste Of snake his portion Is, And go you'd better come In haste
 As soon as you get this. Do come and bring the doctor, pray, Ere things get any worse, And If you don't come right away
 You'd better bring hearse !" Chicago News.
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It is probable that in 1912 an entire day will be set apart for the cheering, and in 1916 it may be necessary for each convention to devote a week al least to the purpose of beating all pre- vioas records. We are great people and we do some wonderful things.
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do Is to give your friend five straws, little sticks, two pieces of cardboard, about three and one-half inches long, and a penny, and ask him to lift the whole by holding the tip end of one of the straws. Most people try to balance the penny on one straw and pile the other four straws on top of the penny, but they never succeed. The trick is explained in the picture You can easily do 1t If you try.
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corkscrew W h l c h
 has been in use for ages and still re- tains Its original
 form. Attempts to pull a cork with the ordinary cork scre " in many cases ends disas- trously to the per son making the at tempt, especially
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"Why shouldn't Prof Bell succeed in making monkeys talk iutelligently?" asks the Atlanta Constitution. Don't know, unless 1t is because that is more than he or any one else can do with a good many men.
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A Paterson tN. J. woman who pre- dicted that she would die on June II Is still aliye and in good health. Her husband Is said to have become one of PatersOn's worst pessimists.
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which the whole nation has an in- terest. whether they belong to private citizens or not. It Is that sort of sen timent which will be a guarantee against want and barrenness in the dis tant future.
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\ magazine has offered President Roosevelt Sl word for his literary ef- forts, but no farmer has tried to hire him to work In the hayfeld for sl.75 q day. There are times when even Presidents versatility is not appre- ciated.
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decided that a de vice could be read fly made by which t h e S rpening could be readily accomplished by anyone. He, ac- cordingly, designed the dev ice e by
 which scissors can be sharpened with
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puzzle. This i- enough to reduce a person to a state of absolute frenzy, and still the trick is simple enough when you know how.
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More Contracted.

Towne-I hear Marryat and his bride are no longer living at that boarding house of yours.
 Browne-No; they've gone to house keeping.
 Towne-Ah, their home life now will bring them much closer together, and
 Browne-You bet 1t will; they've taken a fiat--Philadelph Press.
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"HoRNSWoGGLED.v

is one of the most e1- rressiye of all words in the vernacular of the American citizen. There is a world of meaning in 1t, and, although not found in any one of the dictionaries of the day rec ognized as authoritative, it Is a word that flts.-Cincinnati Comnercial-Gazette.
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railways and other places where shovels and spades are em- ployed. An Arkansas man, therefore, has designed a shoe pro tector for the pur- pose of protecting the shoe, especially at the shank and instep.
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the clothes of the operator When not in use, the corkscrew and wedge can be folded within the outer end of the han de, which Is hollowed out to form a housing.
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her own labor she lives simple retired Ilfe she Is totally blind, and yet question whether there are many who in present peace of mind exalted vision of faith have attained all that Is desirable in life nearly Fanny Crosby, the hymn writer, who SS years Of regus queen of human happlness-Unyer- salist Leader.
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4 Michigan farmer has cured snake bite with coal oil. We hope he Is prop erly grateful to Mr. Rockefeller for the fact that he could buy the necessary oil.
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Ellnor Glyn thinks Mark Twain Is our greatest man. Mark gallantly re- frains from saying what he thinks of Elinor.
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the continuity and relation of events, awakened n terest in daily happenings will desire them back through preceding It Is the break continuity between the past and the immediate present that deadens enthusiasm. By studying history back ward from the immediate present this chasm would be brdgei and the passion for tracing effect sti- ulated.-Boston Transcript
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4 bitter contest oyer the will of Will liam B. Leeds is predicted. Fifteen million dollars ought to keep the law yers going iong tinie.
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We hate to have a stranger come up to us, and say: Guess who I ann"
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This Is undoubtedly a dirty-leokinG old world 10 the man who Is too lazy to clean his spectaeles-
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Did you ever meet a successful man who told you what he was going to dd next:
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If you would have a peaceful home, all you have to do is to pay the freight and let your wife run il.
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Many a wis,-looking man Is unable to deliver the goods.
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Rev. Billy Sunday says hell Is full c fudge-eating mollycoddles- What sticky place it must be.
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Once in 8 great while woman actu- ally believes that her husband knows as much as he thinks he knows
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The experience a man buys is always delivered a little loo late.
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sharpener of Scissors.

Sharpening pair of scissors has always been considered to properly be long to an expert. An Indiana inventor
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Almost every day the average man wonders why he did such a foolish thing
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4 woman never asks a man If he loves her unless she Is sure of the an swer.
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THE "HEREpITYv EuMBua.

NO eminent Dutch scientists. with the CO., operation of more than 5000 Dutch phy- sicians, have been making a statistical
 study of heredity, and have just published
 their report, in which they declare that, while mental and physical qualities are largely inherited, generally from the fa-
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A SUCCESSFUL LIFE.

SUCCESSFUL life Is rather hard to define,
 for the definition varies at different times and under different conditions. The spirit of the present defines in material terms, and yet in the midst of thls material age there has dwelt n successful woman She has not large means, she is dependent upon
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The more a man doesn't know the less be doubts
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Children take the place of fad with women. A woman who has no children Is sure to have a fad of some kind.
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Corkpuller Ingenious One.

Everyone will undoubtedly welcome the successful effort of a Philadelphia inventor to improve the old-fashioned
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When q sailor falls overheard h' feels as if he were all in.
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Some men get out of practice because they spend all their time preaching.
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Go to a tailor for a wedding suit ant to q lawyer for a divorce suit
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Protection for All Shoes.

It Is well known that the ordinary shoe is not of sufficient strength to warrant use by miners, laborers on
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Though people are too modest to admit 1t, every man Is his own hero. and every woman her own heroine.
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4 pretty woman's smile often wrin- kleS mans purse.
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AS HISTORY MIGHT BE TAUGHT.

MOTHER way of teaching history which
 the schools might adopt has apparently not yet appealed to them. A good news paper, if the teacher knows how to inter- pret its daily record. may stimulate an h. terest In history even more than the formal
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To Puzzle Your Friends.

Though you probably have no desire to annoy your friends, we still believe that you should try them with this
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Occasionally woman buys a ha' that actually looks like one.
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FOR AN UP-To-pATE CHURCH.

;: = < $: ;:
 HE up-todate twentieth century church. equipped with canned sermons and canned music will only need to lay in praying
 machines fitted with electric motors to fTfSWlTNt reach state of automatic perfection. But lSSaSEl have the preachers fully considered the
 consequences which might follow this inno- vaton that they have ghtheartedy taken up? It Is all very well have automatic substitute through the hot months But suppose the machine should prove eloquent than the man? Why should a church pay 5000 year for excellent but wooden when 1t listen the great pulpit for trifng sum? We may yet the preaching for the whole country done by half dozen slyertongued speakers consitut ng the cannedsermon trust and undertaking supply any brand of doctrine that may be called for, with side line funeral and wedding services Any deacon turn the handle and the line of goods can be changed If not sasfactory-Springfeld (Mass) Repub- lican.
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If you would lengthen your life, shorten your worriea
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In the midst of life we are in debt
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The something you get for nothing is seldom worth any more than that
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Most people wouldn't believe a can didate for office under oath
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When 1t comes to the scratch the flea Is elsewhere.