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STRENGTH Appeals to Women.

Women are-or. should 1t be, have
been $50 bound by convention that it
may be the strain of lawlessness that
ties, more or less deep, in US all, in
them manitests itself In admiration
Tor the men who have chosen to be
D law unto themselves.
Perhaps the real secret is woman's
love for strength, which, despite eman-
cipated protests, is the strongest in
stinct inherited from the cave woman
still rampant within her. Most wom-
ems favorite character in history is
Napoleon, not because he was great.
but because he was ruthless, and she
will always have more admiration for
a great soldier than a great poet un-
less his amours were specially notori-
Gus; but, unhappily. in any instance
she mistakes lawlessness for strength,
cot being sufficiently experienced to
eealize that only the bound are free
London Ideas.
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Chances in Mems Clothes.

Fashion is doing its bit too. The
international Custom Cutters conven-
ton ruled out patched pockets, belts
md turned-up trousers. If they would
only go back to the old-fashiOned shirt
cuffs. sew the buttons on the trousers
on the outside of the waist band, and
take off yard or two of the fourth
hand neckties we would get somewhere
near where the weary are at rest. They
already have made overcoats lit more
closely in order to save material. but
they dissipate that saving by making
sack coats trifle longer. Of course,
there is q sort of economy in long
sack coat, for in ruling out the patched
pockets all other patches are. doubt
less. included. 1t is quite hard for
fashion convention to make q mistake
it only changes the styles.-Ohfo
SIu1e 5otH;rrnnai.
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Interesting Old EGYPTIAN Letters.

Letter writing, fortunately, was
much practiced in ancient Egypt. and
there are quantities of letters between
persons of all degrees of education
and written on all sorts of occasions.
We may read. for instance, the encour-
agement and good advice sent by pa
rents to absent sons, or may recognize
familiar types of character in the an
swering illusions of children to pa
rents-the spoilt boy who scolds his
father for having left him at home In
stead of taking him to the capital; the
well-conducted youth, who complacent-'
ly assures his relatives that he is get
ting on very well, combining study
with recreation. and the prodigal son.
who writes to beg his mothers for
givenesS and confesses that he has
brought himself to destitution.
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IRREPARABLE LOSS TO WORLD
Literary Treasures Destroyed by the
Huns at Louvain Can Never
Be Replaced.

No reparation can restore to the
world the galleries where Charles v"
ruler Of almost all Europe, pored over
old learning, asserts the Toronto Mail
and Empire There is no way to re-
place the 25O,OOO manuscripts which
went I'D in smoke and ashes on Aug.
27. 1914. Mankind is permanently
poorer by the destruction Of complete
sets of all sixteenth-century editions
of Virgil, nineteen sixteenth-century
editions of Terrence. ten of Sallust,
complete sfxteenth-century editions OF
Tacitus, Seneca, Martial, Ovid. Horace,
Juvenal, Llvy, Lucretius, Luclan' Clc'
ero and Caesar Rare copies of Aris-
totle and the imperishable Greeks are
lost forever; priceless early Bibles,
whole libraries of ecclesiastical history
and civil laws, texts Illuminated ana
initiated and bordered by the patient
labor Of Spanish, German and Lowland
monks. Here was the truth regard
ing the Spanish Conquest and the grip
of the Inquisition." There were math-
ematical treasures also.
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"fIapdoodIe" Universal.

ROosters have used it simply and in
genuously, but by mankind it has been
raised almost to the level of an art and
1t has been extensively used from long
before the days of Solomon for pur-
poses of evasion, promotion, argument
and self-advancement. There is scarce
ly department of human activity that
Is free from it. It is a rhetorical de-
vice that is literally and shamelessly
used by the lover, the business man,
the professional man. the society wom-
an, the critic and the craftsman. and
even the clergyman has been known to
descend to its employment upon occa-
sion. The routine evidences of flap
doodle in ordinary intercourse are mo-
nOtonOus, but in its most highly culti
waited forms it is found in art. liter
ature, criticism, politics and statecraft.
It is the most common commodity in
the world. and about the most serious.
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The part which gesture plays In Ori.
entail drama Is set forth In recent
Hindu volume, which says that there
Is fitting gesture to represent every
emotion. The gesture, In fact, Is de-
scribed as deaf-and-dumb alphabet of
the soul. There are nine movements
Of the head, corresponding to nine emo
tions, mentioned by one authority, "a
by another; % movements Of the sim
gle hands, and "a or 26 Of the double
hands, etc. also "hands" denoting an
imals, trees, oceans. and other things.
For example. a certain position Of the
hands denotes a certain emperor,
caste, or planet. The translator says
rather naively that only a cultivated
audience can appreciate Indian sac
tors art :"
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ReIchstaa Has Little Power.

OF the 397 members Of the reichstag,
Russia sends 236. The body can be
dissolved at any time by the bundles
rat with the consent Of the emperor.
This power has been used effectively
three times to break down the resist
ance Of the reichstag-in 1878. when 1t
refused to pass the bill to suppress
the socialists; in 1887, when it would
not agree to fix the size Of the army
for seven years, and in 1893, when it
declined to change the military sys-
tenn. In each case the new body did
what the government demanded.
Since the principal financial arrange
ments are matters Of standing law, If
the reichstag refuses to pass new
budget increasing allowances, or
passes one reducing them, the govern
ment can be carried on on the old basis
without any action on the part Of par
lament.
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New Weapons Always Condemned.

New weapons have always reused
the ire of the old-fashioned soldier.
Just as Germany's Introduction Of
deadly weapons has in this war, says
the Boston Post. The Introduction Of
bronze spearheads must have scandal
lied some old welding warrior.
and King Archimadus regarded the
use of the catapult as the grave Of true
bravery.
Bayard considered that no true man
should use a f1rearm, and even Mar
shall SAKE did not altogether approve
of 1t, and thought the old-fashioned
style of man-to-man fighting superior.
But in the long run 1t is the man
that wins, not his weapon. Laurence
Oliphant, the great traveller, said mat
in future wars the side would win
which showed the most determination
to get to grips with the enemy.
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Not All Love Silence,

DR.. A. A. Brill of New York tells
Of a musical genius who complained
Of insomnia, which he maintained to
be due to street noises in the city and
cricket and night calls in the country.
Many persons who become hypersen-
sitive to noises blame their troubles
on the sounds. This very patient could
listen with rapture to music and yet
believe that noises kept him awake!
Some of the greatest apostles of ST.
lence have shown themselves in need
of noise. For example, John Stuart
Mill, who was an enemy of all noise,
hired boy, according to Doctor Brill,
to beat a drum next to the room In
which he worked in order to stimulate
his thoughts
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Tommy,s Curious caIlinos.

The British Tommy has always been
famous for the hrilliance of his
powers of romance, If asked questions
he did not want to answer by peo-
pie who had no right to know. The
latest illustration Is afforded by a
repatriated soldier of Welsh regi-
ment. He had been a prisoner In the
camp at Gutrow, where the German
authorities, with a view to securing
skilled labor, were anxious to learn
the occupation of the prisoners. But
surely never before were there such
callings+a treacle bender, watchmak
ers' striker, milestone inspector. The
Germans gave IT up.
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EIGHTEEN YEARS ON ISLAND
Experience of Indian Woman Makes
That of Robinson crusoe Appear q
Mere Incident.

1t would appear that Alexander Sell
kinks brief stay on Juan Fernandez
island was trivial, either in the hard
ships endured or the difficulties over
come, compared with that of woman
on an island opposite the Californian
peninsula.
1t seems that the Catholic fathers
at Santa Barbara were once transport
ing the natives of the island of st.
Nicholas to the mainland. Among
them was a mother who discovered
that her babe had been left behind.
She begged that the vessel might be
put back, but the captain refused.
She then leaped into the sea 10 swim
ashore, but as a storm prevailed, all
on board thought she was drowned.
Eighteen years afterward company
landed on the island. They found
traces Of life, and after long search
discovered the woman and took her
with them. The poor woman never
found her babe, but had managed to
live in comparative comfort, though
very lonely. After her long life In the
open, she could not endure the conf1ne-
ment of house, and soon sickened
and died.
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Lorraine means "Lothair's King
DOM" but certainly Its most famous
figure was that duke of Lorraine. God
frey Of Bouillon. the hero of many ia
bted exploits. who was said to have
cloven asunder the body of Moslem
emir with one stroke Of his good
sword, who was leader Of the first cru
sade, who saw the deliverance Of Je-
rusalem and became the ruler Of that
Holy City wrested from paynim hands.
The American soldier might do worse
than swear "By Godfrey" Whether
we now hold a mile or five miles will
presently be Of no importance. for our
expeditionary forces have but made a
beginning. A look at the map will sat
isfy any American how much Of the
front line our men should be defending
before many months hauo nassnd
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Canton a citv of Canals.

At Canton, the oldest city in south
ern China the river is, in effect, canal
ized, and the shipping is heavy and
varied. The water is deep enough for
ships of 1000 tons burden as far as the
city, but foreign boats come up only
as far as Whampoa, nine miles to the
southeast, where there are extensive
docks. Here the loading and unload
ing is done by native boats. Vessels
of deep draft lie outside the bar. For
ty miles below is the Boca Tigris
(Mouth of the Tigerl, and the water
widens into a wide estuary. Water d.
vides the old from the new town and
surrounds the island and the suburbs,
where the Europeans live, so that Can
ton has an abundance of picturesque
water life, including a big houseboat
population.
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WHAT YOUR MONEY is WORTH
Comparative Value of Coins Of Diff
ferent Countries of the World
Explained.

How much is a franc? A ruble! A
mark? To be we'll posted a man should
be familiar with the money In circula-
ton in foreign lands, observes the Co
lumbuS Dispatch. And if the man Is
of military age or inclination there Is
no telling how soon he may be called
upon to exchange his perfectly good
American dollars for the medium of
circulation in France, England, Russia,
Germany or other European countries.
OF course values are changing al
most daily, as regards the exchange
of foreign money for Uncle Sans dol
lars, but under ordinary conditions 1t
can be figured that in Germany the
mark is worth 23.S cents in United
States money. The German thaler Is
equal to three marks. and the krone Ga
gold piece) equals ten marks. In Eng
land the sovereign (gofd) is worth S4.-
S665. pound sterling; the penny
equals two of our cents, the crown
S121 and the shilling "a cents.
1t is interesting TO note that the
franc Of France (worth 1913 cents) is
also the unit of currency in Belgium
and Switzerland and that it is equal
to the peseta of Spain, and Ira OF
Italy, the drachma of Greece, the leu
of Roumania. the dinar of Serbia and
the bolivar of Venezuela. The Rus
sian ruble, normally. is worth 5l.o
cents, the plaster of Turkey "A cents.
the Japanese yen 1913 cents, the MeXi-
can peso (silver) 49S cents and the
Chinese tael 75 cents to 81 cents
And there's no wonder that "Chinese
monee" is tossed about so carelessly,
for the copper cash (China's monetary
unit) is worth a United States dollar
when you have 1,750 of them.
In British East India "pie" (the pop
ular coin) is cheap. An American
nenny buys four.
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Make Pets of HornbiIIs,

The yellow hornbill, one of the most
interesting of the species, is a COM
paratively fearless bird and Is easily
killed. The male is fond Of perching
on the tiptop of tropical trees and
making a noise like young puppy.
The natives In Africa find young
hornbills easily tanned. They dig the
birds out of the tree nests when quite
young and raise them on milk and
berries in their huts. When grown
the hornbill remains attached to its
foster parents and will eat out of the
same dishes. Left free. the hornbill
comes and goes much as does pet
crow and remains about the hut I'M
til the first mating season, when Ii
goes away with one of its kind, rare
~ to return.
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When poa Sought His Master.

There is a story in the American
Magazine in which writer says:
''He had come many miles. He had
many miles yet to go. From sleeping
farmhouses dogs bayed him as he
passed, running like big fox, silent
and swift. The road turned and twist
ed among the hills and small noun
tains. Ahead in the sky was a glow
Of coming day. 1t grew brighter with
the passing miles. 1t drew him on.
The distance would have meant little
to him, except for the tremendous
speed at which he had been travelling.
Now his chest was flecked with foam.
His tail, carried usually so proudly.
followed the curve of his launches.
His overstrained muscles worked me-
chanically like pistons. His heart
pounded his long, lean, red ribs.
"Dizzy, almost famished, he came
at last to the top Of hill, and stop
ped, ears erect. Below him stretched
rows of twinkling lights that, all to-
gether, made up the glow In the sky.
That was the city with the strange
building into which they had carried
Tommy Earle!"
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1t was at our last meeting in Tif1is
that the indomitable optimist threw
new light on his anarchism.
"Kropotkin. Reclus and myself were
sitting together in London once, dis
cussing our theories. We were TAX
Ing Il great deal Of satisfaction in the
thought that we were anarchists, who
recognized no rights of coercive gov
ernment.
But" he added with q smile, 81 sad
to them .There is one government be-
fore which we gladly bow and whose
petty expressions we willingly endure.
You forget our wives Maynard
Owen Williams, in Christian Herald.
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WORTHY TO RANK AS NATION
Finland Has Right to Be Welcomed
Among the Worlds Republics
Its Great National Epic.

Finland of to-day is a prosperous
and rapidly developing country, inhab-
tied by an enterprising, progressive
and hospitable people. The population
Is, roughly speaking, 100000. Dairy
farming has become one ef the most
important industries. 1t is more proflt-
able than the raising of grains be-
cause of the uncertainty of the sea-
sons. There is absolutely no reason
why the republic of Finland should
not be a success. if left undiSturbed
by more powerful and ambitious neigh
bors. The people are intelligent demo
cratic and frugal, and have had enough
great help in solving the various per-
picking problems that are sure to arise
There is no logical reason why they
should be subjects of Slavic Russia.
Hence the republic of Finland should
be welcomed among nations of the
world.
We are indebted to Finnish litera-
ture for the inspiration of one OF our
great poems by one Of our sweetest
singers, Nevin o. Winter writes In the
Christian Herald. Without written
literature, there was handed down
from father to son for many genera
tions in Finland great national epic.
In the long winter evenings the singers
sat beside the flaming pine logs and
there sang snatches from this epic.
Finally there appeared one Elias
Lonnrot, a simple country physician,
who Travelled over the country and col
lected this unwritten epic from the
memories Of hundreds of these singers.
He called the collection the Kalevala
and it was first published in 1888.
Longfellow copied the style In his
ho
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DEMOCRACY VS.. FINE WRITING
The Latter Is, Beyond All Question,
Dependent Upon the Respect
of the Former.

| do not agree with the pessimists
who think that a democratic civiliza-
tion is necessarily an enemy to fine
writing for the public, Henry Seidel
writes In the Century. Such critics
nnderrate the challenge which these
millions of minds to be reached and
souls to be touched must possess that
writer's, like actors, are inspired by a
crowded house
But the thought and the labor and
the pain that lie behind good writing
are doubly difficult in an atmosphere
Of easy tolerance and good natured
condescension on the part of the
readers of the completed work.
The novel is the test case for demo
cratic literature. We cannot afford to
pay Its practitioners with cash merely,
for cash dfscriminates in quantity and
little more. Saul and David were
Judged by the numbers of their thou
sands slain; but the test was a crude
che for them and cruder still in fiction.
We cannot afford to patronize these
nnrelists as our ancestors did before
us. Not prizes or endowments or
coterie worship or, certainly, more ad-
vcrtising is what the American novel
iSt requires, but greater respect for
his craft.
The Elizabethan playwright was fire.
quently despised Of the learned world,
and If a favorite, not always re-
Spected one Of the vulgar. Strange
that learned and vulgar alike should
repeat the fallacy in dispraising the
pre-eminently popular art of our own
times To Sir Francis Bacon Hamlet"
was presumably only a play actors
play. If the great American story
should arrive at last, would we not
call 1t "only q novel;?
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1T must be too soon. There aren't
any. But they looked under some of
our leaves and several of us were try
nS 10 peep out as fast as we could, so
e would not diSappoint the children.
Many of our sisters and brothers
were picked and l believe they came
out later on in water.
But those same children have come
back every year. and now they are al
most grown-up. They always say,
Here is the first place we find
these lovely spring flowers And 50
we know what is expected of u.s."
How did you learn all that?" asked
the first arbutus. This is the first
look at the world I've had"
ITS my first look, too" said the
second arbutus, "but l almost feel as
if l know all about the world, for
the leaves have whispered to me when
We were under the snow all about the
glorious world.
"Ah, yes" continued the arbutus.
every year as our family goes away
as the different flowers are picked.
they whisper to the leaves:
Don't forget to tell the buds in
the spring that they must be the first
to come out. It's expected of then.
Remember to tell them
"And so we know we must come out
soOn."
Yes" said the first arbutuS. that's
why I'm out. l thought perhaps you
had been here before"
Just then they heard a rustling of
leaves and then some laughter
Il believe those are the voices of
children" said the first arbutus.
''Oh. dear. I'm little shy" said the
second arbutus. Il must hide"
And it hid a little under the leaves.
Most of the arbutuS family are shy,
and they always hide under the leaves.
But once they are picked and put
into water they are shy no longer, and
they give glorious fragrance all
around them. 30 let grown-ups and
children know how happy they are
they can give pleasure.
"We must look under the leaves
said one child. 1--WE heard this is the
place where they come out first every
year."
The arbutus flowers nudged each
other and rustled trif1e under their
leaves. ITS just as said" the sec
ond arbutus whispered.
"Yes, it is," said the first arbutus.
Won't they love 1t when they see US
hiding here? We're having little
game of hide-and dseek-that,s all -
"Look y" exclaimed the children.
Here! Here! Lots of them. Oh.
aren't they beautiful, the lovely pink
sweet flowers"
The flowers smiled. "Good morn
ing, children" they seemed to say. And
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Clear Roads fo1 Dispatch Bearer.
After grazing hon the auto truck

<AAeNA SAoNAAAS f'Sh liz oASS - o~-~
cover of recent issue saddened and
cynical reader wrote to Golfers Week
ly:
You have made a great mistake.
You have placed all the army trucks
on the side of the road, leaving ample
room for trucks going in the opposite
direction to travel without going down
in the ditch. My experience with army
motor trucks is that they always trav
el on the crown Of the road, and when
you see one on the side Of the road you
can figure that II Is broken down."
Golfers replied: "Be this observa-
tiOn true or not, there Is one being be-
fore whom even the ruthless and dis
dainful truck driver quails-the dis
patch rider. There is no more soul
satisfying sight for harassed pedes-
trian in the French war zone than that
of dispatch motorcycle shooting down
Il road at 80 miles an hour, with a
two-mile line Of motor trucks and staff
cars scuttling hastily into the bitches
to get out of the way"
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Spiders Ride on Back of Flies

There is an aspect of spider and fly
relations which fabulists and natural.
lists alike have overlooked A corre-
spondent who has brought the mi
croscope to bear on many houseflies
finds that the parasite upon that hate
full insect is often an immature spider.
Too weak yet to spin its web 1T makes
the fly its winged palfrey, and courses
from place to place at the will of it's
captive; either, until Pegasus perishes
naturally, or presumably until the rid
er is able to make a meal of his charg-
er. This, if confirmed, seems to carry
US step further in the study of par
asitiSm and commensalism.-Lon
Chronicle.
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Catarrh is Real Enemy
and REQUIRES Vigorous Treatment

Throw these makeshift remedies to
the winds, and get on the right treat
ment. Go to your drug store to-day,
get bottle of S. S. S., and commence
a treatment that has been praised by
sufferers for nearly half century.
S. S. S. gets right at the source of
the germs which cause the disease.
You can obtain special medical advice
regarding your own case without
charge by writing to Medical Direc-
tor, % Swift Laboratory, Atlanta. Ga.
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VlNOL MADE This
RUNDOWN
WOMAN STRONG
Her Signed Letter Proves This.
Read 1t.

Keene, N. HI was all run
down, had no strength, no appetite,
and bad cough, SO that a good deal
of the time l was unfit for work. My
druggist told me about Vipol. l took
it, and my cough soon disappeared,
my appetite improved and 1 am
strong and well again. Mrs. Irine
Davis, so Russell ST., Keene, N. H.
Virol is a constitutional cod liver
and iron remedy which creates an
appetite, aids digestion, enriches the
blood, and in this natural manner
creates strength. We guarantee it.
C.. ?. Craig & Son, Druggists, Cam
bridge, and at the best drug store in
every town and city in the country.
ADV.