BATTLE CRY. More tlmn half benten, but f.arlc, FaWng the sturm and tho niglit; UieiiiiiliK!) nnil leilum. I"it tvailcsi, Hero in tho lull or the HkIii, 1 who Low nut but U-fuie 'lhco, Cod of the tk'hlliiK flan. Lifting my tiels 1 imiiluro Thco, Give mo the hcuit 01 a iMun! What though I live with the winners Or perish with those who lull? Only the cowards lire sinners, FlKhtinu the fislit Is all. Strong is my Foe ho advances! Ennpt is my blade, O Lord! See the proud banners and lanccsi O spare mo this stub of a sword! Cilve me no pity, nor spare me; Calm not the wrath of my hoe. See where he beekons to dare mel Weeding, half beaten I go. Not for the (ilory of wlnnlnir. , Not for the fear of the night: Shunning the battle is sinning O spare me the heart to tight! Red Is th mist about me; Deep is the wound in my side; "Coward" thou eriest to flout me? O tenlble Foe, thou has lied! Here with my battle before me, God of the lighting t'Inn, Grant that the woman who bore me Buffered to suckle a Man! John O. Neihardt, In The Outing Magazine. f Polly Grey jjf tf By Nan Todd. :! It was a glorious June morning. Across the meadows watted a breeze as delicate in fragrance as the color ing' of the trees and grass over which It danced. But in spite of all this summer sweetness, Polly Grey was not happy. It was the day ol the first picnic of the year, which glowing event was to he celebrated In some nearby woods. Polly had planned to go, when her mother had been unex pectedly called to nurse a sick neigh lr, and the little girl had been oblig ed to stay at home and care for her aged, helpless grandmother; 'besides, there were cakes to bake, and this Is . not any fun on a summer's day. The Greys were poor. It was only by her skill in cooking that Mrs. Grey man aged to find a livelihood for the little family of three, l-olly sighed woe fully as she opened the oven door. The cakes were not near done. The day was not a bit as she had planned. "Hello," called a voice suddenly from the outside. "Hello," Polly answered, unlatching - the kitchen door upon four girls gath ered near the steps. "Can't you go to the picnic, Poll?" asked one of the group. "Nope." "Why?" "Mother's gone away. I've got to stay at home and take care of grand ma. There are some horrid cakes to bake, too." "For Nancy Hyde's wedding, I s'pose. My! I should think you'd feel grand havln' your ma bake cakes for that wedding. I'd love to go. The man Nancy Is goln' to marry is awful rich. You could carry the cakes over, Poll, and maybe you could see some thing." But Polly was Inconsolable. "Well, I'd leave my grandma for a minute," tempted another voice. "She wouldn't mind if you ran down to the woods and right back." But as Polly Grey would make no plans, the girls, anxious to Join their friends, hurried away leaving a disap pointed, teary-eyed girl to watch them until they had disappeared In the bend of the road. "Polly," called Grandmother Grey presently from across the kitchen. "What are you doing? When is your mother coming back?" and the grand child dutifully answered the old lady's questioning. Later, the cakes were put upon a high schelf out of the old cat, Tabby's reach. The work done, the morning dragged Into early afternoon. Grand mother Grey had fallen asleep in her armchair, and the big kitchen was very still. Polly leaned disconsolately on the table and tooked out ot rne window, frowning deeply. ' "The cakes are all baked, and I wouldn't be but a minute," she whis pered, trying to convince herself of tl justness of her thoughts. She turned and tiptoed to her grandmoth er's side, and stood looking down up on the sleeping old lady. Polly was certain her grandmother har never neg lected a duty; but then grandma had lived in a time when, according to storW, girls never wanted to be dis obedient. Tabby rubbed against her little mistress' dress, but the girl paid no heed. She was thinking of her friends, the deep woods and her mother's tired face. Two minutes dragged by. She felt suddenly oppressed. With haste, she opened the door and, as she did so, the draft caused a volume of smoke to pour from every conceiv able crevice of the kitchen Btove. Tab by rushed out of doors. Polly, dazed, followed, stumbling down the steps. What met her eyes made her poor lit ' tie heart fairly stop beating. For near . the chimney, where the roof sagged, a brick had broken away and a Came was fiendishly lapping the rotten shin gles. "Oh, what will I do?" sobbed the frightened girl. She looked frantically down the road, but not a person was in sight. She ran back into the house, crying, "Grandma!" The room 'was already blue with smoke. The woman had awakened. "What Is the matter?" she asked. "Oh I niUEt get you away. The house Is on fire. I'll drag your chair out. Sit awful still. Oil, please, grand ma, I'm cot afraid." "It wa3 no ency tu;l; to pull the chair ' across the kitchen floor; but Polly gained licr ground hirh by inch. Then . came the question of bow she could get the cfculr and Its precious freight down the steps. but not a minute must be lost; the flumes had multl plied and were rising hlsner and high er. "Hold tight, grandma," Polly chok ed, down the steps she draggud the chair to a place out of danger, and then she rushed bock to the kitchen and carried the cakes out. "Oh, if someone would only come," she cried. "Grandma, what will I do?" "Polly Grey," said the old lady in a voice the granddaughter had never re membered hearing her use, - "you're a Grey. Get a ladder there must be one In the woodhouse. Climb to the roof, with a pail of water. Oh, if I were only young!" And Polly obeyed. Pall after pail of wate.r was emptied upon the roof; still the tongues of flames malignantly seethed and crackled. Polly was now discouraged. Her limbs ached, and her head swam with the heat of the sun and flames. She grew dizzy, and, afraid of falling, felt for the ladder and slipped down to the ground. Then she heard the sound of carriage wheels In the road, and before she realized what had happened, a cheery voice called, "HI, there!" The speaker was a young man. The stranger and Polly worked hard and fast against the flames. After a time their labor was rewarded, for the Are now smouldered feebly. Danger was passed. "A close call," the young fellow e claimed, slipping on his coat, which he had hastily discarded. "Indeed it was, ana thank you, sir," said Grandmother Grey. "My grand child was about tuckered." Polly was indeed tired. The excite ment over, shp had fallen to the ground, - sobbing bitterly. The man crossed the space of the garden to her side. "I say,' he consoled, bending over her, "It is all over." "My grandma" "She is all right," he said. "But I nearly went away and left her," sobbed Polly. "But you didn't," he answered, not knowing exactly what to say. "Oh," sobbed Polly, who felt all of a sudden an overwhelming confidence in this kindly young man. "I -vee," ho replied, after the glrl'0 entire confession of the afternoon's temptation. "Miss" "Polly Grey." "Well, Miss Polly Grey, you wouldn't have gone to the picnic, and you know you wouldn't." And then a very strange thing hap pened. For the young man was no other than the prospective bridegroom of the beautiful Nancy Hyde, for whom Mrs. Grey had baked the cakes which Polly rescued. And the little girl was invited to the wedding that was the interest of tho countryside for miles around. She was a very penitent, thankful and a much wiser little Polly Grey, Detroit Free Press. THE LONGEST MOUNTAIN CHAIN Discovery of a Range In Tibet Extend ing Fully 2000 Miles. The most important discovery we made in thus traversing diagonally the whole of Tibet was the gigantic chain of mountains we crossed by the Sela pass, which is over 19,000 feet high. How little this chain of mountains had hitherto been dreamed of is evi dent from, among other things, the supposition Indulged in by Sir Thomas Holdrich in his book, "Tibet theJUys' terious," that the great central lakes (Dangra Vum Tso, Nganzl, etc.) were the sources of the Brahmaputra's northern tributaries that is to say, that there was a stretch of relatively flat country where in reality we found there was one of the highest ranges of mountains in the whole world, a chain which can be compared only with the Himalayas and their kind. Capt. O'Connor suspected their exist ence by hearsay. The chain known as Nin Chen Tangla, which is situated south of the Tengrl Nov, was well known and had been crossed by Little- dale and several others, but no one knew, that th.'s chain stretched for closu upon twelve hundred miles to the west-northwest, as I now discov ered. It is a certainty that it also stretches to the east, and has a total length of about two thousand miles. The average height of the passes Is some few hundred meters higher than In the Himalayas and about the same as In the Kara-korum and Arkataugh. Mighty as is thvs excrescence on the earth's surface, the Tibetans have no name for Its whole length. Count less local names are given to the va rious parts of it. As the range will in future have to be included not only In a knowledge of the world, but also' In the school books, it becomes necessary for it to have a name, and eo far as I can see it would bo best to keep to the name by which its highest point is already known, viz., Nin Chen Tangla. It sounds strange, when one considers how thoroughly the world has been explored,- that In the year 1907 It should be vouchsafed to any one practically to discover arrange of mountains two thousand miles long, and the surprise of the discovery is intensified rather than diminished by the fact that here and there the coun try traversed was already known. And let us remember that such a discov ery cannot be made again, for there Is no blank space big enough on the map of the world to contain such a range of mountains. Harper's Magazine. We Are Easily Won. . "Mc.Big is no longor abusing De MI1 lyuns." "Why the cesxation of hostilities?" "Somebody Introduced him to Da Millyuns, and now when they pass the great man grunts." Washington Star. CURING OF CODFISH. The Norwegian Government offi cials and experts on thesa matters state that salt as a preservative is found absolutely necessary for tho proper curing of codfish unless tho fish Is alr-ried, and that no other preservatives are found desirable or necessary, says Consul-General Henry Bordewlch of Chrlstlania. -No note worthy experiments with other pre servatives have been made. The fish Is caught In the winter and early spring on tho northern and western coasts. When the boats and small steamers have entered haruor with their hauls tho entrails and heads are removed, and the fish, as a rulo, sold to dealers, who take them on board vessels or In packing houses built close to the seashore. The fish Is sold and bought by count, regard less of size. Expert splitters, placed at benches about two by fivo feet and using a heavy, short, wlde-bladed knife, make an Incision along the lower or belly side, along the whole length of the fish, removing at the same time the upper half of the backbone. The fish Is then, without washing, put down in even layers In the holds of vessels or In packing houses, flesh side up. Over each 'layer Is sprinkled salt by an expert - Baiter; the so called Trapanl salt Is preferred. Trapanl salt Is Imported from Spain; It is a rather weak, small grained, dull-colored article, evapo rated from sea water. About five barrels ore used for every 1000 cod, and the net weight of each fish is about one and one-half kilograms (31-2 pounds). The sizes of the fish vary much, and the suiter has to use considerable Judgment In the quantity of salt used. If the supply is too liberal, the fish Is apt to become salt burned; if too scant, it Is apt to sour. When the desired number of fish, say 50,000 to 100,000 has been se cured In one lot, the cargo Is brought to some place where the rock forma tles. Whenever the weather Is suita ble for spreading such a large num ber for drying. As the cargo Is un loaded each fish Is carefully washed in clean sea water. The black mem braneous skin on the Insldes. of the fish Is at the same time removed; -likewise all blood accreted In bone cavi ties. When ever the weather Is Suita ble, clear, windy weather being pre ferred, the fish Is laid singly, side by side, on the flat rocks, and attended to by men. women and even children. It Is never exposed too long on the same side. Every two or thrte hours the fish are turned so that the flesh or lower side and the upper, skin-covered side are alternately exposed to the sun and wind. Every evening stacks are made of 50 to 100 fish and the top covered with tarpaulins and weighted down with stones. In this manner the fish becomes solid and gains In appearance.- In unfavorable weather, with fog and rain, It is left undisturbed In the Btacks, but ns soon as fine weather comes on it Is again exposed. This Is repeated till the fish . Is thoroughly cured and ready for shipment. The curing is done In the months of May and June, before warm weather sets in. It requires constant care and good Judgment to bring the curing process to a satisfactory ter mination. If the fish Is exposed too long to the sun It will scorch and turn dark; If there happens to be much foggy weather or rain Its value will be much decreased by the influ ence of a certain fungi. To prevent this no remedy has as yet been dis covered. Fish ready for export is either piled in the hold of ships in layers or pack ed In bundles, each holding a certain weight, but of late years some of It is also Bhlpped In tin-lined boxes when destined for a long voyage and warm 01! mates. sCodfish Is also put up In Norway without the use of salt or any other preservatives. Some of this . fish is dried round after simply removing the head and entrails. In this method the fish are tied together by the tails In pairs and huns on horizontal woolen poles resting on beams about eight feet above tho ground. "The fish preserved In this way are caught in northern Norway during the regu lar fishing season, January to May. The article Is known to tho trads ns "stockfish," and Is largely exported to Catholic countries. By ancient cus tom this kind of fish is never taken down for shipment before Juno 12 each .year; sometimes later, if the weather has been unfavorable. Cod and other fish are also air-dried the whole year round, after having first been split open the whole length, the only Junction between the two halves being the tails and about an Inch of fish above It. By the cut the whole of the 'backbone Is left on one side of the fish when split. Each fish Is then strung on poles for drying In the same manner as the round or stockfish. Among the fish prepared In the latter manner are cod. ling, coal fish, torsk and some other varieties. Tho Fishing Gazette. The Reason Why. A querulous correspondent from Princeton, who signs himself "Indig nant," thus addresses the editor of the New York Evening Sun: "Why Is. it that Montclair is getting so much attention In tho public prints? There are a few other places In the Slate of New Jersey." That's easy. Eeenuse It is Mont-! clnir. Montclair Times. OUR SOLENODONS. The Natural History Museum Has the Only Specimens in the Country. Tho strangest American animal and also one of the rarest and least known of all mammals Is tho solenodon or almlquo. Only two species are known one peculiar to Cuba, the other to the island of Santo Domingo. Although the solenodon is an insec- tiveorous animal, yet in many ways it resembles tho rodents as well as the ant eaters and Is more like certain fossil quadrupeds than like any other living creature. It is nbout two feet In length; with long, coarse hair and a naked, rat like tail. The forefeet are heavy and strong and are provided with stout. curved claws for digging and tearing apart rotten logs. The nose Is long nnd slender and exceedingly mobile, and tho whole appearance of the ani mal is peculiar. For many years the solenodon has been considered extinct and practical ly nothing was -known of Its habits. Few museums of the world possessed even fragments of the remarkable animal. In December, 1906, A. Hyatt Verrlll undertook a trip to Santo Domingo in search of this long lost animal and succeeded in obtaining three living specimens, which are now In the American Museum nnd Natural His- tory in New York city and are be lieved to be the only specimens of the Santo Domingo solenodon in the United Stales, if not in the world. New York Sun. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. There are 77,000,000 bricks in the famous Severn tunnel. The average dally consumption of eggs In New York city is two for each Individual. There are more than 25,000 sailing vessels of over fifty tons on the oceans at present. Vienna has 32,000 street beggars, and tunny of them make a better liv ing than workmen. There are more women members of clubs in New York City than In any two other cities In the world. The Hongkong harbor has a water area of ten miles, and Is regarded as one of the finest" In the world. A Colorado currant bush will pro duce at least one gnllon of fruit. Some plants will yield ten times this amount. The state railways of Chile con sume annually from 350,000 to 400,000 tons of coal, of which about one-half is imported. " There is nn average of seven car collisions a day on the steam, sub way, elevated and surface railways ot New York city. In the four cables of the Manhat tan bridge. New York city, there will bo 23,100 miles of wire-, weighing 12,570,000 pounds and costing $1,667, 125. While tho tonnage of the fleet of the great lakes is Increasing, the num ber of craft Is decreasing, owing to the greater capacity of the newer boats. The Chilean government has appro priated 6,000,000 pesos, or $2,190,000 gold, to bo used In building homes for the poor working class. A large portion of it Is to be expended in the city of Valparaiso. No wonder that so many shops in New York city tell shoes and that so many shops sell nothing but shoes, for It is estimated that the pedestrians of the city wear out 28,800 pairs of shoes each day. - It Is said that the work of driving mail-order sw.ndlcrs out of tho metro-' polls has been committed to Inspector James G. 'Cortelyou, brother of. Secre tary Cortelyou, who fs an acknowf- edged expert In that field of Inspection. There are In London a number of great houses doing a world-wide busi ness In orchids alone. Most of the plants come from Brazil. In the bo tanical gardens of Rio de Janeiro there are over 6000 varieties of orch ids. At a cost of about $5,000,000, it is proposed to build a bridge between Zealand and Falster, to take the place of tho present steam ferry, whereby the international route Scandinavia via Gjedser would bo improved and shortened. James H. Stevenson, a millionaire mining engineer and land owuor, of Pueblo, Col., was Inspecting land In Menard county, Tex., when he acci dentally met Wilbur Stevenson, a farm laborer, who proved to be Ms own brother, whom he had not seen or heard from for forty years. Esperanto. "What do' you call tho Chinese man who brines us tea?" asked the man with the gossles of the girl with the gisrlen. "Tco-hce," was her reply. Ail Ideal Fish By Robert Vv' Chambers IlF.rtF. are, In some cold, clear streams of the North, certain lish known locally ns "Mohawk chubs." These ilslt are tho Ideal fish In shape and color graceful, slim, elegant creatures, pure silver except on tho dorsal ridge, which Is tho tint of oxydizod silver. They are tender-mouthed, nnd remind me somewhat of the grayling, although they hnvo not the great doi'Pnl fin nor tho fragile mouth of that fish. They often in habit trout waters, and I have nn Idea that trout feed on the smaller ones, although I have no absolute proof that this is true. I know, however, that pickerel, inaskalongo and blnek bass strike at them engerk;. These fisli rise to a fy and are often quite ns gamy n grayling, f Often, and often I have struck them lu trout waters, and have found them Interesting fighters when tackle Is light and water cold nnd swift. Animals nnd birds appear to be "very fond of them, or at least are often seen eating them, perhaps because they l here Mohawk chubs are herons and I ever snw an osprey In that region The osprey dashed down within a rod must have weighed a pound at least, bearing hint up out of the pool and away across acres of swamp toward the distant forest. Harper's Weekly, The Life and Health By Dr. James II. AlcBrlde, the Alienist and Neurologist HE girls of the present day who are brought up under more comfortable conditions than their grandmothers have gained, much, no doubt, in the change of conditions; but they have lost something in that In many homes there is less of healthy, exercise, less of that kind of work that developed the body and also developed simple and healthy tastes. There Is as a result of this poorer physical development, less feeling of re sponsibility lu the home on the part of the young Indies and not so great n sense of duty. When every member of the family had everydny, specific duties r.crk to do that had to be done, work that exercised the body. as well as the moral sense In discharging a duty such life, dreary and harsh as It sometimes was and often barren of most ot those things that we regard ns common comforts, had at least the great advan. inge of provldlpg work that furnished physical exercise, nnd that was also done under the sense ot obligation. There Is a moral and physical healthful ness In such a life that goes to the making of strong and simple characters, and that puts purity of blood and vigor of constitution into descendants. The number of young women who soon after marriage break down from the .unexpected strain of new duties Is very large. The mother ot a young woman who had become a nervous invalid within two years after marriage said to me there was no apparent cause for her daughter's illness, as she had been shielded from everything from childhood. Why, indeed, should anyone be shielded? Was It ever the case anywhere that a person who had been shielded grew to be .i torcpful character or proved a success. In presence of the swift and onerous .lemm ds of lil'ej The Newspaper and the State By Samuel Bowles, Journalist ' HE difficulties of producing a worthy and excellent newspaper are great. It cannot be efficient nnd Independent unless it is nt lenst self-sustaining; or, to put It in another way, unless It exhibits qualities which will command the support of the public. Of course, the press mny be endowed, in some way, but the endowment Is apt to be encumbered with an obliga-' tion to serve some other interest than that of the public. It seems to me Impossible for a Journal that is entirely nnd short-sightedly commercial in Its spirit to be of vnlue ns a public mentor. Such a Journal Is apt to be more harmful than helpful In Its Influence. The duty thnt rests upon every member of society to so conduct his business, to so perform his pnrt, that good, not evil, shall flow from his action, appeals with peculinr force to the Journalist. The true Journalist is broad minded nnd far-sighted enough to see thnt the best service be can possibly render the public is the best investment he can make for himself. The life of the worker of the press who is thoroughly devoted to his calling Is strenuous nnd laborious. It Is attended with nn almost incessant strain upon the pntieneo nnd the nerves. The work Is never ended; the responsibility and the anxiety never cense; emergencies are always imminent, and they de mand the full expenditure of brain nnd muscle. Those who enter upon it should do so with n keen sense of Its responsibilities as if entering any one of the so-called learned professions. The newspaper which goes Into the homes nnd haunts of the people should be clean, harmonious, attractive, ar tistic, beautiful. To please and Improve tho tnste of his render should be the constant nlm of the maker. The public welfare should be his sole guide In determining tho contents of his sheet. That affords nbnndnnt field for the exercise of skill, nbility and energy, nnd tho employment of sensation of a worthy sort In milking his pnper popular and strong nnd profitable. The new conditions nnd problems erented by the country's rapid growth constitute n new and Insistent "nil upon the press to rise to its opportunities, to perforin its obvious duty. These relate not alone'to the affairs of the Nation nnd Stnte, but to the immediate environment of every newspaper in the lnnd. The time is ripe for making our homo community life In every city, town nnd village cleaner, fairer, richer, Imppicr, more Just nnd more beautiful. This ir. to come through a high development of the civic spirit, and in thnt develop ment the press should be the most potent f.tctoi The Art of Salesmanship By L. D. Vog-el OOD salesmanship Is so essential to all lines of business, and so worthy of intelligent study nnd execution, thnt the cnlling, to my mind, Is lifted to the dignity of a profession. First, let me say that the definitions of salesmanship which I shall offer are not my own, but quotations from what I hnvo read; and, coming as they do from salesmen of experience who have been successful, they are eutitlcd to respectful consideration. "Salesmanship is the quality in a man partly Inherent, pnrtiy acquired whereby he Is able to successfully introduce interest lu G and sell a prospective customer any article or commodity." ' I will quote a few others, which Impress me as being particularly good, and which I singled out of many nnd copied: "The nbility to sell goods, or other property, In a straightforward manner, with satisfaction to all concerned and with the least expenditure of time and money, but having always chiefly la view the benefit to' be derived by the person for whom the property Is sold." Another: "Salesmanship Is that quality In n salesman which enables him, the shortest space of time, to place in the possession of his customer the greatest amount of satisfactory merchnndise, and in the coffers of his employ ers tho greatest amount of profits; while at the same time preserving the last ing good will nnd respect of his customer." Bear in mlud, please, thnt a salesman Is not in the salesmanship class, ac cording to this authority, unless he can both make a profit for his employer nnd preserve tbo lasting respect and good will of the customers. Another definition that. It seems to me, contains ninny good points, is as follows: "Salesmanship is the science of putting into each day's work honesty in speech, loyalty to employer, the hustle of modern civilization, of watching your weak points, of strengthening them, of not only keeping your customer!! but gaining new ones, cf being nt all times a gentleman." -1 will tux your patience with one more quotation, and this one, to my mind. Is ns true and good as it is terse: "Salesmanship is ability to make sales; its attributes are health, honesty, courtesy, tact, resource, reserve power, facility of expression, n Hru and unspeakable confidence In one's self, a thorough knowledge of and confidence in the goods one is selling." Certainly, uono of us will deny that a good salesmnu must know. his poods fo well nnd have such confidence. In them that he can convince the merchnnt that he needs the goods; theu he must enthuse him In such a way that, afta' lie uoes purchase them, he will push them, mny be easier to catch than trout. kingfishers congregate. The onlr time was once when whipping that stream of me and seized a Mohawk chub that of Young Girls
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