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:Por -ten yews, up until 1935, Les -
'ter Pfister' s neighbors in El Paso,'
t Planate, were convinced that he
' wasn't quite right in the head. They
eetatba't understand Why any sane in-
' ' dividual ebould spend hours in a field'
auuder the boiling sun tyiegpaper
bags on •oora tassels. When his farm
• we= to ruin because he couldn't give
it tae time it required, fatherly old
Men used to ,seop him cm the road
and beg him to quit his foolishness.
And then, after years of ridicule
and going about ragged and aalf-
starved, Pfister drove his "crazy" ex-
peanaent through to a succesefte con-
. elusion In 1935, while his neighbors
were avenaging $2,000 for a season's
-work. Pfister took in $35,000—pay-
ment for corn seed that he had de-
veloped. The following year he sold
for $10 a, bushel every kernel he
could raise, and took in $150,000.
Here was a eorn Viet would outyield
anything ever grown in Woodford
County by Anywhere ft.om six to 35
bus.hels! Orders rolled in from evert
&tate in the Corn Bet, and in 1937
he grossed $400,000. This year ad-
vance orders backed by deposits
point to a take of half a million.
Paster's quest for hybrid corn be-
gan in 1925 after a chance riteeting
in Des Moines with Henry Wallace,
then an Iowa farm editor,. now Sec-
retary of Agriculture. The two men
talked corn far into the night, and
Pfister learned the new gospel of
the corn breeder. Ear selection, he
heard, was like breeding cattle and
ignoring bulls. No breeder, outside
of a few, professors. had ever tried
to control tassel pollen to produce
better corn. Wallace sowed in his
PIPE - --
TOBACCO
eampagion a great =earls, ea When
they parted, at two in bbo morning,
Pfister said, "I'll get going to -mor-
row." And he aid.,
To avoid ridicule, Pfister began
planting back of a hedge. But farm-
ers, standing high in their wagons,
were able to took down and see the
field all decked out- in paper bage.
"Maybe he figures to keep the
ehucke from freezing," they said.
Into the black earth Paster had
tucked the seed from, 388 ears of
top-notth Krug corn.' On each tas-
sel that seining from the stalks he
tied a paper bag. cm the ear-sheots
he tied another. When. he figured
the tassel bag was full of pollen, he
slipped A off. This he inverted
quickly over the silk of the ear on
the same stalk. Then he snapped off
the ta.seel. This was inbreeding. Dur-
ing his eeperianents he used 100,000
bags, m-ade 50,000 band pollinations.
At harvest time he .discovered the
many strains that bad been blended
to make Krug corn. Here were stalks
thick as a baseball bat that wouldn't
stand erect; here. tassels without
pollen, cabs without kereels. A few
bore runty ears, but were .rooted
deep and stood straight and strong.
tlutalessly he discarded the weak-
lings-, staving anly 115 ears that
showed promise. The following spring
he planted them.
For five etack-straining years he
planted, bagged and eliminated. in
addition to operating the farm for his
living. In 1929 be was down to four
ears. These were the twisted, misbe-
gotten atilaren of five inbred genera -
Oats, but they were tough, had root-
ed systems that bored, deep and made
the most of the minerals in the earth:
they stoad erect in high winds and '
went through the summer unmarred
by ditease. He shelled these four
ears, aed was ready to make his first,
erosses.
The corn was planted in three
rows. He •designatea the middle row
,he sire or pollinator, and this time
'le snapped off the tassels on, the fe-
male stalks as fast as they appear-
ed, TIM' :Male. teasels We.ae free to
'sited their trellen in the silks of the
rowe on eater aide. :
.No. rain fell and the San was des-
perately hot. Stela. after Stalk wilted.
1.3ta Pdater, adeised to irrigate, said
siMply: . "If they oaaat take it, let
the* die." "
His fel= ran down aud he made
little effort to do anything about it.
His arrival in town became a signal
or snorts and laugater. But nothing
could aura this thin, pale man from
his purpose.
That winter he looked at the ears
of this first crosses. No hanger the
undersized, gnarled' offspring af cous-
ins and sister and broths matings,
thee ears were wonderfully , ailed
dowu to the tripe with evenly ker-
welled,heavy cone From experiment
stations be obtained federal inbreds
to cross with his own. Re was
dissatisfied.
traang 1931 and 1932 Lester let
his corn ride out grasshoppers. and
chinch bugs as ae had let it aide out
drought. "Let the weaklings die,"
be said.
His life became steadily more dif-
ficult. Having no crop, he obtained
loans front his sisters, his brother
and the bank. He was now $32,000
in debt. His hair turne,d white that
year, and his weight droppea to 115
pounds. Day in, day out, all his
children had to eat was corn meal
mush. In the winter the family bud -
died over a smolder' of corncobs,
and Paster, his sheepskin in shreds,
pie cardboard over the holes in his
boots to keep out the snow and
cold.
All that sustained him was his pile
of cern. That, and one inspiring sen-
tence be had once read. Ile recited
it to me, a little awkwardly: "Onthe
plains of aesitation bleach are bon -es
of countlees millions who, at the
dawn, of victory, sat down to rest,
and resting, dial."
Receiving notice of foreclosure
from his bank the following spring,
he wheedled a six -months' postpone-
ment by showing the bank officials
some of his precious ears. The bank
officialsknew corn and were impress-
ed. Urged by his wife, be sold,ais
remaining hogs and made out at Mon-
ey order to a paper -bag manufaetur-
er.
At harvest he shucked. 225 bushels
of the finest corn ever eeen th Wood-
ford County. Passing farmers jump-
ed off their wagons to take a look.
To some, Pfister gave a bushel or
two.
They were all double-crosses, that
is, a mating of the single-crcrsses of
BUYING
GUIDE
• Before you order dinner at a restaurant, you
consult the bill -of -fare. Before you take a long
trip by motor car, you pore over road maps. Be-
fore you start out on a:shopping trip, you should
consult the advertisements in this paper. For the
same reason!
The advertising columns are a buying guide
for you in the purchase of everything you need,
-
including amusements! A guide that saves your
time and conserves your energy; that saves use-
less steps and guards against false ones; that puts
the s -t -r -e -t -c -h in the family budgets.
The advertisements in this paper are so in-
teresting it is difficult to see how anyone could
overlook them, or fail to profit by them. Many
a time, you could save the whole year's subscrip-
tion price in a week by watching for bargains.
Just check with yourself and be sure that you are
reading the advertisements regularly — the big
ones and the little ones. It is time well spent
. . . always.
Your Local Paper
Is Your Buying Guide
Avoid time -wasting, money -wasting detours on
the road to merchandise value. Read the adver-
tising "road maps."
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reedy to take the riek, a meeting
aalace Wtatti arranged for a moonless
eight. From there another Undea
ground agent led them through woods;
ilelde and the beds of streams; if
the party was -unable to reach Shel-
ter ba dawn, he thid them in caves
or the dreep woods. If the worst
came, he was prepared to arm his
fugitives, end shooCit out. Mean-
waile the meginal agent remained in
the neighborhood of the plantatioi to
oltviate suspicion. He would turn
up at the Big House and, being told
of the' Waves' escape, would sympa-
thize with the master and per:haps of-
fer false clues for pursuit.
Even in the North, the runaways
were in danger. Fearing the Fugi-
tive Slave Laws, they travelled by
night from one Underground' station
Lo another, and were hid( by day in
attic: secret rooms and barn lofts.
Some of the stations were elabor-
ate. For (instance, the house of Jos-
eph Morris in 011ie had a complicat-
ed network of false Walls, a cellar
with secret chambers large enough to
hide dozens. of -refugees, and two tun-
nels from the cellar to the barn and,
corncrib.
Fleeing Negroes used all manner
of disguises; men put on women's
clothes, anti women dressed as boys.
Occasionally a Negress', her face cov-
ered by a mourning veil, her hands
gloved, was put into a' railway coach.
Special -wagons were built with false
bottoms to hold the runawaye, while
raern proctuce was spread. above
them Slaves were even boxed up
and entrusted to en unsuspecting ex-
press office.
Once in Canada the Negro was
safe. Pureruers who crossed -the Can-
adian border were actually shot down.
The Canadians helped, the Negroes
find work aed gave them aid in es-
tablishing farms. Levi Coffin made
frequent trips to Canada, assisting in
the rehabilitation of the Negro re-
fugees.-
. But under the fugitive slave laws
In the United States there was little
safety even for free Negroes.. A run-
away who had escaped and lived in
the North' for years could be seized
and tried before a federal commis-
sior-er. The km allowed the com-
missioner $10 for every decision' e-
gainet a Negro but only $5 it in his
favor; abe oemamissioner might sur-
render a fugitive to the person who
claimed him, whether he had seen
the claimant before or not; the Ne-
gro could 110t testify in his own be-
half; fine anti imprisonment confront-
ed any citizen who gave shelter to fu-
gitives. Thomas Garrett, a Delaware
Quaker and a leader in the Under-
ground operations, paid $8,000 in fines
but had the eatisfaction of aiding
some 3,000 slaves to eecape.
As feeling inereaeed in the North,
contributions were made to the Anti -
Slavery League for the purchase of
farms in southern states. On these
farms fugitives working nortaward
were given shelter an,d passed off as
slaves. Mena sixth fartns became
suspect and were seized, but new
ones were 'immediately purchased;
communication between the depots
was Ratan -sited., and the stream of
fugitives increased. Ohio, because of
its strategic location, was the center
of greatest a•otivity. There were 20
stations along the Ohio River, and
there were 1,543 operators fn the
state. At Lake Erie the road, operat-
ed a line of boats to "f anada.
As the number of escaping slaves
grew, lenge rewarde for their capture
enticed shiftless bands into the bus-
iness of -slave-catoliing. They gath-
ered at strategic points, such as the
bridge over the Raritan River where
four roads 'converged on Jersey City,
the raost important ' Underground
transfer center in. the East. The New
York slave -hunters watched all incom-
ing barges and ferries. But the ever -
faithful coadactoes were always •pres-
ent to defend their charges, andi of-
ten 'pitched battles resulted.
As the great convulsion of war
came close, bloodshed alan,g the bor-
der states increased, and enforcement
of the fugitive stave laws became
more difficult. In fact, the federal
government's inability to enforce the
laws constituted one of the chief
causes leading to Secession.
After thostileties began, the work
of the Railroad continued. As the
war spread farther south, many elave-
holders fied, taking only their able-
bodied Negroes and' leaving the old
and infirm to shift for themselves.
Tthe Union armies, moving into evac-
uated territory, found despair and
starvation.
The survivors were ttansported
northward; at Cincinnati Under-
ground agents anr celored people
took the refugees into their Immes
or tried to organize relief for them.
General U. S. Grant, then oommand-
ing in the west, authorized free
transportation., through the Under-
ground Railroad, for those who could
be easigned to camps and colonies.
Thus at last the Railroad came out
into the open as the Aid Commission
and began an ambitious and fruitful
program of rehabilitati•on,
the preceding year — a.nd they were
bigger, heavier, fuller. Pfister had
corn that would outdo anything he
lorew, and when his wife came to
iind out what was keepin,g him from
dinner, she burst into tears. Theft
!roubles were over.
That winter a man with a half
section of land proposed that Pfister
permit 'him to raise •seed for him, on
a 10 per cent, royalty basis. Now 25
other large farmers prodtice, each
yearr a quarter of a 1311111011 bushels,
all of it Marketed tinder, Plieter's
neme.
Pfister now has a 580 -acre farm,
free of debt. He rents another 800
acres, His seed businees will Prob-
ably soot) gross $1,000,000 a year.
This Illinois farmer Is enjoying his
saccese, for it ?means that his six
calla:en vrill oot be obliged, as he
was to break off their feithoolleg in
the ,eighth grade. More than that,
It meanie that every bushel of the
hybrid corn Oat he wale Will enrich
the buyer. "(New alented On Mere
than 2,000,000 .aeres in Iowa, 'Vida
Ana, BMW& and 01110, hie ecorn will,
_he figures; lalt $10,000,000 in farina
etre aiticketa thie year Mat *Odd
net oblietifdre have.been *re.
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441.
Crisis Leads j
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too often obscured by brutalitiee,
Iwi-
s and excesses in other directions.
But although we hate much of Ger-
man aggression we would be stupid
and blind not, to seek to learn what
,we can from 'Germany's amazing
acalevements tin the organization of
civilian life.
England Respond a in the Crisis
Let ue turn now to England. The
Mother Country entered the crisis
with over 1,500,000 unemployed; with
a staggering annual tall for the Vole';
with black areas crying out for in-
dustrial reorganiza-tion; with the civ-
ilian' population untrained for the
work that would leave to be done if
war came; with n new depreesion
sharply, pressing.
However, when the crisis came, the
Fit -lash people responded magnificent-
ly. They volunteered in htindredis of
thousands for unpaid eerviee ter the
nation. Now that the crisis is over
they are etill ready to eerve.
One little story will suffice to tell
of the continuing desire of the Bra
tita people to devote themselves as
individuals to the strengthening of
Britain.
Territonial units all over the coun-
try were called up. After Munich,
these volunteer soldiers were told
that they were 'demobilizedeasid might
go to their homes. Those who had
left steady jabs to join the tomes' na-
turally went Jack. They were need-
ed in civilian life. But in unit after
unit, 100 per cent of the unemployed
men, and women decided, without the
slightest compulsion, that they want-
ed to carry, on, to get further train-
ing, to remain on active service ra-
ther than go home to idleness,.
Leaders of opinion in Britain are
now determined to harness' the wise -
fish .spirit shown in the dark days of
crisis in .order to achieve, in an at-
mospbere cf peace, the, greater
tstreegth that an come only from the
organization of all the citizens tar
national service. The free peoples of
tliet democratic state are willing, vol-
untarily and without bureaucratic
tyranoy, to set themselves, to accent
policies that are needed to strength-
en the :nation andeliminate great
west es, of we i oh mein ploymlent is
the most flagrant
Britain has made up' her mind that
she must work 'herder, fight harder
and exact greater personal service
from her citizens if she is to held
her place in the world. For their
part the British people are ready to
respond to the call for national set -
vice.
Canadians must admire -the deliber-
ate manner in whin:a Britain is set-
ting herself to the creation of 'a uni-
fied ',idea of the greatness of work;
and to the task of rebuilding the
spirit as well as the material face of
the nation..
Canada's Many Unsolved Problems
In Canada, too, there is waste.
Waste in the form of idleness among
people who would be willing to wadi
if work would be created for them.
Waste in the form of appalling rail-
way losses. Waste in the form of
jealous extravagances and extravagant
jealousies between Dominion and
provinces. Waste in the form of So-
cial wrongs, bad housing, unorganized
Farms. Waste in ,he form of ineffici-
ent export toethoda. Waste in nearly
every phase of national life. Waste
thet weakens our citizens as indivi-
au'als and Canada as a nation.
Today we have a job to do. We
must end the decade of direction. We
nee t a prOgram for the fulfillment of
that job.
Ignoring Mr. Purvis's Program
The first elements in thee program
were drafted for us over a year ago
by Arthur B. Purvis, who acted as
chairman of our National Employ-
ment Commission. Hie cemeniseion
proposed specific, helpful plansto in-
crease the employability of jobless
men arid women; to improve their
skill, physique and morale; to put
them to werk.
Only the barest madmiThRIM has been
0,one to carry out these proposals.
Such a frontal attack upon the 'Io-
nia] wage of unemployment and the
physical and moral deterioration of
idleness can be only the first step in
an effort to achieve national great-
ness through national efficiency. It
would have to be followed by an ea
fort to end waste in other spheres.. ,
Never did the public men _of Can-
ada face sucha dramatic challenge
to their unselfishness 'and. statesman-
ship.
Out of all the intensely interesting
and dramatic experiences I had *my
few weeks in Europe and Great Bri-
tain, during the crisie, none bas left
a deeper impre,ssionupon me than
the picture of the Motherland buck-
ling down to the hard work of mak-
ing the nation, strong in peace as in
war.
"We have had our Empire too eas-
ily," one of -England's great men mid
to me. "Never, except in time of
war, have •we really had • to 'make
sacrifices to preserve it and to bold
our strength. Times have changed.
Now we •'have to work to hold our
position. That much the dictator-
ships have taught us."
Public opinion in. Canada ean eas-
ily be aroused to display the unity
and purpose that hiave emerged out
of the shadows in the Motherland.
We too can solve our "insoluble" na-
tional problem's', one by one.
Is Canada ready?
The people are ready. Are our po-
litical leaders prepared to accept the
challenge?
Busines,s Mane "Well, if it isn't
John Corcoran, the man I met up In
Maine one rainy night six years ago -
at the Moose River Junation railway
station!"
Saletman: "Good-bye, sir,"
Bueiness Man: "Arenft you going
to tty and sell me something?"
Salesman: "No, I sell mettiory
training eoursee."
•
He: "Phe doetor told me a ye=
ago that t met give up smelting or
I silaceria begome feeble -Minded."
She: "Why didett you, then?",
•
"ts the head of the amuse In, am-
troya' Malted the caller,
tad, sae. Therege Talbott& hear* bat
Dad and Me."
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teaeintlal Element;
The three "easential" elements of
fertillta are ,Ifitrogen, ,phosphorie acid
amid potasl. Them elements •bave re-
teeived Otis nattne, not because they
are any Mere essential to the growth
of (molts Oen the other nine or ten
eleanents entering into the Composi-
tion; of plant tisanes, but because
they are the three etetments which
must be constantly returned to the
'sea if its productiveness is to be
maintained under ordinary syisteme of
farming.
Western Ontario Fruit -Crop
Weather conditions have been fav-
orable for the elevelopreent and har-
vesting of all fruit crops. .
Apptes have sized and colored ex-
ceptionally Well. Although scab and
late infestation of codling math were
quite prevalent in some areas, fungas,
and insect peets, genenaaly were kept
under control in well cased for :com-
mercial orchards. Hail damage tarts
been comparativeiy slight and con-
fined to the 'occasional localized area.
Damage by wind has also been, neg-
ligible, the only seriousloss reported
being to one orchard in Georgian:Bay
district
Conditions were favorable for good
development of plume. Some brown
not wee in evidence in most varieties
throughout the season, but no serious
lose was incurred.
With the exception, of some loss by
brown rot in peaches, particularly in
the Rochester variety, and a some-
what greater, than time] amount of
splitpits, eaused by excessive mois-
ture,' the quality of the fruit was gen-
erally goad.
, The quality of pears was excep-
tionally good this season. 'Phe crop
was practically free from insect in-
jury and sizing was above average.
Harvesting, of plums, peaches and
peers bee been completed.
Itoppe,r damage to grapes was quite
prevalent -in many vineyards., but the
quality et tire fruit was very eood.
Owing to continued mild weather the
tiaht erop is praitically all off the
vines, The low bunch set reduced
produetion which is' new estimated at
45 per cent below that of last sea-
son.
Royal Winter Fair
This year's Royal Agricultural Win-
ter Fair which opens at Toronto on
November 15th is to be still more ex-
tensive in scope, with greater varie-
ty and larger prizes than in any fca-
mer year.
On account of the improvements
made in the Royal annter Fair class-
es, judging times, acoommodetion,
larger di:splay of livestock is entice
pa.ted and entries front new competi-
tors, notably in: dairy cattle and
sheep, have .been received'. Also it is
expected that With 'herds from Prince
adward Island and British Columbia,
all the nine provinces of Canada, will
be repreeentedi
The new Seed and Grain Show
promises to assume an importance
commensurate with Canada'sinterne-
e-eel status in grain growing, and,
as a result of the improved crop and,
economic conditions, the entries from
tile Prairie Provinces promise to cre-
ate a record. The nacre devoted, to
poultry has been' largely increased
and practically a whole fluor has been
takeri for what will prove to be an
outstanding industrial exhibit by the
combined efforts of the poultry indus-
try. of Canada, the Dominion Depart-
ment of Agriculture and the egg pro-
ducers and manufacturers 01 eupplies.
Fall Preparation of Sod
Land For Grain
A good grain crop is one of the best
farms of farm insuranee and may
well tletertenine the difference between
success-tand failure in our farming
operations. One factor that boa' a
direct bearing on the yield, secured is
the time of seeding. In normal years
the earlier the crop can be seeded,
the better chews there is for a sat-
isfactory yield. To seeti early, the
land must be partially prepared the
previous fall, particularly sod laud.
Experiments, rheas been kcaldocted
at the Dominion Experimental Farrn
at Nappan, N. S., during the pest 15
years comparing various methods, of
soil preparation for the grain crop.
Comparisons are made of oat yields.
following sod laud' ploughed at dif-
ferent times. August ploughing, fol-
lowed by top -working, has given an
average yield per tithe of 49.6 buah-
els. The samie treatment followed by
ribbing late in the autumn itas aver-
aged 52.9 bushels; ploughing in Sep-
tember and top -working, 51.9 bush-
els; October ploughing with top -
working, 50 bushels and without top -
working, 50,5 bushels; and ploughing
in the spring, (no autumn treatment)
averaged 48 bushels.
The .reetalts indicate that on med-
ium clay loam soil; fall ploughing is
preferable to spring plougaing. Top -
working of fall ploughed land ,does
tot appear te be an economical prac-
tice, except for weed control. Early
ploughing and frequent tenaworking
aide in the control of perennial weeds
such as sew thistle and eaueb. grass
and also annual weeds, as reustard,
wild radish, hemp, nettles, etc.
Toy Fair Shows Modern
World in Miniature
Toyland, with its many gifts for
both city :children and farm children,
more n,ea.rly reflects the living condi-
tione surrounding ,growntupe than ev-
er before, aceordthig to the Toy As-
sociation In a. world of miniature,
there are household 'inventions, peel -
cultural machinery, industrial appli-
anc'es wadatraneportation unite which
keep paCe with the latest .aetivities
of mother •aral father,- it was sboWn
in New .1tOrk la a Praia:eV of the Toy
Fair staged "ay the Aorroeletiett re,
Meal
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• Eteetrld trains .eati be -Uncoupled
ant:Ma-WA*, LeM by' pressing the
Sante 'battens coati Mita are anlotteled"
the *Wanda titat &Mitt Mier the radio
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Inactivity' of the large bowel, 'or
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You can prevent and thoroughly
relieve this chronic form of =atm-
pation by using
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betas or :swisbing of rain, over the
air waves can be produced by the
child with a new kit of radio sound
effects; carpets in doll 'houses from
now on can be made superclean
with the tiny vacua* cleaner which
has joined the wide eeleetion of
housekeeping toys, and an in.terest-
itg procession of baby corn planters,.
mowers, fertilizer spreaders, andr
tie -esters await the inspectiant of
the farm child.'
Bubble blowing reaches a new
mark with the rapid are blower
which sends • forth a contiimours
stream of raiebow-huedi-Bubbles from
one single dip. For the journalist of
pre-employment age, there ts a news-
paperetype rotary printing press with
rubbef type and another flat bedi
model With ,regulation metal type,
both of which are in new law price -
ranges. Nureery rhymes are pictured/
by "television" when. the „knob of a
radio -like device is turned.
Th.e doll department has many new
types. These include the "teen-age"
-dolls, :dressed like young ladies in
Modisa frocks that seem to hare 'em-
erged from the colored pages Of a
fashion raagazine for misses; a first
-showing of dolls of flexible rubber
which can • be made to sit or stand
in various attiardeaathe size being
'appropriate for' a doll house; a doll
which plays a lullaby while it rocks,
and another that ape from a spoon.
ltiereev.er, there are fa.nroue stage
screen and 'radio character dolls,
headed by W. C. Made, of coined?
ft me.
In the field of natural science,
ote -of the new items is polarize&
lieht by which the. young eliemist
can ascertain whether the family
tablecloth is ot linea or cotton.
Games are moreabundant than
ever, with :modernized checkers, aria-
•grame, dominoes' and even tiddly-
winks to enjoy.
Altogether, more than 10,000 play-
tbings which have been tested , by
children for fun, age suitability, edu-
cational value, and safety are ready
for the holiday :trade, according ter
the Association.
Gentility in Warfare '
Until recently, well-conducted ware
were net with a proper regard for
personal comfort. One Empress et'
China etrictly forbade the discharge
of guns—on pain of execution—if sbe
had a headacere; and it was her pleas-
ant Whim to send a basket of vege-
tables daily to the army sae wart be-
sieging.
In Mong Mao, a small group of
states en the eastern frontier af In-
dia, they fight with the utmost fete
coity till someone is :hurt. And bone
sides knock off for all meals. Tihey
would never dream of refusing an en-
emy passage through the lines if her
wanted to go home 'to his wife. or
passage beck next data—Indian Rail-
ways Magazine.
* *
During a revolution in Santo Dom-
ingo, when an insurgent force threat-
ened to attack a town in, whieh Am-
erioans had intereetert, the la S. naval
commander notified both sides that
be would not permit any fighting re
the town, but that he would appoint
a place where they could meet and
fight it out, and that the victors
should have the town. The command-
ers agreed, the fight came off at the
appolated place, end the victors were
given the tovv-ni—Theottore Roosevek,
An Autobiography (Schribners).
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Dr. George , Mudd of -Bryantowe,
Maryland, a Union sympathizer dur-
ing the Carll War, often asked in for
a oard, 'game stome Northern officers,
who were in the neighborhoocl look-
ing -for a Confederate spy.
"Your spy came to my house last
night, all tuckered out," he said to
them one evening. "I ted him an&
put him to bed eame as I would any-
body."
The officers jumped from their
ohlairs. "Which way did he go?"
"He's still upstairs—asleep; and
you're not goring to touch him. He's
my guest; and we're not figating the
war tonight. Let's wake hint and
deal lain in."
They played' carda all evening; and
next day gave the spy an hour's start.
Then they were atter him again.—
Jahn Mudd, quoted by John Patric in
The National Geographic Magazine.
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