18 The Acorn MISCELLANEOUS Shakespeare on Baseball. I will go root. "Richard III." Now you strike like the blind man. "Much Ado About Nothing." Out I say. "Macbeth." I will be short. "Hamlet" Thou canst not hit it; hit it; hit it. "Love's Labor Lost." He knows the game. "Henry VI." O, hateful error. "Julius Caesar." A hit, a hit, a very palpable hit! "Hamlet." He will steal, sir. "All's Well That Ends Well" Whom right and wrong have chosen as umpire. "Love's Labor Lost." Let the world slide. "Taming of the Schrew." He has killed a fly. "Titus Andronicus." The play as I remember pleased not the million. "Hamlet." What an arm he has. "Conolanus." Upon such sacrifices the gods themselves threw incense. "King Lear." Literary Digest. For some men every defeat is a Waterloo, but there is no Waterloo for the man who has clear grit, for the man who persists, who never knows when he is beaten. Those who are bound to win never think of defeat as final. They get up after each failure with new resolutions, more determination than ever to go on until they win. Success. MISSOURI GOATS. Missouri is one of the largest goat centers in the country. The goats are not raised for mutton alone, but also for the purpose of clear- Christmas, 1909. 19 ing up underbrush. They will go through a thicket like a rifle bullet and eat it to the ground, peeling saplings and stumps so that they will never sprout again. The goats get as fat as butter balls on such forage. Then are shipped to market and sold to city folk for the choicest mutton.Leslie's Weekly. The persistent effort to give everybody a lift when possible, to make everybody we come in contact with a little better off, to radiate sunshine, cheer, hope, good will, to scatter flowers as we go along, not only brings light and joy to other hearts, but opens wide the door to our own happiness.-Success. English astronomers have advanced the theory that Mars has turned yellow. That statement is evidence that England, in chagrin over losing the North Pole, is trying to steal a planet which we have always regarded as an American possession. Colorado apples sold for a dollar and fifty cents a dozen in the New England markets in October. At the same time California oranges sold for seventy-five cents. Northerners used to have visions of the fortunes to be made in Florida orange groves, but when apples command such a price there is no reason why western Yankees should not begin to make the fortune at home by cultivating and packing apples according to the most improved methods. Youth's Companion. In Memory of our Departed Companion Herbert L. Reeder Through an error this notice was not printed in the previous edition.