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Show I Scissored From Youth's Companion For February. Holidays wjiich comes on Sat- urday or Monday are especially grateful to those who hope to enjoy thorn, for thoy give two froo days in succession. This year there are three such that are generally observed, Lincoln's Lin-coln's birthday, Memorial day and Fourth of July. Christmas comes on Sunday, but Monday will bo observed as tho legal holiday, and if that is included, it makes four. In such states as obsorve Labor day on the first Monday in optembor, there will be another doublo day I of freedom from work. Tho Secretary of tho Navy calls attoution to tho charge in tho character of ships-of-war and of naval warfare by tho remark that what is needed in tho navy now is not men who can "shin" a mast, but men who are skilled-machanics. A modern mod-ern battle-ship is a floating i machine-shop. |