Show THE T HE VALUE OF KNOWLEDGE gain all the knowledge you possibly caland on all s subjects uba acts there is a proverb which says keep a thing teven seven years and you wll will always find a use for it this is certainly true of knowlt knowledge dge let the kind of knowledge you obtain be what it may at some some time or other in your life you wil I 1 find it t to be of service to you there Ther els is a story sto ry of a man who owed his life find his liberty to the knowledge which he had acquired of the habits habit of insects this man was in an eastern or prime minister and the knowledge which saved his life was what he ud had learned learne d of thea the habits bits ol of the beetle having fallen under the ot hi royal master this minister was condemned to td death deatha but while waiting the execution of the sentence he tas m poisoned in the highest room of a very lofty tower lower of great massiveness and streng streight ht his wife was greatly distressed at the misfortune which ch aaa befallen her husband and one night she came to weep below his he took the occasion to t 0 drop a note to her in which he had written aten these words cease your grief kolome go home and procure for me the following g things a live black beetle a little rancid bulter a skein of fine silk a spool of packthread a clew of whip cord c ord and a coil of stout rope ocher on her return to the foot of the fie tower with these articles the told her to touch the head of the beetle wit with the butter to tie one end of the silk thread around the insect and then to place olace it on the wall of the tower with i it s head exactly toward the window she did precisely as she was told by her r feus husband band 0 move in the direction of any strong senat in front of it accordingly drawn by the smell of the butter on its head it continued to ascend the tower till it reached the aizers window and thus put the prisoner la in possession b of one end of the silk thread having obtained this thread he directed his wife to fasten the packthread to the other end of it he thus was able to draw up the thread then the cord and then the strong rope and this he fastened to an iron bar across the window a nd by the aid of the rope he reached the ground and mad his escape buus he was indebted for his delav elarice erance from captivity and deathly death by his knowledge of that simple fact in regard to the habits of a little beetle i |