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MORE NOISE THAN WORK. fJJfH "My dear, look here," said "Ti^Nc^^ Simkins, as he stood on deck w\;.h '" ' -*\ his wife and pointed to a tuV; -4j drawing several barges. "Such il '- life ; the tug is like the man, wor!:- :~* ing and toiling, while' the barge;, '% like women, are -" . .*> "I know," interrupted Mrs. S,, -*< acridly, "the tug does all the ' 4 blowing while the barges bear all t!:o i^ burden." | p England has 11,500 ships engag- . ]4 ed in foreign trade, Germany over -% 2,000, Japan nearly 1,000, while . ' M the United States has only nine ■ _' -^ ships so engaged. ■* ■. ''■&:'{