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ROBERT BLEAKIE, Hyde Park, Mass., President and General Manager Webster Woolen Co.

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N Scotland, many years a~o, a boy of ten Took up the weaver's work along with men. The way was hard, the llOY was strong and true; He saw the only way am1 saw it bravely, too; And time did broaden it unto the boy of ten And stretched it fair for him to walk with Men. How well he's wall{ed-results do best attest:A life of high ideals, of living for the best; Industl'Y, courage, hope-that sterling stock-in-trade By which in best of ways, the best of men are madeA seeker r or the truth, along all economic lines, A man of la.l 'ge affairs; a student of the times. May I be pardoned-do you scent bouquets? He will not like them-never r ond of praiseBut here in Maine. where he has come so near To being' of us, with us year, by year, 'Ve run the risk-and since his heart and brain Appeal so sU'ongly to us men of ~Iaine, We override those feelings. truly his And write tum fairly-as we linow he is.

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