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uZomespun Philosophy i BY TIIK CRICKET OX THE IIEAtlTIL ' " Never u a marvel done ujxm the irth but It had-prong of faith; Nothing noble, senerous, or iruat but Kalth was the root of the achleve ' ment; ; -. : . Nothing comelr, nothing famous, but Us praise ia Faith. .. - , ", ': jUonldas fought in .; human Faith ' ai .;. Jonua. in divine. 1 In Faith Columbua found a path acrott the untried waters: -s Tell waa- strong and Alfred great and Luther wise by Faith. Faith la hit reason made 8orratt tub. - lime, at Faith in science Ualle." "I'm not going to study any lessons to-night," the College Olrl said In a low. even 'voice. The dimples were I1 smoothed out of her face by the . look of quiet determination that had coma to it. Her Dpi were thin and straight and her eyet sombre. Her glance wandered coolly around the ' little circle of absorbed faces in the circle of firelight. "I don t believe It s any use to work -.mn YarA AvAr Ihtnfra nnv iav T RAW Minieaeiy ana i inina n was in vei ' Wfappifaof. frcinuil x met. lie imuii t o care nor a responsibility nor a duty. . try . i w -n,k . shall say that a man hasn't a right to walk out Into the world and do what he pleases with his life? It isn't a Question of goodness, for a lot of thrifty oeoole are bad. It's merely a matter of temperamnnt. A vaaRbond Is simply himself. The people at the other extreme are really much worse off. "Why. I know a lot of men who , never have time to glance fit a sun set. They never even think of one : except at a change In an overcrowded day. Now my vagabond, ragged and oirty and unkempt, was standing at the end of a street gazing entranced Into the gold and crimson glory that escaped the notice of nearly every person that panned him. He's going to sleep under the stars, I fancy, free and happy. Isn't that, after all, the 'Simple Life?' I fairly envy him, and to I've rebelled agalnxt the, silly rules inai lence mo in biiu mo i-wunii ww., Ing that only sets one abreast with others who are running a mad race toward what?" The Motherly Woman looked up from her knitting and asked gravely: "Did you think, my dear, of the tramp's breakfast?" "It wasn't breakfast time," the r-nlUre Olrl answered coolly. "Do you tupposo that at sunset the spar rpws thought of theirs?'' The Motherly Woman smllrd "I remember that at sunset I was think ing of yours; the yeast wan late get ting up to-day and I had time for ohly a glance at the irlmson and gold glory because I was Juct getting the bread out of the oven. It Is nnuHual y fine and I remember thinking of you and planning your favorite toast for breakfast." "And thereby mlsnert the beauty of the evening when I should doubtless be better off with only an appl" and a handful of uncooked raln. Hut there are bees and butterflies too. I dare say you are a dear little worker bee. I saw some to-day tolling through the sunny nlr that makes tuch lovely playground for the butter flies. You are a natural worker; I why, I'm a butterlly." There was a low chuckle from the Quiet Man's corner. "Do you think," he tald gently, "that any wnr! Is In Itself pleasant? Most of us are born With ideals. The Kh-al Is the Soul's consciousness of something bettor than anything we know by means of what we cull the senss. It Is the gllmps, we catch, through some un closed crevice of our prison house, of possible perfection I'slng the ma terial at hand wo fashion out the pat tern as we nee It. If this vision Is hroad and clear we rail It avnlux. If the Ideal Is very prisoned in the block of marble a wonderful angel form and his de sire Is to release the angel, lie for gets aching arms and cramped hands and burning eyes. And we wonder at hit patience and skill becauae, alas, we do not tee hit angel." . 1 The College Olrl leaned forward breathlessly. "And , sometimes he finds that his angel It a lovely Galatea and he falls in love with her." "Tea," said the Quiet Man, "A worker may lose sight of his broad vision and narrow his view to the workshop of hit own handwork. But he has had the vision that far. The miser you spoke of had one to begin with: wealth became hit Galatea and without the human Impulse of Pyg malion to give life to the object of his love he Is content to . blindly adore his unresponsive gold. He hat clos ed his vision with his own creation. He has no Ideal. "Haven't you seen In a mother's tender eyes the reflection of her wonderful vision? She toil at home ly, dally tasks, cooking din ners, dusting rooms, darning stockings, nursing babies and planning beautiful to-morrows. God pity the woman who has no vision, who Is working toward no Ideal. She is the woman upon whose breast no little head ever nestled. All mothers have visions, I have watched the faces of home-mothers at work and I have read In them shining, boautlful poems far too holy and far too high for any printed page even if one knew any language in which thoy might bo transcribed. For It Is the privilege of every mother to hold con versa with the Angel of the Annuncia tion, and not only may she see visions, but she may hear voices that flutter over the walla of Paradise, and feel the touch of the Hand that shaped planet and star and spread the earth and stretched the sky 'A tent for us to dwell In.' And so the beautiful host of mothers work n, pondering many strange things in their hearts, though they may speak only of common things because there are no words for the othoin. Tho little working mother Is building up the bodies which she gave to tho new Souls fresh from Ood! (.'noklng Is not in Itself pleasant work, but It means help to the man who la working, too, toward hia Ideal, and It means health and growth to the lada and lassies who, In the dear little mother's vision, are to be transformed,. yea, even transfigured, sometime by norne wonderful happening bye and bye. How a mother loves to give! Kho begins being u mother that way. And all work is a form of giving. "The miserable man Is he who sees nothing beyond his task. He Is a bridled animal driven by habit or necessity. The world Is littlo bettered by what he accomplishes. Ho Is a tool nnd another might have answered. His soul Is dwarfed because of Its having no outlook of Inspiring vision. How to help such a man, how to show him an Ideal that will mean something to him ah, that Is the world's problem. It Is the labor question from the In xld. The answer to It would wake up your contented vagabond and he would start toward something that no one else could see and we'd call that work. For Ideals are or necessity dif ferent. The old negro chopping wood out there has a vision of a snug cor ner, a bright fire and a hot supper. Disappointment may await him, but j to-morrow he will work again toward j tho vision. "Hy the sweat of the brow all good things come. Work Is not a curse. When all tho other angels hid their pure faces and fled from the man and woman who had sinned, two stopped the K.'lte " 'I nhn.11 attend tho man," said r It Would. 0 1 . . , ' ', . v - ';..'.:-," . t - i' , - , . v , : . . r-,;v -;A; f..tl;.: ' - ' ''. u ' Unless t were a ways experimenting trying to give you something better and in a better way But it is hard to make better. Try a ton Plhoinie 211 uiriv .loMnufl n . Work, '1 o win nrd rno to nfip mm certain beautiful linen so that the ( b. k to tho Para.llse tic has lost. man follows one with xreul surcss sii.m go hum nun hi.u ...n ....-. we call it talent. If th- man strikes 1 ,i, his hands In the creation of a out In many directions and misses all ; new K.den ' the marks we know bis vision Is per-' .. .Anil ( r t , i (he other, who Is the verted, his Ideul is blurnd. If there ,xl(,, f Puin. 'will attend the woman. Is a man who does nothing at all It Is Kh(i w1) MOt flnd m), a 'piousant rom- because he has no vision. Is oiii- tent with what Is." The College ilrl MralKhKn-d up With a sudden llu-h in her .heks "But my vagabond has a f.ir more beautiful vision than a ml -rly man who works Industriously could -mt have." The Quiet Man tinned bis frce to the light. "He hax more apprecia tion Of the beauty already i rented. The miser has lot hliri.s. II In sordid things. Neither has any vision of better conditions Itoth are drones In the blve of real prongs Neither l work In r toward anv ideal That l 1. & B." COAL mm THE .EVER : r ,;... 'rr-:!- ,V.:'lf, ' -' .the I hlgh pticttfi cpttoiih 0 Winteiiid'Ttn D CAPITAL STOCK $30,000.09 NO VACATION. ENTER ANT TIME. It a conceded fact, known everywhere In North Carolina by tboae who are Informed, that .KINO'S Is THE SCHOOL THE RIGHT SCHOOL, viewed from every itandpoint of merit and worthiness. The beat facul ty, best equipment, the largest More graduate! In poeitiont than all other business schools In the Stat. 8o get the BEST. It U the cheapest Write to-day for oar SPECIAL OFFERS. NEW CATALOGUE and full In formation. Addreta KXNO'g BTJSIXESS COLLEGE, Charlotte, K. C. Raleigh, N. O. 4 a . M I Ilk punlon for sne is out oi Harmony who us und I shall seem a discord In her life. Hut I shall give her her rhiefest blessings ' "And these two have been with us all the way, nnd. not knowing, we call them curses Work opens the way to wnrd our visions, l'aln urges us to ward them. The one Is not a hard taskmaster. nor the other a cruel driver " The Motherly Woman laid aside her work and opening one of the worn little books that had a way of creep ing often Into her work basket, mild verv softly; Ann 1 inina won m-nnn what real living always mens, ih-ugh I )( nnn,hrr pitying angel came back, not many, perhaps could describe '! 1 ,. ,.,i .v,,. irfni kvm to Hill' III ,. I,1,.,,'L w. ...... . - - , - not many, perhai Ideal that gulden them "Our neighbor's garden Is merely an uninteresting bit "f Kroiiid i. closed by a fenc e It i an t be pleas ant to dig the soil, t., eniieh it. to l.iy It Oft In beds, to toil all day Ions; fls out neighbor '! .-. Hot he has for I tlf new vision and sfrengineneo tne faint heart" for the Journey toward it " And then she read slowly from the marked page: "A uWleii slsltin; as I walked at noon. Tie rhlMren of .lie son earn trooping round me bit pattern n rlerign that p- rh.ip,i we I in i,i til tiac iolws nd dlamon4 at u.l.lo'l mam hi, tiitl lit I mi it u I ri- .1 eld ill Mh.,-n. f lill.. and roses and lov.'dv jr. n 1 A.,1 ll.-v did wing .ne up with them, nnd lie noiKs with ,. in . i ii ii, i' i things that grow this vision always before i.rt.. If domo of wondrnut width I fmind He- there were to be no green ",ini Uivl so I looked and lonkrd with daisied gase things, and he knew it. h" v omd throw his gardening tools i,l nviv But he know that wonderful things are folded up In those ttnv brow n i Transparent Seeds and tucked away In the uniti tereatlng bulbs tome to-dsy and his touch was posi tively lOVing He looked as h - were teeing lilies and he was lilies of Paradise. That Is what his work meant to him lie Is j magh Inn and I'nin mv nlrlt cirnnV in so much llsht Tlist I siew like the sons of that ala.l 10VMY. Olire srrrnn noil l,r I I fw tilm handling Then did Ihey all me nrotner. snn mere hltt from my sides bioad pinions gold and uhlt". , ,,,, . ct with that liannV Mock n brilliant thins I flew " Yes." the Plain Utile Woman, be hat control of nr'.iln natural laws whispered, "And perhaps after Work and natural law Is iioIMi.k ie, than ,,n, p.,n and Kalth ther came an- the Supreme Will manifested In mat- ' other angel 111. to Join the hands of tar. The gardener can use t lies.' laws,,), (,0 ),ad lost tlolr J'aranise that Ihev might the better nnd in way bark, working, suffering, trusting together. And It wns the College Olrl who opened another of the workhasket books and read softly; "find doe not to bring about results that he e. In hie vision. "There is a man over on the west ern cot ft whom we call The Wltarn ef horticulture bemuse he j rum vllshea wonders In hr plant n ull He adds petals to flowers, aives them w k)i ,,, 1)v, Bpnrt. therefore lie new form end color and in inem With fragrance. From the f ,i. l, tkt the universe he selects ulmt he vants iff sunshine, air and ei.r.h iO'I th rat principle of life rep o U ! tias not resented to tliem wnni eacn needs for himself He wishes them to live together and revealt to each the other's wants Though men think th, in., through care of themselves, hla call end the work 'if ins n.ir is , . rnv nvi, hy Love ulone. Uvea and bw-omes a part of J d s Atl(1 tn(tl ln,, f0Ur WOre silent fir Creation! This man Is a factor In the ))( h snl, w trying the fasdnutlng evolution that Is moving iow..rl the )nf )f j(( own vion Kew Earth thtt Is to displace th d I ; f ?1 lafn:?::?X ',L"iV n. thr complexion. re4grsi.ii. nun, of ,.,,,. f,..,,,... b-,,,11 Mvrun utlmnlstei A Form oi Food Already Digested Mate Your Wants Known Use the classified column of The Observer for what yon want. Yon may And It for an expense, of SO cents. I Isn't It Worth Trying? when the cost Involved la so trifling? The classified column of The Observer Is confined to legitimate ads and Is all the more valuable for this reason. There Is no the liver am) thoroughly ( lene the u as fair a sunshine weariness In hla work. Ills vl-lnn as ,y,IMI, ,! rimrs ihe eompleln of broad and clear. The Oreat reutor , ,,l,opie .net tdotfhi-. it l th '' lax- la nalna- him - tllvs for women and elilldren. as It is WJ7:aL th eltn. 'n.lM and pl.a.snl, and not gripe or Irken firlno is much superior to pins, nd hammering at a block of .narnle fa a pleasant pastime? Yet I know a sculptor who does It wl'h wrapt fare and shining eyes bertusi he sees Im aad shlnln ayes becauae h svet lm- rETTER. SALT miCUM.AWD BCIB- ' ' These are gltiatat for which Chsmbtsr fo'n't tUJre is eepeHallf valuable. II eoi Mr tfilavs the Itehlng and emartbif flfsnU t trare.- Prtee, a eseta. sr,erlent malrrs and all ordinary irlhr tlci a It doe not Irritate the stoniaeh and lMiftlt. H. II Jordan m to. Croup can positively be Hupped In mluuire. No vomiting nothing to alekaa or Sltirost your child. A twasl, pUaaant, n aafe Syrup. oall4 IT. NhuoiVa Croup Cure. fksM the work and doos ll aulekl. Dr. fiheop't Croup Cure It In Croup alone, nmtmhtf, It aoe no claim to cvre a eaten ttlments. Ill far ihaf s au. tm ay wsrweu 1 Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey A tonic-stimulant which keeps the old young and the young strong It is invaluable for over-worked men, delicate women and sickly children. It cures consumption. Beware of cheap imitations and substitutes They. are daierous Guard against refilled bottles Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey is sold by all druggists, grocers arid dcal erse or direct, at $)P0 a bottle . Doctor's advice and illustrated med ical bookleUent f Comparisons Prove Fadts A comparison of Nunnally's with other high grade candy, will prove that their claim of super iority is not alone a claim, but an indisputable fact Compare the fillings, as well as the coatings of each separate piece, the variety of assortment in -each box, and the care with which each box is packed, and the popular verdict will be that Nunnfiily's Candy is tne purest and best on the market Tom Bate by WoodsU bappasd. SITOEPROOFi IT TT elwyn Hotel CHARL OTTIS, If. CI "HOTEL ASTOn OT HOB tOVTBL" Most luxurious and up-to-date American pleat betel la the Bsistas States. Telephones and running watar.ta reams. Seventy batn reams, opera cuisine. American Plan. Rte 91M aad Bfwarca. Under mansfement Piedmont Hotel Atlanta. Oa, BARTBT e WOOCD, Hotel Bellevne, Boston, Mass. Maaagtaf Dtreotora. CENTRAL HOTEL On Independence tqaara, Charlotte, If. C -VJTDEIl NEW AND LIBERAL MANAGEMENT. COMMERCIAL II EAbQUARtXIU. ' ' ,.' - . - , . . ' Rates ta I 09 per day. Aerkan plan. Cultln aeeaqa to , none In the city. Th Central has pa theroofhly renovated ana nut , i. (irttlin condition throufhout. ' New Otis Electrto Elevatar. Bell Telenhone system, 'phone in sacs room, both loeal and lonf Aistanoe. ... . . lj,..M ifuliiif)intefii lh.Mf.liAt.1 k.HM ... - -a warren e mui pfu fvu wnfatum wi nvin, mini sanitary plumbing. Urge sample raoma. ... ..., ; , y . PBRRIN3 & JORDAN, Prpprtetpn ; ;- t wt tie fcy H. U. 4eraa m us.
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