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or ^ Selfish Men Lose ^ J Righteous Will Be Remembered by Things | ^ They Have Forgotten. ^ Ey President Jirthur T. Hadley of Yale. IFE is full of things that are worth having, but shall never have if we devote our time to thinking a I I I ‘''*°Happiness is worth having, but the man who spends his ♦ S ^ ♦ days planning how to be happy defeats his own en . ± t lie office is worth having, but the man who occupies his me schemiiig how to get office loses the chance ot puJ - vice which maiies that office honorable. Culture is wmta having—almost Infinitely worth having—but the man wno sets out to make culture his primary object usually ends by being prig or a sham. Somehow or other the conscious seeking of a goo kept up too long and too constantly, interferes with the chance of o ^ • What Christianity dees is to put a man in the way of realizing the r g kind of ambitions instead of the wrong kind. It warns us against seizing shadow and letting go the substance. It gives us a scale of values w helps us against mistakes of judgment. A man with whom ambition is the domin,^t motive—a man, w o, n language of the text, seeks great things for hjmself, is liable to of mistakes; mistakes of dishonesty, mistakes of selfishness, and mis a es o judgment. His life may be insincere. His life may be selfish. A hundred minor acts of courtesy are unnoticed by the man w o oes them. If he is trying to judge his own character he thinks chiefly of t e in Btances where he has consciously sacrificed his own interests ® ® something for others. But if the world is judging his character it will think less than he does of the $100 which he did or did not put into the ccntr u ion box on Hospital Sunday, and more than he does of the hundred times that e left his neighbors a dollar richer because he had a habit of doing business fairly, or the hundred times that he cheated his neighbor out of a dollar by business habits which he, in his own mind, gives no harsher name than shrewdness. The belter the world is the surer it is to take these last things into account, - + If there is one moral lesson which the Gospel iterates and reiterates, it is the importance of these unconscious courtesies or discourtesies, these un conscious honesties or dishonesties. In the Day of Judgment the wicked will be condemned not for the great sins which they have committed, but for the little services which they have left unrendered. The righteous will be distinguished not by the great deeds which they have remembered, but by the little deeds that they have for gotten. Th« one thing that grows greater as time goes on is the heroic character which men have achieved by not seeking great things, but simply doing daily duties without knowing it until they hvae achieved the power to meet any emergency that might arise. 4, f** ♦♦♦♦I* *♦* *2**5' •4S COMINGS m 14 * IVe and the Weather By Edwin L. Sabin. % HAT a great misfortune this is, the habit of considering the weather!—of thinking that we must consider the weather. It is largely due, is it not, to clothes? No mention is made of rain in the Garden of Eden; but we must not, theiefoie, contend that rain was disagreeable and omitted; we must recollect that Adam and Eve did not need to consider rain; furthermore, in blessed ignorance, they did not know that it was anything to be considered. To mind the rain no more than the May sunshine, but to plunge into it and let the drcps pelt as they will; to accept snow without a thought of discomfort, but, rather, to enjoy the thronging presence of it; to pursue one’s daily stint regardless of whether the sky be dun or blue, this is a state which we, especially of the cities, long, long have lost. We regain it, some of us, in the wilderness camp, where we hunt, or fish, if the day be dark or if the day be bright. And where we find that the dash of the soft rain on one’s face is not death, after all; that wetness and dryness are merely relative terms. All the centuries of fussing and fuming with the weather have not affect ed the weather one particle; it still rains, and snows, and sleets, and blows, just as dictated by circumstances.^ Therefore, what’s the use? Are your puny diatribes, or mine, of any greater potency than those of others gone before? Evidently not; accordingly, try the plan of being friendly with the weather—of agreeing with it instead of fighting it—and, ’pon my word, pres ently it will be agreeing with you.—Lippincott’s. ^ We Burn Almost as Fast As We Build Ey F. IV. Fitzpatrick. HE cost of fire and its accessories, in round numbers, is just a p ^ rt S about an even $000,000,000 a year. It may be but a peculiar 5 5 coincidence, or perhaps it is an unconscious economic ad- S H 1 justment, that with all our phenomenal growth and the tre- 5 T mendous boom and vast amount of building carried on in some years, the most active year we have ever had in building construction netted just $615,000,OOO’s worth of buildings and alterations during the twelve months. So that W’ith all our vaunted activity, we produce in money value only a trifle more than what w'e destroy. Worse than that, in the first month of the present year our losses by fire v/ere over $2.4,000,000, and during the same time we expended but $16,000,000 in new buildings and repairs. Our average flre loss is $19,000,000 a month—a “normal” month. But the confla gration risk is such that we have “abnormal” months with startlingly normal regularity. In February of 1904 Baltimore raised that month’s figure to $90 - 000,000, and in April of 1906 San Francisco added $356,000,000 to the “normal’’ month’s loss. In five years’ time the total has been $1,257,710,000. No other nation on earth could stand the drain, and even we are beginning to feel It * McClure’s Magazine. Pharaoh the Oppressor This Is the Rameses IVho Looms Over ths ^Syp^ of To-Day. By Robert Hichens. IICE a cloud, a great golden cloud, a glory impending that will not, cannot, be dissolved into the ether, he (Rameses) loomed over the Egypt that is dead, he looms over the Egypt of today. Everywhere you meet his traces, every- where you hear his name. You say to a tall, young Egyp tian: “How big you are growing, Hassan!” - He answers; “Come back next year, my gentleman, — ^wd I shall be like Rameses the Great.” you ask of the boatman who rows you; “How ran ^amst the current of the Nile?" And he smiles, and lifting U.S brown arm, he says to you: -Look. I am as strong as Rameses toe drea'atd'rwC; Pharaoh vj^^o oppressed the children of Israel.—The Century. —Cartoon by Bush, in the New York World. AMERICANS INVENT lOHDERFOL TOYS, For t!i8 First Tiffii) I'feey Outstrip Foreign Mates by Us3 0* Electricity—OMtimers Are Retired—Yomg America Wants Cars Ttiit Are Run by a SpriDg, But Must HaTB a Tiiird Rail. New York City.—The coming to the forefront of the electrical toys in this year’s Christmas display is a signal for the foreign toy makers to watch out for American competition. Prac tically all the devices with motor and dynamo attachments are of domestic make. Until very recent years nearly all the playthings sold in this country were imported from France, Germany and Austria, Vv'ith a few from Eng land, but nov/ it looks as if America were taking up the trade In earnest, and it is a far larger industry than the casual shopper would ever dream. I^ast year- Germany, v.'hich leads in toy manufacturing, exported $15,- 000,000 worth, v/hilc France, w'hich ranks second, sent out $7,500,000. Estimated on tho fact that we import ed between 10,000,000 and 12,000,- 000 toys and doils, not counting a thirty-five per cent, duty, it is reck oned that lasc year's retail sales of foreign and domestic plr.ythings came to at least $30,000,000. *lt was with the intrcduclion of ex pensive iron toys that America bsgan to supply some of its own demand, so that now, while the domestic pr9ducts do not equal the imports, they make a considerable factor, and threaten more and raore to drive cut the for eign makers. This Is strikingly shov.^n in the new electrical toys, v.'hieh depend so largely for their succcss on the inge nuity of the inventor—the forte of the American mechanic—rather tl:an on the technical skill of the ordinary workman—a Vveak point here. As long as iron toys were mad^ to run by screws and mechanism, Ger many v;cn able to hold rhe marliet becansc of the greater technical pro- ficiencv of her factory hands. A boy from their trade schools coiiirl do the work which requires a skilled man here making it rcssible for the Ger man ipctory to turn out cheaper and better toys. However, some clever American mechanic hit upon the scheme of sub stituting electricicy for mechanism, greatly to the .loy of the American boy, and at the same time greatly to the advr^nta^e cf American toymak- erg. Now, instead 0* windins up a box to keep the train 0“ cars a-nioving, they are placed on third rail sys tem. By making tiie cars very light, a battery too v^eakJLa shock the small proprietor will operate the cars suc cessfully. Tjesides initiating him into the mysteries of the switch, sema phore and round house, there are electric trip-hammers, punches, dy namos, scroll saws, buzz saws and chain and bucket derricks, all new this year, to the credit of American ingenuity. A far more skillful piece of mech anism is the German ferryboat train. The cars go around the track and on the boat, while the stopping of the train sets the ferryboat in motion; then it moves across the imaginary river, landing the cars at the statiov. This, however, is v/orked by a plain spring. In vain the demonstrator of an air ship run by an elastic band does his duty as a “barker,” shouting that his device will last a j'ear, while the bat tery will wear out in a week. The boy fixes his longing instead on a tiny model of the Zeppelin airship, dif ferently propelled, but a perfcct copy in appearance. Aside from the mass of electrical toys there are a few mechanical de vices of American invention exhibited in this year’s Cliristnias stock of toys. One is a “jack-in-the-boi” top, which starts spinning in the case, then lifts the lid and hops out without stopping its motion. There is also a lazy boy’s top, which winds its own string while spinning. There is a whale, which swims across a tub of water, spouting gorgeously on his jollr^e3^ “Mr. _Jigger” is a many-jointed, wooden figure which jigs to any tune whistled or sung by merely rapping a board in time. The uncanny dancing mannikin drav/s crowds which tax the imagination of its barker, w’ho pro claims its virtues as an infant pacifier. “Your baby begins to cry. P.!ace this on the sev.’ing machine, and, holding thf; board with one elbow, be gin to rap.” The demonstrator fol lowed his own directions, producing an unholy clatter, to which the man nikin jigged. “The baby sees him dance. He stops crying. Ke begins to crow”—and the zealous salesman pounds harder than ever. “Not on your life,” contradicts a sturdy looking matroa. raising her voice above the noise. “You’re a real smart yoang man, no doubt, but any human young one I ever see v.^ould yell murder. I’ve brought up six, and ought to know.” The matron pushes her v,’ay out without purchasing, and the demon- strator starts the phonograph to cover his confusion. While every one is catering to the American boy, they don’t do as much for his sister. There is .iust one new kind of doll, a “rolypoly,” adapted from the Japanese, which turjis som ersaults. During the late war the Japanese merchants made them in th6 guise of Russian grenadiers for the little .Taps to knock about, and this >*ear the “ro'oT-oly” bas found its way to the Amsrican home. A?.;de from slight variations in wardrobe, it’s the same old doll, and the eame old doll-house, perhaps elec tric lighted. Nobody makes toy wash ing machines orbread-mixers to teach the little ghis the business methods of to-day. Nobod:/ tries to appeal to her naturril inclination?. Probablj this is because nearly all Soils come from Germany, v.'hero the Empsroi preaches “chiMren, church and cook- ing” for the girls. Dolls are known in this country as French, because the first jointed ones came from Paris. The thousands turned out to-day are German imita tions. M. Top, president of the Toy- makers’ Association,laments that now there are no longer French-made dolls to be had in France. Following the success of the Teddy bear, this season brings daschhunds. mastiifs, cats and even a good sized cow with a most convincing moo. The tiger roars when you pull his string, but none of these things sssm to have the subtle fascination of th? Teddy bear. - WBAT EECASE OF TBE FSOQ TBAT CAUSED THE EUCTiOS? Ccui>le Jump luto Well to iSscape Bear Cliaslns: XUem as Xlieii House is Bnrninsr* their wild flight been suddenly halted by a big black bear rushing ferocious ly at them from- the opposite direc tion. The Pepoons whirled instantly and rushed for their dwelling, the bear after them and gaining. Just as they neared the clearing they noticed their house was on fire, probably due to the overturning of a kerosene lamp in their hasty exit. To escape the bear both Jumped into a well, from which, almost dead, they were rescued after neighbors shot the bear. The dwelling waf burned to ashes. Hardy, Ark.—Mrs. Maud Pepoon, wife of Henry Pepoon, a farmer on Blue Clay Creek, got up the other morning and proceeded to search her husband’s trousers, as was her usual custom, but instead of finding the customary collection of small change she grasped a giant bullfrog. Her wild shriek woke her husband, who leaped from his bed, Intending to tell her it was all a joke, but she already had rushed out of the door and, into the adjoining woods, still screaming. Pepoon pursued her, and both might have been running yet had not 35,000 KILIED IN LAST TEAR. 2.0oo,o00 Other Worl^ineu injured in United states Kactories \A/ *1 CJ rl t T"\ /'I TP% _ J _ ^ ^ ^ Washington, D. C.—Between 30,- 000 and 35,000 deaths and 2,000,000 injured is the accident record in the United States during the last year among workingmen, according to a bulletin on accidents issued by the Bureau of Labor. Of those employed in factories and workshops it is as serted that probably the most exposed class are the workers in iron and steel. Fatal accident^among electri cians and electric linemen and coal miners are said to be excessive, while railway trainmen were killed in the proportion of 7.46 deaths for 1000 employes. The bulletin says much that could be done for the protection of the workingman is neglected, though many and far-reaching improveroeat® pave oeen introduced in factorv prac* tice during the last decade. Southern Agricultural Topics, Modern Methods That Are Hielpful to Farmer, Fruit Grower and Stockman. Farm Accounts. Th.ere is scarcely any business In which a thorough system of book keeping is more sadly needed than in farming, and none in which it is so neglected. The merchant and the manufacturer knov/ the value of their investments, their expenditures and returns, their net profits and what lines of their business it pays to push with most vigor. What has been said of the merchant and the manufactur ing classes applies to all the great business of the country excepting the greatest of all, farming. The average farmer, with numer ous sources of income, too often does not give them sufficient thought, sep arately, but is concerned mainly about the total, "rhe returns from the sale of his live stock, grain, hay, fruit, vegetables, etc., constitute his income, and is lodged in the bank and family purse as received from time to time. If after the supplies for the home and the farm are paid for and his debts are settled there is yet a balance in his favor or he is just able to meet his obligations, he is consid ered successful, though .iust why there is a surplus he cannot say. Ke may have lost money on his cattle and wheat, but cleared enough from the sale of his sheep, hogs and corn to cover up the losses in the first case. Had he paid rent on the farm instead of just his taxes as owner, and made reasonable charges for the labor of himself and familj, and charged the farm for all plant food sold off of it, the accounts might huve balanced dif ferently. Usually a crop of grain or a drove of finished live stock is sold and money received which pays debts and buys supplies. The question, “Was it really profitable?” does not arise, but the farmer should know. How much more intelligently the farmer could carry on his business if he rail an account with every phase of it. If he knew v/hat is cost to produce each bushel of grain and veg etables. each ton of stover, knev/ what were the profits per acre from each field, and what the losses were on the poor patches, what were the profits on the beef cattle and hogs, and the losses on that unfinished raw bonsd steer and that short, rough, bristly hog, which cow was helping to keep the family and which cow was not paying for her keep, there would be a reorganization of his busines?. The most profitable W'ould receive the greater attention, the less profitable would become secondary, and the money losses would be dropped. Of course the objection of “Too much trouble” or “Can’t be done,” is offered, but neither is tenable, for some farmers are keeping close ac counts in their farm operations and find the practice a pleasant diversion from their other work. In the w'ri- ter's ow’n neighbcrhcod corn has been fed by farmers experimentally. As a result the feeders have learned that corn may be, and is, fed so p.s ti, scarcely bring any returns, and may in some cases neL the farmer from seventy-five cents to SI. Another farmer kept accounts v/ith his corn field and wheat field and discovered that under favorable ccnditions he can produce corn at from thirty to forty cents per bushel, and wheat at from forty to fifty cents per bushel. In many'cases farmers can tell you what are the profits of their dairy, and a smaller number know what are the profits from each cow. —Liake R. Neel, in Southern AgricuUur.st. Oregon Vetcli——What .1 T.ouisiana Planter Thinks of It. I am a merchant planter and have been postmaster here for twenty-five years; have thousands of acres of land, sc have no axe to grind, but vrrite this article for the good it w^ill do. The boll weevil and low class labor at a high price get me to raising things at home, and experimenting with things to improve the worn out cotton farms and for something of merit for a winter pasture. For two years I have planted Oregon w'inter vetch, in my mind the greatest plant ever introduced here. There are about forty kinds of vetch, all import ed, but easily grown in this country, as it is a winter pea and perfectly hardy anywhere; but there Is one va riety that excels all others, and that is the kind known as Oregon winter, but siiiCe ii: has become so popular, many of the firms selling the old kinds have named theirs Oregon, and I wish to tell the difference. Hairj or sand ^etch and several of the old varieties are good, but the pods are short and the yield cf green or dry feed is nothing like Oregon. I planted the Oregon on land that had been in cultivation for seventy years; some of it covered with the worst kind of Bermuda sod. The vetch planted in the late summer grew fino all fall, winter and spring, and when the other feed was avail able in the sprang, the stock ■were taken off time to plant the corn, cotton, or anv ordinary crop. The finest and best hay ever fed was mowed, and the yield was simply immense, and enough seed popped out when the hay was curing to reseed the land, and the following fall it again germinated, and the grandest sight ever seen in this section was in April, when the vetch was several f^t deep all over the land, and when -cut made moro hay to the acre than .—ything I ever saw. Oregon winter ve.tch is the best of the. legumes, and stores more of the free nitrogen than anything ia the order of cowpeas, clovers, etc. It :.5 very inexpensive. It makes a fine winter pasture for all kinds of stock. It will improve the soil, make winter pasture and the best known early hay, and still leave the land ready for ordinary crops* and seed popped cut to come up in the fall, when nothing else will grow.—John T. Prude, De- Soto County, Louisiana, in Progressivd Farmer. Wood Aslies as a Fertilizer Foi* Fruit Trees. It is only right that the farmer should, when possible, utilize every waste product on the farm. There accumulates around the house dur ing the winter season a quantity of wood ashes, Vvhich are of some fer tilizing value, their principal constii,-. uent of plant f^od being potasi:. If these ashes have not been ex posed to rains (which will cause the very soluble potash to leach out) they may be used in the orchard to a good advantage. While ashes may be ap plied closer to the body cf a tree than manures, they should not be banked too closely. One peck of strong, un- leached ashss spread about a newiy set tree is enough, while from one to three bushels should be used for a tree five years old and upwards. Ashe.i may be applied almost any time, and a good v. ay is to carry tho ashes to the orchard as they are re moved from the stove. Since potash is the valued element in wood ashes, and since it is also the one so much needed in the orchard (insuring early ripening, rich color and solid fruit) the farmer should see that it is only unieached ashes he applies. While it will be all right to use the amount made on his farrj?, it is not good practice to buy elsewhere. It means paying too much for the percentage of potash they contal.n, not to mention the expense of hauling. It is belter and cheaper to supplement the home supply by using Kainit or high-grade muriate of potash. "When these cannot be readily obtained, a fertilizer containing two per cent, ni trogen, six per cent, phosphoric acid and eight per cent, potash may be applied. While such a mixture may be put under and around a newiy set tree, ic need not be put nearer than four feet of the body of a bearing tree. It should be applied to the surface and then turned under, so as to bfc placad ;Ic*r'ii L.ear to the feediug roots. Coal ashes are cf little value ex cept on wet liinds, and that is the kind of land on which friiit trses shouia ne/er he planted.—D. L Diiri' can. * T-Iakiiig: llic Flot'fc Eetf.er. Thai is what we all v/an!; to do make our fiocks better. The qaesticin is hew to do ii:. One way is to ssi eggs that are from some rellahls kee;per of well bred stock and cns’s own superior hens. The time for that however, has gone by for this season It is new too late to hatch chicks wit*: any expectation that they v.*ill bo £ source of revenue n=xt winter. Another way is to sell off those that are not doing good v/ork. and those that are getting so old that they may coon fail. It does not takj a man or woman w'ho keeps the eyes open long to find out which hens arc not doing a profitable business. Trai nests are g'ood, but not absolutely es sential to that end. When it has been decided that a hen is running behind, that is, that she does not pa5 for keeping—better let her go aj soon as possible. Weeding out the hens that are get ting along in years is a more difficult matter. Some of ihese hens are lay ing pretty well now. We do not know how long they will keep that up, but often we are led to say “These hens are doing w'ell; I believt I will keep them another year.” Bu’ that may be a costly year for you It is, in fact, the best possible rule tc let every hen go that has,gotten tc be two or three years old. This h j safe, for who can say when a her ' may begin to fail? Having weeded these hens out, i< you have pullets coming on, keep them to take the piace of those sold; if not, perhaps you can buy some oi a neighbor who has a surplus, pro viding his stock be good. Always worlr. fi)r the best thing. Be satisfied with nothiPET less.—E. L. Vincent. Proverbs and PhrMOf. Flee pleasures, and pleasures Trill Tollow thee,—French. Fools must be taught by experi- •2nce.—Livy. God never sendeth mouth but He ^^endeth meat.—German. 3 here is no use in regretting the past. At the same time is may be 'jid that sometimes it shows desir- ible qualities of mind and heart to lO so. Hmnor and PJiilosoplty.' Never encourage scandal. It ha.'r a way of getting on without encou ragement, and so you wijl win a rep utation for reticence that will natu rally eause you to be intrusted with the choicest bits. The trouble about being goo.l friends with a doctor is you never can tell when he is looking you over with a professional eye and apprais ing your pocketbook.
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