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THE NOVELETTE ! two minutes of optimism OBJECT LESSONS (Henry Ward Beecher) 0ne would almost think that eyes ' lU arrangement to prevent peo W'ellfrom seeing. The same thought ple d in th miend of the old pro "hoosand of years ago: "Eyes r! v they, but they see not." It is ftT,nd what they do not. One pair for instance, win iciuiu tiuu win uavc 0 a mi oimnst suner-numan fa- . ac; it seems iu u 'wi -t 'every ribbon every dress, every 1 - -cvn look, every posture of ac Vr'a thousand people. Our own tlt"" ' looking upon the same scene, luid not have seen one of all these tilS pair of eyes will go through iWth of Broadway, and see only ; who seem to look upon the tver of said eyes. Another pair nV-ot have seen one person in that U -walk nor have missed one horse iilai walked, trotted, capered, or c'ip-triilv pulled. 0 man will see all the children, Ve sweet, rosy-faced, clean ones rhfqv the ragged and keen-faced sr'el" sadly. One man will see all ilnt art can exhibit, and another rojMn' of it at all. One man sees machines and mechanical contrivan ces; another sees only dresses and cv.pwv things. Xovv and then there is a rare head whose eyes seem to take in every- t,jni: from a mouse that scuds into a hole, up through all varieties "of ctiii or active life to the very top. some there be who will see noth ing. For all the effects produced upon them Broadway is as empty as a -,oer in Tadmor. Their eyes seem to have been made up with unpre pared nerves, so that, like a daguer rt'an plate without' chemical coating, r.o'hing acts upon it. and no picture Is burned in. Unprepared nerves, so that, like a (iamerrean plate without chemical coating, nothing ac.ts upon it, and no r.imire is burned in. It is a great pity that we are not taught, in our early days, how to see. I; i- wore important than reading and writing, than arithmetic or geo graphy. In a world of soundless wasurs. above, beneath, on every yje. we walk as if there were but few things worth seeing. And even these when we have looked upon iIva once or twice, we exhaust, and suppose that we have really seen tin m! A man shall pass and repass a a burdock growing near the path which he daily treads going to and returning from his work. He would lauch if he were told that he did not know that familiar plant. And yet, in making it, God put upon it and within it a hundred things which are worth observation, but which this man never sees or suspects. The least things that come from Cods hands are so full, so compact of qualities, that they will bear close scrutiny and long study. And we think that the chief advantage to be t'erived from teaching children to draw is not to be found in ihe pic tures made, but in the new eyesight gained. This, however, Implies that they are to be taught to craw direc ly from nature, and not from copy' l ooks. Let a child study a plant, in ordr t odniw it, and he will rind out more about it in one day than other wise he would in a lifetime. We only glance at things. We overlook more than we eee in the things which we see most thor oughly. It would b"a good exercise for winter evenings for children to have placed before them a rosebush ;n a flowerpot, and let each tell what he sees, and keep the list; and then let older eyes do the same; and then from all together, make out a more complete one; and laying it aside, every day, when things occur after wards, let them be put down. The eye is susceptible of more training than perhaps any other of the senses. Fineness of sight length of vision, comprehensiveness, or the number of things taken In at once, and rapidly, these may be so fa developed , that the educated eye is as far above the uneducated as re fined and cultivated mind is beyond a savage one. Houdin, the great French necromancer, relates th prac tice of himself and son in preparing for one part of their jugglery. They trained their eyes to take in at a glance, from a shop window, from a store full of varieties, from the face of books in library, the greatest num ber of things. They came to such perfection that in simply walking past a library case they could after wards tell you nearly every book on its shelves, and its relative position. Their eyes seemed to be acted upon in a manner not unlike the photo graphic process. A picture was instantly formed. And, afterwards, it rose up before its memories as if the original thing stood before them Such incidents show how little use is yet made of eyes, and how little we suspect the capabilities of education. Potentiality Of Time. . Men of business are accustomed to nuote the maxim thatTime Is Money; ut it is more; the 'proper improve ment of it is self-culture, self-improvement, and growth of character. An hour wasted daily on trifles or in indolence, would, if devcted to self improvement, make an ignorant man yise in a few years, and, employed m good works, would mase.his life truitful, and death a harvest of worthy deels. Fifteen minutes a ay devoted to self-improvement will Je felt at the end of the year. Good thoughts and carefully fathered ex perience take up no more room, and may be carried about as oar com panions everywhere, without cost or incumbrance. . Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medi cine, but lost time is gone forever. 'y Herman J. Stitch) Overtime Thinkine. "This stui: about forgeeins your work as soon as you quit the office and 'resting the mind' . is a lot of bosh," Charley Schwab once said to me. "Few big men ever completely forget or get away from their respon sibilities." N ' Is it not so? Haven't we all no ticed it? Isn't it a fact that the fruitfulness of a man & office hours depends upon the turn of his thoughts in hie leisure nours? Almost every man who is pre-eminent whether as merchant, writer, artist, scientist, statesman, lawyer or physician is inseparable froir his work. You can't play at work, but you can always work at play. This does ont mean that d man's recreative hours should be pppres down with the import and portent of his labors; it means simply keeping in a receptive frame or mind, staying on the subconscious watch for op portunity, playing yet with busi ness. This is what I meaz.. A Massachusetts soldier in the Ci vil War went hunting with busi ness; shot a bird that was hulling rice, and, taking its bill for a model, invented a hulling machine" which re volutionized the rice business as Eli Whitney's cotton gin revolutionizel the cotton industry. Archimedes took a bath with busi ness; and discovered the law of hy drostatics. Newton rested under a tree with business; and discovered the laws of gravitation. ( Galileo went to church with business; and evolved the pendulum clock. Goodyear cooked his meals with business and discovered how' to vul canize rubber. Our best writers go to bed with business and get some of their best ideas on the verge of slumberland. When you hear people say that so and so was lucky, he came upon this or that by "accident" don't begin to lose faith and talk about "luck" and such. Do a little investigating and you will find in almost every case that the "find" was the reward of over time thinking; that js, playing with business. Critical Recognition. (Medicine Lodge, Kan., Index.) The trap drummer in the jazz or chestra had been hitting the hooch. He had set his music srana within reach, but it started to- fall. He reached for it and it upset and hit the bass drum. The "arum rolled over, dropping the cash cymbal, and upset the xylophone, and the xylo- j phone knocked over the cow bell. In reaching for the xylophone tne drum mer's fee slipped and he sat down on the baby squawker and tne wood block fell with a loud crash on the tympani. "What wonderful music!" gurgled the jazz girl. "TJUa orcnes tra certainly keeps right up to date in all the new stuff." YOUNGEST GIRL, TO ' BE ADMITTED TO BAR Miss Carrick Hume Buck is the youngest woman ever admitted to the bar. At the age of 21 she grad uated from the law school of the University of Southern California and recently admitted as a practicing attorney. She is a grand niece of James Monroe, fifth President of the United States. DON'T BE MISLED Oxford Citizens Should Read and Heed This Advice. Kidney trouble is dangerous and often fatal. Don't experiment with something new and untried. Use a tested kidney remedy. Begin with Doan's Kidney Pills. Used in kidney troubles 50 years. Recommended here and every where. An Oxford citizen's statement forms convincing proof. Ask your neighbor! - . It's local testimony it can be in vestigated. Mrs. L. M. Wood, 32 Penn Ave., Oxford, says: "Some time ago I used Doan's Kidney Pills and got wonderful results. I was troubled with nervous headaches and the least thing irritated me. My kidneys didn't act properly, either, and my condition was pretty bad. Doan's Kidney Pills were recommended to me and I began taking them. I am glad to say they relieved me of every sympton of this trouble." Price 60c at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mrs. Wood had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. WEAK, NERVOUS, ALL RUN-DOWN Missouri Lady Suffered Until Sha Tried Cardui. Says "Result Was Suiprising."--Got Along Fine, Became Normal and Healthy. Springfield Mo. "My back was so weak I could hardly stand up, and I would have bearing-down pains and was not well at any time," says Mrs. D. V. Williams, wife of a well-known farmer on Route 6, this place. "I kept getting headaches and having to go to bed," continues Mrs. Williams describing the troubles from which she obtained relief through the use of Cardui. "My husband, haying heard of Cardui, proposed getting it for me. "I saw after taking some Cardui . . . that I was improving. The result was surprising. I felt like a different person. "Later I suffered from weakness and weak back, and felt all run-down. I did not rest well at night, I was so nervous and cross. My husband said he would get me some Cardui, which he did. It strengthened me . . . Mr doctor said I got along fine. I was in good .healthy condition. I cannot say too much for it," Thousands of women hare suffered as Mrs. Williams describes, until they found relief from ' the use of Cardui. Since it has helped so many, you Should not hesitate to try Cardui If troubled witn womaniy aiuacuia. We are proud of the confidence doctors-drug- gists and the public have ; sn in uoo luniu ana rever Tonic. Lady Surma, the first woman president of a nation, is ca'ef execu tive of the new Assyrian renublic. was ambassador to England GIRLS! BLEACH SKIN WHITE WITH LEMON from the Assyrians when she obtain ed from England the grant of 80,000 square miles of land in the Kurdis tan Mountains. Lapland has- had a heat wave, says a S'pitzbergen dispatch The thermometer is at 86 degrees at times and the Eskimos have laid a- lemon lotion to bleach and bring that Squeeze the juice of two lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of Orchard White, which any drug store will suddIv for shake well, and you have a quarter i pint or narmless and del'ghtfui le mon bleach. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the face, neck, arms, and hands each day, then shortly npte the beauty ard white ness of your skin. famous stage beauties use this sasiiii way their fur garments and are bath ing. Keindeer and gild game are suffering from the excessive neai. sort, clear, rosyuwhite connie-sinn. also as a freckle, sunburn, and tau bleach because it doesn't irritate. f Hue Wmimm to YOUR EYES. KEEP THEM RIGHT BY GETTING GLASSES PROM J. W. KNIGHT, THE OPTOMETRIST, 6 COLLEGE ST. HEP WHY BE SICK? A gerat deal of sickness in lifp is unnec essazr and avoidable. Thousands of hours that are spent in sick beds should nevep have happened. Carelessness is one of the prin cipal reasons for so much sickness. Our Drug lines are complete and we fill prescriptions accurately and promptly. We re in good shape to give you the needed attention in all medicines to avoid a sum mer of sickness. LYini C ROLAND L. GOOCH FRANK F. LYON In Business for Your Health "Is the Place." 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