Jobs That Are Easy
Not Worth While
; By President Roosevelt.
this life, as a rule, the job that is easy to do is not very well
worth -while doing. 'Now, let each man here look back in his life
o and think what it is that he is proud of in it what part of it he is
glad to hand on as a memory to his sous and daughters. Is it
0003 his hours of ease? No, not a bit. It is the memory of his success,
of his triumph, and the triumph and the success could only come through
work applause, the rough effort.
i Is not that true? Let each one think for himself, look back in your oa
Teers and if you have not got it in you to feel most proud of the time when
you worked I think but little of you. Laughter and applause. Who are
the heroes of this nation? "Who are the two men that you think of at once?
Washington and Lincoln. Applause. Each one of them all his days Avorked
for himself and worked for others; one faced death on a score of stricken
fields, and one met it at the hands of an assassin for the country's sake.
They are the men whom Americans delight to honor they and those like
ihem. There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease
Svhose name is worth remembering.
Now understand me. Make holidays. I believe in holidays. I believe in
play and in playing hard while you play, but don't make a business of it.
Laughter and applause. Do your work and do it up to the handle, and
jthen play when you have got time to play.
Poverty aaci Sorrow vs.
Prosperity and Happiness
By N. E. Badgley.
3SUJHJHlH,i$ IIILE Mr. Jay Cooke's view upon labor and capital are
iSfcfragVcfetSS about all that one should expect from a capitalistic point
parties concerned, lie states that "Rockefeller's money is
all here,' and that "Morgan won't eat his millions." From
r&Z whenrp canid ihpsn hundreds of millions which are so mi-
iHiHSuS. Justly claimed by a few
produce all wealth and capital? Is the individual capi
talization of a half-billion so essential to the common good that the millions
who labor to produce it should be kept on starvation wages from generation
to generation? The maudlin talk and brazen effrontery of those who intimate
that a common brotherhood could be established on such a tyrannical basis
as this only show their extreme cupidity and lack of intelligence concern
ing the laws of equity and the common needs of humanity in a civilized
country. Mr. Cooke unwittingly states that these many millions of wealth
will eventually return to the people! To this I say never; no, never, so
long as our present politico-economic methods are enforced. The demise of
these rich men will simply allow their immense fortunes to pass into the
possession of a few heirs, who will continue to rob the vast majority of us,
and add to their wealth, millions upon millions, to gratify their unworthy
selfishness. Their sympathy for common humanity is about as deep as
that of the slave holder, who sees his fortune only in the men that toil.
There is, however, a very reasonable and an equitable way of changing all
of this turmoil, poverty and sorrow into one of cheerful industry, general
prosperity, contentment and happiness. Any one with average intelligence
and a little reflection should know that a civilization producing no better
results for mankind than this we now have is far from being what it ought
to be and far from what it would be if we simply correct our four
greatest evils. These are ignorance, intemperance, concentrated wealth and
usury. These opposites are intelligence, temperance, distributive wealth and
low interest.
Is Man or Woman
the Social
By J. Saxe Du Bue.
Tn3TJtJt!TC!?IE question whether man shall resign to woman the initia
TJX3XTUXTO tive iu making proposals of marriage is just now agitating
"CTCF rptJtJ the mind feminine and finding expression in the columns of
I tTCF the daily press. The burden of their opinions is that women
A shall propose. Buc it so happens that they are not the arbi
TO TO
ters of such matters, and
XXCX2X2X)U ctmtmue to WflS along in the same old way and man continue
to propose while woman disposes still.
There is a feature of this discussion that is worth a passing notice, even
if the discussion itself is trivial and idle. It is this:
While women may discuss such questions pro and con, man is the social
arbiter, and upon him alone will depend the solution of this and similar
problems. Writing from the standpoint of a man, I hardly believe that
man's mind is about to undergo such a revolution as to permit him to allow
womnn to mmrp this time-honored and reasonable prerogative.
Difficult r.s ir may be for some men to screw their courage up to the
proposing pitch. .mee they conclude that the only bliss for them is the con
jugal b!Ns, they feel that it is a game worth many times the candle, and
they will continue to hold it as one of their rights; and the woman who
preaches that woman should propose will find, probably to her sorrow,
that she will ::ot make a brilliant success if she endeavors to practice what
she preaches, and thai, en the other hand, the preaching of such nonsense
puts her farther from being proposed to by the sort of man a woman might
desire to win than she ever was before.
What is so attractive in woman as a sweet, retiring disposition; one that
waits to be courted, one that keeps her lily sweetness to herself until she. 3s
won by the attentions of some worthy man? Do not men infinitely prefer
a woman with such a disposition to one who spots some man cut for her
prey and then sets out to catch him?
Do we want a race in the future where the man looks after the babies
and the household affairs while the wife goes to the club and loafs about
the hotel and such? Do we want a race that is the incarnation of the funny
man's idea of 1 ho new woman and her twentieth century "hubby?" Then,
give us women who propose and it will come to that.
On the other hand, if Ave want wives we can love, admire and respect;
wives who can rule as the presiding genius of the sacred precincts cf the
home; wives who we can feel are to be protected from the cruelties of life;
wives who command all the gallantry and knightly devotion that are in us,
let us still choose the dear mortal who disposes rather than her sister who
insists on proposing.
A Monster Topaz.
An interesting story of a valuable
topaz now in the possession of fcignor
Nicola Careili comes from Naples, says
the Rome correspondent of the London
Leader. The topaz which Signer Car
eili brought back from I'.-.vM some
years ago is so large that it is said to
weigh over two pounds. A Neapolitan
artist, seeing the stone, begged to be al
lowed to engrave the figure of Christ
on It in cameo. The work is now Mu
lshed and Signer Carol I i has beeu look
ing for a purchaser. The value of the
jewel Is, however, so great th:it even
the Tone himself, to whom it Mas of
fered, could not afford to buy it. Fin
ally. "'J3 the Italic, a committee has
men as their own? Does not labor
Arbiter?
that consequently the world will
been formed in Naples with the pur
pose of buying the jewel from its pres
ent owner by public subscription and
offering it to Leo XIII. as a jubilee
present. Ft is to be hoped, therefore,
that this wonderful treasure will be
seen by visitors to the Vatican Mu
seum. Signor Careili declares that
there is no other such stone in the
world.
"King Edward's Oak" which the
King planted, when Prince of Wales,
in Central Park, New York City, and
which was declared to bp dying not
long ago. has been doctored by the
; park authorities, and .? now believed
' to be in coudiiion to live, -
GOOD
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ROADS.
ltoaria in Massachusetts.
TN 1S93 the Massachusetts Legislat
I ure passed an act to provide for an
I appointment of a highway cominis-J-
sion to improve the public roads.
The hist appropriation for State aid
was made iu 1S94, and more than
$-1,000,000 has beeu expended to im
prove the roads of this State. The
cost of the roads is divided as follows:
The State pays three-quarters and the
county one-quarter.
The cost of these roads has varied
from $2o00 to $15,000 per mile, accord
ing to the conditions which were met.
The standard width of broken stone
roadway, as built by the Massachusetts
commission, is fifteen feet, and each
side of this a width of three feet is
shaped to the same cross section as the
broken stone. These side strips or
shoulders are covered with gravel on
much Traveled highways only; on all
others the natural soil is used.
The rock used for the stone roads has
come from quarries, banks, fields and
river beds. There is great variation in
the quality of rock used. In the selec
tion of road building rock traffic and
cost are carefully studied, and the cost
of maintenance, as well as construc
tion, is taken into account. Tray rock
is unquestionably the most economical
material for the surface of roads of
heavy traffic. All Massachusetts State
roads are compacted by the use of
steam rollers both during construction
and permanent repairs.
Where the travel Is light gravel roads
have been constructed and good results
have been obtained. On the sandy
shores of Cape Cod, where it would
have been very expensive to haul bro
ken stone, a good road was built with
sand, clay and some broken stone,
mixed, which under the conditions
very light traffic and perfect drainage
have proved very satisfactory. Large
sums of money have been expended
where necessary for nuderdrains.
As a result of these good roads built
by the State the cities and towns have
generally taken up this question of bet
ter roads, and have made a great im
provement in their systems, as they
were quick to realize the value of good
roads.
Iu Massachusetts the commission en
deavors to improve the main arteries
of travel between the important centres
of trade.
Farmers and Good Itoads.
In all States that have given State
aid for roads the farmers at first op
posed it, but at the present time they
are loudest ic their demands for im
provement of the roads, as they appre
ciate that they are really benefited the
most because they are continually
using the roads in hauling their pro
ducts to market, which they can do at
all seasons of the year over a good
road. The saving made to farmers in
States where they have good roads is
enormous. The greater portion of the
cost of State aid, of course, has to be
borne by the cities on account of the
greater valuation.
The lowest estimate of the cost of
the bad roads tax, that of Professor
Latta, of Perdue University, collated
from the certified experience of practi
cal farmer; in forty counties of the
State of Indiana amounts to seventy
seven cents per acre annually, or $30
per square mile of farm area, and there
are 1,000,000 square miles of farm
area in the United States; $."00,000,000,
or three times the cost of all the com
mon schools in the country are thus
wasted.
A Farmer Has Something to Say.
"Writing to the Tri-Weekly Tribune a
farmer in Albany County, New York,
makes Ihe following wise suggestions
regard the proper location of road
beds:
"For many years I was a farmer, oc
cupying a farm-lying on the Susque
hanna River, and one of the most irk
some, tedious duties of my calling was
working out my highway tax, for this
reason: There, right along what might
have been almost a water level high
way, the road went up one hiil and
down another, up one pitch and down
another. True, when the country was
first settled at the close of the Revolu
tion "swamps and quagmires had to be
avoided and the roads and paths had
to go over knolls and bills, but now the
country is so cleared up aud drained,
surely it is neither civilization nor pro
gress to do it any longer. And I would
suggest that before any moneys are
expended for bettering or improving
the present highway system a re-survey
of them be made, following the
present lines wherever there are reas
onably level grades, and wherever such
lines strike a hill or knoll go around it,
re-entering the old road again when
ever practicable. I know such chang
ing of roads Avould work hardship to
many farmhouses, but the 'greatest
good to the greatest number,' and that
nmnlK-r is the public.
"I am aware that great objection
would be made to such a course by
many who would be left at a distance
from the highway, but not a railroad
would, ever have been constructed if
certain individuals through whose
farms such roads passed could have
prevented them. I am also Avell aware
that in crossing the ridges from one
stream to another such grades would
bo impracticable, but in many cases
such roads might be wonderfully im
proved by a little judicious re-surveying.
"We profess to be a civilized, pro
gressive people, and, if anything is
done in a public or national way to im
prove the highways why not do it thor
oughly, so that it will not need doing
over again."
J. P. MORGAN PERMITS. .
They Arc All the Kago in London at Pres
ent A Few Samples.
They take J. Pierpont Morgan very
seriously in London, and they also get
a good deal-of fun out of his supposed
ownership of the earth. The street
vendors are selling little printed cards
bearing legends that indicate the prev
alent, idea that he is the supreme ruler
of the world. These cards find eager
purc hasers. For instance, when - the
head of the family is detained in the
city to an unusual hour, he presents to
his indignant spouse one of these cards,
bearing the words:
Permit bearer to be late to
dinner on alternate Wednes
days in August.
J. P. MORGAN.
The staid Briton who seeks an ex
cuse for an American cocktail at the
"Cecil'' hands this card to an acquaint
ance: r t
J P.earer has permission to
I treat one friend daily between J
I 5 and 0.30 p. in.
J. T. MORGAN.
At a game of bridge a player whose
rashness gets his partner into difficul
ties produces this justification:
1
Bearer is to be allowed to
go no trump without an ace j
j in his hand. j
j J. P. MORGAN.
Good for one hand only.
I
One of the cards would probably find
a readier sale in America than in
England. It reads:
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j Bearer may take all pots in
which his bluff is not called, j
j I often do so myself.
I J. P. MORGAN.
But the card that is most often seen,
since it fits all occasions and expresses
the Morgan idea most completely, is
this one:
. Permit bearer to walk the face
of the earth and draw breath.
J. T. MORGAN.
Knowledge.
. Have you ever thought how little
besides knowledge passes from gener
ation to generation? Of those things
absolutely necessary to life and to
comfort very little beyond the need?;
of the immediate present accumulates.
Of food, most necessary of all, strive
all Ave can, the limit of accumulation
is but a few months. And of those
things which gi've purely phjsical com
fort clothing, fuel, shelter with Ml
our modern mechanisms and methods
of preservation, we little more than
keep abreast of daily demands. In art
and literature only do we produce
tangible things that survive for the
benefit of the future.
But there is one thing that we do
gain and give and accumulate from
generation to generation a thing more
lasting than any work of art or of lit
eraturemore lasting than even the
ruins of the greatest monuments, and
of more value than all the products
of man combined the one thing that
no fire, no flood, no drouth, no disease,
no famine, no convulsion of nature can
ever destroy knowledge. New York
News.
The Woodcocb.
The food of the woodcock consists
of worms, leeches and grubs, which
the bird seeks by probing with its bill
the earth of such swamps as contain
them. There are miles and miles of
wet (swamp lands among our hills
where the soil, composed of peat and
decayed leaf mold, is too cold and sour
to hold worms; into such swamps the
woodcock never goes. The best wood
cock ground is along the banks of
woodland brooks, that wind in and out
through alder swamps, where the rich
black moldjs soft and full of worms,
and where the skunk cabbage and
hellebore grows thick and broad leafed.
Such places are the woodcock's dining
rooms, aud in them he leaves his sigu
manual, the oblong almost triangular
holes which dot each and every square
foot of earth v.-here a worm miglit- nos
sibly work. Outing.
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ICcoDoniy.
''Thrice armed is he," so we are told,
Who hath his quarrel just,
But that a little loss will do
Is what Ave hope and trust.
For Avhcn it is a lover's tilt"
'Tis proven in a trice,
You very probably Avill find
Two arms will quite BUtiioe.
New York Tiraca.
The Auto-Commuter.
Summer Boarder "Is this what you
call five minutes from the station?"
Farmer Geehaw "Yes, sir."
Summer Boarder "How many miles
an hour is that?" Puck. -
A Definition.
Little Clarence "Pa, what Js experi
ence?" Mr. Callipers "Experience, my son,
is the headaches you acquire from
butting against: the world." Puck.
The Important Detail.
Dealer "Noav, sir, you Avill find Uiis
automobile ahvays ready to go any
distance "
William Wise "That's all right; but.
say. how ivill I find it when I'm ready
to stop?" Puck.
The Proper Answer.
Mrs. NeAvlywed "What is the dif
ference between you and a twenty
dollar bill, pet?"
Mr. NewlyAved "I'll give it up."
Mrs. Newly wed "That's the answer,,
dear I need a new hat!" Puck.
A 1'. a rftiiiii.
Hotel Proprietor "If the whole com
pany puts up here I'll knock off twenty-five
per cent."
Tress Agent "Make it fifty and I'll
catch a tAveuty-two-pound trout and
see the sea serpent." New York Sun.
Poetic Justice.
"Are you a believer in ppetic jus
tice?" asked the critic.
"I am," answered the foreign author;
"at least to the extent of hoping that
the laws will see to it that we get
the moncj' coming to us for royalties."
A Co:uing Terror,
i4
Fare "1 say, what's gone wrong?
Why are you going down here?"
.Santos IO01 "Got a puncture, sir!
OiK' o them fero wireless telegrams, I
expect, gone slap through my balloon."'
New York Commercial Advertiser.
The Plagiarist.
"Oh, Mr. Writenuieh," is everything
you write original with you?" asked
the giddy young thing of the literary
lion.
"I'm afraid not," replied the 1. 1.;
"every Avoid. I use may be found in
the dictionary." Cincinnati Commer
cial Tribune.
A Grave Hespoiisibility.
'Do you think the king will recov
er
"Yes." answered one of the royal
physicians, "we feel no further appre
hensions concerning his majesty. What
we desire to do uoav is to keep some
of the people who expected to be so
cially prominent at the coronation from
dying of disappointment."
One Definition of It.
"What do,you consider domesticity in
man?"
"It is the trait of wanting to stay
home when his Avife Avants him to go
out with her."
"And what is domesticity in wom
an?" "That is the trait of being willing
to stay horue when her husband wants
to go out without her." Chicago
Tost
A KeMponHihle Position.
"So you have dismissed your stenog
rapher?" "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum.
"Wasn't he accurate?"
"Yes; that was the trouble. I
haven't had a good stenographer for
years. What I want is somebody avIio
can throAV in a few big Avords on hi3
own account for the sake of style with
out changing the meaning." Washiuyr
ton Star.
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