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99 L ' ID WWW WW w Is Only a Scape goat for Inefficiency By Beatrice Fairfax 0 you know that "luck" Is a worn wmca miBm. dropped from the dictionary? It la generally misused and made a sort of scapegoat for Inefficiency. Not long ago I overheard a group of glrle talking about a girl who had Just been Invited to Europe by a friend. "Isn't she the luckiest thing?" said one of them, envi ously. "This is the third lovely trip she has been invited to take." "Yp" fudrt another, with a sigh, "she certainly does have great luck. Last year Mrs. K. invited her to go South with her, and the year before she went on that lovely cruise with the L s. I wish 1 had her luck." They simply thought of her as being lucky, but I happened to know that it was her extreme sweetness, cheerfulness aud unselfishness that won her all of those delightful trips. There was no luck about it. It was entirely a ques tion of popularity. "How lucky to be so popular!" you might 6ay; but don't tor a moment imagine that popularity is a matter of luck. There Is no chance about it. It must be worked for, and worked for hard. Men will look at the successful man and exclaim, "What a lucky beggar he is!" They don't stop to consider how hard he has worked for his success. Luck Is the ability to recognize an opportunity and take advantage or it. Just let "luck" take care of itself. Hard work and good judgment will help you along better than all the so-called luck in the world. If you are lazy and slipshod In your methods, you will In all probability be a failure, and you will weakly blame your failure to bad luck. Write out these words and paste them above your looking glass: "There it no such thing as luck, what I am and what I achieve is owing to perseverance and ability on my part." People often say to me, "Oh, Miss Fairfax, you are so lucky- to have work that you like, and that you can make successful!" I am indeed fortunate in being able to earn my living in a thoroughly con genial occupation, but it was not by any means easy when I ttrst began It, and there were many hours of discouragement. It is not luck that has brought me any success that I may have found, but application and interest in my work. Forget that there Is such a Word as "luck," and Just go ahead trying your best to succeed in whatever you may be engaged In. If yau w ait for luck to come your way, you may And It a long wait. Luck comes to those ft ho work for it, not to those who wait for it. New York Eve. Uin. Journal. " to a Millionaire's Money Zy F. W. Hewes GREAT reservoir of water, undistributed, leaves men and women to perish of thirst, and growing crops to parch and die. So. also, vaults bulging with stagnant money leave men and women to perish in abject poverty, and ripened ciops to rot within the fields and orchards that grew them. Therefore, what happens to the dollars of the millionaire is a question of ihe first importance. Those of us who believe in praying for material bless ings will do well to pray long and earnestly that rich women will never cease to buy $100 hats and $1,00') gowns, with diamonds and other jewels to match. That they will continue to give balls and teas and enter tainments of the most expensive kind. That they will be recklessly extrava gant in gewgaws and folderols of every description, because it will be good for us who depend upon an income drawn from the multitude of operations in volved in producing, merchandising and transporting all those gewgaws and other gimcracks that go to keep extravagance at a high pitch. Let us hope that rich nu n's sons will continue to spend their father's money as foolishly as they are reputed to do Not because It will be good for them, but because it will be good to have the money poured into the wage earner's money-channels. Let-us doubly hope that the rich men may bo prospered in their money gettir.g, because they will not let it tie Idle. Whatever their wives and cliil tlrt n do not spend, they put into stocks and bonds, and thereby turn it into the wage-earner's money-char.. ids. Let us be thankful, too, that neither the dollars of the poor are of any value save as they go Into ihe wage-channels o active circulation. Harpir's Weekly. d9 Survival of the Fittest XL By Sir Ray Lankester NLY one ovster embryo out of every five million produced pT-nnra un thrnnch nil th RlirCPRsi vp Stfl.PPS of VOUth to the Of adult state. Even in animals which produce a small num m ber of young there is great destruction, and taking all the Individuals into consideration only a single pair of young I .. . ... .... r. ! -. f ,il - ...... f r. rpV,,. la .. exception to the rule .that every organic being naturally multiplies at so high a rate that if not destroyed the progeny of a single pair would soon cover the earth. The elephant Is reckoned the slowest breeder of known animals; it commences to breed at thirty years of age. dies at one hundred, and has six young in the interval. After seven hundred and fifty years, supposing all the offspring of a single pair fulfilled the rule and were not destroyed in an untimely way, there would be nearly nineteen million elephants alive descended from the first pair. f v. Luxury By Ramsey Benson 1 EASTS are denied the light or reason, and for that their comfort waits simply onhe indulgence or aesrre. wua man, on the other hand, since reason is his especial gift, comfort waits on the reasonable indulgence of desire. : But reason is such a bore that we enjoy almost nothing better than throwing it to the winds, there's no denying the delight of going onXand indulging our desires without let or hindrance. Of eourse, it isn't comfort which we thus obtain, only luxury, which, ia of comfort the caricature. . Luxury, then, is another fruit of rwpdnsibiltty, tnat gift in vjrtne of which the humankind may the good prefer yetah! the Worst puniue, may auntingly account inferior beings1 not doweftdVlth it, and nd by so using K as to raise a doubt whether Its bestowal on themselves was not a huge. grin joke. From Life,, ! Bi IS THE CASHIN ADVANCE SYS TEM THE BEST FOR THE ; COUNTRY WEEKLY? By J AS, W. ATKINS, of The GastonU uuettb The following interesting paper was read at the recent meeting of the North Carolina Press Association at Henderson ville: "Is the cash-in-ndvance system the best for the country weekly,' is a question which has been debate. I pro and con, I dare say, by nearly every owner and editor of a country weekly in North Carolina, the same being no less true of every other State iu the nation. One of the most vexing problems of all tlie knotty tangles the country newspa- i per man has to deal with at all. it has frosted the temples and krink- led the faces of more than one of ! that vast army of men and women who are devoting their lives to their country's good the editors and ed itresses, the owners and managers el ' the weekly and semi-weekly papers over the land. Some few of these, it is pleasant to note, have ceased to debate the question. They have i pigeon-holded it or more appropri ately have waste-basketed it for ail i time to come. They are still few in I number but the list is lengthening I and will, I hope, continue to do so. not only steadily but rapidly. These are the ones who have decided the j question once and for all in the af- j firmative and are steadfastly abiding by the results. j From the foregoing you will read- ! ily and easily gather that I, take the affirmative side of this question. Looking- at it by and largely, in the ! light of ten years experience as a country editor, 1 Io not hesitate to answer the question with a "'yes" that can he heard by all who are in terested. The reasons why, I thiiil, are plenty and sufficient and I shall endeavor to present them to yo.i hreiily. Before doing so, however. 1 I beg leave to forestall possibl questions and criticisms of myseil j by statitiir that not all the subscriber- ' on my list are paid in advance. I can sav. however, and that truthfulh this not bv editorial or poetical license, either that during the three 1 years I have actually been an own- i er and manager of a country weekly I have largely increased the perceiu age of my paid-in-advance subscrili ers and have at the same time, con- : siderably increased the number o; my actual subscribers. And I eon- j fidently expect, before the lapse of any very considerable length of time. : to finaly dispose forever of that gen- j tleman so well known to us all, "the i subscriber in arrears." In the first place I will say thai the cash-in-advance system is the best for a country weekly because it requires cash to operate a newspaper. With employes to pay every Satur day afternoon, rent, paper and sup ply bills to say nothing of grocery bills to meet every thirty day-, the editor must have money. Where is the cash to come fromf Once m a great while, it may be, one runs across a man with money to burn running a newspaper for the f.:n of the thing, but such cases are s,, 1;1re that this gentleman I leave out of the argument. Such a one can. it is true, operate a newspaper and let his subscribers pay when t hoy pliase, but such is not true of the great ma jority of us. I'mler ordinary conditions the country newspaper has three smnves of revenue subscriptions, advertis ing and job printing depart i. . nt. My experience has been that t'.e ad vertiser and the patron of yo n- job department pays his bills at t!.- end of t lie month every thirty lavs--just as he does his grocery, meat, clothing or church account. Why should not the subscriber pay as he goes, which means, in effect, in ad vance f So far as my observation has ex tended the newspaper is the only in stitution or enterprise in ail the land which extends credit for twelve months. The grocer doesn't do it, the butcher doesn't do it, the dry goods man doesn't do it no busi ness concern does it. Ask them why and the prompt reply is that they cannot afford it because t hey have to pay the wholesale man or the job ber for their goods as they get them. The same applies to the newspaper. If there is a paper, type, ink or sup ply house that habitually extends credit for twelve months I would like to have their addresses. They say it is not business-like. If not business-like for them, how can it be so for the newspaper mant Again, the cash-in-advance system is the best because if you do not get your money in advance you maynot get it at all. Some one may object to this statement on the ground that it is a reflection on the honesty and integrity of your constituency, your home people. But it is not. There are some newspaper readers, it is true, to whom this criticism does not apply but I speakvOnly the truth when'I say that many people, consid ered scrupulously honest and upright citizens of the community, men who would resent -as an insult any inti mation that any accounts they might make are not absolutely as good, as gold, will and do let their Subscrip tion account with the home paper run indefinitely and then, on some slight pretext, refuse to pay. . I do not think I am pessimist, but I have had sufficient experience to know that the average man concerns himself lest about the payment of his subscription to his local .paper than he does ' regarding any other debt he owes. Granting, however, that seven ty-flve or eighty per cent of your subscribers are men whom you are perfectly willing to credit for twelve months and as to the pay ment of whose subscriptions you are reasonably assured, how about the other twenty or twenty-five per cent, whose accounts represent most, if not all, your subscription profit t These are comprised largely in the floating population, a class which ev ery publisher has to take into con sideration. What editor or publish er is not thoroughly familiar with the little blue card which Uncle Sam so often brings him bearing the oft repeated legend, "removed, address unknown t" In ninety-nine cases nit of a hundred the publisher finds on referring to his books, that the dear subscriber alluded to on the card is considerably in arrears and I ilare say that, on an average, not ten per cent of such subscription ac counts is collectable. The subscrib er whose label date is in advance of the current date rarely moves and tails to leave his new address with Ihe postmaster. More often than otherwise lie will notify you himself to change his paper. In the third place the cash-in-advance system is the best because it is the cheapest, that is it gives you a larger per centage of profit on each individual subscriber. By eliminat ing a large part of the bookkeeping, the time and cost of making out and mailing notices and statements, it paves to the publisher a fair profit. In addition it relieves him of worry, mental anguish and gray hairs. In this connection it might be added that the profit on a dollar weekly or on a dollar and a half or two dollar semi-weekly is small enough at the very best and the publisher who takes two great a risk on any one of his sources of revenue is committing slow suicide not very slow either. Again, the cash-in-advance system is the best because it is the fairest. The American people love fairness and demand it. I cannot see the justice in granting John Jones credit on subscription for twelve or twenty four months and requesting Bill Smith to pay in advance. One rule for all is the best in every bus iness, the making of newspapers in cluded. Si ill another argument in favor of the eas!i-in-ad ance system is that it is iu line with the general tendency in all lines of trade and business. Telephone companies, railroads and I her public service corporations re . j u ire cash in advance whil" there are more spot cash stores in the I country to-day than ever belore. l ue credit system is a mill-stone around the necks of the people and will, I firmly believe, within a generation or two, be largely a thing of the past. The only reason, so far as I have been able to figure it out, why the newspaper makers have not kept pace with (heir brethren in other lines is simply because they lack the nerve to make the leap. Kiirht here in conclusion, I am go ing to take some liberties with my text and side-step for a final word. My subject does not place upon me the burden of telling how you may successfully establish the cash-in-ad-vance system, my duty being merely to answer, as I see ii, the question. "Is the ash-in-advance system the best l"i- the country weekly," and give my reasons for the ground ta ken. Ther- is only one way, in my opinion, iu which this system can be successfully worked. It is to make your paper worth the money, make it eon prehensive in the field which it (overs, so thoroughly reliable, so prompt, (lean and up-to-date that it is an indispensable requisite in the lomeF o:' our people, then say to each subscriber as he comes, "our terms are cash-in-advance to all alike" and you will get the money. Not onlv so. but you will, I believe, materially increase your patronage, you will command the respect and admiration of your constituents and you will certainly have a better opin ion of yourself and a larger bank account. Cartoon by Q E. Macauley, in the New York World. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TESTS OF NAVAL ORDNANCE TO BE SECRET Important Experiments Costing $100,000 Planned to De termine Relative Efficiency of Various Elements of Offence and Defence. Mr, Bryce Preserves His Polish. The old story of the public offlo'.at who left his boots outside the door of the guest chamber In a modest home and had them blacked by mem bers of the family comes this time from Madison, Wis., and is applied to Ambassador Bryce. When he made an address at the University of Wisconsin he was the guest of President Van HIse, whose two school girl daughters polished the boots. Th.i second night they became rather UU arlous outside Mr. Bryce's dcor, and at 'breakfast the next morning- he In quired the cause of their merriment. The whole affair came out, much to his amusement. Let a Milwaukee newspaper conclude the story: " It was noticed when the ambassa dor left Madison -that he wore a dif ferent pair of toots than the ones he had arrlted1 In, and when askel by Miss Janet, for an explanation he answered that the others bad been packed securely away to be placed among his souvenirs pf the. world a a- remembrance of the time when his boots had been blacked by the daugh ters of the president of the greatest state unireraity in the United State Springfield Republican. - Only a spenthrift, muses the New Tork Times, will attempt to realise on his op port unities before they come to him. - - ' . - - v Washington, D. C. The experi ments iu naval ordnance, for which the last naval appropriation act con tains an appropriation of $100,000, now available, will be conducted iu secret. For some time the naval ord nance officors have been anxious to conduct certain test3 which require much expense, and which could not be made out of the usual allotment for the naval bureau of ordnance. It wan not expected that Congress would make provision for such a purpose, largely for the reason that objection prevailed in some quarters to the ex penditure of public fuads in direc tions which did not always show tang ible results. It was pointed out, however, that the beneficial effect of the teste would be no less real mere ly because Hew material was not be ing acquired. There was much in the way of theory whish it was de sired to supplant by actual knowledge obtainable only by tests. Bo many questions have arisen among the ex perts as to the relative efficiency of various elements of offence and de fence that they are highly gratified to have an opportunity to settle thern One of the most important tests is that which will show whether the armor now being placed on American battleshins will resist the projectiles of high power guns at battle ranges. Guns nre now fired in tests at short range with velocities which are esti mated to equal that which would exist If the distance were what is known as a battle range. It is as serted by many that the armor will not serve its purpose. Actual experi ments in firing at such ranges against armor supported In the same manner as on a battleship have never been carried out, and no one knows what the actual effect will be. Another question Is whether high explosive shells will have the effect claimed for thom and whether the pressure of the gases of such a vio lent explosion will blow In the armor r.!do of a battleshli. Then, too, it is ('.e8lred to know what will be the ma terial effect of such explosives on the personnel and whether the structure of the ship will stard It. Connected with such an exueriment is the de termination of the maximum depth to which a twelve-Inch shell will pen etrate the wcter at' battle ranges and the effect of the explosions on the underwater hortv. Test will also he conducted to determine tne resist-1 ance of exterior armor to the attack of twenty-one-inch torpedoes. It may develop that the armor now used will not exclude torpedoes, in which event the disclosure would be disconcert ing, to say the least. It would have Its value, however, in showing to what extent and In what direction Improvements must be Installed to give exterior armor its necessary power to resist such a form of naval attack. It is also proposed to ascertain whether the turrets as now con structed aud equipped on battleships will withstand the impact of heavy projectiles at battle ranges. ' It is a question whether there will not be under such an attack material dam age to the structure itself, to the sights, the electric and other guu gear contained In the turrets. It la Important In this connection to as certain whether the eights now in stalled on the twelve-inch turret would be permanently disabled by six-Inch gdn fire, which demonstra tion would show whether It Is neces sary to design a turret that can be disabled only by heavy gun fire. One of the Important experiments will be with movable water planes In stalled on the sides of a battleship, operated automatically, so as to di minish the roll of a vessel, and so im prove the accuracy of gun fire in time of battle. The record target practice of the Atlantic fleet this summer will be with the vessels rolling, so as to ascertain If the target could be hit under the most adverse conditions at tea In time of war. It Is also desir able to ascertain if under such unfav orable conditions It would be possi ble to offset the Influence of the sea and contribute to the stability of the ship aa a gun platform. It is appre ciated that anything which improves marksmanship on board ship la a di rect and vital contribution to the fighting power of the navy. These are only a few of the sub jects which will be taken up by the pnval ordnanco officers during this fiscal year. No previous announce ment will be made of the experi ments, most of which are likely, to be conducted at the naval proving ground at Indian Head, Maryland. The tests will be made solely with the view of obtaining information for the Navy Department and no an nouncement of the results will be made. MUIR GLACIER FREE OF BERGS. Strange Chances Wrought by a Subterranean Earthquake In the Factious Alaska Ice River, , ; , Victoria, B. C. A recent remark able phenomenon In Alaska is the drifting awey of Icebergs from the front of Muir Glacier in Olacier Bay so that for the first time In nine-year this famous river ot ice, the jnoet noted on this continent, haa been vis ited. In 1889 a subterranean earth quake, occurred t Yakutat and ever since the approach of this glacier has been- so choked with Ice ' that boats have turned away with their passen gers disappointed. Now through some peculiar drifting of theice steamboats can enter the channel and go near thd right wing of the glacier, and after cautiously pushing their way get a glimpse of the left face. .. In the nine years that It has been Inaccessible the glacier hai under gone remarkable changes. When Professor John Mulr, after whom it was named, visited It it had a solid face two miles Ions and rising about 250 test above the water line. It was a live glacier, and great masses of .Ice toppled Into the sea from time to time with reverberations like thunder. Water splashed fifty feet high at each fall and the sight was . fascinating. To-day the glacier assumes a differ ent aspect. Erosion has worked out a new bay, which will soon be charted, and the glacier Itself seems to have -two parte, the live part, from which icebergs break and fall with tremen- ' dous noise, and a dead arm, with land forming; between it and the sea. , This change is due to a hill which projected through the top of the ice when Professor Mulr was there. Now that hilltop is a large mountain di- -vlding the ice-fields. The ice has als receded four miles in the nine years. v The capt-Jn of the first steamboat Piloted In front ot this glacier In re cent years was presented with a sil ver service marked in large letters "Mulr Glacier." This is 'Without doubt the most remarkable known glacier on this continent It has 364 'jsouare. miles ot lee. ; Indiana Postoffice Will Have to ' ; Go to a Democrat or Close. . Ldmedale. Ind. For thfrty-two years W. J. Bteeg, a Democrat,, post master at Llmedale, has htfped In vain that some Republican would move Into this town and get the Job. The office dtdn'b pay much anyhow, and on the Fourth of July Steeg de cided to assert his Independence and threw up his Job. Bteeg was ap pointed postmaster here by President Kayea, A Democrat will be his suc cessor, because Llmedale is still with out Republican voter. ' Coffee Planters of Hawaii Had Hard luck With Shipment of Workers. Washington, D. C. The lmmlgrat ' tlon bureau will send an inspector to Portugal to obtain workers for the coffee planters in Hawaii. These planters have found It difficult to ob tain hands and enlisted the assist ance of the immigration authorities. Some time ago the bureau secured about two car loads of men In New: Ydrk : for the Hawaiian planters. ' When the train arrived at San Fran cisco the force of men bad dwindled to three Individuals. " -::
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