Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-10-29

the poor peasants of Ireland, who carr
from 62i to 10 cents per week making
it. Nj Porter asks why the lrisl
should not have credit of this work.
Henry Ward Beecher once said
"When You educate farmer you edu
cate his stock. his crop, you increas'
his producing powers and the value o
the property he invested in. Whel
YOU educate mechanics. YOU educat,
better products, finer things for tn,
market. When YOU educate men, you
educate all the material round about
that comes under their hands" This
is being realized more and more every
year and our schools are being filled tC
OVERLOOKING. thus showing that educa'
tion is a necessary and a good thing in
all classes of business.
The New Line" I. \. \. X y. NJ.
railroad has opened up, running two
through daily trains for Toledo. over a
fine road bed and steel rail. PasSen-
gers going South for pleasant winter
in the Sunny South should remember
these trains are made up with Pull
mans latest equipments, making close
connections without transfer of depots
to the c. ii. V. Il T. railway, the
direct route for the Orange Line to all
Southern points. The Ann Arbor
also furnishes accommodations for
Washington, Philadelphia and Balti-
more. Passengers over the PennSyl-
vania Co. liue. having the best time
on record.
I'm one of our exchanges we noticed
an article i'm regard to a merchant en-
ploying a clerk at salary of one cent
the first month and To double his wages
each month thereafter for the period
of three years. TO anyone. before
making the calculations it would seem
that the salary could not be very large
In three years time. For the benefit OF
our readers however we give below the
figures us taken from the exchange:
First month, .0l; second. ~; third. OF:
fourth, .0S: fifth, Is; sixth, 81: seventh,
ga; eight, Sl.2S; ninth, S2.56; tenth,
SIP; eleventh, Sl0.24; twelfth. $50. IS:
thirteenth. S40.06 fourteenth. Ssl 90:
fifteenth, Sl63.S4; sixteenth. S327 .GS:
seventeenth. S6j5.3G: eighteenth. 81
3l0.72: nineteenth. - .62l A: twentieth.
-. 542 SIS: twcnty-tirSt, ST. 1916; TWEEN
ty-second. S20.97l.52; twenty-third,
Sal .9i3.O4; twenty-four. So. SS6.0S:
twenty-dfth. SlG7.772.16; twenty-siXth.
1885 IA 81: tWenty-seyenth, SOL. l0s.S
S1.342 HIPS; twenty
ninth. S2.6SG .3j4 81; thirtieth. S5.36s.-
8O9.12. thirty-lirst, $40, 49, PISA. thirty
second, $2l Az, 1868; thirty-third, S42,-
94s So. 96: thirty-fourth, $50 .s97, 1882: |
Sill, 795. 49l 81; thirty-siXth,
S343 $50 ,oS8.6S.
To be successful one must be sin.
cere. Insincerity and affectation are
sure to be recognized sometime.
We spend too much time trying to
appear to be something, and fail in
Jeing it. Affectation not only affects
our appearance before others, but ii
,rceps into the character itself, and
We find ourselves trying to assume
lisguiscs TO hide us from our own
Insinccrity has the
worst effects upon one who harbors
t. Like every sin, its worst sting
eacts upon the character of him
Who commits it, and leaves It's ever
asting blemish far from the sight Of
observers in the depths of the soul.
Certain it is that justice rules. 1t is
low, because it is so certain. We
nay think We have evadcd Justice
when We hide from the world our !
ailing; but everything which is not |
n accord with eternal, universal
ruth, marks itself indclibly upon
he character-for the law of reac. !
ion is a certainty The history of !
Individual character, rs well a. the |
history of the entire world, will '
erve to illustrate what Victor Hugo
as written in "Lcs Miscrablcs, -
Justice is theorem, punishment s.
xact as euclid. Crime has its ,
ngels of endurance. and It's angles u
we men never I
rouble when We perceive in the
bscurity Of Humane destiny the lines =
nd figures of that enormous geo a
Ietry which the world calls chance, Il
nd the thinking man calls provi- &
nce."-Normdi Instructor. il