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ALWAYS BEHIND HAND.
An ExasPerating Habit Which Causes
Much Irritation and Discomfort

An Exasperating Habit Which Causes
Much Irritation and Discomfort
Numbers of good people are spoiled
by their habit of being behindhand.
For it is habit, and it can be over
come by little will, and a good deal
Of perseverance,
We have noticed that man who is
always punctual. usually is married to
a woman who is never quite ready,
and vice versa, and nobody knows, or
will know till the books are balanced
at the final winding up, how much
mental and moral wear and fret there
Is about such union.
These everyday martyrs are so
common that nobody notices them,
and yet It surely must be easier to die
once at the stake, seeing as all have
got to die some way, than it is to live
on for fifty years-three hundred and
sixty-fve days and six hours to year
with partner" who is never quite
ready, but who is going to be ''in just
a few minutes.
The punctual woman has her meals
ready on the stroke of the clock; and
her unpunctual husband knows that
they will be ready, but he stops, and
does little job Of work that might as
well have been left till afterward, and
the potatoes get cold, and the beef
steak tastes like tough leather in con-
sequeSce-
The man who is on time has to sit
round drumming his fingers on the
window-pane, and lingering the cur
tain pulls, ana making himself dis
agreeable generally, waiting while the
unpunctual wife gets things on the
table, and wonders what does mako
men folks so fidgety.
And that man suffers a small mar
tyraom while he is waiting. and if he
does not swear about it, put it down to
his credit on. recording angel.
An unp1nctual person never can
conceive what a trial it is to a punct-
ual one to have to wait and wait, for
what could just as well have been at
tended to on time.
You are going somewhere at ten
o'clock. You tell your wife to be
ready at that time. You hurry to keep
your appointment and you keep ii.
She knows that you win. But she
think there is plenty of time. People
who are invariably behindhand always
think there is time enough. That is
the rock they split on. You como
home and find her not ready.
But she tells you reassuredlY that she
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DON'T GET tow-sPIRrTED.
How to Regulate the Ordinary Routine
Of Ones Daily Work.

How to Regulate the Ordinary Routine
of Ones Daily Work
There are doubtless a few cases in
which L,tty requires the sacrifice of
health, happiness, and even life itself
but they are rare and exceptional. and
scarcely ever occur in the ordinary
and peaceful routine of Hfe's daily
work. Their duty lies in quite an Op-
pOsite direction, and calls upon each
individual to cultivate, to develop and
to strengthen himself. not 70 exhaust,
enfeebLe aud shatter himself 1T is
strange that, With all the advantages,
educational and otherwise, that men
enjoy at the present day, they are so
slow to learn that their own best
development and their usefulness
to the world go hand in hand
Whatever injuries them physically,
mentally and morally, also in
lures their work and lessons
their value. The loss Of vigOr Of en-
ergy, of good spirits, Of cheerful and
happy tone Of mind does not end in a
mere personal loss It affects every
thing they think or say or do; it inau-
ences all with whom they mingle, and
it operates unfavOrably upon the very
work which they hope to benefit by
their sacrifice. The man who tolls
all day at one occupation and then
broOds over it in the evening and
dreams of it at night and who finally
falls into the low tone which is the in
evitabIe result will find sooner or
later, that his business deteriOrates
with himself Freshness and vigOr, a
CHEEKY spirit and a glad heart are as
necessary to the true prosperity of
business as they are to the happiness
Of man. Therefore let US Danish the
delusiOn that We can resign them for
the good Of our work. what
ever it may be. We can
not perform our work in the
best manner, we can not make happy
homes; we can not be valuable friends.
nor even good citizens, while we are
personally weary and harassed, weak
and nervous, happy and dull, dreary
anu u6pEt5o6u- NUT - IL 5AAACAcnl "
try to Danish the signs Of such ccndi-
tiOns and stimulate a cheerfulness that
is not felt. That may often be a useful
discipline, but it is only like cutting
of weeds that should be uproOted.
Every one should endeavOr so to ar
range his life, his hours Of work, his
recreatiOns, his surroundings as to Sc
cure as much health. vigOr, hope and
good cheer as possible. Instead Of
prolonged work in one direction, or
broOding over the same thing, or Civ
ing way to gloomy fOrebOdings and
discouraged feelings, let the time be so
laid out as to afford change Of work.
change of scene, change Of companion
ship; let open air, sunlight, exercise.
amusement, refresh the tired mind; let
unused faculties have their turn Of
activity; let other interests than eur
own come into our lives. Philadelphia
Ledger
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ABOUT GIVING ADVICE.
Two Important Factors to Be Considered
When CounseIlng Frlends.

Two Important Factors to Be Considered
When COunseItng Friends.
In giving advice 70 a friend. we fire.
quently and naturally make q great
mistake. We fail TO remember that
we are advising another, who is not
OurselL We have probably had an ex-
perience of our own in the very mat
ter in regard to which our counsel is
now being asked. This experience of
ours has left it's deep impression on
our soul, and has possibly burned an
ineffaceable lesson into our character.
As soon as our anxious friend lays
his case before us, the memory of that
experience of ours and its lesson i'm
mediately fills our soul. We feel that
we are indeed competent to give advice
in this very case. We have worked
the problem out under the painfuluess
Of actual fact Therefore we speak
positively and with emphasis. Take
my word for it." or you may be sure
Of one thing or 81 know exactly
what the result will be, d" is the earnest
asseveration that we feel ourselves to
be prepared to make without any
further consideration. Yet there are
two fundamental and as yet unknown
factors in the problem, which have not
even occurred to us, much less have
they had the consideration they de-
serve, Any solution that does not
take these factors into accounts likely
to be worthless. misleading, and the
very reverse of sound. The first un-
considered factor is that of circum-
stances and their underlying laws.
Are the circumstances in the case
now before us of such a nature that
the laws which applied to our former
experience viii properly apply here?
We have forgotten that circumstances
alter cases., and that very frequently
'cases are not parallel" The second
neglected factor is that OF personality.
Is the friend whom we advise on the
basis of our own experience such a
person as that, even where the two
cases are really parallel, he would be
likely to experience what proved to be
our experience, and TO be affected as
We were affected2 Where we failed,
1t may be in him to wrest a
triumph. Or, on the other hand,
the combination under which we
achieved success may, to a nature like
his. be the combination to sink him
into disgrace Whenever, therefore,
we are called on to give counsel TO
another, it is necessary to overcome
the temptation OF recurring too quick
" to cursclf in its past experience.
Let us think ourself into our friends
place, considering his case well, and
not DO absorbed in thinking OF place,
apparently similar, in which we once
found ourselves, and so DO led to
speak finally and authol-itatively solely
from the memory and the lesson Of that
experience. IS. S Times
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COMPARISON SOLICITED-A wise
discrimination should be exercised by
all who take medicine. The proprie-
tors OF Hoods SarsapsrilIa solicit a
careful comparison Of this medicine
with other blood purifiers and medi-
cines, being confident that the peculiar
merits Of Hoods Sarsaparilla are so
apparent that the people will uDhesi
tatingly prefer it to any other prepare
ton. Hoods Sarsaparilla Is not
mixture Of molases and a few inert
roots and herbs. but is peculiar con-
centrated extract Of tile best Alternative
and blood purifying remedies Of the
vegetable kingdom The enormous
sales Of Hoods SarsapariIla, aud the
wonderful cures effected, prove even
more than has been claimed for this
medicine. If you are sick the best
medicine is none too good. 1916
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CASING PLATE CLASS.
An Industry Oherin a Remarkably Fine
Scenic DISPLAY.

An Industry Oherin a Remarkably Fine
Scenic Display.
The casting tables, the most i'm
pOrtant pieces of apparatus in a plate
glass works, are nineteen feet long,
fourteen feet wide and seven inches
thick. Each is provided with an iron
roller, thirty inches in diameter and
fifteen feet long. Strips Of iron on
each side of the table afford a bearing
for the rollers, and determine the
thickness of the plate Of glass to be
cast. The rough plate is commonly
nine-sixteenths of an inch in thickness;
after polishing it is reduced to six or
soven-sixteenths. The casting tables
are mounted on wheels, and run on a
track that reaches every furnace and
annealing oven in the building.
The table having been wheeled as
near as possible to the melting fur
mace, the pot of molten glass IS lifted
By means Of a crane, aud its contents
quickly poured on the table. The
heavy iron roller is then passed from
end to end, spreading the glass into a
layer of uniform thickness. The whole
operation of casting scarcely occupies
more time than it takes to describe it.
Each movement is made with almost
nervous rapidity. Few industries offer
such fine scenic display as the pouring
of molten glass. One feels like crying
Encore! it is so very brilliant
In contact with the cold metal of the
table the glass cools rapidly. As soon
as possible the door of the annealing
oven is opened, and the plate of glass
introduced. The floor of the oven is
on the same level as the casting table,
so that the transfer can be convenient
ly and quickly made When, after sew
eral days, the glass is taken out of the
oven. its surface is found to be decid-
eddy rough and uneven. A small guam
tity is used in this condition for sky
lights and other purposes where
strength is required without transpar-
ency. 1t is known in the market as
rough plate. The greater part of the
glass, however, is ground, smoothed
and polished before it leaves the es-
tablishment-British Mercantile Ga
zette.
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OUIOA'S EARNEST PLEA.
A Defense OF Women who Have to WOrh
on Farms

A Defense OF Women Who Have to Work
on Farms.
Ouida. the cratic, the sarcastic, the
satirical. the ever-intenseiy interest
ing, has a word to say in favor Of out
door work for women Says the author
of Moths" and a hundred other gaudy-
hued romances:
1t may be hard work; it no doubt IS;
but women accustomed to it from child
hood have their frames Injured, and
their muscles and sinews adapted to it.
It is strange that any idea of degrade
ton in field work should ever have
arisen. It is the oldest, the most
primitive and the most poetic Of all
forms Of labor. Even a line of women
hOeing or gathering tubers on a fiat
expanse Of earth, and standing dark
against the skyline. has great nobility
and beauty in it compared to a line
of similar women standing before
row Of tabl- 3, of looms, or
of machines Field work does
not necessarily either age or injure
the woman l know a wOman-One
out of a number like her-whO is fifty
five years old; she is very handsome in
feature and clear Of complexion. her
statue is firm and her form 1.-the and
active; she has been the mother Of
twelve sons and daughters; she is now
at the head of the family, being a
widow; she still works early and late
in the fields, as she has done ever
since she was a small child employed
to cut grass for the calves, or weed
the rows of lettuce or endive; her
strength is vast; she can lift immense
weights with no effort; she rises at
four to send her family of to their
various labOrs; she rules them with
patriarchal severity, and, with the ex-
ceptiOn Of two or three hours rest at
midday in summer, she is out Of doors
all day in the fields or by the edge Of
the river washing, or on the road with
her eggs and fowl and fruit; in leisure
moments she is always plating straws,
a bundle which always hangs from her
waist ready to occupy any spare idle
instant
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FACTS AND FIGURES.
Valuable Information Of q Statistical and
Scientific Nature.

valuable Information OF Statistical and
Scientific Nature.
Massachusetts has $4,000 scholars in
her evening schools.
There are 1000 Icelanders in tho
city of Winnipeg, Man.
Turkish women eat rose leaves with
butter to secure plumpness.
The Eiffel tower has cost in one way
or another the lives Of nearly ono
hundred worlmen.
The government pays to the rail-
roads $20,000,00O annually for carry
ing the mails
Pittsburg ships 100000 tons of
freight yearly, and claims to lead
American cities.
1t is estimated that 1000 female
clerks are now employed in the drug
stores of the country.
In 1889 the United States manufact-
ured 100000 pounds of tobacco,
100000 pounds of snuff, 1000, COX, 900
cigars and 800, 900, 900 cigarettes,
The Denver University owns so
much land in and around Denver that
her treasury will soon be filed with
millions from the increase in land
values.
An electric fire engine is a new in
vention- II can be started at full
speed, is much lighter than the steam
fire engine, and possesses various
other advantages.
A number of reindeer have been i'm
ported from Norway and turned out in
a forest in the north of Scotland in tho
hope that they mao become acclima-
tized.
There are more paper mills, run
ming more machines, in the United
States than in any other country in
the world. Germany has nearly as
many, but no other country has half
as many.
The greatest snuff-taking country in
the world is France, though it shows
a decline in the habit In 1869 the
consumption was 13,OO0 900 pounds, or
seven ounces per head. Now it is five
ounces.
A York lady bit into an apple and
found wrapped around the core a piece
of coarse thread twenty -four inches
long. 1t Is thought to have been
dropped by n bird when the apple was
in full blossom.
A Texas steer tackled one Of Bar
NUNS elephants on the highway the
other day, and the results were emil
nently satisfactory TO every body but
the elephant. He was so well licked
inside of three minutes that he turned
tail and ran away.
The amount Of wasted material that
should, according to calculation, pass
through the NarrOws at the mouth of
New York harbOr every year is sufIi-
cient to make a solid dam from tower
to tower of the Brooklyn bridge as
high as those towers and wider than It
Is high
1t is stated that the following Ian
guages are spoken on the main street
of DeadwOod: English. German,
French, Italian, Chinese, Norwegian,
Swedish. Finnish, Scandinavian, Rus
sian, Irish, Spanish, Hebrew, Sclav-
Onian-fOurteen, with possibly q few
overlooked. Chicago News.
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WATER IN CHINA.
That Intended for Drinking Il Boiled Even
Among the Very Poor.

That Intended for Drinking Il Boiled Even
Among the Very Poor.
The entire absence Of sanitary ar
rangements in Chinese towns and vii
lagos being well known, it goes with
out saying that the laws of hygiene
are utterly and entirely neglected.
There is no isolation of infectious dis
eases, and no attention is paid to
causes of death unless there IS SUPPOSE
tiOn of violence. According to our
ideas, therefore, Chinese cities ought
to be hotbeds of disease, subjected
regularly to those terrible epidemics
which, with us, are invariably assO-
ciated with the neglect Of sanitary
laws. Strange to say, such is not the
case. Epidemics come and 90 without
any apparent reason, appearing, per-
hGps, suddenly, causing a heavy NOR
tality for short time, and then as
suddenly disappearing again, thus az
fOrding an endless field of speculation
to the foreign savant But, speaking
generally, Chinese towns en-
Joy an immunity from these dan
gerous outbreaks almost as com
plete as that Of well-drained European
communities, and the cause Of this
puzzling and curious phenomenon has
been variously explained. The fact IS
all the more striking when taken in
connection with the contaminated water
supplies Of Chinese towns, the effect OF
which on Europeans has been mani
tested over and over again in the heavy
mortality which overlook them pre-
viOus to the adoption Of precautions
enjOined by modern sanitary science.
The healthiness of Chinese cities has
been ingeniOusly attributed by some
people to the universal habit of fan
ming, a practice which is said to keep
the atmosphere in constant circulation
How far this explanation can be deemed
to suffice we must leave to experts to
decide, but, so far as a contaminated
water supply is concerned, we
believe the real secret Of immu-
nifty from its evil effects to lie in
the universal custom Of boiling all
water intended for drinking. As a
matter of fact, the Chinese never drink
cold water. The national beverage,
which, in a true sense, may be said to
cheer but not inebriate, is tea, and
this is always ION tap" even in the
houses Of the very poor. The native
aversion to cold water is undoubtedly
carried to extremes, and certainly in
duces diseases which might easily be
avoided by a judiciOus system of out
ward application. In the matter of
additions It must, however, be ad-
mitted that the Chinese enjoy facilities
which, however little they are taken
advantage of. are far in advance Of
any thing within the reach of the
poorer classes of our own favored
land. Every little hamlet in China
has a shop where hot water can be
bought for a trihing sum at any hour
of the day or night. Even in a small
fishing village on a remote island in
the Gulf of Pechili, where the writer
spent six weeks under very unpleasant
circumstances during a severe winter,
this was the case, aud a great con-
venience it proved-Natioual Review.
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WINGED LEssoN.RooKs
A Fascinating Study Open to Girls a
Well as Boys.

A Fascinating Study Open to Girls as
Well as Boys.
The study of birds is one of those
fascinating occupations which are open
to girls as well as boys. There is no
need Of destroying life TO obtain all
essential information as to the identity,
song, colOring and habits Of our
familiar birds, including, some of you
will be surprised to learn, over a hun
dred varieties that probably come with
in ear-shOt of you, if not within sight,
every year.
A good pair of feld-gTasses, or even
a pair Of opera glasses. will euableyOu
to study your little feathered book,
while he 1utters cheerfuIly about
through the foliage, picks up his daily
bread from leaf and twig, or peers
curiOusly at the remarkable, google
eyed creature observing him. Nor is
it necessary to collect" eggs, even by
taking one only from each nest, as
Johnnie did in Mrs Whitney's delight
full boys at Chequasset"
One of our most careful observers,
Mr.. Horace Lunt, tells me that he never
takes an egg or nest, although too
many young naturalists do not scruple
to cOnfscate the whole affair. He OBJ
tains his information by patient watch
ing, hour after hour, the birds becom-
ing more and more fearless, until he
can approach within a few feet of the
nest where the little mother is sitting.
Mr.. Bradford TOrrey relates most
charmingly an experience Of this sort,
when he established confidential re-
lations with a solitary vireO. who
actually remained on her nest and fed
from his hand. With a manual, an
opera-glass, a moderate stock Of
patience, and if possible. access to
some cabinet of mounted specimens,
you should have in your notebook. be-
fore the summer is over, accounts of
four or five different swallows. as many
common thrushes, a dozen fnches and
sparrOws, two or three hawks-thOugh
these are less easily made out-ten or
more warblers, four or five vireos,
about the same number Of fy-catch-
ers, several species of .woodpeekers.
and many other birds. Then, as you
walk through the woods in the spring
of 1890, you will recognize in every
grove and In the low shrubs by the
roadside the sweet voices of returning
friends, whom you know by name, and
whose arrival gives you lively pleas
ure.-YOuth's Companion.
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NUMBER IA.
FULL or FUN.

As the season advances 10 is no
longer a difficult task 70 recognize the
restaurant shOrt-cake by its strawberry
mark.-ChicagO News
When you are in a party, telling
fish stories, always let the other fellow
begin You can thereby get the bulge
on them, also the reputation Of being
the biggest liar.-Lawrence American
And you went up the Rhine,
suppOse?n said Mrs MalaprOp. ''In-
decd, yes It was beautiful "And
did you see any rhineOcerOses? '-Har-
per's Bazaar.
Miss Charity-'Is your husband
addicted TO the use Of alcoholic stimu-
lauts?" Recipient Of Alms-''NO, in
dade, mum, not he; his only failin' is
drlnkin'. "-Lawrence American
The After-Supper Dance--Mr-
Cay-''Beg pardin', but wish yo'
wOuldn' breave so hard, Miss Hask-
ms" Miss HasI1ins-''DO it 'uOy yO'?''
Mr.. Clay-''Ya-as. YO' done cat so
much ice-cream at d table dat Is get
tin a cold in d scruff OBJ my neck -
Judge.
A symphony in Red.-Mrs. Honey
mOon-'.AlgernOn, dear, 1 wish you
would put on your red necktie for
dinner" Mr.. HOneymoou-''Why, my
lOve?" Mrs HOneymOOn-'.BecaUso
we are TO have radishes, tomatoes,
rawberries and claretn
-JOurnalist-"I would like TO get a
pension" Pension Agent-''Were you
injured while you were in the army
during the war; YES. I was a
newspaper correspondent, and did so
much hard lying that I strained my
conscience, and as every body connect
ed with the army IS getting a pension.
Thought I'd just file my claim Tex
as Siftings
Real Ingratitude. Cranky Board
er-"Landlady, why can't We have
something new on the table once in
awhile? We've had exactly the same
bill Of fare for the last month" Land
lady-"How unappreciative you are
Only yesterday / replaced the bass
wood tOOthpicks with some real hiCk-
DRY ones, which cost five cents more
per thousand. Omaha World.
Youngest Daughter-''Papa, dear,
what did Mr. Softly say to you just
nOw?" Mr.. MushrOom-'Why, tho
impudeut rascal had the nerve TO ask
me for your hand In marriage"
Youngest Daughter-'1 do hope you
were considerable with him Mr.
MushrOOm-"I told him he was a pre-
sumptuOus puppy" Youngest Daugh-
ter-"Oh, papa Dind't he take UNI
bragg at that2" Mr.. Mushroom
"Well, I didn't notice him taking any
thing; but he got mighty hot under
the collar. America
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has only got to change her dress and
comb her hair, and see about dinner,
and it will only take few minutes.
And by bitter experience you know
that it will take a good hour to ac-
complish all these things.
OF course you fret, and you keep
calling out up the stairway to know
what in the dickens she is about, and
you tell her that you could have built
the City Of Jerusalem in the time she
has been cOmbing her hair and get
ting into another dress, and you get
out Of doors, and stamp about in the
yard to pass the time away, and you
resolve that the next time you ask her
to go anywhere with you, you won't
ask her.
So we say to all our friends, do try
and be ready when the time to be ready
comes. 1t would save so much dis
comfort so much irritation, so much
friction and fret. And it is Just as
easy after you make up your mind to
1t.
Try it-try it in earnest-ye who arc
always behindhand. and see if We are
not right-N. Y. Weekly.