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The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10
DO Your WORK Wen.

Half the people in tlds life make fail.
ures of their careers bccsnse they never
cultivated the habit of doing small
things well. In his secret heart prob
ably no man thinks his ability has ever
been recognized at its true worth. He
is employed at small tasks, working for
small pay, when to his mind he ought to
be doing great things, getting high
wages. Nine times out of ten, perhaps,
the man who thinks this neglects in con-
sequence the small, humble task he is
set to do. He despises the business that
brings him bread. He gets only cheap
wages; therefore he will give cheap
work. He is discontented, he is unhap-
py, he is ready to strike, change his bust
ness or even to slight his tasks to the ex-
tent of cheating his employer as far as
he dares without getting himself dis
charged. By and by he does get him.
self discharged. Then he rails at fate
and rich men worse than ever.
No man ever succeeded in life who
did not put his conscience into his work,
whatever it was. If you agree to per-
form certain labor in return for certain
wage, however small, you have sold your
time and your ability. Do that work
the best it can be done. Form the habit
of putting the best of yourself into all
you do. Work with enthusiasm over
the small tasks that are your lot at
present, always in hope that greater
ones will come to you by and by. They
will be sure to come. Many time the
small task, done conscientiously and
with enthusiasm, itself affords the very
clew to the greater task and the larger
remuneration. But it is absolutely GER
tain that no man who has not the habit
of doing his best on whatever work he is
engaged ON will ever fill any high place
whatsoever. 1t is not in the books that
he should.
Let us always be on the lookout for
grander opportunities. Life would not
be worth living except for that But let
us at the same time strengthen ourselves
to seize the great opportunity when it
comes by making the most out of our
small opportunities. 1t is the only way.
1t is the meaning of the saying: "Unto
him that hath shall be given" Know
this: In the grand roundup each indi-
vidual comes much nearer getting just
what he deserves than is generally sup
posed.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

The difference between the Swiss III
itiative and referendum is this: Under au-
thority of the referendum the government
can lay any measure before the whole
people and ask them to vote yes or no on
it. Under the authority of the initiative a
specified number Of private citizens can
by petition compel the government to
submit to a vote Of the whole people any
question the citizens desire to see thus
voted on. 1t is odd enough that the first
application of the initiative was made to
the Jewish way Of slaughtering food an
imals. That method, in the petitioners
view, was cruel, and so the citizens de.
manded that the government should sub
nit to the people the question whether
the method should be abolished. The
vote went affirmative by "A small major
ity. 1t was odd again that the French
Swiss voted to let the Jews go on and
slaughter in the way they liked, while the
German Swiss voted that they should
not, and as the German blood was in the
majority it carried the day.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10
Life With a Purpose.

Mankind are mostly divided into two
classes-those who strive to gain riches
and those who stick where they fall,
like lump of putty, without striving
for anything. But scattered about like
lost lambs among the putty people and
the money grabbers is third class, so
small as not be recognized as class at
all, and only known as individual
cranks. These are the people who hold
to the fixed purpose of making the world
better and happier. They have splendid
dreams of perfected race in which all
shall be free, healthy, honest, wise and
beautiful, and there shall be no more
poverty or vice. They believe that no
body deserves to live unless during his
life he does what he can to bring about
this higher development of the race.
These cranks choose for themselves
some line of work which they make their
own-the one best adapted to their cast
of mind. Never losing sight of this, they
toll toward the one end with might and
main. They have their living to earn,
but outside of that they give the best Of
their powers to helping on human prog
ress They may not be known or hon.
ored much at first; they are oftener
laughed at; sometimes mobbed; again,
martyred. After they die they are rev.
erenced above all the rest and grow
into perennial fame. Such a person was
the late Lucy Stone, who worked all
her life for moral purpose which she
conceived to be one of the most impor.
tant. And so strong, so true and kindly
was her life that at its close, behold! it
suddenly became manifest that she was
one of the famous women of her day,
and even those who thought her pur.
pose mistaken one had good words for
Lucy Stone.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10
STAGE GlINTS.

Nina Bertini-H Humphreys has left the
Hinrichs Opera company.
Joseph Arthur is said to have started
20 rewrite "The Corncracker."
c. J. Burbidge has joined "Across the
Potomac" playing Captain Fazwell.
"The OATH" sensational drama, will
be produced at Baltimore on Nov. 10.
Eunice Goodrich, westerner, will
make her first eastern tour in February
George Lassen is organizing a stock
company to play over Davis museum
circuit in Pennsylvania.
w. A. Whitecar has received a play
from Portugal, from the pen of Camille
Blanco, and will translate it.
Valerie Bergere has won favorable no.
tice for her leading work in "The Jour
nalist," a new play produced recently in
Wisconsin.
Anew play called "Tim the Tinker"
was recently produced at Bristol, Conn
"Wild Rose" another new play, was
launched at Mount Pulaski, Ills.
Violet Mascotte will go out again this
season under the management of B.
Forbes of Cuba, N. Y. The tour will
begin on Feb. 8 at Philadelphia.
1t seems that Joseph Brooks will re-
tain the proprietary rights in Augustus
Thomas new play, blue Blood" and
that he has simply disposed of the right
to A. M. Palmer to present the play i'll
New York and other large cities
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10
ltaSCaIs.

The defenseless citizen who falls into
the hands of some Of the western land
boomers needs the help of heaven. A
colony of honest western settlers in Cali.
fornia has recently been irrevocably
ruined by buying land on the represen.
tations of company Of swindling land
agents, who feeced them and laughed at
them. This colony lost all it possessed
through being bitten in the purchase Of
alkali land. OF all the worthless lands
in the west, this alkali soil is the most
deceptious. In California it is heavy and
black, like the richest loan in the prairie
states.
The lane agents have it plowed up to
show how rich and black it is. At the
same time they exhibit II bewildering
array of fruits, grains and vegetables
brought from some other place, as the
product of the alkali ground. The home
buyer sees them. He sees also the
black soil that looks so fat. He buys
and is ruined. The alkali soil will in
time produce great crops, it is true, but
first millions of dollars will be required
to pay for the gypsum land plaster and
the drainage necessary to reclaim it.
The irresponsible land agents are a
serious detriment to many parts of the
west. The settler is sure to be swindled
unless he has the word Of some person
on whom he can rely positively, and that
one is rarely found among the land
boomers. As long as one cannot tell
the honest ones from the dishonest, and
as long as they themselves take 10 par
ticular pains to distinguish between the
two classes, it behooves settler to look
out for them all.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

Even the New York newspapers said
a good word for the Worlds fair when
they were trying to boom Manhattan
day. If they had done 50 from the be-
ginning, they would now have the salts
faction of knowing that they helped by
their influence the greatest enterprise
ever undertaken under the auspices of
the fair arts Of peace. The success OF
the exposition would then have been
even grandcr than it was. AS it is, sew
eral New York editors can only remem-
Der to the latest day of their lives that
the worlds greatest exposition was a
success in spite of them.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10
THE JEWELLERS ART.

The envelope moisteners will soon per.
suade us that it is very vulgar to seal
letters by applying the tip Of the tongue
The obsolete caster reappears in sort
Of temple on one leg, with inches, IL
which the glass bottles are enshrined like
gods.
The scarfpins for the coming season
arc more desirable than ever One is =
flying dove, with pearl body and dia'
mond wings. Another is toad, with 3
body of seed pearls and spots of olivlne
There are interesting designs in din
ner table lines. In one, on tree branc"
perches an owl. Another is of overla!
ing grape leaves and fruit. Beautlfn!''
modelled leaves are applied to jugs, ~
animals in low relief and plain surfac''
are thrown out from hammered bacA
grounds.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10
Vertical Handwriting.

Professor Joseph B. Witherbee, writ
ing in The Popular Science Monthly,
calls for universal reform in penman-
ship. He says the demand among bust
ness men now is for style of penman-
ship that can be written rapidly and
that can be easily read The present
fashion, with its sloping letters, is so
far from meeting these requirements
that commercial firms complain boys
now do not begin to write so well as the
boys of a generation ago did.
The kind of hand that will fill the bill
Professor Witherbee finds in the straight
up and down style, the letters being
written without tendency to slant in
any direction. He claims that this is
the natural style, and that the slanting
chirography is only obtained after long
and painful effort on the part of the pu-
pill. The vertical handwriting is much
more easily read than the sloping one,
just as the plain letters of ordinary print
are more easily read than italics
In England the reform has so far pro-
gressed that the civil service examiners
require the upright writing on the part
Of applicants and will accept no other.
This is on account of its greater legibil-
ity. Vertical style copybooks have al
ready been published in England, and
on the whole we may look upon this as
the handwriting of the future.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

The turning down by the Roman i'll
QUESTION Of St. George Mivart AMI his
theory that there can be anything but
unhappinc,s i'll he'll takes away the last
drop OF consolation from some people
Father Clarke Of the Jesuit society III
forms the public that Mivart's view is
condemned alike by the congregation of
the inquisition and the congregation of
the index, rs contrary to Roman Catholic
teaching. As a faithful Catholic, there
fore, Professor Mivart will now have to
give mp his doctriue us erroneous and de-
clare that it was all IA mistake--his al
lowing amy comfort whatsoever to the
inhabitant of sheol.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10
Commandments For the Novelist,

There are 1 of them instead of 10, &C.
cording to Mr. Walter Besant. Anthony
Trollope always said that novel writing
was trade, to be learned like any other
by industrious pegging away. Walter
Besant, on the other hand, insists that it
is an art, and a very high art indeed,
though he, too, declares that success in
1t is to be reached by pegging away. For
the highest success, however, there must
be an inborn genius. The would be nov
elist must have the gift of observation:
he must train his power of description;
he must draw characters clearly, and he
must strive without ceasing to attain
style. Mr.. Besant lays great stress on
style. 1t will be long time, he says,
before the aspirant can gain style of
his own, but the only thing to do is to
"go on Only the best authors are to
be read, and Thackeray is one of the
best.
The novelist's commandments as laid
down by Mr.. Besant are the following:
l. Practice writing something original every
day.
=. Cultivate the habit of observation.
g. Work regularly at certain hours
l. Read no rubbish.
b. Aim at the formation of style.
d. Endeavor to be dramatic.
:. A great element Of dramatic skill is selec-
tion.
s. Avoid the sin of writing about character.
y. Never attempt to describe any kind of life
except that with which you are familiar.
10. Learn as much as you can about men and
women.
II. For the sake of forming n good natural
style and acquiring command Of language,
write poetry.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

The white metal takes jump up OF a
point or two, and does 30 irrespective of
any action by congress. 1t does 30 not by
reason OF any action taken or done by
the repealers, but simply because the
czar OF all the Russias must have had
his eyes opened by the recent discus
sions held in the congress Of the United
States II was splendid object Lesson
for him and he is going To profit by it.
I;ussia has s;,CO,OOO,0D0 uncovered paper
money and the rumor that tho czar in
tends to supplant this amount with sill.
YER ~ th4t trade may be enlarged, ad.
vancsd the pr,ce Of the gray metal in the
London market. The czsr's financial
policy will be eagerly watched by the
vest
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

Not since the war has there been Ell
gendered in this country so much bitter
ness of feeling as has been aroused by
the silver question. Even as then, states,
families, lifelong friends, are divided
among themselves. The eastern states
have in general little conception of how
desperately in earnest the common peo-
pie Of the west and south are in this
matter. 1t seems really a fight of the
rural districts against the large cities,
and again IL contest of the west and
south against the east.
While the senators of Tennessee were
fighting against repeal, the business men
of Memphis sent to congress great pc
tition asking that repeal be passed forth
with. Chicago manufacturing and COM
mercial firms were among those petition
ing for repeal When they learned this,
the trades assembly of Denver resolved
forthwith to boycott the firms that de-
manded repeal.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

One OF the most timely articles Of the
Review OF Reviews for November is the
character sketch Of Lobengula, King of
the Matabele tribe in Southern Africa
with which the British are now at war.
This monarch, it seems, is absolute lord
over some 10000 men, women and chill
dren, and like many other modern
sovsreigns, leads busy life, largely fill.
cd with routine official duties. The
sketch gives II very vivid picture OF the
characteristics of ths king mental,
pb bysical, moral and oliicial-and records
the Impressions which two Of his aged
followers received while upon an ON.
bas1y from I.obengula 10 Queen Vic
t1ria. This CAUSES ~ ths present war
and tho circumstances Immediately pre-
ceding II, ars also explained
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

A remarkable feat of mechanics was
recently accomplished at Hamburg. Two
of the great iron steamers of the Lloyd
company were sawed in two amidships,
and actually pieced out to give them ad-
ditional passenger room and tonnage.
Fifty feet of heavy iron and woodwork
were spliced upon the separate ends, then
they were put in place again as neatly
and securely as they had been at first.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

Miss Sabra Carter, the ECCENTRIC spin;
ster who made many queer gifts TO the
town of Wilmington, Mass, died Lest
month. About two years ago she pre-
Of stock, the income, after her death, b
be used in painting houses in Whining;
ton. The condition of those hsvi19
their houses painted was that they sha1l4d
not have kept dog for two years.
Wilmington Dispatch.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10
Portable Garbage Furnaces.

In its intervals of whacking the silver
men over the head the Chicago Tribune
gets in some valiant work for smoke pre-.
vention and sanitation in the Windy
City. 1t has lately discovered peram-
bulating garbage crematory, which seems
to fill a long felt want. This furnace on
wheels is hauled by two horses from
house to house, receiving at each the
scraps of vegetable and animal refuse
from the kitchen. The mass is then
thrust into IA furnace, which consumes
as it travels.
The right way to dispose of garbage,
when mankind are civilized enough, will
be to use it for the enrichment of the
soil. Bnt until that day the best thing
to do with it will certainly he to burn
1t, and the perambnlating crematory
seems desirable. The machine is divided
into three compartments. In one of
these the refuse is dried; in another it
lis baked. The whole receptacle is 5
feet long and d. feet wide. The fuel
used is Kerosene. One of the savings eff
fected is that Of carriage for the refuse.
This amounts to the cost of - or 20
wagons daily, it is claimed, vehicles
which would otherwise be employed in
gathering the garbage up and hanling it
out Of the city.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

Even the fires have been something
unprecedented in this record breaking
year of 1893. During its first nine
months losses by fire were SEQ, ,S4O, 900
greater than for the same time in 1892.
In some cases payments on fire losses
have broken up insurance companies.
Not less than 12 of these companies will
60 out of business at the beginning of
1894, because of bad luck in 1893.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

Nobody will grudge to Charles w.
Ferris the 100000 clear profit which his
great wheel has made at Chicago. a
good share of the money will go into
Ferris own pocket, one may hope. The
wheel had first to clear its own cost
$500, ,000y, then to pay the fair author
tiles 80 per cent of tho receipts When
it is remembered that the great revolv-
ing circle has done all this and yet paid
the profit mentioned, one may guess at
the business it did.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

Four thousand dollars worth of gold
dust apiece is not bad pay for one season
for the II miners who have just returned
to San Francisco from Alaska They
were merely common miners, with nc
machinery and nothing except the ordi
nary appliances of the digger who works
by hand, yet they got the above named
sum from the Yukon river sands. Mex,
season doubtless there will be something
of rush to the Yukon diggings. The
difficulty of reaching them is one of the
worst obstacles in the way.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

This is politically an off year and the
result Of today's elections will not count
for very much whichever way they 60.
Outside Of New York and Ohio very lit
tie interest is manifested. Both parties
are badly split up. The states which
hold elections today are South Dakota,
Nebraska, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Missouri,
Wisconsin, Ohio, New York, Virginia,
New Jersey, Kentucky, Maryland, and
Massachusetts.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

By the president Of the United States
of America. A proclamation. While
the American people should every DAY
remember with praise and Thanksgiving
the divine goodness and mercy which
have followed them since their begin
ming as a nation, it is fitting that one
day in each year should be especially de-
voted to.the.contemplation of the bless
ings we have received from the hands OF
God, and to grateful acknowledgment OF
his loving kindness; therefore, l, sGrover
Cleveland, president Of the United
States, do hereby designate and set
apart Thursday, the 3Oth day OF the
present month of November, as day OF
Thanksgiving and praise to be kept and
observed by all the people of our land.
On that day let us forego our ordinary
work and employment and assemble in
our usual places of worship where we
may recall all that God has done for US,
and where, from grateful hearts, our
united tribute Of praise and song may
reach the throne of grace. Let the re-
union of kindred and social meeting OF
friends lend cheer and enjoyment to
duty. and let generous gifts of charity
for the relief OF the poor and needy
prove the sincerity of our Thanksgiving.
(SignedD GROVER CLEVELAND
By the president
WALTER Q. GRESHAM, Secretary OF
State.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

The bill for suspending the doing of
800 worth of representative work on
mining claims has been signed by the
president and is now law. South Da
kota fought the measure from the be-
ginning, and when unable to defeat it
altogether secured an amendement ex-
cepting their state.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

Year by year the time is cut down by
ocean steamers in their passage across
the water. If an outsider tries to ascer-
tain how it is done, he finds that it is all
a mystery of triple expansion engines,
high, low and intermediate, double end
ed boilers set in batteries of six, twin
screws working through apertures in the
stern frame and smoke tunnels 100 feet
high and 81 feet in diameter.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

Gen. Warren of Butte, an old-line re-
publican, has changed his clothes and
lined in with the Jerry Simpson states
men and united with the populists Of
that city on Monday night
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

Taxpayers and citizens generally
should be present at the special meeting
OF the city council this evening. The
aldermen are to consider the matter Of
purchasing ground for park purposes.
There is 342,103 in the park fund to be
invested in this manner and our city IA
thers should not act too hastily. All
propositions should be carefully weighed
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

The concentration OF time, talent and
money by the populists in Virginia only
helped to increase the democratic
majorities. This is an important vistory
for the democracy.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

r'',s silver stands no show in the
the election on Tuesday demonstrated
that fact The republican party is the
enemy of free silver.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

A prominent New York city paper has
become so English that it headed re-
cent dispatch Lifts For the Queen" in
stead Of using the customary Yankee
word elevator" Perhaps it will be
making its clothing advertisers say top
coat" instead of Overcoat next. The
New York dudes already call it "top-
cont"
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

Mexico is one ahead of even the Unit
ed States in the transmission of long dis
tance electric lighting. An electric plant
on the Rio Grande river sends light to
Guadalajara, II miles away.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

1t is reported from Spokane that
committee has been appointed there to
draft and circulate petition through
all the western states asking the govern
ment to assume direct control of the
Northern Pacific.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

The Belgian suffrage law fills the die
tum Of Allen q. Thurman that intelli-
gence and property should rule the coun-
try, and more too. In Belgium intelli-
gence, property and matrimony rule the
country. There graduates of colleges
and universities may vote twice. A
married man Of ~ may vote twice. A
married man with given amount of
property may vote three times. Any
man % and over may vote once.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

ClOtnre in our American house of lords
is said to be impossible, because there is
no precedent for it. One good thing at
least has come of the long and tremen-
dous discussion Of the silver question in
the senate--that is, that information in
regard to it has been spread among the
people in way that conld never other
wise have happened.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

II the planters Of the south would
raise less cotton and more peanuts, there
would not now be the threats made of
burning cotton gins. The demand for
peanuts has doubled within the last five
years, and there arc not enough raised,
even with 100000 bushels to supply
ths call
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

The earnings Of the Northern Pacific
decreased s730,1S5 compared with the
corresponding period Of last year The
falling off in freight earnings is the cause
OF the decrease.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

The state board of examiners at their
meeting at Helena on Monday decided
that county treasurers may receive one
fourth of the state takes in state war
raptc
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

The populst movement in Kansas,
Colorado and Virginia did not amount
to much after all. This is probably the
beginning of the end, etc.
The weekly tribune., 1893-11-10

There is a theory that nobody ever has
IN original thought, but that thoughtsa and
ideas travel in waves through the uni
verse, and whenever one of them strikes
us then we think We think of something.
This seems to be especially true of news
paper jokes.