The Opelousas courier., 1901-11-09

coal-producing nations.
The supreme court Of West Vir
ginia has decided that a professor o.
the State university and a teacher Of
a public school are not public officers
but that the former is an emp1oXe I'm.
der contract to fill a chair of learning
and the latter is an employee.
Consul-General Mason reports from
Berlin that Germany's imports OF
American machinery and tools last
year aggregated 4757 tons, against 588
tons from Great Britain and 388 tons
from France. The German people also
bought 20,249 tons of agricultural ma
chinery and implements made in the
United States"
Germany, which is supposed to lead
continental Europe in her electrical
manufactures, and to rank prominent
ly among the worlds manufacturing
nations, imported last year from the
United States 343 tons of electrical
S%machinery, 200 tons of steam engines,
574 tons of blowing machinery, 331
tons of pumps and 2O,249 tons of ag-
r%icultural machinery and implements.
Quite a controversy has arisen in
England as to the relative merits of
American and English locomotives.
AS bearing Oh this controversy there
Is no %disputing the weight of the fact
that last year upward of $50 Ameri-
can locomotives were exported, at an
average price of $4,000 each, II for
eign railroad managers had not pre-
ferred American locomotives they
would have bought all their engines at
home.
The Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale
said recently: when / was a young
man, studying for the ministry, I
came to the conclusion that IL was
N good time for q man to retire from
the pastorate Of q church when he
got to be 40. When / got to be 40 I
changed my mind, and thought 50 was
the proper age for retiring; then !
later came to see things differently.
and decided that when / was so I
Ghould drop the work. But I don't
give the matter any thought now"
Epidemics OF suicide frequently oc-
cur, just as epidemics Of contagious
diseases. All works on criminology,
as well as medical treatises. recog-
nize a Gigtinct class Of cases. which
are called 'timitational criminals" and
'.imitational suicides" It is well
known that persons with an innate or
hereditary tendency toward crime are
easily Influenced by suggestion. From
the psychologist standpoint every one
is more or less suggestible. Criminal
tendencies are more common than one
would suspect and are likely to break
loose in most unexpected quarters,
states the Sunny South.
Mercantile and Industrial ~co-opera-
ton is making rapid strides in Cali
fornia, according to a statement by
]. s. Clark, one Of the leading organ
izers Of the movement in that state.
Between 80 and 40 business houses in
the state are operating on the coop
eratiye plan. Each house was started
as a grocery. with just capital enough
to stock it, but with an assurance also
of sufficient patrons to keep 1t NOV
ing. One hundred and fifty families
are thought sufficient to make the
running of a grocery store profitable,
and 100 o families added warrants
the broadening of the business.
Mi. Rockefeller gave a hard pre-
gcription TO the graduating class Of
Chicago university In saying to them:
III o are to succeed In life it will
be because you are masters OF your
selves" A wiser than Rockefeller
said that The that ruleth his spirit is
greater than he that taheth a city"
Self-mastery of a strong nature is the
greatest Of victories. A man who is
ruled by his temper or by any other |
of his passions Is not master OF him
SELF. One who is the slave OF any ap- !
petite has q cruel master. Mastery ;
self means more than self-control- ]
at includes self-possesaion; the abb
solute power over and direction Of all !
she faculties or mind ana body. Very !,
men have complete mastery or J
self. And this Is perhaps why there 1
are relatively I'D few complete and :
conspicuous successes in the higher 1
AEd che more strenuous walks ee liza. =
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