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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12
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A LESSON FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
Did you ever see iron ore as it comes
out of the mines. boys and girls2 1t is
rough, reddish looking earth, apparently
of no value whatever. Millions of tons are
taken out of the mines in Northern Min
nesota every year now. A few dollars for
whole ton of it at the mill is a good
price. Collaborating ore is not much bet
ter, for it is like a wet grayish clay; and
silver and lead ores are as worthless look
ing as the others. If the ORE as it comes
out of the mine, was ali there was of gold
or silver or iron or lead, it would not pay
for the taking out, no matter how large
percentage of the metal desired lay hid
den in it.
But the ore is not ALL It is, indeed, only
the beginning, the starting point. What
It's value Will be in the end depends entire
ly upon how much work is put into it.
Take the ton of iron ore, valued as it
comes out from the mine mouth at 81;
melted in the iron furnace and made into
pig iron, it becomes worth $40; put
through the rolling MILL it becomes steel,
and rises to 500; manufactured next into
pens of standard make, it will sell for
$4,000 and over; or made into fine needles
instead, it will bring 100000; while if
it is used in making the best quality
of hair springs for watches, it fetches
1t, too-of over $5,000,000. 1t is just a
the work put upon it determines it's value
and determines it justly. And the same
is true of gold, of silver, of Iead-an ex-
quSitely engraved golden cup, a splendid
silver service, are infinitely more valuable
than the crude ore from which they start
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12
Where 1t
Comes In.

ed in the beginning. 1t is the work, not
the material, that makes the value.
Now, we all know this, but we do not
all apply it to ourselves and our own con-
d1t1onS. Every boy, every girl, is what
might be called raw material-the ore
from which future mankind or womanhood
must be worked out. But many boys and
girls make the curious mistake of think
ing that it is the material, and not the
selves, practically, 81 am only common
ore; I cannot expect to be anything but
pig iron, at $40 ton. OF course, 1 would
like to be pens and hairspringS instead,
but that is impossible"
Why is it impossible? All the difference
lies in the work and the work depends
on themselves. 1t is just as possible to
get iron ore to the hairspring value as to
the pig iron value; 1t takes more time.
more work, but that is all, boys and girls.
More than this, iron ore, worked to its
utmost value, often surpasses in price gold
or silver. So two boys or two girls may
start in life, one with golden possibilities.
one with only iron ones, and yet the lat
ter will come out ahead in the end. Ge-
MUS itself has been defined as an infinite
capacity for hard work." and to "toil ter
ribly' is usually the condition of real
greatness. TO blame our opportunities is
sure sign of a weak will; the strong will
goes to work determinedly instead and
hammers and FORCES out a destiny" from
the rough ore of life. What are we max
cheap womanhood, or the very best and
highest values of character and achieve
ment that can be got out by hard work?
Let us face this question, and not blame
anyone but ourselves If we cannot an
swer 1t in the right way.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12
LEFT A GOOD RECORD.

LEFT A GOOD RECORD.
Few writer's of fiction have made
their works so confessedly autobio
graphical. as did Edward Eggleston,
who died recently at Lake George, New
York. He told the story of his early
life in and near Vevay, Ind, with all
the quaint circumstances which sur
rounded it, in "The Hoosier Schoolmas-
ter At nineteen he became a Metho-
dist minister, and he related his expert
ences in "The Circuit Rider And so
all through his life he took the COM
mon place things which surrounded
him and breathed into them a literary
spirit.
But Eggleston's contribution to
American letters does not rest alone
upon his novels. In "The Beginners of
a Nation" he produced a work of great
historical value. 1t was not his pur-
pose to merely chronicle events, for his
methods were always original and un-
conventional. He approached history
with an aim to reflect the character of
the age in which the English colonies
were begun. He sought to portray the
traits of the colonists, and to bring into
relief the social, religious and intellec-
tual forces which moved the life Of that
period.
The works of some writers-of some
Indiana writers, eVen-can be under
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12
Question Box.
Curious Things In
Life and Literature.

of such practices, not to demoralize the
populace, but to render them effemi-
nate and unmanly. Horace complains
that youths of condition, instead of rid
ing and hunting, had betaken them
selves to illegal games of chance. 1t
belonged to the aediles to attend to
the public interest by furnishing viola
tons Of the gaming laws. During the
Saturnalia, which was a period of gen.
eral license, these games were permit
ted, and like indulgence at other sea-
sons was extended to old men both
among the Greeks and Romans. Nor
has this vice been confined to civilized
nations, either in the ancient or the
modern world; Tacitus mentions it's
existence among the British bar
barians, and it is known to prevail
among many half civilized and even
savage tribes at the present day. In
general it is resorted to as a refuge
against the depressing sensations of
languor and vacancy, which the want
of active eXertion causes in the minds
of those who have no inner life; and
the classes most addicted to 1t in all
countries are the idle, and mere men
of business in their idle hours. 1t is
remarkable that in England, as in
Rome, the ground on which gambling
was first prohibited was, not it's de-
moralizing, but it's terminating, in
fiuences on the community. In most
of the states of Germany gambling was
allowed, and the extent to which it was
practiced at the German watering
places is well known. The princes of
the petty states often derived a large
portion of their revenue from the ten
ants of their gambling establishments.
whose exclusive privileges they guar
anteed. Recently these German gam
hi ms a have hQQn clos
ed. In the United States nearly every
form of gambling is prohibited by law,
but many forms of it are INDUCED in
just the same.
QUESTIONS to be answered Oct. &c:
4S4-Who are the Walloons?
4S5.-What is the mission of blood
in the body?
4S6.-What doctors did Swift rec
ommend as the best in the world?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12
Gbe Span OF Life

THE AGE LIMIT IS EXTENDING.
1t is cheering to discover that the
age limit of the population of the Unit
ed States is rapidly extending. Ac-
cording to the results reached by COM
putting the median instead of the av-
erage age, the increase of the age Of
the white population has amounted to
IA years in the last ninety years. This
means that five-SixthS of a year is
gained each decade. In this same Pc
Rod of nine decades the colored popu-
lation has been able to prolong its age
with only half $he success achieved by
the white population. The medlan age
in 1902 was % a, in 1900 it was o.. 8,
and in 1890, 21.9 years.
In accounting for this national adj
vance in longevity the census report
says:
MANY complex influences have CO.
operated in producing as a resultant
this steady change in the age compost
ton of the population. Three may be
mentioned-the rapid progress of med
ical and sanitary science, which has
tended to increase the average length
of life; the decrease in the relative
number of children born, which has
made the earlier age periods less pre-
ponderant numerically in the total pop
ulation; and the influx, especially since
1910, of great numbers of adult inmi-
grants, increasing the number in hte
older age periods. The difference be-
tween the white and colored popula-
lions is doubtless due to the fact that
the influences have wrought more pow
erfuIly upon the white race than upon
the colored race"
It is said that figures cannot lie and
for that reason Americans have great
cause to rejoice over the possibility of
in time rivaling Methusaleh. So much
is said and written nowadays concern
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12
Dovez Reading
RIVALRY BETWEEN NoSTRUMs AND

RIVALRY BETWEEN NOSTRUMS AND
NOVELS.
Our later-day publishers are swiftly
forming themselves upon the elegant
models offered by our vendors Of cos
metics and patent medicines. The skill,
energy and capital which have made the
virtues of Blanks Soap and Dash's Com
pound familiar to the very babes In the
remotest hamlets of California, says the
New York Evening Post, are now trum-
pet1ng the merits of C. -"
The managers of theaters and the manu-
facturers Of cigarettes and crackers no
longer hold undisputed possession Of the
public billboardS. For weeks in every
elevated station in New York posters of
----- dazzled the eyes Of millions of pas
sengers. Last winter, cards in the street
cars declared that regards
as one of the best novels in English
Sandwich signs, carried by battered
tramps on Broadway, proclaimed the
thrilling interest of
In 1902 the unknown author Is as ex-
as the dodo. The name of rising genius
is heralded from one end Of the country
to the other, and his picture is furnished
to every paper that can be persuaded to
print it.
But while every publisher is shouting
his wares from the housetops, are the
consumers of books growing in grace and
knowledge? The gentle reader, with all
his gentleness, used to offer stubborn re-
sistance to book he did not like To-
day the publisher and the author do not
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12

PRIZES-A prize Of a short story
book will be sent to the first person to
send in correct answers to questions
annexed. Address replies to Puzzle
Editor, care of T h e GIob e, st. Paul,
MINI.
ANSWERS to questions two weeks
ago:
480-The Future state is the condi-
ton of human beings after death. Our
senses give us no idea of any continued
existence, yet the impression that there
is such is common to all nations. 1t
has been usually restricted to the soul
or immateria1 principle, and is con-
nected with a belief in God, though,
like that belief, taking various forms,
according to the character Of the ma
tons by which it is held. Its univer-
salty shows it to have had it's founda-
ton either in an innate consciousness
or from a divine revelation. Tradition
points directly to the latter, but there
are certain lines of argument from
which the former is generally deduced.
1. Congruity, or the indications OF
higher development than is possible in
the body. g. An Unborn desire to live
forever. 8. The ethical argument
drawn from the inequality of condition
and retribution as seen in this life.
Scripture clearly and author1tatlvely
confirms these deductions of reason
and tradition, with the further state
ment of the holy and happy condition
of the righteous, and the suffering of
the wicked. On the eternity, or rather
the continued consciousness, of the lat
ter state there has been much discus
sion, especially Of late years, as also
concerning the resurrection of the body,
the second coming of Christ, and the
place and mode of the future existence,
it's occupations and conditions.
4S1-Gamblirg, or Gaming, the art
or practice Of playing a game Of haz-
ard. or one depending partly on skill
and partly on hazard, with view,
more or less exclusive, to pecuniary
gain. Games of this nature We're for
hidden by the Romans under the re-
public and the empire. The ground on
which this was done was the tendency
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12
FRUITFUL OR FRUIrLEss.

The Christian Endeavor topic for
Oct. II is found in John XIV: Is, 16;
Mark x: 12-14. The purpose of the
Christians life is fruitfulness. eye
have not chosen Me-" says Christ, but
I have chosen you and ordained you
fruit and that your fruit should re-
main, that whatsoever we shall ask Of
the Father in My name He gives
YOU" It is here declared by the Mas
ter that the purpose of diScipleship
is service. The kingdom Of Christ is
to be extended in the world by the
endeavors of His disciples. God might
have used the angels in heaven to
carry forward His work, but He has
ordained that it should be carried for
ward by those who have been saved
in Jesus Christ. We work, and He
works with us. We are not to be idlers
in his vineyard; neither ar we to be
fruitless, but our lives are to be filed
with service and with the fruits that
result from the faithful endeavors of
those who are Christs to extend His
worldly kingdom.
Not only is the fact Of service set
forth here, but in the parable Of the
vine and the branches we have set
forth the conditions Of fruitfulness.
On this subject Christ says: abide
LII 4h1O clio IN SOo' <ao liiC NJ oltSi
cannot bear fruit Of itself except it
abide in the vine, no more can We,
except we abide in Me. am the vine;
We are the branches. He that abideth
in Me and in him, the same bringeth
forth much fruit, for without Me We
can do nothing" The branch is fruit
less except it abide in the vine. So is
the Christian except he abide in Christ.
The results of being fruitful and Of
being fruitless should inspire us to in
finite1y prefer the former>to the latter
The fruitless branch is cut down, cast
aside and destroyed. every branch
in Me that beareth not fruit. He taketh
away. If a man abide not in Me, he
is cast forth as branch that is with
cred, and men gather them and cast
them into the fire and they are
burned" This is the result of fruit
lessness in Christian life and service.
The possibility of such a result should
warn us against neglecting to abide in
Christ and the neglect to bring forth
fruit in our lives. On the other hand,
they that are fruitful have their ca
pacity for fruitfulness increased. CIV
cry branch that beareth fruit He purg-
eth it that 1t may bring forth more
fruit" Thus we see that the possibili
ties are constantly increased by the
faithful performance of duties devolv-
ing upon US. The man to whom two
talents were given had them increased
to four; the man to whom five talents
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12
Forcing The
Market.

yield SO meekly. They now plan an
fashion. and force 1t upon us. willy nilly.
Our grandfathers took up a much dis
cussed novel, certain that, however poor.
it had recommended itself to many peo-
pie. We pathetically follow the tradition
of reading the books that are talked
about, certain of nothing except that for
a month the title has stared at us on
every hand. We wade through 1t be-
cause we suppose everybody else is read
ing it., and we want to hold up our heads
in civilized society.
What are we going to do about It?
Most of us will do nothing. But people Of
education owe it to themselves not to be
stampeded by mere shouting. They should
Withstand the vociferous attacks of the
advertiser, and remain unashamed, even
though they have read none of the i'm
mortal masterpieces that within a twelve
month have sunk to oblivion. If we are
to hold our own, we must stick to EN-
erson's rule of waiting till book has
lived at least year before we favor
it with our attention. And We must more
than ever try to steady our judgment
by turning back to the books that have
endured for generation or more. II we
are familiar with Jane Austen. Scott.
Dickens, Thackeray and George Eliot, we
shall not be struck dumb with amaze
ment at the genius of Charles Major or
even of James Lane Allen and Booth
Harrington. If, from time to time, we
return to the masters, we may hope to
be guided by reason instead of by noise.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12
A Former flinne-
sofa Minister.
Edward Ggglesfon

stood and appreciated without any
knowledge of their personal lives. Not
so with Edward Eggleston. What he
did is very much more to be valued,
also, because of the physical difficulties
with which he had to contend through
out his life. His family and friends be-
lieved as far back as 1854 that he was
afflicted with hopeless consumption,
and though he proved that fear to be
false, his health was always weak, and
it was considered remarkable by those
who knew him that he. should have
lived to the age of sixty five.
Eggleston was by heredity interested
in colonial and revolutionary affairs.
His ancestors had enigrated from Eng
land to Virginia in the seventeenth
century, and his grandfather, Capt Ed
ward Eggleston, saw active service in
the revolutionary war; His father,
Joseph Cary Eggleston, was prominent
in the public affairs of Indiana's early
history. The future author arrived in
the family household on December 10,
1887.
The boy was sent to school In a VII
1age institution of exceedingly rustic
environment, near Vevay. The peda-
gogue here gave him the idea which
was afterward to be embodied in 'The
Hoosier Schoolmaster." 6EgglestOn'S
life was spent largely out Of doors. He
learned to shuck corn, chop wood and
to perform other buc6lic Chores. He
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12
Puzzle Corner.

PRIzES-A copy of short story book
will be sent to the first person to send
in answers to all puzzles. The person
who sends in the best original puzzle this
week will receive a copy Of a choice
story. The puzzles printed first in this
department will be considered the best,
concerning which opinions may differ. All
puzzles should be written on one side Of
paper. Write names distinctly.
ANSWERS to puzzles two weeks ago:
34S.-Double Curtailings: /. Try-st; 2.
Against; 8, Tome; 4, Vince; 5, AIl-ot;
6, Maybe; Z. Windy; s, Whole; 9,
Canoe; 10, Finder.
Beheadings and Curtailings: 1,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12
To Test Minds So
Inclined.

$3.50 in four months at per cent?
352-Numerical transpositions. "he
following is combination of puzzle
and problem:
1-Transpose 2,oo2 and 100 and get
to Initiate.
2-Transpose 5o4 and and get
bright.
S-Transpose 1,o51 and so and get
machine for grinding.
4-Transpose500, $50 and nothing
and get not warm.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12
Sunday Study
CROSSING THE JORDAN.

The International Sunday school
lesson for Oct. IL is found in Joshua
iii, to iv, Z. The golden text is
Isiah xiii, 2. The topic is Israel cross
ing the Jordan, and the story is told
in these two chapters from which our
lesson is taken. By this event the
Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of
all Israel, that Israel might regard the
Lord it's God forever and that all the
people of the earth might know the
hand of the Lord, that is mighty. The
symbol Of the presence of God was
the ark of the covenant, for it was
from above the mercy seat from be-
tween the cherubim that He had prom
ised to meet and commune with Moses
and at least seven times He is spoken
of as dwelling between the cherubim.
In the third chapter the ark is men
toned ten times and in the fourth
chapter seven times, so that the ark
of the covenant or the presence of
the Lord in the midst of Israel is real
ly the heart of our lesson.
The eleventh and thirteenth verses
show that the ark went before the
people on their way to the Jordan that
they might know the way by which
they must go, for as the officers said:
Eye have not passed this way hereto
tan life we must run with patience,
looking unto Jesus, and we must see
no one but Jesus only, for He is our
only ark, and He alone can lead us in
the way wherein we should go.
The next three verses tell us that
as soon as the feet of the priests that
bore the ark touched the waters the
bed of the river became dry for Israel
to pass over. The same living God
who divided the Red sea before Israel
in the days of Moses did this before
the children of Israel under Joshua
that Israel might see that the Lord
was with Joshua as He had been with
Moses and that all the people of the
earth might know the hand Of the
Lord.
"And the priests that bore the ark
of the covenant of the Lord stood firm
on dry ground in the midst of Jordan
until all the people were
passed clean over Jordan" AS Israel
| crossed the Jordan in safety so indeed
shall all pass safely through every
difficulty of our life if we have faith in
the redeeming love of Him who is our
ark of the covenant. We must not
think Of Jordan as typical Of death
or of Canaan as suggestive Of heaven,
for there are no conflicts in heaven
such as were in Canaan after Israel
entered it. The Israel story is sug-
gestive Of life here on earth.
The verses of the next chapters tell
of twelve stones set up as a memorial
in the midst of Jordan in the place
where the feet of the priests which
bore the ark of the covenant stood
(verse nine), as well as of twelve
stones taken from the place where the
priests stood and set up in the land
(verse eighty. Jordan signifies the
river of judgment, and these two heaps
of stones under the waters of Jordan
and set up in the land speak to me of
the believer crucified with Christ and
risen with Christ, judgment past and
evermore. Until we see this there is
no abiding rest and victory.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12
A LIVING WRECK.

A LIVING WRECK.
One of the most patched-up men ever
known lives at Cleveland, Ohio. His name
is George Burns and the Plain Dealer says
that "the catalogue of Burns afflictions
and physical disabilities reads like a list
of casualties in a mine disaster or a sub
way explosion" According to this story,
the entire top of this mans skull is gone,
being replaced by silver plate which is
attached to his right jaw; five ribs on the
left side have been removed, forcing his
heart to the right side of his. anatomy;
a portion of his right hip is missing, one
of his legs has been fractured in three
places. the other in two, his elbow joints
are thing of memory, he is blind in one
eye, one of his kneecaps is situated mid
way down his shin, and in all thirty-seven
pieces of bone have been removed from
his body. Burns says that at one time
he was thought to have passed to the
great beyond. The shroud had been pre-
Dared. the coffin was ready, when the sup
NaGn dead man rose to protest against
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12
A Fragmentary
Man.
dell Patched. 81


the funeral rites. The much disabled
man was born in Troy, N. Y. seventy
three years ago. He claims to be a vet
eran of the Mexican war and a survivor
of the Civil war. He Joined the navy
schoolship Hartford shortly before the
outbreak of the latter conflict. He served
under Farragut and while on an expedi-
ton along the Mississippi river he was
struck by shell and the upper portion
of his skull was shot off. For weeks he
lowered between life and death after hav-
ing submitted to an operation. involving
the insertion of large silver plate in his
skull. After the Civil war Burns says he
served on the Jeanette during the Greeley
expedition. On his return he was caught
in machinery while serving as IN en-
gineer in a plant at Charleston, S. c. Ac-
cording to Burns statement he was hurled
around the factory for some minutes. He
was crushed beyond recognition and when
rescued was pronounced dead. He was
borne to the morgue and laid away on ice.
He there regained consciousness and in
formed the attendants that he was still
to be numbered among the living.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12
Intellectual Amusement
and Exercise for Young
Minds

g. Nina; 3, Drawn; 4.
Rabbi.
Puzzles to be answered Oct. 20:
352.-Numerical- Enigma:
I am composed of seventeen letters and
form the name of a great man long dead.
My 10, 16, is an assessment.
My II, 1, II is something to wear.
My 13, 2, s, Is is joy.
My 3, 9, IA means to make mistake.
My z, 5, 6, II is a native of Denmark.
353.-Anag gram Definitions:
l., Rogue, Sand-Unsafe.
2. Ice: try, tan-The quality Of being
beyond doubt.
8. Luna, rat-Not artificial
a. Shot, pail-A most valuable institu-
ton.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12
Who Wrote
Them {?
Famous Quotations.

QUoTATIoNs-Author to be given
Oct rs:
477.-s"The harvest is truly plenteous.
but the Iaborers are few
47s.-"A word spoken in due season,
how good it is
479.S'I am escaped with the skin of
my teeth"
4S0.-"We took sweet counsel together"
4S1-"Who against hope believed in
HOPPER
perfect love casteth out fear"