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PIXIES PEAK OR BUST

12c1s. And somebody else sold more,
and the shorts recovered from their
fright, and the fatal hour was ap-
preaching when Hayward would lave
to settle. Pixies Peak or busti He did,
indeed, need a veritable Pixies Peak OF
dollars to pay for the $4,000 Sugar he
had on hand. So he busted.
He threw UP his hands. He acknowl-
edged defeat to himself. The tension
was over. He was no longer excited,
but cool, almost cynical. On one of the
little slips of paper on which brokers
jot down memoranda OF their transac-
tions he scribbled message in lead
pencil. 1t was his last official lie, and
would cost Hartley and Thompson and
other friends, as well as his customers,
many thousands of dollars. 1t was as
follows:
lowing to the refusal Of their bank
to extend the usual facilities to them,
Hayward & Co. are compelled to an
nounce their suspension"
"Boy!" he yelled. And he gave the
bit of paper to one of the exchange
messenger boys in gray. Take this to
the chairman"
And he walked slowly. almost swag-
geringly, out of the New York Stock
Exchange-for the last tiIne-as the
chairman pounded with his gavel until
the usual crowd gathered about the
rostrum and listened to the announce
ment OF the failure Of Sally Hay
ward, who began as a nice little tele-
phone boy and ended as 2 stock gam
bier.
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which Is destined to rule the child, but
must not place much reliance on 1t un-
til maturity.
Many parents feel that they are
treating child kindly when they are
permitting him to decide for himself.
Are such parents not generally mis-
taken7 Is 1t not true that 1t is much
easier for a child to do what he does
not like to do as an act OF submission
; to authority rather than 20 do 1t as a
result OF his own determination?
Many parents will keep a child In
misery for half an hour, and resort to
all sorts of arguments and bribes to
try to get him to take bitter medicine.
The better way would be to see that
the child takes 1t at once. Afterward
1t might be well to express regret
that 1t was necessary to compel
obedience. and the hope that 1t would
soon not be necessary to take the un-
pleasant medicine.
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Waste OF Raw Material.

AT present it is as though each forest
tree were SO embedded in dark and un-
wholesome vegetation at its root that
1t cannot hold up its head to the sun
shine and flourish in its own heaven
intended manner
The wastefulness of human life is
analogous to the wastefulness of care
lessly burning crude coal in the midst
OF a town, so as to distill great part
OF il into the atmosphere, thereby ex-
cluding the more effective and vitaIiz-
ing rays of the sunshine by cloud of
pest1lent smoke, which not only has
cost much TO produce, but also has the
effect OF diminishing the healthfulness
OF every human being who lives under
it, And the remedies at present. adopted
by society for dealing with its poverty-
stricken and criminal population are
analogous to the efforts which a COM
munity might make laboriously to COL
lect and control and dissipate the
smoke, which it never ought to have
produced; thus taxing itself doubly-
first. by the expense of producing the
evil; next by the expense of coping
with it: whereas the more economical
and altogether pleasanter and happier
plan would be 20 so organize matters
from the outset that the evil should
never have existed, except occasionally
here and there by an accident or by
causes beyond our control If the evils
OF large towns were really beyond our
control we might well be content TO
Sit still with folded hands and do moth
ing; but it is in the belief that these
evils are largely man-created, and can
most properly be dealt with by man
that remedial organizations exist. At
present they seem to me to deal too
much with palliatives; a more revolu-
tionary reform is needed, and although
no one individual can do very much
and although I myself am already so
busy that IL is hopeless for me to at
tempt TO do anything, yet one who
clearly perceives that there is some
thing TO be done is bound to give ,It-
terance TO the views he holds. in the
hope that it may stimulate others. DOS
sessed Of leisure and wisdom, TO take
the matter up more vigorously and
more lucidly than they do at present.
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Reasoning

Many parents will ask. Shall
chi1d?" The answer must be. Ger
tafnly, but care must be taken not to-
permit him to give final decision con-
corning those things which 1t is not
safe to allow him to decide" There
are many things which may not only
be left to the child's Judgment. but
which should be left to him to decide
for himself. He may be helped by
advice or by information needed, but
should be free to decide. As he
of minor matters. and as he mani
tests good judgment the number and
character Of the matters may well be
advanced. II such a plan be taken,
and encouragement be given for those
decisions which are especially to be
commended, every e-lild will develop
better Judgment than such a child
would show under different treatment.
If parents. will discuss with older
children the principles involved in a
numDer Oh cases, lDe Will
gain most c--ellent ideas and be
greatly helped in coming to correct
conclusions. All ssuch discussions
should be carried on in a calm and
kind manner. The parents should be
careful to encourage the child to ex-
press his own views, which should re-
ceive most reful consideration.
1t Is indeed a very serious error IN
the managing of children to permit
them to argue y favor of their being
allowed to do what the parents know
is not only not best. but thing which
they must forbid.
Having considered the intellectual
side of the mind. it is important that
we also give attention to the emotional
side as>well The mind not only knows.
but 1t also feels and Wills Upon the
cultivation of the feelings will depend.
in great measure. the character Of the
child. as we'll as his future happiness.
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RESPONSIBILITIES -

to the good sense and natural feelings
Of each other. Subject to actual expe-
rience under good conditions IN the op-
posite directions, I should say: Let
drink of every kind be provided for
sane adults, but let there be food also,
and let there be no profit on the drink.
especially not on alcoholic drink.
to those who retail IT. Let 1t be OBJ
tainable, but not too easily and obtru-
sively obtainable. nor IN any way forced
upon people There Is no sense in the
present system, whereby overdrinking
is encouraged as the only way to Sc
cure good fellowship and comfortable
housing during the hours Of play. Theirs
are the theaters. it Is true-where peo-
pie are crowded, uncomfortable. rele-
gated to back seats. and with the liza
bility to have to stand In queues for q
long time before the doors are open
This Is horrible waste Of time. II
theaters are not crowded at the present
day they do not pay" This necessity
for pay is detrimental to any form
of art.
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'cash" stock-that is, stock for which
he paid cash, had to pay cash outright.
receiving the certificates forthwith, pre-
sumably to hand over to some investor
of millions. Everybody on the floor"
was talking about Hayward. The en-
tire market had risen in sympathy with
Sugar
But at 124 it seemed as If the entire
capital stock was for sale. He ceased
buying. He had accumulated $4,000
shares. To pay for the stock necessi-
tated about six and half millions.
But if he could unload on an average
of only 122 he might come out even"
in his other troubles.
He gave an order to sell 10000 shares
to a broker to whom he had always
been a good friend. 1t was fatal mis-
take. The broker, Louis ". Wechsler,
had previously sold 1000 shares to Hay
ward for cash" at 122. He suspected
what was coming, and, declining the
order, he himself went to Hayward's
Office and asked for q cheek. The CASH
Ter sought to put him off with excuses.
and Wechsler, now being certain of
the true state of affairs, returned to
the board and began to sell Sugar short
for his own account. II crash came
he would make instead OF losing 1t.
Hayward was sure to be ruined, and
Wechsler told himself sophistically that
he was only profiting by the inevitable.
In the meantime Sally had sold the TO-
900 shares through another broker, and
the price had declined to I21%. But
Wechsler's 5000 shares ~ 1t down to
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can do more than that; that they can
initiate and carry out positive enter
prises, and hence we have had great
water schemes, and gas ma fractures,
and electricity supply, and sanitation
enterprises, carried out by the govern
ing body of a city; and likewise free
libraries, picture galleries lid muse
ums, still more recently. technical and
other schools. All changes to be heart
lily rejoiced over. And in these enter
prises it must be admitted that on the
whole corporations have ,,een success
full, Ind 1 hope that with growing ex-
perience still more remunerative unde--
takings can be socially managed so as
to contribute, not only to the common
veal, but to the comms rse. want
to see municipalities go still further in
the positive direction, and instead of
merely licensing and repressing sui
things as entertainments and drink
traffics, to take them over, or to take
part of them over, and manage them
also in the best interests the people.
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Begin With the Children.

Our own children we scrupulously
protect from hostile influences OF all
sorts and take pains 10 place them
where they VIII receive good impress
sicns and right suggestions. In the
country il is possible that free COM
munion with nature may partially ac-
cCmpiish this, but in the towns, and
FOR the great mass OF mankind at pres
ent. nothing Of the kind is physically
possible: the people are too poor and
too busy 10 be able to give the neces-
sary time and attention TO their young
children born in a back street or In a
sunless court; they must perforce be
brought up amid those surroundings,
and must suffer the contamination OF
overcrowded dwellings, oppressive at
mospherc. ugly conversation and some
times OF drunken neighbors and
thoughtless il not vicious companions.
A great responsibility rests, therefore,
on those commercial requirements and
those laws OF landownership which
have brought large towns into being
and crowded the population into dense
tenements.
The result of the ugly. squalid, hard
pressed lif which the majority of peo-
pic have TO lead is that a minority of
them not only fail 10 advance, but go
back in the scale OF civilization to a
dangerous and intolerable extent; so
cion has to be employed in order to
deal with the vice and crime which
misery has to large extent created.
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Emotions

The control Of the emotions Il such q
difficult problem that even adults find
it a slow process. 1t is even more dif1-
cult with children. A child Of emo
tional nature cannot be cured Of his
displays of feelings, except through the
affections The parent who gives way
to outburst Of passion viii only add
fuel to the fire burning in the child's
soul. BY diverting the mind with a
story, by a display OF love, by the
use Of tact. and In many other ways.
much can be done to help the child
gain a mastery over his feelings. In
place of permitting his feelings to rule
him. 1t must ever be kept IN mind that
the child Of strong feelings not only
has the power Of loving intensely, but
has also the capacity for great hatred
Unkindness to a child suffering from
any strong emotion has tendency to
embitter him as such treatment would
not. at other times
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Feelings

Those feelings which are pleasant
produce desires. When unpleasant they
give rise to aversiOns. When the ex-
pected pleasure becomes great enough
to impel to voluntary action, it be-
comes motive. In this way arise mo-
tives which influence the will. and
thereby determine action. One who Is
carried away by his emotions is apt to
be- so impulsive as to be very hard to
control.
Most mental powers develop gradu-
ally and do not arrive at maturity until
quite late. Such IS especially the case
with the power of reason However,
the emotions Of children seem to be
strongest when they are young. Some
times children are so emotional that
they are considered eccentric Those OF
us who, for years, have schooled our
selves in the repression of our feelings
should make every allowance for chill
dren who show their feelings. We
should certainly make more allowances
for them than for adults. as their emo
tions are characterized by greater in
tensity. When a child is overpowered
by his feelings they are likely to have
complete mastery Of his mental facul-
ties as well, and he appears stupid.
Where very intense, they even paralyze
the bodily powers. How utterly sense
less, then, the person who expects
child laboring under great emotion to
think or act as would the child under
,o1 Y n ~ 20
not often expect this very thing7
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Continued From Page 81

ingly. He had nerve. "Old man. I've
got a big order from one Of the biggest
men in the street. Some important de-
velopments are going on"
sally, are you sure you've got an
order from some one else?" asked the
unconvinced broker. His incredulity
was obviously in the nature of an in
suit, but it was pardonable. for there
was too much at stake.
"Joe. come over to the office and I'll
show you. Really, I can't tell you. But
/ can advise you, as a friend, to buy
Sugar for all you are worth" And as
he uttered the lie he lookei straight
into Thompson's eyes.
Hayward, are you sure? Are you
sure you're not making a mistake %
He wanted the commission of 500, but
he did not feel certain of his friend.
.Oh, hell, no. I've got lot more to
buy. It's ali right. Go ahead, joe"
And Joe went ahead. He bought the
5000 shares. The stock rose to 1191s,
and Hayward, warned by his expert
ence with Hartley and Thompson, did
not ask either friend or foe to buy an
other 5000 shares for him. What he
did was TO distribute buying orders for
IL. 900 shares in lots of 500. Brokers now
accepted his orders, for they were not
30 large as to be dangerous. And the
stock rose to 122%. A few shorts were
frightened. He might win out after all;
he might make Pixies Peak. He began
to bid up the stock. He even bought
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Government Saloons

+. There ought to be at least ons
municipal theater where there shall be
room and comfort for all at low prices,
without necessarily having to go In at
the beginning, or long before the be-
ginning. and where reasonable plays
can be exhibited and songs sung. even
If they do not attract constantly crowd
ed houses. The entertainment and
recreation Of the people after their
days toll is too important matter to
be left wholly to private enterprise; it
is not a thing that should be exploited
by individuals for private gain: that is
not the way to secure entertainments
of a high class. The supply Of intoxi-
eating LIQUOR also Is not a matter that
should be conducted for private profit:
it is too serious thing for the welfare
of a nation. A man who has labored
hard all day with his body is naturally
thirsty; he requires liquid, and In this
climate he imagines that he requires
some stimulant I sympathize with
him, but whether he IS right or wrong
it is extremely little use coercing or re-
straining his body without controlling
or guiding his intelligence and will; un-
less indeed he is already in a diseased
condition. Too many are in that con-
dition, but the young surely are not.
and there lies our hope; a new genera
tion may be brought up under whole
somer and more natural conditions, and
the deadly diseased craving for over
doses OF any form Of drug, instead OF
having to be curbed and eradicated,
need never originate
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pened about the same time will also
suggest each other.
Imagination is. in reality, another
form of memory. We remember GER
tain things, and by an act of memory
we recall the images. Sometimes We
arrange them differently from what we
have known them. When we thus
group ideas in new forms, unlike 9TH
ers, we perform an act Of the imagin-
alton. Thus the child imagines that
man is as big as a tree, and he Is
scared by the mental picture of the
giant. Thus a stick becomes a horse;
a chair an engine upon which to ride;
the dolls become alive and listen to all
that is told them. and answer as tho
child desires them to. By this same
power the child at school sees upon
the map not merely black marks, but
rivers, mountains, lakes, cities and
other things which are not there.
The power of thinking depends
on the faculties Of conception, Judg-
ment and reason. Conception Is the
faculty which grasps and holds dis
tinctly the idea which has been re-
called from memory. To have a dis
tinct conception of any object 1t must
have been attended to closely and fire.
quently. For this reason you are able
to see clearly an image of an apple. 1t
is not easy to hold in the mind a pic
ture of some fruit seen but once, un-
less it differs greatly from all others
or is attended to very closely.
Judgment is that activity of the
mind which examines, compares and
determines the likenesses or differ
ences between several objects or ideas
and then draws a conclusion.
Reason is that faculty of the mind
which compares two or more judg-
ments and then forms another judg-
ment based upon the previous con-
clusions.
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Municipal Art.

This may be regarded as carrying out
the ancient idea of government, but Ii
and itself execute nothing; it would
simply permit its citizens to AIRY out
certain undertakings for themselves,
not helping them in any way or i'm
proving their enterprises ,ut only
checking them when they stepped be-
yond a certain border: SO that, for in
stance, any form of entertainment may
be licensed, however low in character,
provided it does not fall beneath cer-
tain limit, at which it becomes repug-
nant to the general feeling CT tn, COM
munity. But fortunately, of late years,
municipalities have learned that they
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BY the feelings or the emotions In
meant the excitement which accom-
panies certain. ideas. They produces
either pleasure or pain When emo
tions become very strong and pass be-
yond control they are called passions
Among the more common phases OF
emotion may be mentioned love. faith.
fear. Joy. grief. anger. surprise and
others.
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Imagination

1. Similar things will suggest each
other.
>. Images very much different will
90 the same.
3. Events and thoughts which hap
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New Towns and Old.

Already something is being done by
trying to start fresh towns in q clear
area Of country. undisturbel by the re-
suits Of previous Generalization; and
with the property SO owned as to con-
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More Public Institutes.

I would have social Institutes with
large public rooms, games. entertain
ments-anything that the people could
provide for themselves. or that might
be provided for them-and leave them
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- HOW WE ABUSE OUR SOCIAL RES

~
4 must be impressed and some
times oppressed with the mag
nitude OF the work that remains
10 be done toward the social regenera-
tion, or. as I should prefer to call il.
the civilization Of the people.
In a right condition OF society The
ethical state OF adults should be higher
and more advanced than that OF chill
dren. on the average: that is to say.
training and experience OF life should
have improved them With US at pres
ent believe IT is the reverse, and that
children, on the average. are born into
the world better than in a few years
they become; the majority seem TO
have suffered deterioration. not eleva-
ton, from their social surroundings;
their training has on the whole been
bad. / hope that this may be false.
but IL 1t be true II is a grievous indict-
r1ent against the conditions under
which we live.
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ing done, and to pc -mitting other
things to be done
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-04-22
Pioneer Was a Traveller

George Weimer. aged 90, died last
Monday on his farm near Roulette,
Pa, where he had lived for seventy
years. He was the last of the pioneer
woodsmen and raftsmen OF the ALLIE
ghany and Susquehanna headwaters,
and was famous as a pedestrian and
runner in his early days.
Once, being on a rafting trip down
the river, he walked from Jersey shore
to Roulette, seventy miles. between
breakfast and early bedtime. or in
about seventeen hours, over a OUCH
and billy wilderness road, with a stop
Of only an hour for rest and refresh
ments during the entire journey. The
reason he made it he always explained
by saying:
Il had always called on nv girl
that night Of the week, and | wasn't
going to let a little matter of seventy
miles fool me out of it that night"
Laroy Lyman of Roulette shot at =
deer in the hills back of that Mace
n day, and called to Weimer TO
fetch one of his dogs. The dog would
not follow the deer's track, and Wei.
mer himself took after the deer.
When Weimer started the dog took
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-04-22
Robert or George.

The legitimist Jacobite league Of
Great Britain and Ireland, through
Registrar Rodwaye of the North Am
erican Cycle Of the Order OF the White
Rose. R~oxbury, Mass. has issued a cir
cular to the faithful, asking. "Who has
the best right" (as heir to the British
throne). Robert OF George?" Robert"
is the son OF Princess Mary Theresa OF
Modena. now the Princess Louise Ct
Bavaria, who Is styled by the legitim-
lists Mary Nv. (of Scotland) aid III.
(of England), whose descent from the
male line Of the Stuarts Is undaniable.
but whose ancestral claims to the
throne were set aside by the act Of
succession that excluded Catholics
from the crown. George" is the duke
of York. so that it is evident that the
legitimist Jacobite league" admits
Queen Victoria and the prince Of
Wales.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-04-22
The Half Cent Piece

The half-cent piece was the coin of
the smallest denomination ever made
by this country. 1t enjoys the dis
tinction also Of being the first coin
issued and also the first whose de-
nomination was discontinued. The
United States mint was established
in 1892, and copper half-cents and
cents were issued in 1893. Half the
total number of half cents issued
were coined previous to 1910, after
which year their coinage, with few
exceptions, was limited. None was
coined for circulation from 1912 to
1924, nor from 1886 to 1S4S. Finally.
In 1857. their coinage, with that of the
big copper cent, was discontinued On
ccount of their limited issue in the
last years of their coinage they prac-
tically had disappeared from the
channels of trade.
The needs Of adopting the half-cent
as u lowest value-computing factor
for a coin were made in the early
days Of the republic. Colonial half
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-04-22
He Won With Western Methods.

Lieut.. SOmerville OF the British
navy recently related the following in
an address before the Royal G~eograph-
ical Society: "The New rapid of the
Yangtse vas formed in 1896. The
land slipped in after the heavy rains
and filed up the bed of the river. No
one up above knew anything about it
and as the junks were coming down
500 we're wrecked in a whirlpool at
the foot OF the rapid. The story is
that it was the work of a dragon. A
friend of mine-Ferdinand Tyler-was
sent up there by the Chinese govern
ment and he tried to exercise the
dragon. This landslip. so it was said,
had been formed by the dragon turn
ing over in his sleep. Mr.. Tyler tele-
graphed to ask permission to begin.
They telegraphed him that first of all
the ancient methods must be tried to
see If the dragon could not be moved
and then, If he would not move, west
ern methods might be attempted.
Well, the dragon would not move and
Mr.. Tyler started with dynamite and
shifted a bit of the river"