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The Washington times., 1907-11-10
ARE YOU GETTINGPAID
ALL YOU ARE WORTH?

You who know TIRE facts IN the case
can put your hand on the reason Of
their failure to get all they think
themselves worth
With one man It IS because drink has
the upper hand Of him Extravagaut
ideas keep another man down. 4 hot
temper dlcEes another man Of his
merited money Another Is a trouble
maker. Ard so it goes. eacn man is
worth more to his employer but for the
one thing that holds him back from
getting more.
Now put the question 20 yourself,
say 10 yourself this very day: Hers
am l, Johnnie Jones; I have been with
my employer five years. / am prac-
ticaily just where I started; why am
] not getting as much as l think 1 am
worth D" Now be as honest with your
sell in sizing yourself up as you were
in sizing the other fellows up.
Honest. now, isn't the fault all with
in yourself that you are not getting
what you are worth?
But take the question in a still larger
way. Are yod getting what you are
worth in life?
The fact Of the matter is, life is All
employer, when you look at it from
one point of view. You are the en-
ploye of Life Is Life paying you all
YOU are worth
Let's look at yourself
Who are you: Wen, first Of all. you
are an American citizen; yoa had a
privilege of being bern in a land
whore, if men work, they have the op-
not have 20 cross the seas to get TO
the land Of opportunity. You were
born on the soil You were given a
fairly good common school education.
The majority Of boys get that at
least. When you went TO work YOU
had a sound constitution, not vet I'M
dermined by any perricious habits
You have been living twenty or TWEEN
ty-five. perhaps forty years, and today
you are saying that your EMPLOYER.
Life, has not treated you very we'll.
! GU are saying that Life is not giving
YOU what you are worth
Now, stop minute
Life is your employer, ana as your
employer Life has . right TO expect
that you shall do for him the things
ne expects you 10 do. Life says to
every man who comes to him for en-
employment: L want 90 make vour
work blessing to somebody else. I
want you 10 take the talents. the
privileges that you have. and Use them
So that people who have come after
you shall find more ease ana more
pleasure than you do" No man Iiveth
TO himself. and no man dietn to him
self Your contract with Life demands
that you shall help Life improve the
race.
Are you doing that very thing?
The Washington times., 1907-11-10
Fair (2) Knockers
By CAROLINA PRESCOTT.

~ F all the excuses that have
been made for women knock
~ ers the best, believe. is the
one that says they knock be-
cause their minds are smaIl-so small
that there is no room in them for
higher. better thoughts. GossiD IS
what they Ike, gossip IS all they
Know, and, therefore, gossip is ali
they do. Gossip is twin sister To
knocking. though not quite SO vindic-
tive in its character.
Did you ever listen to a regular
hammerfest when it was at its heIrhts
1t is a liberal education IN itself
have listened time after time to these
soirees; in fact, worked IN the midst
or one LOT Two years. once upon q
time. Knockers there were who yzO1,iS
destroy woman's character or Zos-
sip away her reputation as biltheiv
and airily as they would discuss :
new gown or the weather.
Ihey- ald II by suggestion, ugly. IN
is always a coward at heart. He or
she never comes out bravely with =
criticism. It Is accomplished nv In
sinuation and underhandad methods.
On: Ine regulations that have been
picked TO pieces and ruined BY thIs
body Of fair knockersl No-I win take
it back. They were not fair: fbsv
were frumps. the most Of them
II girl had a particularly pleasin~
manner, was pretty or attractive, theV
knocked her, thinking their catty CON
yersations regrding her would put a
finish to her success. II one OF their
number received a raise in salary. hsd
stroke OF good fortune, came out IN
new dress or a new hat, thew got
their hammers out and the anvil
chorus got to work
Are you one Of these women knock
ers? The habit is easy 70 ACQUIRE
and grows alaTmingly. II You md
yourself saying unkind things about
people, stop it at once, before you Join
that everlasting throng. Nice people
do not indulge IN personalities. thev
leave these for servants and backward
people. Really nice women ara chart
table, kind, gentle, and ladylike. They
are never knockers
The Washington times., 1907-11-10

By LANDON CARTER.

MBITION, If accompanied by
~ good judgment, is. perhaps,
n the most valuable human in
heritance. but, like all powers,
1t can. without proper control, become
pToporti0nately dangerous. Ambition
prompted by courageous and high
moral inspirations is a component part
OF so many things that il may, per
haps. be wiser TO particularfze For
instance, no man, if slOthful, can be
genuinely a gentleman. for the fortune
of good birth, although great, IS
equally a responsibility. Human ma
ture, at best. is too fTail and faulty
not to need constant Improvement.
Breed may be stronger than pasture,
and still without proper nOurishment
and cultivation nothing can thrive. So
also is il with refinement
Men and women would be more ami
mails but for ambition, the results of
which give them 2 corresponding
sphere mentally. morally socially and
physically in life. and by the lack OF
proper ambition are they rendered
equally insignificant Ambition en-
phasfZes the Children's standing in
school and designates for them the
most suitable future vocauons.
Ambition is ones daily duties, is as
needful as worship; for God, after
having given us great possibilities.
helps us with our minds. as well as
with our hearts and souls surely eN-
ccllence encourages one about life gen
orally: IL shows the spiritual wealth OF
the world. Ambition also creates great
pleasure L. WORK. which Is in itself a
higher form of rACOmpeuse than ma
teTial compensation, for the man who
merely draws q salary for rendering
stipulated service to has employer and
then avoids and shirks every other It
spOusibility is hardly 70 lie envitd
for even the mill wheel will go on
turning a bit after the water is cut
on
The Washington times., 1907-11-10
PiDe-Dreamer and Builder
of Air-CaStIes Makes
Practical Builder of
Earthly Castles Look
Like a Cheap Piker.

in
don't o
Let other sgeton herc cast bull OF ono
cute o
( castles be Of air ndlau to
hui to your ear EN- again
may 70 rare
air
SNT the truth kidd When right down to cases doesn't
the pipeamer and builder of castles make the matterof-
fact and practical builder of earthly like cheap pker
the happiness game? Isn't his imaginary successes blamed
sight dope to have sitting through your garrett practical
guys failures? floating up among the clouds of hopefness
while practical guy fonderngn the slough despond Yet this
old dump of world handing comedy laugh to the pipe
dreamer and rating him among the aBo-ranS.
The Washington times., 1907-11-10
BALM FOR THE SALARIED.

There's something in dispatches that
quite convinces me
That IL Is better 4ts. - be as poor as
poor can be,
My scanning of exchanges is productive
of this gist.
"A Milliozaire in Trouble; Loses Thou
sands Playing Waist
Two Wealthy Malefactors Dodge Sub
penas Thick and Fast"
"A Croesus, Late Of Pittsburg, in the
Cluth of Law at Last
The Law Seeks Mr.. Gotrocks Who De
clares That He Will Fight"
And so / might go on, my friends like
this al infnit
There's something in the jingling Of my
pennies, two or three.
Within my spacious pockets. that k-lngs
gladness unto me,
For though its inCO1ven.ent While my
ducats are so few.
I'll not get into trouble like my richer
brothers dol
buffalo Express.
The Washington times., 1907-11-10
Their HappIest Times.

And another thing. kid. III gamble
that II you'd ask these guys which
was their happiest times they'd tell
YOU 81 was the days they spent IN
their air-castles. There's nothing 70 II.
kid; when u comes to real joyous
moments the air-castlcs make the
original hoUse-of-mfrth look Ike
mOrgue. The Door slob Who has never
wandered through the sildsd halls OF
an sir-castle has lived IN vain. though
he be rich as Croesus.
The time was. away back in the dim
distant past. when we mad no steam
cars. no electricity. no telegraph. Moth
Ing but that which nature planted on
this old dump Of a world when she
turned Il out. But q few pipe-dreams
The Washington times., 1907-11-10
By JOHN ANDERSON JAYNE

A RI you getting what you are
~ Worth2
~ Ask that question OF any
ten salaried men with whom
you are sufficiently well acquainted to
ask it,
Nine Of them viii make reply: NO,
I am not getting what I am worth"
Ask them the reason why they are
not getting all that they are worth
and each OF the nine will have a rea-
son for HIS failure to get his dues.
One viii say: THE old man has a
spite at me" Another will talk Of his
lack Of pull. Still another win have
his excuse, and so on all through the
nine. None Of them is getting what he
believes himself worth, and each OF
them places the blame for the fact
outside Of himself.
The Washington times., 1907-11-10
IFiE POOP 5LOB'WHO.H HAS. NEVER.
WANDERED .THR0UGH.THE;
GIhDED'HAhLS 0FANAIR-
CASTLE. HL6hIVEDINEAIN,
THOUGH liz BE-RICHIS-CR0ESU S

she'll do some tall sprinting and get
somewhere before she gives up the job.
The guy who takes a pull at the
dream pipe occasionally and erects
his air castles is never the crouch who
peddles around knocks on his hard
luck and lives down I'm the cellar. You
never hear him splitting out the CAB
about everybody trying 20 do him and
he can't get a chance, and they never
fish him out Of the river and stick
The Washington times., 1907-11-10

advance, and besides there must be
left to him a certain freedom without
which he would be nothing but play
thing. Furthermore, the sages think
that the great voyage OF discovery in
search Of fate teaches men many
things"
The Washington times., 1907-11-10
WHY is TT

Why does IT happen that the men who
never
Have tasted of the sweetness Of
success,
The men who have achieved no heights
whatever,
Whose very clothes proclaim their
WOrthlessness.
Come offering the volumes we shall
need
For daily guidance If we would succeed
Chicago Record Herald.
The Washington times., 1907-11-10
Is Al
WdUS An Air
Castle to the
World Until
Realized.

mil man. II It wasn't for these air
castles we might still be hitting the
high places on a broken Iown plug
from tavern 10 tavern, and the extent
ri our Industries wouid be the VIZ
iage blacksmith pounding out our side
arms from his stock Of cid horse
shoes.
The Washington times., 1907-11-10
BuSineSSOdDne
Ism Whole
Thing in This
Life to PlaU
For.

him in a glass case up at the AIorgue 10
await identification. These stunts are
always pulled off by the dub who be-
lieves IN looking at the naked truth
and calling spade a spade. The
architect Of the aiT-castle lives on the
silver lining Of the dark clouds, and Re
always has his lamps trimmed on
something away out on the horizon, so
that he doesn't get next TO the ugly
warts on the landscape IN the fore
ground. He's the guy to whom every
storm is a sunshower, and he never
let's down the awning and shuts out
the sunshine just because there's a
little rain falling
No, kid, there has never been a hap
pier or more useful little diversion in
vented than the air-caztle. It is Tie
best umbrella a guy can put I'D IL a
storm. and whether he ever realizes II
or not, you can gamble that if VIII
keep him from becoming water-Iogged.
and it's a cinch that the sun viii be
shining through his windows while the
other guy is hiding in the cellar
So you keep right on building your
little castles in the air, kid. ana after
you have il completed kick I'D the
dust in that direction. and move into
IT. The world VIII say then that il
was not IN air-casgie, but don't you
believe il. Ambition is always an air
castle TO the world until ii IS realized
The sporting fraternity calls 1t
hunch.
Here's happiness TO the guy who
never builds air-castles, for the guy
who does will have It anyway.
The Washington times., 1907-11-10

= HATE to butt up against such
awful odds. but let me hand you
a tip, kid, that the world Is wrong.
The guy who passes up the air
castles and deals only In solid facts.
looking everything square in the mug
and fishing around for the ugly warts
Of truth. may pull of a few more
stunts Of the real goods and pile up
a higher batting average in the bust
ness game than the guy at the butt
end OF the dream pipe, whose sue
cesses are always a lap ahead in the
race Of life; but let me tell you that
he is also the dub who, when he butts
into a slump, sneaks into his bOudUr.
locks the door with the night latch,
rams the bed sheet into the chinks,
plugs up the keyhole and-blows out
the gas.
The Washington times., 1907-11-10


lar tree. said 20 be ths
Oldest and largest tree "a
the Eastern States. It
is between 800 and 600 years old. aid
at the base Is thirteen feet IN dam
eter.
During the last few yesrs the cid
tree has been rotting rapidly. and q
short time ago It became evident that
something would have 70 be done ia
mediateiy to save It. The rot hid
left a big cavity in the trunk. ard
there was danger that a heavy wild
storm would blow Il over.
Through the influence OF James 7.
Woodward. Of New York city, tbs
tree is now being renovated. MI,
Woodward. who IL a tree expert Is
directing the work. Fifty tons OF ce-
ment viii be required TO Ill the cav
ity.
The big tree has many historical a +
sOciatigns and has become known as
Liberty Tree"
On October Is. Peggy Stewart Day
OF Maryland Homecoming Week. the
Annapolis chapter OF the Daughters
OF the, American Revolution win place
bronze tablet on the tree II Is ex-
pected that Governor Varied viii
participate In the ceremony and Mrs.
Donald Mclean. president OF the
Daughters Of the American Revolu-
ton, VIII be ct Annapolis that day.
The Washington times., 1907-11-10
Says Lore
Is Just Like
s. Wireless ="
By AUGUST sTRINDBERG.

POKE the scholar. When man
and a woman meet IN love a
single being Is born whose hfe
IS a feeling Of positive weii-oe-
ing as long as harmony exists. But
this being is an exceedingly sensitive
receiver. II is exposed 10 disturbances
by strange currents from all sides and
distances, and In this it resembles
wireless biography
FOR this reason Instantaneous re-
latiOns between man ard wife are the
greatest suffering in existence. IN
faithfulness IS a cosmic crime when
places one OF the parties in perVerse
relations to bis or her own sex.
when the husband fails IN love
with a woman other than he VIE.
The latter is exposed to terrible alter
nate Queensland she at times hates
and at other times loves the woman
who is her rival. Very often she may
become the friend OF her husbands
affinity. bat stiH oftener she becomes
her enemy.
And whoever steps IN between two
loving people docs not dc 50 unpun-
isned. The hatred which he causes IS
so terrible that BE may be paralyzed
by the discharges ard lose al energy
and pleasure in living"
That is why I say: DO not play
with love"
POKE. the teacher: a. Do you re-
member the Indian drama, 'Ur-
vasiT A penitent who retires
into solitude to purify MS SOU
BY giving up the pleasure OF this world
may at last be endowed with such
higher mental and spiritual qualities
that his power becomes dangerous to
the lower divinitiez
etc delay the spiritual development
OF the penitent Indra sent an Apsara,
A kind OF divine bajadere. to disturb
the peace OF mind of the ponitent and
to seduce him.
How. then. should the seGuCed have
n feeling of guilt? How should he be
able TO regret that which has hap
pened without any fault Of his?
Now. the poet is in SOME respects
different from the penitent. and to be
able 10 describe life in all its phases
and terrors he must have lived him
self.
what would Shakespeare have been
ae a Doet if he had lived the life OF
good boy-if he had carried on MS
fathers honest trade and ia Il s hours
81 leisure had written Only u the lit
tie things he would then have seen?
Even If we do not KnoS much OF
the great English poet we can see
from his writings what stormy life
he must have lived. There Is hardly
a misfortune which he has not known,
hardly a passion which he has not felt.
Hatred and love. passion ana revenge,
murder and aTson-all he seems to
Lave lived through as a poet
a true poet should. ana must. sac
r.fice his own individuality for his
york Therefore. when I think OF a
suitable monument to Shakespeare 1
see it like this: Hercules ti2htina his
own pyre on Mt. Aetna, sacriCfieing his
own life as an offering 10 humanity.
ITO near that is delight, isn't IT,
And the scholar replied: 'Fors6cth
you can unite and you can tie-now
you have unued me-!
- -
POKE the teacher: Life is diff
cult to live and the fates of men
\ appear to be very different.
Some have days full of sun
light, others hopelessly dark and
dreary nights only. Therefore, it is
The Washington times., 1907-11-10
Needs MANY Successes.

The guy who. is too blamed practical
to pull OF his little pipe dreams and
slap 10 his air-castles has got TO have
d laundering long string Of successes,
The Washington times., 1907-11-10

POKE the teacher: Life is diff
cult to live and the fates of men
\ appear to be very different.
Some have days full of sun
light, others hopelessly dark and
dreary nights only. Therefore. il is
hard 10 know how TO act in life. what
The Washington times., 1907-11-10

POKE the teacher: q Do you re-
member the Indian drama, 'Ur-
vasiT A penitent who retires
into solitude to purify MS SOU
The Washington times., 1907-11-10
Took This Tree 500 Years
To Grow Is Feet in Diameter

y the campus OF st. Johns
College, al Annapolis
Nd. Is e big tulip po1
lar tree. said 20 be thB
49, F.---.-s go. a..
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-08-22
JUDICIARY NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the &C
counts II the following named fdu
Charles are before me for settlement
viz:
/. J. H swisner, guardian of Mar
tina a. swisher, an infant.
2! J. H swisher, guardian of Wal
ter L. swlsher, an infant.
8. F. N. stackpole administrator Of
Uriah Thompson. deceased.
4. Thomas G. Lake. administrator
of George H Lake. deceased.
5. "A. W. Deyore, guardian Of Gerold
o. Devore, an infant
6. William H. Watson. administra-
tor of James o. Watson, deceased.
Z. NJ. Powell, surviving executor Of
NJ. c. Brant, deceased.
s. Mary ]. Hough, guardian Of James
s. Thomas, an infant.
8. j. Austin Price, guardian Of
Georgia G. Price, an Infant.
10. ]. Austin Price, guardian Of
Jessie B. Price, an infant.
II. J. Austin Price guardian of An.
ME R. Price, an infant.
70. John NJ. Harr, guardian Of
Charles Harry, Bell, Lou ]. and Rora
Carder, infants.
10. John A. Youst guardian of En-
nest Lee Stewart, an infant.
IA. John NJ. Harr, administrator Of
B. F. Leonard, deceased.
is. H. R. McAlllster, committee Of
Alexander McAllister, an insane per.
son,
10. Isaac starm, executor of Eli
Sharp, deceased.
Given under my hand as one Of the
Commissioners Of Accounts Of the
County Court Of Marion county, West
Virginia, on the 2otA day Of August,
1907
JOHN s EEHh AN
Commits TONER D. Accounts
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-08-22

It must hage beenstwo hours later
when they yentured forth! Silence
and loneliness brooded everywhere,
not 10 much Is breath Of air stir
ring the leaves. Murphy continued to
lead. the light treadutI IFS horse bare
ly audibie, Hampton pressing closely
behind. revolver IN hand, the two pack
horses trailing in the rear.
Midnight, and they pulled up amid
the deeper gloom Of "a great, oyerhang-
ing bIuiis having numerous trees near
SIS summit There was the glow Of 9
distant are upon their left, which red
dened the slty, and reaected oddly on
the edges % d vast cloud-mass rolling
up hreateningiy from the west
Their horses stood with heads hang
ing YEARLY down, their sides rising
and faIling and Hampton, rolling stif-
" rom the saddle, hastily loosened
his girth:
They'll drop under US II we don't
EfFe them an hour or two" he said
quietly They're both dead beat"
Murphy mnttered something, inco-
iisreft md garnished with oaths, and
the moment he succeeded in releasing
the buckle, sank down limp at the
very feet Of his horse, rolling up into
aueer han. The other stared and
to6lS d step nearer.
whats the matter? Are you sick,
MpTphs7
no ired don't want ter see
tdet thing agfn.p
what thtng2"
rhet green, 1eyllsh, -crawlln' facE
We must KNOW And he twisted
hislong, ape;like arms across his eyes
iying cufied up, as a dog might.
Fof q moment Hampton stood gaz-
irg down upon him, listening to his IN
coherent mntterings his own face
naSe and sympathetic. Then he
moved back and sat down. Suddenly
tiSe Jun concept ion Of what this meant
came to Ills mind the man had gone
mad. The strained cords Of that dis
eased brain had snapped In the pres
ence ofsimagined terrors, and now an
WAS chaos. The horror Of It over
wheimed Hampton; mot only did this
unexpected denouement leave him
utterly hopeless, but what was he to
do with the fellow? They were in the
very heart Of the Indian country
Ire county Of the savage Sioux. He
stared at the curled.up man, now 81
lentand thing heavily as II asleep
li he only might light pipe, or boil
himself "a cup of;black coffee! Muir
phy never stirred; the horses were
seemingly too weary to browse. Then
Hampton nodded and sank into an un-
easy doze.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-08-22

saddles. llelr iacea lloVued by me
hot winds Of he plains were rldins
steadily northrard. Beside them.
mounted upon a rangy chestnut, Brant
kept BIS watchfni eyes on those scat
tered gankers dotting he summit Of
the nearby blui Suddenly one ot
these waved his hand eagefly and The
lieate went dashlng up the sharp.
ascent
What IS II, now. La1e
Some hin moyin out yonders
and Tie trooper pointed INTO the SOUTH
east. eThey Re doEnll a conlee nov, !
Ireckcn; but VIM be up on q ridge
agtn IN 8 minute LOOT sight Of EN-
twice afore j waved
The officer gazed earnestly IN the
direction indicated, and was almost
Immediately rewarded BY the glimpse
Of some indistincS dark figures dlmly
showing aghinst the lighter back.
ground Of Sly.
white men, " he announced, short
ly. Come with me.
AT q brisk trot they rode out, the
trooper tagging a paceto the rear, the
watchfpl eyes Of both men sweeping
suspiciously across the prairie. The
two parties met suddenly upon the
summit Of a sharp ridge and Brant
drew IN his horse with an exclamation
Of astonishment. 1t was pathetic
spectacle he stared alta horse scarce
| IL able TO stagger forwards on his back,
With feet strapped securely beneath
and hands bound to tie high pommel,
the lips grinatng terociousIy. perched
a misshapen creature clothed as q
man. Beside these, hatless. his shoes
barely holding together q man Of
slender figure and suaburnt face held
the bridle.reia. An instant they gazed
al each other, the young uficer's eyes
hi!ed with gmpathetic horror the
other staring apathetlcalH at his res
cuer.
-My Cod Can this be you, Hamp.
ton? What does 1t nean2 Why are
you here?n
Hampton, leaning against the trem'
bling horse to keep erect, slowly lifted
his hand in a semblance of military
salute. dispatches from Cheyenne
This is Murphy-went crazy out yon'
der. For Gods sake-water, food!"
Your canteen, hae!' exclaimed
Brant. Now hold this cup" and he
dashed into 1t a liberal supply Of
brandy from pockvt-fask. Drink
that all down, Hampton"
The man did mechanically as he
was ordered, his hand never relaxing
its grasp Of the rein. Then CLEAN
Of reawakened intelligence appeared
in his eyes; he glanced up into the
leertng countenancs Of Murphy, and
then back at those oilers. Give me
another for him."
Brant handed to him the filled cup
noting as he did so '6e strange steadi
ness Of the hand which accepted 1t
Hampton lifted the tin ITO the ifgure'i1
the saddle.
ITO be conlinued.)
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