Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-29

The True Money is worth while, and
Value we ali want II due por-
OF Money ton of 1t, so long as It.
means increased funess
or life. TO live in n rich country Is an
advantage because life Is usually fuller
therc, and opportunities are greater and
more accessible. But money Is only
valuable na IL means OF prosecuting to
better advantage this experiment of
human life. If by getting money You
get more and better life, you are ahead
on the transaction, but IL you devote
your life to getting money and get it
ana nothing else, you have madc a
bad bargain. Your llfe was your great
capital. and you have snapped 1t for
q pcrishable thing. which you can't
TAKE with YOU when you lay your life
down. So let us not stake our whole
ives on making money. Let us make
some by all means IL VIC can--earn II.
save IT. add to the worlds capital and
our own: but keep 1t where 1t belongs
The incident of work. not the end Of
living or even of work. A very moder-
ate income. differing according to cir
fcumstances. time. and place, suificcs
10 bring within the reach of any wise
hc9mostHimportant opportunities
that, lifCtoffers.5; Education nowadays
and In this country is easily come by
The poverty that Erinds and blights
and dwarfs seems fairly easy to avoid
Who Is diligent and temperate and Is
blessed with health and fair mental
capacity ought 10 get money enough for
his needs and his development III this
country. Because money Is the con-
Ncnient measure of so many sorts OF
effort we are apt to think of 1t as the
great end of human endcavor. but that
is q. fallacy.s There are great men who
never get much money. and pretty
small men who get u great deal. 1t
depends q good deal on what they try
for and what they are willing to pay
for it-E. S. Martin, in Harpel's Nigga
zinc for November.
Snakes A naturalist once told how,
Survive in a thicket on u mountain
Ercczlng side, he saw q man Kill a
rattlesnakc. He beat the
life out of 1t with n club. and contin-
ucd the pounding till 1t was rnangled
beyond recognition. When tho natur-
alist demonstrated, the man said, Boss
you cant kill a rattlesnake too dead.
On one occasion q boat bound for the
United states from Rio dc Janciro
touched at Pernnmbuco where the mate
drove n bargain with a snake-dealer
for half-dozen reptiles OF various
sizes. The mate had them, In n cage OH
deck. and charged q sailor with tho
duty of washing 1t out with sea wa
ter every evening. All went we'll as
long as tho weather was mild. but on
the night before the gulf stream was
crossed the sailor left Il quantity of
water in the cage and. about thirty
hours from port. q biting gale struck
the ship. All hands We're busy with the
storm, and the snakes were forgotten.
When the mate thought of them and
went to look after their condition, he
fpt ct ~ tr NJ 1>-
as dead as the proverblal door nail.
The dealer for whom the nnate had
brought them. came on board tho fol-
lowing day. He professed great dis
appointment over the loss Of his In
tended purchase. but offered to take
the snakes away as kindness to the
mate. He gathered them in his arms
like so much firewood and carried them
home But rival dealer aftcrward
told the officers that plenty Of warm
water had resuscitated the snakes. and
that they had been sold to various rnu
seunls not n bit the worse for their
death by freczing.--Harper's Weekly.
Universal Who would dream. at first
Feminine sight, Of connecting with
Instinct. the snake terror. In even
the renotcst way, the
Wild shrek, the mad clutch of skirts
anu llelGlcu reap III W. SiIsIii VI telbAJ
executed by tho gentlcr sex when con-
fl'ontcd by a horrid. nasty little mouse?
The only character they have in COM
mon appears to be their absurdity 1t
Is idle to ascribe tho reflex to fear lest
Sthc mouse should bite the ankles or
run up on to the body, as the fear Is
equally strikingly manifested by wom-
On in China. where men and women
wear exactly tho same style of neither
garments, and in Central Africa, where
they wear none at all worth mention
ing. In fact, Il chair Or stool, the world
over, Is almost as much Il think for n
woman to jump upon as for Il man
to sit on. \ woman will jump when she
secs n mouse, as universally and almost
as certainly as she will look in glass
when she comes near one. 1t Is one
of the great feminine in
stincts. She knows perfectly well that
the tinyrodent has not the slightest de-
sire to bite her. and could not hurt
her more than pin-prick It 1t did
but she screams and jumps just the
same. The mouse has not a spark OF
dangerousness about It or connected
with 1t. and never has had at any stage
Of our ancestral history, however re-
mote. But does it resemble or suggest
anything that is terror III its own
right. Now we arc getting warm
as tho children say. When tho mouse
he sounds like Il snake; when he darts
ont of his hole, he suggests tho head
of one: when he scuttles hither and
thither about the room. now III sight,
now out Of sight, with that ccric. glid-
Ing. lcgless movement OF his. he ~
remlniscential Of a snake gliding and
darling through the grass. The hint
Is enough: tho sumbering terror
awakes nnd--all Is over but the scream
ing.-DT. Woods Hutchinson. in an
article on tho dread of cats, mice and
snakes In Success Magazine.
Perfect Eugenics Is an attempt to
rho Race perfect the human race by
or Man, Judicial mating. There are
other side issues. 1t Is true.
but this is the main purport and con-
ception. Hitherto, most of the efforts
have been directed into channels other
than those directly bearing upon the
problem. Attempts have been made to
better the social conditions surround
ing the individuals: modern medicine
has done much to insure the bringing
into the world OF children, and some
thing toward keeping them alive. when
born. But, as opposing to this, little or
nothing has been done so far toward
insurinE proper parentage for children.
Degenerates criminals drunkards, tho
diseased, all bring forth children, ut IL
ratio equal to. or even greater than, the
comparatively healthy; Indeed, 1t has
been demonstrated that every degener-
alto brings into the world at least one
child as degenerate as himself or her-
self This Is n serious. even burn
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