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The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
American Workmen's Insurance
for Injury Not Up to Foreigners
By JONAS HOWARD.

~HE movement for workmen's compen-
sation acts In this country has not yet
met with success. As an evidence of
the manner In which employees are
treated. following accidents In the
workshop. here is the result Of an inves-
tigatIon carried on by the government among
s0s persons who were injured while at work.
Received nothing from employees.
Received doctors bills only. ...............9o .9o
Received part Of doctors bills. .........1 Is
Received something in addition. .e1
Received something, but doctors bills un-
paid .............-..-.....
This is because the laws Of the country
provide that the employe. to receive damages
from the employer when injured, must show
negligence on the part Of the employer. How
ever. in foreign countries conditions are DIFF
ferent In Great Britain. when q workman
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Made Man of Himself.

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Made Man of Himself.
SO help me-" he said hoarsely "rll try
TO make up for It. III 80 back. I'll make
man of myself"
And when the sentence ended. with the
few dollars that were given him to make
his start In LIFE, Robert Easton started back
TO Jasper county. No.. his old home. There
would be many changes he knew. He might
possess much of the home place. He might
possess nothing. Those whom he had loved
might be still alive. They might be dead
He did not know. And she? He put the ques-
ton away from himself.
Things had changed. The parents had gone
to that place from which there is no return
ing. The farm had been split up, leaving
for him twenty of the poorest. rockiest.
unproductive acres It possessed She had
gone, he learned. II was believed she lived
in ST. Louis-unmarried. Easton sighed. al
most happily.
"I will find her." he said. when I am
worthy to ind her.
How he would make himself worthy. as far
as money was concerned. he did not know.
The land that had fallen to him was almost
hopeless II never had been cultivated. II
was looked upon as a pebbly. rocky. hope
less waste. and so It had been neglected
But the spirit of the turning point was
strong on Easton. He would not give up.
He borrowed plow and horses from one
of his brothers and started out to cultivate
the land. Those of the countryside either
laughed or nodded their heads sagely. as II
TO speak unmentionable things concerning
his state of mind. But Easton pretended not
TO know that. At least he would make his
try, He had been a failure for years. He
could not be worse. And 50 he started out
And so. carrying with him q little school
grammar that he had bought to study In be-
tween times that he might bring back all
that was lost he started out with his plow
and horses. The first furrow was made with
difficulty and more than one nick appeared
on the share where the inexperienced guid-
ing hands Of Easton had failed to swerve
clear OF the larger stones. The second fur
row was almost impossible. Easton deter
mined to plow straight through the center
of the land in an effort to see II the soil
was better there
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~HE latest scheme for saving money Is
the cumulative plan It has been tried
in a number of cities and is pronounced
a great success for those who cannot
afford to lay by more than little at a
time.
1t is carried out in the banks in the fol-
lowing manner. There are three classes OF
depositors:
Class /. starts with cent the first week.
cents the second week. cents the third
week, and so on for forty-tvo weeks Then
q check for s90s. with interest at per cent.
is mailed each depositor.
Class II. starts With cents the first week,
4 cents the second week. cents the third
week. and so on for forty-two weeks Then
two weeks before Christmas each depositor
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Notes from World Of Science.

Germany. in several portions OF which the
chicory grows freely.
Ensiish mortality hgures Indicate that
farmers are the healthiest class OF men sx-
cept ciergymen.
Asbestos recently was discovered IN sar-
dinia in quantities that are expected to make
mining profitable.
More than LOO women students are en-
rolled at Berlin university this year, OF whom
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the Great Turning Point :;
Hou a FIower Guided Way to Fortune.
By COURTNEY R. COOPER.

II came to him that perhaps he had struck
the buried. half rotten stump Of tree. He
determined to investigate, and with broken
piece Of fence rail began to pull the dirt
away from the share. Some pieces OF rock
were pulled out. some earth. and then
Easton uttered a cry and falling TO his
knees began to claw at the earth with fever
fish hands. His eyes started from his head,
q cold sweat broke out on his forehead, he
felt that he was babbIing incoherently TO
himself. For there before him, smooth, ye:
scaly. serrated and pure, was an outeropping
OF virgin lead yard widei
Feverishly Easton unhitched the horses
and drove them back to his brothers farm
Almost wildly he pleaded for a loan Of 500.
81 can't tell you what want 1t for" De
said But I'll pay Il back. I'll sell myself
TO you for year for It. I'll work for you. I'll
do anything to pay It back II cannot give
you the money. Won't you let me have II,
Dick7 Won't you do this much for me, your
brotherT'
An hour later he was on his way to ST.
Louis to buy the services Of an expert who
would make the examination Of the land and
tell him the all important question-whether
the lead was really there in paying quantities.
or whether what he had discovered was only
a pocket. Those days that followed were
wild ones for Robert Easton- They were
DAYS that dragged along with snail-like,
never ending slowness- But at last they
passed. The experts report was made and
with II something else-an offer OF $4,000
for the twenty acres that Easton possessed.
= =
Last Hope Realized.
He took the money. in a dreaming sort OF
nav Fortune had come 10 him. fortune had
smiled. but with 1t all there was sting.
hopelessness What was money when he was
not sure Of ever obtaining the greatest ideal
OF his life? What was anything compared
TO the thought Of the one woman he had loved
and lost? What II she had ceased to care
now. what IL
The room was one OF those old fashioned
ones that still exist In old St. Louis. There
was an air of homeyness about t. There
was scent In the air that spoke Of the green
fields and OF the open country. A vase which
stood on the great piano was filled to over
flowing with peach blossoms. the last Of the
season man and woman stood near. He
was speaking.
MARY there was q long pause-'T know
haven't the right q call you that. but It's
the only way I can think Of you It's been
a good many years since-since 1 saw you
last. ] don't know whether time has healed
the wounds made-or not. But I've come to
ask yotrr forgiveness. TO plead
He looked down upon her. He trembled as
his eyes met hers There was silence In the
great room. The woman smiled. came closer.
Their hands clasped. Their lips met.
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is injured. q law Of parliament provides
that the employer must pay damages. Ger
many compels its workers TO be provident
and to contribute to an old age and sickness
insurance fund that includes disability for
thirteen weeks The burden Of further in
surance rests entirely on the employer. In
France. the employer must pay specified
compensation in all cases Of injury Fur
ther than this the burden OF payment Of
damages In case Of injury rests solely on
the employer in Belgium. British Columbia.
the Cape OF Good Hope. Denmark. Finland.
Italy. the Netherlands. New Zealand. Nor
way. Russia, South Australia. Spain. Sweden.
and West Australia
But America has no national laws Of the
kind. In the United States the workman
must rely solely on his own savings or private
insurance. or the charity Of his employer.
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~HE emotions or feelings Of the ordi-
nary man are that unbodily part Of
him which are least Reasonable and
least within his control, but II has
ever been considered a sign Of birth
and breeding to control the emotions.
The man Of power is the one who, like the
great actor, controls his emotions 10 some
great end. On the other hand, 1t is through
anger or envy. fear or hate, that men are
alwats losing place or esteem.
Shakespeare In one Of his sonnets says
that lilies which tester. smell far worse
than weeds The emotional power in man
is the very lily OF his soul, but 20 sensitive
Is It that 1t takes but q feather weight to
turn the scale which determines which It shall
work, good or evil The practical definite
evils Of emotion are easier TO see and under
stand than are the benefits. For instance
incessant worry not infrequently gives a
man such q visible thing as the jaundice. A
Dame Van Wrinkle bursts q blood vessel in
her nt of anger and dies, cause being as
visible as effect. A man who allows his
emotions to rule him Is often sentimentalist
or a cantankerous and troublesome member
of observation-disclosures and also full OF
TROUBLES
To the grand emotions are due all the
sublime creations in art poetry, music. and
character, while the fierce emotions like fear
and hate have been agents Of terrible de-
struction-as fatal often to those who have
harbored them as 10 those upon whom
vengeance has been worked.
The emotion OF love has for years been
called the greatest thing in the world. Ffc-
ton could hardly exist II men were unemo-
tionaI beings. and story has contributed no
one knows how much to the pleasures (emo-
tions) and happiness OF life. There Is ever
something highly reciprocal about an emo
ton.
The religious emotion, through which men
have been exalted 10 the sublimest heights
OF feeling. to the disregard OF every trial and
even OF physical torture, has been as de-
structive as any other, from the days Of the
Wild Cassandra, the destructive crusades.
the fierce fires Of the reformation, UP to the
strange sects Of today-for that matter nu-
merous strange sects have ever existed and
been capable OF the strangest exhibitions
OF feeling. This has been the one emotion
which has been augmented by constant foster
ing. while other emotions have mostly been
left to work out their modifying or wild
will.
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Lessons in An of Them.

s-.., however, he had the shadows OF
perfection listed. The " shadow OF diligence
ne enthroned on q top shelf; the shadow
OF persistence" which belonged to James.
he placed In a lower drawer OF his desk; the
shadow of economy" he pigeonholed on
the wall All about him he arranged the
shadows OF his predecessors to study In
leisure moments. In the shadows he found
real lessons. And In no other way did the
new secretary learn so well what his en-
ployer liked az by studying the qualities
OF the shadows which stood out in the mem-
ory OF the manufactures.
when Mr. Manufacturer praised the mem
ory OF william, who did thus and 50. prompt
Iy the new secretary made a note Of a plan
OF action to rout Williams shadow by do
ing thus and 90. When the shadow Of Lewis
was given commendation for q line OF action
the new secretary began to follow In Lewis
footprints. Thus the new secretary turned
the dark shadows Of his predecessors into
real blessings and received the best drilling
IN business that he could possibly have had
by studying the shadows that fiitted about
the ONCE
He had the chance to become the most
perfect secretary In me world and he took
Il. Now the new secretary takes comfort
In knowing that his shadow Is haunting the
office Of the small manufacture In Ph9nix,
Ariz. to encourage some other secretary TO
emulate his efforts.
And he does not think that shadows
are bad things to lave about an ONCE at all.
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Cultivation of Emotions.


Emotions increase in power and IN number
through cultivation Of the intelligence Of
man. Primitive man was not an emotional
being. Primitive man. says RiboI in Ids
book, The Psychology Of the Emotions"
" like the child and animal, is at first only
bundle of wants, tendencies, instincts which.
when not simply unconscious, are connected
with external or internal tendencies. How
has he progressed from primitive cannibaiism
to his present moral and social culture?
From coarse fetichism to religious meta
physics or mysticism? From the rude
drawings OF the Neolithic age to the refine
ments Of the esthetic sentiment? From a
narrow and limited curiosity to q disinter-
ested enthusiasm for science? How far hss
the passage been accomplished from one ex-
treme to the other? 1t is clear that new
form Of feeling cannot arise by spontaneous
generation; IT can only be the work " trans
formation, of a physiological development
How has this happened? What causes have
brought about this metamorphosis? The prin-
cIpal. essential. fundamental cause is intel
lectual development"
Enlarged upon this procurement, Prof.
Ribot says: The intellectual clement
whatever It may be, is always the dctermIn-
ing principle; never. alone and by Itself, the
spring OF action The process always follows
the same course, and remains Identical from
start TO finish; II passes from the simple into
the complex. as We shall see in discussing
eAch separate emotion. The child who feels
acutely the possession of a toy, OF the aepriva-
ton Of it. is not affected by the beauty of a
landscape, by reason OF his limited intel
lectual power We know that Qn spite of
common opinion) a savage, even barbarian,
is not moved by the splendors OF civilized
life, but only by its petty and puer!le sides.
Its greater aspects inspire him neither with
desire. admiration, nor jealousy, because he
does not understand them"
Education is one Of the especial factors In
the evolution Of feeling. but there are many
others, including environment and [: addition.
Imitation is also reckoned as a factor. Imi-
tative feelings are common, but these are in
a sense due to environment We weep with
those who weep and laugh with those who
laugh.
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Discovered Lead Mine.

Fifty yards and the horses plunged forward
and then were pulled back by the sudden
stopping OF the plow, while Easton was
thrown far to one side. He arose. jerked at
the handles and attempted to pun the plow
away from the substance It had struck. 1t
was impossible. He Jerked again. The piow
was Immovable. He stared in amazement.
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Predecessor. His Example.

John. the secretary before you. always
left a note for me when Mr.. Jones called
James. who worked for me ten long years.
never once made such a mistake. or william
saved the tags. he never threw them away.
was the employers strain Of conversation
throughout the day.
Although the old secretary was nne PEN
man, a neat workman. diligent. and every
thing else that was marvellous. the new sec
retary. with courage In his heart. began the
incessant rat-tat tat on the typewriter. try
ing his best to equal. II not surpass. the old
employe who had been such a treasure In the
once. He hoped in time to be able TO rout
the shadow, as a shadow "a didn't have much
chance against flesh and blood person. any
how
And when the manufacturer remarked that
the old secretary was capable man, the
new secretary wished to say that he. too
was also a capable man, but he did not He
merely redoubled his efforts TO scatter the
shadow Of his predecessor. 1t was hard
fight.
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Office'Shadows'
Aid 70 Workers.
ByHARRIET FERRILL

- UT In Ph9nix. ARK. there Is a manu-
facturer who gave new secretary
the most profitable drilling Of his
lie The secretary was an ordinary
youth. who believed that he had ex-'
traordinary abilities just because he hailed
from Chicago. He was out west for the ell
mate. and he wished TO nail . the job In
Phoenix. where positions were none too pIen-
tifui. for as long q time as he cared to re-
main in the wilderness" a. he called the
alkaH plains
When he entered the manufacturer's Of
fice and looked at the typewriter. the niss.
the mucilage bottle and the ink well. he said
TO himself. Now this is an empty Office. and
I win have II all to myself" But he was
mistaken The shadow Of the old secretary.
with a halo Of well performed deeds about
him. sat In the Office chair. And forty shad-
ows Of old employees who had worked there
fitted about or lay stored away, each In
hallowed crevice. more sacred than all the
others. John the catalogue man, William the
advertiser. James the nle clerk, all were
green in memory end all came In for praise
twenty times q. day from the MANUFACTURED.
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Effect of Environment.

II Is especially easy 10 study the effect Of
initiation and environment In religious mani
festations. Crude. barbaric races have a
crude and barbarie religion. With a refined
civilization comes refinement OF feeling and
behavior that may either have the effect OF
exalting the religious feelings or refining
them out of existence. As emotions increase
in breadth they may-but not necessarily
become very thin In depth. especially when
compared with fierce. uncultivated mani
festations.
Prof Ladd. IN one OF his Psychologist.
maintains that men differ far less In their
appetites, emotions. and passions than ia
their ideas and thoughts; yet every set of
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close TO each other in the upward trend.
For instance. the government has gathered
figures on forty-six trades in New York
state within the list ten years. The investi-
cation showed that the wages Of the average
workman had increased In that time 22-s per
cent
m the Investigation oe the cost Of living
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- yHEN we take It all in all. the high
| A cost OF living has not advanced so
Wv disproportionately with the raises
In wages. According to the govern
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-13
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BY SARA E. WORTs
AS IT OFTEN IS.

you are home early. Anything the
matter?''
II should say there was. I've got a
horrible headache
"Weu, don't look so grumpy; a
headache won't kill you"
You wouldn't think it so funny if
you had it,
1T isn't the headache that's funny
it's you. [ thought men were so strong
and brave, but they make three times
as much fuss over little pain as a
woman does"
IF you think this is a little pain,
you're mistaken. It's great whoop-
ing big one
''Wei, lie down here until dinners
ready. Perhaps it will be better by
that time
eat mouthful."
''That's too bad. We have duck to-
night, and it's fine
.'Of course. you have something that
eat"
Just as though I knew you were
coming home with a headache! But
that's just like you-the most unrea-
sonable man I ever saw
Don't stand there finding fault, but
do something for my head"
"I'll get the cologne. There-does
that make you feel any better?"
go, 1 don't know. Ughi You've
put it in my eyes Gosh! How it
Hold your head still; then it won't
get into your eyes"
Don't be so rough. Myl How It
throbs.''
"What a fuss over a little head
ache!''
little pain again! wish you had
it; you wouldn't call it little pain,
then, I bet
"Oh. I often have headaches. and
don't mention themi A woman bears
pain better than a man does, anyway,
in spite of his boosted bravery
There are nea fla6 . ana ma H 1eis !,
"Of course not; you have corner
on headachesi Shall turn down the
light when I go to dinner"
NO. Let it be. oh! This blamed
DO you want Nora to bring you a
cup of tea %
no! All want is to be let alone.
A lot you care how l suffer- A cup
of tea, indeed
well. I'm going down. I hope you
will be more amiable by the time I've
finished"
I'm as pleasant as you would be
with this head. I guess. Did you say
there was duck for dinner?'
Yes; Why"
II think I'll try and eat little"
f'Shall Nora bring it now. or do you
want to wait till your heads better2"
mol Who wants duck on tray?
I'll go to the table. 1 probably won't
be able to eat anything. with this aw-
full pain in my head, but as long as
you choose tonight to cook something
like, I'll try TO eat a bite. Blast it!
There it goes worse than ever
Better stay where you are"
"Come along. I'm going to have
some of that duck, so don't argue
about it,
'sAll right. It's nice and rich. 1t
will either kill or cure you"
"And you don't much care which
it's not your head
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-13
AS IT MIGHT BE.

"Why, Jack, dear! What's the mat
ter? You're not sick, are you? You
are home so early"
1--WE got a beastly headache, dear,
and thought I'd lie down awhile"
"Oh, I'm so sorryI I'll get the CO.
logne and battle your head
DO; that's good girl. And Puss,
you won't mind if I don't go down to
dinner.
"No-not if you're not able. But.
Jack, we have duck for dinner tonight.
and you know you love it."
"Goshl How my head hurts Be
careful, Puss. That cologne went into
my eyes"
Keep your head more quiet dear.
if you can. Does it make you feel any
better %
mot much. My. How it throbsl"
what a fuss big. strong man
makes when he is in pain, doesn't he,
dear?"
Il guess we do, Pet. but if you only
knew how my head hurts. It's simply
splitting"
ITS too bad; but it will be better
soon.'
How do you know? I don't think
it's ever going to stop
Yes, it is, dear. I often have them
so bad L can scarcely see"
Il never hear you say anything
about them. / guess they are not like
this one, or you would"
II don't say anything, because you
worry so over any little illness: and,
then. telling it doesn't make it better"
well, Pet. there are all kinds of
headaches, I imagine, and guess you
never had a rip-roaring one like this,
or you wouldn't have kept STILL
'All right dear. I'll concede that
it's worse than mine; but only because
you're a man and can't stand even a
little pain"
"A big pain, you mean"
"Shall I turn down the light when
go down, dear9-'
yes. please"
Would you like me to bring you a
mo. thank you. All I want is to
We'll, I'll go along now. L hope
you will be better when 1 come up.
Do try to go to sleep
Wait, Mabel
what did you say you had for din
ner?"
aDuck. dear. why?"
I'll try and eat a little, I think.
Don't smile. I don't imagine I can
"shaii I send it to you now. or will
you have it later ?"
"TH go down: who wants duck
served on a tray? I probably won [
be able to eat anything, but 1 can
carve for you. and then I'll be sure
the duck won't be mutilated."
I'm so glad you're going down. 7
think you'll be all right after a good
dinner"
st hope so-but this pain is awful -
''I know, dear. but try and forget it,
so you can enjoy the duck"
Forgetting isn't so easy, but must
have some duck, so here goes. -
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