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which parents would be willing to pay
many times 800 to have the dispositions
of their children altered? And we all can
cite instances in which parents would not
accept a pile OF 500 bills in exchange for
the sweet tempers of their children. j.
What about grownups? How much is
their good temper worth?
How much to themselves and others
To the business man, tho lawyer, the
artisan, the physician. the newspaper
man, to all others who must rub elbows
daily with their fellowmen and women,
good temper is an asset of inestimable
value
A hermit may be able to get along with
out sweet temper. But the lack of it. in
most cases. is what makes him hermit
II you are not hermit and are afflict-
ed with a Crouch" get rid OF it. 1t is a
bad brake on your progress in life.
-Four hundred years ago lived Stephen
Hawes. an English poet known only to
students of literature. He left little for
future generations to read, but he
penned TWO lines which, in the opinion
OF competent critics, are enough 10 save
his name from oblivion. They are:
For though the day be never 80 long.
At last the bell ringeth to evensong.
or course the thought itself was not
original with Hawes. 1t must have come
to him from antiquity, for ever since
the world began men have been preach
ing and listening to the philosophy Of
One day at time.
Strictly true It is not not, since day
Is only ons link in a lengthening chain
OF days, connected with those that have
passed and with those that are 10 come
in bond which nothing can break
We cannot take the chain apart no
matter how hard we may try nor how
certain that we may be that the world
knew us not before our earthly birth
and will know us not after the breath
of life has left our bodies. The re-
| motest day In the annals of time Is
Joined with its successor and with all Its
successors to make today, and today
already stretches out its hand to to-
morrow and to all the coming tomor.
rows.
But ''one day at time" has its truth
| nevertheless.
| 1t tells us to let the cares Of the day
fade into the dissolving hues OF tbs
sunset. II they are business cares locl
them up when you snap shut your desk
II the field you plow is stony do no
! pick the stones from the furrow to ex.
hibit them as parlor ornaments. Throw
them aside as you go through the fur
rows and leave them at the side.
When eyensong rings out its call tc
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buy the lands for agricultural purposes.
but the Indian wanted the virgin for
ests to remain untouched that he might
hunt Since the red man had raised the
cry of determination, with Weatherford
in the lead, and since they had shown
at Fort Minis that nothing short of utter
extinction was sought. the whites ae-
cepted the issue, and under conditions
like these the conflict ragged This con-
dition converted every white man into
a soldier. patriot. an exterminator
Among the most daring and intrepid
OF indian fighters, in those early days
was Gen. Sam Dale, A giant in size and
in strength, as fearless as lion, and
familiar with the stratagem of the In
dian, no one did more valiant service in
those early days of Indian warfare than
he. More than any other white man.
the Indians dreaded Dale, whom they
called big SAM His known presence
ON any occasion would produce anon,
the Indians CONSERVATION.
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TNHE deformed. the crippled, the phy-
sically helpless, and the mentally
\ deficient, why are they permitted
to live? Many of them give no promise
that in the future they will be self-sus-
tanning, and every sign points to their
becoming more and more burdensome as
the years come and as their weary lives
drag on. They can never be a pleasure
to their kinsmen. nor is it possible that
they will ever be benefit to the state.
They will be only a burden and care. a
disappointment in the family, a shadow
at the feast. and a discord in the social
harmony of life. Why are they permitted
to ive-to live through childhood, through
Youth, through middle life. and on to the
flong. dark shadows of lifes evening
''living after the flame lacks oil?1
This question never disturbed the minds
of certain of the ancient nations. Healthy
children were their greatest asset; but the
deformed child was quickly exposed to
conditions of certain death in order that
the strength and physical perfection
might be assured. This custom prevailed
among the most enlightened nations at
one une, anu was taught Dy some OF
the most philosophical teachers. among
them being Aristotle, and his famous pu-
pill Plato. The latter advanced the idea.
in his ideal republic. DR.. Davidson in
his Education of the Greek People, a
most valuable work. says "When chill
dren are born according to state regula-
tion they are taken possession of by the
state officials and IL they seem vigorous
and free from defect, they are placed In
public institutions to be educated other
wise they are destroyed In the Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon
says, Reason must applaud the humanity
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Did lovely friendship never need
Our patient ministration,
Earth would grow cold and miss, indeed,
Its sweetest consolation.
If sorrow never claimed our heart,
And every wish were granted
Patience would die and hope depart
And life be dsenchanted
In caring for the unfortunate. then,
we are doing the very best thing for
ourselves but this should not be the SUI
preme motive in any MANS course, or 1t
will become phase of selfishness. We
should assist the unfortunate because
they are unfortunate and because they
are our brothers in the great bond of
human brotherhood What the Germans
call the Weldschmerz, we should con-
slider to be our sorrow We cannot ig-
more it, although 1t may never have smit-
ten us Individually We belong to the
great "bund' of brothers, and should
minister as we may be able to the
brother into whose heart the hot iron of
adversely has crashed. Cicero quotes the
sentiment from Plato. DO oniclis, that
claim a share in us all. Shall we think
less of our obligations to our kind than
did the Pagans?
This care for the unfortunate may
involve sacrifice upon the part of the
fortunate But what have we In life
worth holding that does not represent
some form of sacrifice? Emerson. in his
essay on THE Uses of Great Men,"
says Every ship that comes to Amer
lea got its chart from Columbus ev-
cry novelist is debtor to Homer; ev-
cry carpenter who uses the foreplane
borrows the genius of a forgotten in
ventor. Life is girt all round with a
zodiac of sciences the contributions of
men who have perished to add their
point of light to our sky" So 1t Is. Sac
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estants, as tho idea is expressed in his
little book. THE Chief End of Revela-
ton" It has become a common place OF
the modern pulpit. and must be eonsid-
cred. IL Protestants and Catholics are to
understand each other, as they should.
and even If Professionalism is to under
stand itself
The idea is that the Bible does not pre-
tend to answer many questions. SO as to
give us an authorized system of dogma
or doctrinaire opinions. On the contrary
it gives simply a faith. and language
of faith, a great religious principle ex-
pounding itself. applying itself in the
lives Of men. and supremely in the life
and death of the Supreme Man. the Son
OF God.
They In whom the longing for authority
becomes inappeasable will certainly seek
it, and cannot logically cease TO seek it
when told that the Bible Is the final
source, and that each must Interpret it
for himself. Like Newman they may
turn to the fathers but like him they
will ask, "But where do the fathers cease
to be authoritative, and who settles that?'
And like Newman they also will turn IN
their thousands to the ancient church.
But after all, the mere yearning for
authority is a feministic note, not to be
seorned on that account indeed, neither
to be considered mans strongest or finest
thing from the ethical viewpoint 1t Is
said of the angels. when they stood
they let down their wings. But let it
not be forgotten that they were made to
fly One cannot but lament that our
Newmans should be so constituted that
they are doomed to stand so long with
folded WINS.
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of Paulus, for mputing the crime of mur-
der to the father who strangles. or starves.
or abandons his new born infant, or ex-
poses him in a public place to find the
mercy which he himself had denied But
the exposition OF children was the pre-
vailing and stubborn vice of antiquity
The Roman empire was stained with the
blood of infants, till such murders were
included by Valentinian and his colleagues
in the spirit and letter of the Cornelian
law. The lessons of jurisprudence and
Christianity had been insufficient to erad-
icate this inhuman practice, till their gen.
tie influence was fortified by the terrors
of capital punishment" The sentiment
that had become so popular, namely, the
exposure of infants to wild beasts to be
devoured, was set forth on the stage by
Terance, and by Euripides. In the trag-
edy of Ion. Mercury recites that Creusa
illegitimately bore a son. and to hide her
disgrace conveyed him to cave and
there for death exposed him.
What of ornament she had
She hung around her son. and left him
thus
To PERISH
The question, therefore, that heads this
communication. was not a serious one
among the peoples of the ancient world.
1t is asked, however. in our times from
several considerations. Sometimes 1t is
propounded as a cold philosophical in
quiry. and all too often ends in the pes
simism of a Schopenhauer inasmuch as
it is closely allied to the profound prob
lem of pain, for which philosophy has
found no just equation. The pessimist
turning away from all these related sub
jects of humantys sufferings and sor-
rows that yield no satisfactory result to
his Investigations, counts the world of
present existence as utterly heartless
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revenue were contributed only by the
members of the upper classes who are
relatively few in number, there would be
less cause for alarm.
But it comes largely from the pockets
of the workers, who should be conserv-
ing their energies for themselves and their
families, instead of dissipating them in
hard drinking, in smoking too much, in
excessive card playing
America must look to this matter
Maurice E. Mclaughlin of California
a young man, is the lawn tennis cham :
pion of the United States and one of
the best players in the world His re-
cent playing has aroused the players
and followers of the game, many thou
sands in number. to enthusiasm.
Winning the championship after
mis- that an American ever attempted.
Mclaughlin proved that his condition
was perfect, that he could have under
gone greater stress If need We're.
The reason?
1t is found in the statement OF q
sporting writer that the powers of en-
durance fought and won for McLough-
lin He stood up under the strain.
When the time came for the supreme
effort he had the stamina to meet the
call upon him.
If he had been content with the brill
lance of play which is naturally his,
If he had relied upon his service and
his stroke, his power of outguessing g
the other fellow, Mclaughlin in all
probability would not have won the
championship. The long strain of the
campaigns in England and America
would have told, and at the end he
would have gone to pieces.
1t is stamina that tells in lawn ten
MIS- In baseball, in football, in all the
affairs of life.
When athletes wish to praise a man
highly they say he has the stuff in
him" That means he is fit for a long
siege If necessary. 1t means that he
does not rely altogether on his brains
his nerve and his knowledge of the
game.
1t means that he can last.
Stamina, "the stuff does not come
to man naturally. 1t must DO devel-
oped. 1t must be acquired by iegrees
1t cannot be gained in an hour, day
or week.
| In a sense men and women are all
| engaged in a sort of championship
game The prizes go most. often tc
those who train faithfully and patient
/ ly and wait their time
True, sometimes the man OF woman
of genius arises who needs no training
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N1E Indian was as thoroughly skilled
in the use of the oar on the larger
streams and inland bays as he was
with the tomahawk, the scalping knife
and the bow. 1t is believed that the name
of one of the Alabama tribes was derived
from their adroit use of the oar. In his
Creek Migration Legend, Gatschat sug-
gested that Mobilian means padding =
Certain it is that the early settlers found
the Indian an adept in the use of the
skiff or canoe
The facility with which the Indian could
direct his canoe and the dexterity with
which he could divert it suddenly from
given course, was wonderful. He had
studied with the utmost accuracy the
force or swiftness of the current of a
given stream, and could calculate at a
glance any point at which he would arrive
on the opposite side when starting from
the side of departure. On the land the
whites were generally at an advantage
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rest and peace let not its melody and
harmony be disturbed by thoughts of
the sorrows and cares. the worries and
troubles of the day. Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof" True it is that
the evils Of the day must not be per-
mitted to corrupt the nights
1t IS very easy to offer such advfcs
and difficult to put it into practice Into
every life come the insistent cares. the
troubles that VIII not be waved aside
that will not melt away with the com
ing Of the evening
II they are real cares and not figments
Of the imagination thsy must be fought
bravely. No amount or optimistic phi
losophy no cheerful advice of Forget
IL VIII make them less real.
But. after all, in one sense II IS tru,
that we live only one day at time
II We live that one day rightly as IL
dav
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grain before it becomes too ripe and
before the sun or rain shall ;njure Ii.
Not since the time of plowing and
planting have the tillers Of the soil
been so busy.
of rejoicing.
Work ended and the crop safely
stored, the farmer can sit back. smile
contentedly at his good wife and cal
culate his profits. Let us hope that for
all honest tillers of the soil it mas been
a good year, unpestered by drought or
untimely and excessive rain. and that
their fields have been unvisited by the
insect pests which cost us SO many
millions of dollars every year
Harvest festival timel
Throughout the land the churches S
and societies are celebrating tine close
of the growing season. They adorn
their churches and their meeting places
with the symbols OF their crops. with
fine specimens of the bounties with
which Mother Nature blesses our rich
ly endowed land
1t is a goodly custom and pleasant
the assembling in their accustomed
places of worship of our people to re-
joice over the gathering of the fruits
Of the soil.
In the life of each man or woman
comes harvest season.
Whether the crops be wheat or tares
1t comes to fruition in It's own time
and it brings joy or sorrow to the
grower according to its nature.
by their fruits ye shall know them,
is a true saying.
When the wagons bring to the barr
of your life their load, will It be the
full. fat kernels of the wheat, the ricf
ears of the. corn, the glorious ripe
fruits which blossomed in the sprins
in beauty and waxed big in the sum
mer In sweetness. or will the carts un.
load at your doors the thistles and tn,
burdocks and the weeds of ugliness
"As ye SOW. SO shall ye reap" is tru,
in life as it is In agriculture.
If you wish the harvest to bring yo,
| joy and wealth instead of regret ant
misery you must prepare the soil II
time, you must plant therein the righ
sort of seeds and you must cultivat,
the ground in toll and patience.
| You must water it with the water.
| of righteousness and watch lest tn,
| thieves of evil break in and rob ant
lest the pestilential insects of sloth de
your your substance.
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onet through him The next made an on
set. but was killed by Austill The third
came, but was thrust through with the
bayonet The last was a giant wrestler.
wen known to Dale. and as he strided
over the PROSTATE bodies of his compan-
ions. he yelled. Big Sam. I am man
1 am coming-eome on
with this. the big athlete spEang for
ward. clubbing Dale with his heavy mus
set. lie struck Dales shoulder with
such violence as to disiocate it. when
Dale buried the hayonet into hts body.
1t glanced around the ribs and stuck
fast into his backbone. Dale held hinl
down while he was struggling to recover.
and when Dale jerhed It out. he leaped
to his feet aud with wild ier Eprang
flriously at the big white man, but Dale
was ready with the bayonet which be
drove through his heart. within 10 min
utes II Indians had been killed. six OF
whom died by the hands Cf Dale
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NHE was a woman, wife and moth
err housewife in one of our large
~ cities. with everything seemingly TO
make her happy.
And she ran away!
She returned in a few days, however,
and this is what she said:
s'If I were to tell you of all the little
things that got on my nerves you would
laugh at me-.
Perhaps.
But the laughter would be born of the
shallow thought that does not probe
below the surface of things. The thinker
does not laugh at the little things. for
life is a bundle OF little things, and the
great affairs are far apart.
The little things are those that hurt
Many man who could bear the am
putation of limb without fiinching
knowing that his heroism and endurance
were under surveillance, frets and fumes
over a cut finger.
So it Is with the little cares of the
household. A woman will show the heroic
stuff of which most of her sex are ma lie
when great tribulations come. When the
/. It is the mother who is the comforter
When fire devastates the home or serious
illness makes nursing and watchfulness
a daily and nightly necessity the bur-
den falls on mother or wife or sister.
1t has been well said that the pilgrim
mothers put up patiently with all that
the pilgrim fathers bore in the bleak
New England winters and with the pill
grim fathers as well. The pioneer mothers
of the west were heroines.
The little cares of the housewife veal
down her temper sometimes to the needle
edge. When Willie or Susie is hard tc
manaxe and the bread will not rise anc
the sheets take delight in refusing tc
lie sttfight, then comes the time of tria
- tt1bulation for the woman
erfperhaps her tongue sharpens itsell
,er&worries and her forehead acquires
1sKonder that she sometimes givei
~ thu strain. The great wonder
T.fhks ~ does not yield more often.
Sntient with mother. Let's dt
we can to smooth away the 'littl'
gs" that are as pebble in ones
Me- .,,..,
- at's help her to bear her little trou
ICs that she may remember our kind
CSs and bear our great sorrows for MS
is her wont.
Dit Is the season of harvest
I'm the fields toll the farmer and hi
~. working hard to bring In th'
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1t is the exceptional case Most of us
are not geniuses.
The rest of us, in whatever walk of
life we find ourselves or in whatever
fields we pursue our ends and ideals,
need the sort of stamina that is devel-
oped by long preparation. by careful
training, by observance of the rules of
physical, mental and moral health.
The wisest and most successful ath-
lete is the one who knows the rules
and follows them closely. The winner
in the game of life likewise follows the
rules. They are not numerous. They
are simple and easily learned
But they must be observed If success
is to be won.
Reckon up your assets.
Health and wealth and family and
friends and work and position--if all of
these, or majority of them are yours,
you are a happy man or woman.
Stop a Bit There's another one that Is
worthy of inclusion in the list It is good
temper.
With its aid all or most of the others
may be acquired. Without It they may
still be gained. but the process is made
unnecessarily long and hard.
How much, then, is your good tempe
worth to you? How much does its ab-
sence cost you?
In New York city the other day a sher-
iff's jury was called upon to estimate
the value of good temper The case con-
cerned a 4-year-old girl who was born
with a sweet disposition. She illustrated
well the truth of the saying:
Every household ought to have a con-
tihllous supply of 3-year-old girl babies"
But alas for the continuance of her
charms A careless person permitted an
ash can to slip and strike the child on
the head, and as a result her temper was
ruined.
Cat least 80 the medical experts said
and the jury believed it, SO the rest OF
US must believe it too.)
From being little angel' Mary be-
came Irritable and disobedient," so her
father said. And he sued for damages
The jury awarded him 800.
Not much, you say? so do others.
The jury may have been composed oi
1o of the wisest men to be found in the
great city. But all wisdom viii not die
from the earth when its members shal
have departed therefrom.
To a lay observer not versed in tn,
ways and the intrcacies of the law ant
its methods of estimating the value o
personal characteristics it seems that $40
| is not much to pay for the spelling of
disposition.
You and ! know cases. do We not. il
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PIT is the season of harvest
~vh the fields toll the farmer and his
Ia, working hard to bring In the
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