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HIS is the age of the “business slogan.” A catchy phrase Is
made to tell the public volumes concerning the purpose and
aspirations of the organization that is sufficiently fortunate
to hit upon just the right combination of words to cover the
Idea. And this slogan, says a writer In the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat, Is a great thing, in spite of the fact that It does
sometimes convey a wrong impression. The case in point
is the adopted phrase of the Y. M. C. A., that institution that has as its
purpose the upbuilding of Christian manhood and character. This pur­
pose is admirably set forth in the words, “It is better to form than to re­
form,” and because of this sentiment, blazoned all over the association’s
work, the idea has gone abroad that this Institution gathers up Its righteous
skirts and steps gingerly aside when a caste that requires reforming >s seen
to approach. In very truth the Y. M. C. A. does an enormous amount of
reformatory work; but in such a way that the characters that are being
formed are never brought Into contaminating contact with the ones that
were spoiled in the making and need to be patched together.
Some of the cases that are on record in the annals of the association
have about them a glamour of exquisite romance, and occasionally there is
a touch of genuine humor, although for the most part these records speak
of grim tragedy narrowly averted, of wrecked lives and wasted forces. One
of the most interesting cases is that of a young man, of good family and
splendid education, who drifted into the railroad Y. M. C. A. in such a
pitiable plight that only the lowest class of saloon would have harbored hlm
at all. Ho was recovering from a prolonged “jag” and looked as if he had
spant much of his time in a particularly filthy ashpit.
'
Too deeply humiliated to go back home, and having no ties to hold hlm
In the strange city, he declared to the secretary that he might as well go
down to the river and make an end of his worthless life. It was then that
he felt the grip of a brother’s hand, heard the sound of a sympathetic voice
and awoke to the existence of a genuine friend in the person of this stran­
ger who had taken him in and clothed him anew. His ability was such that
a position was not difficult to find. He knew he could get another place, but
5he had no conviction that he could keep it, and for moral strength he leaned
on his new-found friend. Every evening he fled in something like terror to
the Y. M. C. A., working with feverish zeal in the gym and drowning his
• thirst in the swimming pool. He was not at all religious, but he began to
sattend the prayer meetings, and very soon he found himself begging to be
-^permitted to assist the instructor in mechanical drawing. At the end of six
months he was so deeply absorbed in the work that he had no time to think
about the things that had been his undoing. That was eleven years ago,
and the man is to-day a substantial man, with a beautiful home, a proud
wife and three sons who would double up their small fists at the imputation
that their father was ever on the verge of suicide because he was not
strong enough to master his love of strong drink.
Last summer a young Swiss arrived in St. Lofiis with only about enough
money to carry him to his destination, which was Kansas City. When he
«THEN WIDOWS PREFER TO WED. | a serpent, pointed as an arrow, and
French Statistics Raise Questions
Which Are Hard to Answer.
The French have been compiling
some statistics as to the ages at which
women most frequently seek husbands.
The figures as published show that
widows of 20 or younger and those of
30 or over are as ready for another
husband as the maiden for her first
one. But between the ages of 20 and
30 the desire for a successor to the
departed one appears to be lacking.
“Just what is responsible for this
state of affairs cold facts and figures
fail to show,” says the Washington
Herald, commenting on this phenome­
non. “It is not a question of mathe­
matics, but of heart pulsations, and as
yet no machine or instrument has
been Invented which can keep account
of Cupid and his wiles. It is need­
less to go deeply into these figures,
but it is possible that between the
ages of 20 and 30 the widow is so
charming and so attractive that her
suitors are so numerous she is un­
able to decide which one to favor.
Then, again, it is possible that she is
content with her station, whereas pre­
vious to 20 she Is so young as to feel
the necessity for some protector; while
after the age of 30 she is eager to
wed lest she be left without a life
companion owing to her advancing
▼ears.”
_____ _______
Maxims
and
evenly balanced like a scepter held
in the middle.”
“The Ten Faults—Want of faith,
disrepeset for teachers, unpleasant con­
duct, covetousness, talking too much,
laughing at another’s misfortune,
using abusive language, getting angry
with old people, .robbing and pilfer­
ing.”
“The Roots of Quarrels are three,
namely: Yes (assertion)! what (doubt­
ing sarcasm)! and you (abuse)!”
INVENTS A NEW SEESAW.
Can De Adjusted for Use by Chil­
dren of Unequal Weight.
One of the most popular forms of
amusement among small children is
the seesaw, but up to the present time
this exercise could only be indulged in
by children of equal weight. A Vir­
ginia man, however, has invented a
Mottos.
Other things besides events repeat
themselves in history. Even our fads
and fancies find prototypes in far
countries and times. The mania for
Illuminated texts and quotations which
runs riot in these days is nothing new
nor distinctive.
When the English
mission of 1904 forced its way to the
forbidden city of Lhasa and laid bare
the mysteries of inner Tibet, they
found that the native taste for illu­
minated mottos had been established
for centuries. Lieut.-Col. Li?» Austlne
Waddell7 tells of the custom in his
book on the expedition.
The Grand Lama’s spell, “Om mani
padme Hum!”—Hail! the Jewel is the
Lotus Flower!—is carved everywhere
on the rocks. Inserted stone tablets
and plastered posters bearing pious
sentences and texts in ornamental Tib­
etan letters are all along the way, to
Improve the minds of passing readers.
These are mostly maxims of a moral
kind. Some of these are as follows:
“Speech should float forth freely like
a bird in the sky, and be clothed in
charming dress like a goddess.”
“Speech should be bold as a lion,
•oft as a gentle hare, impressive as
seesaw7 that can be used by an adult
and child and can be adjusted to make
their weights equalize each other. An
upright post rises from a firm base.
Pivoted to swing on this post are hor­
izontal bars with seats on their outer
ends and handles by which the user
may hold on. The horizontal bars are
made in two parts, slidably mounted
so that one side of the seesaw can be
made different lengths, thus adding to
the weight of the person who sits on
the long end. The whole structure is
strongly built and works easily and
there is no danger of a breaking board
or of children losing their balance on
it as they have rests for their feet
when in the air and a handle to grip.
Such a device will be found a popular
one for private or public playgrounds.
A woman thinks she is calm and
self-controlled if fault found with her
J preacher in her presence doesn’t' jar
a hairpin loose.
Don't be
promise.
encouraged by a fool’s
left the steamer at New York he' was handed a letter from his uncle In
Kansas City saying the family had _ gone away
_ for a time. The letter was
brief and unsatisfactory, and it troubled him greatly. His ticket, which had
been purchased in Europe, was only to St. Louis, and he mentioned this
fact to a man he met on the train. The man thought the situation over,
and said:
‘‘I’ll tell you what to do. When you get to St Louis you go up to the
North Side Branch of the Y. M. C. A. They speak German up there, and
maybe they can get you a job till your uncle comes back.”
The young man spoke German and French, but not a word of English,
and his case looked rather hopeless. It so happened that only a few days
before his arrival in the city a manufacturer had told the secretary of the
North Side branch to be on the lookout or a capable young man who could
speak German and French. Before evening the youth from the' mountains
of Switzerland had been set to work and had secured a. boarding place in
a German family. After some three months his uncle wrote for him and
he went to Kansas City; but his position was held open for him and he
found nothing that suited him so well, even with his uncle’s influence to
help him. Then a promise of a substantial “raise” settled the matter, and
he came back to St. Louis.
There was a youth who held a position just above that of office boy.
His education was limited and he felt hlmstelf unable to command more than
the meager salary he was receiving. The secretary of the Y. M. C. A., with
whom he came into personal contact, urged him to enter the night school
and prepare himself for something better. At once his ambition was fired,
and in a little over a year he had a far more congenial place at double his
former salary. Two of his friends, who took night courses in telegraphy,
and typewriting, have secured good railroad positions within the past month.
The classes in mechanical drawing are among the most popular in the
Y. M. C. A. night school, leading the way to excellent situations for a great
number of earnest young men. One of these was bundle v«T<pper in onb
of the department stores and it was utterly impossible for him to give up
earning money long enough to fit himself for more remunerative employ­
ment. Three years ago he bent for the first time over a drawing board
and to-day he is employed by one of the largest contracting fiifms in the
city at an excellent salary and has added to his income by designing and
erecting a number of buildings as a private enterprise. One of his class­
mates in the night school was a young Porto Rican, who knew practically
no English. He wanted to be an architect, and there was no school he
could enter, because of his need for personal instruction in both draughts­
manship and English. He was told that the Young Men’s Christian Associa-
ation had the right sort of school for such a case as his, so he was enrolled
as a student, and he proved a most diligent one. He now speaks the lan­
guage with scarcely a trace of foreign accent, and is employed as a draughts­
man in one of the big architectural offices. A third member of this class
was a boy who had just graduated from high school. His parents had kept
him in school by dint of much economy and personal sacrifice, and It was
necessary for him to go to work immediately. His first position was In a
large manufacturing plant, where the services of a draughtsman were con-
stantly required. The boy saw a chance to step into a paying position as
soon as he could fill it, for the man who did the designing was overworked
and would need help in a little while. He had a talk with the manager
and was told to enter the night school at once. As soon as he had mastered
the rudiments of his craft he was given supplementary instruction by the
draughtsman, who was a member of the firm, and to-day he Is doing all the
draughting for a great manufacturing plant and Is earning a man’s salary,
although he is barely past the voting age.
Penetrating the wilds of British
East Africa with a camera and a cine­
matograph, Mr. Cherry Kearton, the
skilled7 “nature photographer,” has
brought back to England some amaz­
ing pictures of strange beasts. Mr.
Kearton had one great disappoint­
ment. The lion eluded him so far as
the cinematograph was concerned. For
a week on end, night and day, the pho­
tographer fixed his apparatus in a
tree and waited for a lion. But he
found the lions extraordinarily wary.
The nearest he ever got to one with
the cinematograph camera in daylight,
was 150 yards. Then the lion, not
the photographer, bolted. At this dis­
tance the lion appeared so small upon
the photographic films that the pic­
ture was useless.
But Mr. Kearton had his revenge.
He left a camera shielded in a leather
case near the lion drinking pool.
Above it, in a tree, was a flashlight
apparatus. From this a thread passed
across the path the lion was known
to tread. In the middle of the night
down came the lion to drink. He
broke the thread, ignited the magne­
sium, and took an instantaneous pho­
tograph of himself before the brilliant
flash sent him crashing away in alarm
through the forest.
MOSTLY MADE IN TEN YEARS
Harriman’s Immense Fortune Abso>
lutely Without Parallel in History
of Self-Made Men.
The final appraisal of the late E.
H. Harriman places It at a value of
$149,000,000. This is more than $50,-
000,1)00 over the most liberal estimate
made when it was a matter of specu­
lation. As a rule, when an appraisal
of an estate of great wealth, which
is much talked of, is made, the public
estimate is found to be greater than
the fact. Estates shrink under care­
ful examination. But in the present
case the contrary has been the fact.
It is much larger than even his inti­
mates supposed.
The wonder of it is that such a
great estate should have been accum­
ulated in the time it was. Mr. Rocke­
feller’s great wealth was built up ip a
period covering 40 years; that of Mr.
Carnegie in about the same time.
It took three generations to build up
the Astor and Vanderbilt fortunes to
their present mammoth proportions.
The Morgan estate was erected on ac­
cumulations made in a prior genera­
tion and the time in which the great
Hill, Kennedy and Strathcona fortunes
were made was not less than 30 years.
Yet Mr. Harriman’s great accumula­
tions were made within a period of ten
years. It is without parallel in the
history of self-made fortunes of huge
amounts.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Steel Superseding Wood.
The substitution of steel for wood
goes steadily on. Beginning with
January 1, or thereabouts, the Na­
tional Lead Company will pack its
white lead in steel kegs, having de­
cided to abandon the use of wooden
kegs. This innovation is made be­
cause the company has concluded that
steel kegs will have many advantages
over the wooden kegs. In the first
place, the steel package does not ab­
sorb the oil from the lead as porous
wooden packages do, and there is,
therefore, no drying and caking of
the lead around the edges, making it
possible to remove every particle of
white lead easily from the steel keg.
The new steel kegs also will be much
lighter, as well as being stronger than
the wooden ones, and this will effect
a saving in freight charges. Taking
up less room than the wooden kegs,
the new steel package also will save
storage spiace.
TRUMPET CALLS.
Ram’s Horn Sounds a Warning Noto
to the Unredeemed.
Even Solomon,
with all his wis­
dom, made a blun­
der now and then.
It never takes a
young eagle long
to find out that it
has wings.
You can see the
sky in a mud pud­
dle when you look
at it in the right way.
Earnestness is no more afraid of
lions than it is of flies.
When a lazy naan looks toward
heaven the angels close the windows.
The trouble with a good many folks
is that'they try to do too much at
once.
Mountain-moving faith will mbyte
mountains now as certainly as in the
time of Christ.
When a wise man goes down on a
barrel hoop he gets up a step higher
than he stood before.
The young man should not only aim
high, but keep on shooting until he
can make the dust fly.
There are still some folks who think
that putting two cents in the basket
is giving the widow’s mite.
The stars are fighting against the
man who puts off until to-morrow the
thing he ought to do to-day.
Lazarus did more for the Lord with­
out saying a word than Martha did
by turning the house upside down.
Nothing has done any more to lift
the world up to where the sun can
reach every side of it than the little
red schoolhouse and the old greev
spelling book.
In one of Rudyard Kipling’s stories,
the rat and the cat live peacefully to­
gether in a mill. That, of course, is
fiction, but if,one may believe a news­
paper story, it might well have been
fact. Capybara is the name of the
giant South American rat belonging to
the New York Zoo. His surname is
Hydrochaerus, and he Is one of the
objects of interest in the park. Kittie
Shyder, the other character in the
story, is a black and white cat which
Billie Snyder, the keeper, took home
one night, thinking that she would be
a good killer of ordinary rats. A
writer in a New York paper tells the
story.
Rats are a positive nuisance round
the zoo. That is, the small Norway
rat of the cellars and back yard. Of
course Capybara, the giant water rat,,
that is worth a good deal of money
and was imported from South Amer­
ica, is not. He is as big as a bulldog
and as ferocious. But he is a rat,
for all that.
Kittie SnydeY grew up and early de­
veloped into the finest rat killer Cen­
tral Park ever had. It was a very rare
day when she did not come into the
elephant house dragging three or four
rats fattened on city corn and oats.
Billie Snyder liked her, and that
meant that every other animal in the
park was jealous of her.
Saturday night, after Snyder shut up
the zoo, Kittle made a sudden and
anxious hunt for a wmement. At last
she came to old grouchy Capybara’s
cage, and there in the corner was a
big pile of clean straw.
He was ready to fight at first; but
finally he politely moved aside and in­
vited her to enter and take the .whole
house—which she did.
“When I got there next morning,”
said Billie Snyder,. “I nearly dropped
dead with surprise when I saw that
ugly rat over in one corner, looking
like the happy father of triplets, and
over in the other corner on the straw,
Kittle, the zoo cat, exhibiting four of
the handsomest black and white and
yellow kittens you ever saw.
“Capybara is making old Mrs. Mur­
phy, the hippopotamus, keep still to­
day, so as not to wake the babies.”
that feeling has been established much
will have been done toward decreasing
War Is Waged on the Romantic disease.
Those pioneers who are now provid­
Utensil and Its Companions.
Since the germ, theory got us in its ing Individual drinking cups for the
grip the romance of “the old oaken public are doing a broadly human­
bucket, the mòss-covered bucket,” with itarian thing of very positive benefit.
its companion, the rustic gourd or old
On Byron’s Island.
tin dipper, has waned. As a pic­
Once
more
a powerful syndicate Is
turesque decoration of the farm yard
the moss-covered bucket is very good, trying to purchase “Petite lie,” the
but the enlightened grown-up, with a pretty little island and chateau in
knowledge of hygiene, finds his enthu­ Lake Geneva, the New York Herald
siasm for its use, in common with says. The object is to start in Switz­
every passer-by, decidedly disturbed, erland a gambling resort on the lines
says the New Idea Woman’s Magazine. of Monte Carlo.
But the figure is high and the Swiss
And so it is with the tin bucket of
authorities
are opposed to the scheme.
the schoolroom, with the dipper drop­
Courtship Class for Jap Girls.
ped back into it after each; drinker’s A wealthy Parisian artist is the owner>
Japan has killed the last doubt as
thirst is quenched. War is being and he is so pleased with his beauty to its modern progress by the organi­
waged on that bucket and on the com­ spot that it would require a big mag­ zation of a “class of courtship” for
mon dipper or drinking cup in all net of gold to displace him. Several girls in each of the secondary schools.
public places. It is a campaign of edu­ similar attempts have been frustrated The Japanese maidens are taught that
A Story of Browning.
cation and the purpose is to prevent by the Swiss government, which de­ if they “should be so unfortunate as
Browning himself couldn’t always
sires
to
keep
Switzerland
free
from
the
disease and to minimize the slaughter
undesirable and often trag’c associa­ to fall in love before becoming en­ explain his meaning at first reading.
of the Ignorant.
tions of the famous resort of south­ gaged they must conceal the fact. Dr. Furnivall, founder of the English
The danger that lurks in the com­ ern
Above all they must remember that Browning Society, frequently consult­
France.
mon drinking cup is silent, unseen and
women never propose. Another thing, ed the poet as to the meaning of some
On
this
“
Petite
He
”
Byron
wrote
frequently unsuspected, and therefore part of “The Prisoner of Chilion.” It they are warned, that well-bred girls passage in his works. “Bless me,”
has long been ignored. But with the lies opposite Montreaux, the resort of^ do not exchange photographs with Browning would say, “I really have
public conscience awakening to the thousands of wealthy Americans every their admirers. In Japan until now forgotten what I did mean, and as I
dangers of infection from tuberculosis year, and would without doubt soon there has not been any trouble about haven’t got a copy of my works by
and other diseases and its mind stirred rival Monte Carlo if the syndicate got courting, and this is the first evidence me I really can’t enlighten you. Just
to the possibilities of prevention the started in the Swiss casino business. that the Japanese maidens need in­ lend me the book, there’s a good fel­
outcry against thè public drinking cup
struction in affairs of the heart. low. I’ll look it over at my leisure and
—a source of many evils—is inevit­
Fish Eating' Ponies.
Classes to the contrary, however, the try to find out what was in my mind
able. Within a year’s time—eVen in
“The Shetland peasants, as soon as point is maintained that there is not at the time.”
six months—there has been a tremend­ the cold comes on. turn their ponies a Juliet under the sun who does know
Folding Linen in Holland.
ous feeling . created oh the subject. out to shift for themselves,” said a the exact formula for dealing with a
Folding linen is an accomplishment
The boards of health of three different horse dealer. “On those high, rocky, Romeo.
in which each one of the women in
states—Kansas, Michigan and Missis-; barren islands, amid the powerful and
Holland is expected to be proficient
sippi—have passed ordinances abolish­ cold winds of winter, the ponies live
Stanley’s Estimate of Leaders.
before she becomes mistress of a
ing public cups. The New Jersey on heather and seaweed, and it is indu­
In
his
recent
published
autobiog
­
home.
In Holland especially the fold­
board has asked . railway companies bitable that in their hunger they even
whose trains pass through the state to scour the wild coast for dead fish. It raphy Sir Henry M. Stanley s^ys: ing of linen requires considerable skill
The civil war only developed two and training. Much of their fabric is
use Individual cupè. The New York is this life of exposure that gives the “ first-rank
men, and those were Grant of the finest texture and quality, and
state board of health has passea a Shetland pony hls shaggy coat. What
Lee, but in the second z*ank there they fashion the various pieces in iron­
resolution condemning public drinking gives him hls kind and gentle dis­ and
many who might possibly, with ing into birds, animals, flowers and all
cups. Various cities have forbidden position is the fact that he is brought were
opportunities, have rivaled the first manner of artistic shapes. Their linen
the use of common drinking utensils up with the dogs and children—one two. I believe if it were put to the
closets are often shown to visitors
in schools and public places.
might almost say in the house.”
vote of the military class as to which with the same pride that china closets
The manufacture of paraffin paper
was the greater of the two greatest are shown elsewhere.
Just Like a Man.
cups that sell for a penny has helped
Mr. Kadley—How mannish she is: captains of the war the vote would be
to solve the problem of providing
Enlarging Her Chances.
cast for Robert E. Lee. Nevertheless
hygienically for the thirst’ of the pub­ Miss Bright—Isn’t she, though? Mr. there was something in Grant which,
“
That
ancient Miss Yellow told me
Kadley—Yes, and the funny part of
lie.
though not so showy as the strategy years ago that she thought no man
it
is
she
thinks
people
admire
her
for
In many department stores and busi­
and dash of Lee, makes me cast my should marry until he was 25.”
ness places in the large cities and on being so. She doesn’t seem to see vote for Grant.”
“Well?”
people are merely laughing at
the trains of several railway lines that
“The other day she said that after
her.
Miss
Bright—Yes, she’s mannish
these cups have recently been Intro­ even to that extent—Catholic Stand-’
a man has reached the age of 18 he
Restless Royalty.
duced. They come in automatic ven­
was quite old enough to use his own
“Before their marriage he said she judgment regarding matrimony.”—
ders that operate in the same way as ard and Times.
the chewing gum and chocolate ma­
It Is expected that the new coal mine should be treated like a queen.”
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
“Well,” answered Miss Cayenne, “he
chines.
near Melbourne, which now yields five
It is our theory that salads offter an
In a few years we will doubtless hundred tons a day, will be able next has kept his word after a fashion. His
look upon the common drinking cup year to supply all the requirements of household is very like one of those excuse for spoiling, a lot of otherwise
I nourishing and nalatable food
little European monarchies.
uS* a symbol of barbarism and when the Victorian state railways.
THAT OLD OAKEN BUCKET.