Lincoln County leader., July 31, 1908, Image 2

'eiM lit ay rnmrn n ns
The evolution of the steamship Is a gauge to the prog
ress of the whole civilized world In this hint period of
tremendous material activity. The modem ship la n
closely compacted municipality, with every convenience
of the most progressive American city. The steward,
when lie Is arranging his menu for tbe day, takes down
his telephone and calls up a dozen different sections of
the great supply department, for all the world like the
housewife who makes use of the phone to order from
the butcher, the grocer and the caterer. The passenger
who does not care to dross and leave her stateroom lies
comfortably In her berth and calls up tbe friend nt the
other end of the vessel for a quiet morning chat. The
ship would be behind the times Indeed that could not
advertise "telephones In nil staterooms." Another strict
ly novel comfort Is the electric fan, which effectually
banishes that stuffy sea atmosphere that formerly was
bo disagreeable when tins water was tranquil.
The busy man who wants to work on the way over,
and does not care to take his secretary with him, can
have the services of nn expert stenographer and the In
experienced traveler need not make out her itinerary
before leaving home. All she has to do Is to apply to
the bureau of Information for advice. Mere she can
obtain trustworthy statistics of distances, hotel accommo
dations and cost of travel and lodging; In fact, anything
she wants to know, which Is certainly more satisfactory
than the old way of taking Tom, Dick and Harry's Im
perfect recollection and confused Impression of things
they saw and experienced several years ago. For the
benefit of the same Inexperienced person, the modern
steamer provided another great convenience, the trav
eler's check. This Is Issued In denominations from
$10 to $1X), hi Uie tuiit-iicy of the country to be visited.
The woman who knows nothing of Italian money gets
a few small checks translated for her Into terms of the
foreign coin, and a letter of Identification which will
enable her to cash the checks at a certain hank, where
she will receive various other courtesies, as the ward
of the steamship company. Verily, travel has been made
easy for the American who "simply must see Europe."
It has not only been made easy. It has been made
safe! The old, disagreeable rolling Is practically done
away with, since the builders have taken to providing
the vessels with bilge keels, attached amidships to the
bull. The hull llself is a double construction with from
ICO to 200 water-tight compartments, all of which can
be closed Instantly by the ollicer on the bridge, so that If
one of them should spring a leak the water could not
he communicated to the others. There Is now no danger
that the first-class, or even the steerage passenger, might
be called upon to do duty at the pumps. The modern
ship Is practically unslnkahle.
There are superbly decorated salons, libraries, music
rooms and smoking apartments. The promenade deck
surface Is from four to ten times as extensive as it was
on the old-time steamer, and one of the recently con
structed vessels advertises a tennis court, so that poor
old "shuflleboard" Is no longer the chief amusement of
the voyage. Many of the finest staterooms are fur-,
rlshed with brass beds, and the berths, built-in, are not
the low, narrow and altogether uuepmfortable affairs
the older traveler remembers. In short, the Atlantic
liner Is a floating palace hotel with every luxury and
every com ft irt to be had on terra firma. It Is the epitome
of twentieth century progress.
as she recalled sharply thos early
days when there had been nothing lu
life for either of them but each other.
The picture hung before her eyes as a
mirage to a man In a desert.
SOMETHING FOB EVERYBODY
SOUND DOCTRINE. '
.The signs Is bad when folks commence
Findin' fault with Providence,
And linlkin' 'cause flic earth don't shake
At cv'ry praiicin' step they take.
So man is great till he can see
Mow less than little he would be
Kf stripped to self, and stark and bare
He hung liis sigu out everywhere.
My doctrine Is to lay aside
Contentions and be satisfied,
.lest do your best and praise er blame
That follows that, counts jest the same.
I've alius noticed great success
Is mixed with trouble, more or less;
And it's the man who does the best
T'liat gets more kicks than all the rest.
James Wliiteomb Riley.
At the Extremes g
said. "He he ain't been home for
three days!"
Mrs. Rosemere sniffed and choked
and Maggie turned on her. "Oh," she
said weakly, yet violently, "I know
what you think but It ain't so, Mrs.
Rosemere! ' He does try! He's Just
unfortunate ! There ain't a better man
alive!"
Mrs. Rose-mere surveyed her former
cook helplessly, a wonder growing lu
her smnll, commonplace eyes. It was
entirely beyond human comprehension
why In the face of liet poverty and dis
comfort Maggie should so valiantly
cling to and defend her husband. She
certainly had always displayed abound
ing common sense when she ruled the
Uoseinere kitchen mid had sharply re
sented being Imposed uimii, but in the
two years since her marriage she had
developed queer whims. Chief among
them, in Mrs. Roseniere's eyes, wns her
continued fondness for her husband,
Mrs. Roseinere sat surveying the lit
tle room unscelngly, because It was
dim and she had come In from the out
Side glare. She surveyed It silently,
because she was Btout and, being un
used to climbing four flights of stairs,
wns out of breath.
Her old Irritation at Maggie's leav
ing her comfortable ten years' position
as cook In the Itoseniore household to
marry rose In full force again as she
recalled the room that wns almost lux
urious with Its running water nnd
rniimclcd Iron bed and pretty rug
which that misguided Individual had
abandoned when she left the Uoseinere
home for matrimony and a man who
had enlivened her subsequent life - by
chronically being without work.
Maggie certainly had not Improved
tier condition by linking fortunes with
Tom Varney. She lay now, worn and
ill. on the dismal little black walnut
bed Jammed up In the corner of the
small room. The faded, soiled-looking
wallpaper had once been blue and once
upon a time the window panes hail not
bie n cracked.
"Where's Tom?" Inquired Mrs. Rose
mere, severely, her breath having been
regained.
Maggie turned her face toward the
wall. "Looking for work, I guess," she
"OOT IT SKCOND HANI),
who certainly did not amount to much.
She actually seemed lu love with the
man!
"I hate to see you situated like this,
Maggie," her visitor burst forth, get
ting up and restlessly raising the
shades and wandering about "John Is
bringing up some things Just a fen
little things that may be of use to you
most of them are cooked and ready
to at. How on earth did you find such
a ridiculous dresser anyhow, Maggie?"
"Got It second hand," explained the
sick woman. "It does look funny after
what I had at your house but It was
cheap. It was so old the dewier was
glad to get a couple of dollars for It.
It's good of you, Mrs. Roseinere, to
trouble to come here and bring things
like you do!"
Mrs. Roseinere did not answer. She
stood with both hands tn their delicate
gloves pressed on the edge of the dress
er, leaning forward, looking nt the
carved grapes around the mirror. Some
thing at the back of her head was alive
with excitement, which as yet meant
nothing to her comprehension.
The light struck full on one of the
bulging grapes and over and over again
she read the twined initials still show
ing, cut Into its surface, "G. and S."
Then It was as If a curtain had been
Jerked away from that day thirty years
back when George had so daringly
marred the piece of furniture with his
knife, his other arm about her as they
stood laughing like a pair of ill-behaved
children. For it wns their dress
er and they could hack It If they chose.
Mrs. Rosemere was gazing upon the
ldenticfl', piece of furniture that had
adorned her bedroom when she had
married George Rosemere nil those
decodes ago!
She had done her own work then and
a dollar was not one solitary dollar,
but one hundred cents to be spread out
over a multitude of necessities. Hut
they had been hnppy. A queer little
warm thrill swept over her at the mem
ory, bringing a flush to her face, mnk-
ing her heart thump for a moment as
It had when she had climbed those
frightful stairs.
The dresser had been n grand acqui
sition then funny, dumpy, ugly, warp
ed thing that It was to-day. She
thought of the one which ministered
to her needs at the present, n wonder
ful piece of mahogany with Inlays and
hand carvings and crystal glass nnd
the rest of the house matching It lu
costliness. j
Suddenly her whole rose-burdened,
hampering, rushing existence, with Its
many engagements, and George always
hurrying, abstracted, bowed beneath
the yoke of wealth nnd Its storn de
mands on his time, nrose and smote her
Mrs. Roseinere jerked her head
around toward Maggie In a desperate
attempt to regain her mental balance.
She saw a strange lighting up of the
sick woman's face as she raised her
head and listened to footsteps coming
up the stairs.
"It's Tom!" Maggie said Joyously.
She waited eagerly, happily.
For a space, a very brief space, still
harassed by that mental picture nt
which she had been .looking, Mrs. Rose
mere bitterly envied her former cook.
Then as she went down the foui
flights tothe French touring car waiting
to whirl her back to bondage and the
Inlaid mahogany Mrs. Rosemere had
one of the rare flashes of real thought
thnt existence afforded her.
"I suppose," she said, "that noliodj
In the word can expect to have every
thingat the same time! It's It's
kind of hard !" Chicago Daily News.
MIRACLE OP SELF CONFIDENCE.
The DooMIiik Waverer Ik Self Or.
dallied fur I'nllnre.
It was said that Napoleon's presence
In a battle doubled the strength of his
forces. Half the effectiveness of an
army resides In the soldiers' faith la
their lender. When the lender doubts,
hesitates, wavers, the whole army Is
thrown Into confusion ; ,nt his con
fidence doubles the assurance of every
man muter him.
The mental faculties, like soldiers,
must believe In their leader the un
conquerable will. The mind of the
doubter, the hesl tutor, the waverer,
the man who is not sure of himself,
who thinks he Is not equal to what he
has undertaken, is set toward failure,
and everything works neainst him.
There is n weakening all along tho
line.
In an emergency, as in danger, a
man can often perform feats of great
strength which he could not even ap
proximate In cold blood. Arousing a
mnn multiplies his power tremendous
ly. Think of what delicate men nnd
women, even Invalids, have accomplish
ed when dominated by some supreme
occasion or a mighty passion. The Im
perious "must" gives added strength
and unusual power to all the faculties.
So a great self-faith, an unwavering
self-confidence, braces ud the entire
man, physically, mentally, morally. It
raises him to his highest power, and
makes him do with ease what would
be impossible without this' wonderful
stimulus.
An overmastering faith In oneselt
often enables comparatively ignorant
men and women to do marvelous
things feats which sensitive, timid,
doubting people, of far greater ability
and much finer texture and nobler
qualities shrink from attempting.
I know people who have been hunting
for months for a situation ; but they go
Into an office with a confession of
weakness In their very manner; they
show their lack of self-confidence.
Their prophecy of failure Is In their
faces, In their manner. They surrend
er before the battle begins. They are
living witnesses against themselves.
When you ask a mnn to give you a
position, nnd he reads this langunge lu
your face and manner, "Please glvo
me a position; do not kick me out;
fate Is against me; I am an unlucky
dog; I nin disheartened ; I have lost
confidence In myself," he will only
have contempt for you; he will say to
himself you are not a man, to start
with, nnd he will get rid of you as
soon as he can.
If you expect to get a position you
must go Into an office with the air of
a conqueror; you must fling out con
fidence from yourself before you can
convince an employer that you are the
man he Is looking for. You must show
by your very presence thnt you are a
man of force, a man who can do
things; with vigor, cheerfulness, and
enthusiasm.
If you carry with you evidence ot
your power, the. badge of sperlorlty,
then you will not wander the streets
looking for a situation very long.
Everywhere employers are looking for
men who can do things, who can con
quer by Inherent force nnd energy.
Orison Swett Mnrden In "Success
Magazine."
Hern by Purrlinne.
"The woman who married that old
rich fellow has simply sold her youth
and loveliness."
"Well, If you could see her account
at the benuty doctor's, I bet you'd find
she had bought 'em." Baltimore American,
ProfenKor Wan.
Student Something Is preying on
my mind.
Frofessor W. It must be very hun
gry. Yale Record. .
A man has his clothes made to fit
him: a woman makes herself fit her
clothes.
In theory one mnn Is as good as an
other, but In practice It Is a lie.
In Denmark girls insure against be
soming old maids.
Korean bachelors wear skirts nnd
re not promoted to trousers until they
mnrry.
I The electrical house of Siemens &
. Holske, in Prussia, employs more than
! 25,000 men.
Mall orders for merchandise are
practically unknown in China and the
blast lu general.
rians are making for supplying
Cairo, Egypt, with a modern sewerage
and drainage ' system in the near fu
ture. Until a few years ago Moham
medans were greatly opposed to pho
tography, but now they have taken It
up seriously, and some photographers
of real merit are found among them.
A mill at Great Harrington, Mass.,
was shut down In a most unusunl mnu
tier a few weeks ago, when water bugs,
crowding Into the space around the engine-stop
push button, produced a short
circuit and the consequent stoppage.
Cousul General Robert J. Wynne, ot
London, reports that before a commit
tee of the British House of Commons
Interesting details were given of the
scheme for establishing In Ireland a
new electric supply generated by peat
gns, the first of the kind In Great
Britain.
In Spain about the only kind of plow
In use Is a primitive wooden affair
with one handle and a tongue. To this
Is hitched a pair of small oxen or of
mules yoked up like oxen. The driver
rests his right foot on a rear extension
to keep the plow from Jumping out of
the ground, steadying himself hy touch
ing his left foot when he seems likely
to lose his balance.
Mrs. Humphry .Ward at a women's
luncheon lu New York said of the lit
erary style of a popular novelist: "It
Is an Insane style. It makes me think
of the schoolgirl novelist who wrote:
'He sprang ardentlj forward, but a
look of soft entreaty from one of
Pearl's eyes and a glance of warning
darted from the other in the direction
of her aunt forced him regretfully
back Into his chair.' "
Senator La Follette says of the mil
lionaires who complain about the harm
that they and their affairs have suf
fered from governmental attacks :
"These whlners, with only themselves
to blame, remind me of a bad little
boy. He ran howling to his mother.
'Oh, ma, Johnny has hurt me !' 'And
how did bad Johnny hurt mother's little
durlingy 'Why, I was a-goln' to punch
him lu the fact; and he ducked his head
and I hit my knuckles against the
wall.' "
Tampa, Fin., was the background of
Gold lug's narrative of "The Young Ma
roouers." It and Its surroundings were
a wilderness. Tampa Is to-day the busi
ness metropolis of Southern Florida.
Last year It made and sold 2S9,000,COJ
cigars, the largest number of clear Ila
vanas ever made In one year In any
city.in the world. It has 105 cigar fac
tories, employing 11,000 people, with a
pay roll of nearly $10,000,000 a year,
and nn output of $20,000,000. The pop- .
ulatiou Is about 43,000.
"Servility will disappear," said Fred
erick Van Eeden, the Dutch poet and
economist, "with the disoppearance of
our present unjust social system. Ser
vilitywhat a despicable thing it Is!
A young Dutch bookkeeper lunched one
day in Amsterdam with his employer,
a millionaire tulip dealer. Suddenly
the millionaire sniffed. 'But, my dear
Hans,' he said to the bookkeeper, 'I'm
' afraid your egg Is bad.' 'Oh, sir,'
murmured the servile clerk, flushing
deeply, 'really er some parts of It
nre very good, Indeed.'"
In humorous defense of outspoken
and frank methods Senator Tillman
: says: "These people who always keep
' calm fill me with mistrust. Those that
never lose their temper I suspect. He
who wears, under abuse, an angelic
' smile Is apt to be a hypocrite. An
old South Carolina deacon once said
to me with a chuckle: 'Keep yo' tein
pah, son. Don't yo' quarrel with no
angry pusson. A soft answah am alius
( best. Hit's commanded, an' fuhther
mo sonny, hit makes 'em mnddahn'h
anything else yo' could say. "
It may become ere long a seriously
debated point whether a tax upon
bachelors might not be Imposed to the
advantnge not only of the Imperial ex
chequer, but to the position of the ever
growing army of women In our ponu-
j latlon. Such n tax would he a revival,
not a novelty. In the reign of Wil
liam and Mary, when the whole popula
tion of England was less than the pres
ent population of London, nn act was
I passed obliging nil hnchelors nnd wld
j owers above 25 years old to pay a tax
of one shilling yenrly; a bachelor or
widower duke, 12 10s; a marquess,
10 a year. A curious combination
this, of a tax upon single blessedness
and social glory, and one which con
ceivably might be revived with adva
tage. London Court Journal.