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The Day Nursery's Mascot.
Tha' second day ' of tha nursery's
exlstenoe waa a Quiet ana, thara being
only tha matron end h snaecot,
Catherine, In tho houaa whan I called.
' but Catharina la In and of haraalf an
absorbing etudy. Bha U tha Brat child
to ba cersd for at tha nursery and tha
natron aaya Ifa good luck to haya a
negro for tha nrat one, ana noooay couu
look at Catharina and doubt It.
. Though" undeniably a negreea, her akin
-la a tawnr rad and nar ninny nair
matchea It to nlcaty, though her ayea
. ara brlerht and black. Tha matron la
proud of her. for aha la aa bright ami
' aharp aa a new tack and har education
' la wonderfully well advanced, eonelder
tng that aha la only 4. It wouldn't be
at all etranga If tha world hear a mora
abont Catharine after aha la grown.
"Bhe'a a very bright child." said tha
matron. "Bha knowa all her lattera and
aha la all tha tiro aaklng me If there
lan't aomething aha, can do for ma. and
aha talka aa plainly aa I do." wnicit ta
aulte remarkable, considering the inea
cots tender yeara and tha fact that aha
has parted with a number of her tipper
front teeth, which gtvea her the atrange
appearance of being both old and young
at tha aama time. . . -v.
But the matron has found tha sltua
tlon rather a peculiar one. being all
alone In the neat , little cottage with
thla peculiar morsel of humanity.
"People go by," abe aald, "and they
look at her and then they look at m
- and- then they look at each other and
then they laugh, and I can't help laugh
ing rayaelf. for hey don't aeo the day
nuraery algn at all. "
, Tha matron la a neat, kind, motherly
1Tfmii with straight black, hair,, now
touched prettily with gray, and we
looked at each other, and then . wn
'laughed together, thereby refuting tha
oft-repeated acandal that women have
no sense of humor, while the. terra eotta
anaacot-watchad .ua - with -wonderm g
black eyes. Bha could aea nothing to
laugh at "
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T7X"7ewmlr7utes'lster "ah "startedTnn
a run down tha atreet, followed by th
-mMroiv who' found hr returning with
her older alater, for whom ahe bad been
on the watch. -Then ahe wee waehed
and had her bltie-aleeved apron removnd
and waa aooa -ready to, go home with
her alater.
; After aha had . gone tha matron
ah owed ma about. Everything la freah
and clean and new and nothing aeema
"to have been forgotten In the equipment
ef the place. ' The pantry la well atocked
with cereals, etc.; there la a cuts llttls
refrigerator for the milk for tha bablea;
there la a neat kitchen with a ahlny
new range, there la a bathroom and din
room, which, la alao the children'a play
room all thla. Including the matron's
room and tha parlor,, on tha flrat floor.
, On tha second floor there ara three
Tooma that tha ladlea of tha flower mis-
- aton ara hoping to rent, and here, too,
la tha little aleeplng room' for the bablea.
Comfortable little Iron beds with aofl
new mattreaeaa and dainty clean new
eheeee-cloth puffa render thla apart
ment very attractive and convenient for
it a purpoee.
.
':J, But tho maaeot la alene no longer.
-Thara waa to . be a S-weeka-old baby
;.the next day. and ona 11 montha, and it
' will not be long before' there will be a
email batalllon of little glfla In their
blue pinafore the 'uniform for girls
an! boys In their pink plnaforea, which
vrlU constitute their -nuraery array. - -.'
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The tturaf ry la in the pretty eotta ire
at II North Fifth street, not io far
from tha ahopplng district but that la
. dlea will find It both eaay and pleasant
. to look In on it and perhapa be able to
do aomething to aaalat In thla excellent
enterprlae.
I -waa - somewhat-surprised to learn
- that but 10 ladlea visited It tha day of
.the opening, thla, of course, exclusive of
tho patronaaaea of tha nuraery. -
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The Steadfaat GirL
Did you aver atop to study that word,
steadfast, and aea what a noble Idea
It atanda fort
There ara ao many glrla In tha world
with their own way to make, either
wholly or In part, that the heart of tha
aympathetie - woman will ache aome
tlmea. Just at tha very thought of It
Tha world la not particularly wall
adapted to tha neada of the a If -a up
porting girl Juat now It'a going ta be
Out Limitation.
"Direct your eyea tight Inward, and
L you'll find
A thouaand reglona In your mind
Yet undlacovored. Travel then, and" be
Expert In home-coamography."
i.y , a ' e ''"
. Our Individual universe, phyalcal and
apliitual. oorreaponda exactly to tha ex-
'tent of our power to perceive. By peH
VCpUUH MB WOTtUft Mil vauci VillU mil
the converging of the avenuea of phyal
cal, mental and aplritual cognising that
reltea you tha I, to all outalde you
tha not I.
The unlverae extende Ita boundarlea
. Juat In proportion aa we widen our area
of perception; thla wa ahall not do ao
. long aa we make the mlatake of suppos
ing that theaa llmltatlona Inhere In the
unlverae and not ia ouraeivea. -r
Tha phyalcal eya la very limited In Ita
range. By tha aid of the microscope and
teleacope we are taklng-to-wondero of
tha unlverae that without them would
i have remained undlecovered. Tha tele
phone haa performed the aama miracle
of extenalon for the ear. Increaaed fa-
, cllltlee for travel for tha feet
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. ' Keeping In mind that our unlverae la
only ao much of tha whole aa our pcr
ceptlona enable ua to recognise, and get
ting from what we can see and bear and
, feel and know, aome . Idea of tha Im
mensity and the variety of that unl-
. verse beyond the range of our very
limited oomprehenalon, what poaalblll
tlea open up before ua. What room for
those eubllme faeultlea that relate -ua
ao cloeely ta that wonderful unknown
realm Imagination, faith, hope. -
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- Cultivate, then. Imagination, faith and
' hope, for It la only through theaa faeul
tlea tha we auatain a relation to that
vast unknown unlverae . beyond the"
reach of our poor percept lone.
It ia by the exercise of these faeultlea
and by that alone that our unlverea ta
extending Itself more and more.
It la due to Imagination, faith and
hope that tha llmltatlona of tha ear to
hear, have been aupplemented by the
telephone; that our Bight haa been
atrengthefted by the teleacope and the
microscope; that , our feeble ability to
THE QUIET HOUR
better" aome- day but meantime. It la
the ataadfaat girl who la going to bring
tha conditions of her own environment
around to her liking in aplte of tha gen
eral atete or things. ,
There ara eolumna of advice - written
for girla and much of It la excellent,
but at the aama time, no ona girl can
take it and apply It all to herself. , You
must pick, and choose that which la
adapted to your particular case, but
thla one characteristic of stesdfaetneae
la neceaaary for every girl who aeplrea
to be an entity to ba aomething mora
than froth on the' wavea of ife.
. Some time ago, A well-meaning writer
for the young made the remarkable
atatement that at 10 character waa
practically formed. That waa a moat
discouraging outlook for the ambltloua
girl of 20 who had only juat gotten her
eyea open to the thlnga aha desired to
be and do, furthermore. -It lan't true.
It may be true that the older you ara
tha more you will have to exert to make
the character you have blocked out for
youraelf, but tha proper amount of ap
plied will power will do , the work, and
her la where the element of eteadfast
neaa cornea In. '
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Kate Maeteraon haa aald aome thlnga
upon thla aubject-lhat are ao good you
really ought to cut them out and keep
them that in, If you are, or If you want
to be tha ataadfaat girl. '
"To bo ataadfaat" aaya Mlaa Maeter
aon, "ta not to be atrenuoue. You may
atop your work to play in pleaaant fields
ror a time and atlil remain true to
whatever la In you.
"Ton may even congratulate youraelf
tnat me old ambition, the . desire for
worthy .conquest haa left-you, and you
may algh with a certain relief that It la
ao, for to be ataadfaat la not ao eaay for
a woman. And auddenly you will find,
with a aerUln delightful dismay, that
while, yomvpurpoaev haa alum bared. -tt
la ,alt tha atronger for tha divergence
that haa -taught you In a ahort while
that to be without a purpose in Ufa la to
be without an anchor. :
The glory of ateadfastneaa of per-
severing against obataclea the aheer
merit of" pluck la that ft must frequently
be-maintained without 'that beautiful
thing, enthualaam. - -
"Steadfastness keepe on without any
a tar In view. ... ... atanda .steady, un
hitched; In the midst of earthquakaa it
keepa on. Even when thlnga aeem hope
less, even futile, we muet stick It out
Either that or go down in tha whirl
pool. .. -. :
"Juat aa aura aa we keep on wo are
bound for tha open aea with a .current
carrying 'ua on to rescue and aafety.
No truth In life atanda out so plainly
aa thla. - Believe me, there la no Joy In
tha giving up. especially when, aa In
most cases, the wearlneaa cornea when
land la Juat In eight -
"Nothing can aver equal tha Joy that
cornea to you through feeling that you
have peraevered, have remained stead
fast, have met wavea and buffeted them,
have been oaat back Ilka a etraw In tha
cataract and yet when1 the storm waa
dona have atill been on your courae
mllea behind, where you were before,
perhapa, but yet on the way.
"Frequently women think they nave
failed. A girl may have worked up in
a shop from eaeh girl to aalea woman.
and if aha looks back, aha can. only trace
progreaa, but inatead of taking thla view
of it ahe ia overcome by the drudgery of
It all, and aa aome "carriage customer"
pasaea by ahe aigha bitterly.
"But to all women fighting thla battle
we can only aay that ateadfaatneaa leads
In tha right direction from a worldly
point of view aa well aa a moral one.
To weep and give up la an eaay way to
drop out of a fight, but it la to be what
n.en call a 'quitter.'
"Keep on. and don't uae up your brain
force repining." '- . .
But thia- exhortation to be steadfast
la not to be ronetrued to mean that be
eauaa a girl malntalna a ateady pur
poee to accomplieh a certain work or to
build Into her character qualltlea that
appeal to her aa altogether desirable,
that aha muat cloae ner heart agalnat
tha call of love, ahould It apeak to her.
If love apeaka and your whole be
ing, apont.-.neoualy and gladly and with
out misgiving responds, by all meana
anawar the call and do not feel that by
ao doing- you have apotled a career, but
rather that new beauty haa entered Into
your life with which to round out and
render symmetrical tha character you
aim to build. :
eliminate dlatance from our calculatlona
haa been mlraculoualy Increased by the
varloua meana of locomotion that have
been' Invented.
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Now atop to think of the thouaanda of
thlnga that have toeen brought out from
the realm of the unknown on the ma
terlal plana within the last century and
you can trace their origin directly to
theae three forcee Imagination, faith
and hope.
It la a mlatake to auppoee that faith
and Ita exercise ara mattera relating
aolely to what la generally termed re
ligion. Faith la the great power that
keepa tha world moving at all faith to
bring Into actuality what tha Imagina
tion eencelvea'to be. poaatble. Thla la
the faith that baa literally moved
xaountalna. - -
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' But wa clip tho wlnga of tha Imagina
tion; we ahackla and fetter our faith
leet we be thought too enthuelaatlo, and
"impractical."
Don't let that bugaboo of a word acare
you. If you are impressed with an
Imagination and It wanta to try Ita
wlnga by filghta In that wonderful realm
of tha yet unknown, let It go; If It
cornea back with marveloua atorlea of a
thouaand thlnga. that ara "pure and love
ly and of good report" you may aafety
believe every word It' tella you. The
Imagination even the moot vivid, la
weak compared with tha health, the
happlneaa, tha poaalbllitlea for growth
and Ideal human living that will ona
day bo actuality on the earth." How do
I knowT I know, becauee faith and
hope will lira human bralna with lofty
enthualaam and nerve human handa to
make good the everything Imagination
can picture, and more too.
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Why ahould wa doubt thla when we
are ualng every day of our Uvea Inven
tlona, Improvemente and conveniences'
that have come Into exlatenca by Juat
thla process? Without faith In hia Idea
and hope that It can be materialised, no
inventor would ba able to do the. work
required to make hia thought vlalble.
Buppoee, however, that while you have
a vary vivid imagination it la couatantly j
' ThU hat ig of the very finest white horse-hair ttrw. The brim is woven' in a pattern like lace.
"At one side is a large pompon of white ostrich feathers shaded to a delicate pink at the tips. The os
preys are also of these colors. Pink is the color of the season and every costume must have a touch of
it somewhere,---1. r ..; . ') " "
brtnglng you dismal plcturea of trouble,
lllneaa-and farture: Iris quite "poMnrta
that If your Imagination la vivid enough
It will oblige you to 'materialise aome
of these plcturea,' ao your only protec
tion from thia kind of Imagination la
to bring your will to bear upon it and
refuse to conalder Ita plcturea of gloom
and dlaaater to make such a demand
for brighter and mora cheerful -work
from this servant of yours that the
character of the lmagea It presents to
you wilt be radically changed. - - -
If you do not want to shut out from
your Ufa a chance to participate in all
the good that la even now awaiting our
recognition in the unknown, don t make
the mlatake of limiting in your thought
the scope and power of thla wonderful
unlverae In which we find ouraeivea to
your own circumscribed ability to per
ceive. - It la Juat. thla tendency that
makea ua narrow and shuts us from
the sunlight of a faithful, hopeful,
healthful Imagination and the wealth
and beauty It can bring to ua.
. a a
It la Juat thla beautiful -cooperation
between Imagination, faith and hope
that ia aurely taking the terror of death
out of the- world. You have only to
look back to the days of our first' land
ing In New England to aeo-how this
fear la diminishing.
FOot Into an old colonial cemetery and
you will see deatha" heads and croaa
bones carved on the tombstones. There
are persona atlll living who will remem
ber how all tha gloom and terror of
death were accentuated by the funeral
rltea; plcturea were turned to the wall;
every face was dark with grief and fore
boding; black, blank waa everywhere -
But faith and hope have ben gradually
tranaformlng alt this. We no longer
feel It neceeaary to hang heavy crepe
on the door. A fluttering whlto ribbon
or a wreath of flowers tells ua that one
aleeps within too soundly to be awak
ened. The caaket. must no longer-b
somber, hopelesa black; It may be royal
purple or lavender or pearl gray or
even white. We are learning more and
more . that death ta not the "king . of
terrora," aa he uaed to be called and
feared; he la rather a kind and aympa
thetie friend who cloeea our eyes with
a cool, gentle hand when we ara wearied
past earthly refreahlng.
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To' Imagination.' to faith 'and hope
ara wa Indebted for thia change. Imagi
nation aeea through the veil; faith and
hope are helping ua to know that there
la nothing to fear In one world more
than another. The universe la our
home; the earth ia but one tiny apart
ment In it- ,
Even dlaaater and calamity are glided
with the rainbow of faith and hope.
Over and over again these dread vlalt
anta have brought In their wake bless
ings that In the pain of the first ahock
and bewilderment could not be - per
ceived, but tha future has revealed.
them. Be patient under them and wait
"Ah! f ' have penetrated to- those
meadowa on tho morning of many a
flrat aprlng day. Jumping from hum
mock to hummock, from willow root to
willow root wharf the wild river valley
and) the woods were bathed In so pure
and bright a light aa would have waked
Ntftt ft IV. - ...
the dead. If they had been slumbering in
their-graves;-as soma suppose. Thara
needs no atronger proof of Immortality J
.11 - l- 1 11 , . W II l'i ' s-tlJ
All ininM oiDirim in eucn m ugni. V
death.- where waa thy sting- O grave.
where waa thy victory, then r
' Imagination, faith, hope. Theae
three. Trust them. Follow tha gleam 1
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One Woman's Influence.
There are very few earneat souls that
do not feet aome time in the courae of
their experience, the Intenae dealre to
"do good," aa wa aay. After aeveral
ef forte In that direction, some of theae
aoula learn that it la meddling, with
the smooth course of things to make
violent efforts to do good. It is possible
to do serious hurt in thla very way,
Better turn thla desire to "do" good
Into earnest effort to "be," and let the
results of being take care of tbemaelves.
The most powerful influence any of us
exert for good is done unconsciously by
virtue or wnat we intrinsically are and
not by any strenuous effort and all thla
is verified by the . Influence of one
woman on the 'life of a man an in
fluence of the unspoken incredulity and
perhapa a little acorn, alao unapoken
and unconacloua, at the discovery that
at io ha could not read nor write.
wnen a man at su cannot read or
write a alngle sentence, and then eight
years later is able to earn his living by
nis pen, ms story is worth tha telling.
This man child, boy and man waa a
product, of the lowest and worst of oaat
aide New York. ; Kicked into the atreet
by a stepfather when he waa years old.
Owen Kildare fought kicked and swore
his way to manhood, his home the Bow
erv hell. He knew nothing better, he
asked nothing better, and ha waa M years
oia. .. . .
."."v.'--o.. e
8 eated one day with" two pala on aome
kegs In front of Mike nulahan'e saloon.
a woman paaaed, and another loafer
bared hia yellow teeth and epoke. When
aha walked straight ahead, he ran up
and grabbed her. It was tha uaual Bow
ery habit Kildare had aeen It happen a
hundred tlmea before; he had done It
hlmaelf. But now a new feeling of anger
agalnat the man came to him. "Some
thing," ' he told hia Interviewer, "some
thing well, whatever It was. It prompted
me to act. I hit tha man. Then the girl
looked at me and I felt so small whv.
no taller than thla. I couldn't say a word,
but t took her hand and led her safely
away."
That was the" beginning. The girl was
n east aide school teacher. After that
Owen KUdare eonatltuted himself her
escort deeptta her protests. At laat aha
grew in (created In this isturdy self-appointed
protector of hers. One day ahe
handed him a card. "There's lots of good
In you." she said, "and In many like
you. Come to that place and aea what
we can do." . -i .
Kildare looked from tha card to the
woman. "Bure," ha aaeented. "but ver'll
have to tell ma Were it Is an Wat It Is."
Then the woman understood that thia
men of 10 could neither read nor write.
and tha look In her eyea of eurprlse and
nan scorn, nair pity, awoke the soul
within him. He went to school to the
little woman'. Partly love, partly ambi
tion made the man undertake the work
of hia own education, bis own salvation.
The terrible earnestness ef the man
frightened the woman a little; then she
grew proud "of him." Afterward tha pride
gave way to love - Owen Kildare had
glimpsed heaven for the first time In SS
years. His growth in the next eight
years Is the miracle of modern literature.
- Up to thla time he had been aa ha de
scribed himself, "a lump of useless
clay!" His parents he had never really
known; he was simply the usual Bowery
waif. His aaeoclatlone had been of the
worst Hs had rubbed shoulders with
tha acum of tho world and had never
known an elevating personality. Ha
waa at an age when the average man
haa slipped Into tha ruts .of tha road of
life.
. But the man was not daunted by ab-
aolutely every obatacle ever act before
one dealroua of obtaining an education.
He had bralna and the spur. . Ha worked
aa probably no brain toller of his caliber
ever worked before. It was not easy. It
waa maddening to discover how little he
knew. But the lines of his mouth only
grew firmer and ha persevered until he
oould talk and write intelligently.
' Thla would have eat Isf led the ordl
nary man, but Owen Kildare had never
stopped short of the top In hie endeav
ors and he kept constantly at hia study.
Ha dropped hia Bowery asaoclatea and
worked aa a haggaga amaaber.
Juat when aucceaa was within his
clutch his saviour the one woman-
died; but even thla though it weakened
hia grasp on the new life for a time It
did not make him relinquish It; ha re
covered.- ------
Owen Kfldare'a struggles since tha
look In one woman's eyes called htm to
lire are over.
His work for one year on a New York
paper netted him 112.000... Happily suc
cess for him means more than money.
He haa abandoned newapaper work to
be the mouthpiece of the people of his
own kind for that sodden east side
from which he sprang.
"That'a what I want to do," ha cried:
"that' a what I'm going to offer tha
world. That's why I gave up news
paper work with Ita Urge returns, - I
may not be able to ahape my atorlea
right, but 1 can tell of thlnga I know,
of Uvea I have lived myaelf."
Doing Is not unessential, but the right
kind of being given, the right kind of
doing follows. "Be," first; then "da"
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Home Training.
Thara were so few In attendance at
the meeting . of the association laat
Thursday, It waa decided to , adjourn
and have the reading of Mrs.' Sopor's
paper on "The Judicious Management of
Emotional Outburata" deferred until
next Thursday, whan the association
will meet aa usual in the committee
room of the city hall at S o'clock. All
are cordially Invited and ohlldren com
ing with their mothers will ba cared for
In tha nursery. f
BustBiiiraf the -Charge.
From the iWaahlngtnn Bur.
"What do you mean by saying that
our company causes grief to- little chil
dren T" aaked the atreet railway official.
"Well." answered tha Irresponsible
logician, "It'a thta way I Your company
bull lea tha conductor, the conductor
bulliee the passenger, the peeeenger
feels Indignant and when be gets home
bullies his wife, and there's nothing left
fo har ta da but to spank the baby.
Buoeeea haa been worshipped ao long
and ao inordinately In thla country that
it haa coma to be a moloch devouring
real content real bapplneaa and real
aoul aubatance.
Do you think it would be poaatble
to aubtract somewhat from tbla word
and add aomewhat to II ao that- Ita
power for good would be undiminished
and Ua power for avtl destroyed T Un
less thla, la done and done apeedily it
will make necessary the doing f other
thlnga not eo pleasant by half, t--
Success ia not recognised aa auch un
less it can ahow aa ita algn manual and
hall 'mark,-money. .The more money the
more aucceaa; therefore- get , all the
money you can. Under thla arrangement
It f ollowa, alnca money la not unlimited,
like air and aunahlna, that tha moat suc
cessful have it In aix and nine and mora
flgurea, while othera muat count theirs
with two. There la aomething wrong
with thia eonceptlon of aucceaa, for
money.- beyond tha point where it eon
trlbutea to tha well being of the pos
sessor, becomes a curae and owna tha
man Instead of being owned , by him.
Mora than thla, tha law; "thou aTnalt
riot ateal," haa a far profounder aignlfl
canoe than la commonly attached to It
A man 'may take a loaf of bread and not
violate tha tntrtnalo commandment even
though he may have broken. a atatute,
but tha man who haa deliberately
poeeeeeed hlmaelf of tha Ufa and bappl
neaa and harmonioua development of
thouaanda of Ma fallow oreaturea haa
broken tha vital, the ethical command
ment and let him aaaure hlmaelf, for it
la true, that ha will bo pursued by the
furiea of outraged Juatlce in thla world
or aome other, until. ba haa paid back
tha tittermoat farthing.
One cannot read auch a"., writer aa
Henry E. Thoreau, who - never wrote
"atorlea" without wlahlng that ha could
be read with the Intereat of tha novelist.
f or ...ha. Jt really more vtvia in mi a
acrlptiona, keener In hia dlacrlmlnationa
and aaner In hia obaervatlona than moat
aavellata.' - '- -
"Waldan" la ona Of hia beat and la
refreahlng becanae much of It la written
by a man who never ahut hia eare to
the voloee of - nature and because the
slrert Buceeea.-aa aha alnga her aong in
thia twentieth century, oould never have
lured him from the real and true eue
eeea living ona'a Ufa according to ona'a
beet light and refining ona'a aoul aub
atance and adding to It
Of the workaday world, Thoreau aaya:
Tap (nan than five vtsn I fnalntsJneil
myaelf thula aolely by the labor of my
handa, and 1 found that by; working
about alx waeka in the year I could
meet all tha expenaea of living. The
whole of my wlntera, aa well aa moat
of my auramera, I had free and clear
for' atudy.- I have thoroughly - tried
school-keeping and found that my ex
penaea were in proportion, or rather out
of proportion, to my Income, for. I wae
obliged to dreaa and train, not to aay
think and believe accordingly, and I
lost my tims Into the bargain. - Aa 1
did hot teach for th.good of my f.ll.w-f
men but for a livelihood, thla waa a
failure.
"I have tried trade, but I found that
It would take- 10 yeara to get under
way In that and then I would probably
ba on my way to the oevii. i waa ao
tually afraid that I might ba doing by
that time what t a called a good bus!
noes. j
No twentieth century Ideal of success
finds utterance here. "J have atnoa
'learned," he aaya, "that trade cureej
everything it handleei and though you
trade In messages from haaven, tha
whole curse of trade attaches to the
business."
But fabpr had not t the dread fur
Thoreau that trade had. "The laborer's
day ends with tha going down of tha
aun. and ha la then free to- devote hlm
aelf to hia choaen purault Independent
of - hia - labor;- .but hia - am ploy sr. who
spsculates from month to month, has
no respite from one end of tho year to
the other. In ahort I am convinced.
both by faith and experience, that to
maintain one's self on this earth is not
a hardship but a paatlme. If we live
almply and wiaely. It la not neceeaary
that a man should earn hia living by
tha sweat of hia brow unless ha sweats
easlsr than I do."
o'.j. a
All tha world knowa tha story of
Thoreau and Lake Walden and his two
years' sojourn by it In a houaa of hia
own building, but If you want to get
even a faint Idea of all thoae two yeara
ware to hlra. you muat read hia book
about It and evsn then ba aura It Is
not all thara. . - .
When any soul stands so near to
nature that a thousand wondera art
ahown him that tha careleaa never
dream of. there ia alwaya In that soul
a goldsn precipitate of beauty that he
cannot Impart to another, even If he
try. It ia his, his only, the unspeakably
aweet reward for having loved much;
but allowing for that there ia enough
In thla book to make ma strongly rec
ommend. that aa a sort of antidote for
tha tendency of the tlmea Juat to help
you keepi your equilibrium you get it
and make a friend of It.
But Thoreau did not love nature sim
ply aa the unlettered savage lovee it.
Hs wss a student of languages, of books.
an assoclats of the great men of tha day,
It - was an enlightened and articulate
love, not tha dumb emotion of an an!
mat merely. In Walden there ara pen-
paintings of wood and bill and rare and
stream and flood that actually aeem to
feed a hunger for visible nature.
"I went to tha woods." be aaya, "be
cause I wished to live deliberately, to
front only the essential facts of life and
if I could not learn what It had to
teach, and not when I came to die. dis
cover J toad not liked. I did not wish to
live what waa not life living ia ao dear:
nor did I wish to practice realgnatlon un-
teaa It was quite necessary. I wanted to
live deep and suck out all tha marrow
of Ufa, to live so sturdllj and Spartan-
ilka ee to put to rout all that was not
Ufa, to cut a broad swath and shave
close, to drive life Into a corner and re
duce it to Ita lowest terms, and If It
proved to be mean, why, then, to get
the wnoie ana genuine meanness of It
and publish Ita meanness to tho world:
or. ir It were sublime, to know It by
experience and ba able to give a true
account of It In my next excursion."
This, on reading, ought to -be hung
over the door of aver library: "To read
wau that la, to read true booka In a
truo spirit Is a- noble exercise, and one
that win taak tha reader more than any
exercise which the-customs of the day
esteem. - Books must ba read aa deliber
ately and reservedly aa they were writ
ten. The orator ylelde to the inspiration
of the transient occaalon and apeaka to
the mob before him. to those who can
hear him: but the writer, whose more
equable Ufa te his occaalon, apeaks to
the Intellect and heart of '-munkliKt to
all In any age who understand him."
The spring chapter Is rich with neture
stories and deecrlptlona:. "One a s-
n In coming to the woods to 1 i
t I ahould have I r r- r
7 t i .a t!ta t-
In the pond at length begins to ba honey
combed and I ean gat my bael la it a
I walk. Foga and ralna and warmei
auna are gradually melting tha snow, lh
days have grown sensibly longer. I an
on the alert for the flret eigne ef aprlng
to hear tha chance note of soma arriv-i
lng bird, or the striped aqulrrel'a chirp
for. his stores muat ov be nearly ex-
hauated. or to aee the woodchuck ven-l
ture out of his winter quarters.
At length the sun's raya have attained
the-right angle and warm wlnda blow
up mist and rain and melt the snow-l
banks, and the sun dispersing the mist
smiles on a checkeerd landscape of rtia-l
set and white smoking with Incense.)
through which the traveler picks hia way
from Islet to lalet cheered by the muslo
of a thouaand tinkling rilla and rlvu-l
lets whose veins ara filed with tha blood
of winter which they are bearing off."
Hustling la good, but if you huatle all
the-time it'a tea to one your huatllng
will . not set you , tha . beat . of returns.
Keep very atlil once -in a while, aa
Thoreau did: "I did not read books tha
flrat aummer;' I hoed beans. Nay. I
often, did better than thla. There were
times when I could not afford to sacrl-i
flee tha bloom of. tha present moment
to any work, whether fit the head ' or
hand. I love a broad margin to life.'
Sometimes In a aummer morning, hav-l
ing my accustomed bath. I aat in- my'
aunny doorway from aunrlae till noon.'
rapt In a revery, amidst the plnea and
hlckoriea and sumachs. In undtaturbed
aolltude and stillness, while the birds
aang around or flitted noiseless throughl
the heuae, until I waa reminded of the
lapae of time. I grew, in theae aeaaona.l
like com 1n the night, and they ware
far better than any work would have
been. - They were not' time aubtracted
from " my" Ufa, but ao" much over and
above my usual allowance." -
memarkabU SsglaeeTtaa Feat ' "T
-..An achievement emulating la a email
way tha performancea of American engi
neers, who ara aald to carry churches
across tha street haa Just been com
pleted. at Aaton. For soma time. past
tha I e N. W. R. Co. haa been con
atruotlng a ateel bridge to go across
Lichfield road. . The. bridge, weigha too
tons -and measures nearly (0 feat In
length. ' By means Of . two 10-ton hy
draullo rama attached to a -coupla of
alx-wheeled trolllea the whole atructure
waa moved over the SO feet which Inter
vened between the spot on which It had
been built and Ita final reatlng place.
the operation occupying only II mlnutea.
Once in Its place tha bridge waa fixed
to the bed platea by hydraullo preeeure.
Treating Wrong; Disease
Mnv times weaken sail on their family'
physicians, suffering, aa they Imagine,
ona from dyspepsia, another from heart
disease, another from liver or kidney
disease, another from nervous exhaustion
or prostration, another with pain here and
1 hrnTiv kT aii present
M'? "AXl"'"?in
araUanddiiUnetdlaeaaea,lor whraa ha,
assuming them to be such, prescribes his
piua ana pouona. in reality, may are all
only symptoms caused by soma uterine
disease. The physician, ignorant of the
cause of suffering, encourages this prac
tice until large bills are made. The suf
fering patient gats no batter, but probably
worse, by reason of the delay, wrong
hmuiiiiiii iiu cunaequeni complications. I
A proper medicine like Dr. Pierce's Fa-1
vorlte Prescription, directed to A cause
wouia nave entirely removed the disease),
thereby dispelling all those dlstressing
symptoms, and Instituting comfort In
stead of prolonged misery. It has been
well said, that'a disease knowa is half
cured,
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription Is a
scientific medicine, carefully devised by
ma expenencea ana SKiuiui physician.
and aifantarf tl nmin'i .ll.L. -.
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As a powerful invigorating- tenia "Fa
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the whole system and ta tha oreana dla.
tinctly feminine In particular. For over
worked, worn-out" "run-down," debllf-I
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seamstresses, "shop girls," house-keepers,
nursing mothers, and feeble woman ven
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functional and organic dlseaae of the
aterus.. It Induces refreshing sleep and
relieves mental anxiety and despondency.
Dr. Pierce's Pleaaant Pellets InvlgorsU
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