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mob ran ALBANY DAILY DEMOCRAT. MONDAY. MARCH U. HIT FIND YOUR COURSE. Tread Mw "toad Lading the aai Life WeJI Lived." There to only out beet conduct of Ufa for 70a. and thai U tbe one that Is baat lor you. Tboa who wander aimlessly In queat of toe elugle right formula tar existence tr. 1 In man through which Ihej must Ibmd their way endlessly In search or I up .-cuter which dora uot extol. There b) no one reeli which will eerve tor (II mankind. Each moat lean not Ma neighbor's but hla own beat way or living. To ooe It ma be the routine taak. the dally round, to curb the wandering will and bring coo lest To another II may be the forti tude to escape tbe sheltering rare of habit or the laaatlude of alotli. To one It should be toe abandonment of phi losophy or totrospri-tloo to nib elbowa with hla fellow men; to another, the willingness to lei the aoul awaken and breathe amid the iky rimmed prarla and under the deathleaa aura: to one. heart hat ooe and allppera; to another, the aeven seas, the aurora boreal la and the Southern Crane: to one. society: to another, aolitode: to one. the quiet which atilla the pa Batons; to an ther. the eternal reatleaaneaa which brlaga achievement The beat rounded life eontatna some thing of each and all. Tbeie are but two altitudes to avoid the level Una of least resistance and the rigidity of aelf distrust which deolea every lm pulse simply because It Is Impolaa. Somewhere between the two Ilea your course. Many are the thickets to ha hewed down, many the crags to be scaled But beyond stands the inn in the Clearing, where faithful travelers may find the refreshment, the rest and the kindly words of welcome which form the goal and reward of Ufa well lived. -Collier a Weekly. UNIQUE AMONG ANIMALS. Have a Curious Habit ef Washing Their Feed. Kew American wild animate are mare widely known or excite more populat Interest than the raccoon, which occu pies moat of the wooded nana of North America from the southern border of Canada to Panama, with the exception of the higher mountain ranges. Ita diet as extraordinarily varied and Includes fresh water clams, craw-flab, frogs, turtles bulla and their eggs poultry, note, fruits and green corn, nf hen near water raccoons have a curl one and unique habit of washing their food before eating It Their fondneaa for green corn lea da them Into frequent danger, for when bottom land corn tempta them away from their usual haunts raccoon bunting with doga at night becomes an especially favored port. Raccoons are extraordinarily intelligent animals and make in te rent ing and s musing pets. They began to figure In our frontier literature at an early date. t'oon akin cape, with the ringed taila hang ing like plumes, made the favorite headgear of many pioneer hunters, and coonaklna were recognized articles of barter at country stores. Now that the Increasing occupation of the coon try la crowding out more and more of oar wild life It is s pleasure to note the persistence with which these char acteristic and interesting animals con tinue to bold their own In so much of their original range. National Geo graphic Magazine. Learn to Be Thrifty. Thriftiesaneaa seldom If ever la aba to seize and detain opportunity or to drive advaotageoua bargains. What men call luck generally la a combination of foresight, industry, pluck and thrift in the lucky man. To nave is to have, to own la to pos sess power. Property apeaka loudly and largely swaya the commonwealth. The thrifty contribute moat to the wel fare of tbe state. The purchaser on credit pays not only for tbe property, but for the time It takes to complete the purchase. It seldom b tbe thrifty way to finance deals. Tbe extra expenditure la equiv alent to tbe lane of so much Interest 00 one's principal. A Bird Joker. A moat surprising Australian bird la the kookooborra. or laughing Jackaaa. Ail al once In tbe quiet bush come loud paala of uproarious, mocking laugnter. One la uot Inclined to Join In tbe mer rimentIt all see ma aa foolish and weird as if an idiot boy were disturb ing a congregation In church. When the source of tbe laughter la located It turns out to be a silly looking bird, with rlumsi'. square body and open mouth, Bitting unconcernedly on stomp - National Geographic Getting Bald, "air. Borrell proposed to me "And yoa accepted him, I hope." "No. mother. I could never love a nan with red hair." "But, my dear girl, you should con alder tbe fact that be baa very little of If-Cbicago Herald. His Color. Utile Ben itu gentleman caller) Ton aren't black, are you? Mr. Moo-Bey-Black. hl Id? Why. no! I should hope not! What made you think I waa? Utile lien-Oh. nothing! Only pa Bald you were awfully niggardly. London Telegraph. CONFIDENCE WILL WIN. On the Other Hand, Men Whs Think They Will Fail Uaually Da. The man or boy who begins aa un dertaking by any lag. "I know I shall tall." generally does fall, while the 00a who say a. "I know I ahall succeed." generally does succeed. A very anc ceaaful buaiuea man once said. "I al ways bad perfect confidence In myself and always made aura that I should succeed before 1 began anything." which was not Baying that ha paid no attention 10 the possibility of failure. This waa considered and disposed of before the venture waa made. I remember that a woman once canes Into a business office In which I waa employed. She had with her a tall, strong looking boy of about fourteen. who had coma to apply for Inn position of office hoy. The manager of the onVe. keen, live business man. explained the du ties of the situation to the boy and asked: "Do yon think yoa could do the workr "11 don't know," wan the hesitating reply. "I'm afraid that maybe I couldn't" . "You might try. James," said hi mother, who seemed aaxtoaa that he should secure the place. "Yes." he replied la a hesitating tone. "I a'poee I might bat I'm afraid I can't do all tboae things." "Then It Is not of tbe least us for yoa to try," replied tbe bnalneaa man ager, a little sharply. And tbe boy went away with bin mother chiding nun for hla lack of salt confidence. Ten minutes later another boy of about fourteen cam In by himself, walked up to the counter, took off his cap and asked to see tbe manager. He. too. was an applicant for the place. The bnalneaa manager carefully ex plained tbe duties of the situation, and the boy listened eery attentively, walla seeming to weigh, the matter wall In hla mind. When asked If be thought ha could do the work ha promptly replied: "Ob. yoa; 1 know I can." "And yoa don't feel afraid that yoa won't succeed 7" "Not a bit afraid. 1 can do tt" "I think yoa can. too," replied the manager, approvingly. "I think you'll succeed." And be did. He Is In the same efflos still, bat la no longer an office boy. Ha la tbe head bookkeeper, with a large salary and a fair prospect of becoming a partner In the boose some day. i'btladelphla Inquirer Hard Lin, la fiaa Dotal trouble? What Is itr "Oh. I promised to pay Rrown 110 today, and I've got It. and be knows I've got II. end be knows I know Be tanwa I've got 11 ' - Puck. friend may I affronted la tan and kM In ent er earnest K 1 know of an elderly man wbe fan ty years ago stopped smoking, lief ore that be consumed about a dollara worth of cigars every day. Boasting to a friend bow be had aaved money by not smoking the friend made a. quick calculation. Yea," said tba tatter, "you moat now be at least 110.000 better off." Tbe ex-smoker reflected a moment and then sadly observed: "Well, no, 1 haven't a cant of It While I Imagined I waa saving la my smoke bill 1 must have spent that much more somewhere else." Mora I. -Closing the spigot tight wont keep tbe barrel full If yoa open wide the bung. -G Irani In Philadelphia IsnV gnr. Cultivate Enthusiasm. Enthusiasm Is tbe dynamics of your personality, without It whatever abil ities you possess 11 dormant You may have knowledge, sound Judgment good reasoning faculties, but no on will know It until yoa discover bow to put your heart into thought and action A wonderful thing la thla quality which we call enthusiasm. If yoa wou'd like to be a power among men cultivate enthusiasm. People will like yon better for It: yoa will eacape the dull routine of a mechanical existence. and you will make headway wheiever yon are. J. Ogden Armour to Leslie's Evils ef Peer Cm king. Poor cooking often makes food either difficult or Impossible to di gest. Tba hard earned money of the household goea to tbe purchase of good food, which la often ruined by the housewife Ignorant In tbe art of cook ing. Good rooking la not n matter of whim or flattering tbe ialate. It Is aa absolute essential to health. Therefore the sit should be taught to our schools. says a food expert Hard to Kill. Snalia are alow, even when It comes to dying, and one naturalist who bad mounted a shell upon a card was but prised to find four years later that the warm water employed in soaking the ahell off tbe mount bad revived tba to mate, which be had long supposed to be dried and dead. Don't Ba a Quitter. It la nothing for a man to bold np hla head in a calm, bat to maintain hla post when all others have quitted their ground and there to stand upright where other men are beaten down thla la divine and praiseworthy. -Seneca. gterm Warning. Stude facet loualyi-Tbla steak M Ilk a day In June. Mrs. Boredom very rare. Landlady (croslllyi-And your board bill Is like March weather-always unsettled - Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. Wall, Why Metf Why wouldn't It be a good plan ts make a woman tbe speaker of the bouse of representatives 8b Is Id ev sry other bouse -Milwaukee Sentinel e Once more Albany's two leading style stores M. Sternberg & Co. and The Toggery ring up the curtain for the presentation of the season's newest fashions A comprehensive exhibition of Women's and Misses' Suits. Coats, Dresses, Millinery and Accessories NEW YORK CREATIONS WILL BE DISPLAYED ON FIVE PERFECT UVING MODELS DIRECT FROM NEW YORK Next Friday and Saturday evenings at the Globe Theatre, under the direction of Miss Blanche Cochran, a New York model and style critic A SPRING FASHION SHOW from each of practical, medium-priced apparel selected : our stocks Complete change of garments evening. Those for Friday evening will be selected entirely from The Toggery, while the Saturday night display will be from the M. Sternberg & Co. stock. COME ! SEE THIS WONDERFUL DIS PLAY OF SPRING FASHIONS at the GLOBE THEATRE Friday and SaturdayThis Week M. Sternberg & Co. The Toggery L . n txira FORESTS OF AUSTRALIA. He who brings ridicule to bear against truth Snds to hla hand a hand without n bUt. They Are Unlike These to Ba Sean In Any Other Country. One readily understands why tba Australian loves hla trees. Tbe (rare of giant eucalyptua form pictures nev er forgotten, and tbe scent of tba wat tle brings a homesick feeling Ilka the smell of saga to tbe weatorner. Tba Bora la not only beautiful. It la unique, and has no counterpart In oth er lands. Of the 10,000 specie of pUnta most of tbern ere purely Austra lian and are unknown even In New Zealand The general Impression on fete of Australian forests Is their total aniikeneaa to anything seen elsewhere. The great forests of timber tree, an not damp and shaded and all of one species, but are well lighted and filled with other forests of shorter trees. In pieces tbe woods consist of Isrge wide ly spaced trees surrounded only by bunch grass, and evn to areas where water I not to be found on the sur fara for hundreds of square miles true foreatB of low trees are present Porma which may ba recognised as tulip. Illy, honeysuckle and fan take on a surprising sspect. They are not garden flowers, but tree, and the land scape of which they form a part re tods one of the hypothetical repre sentations In books of. science ot a land-Ma pe of mewxolc times a jiertod antedating now by millions of jours. Tbe trees are Indeed tboee of a by gone age. In America mid Eurotie sbsdowy forma of fossil leaves of strange plants are gathered from tbe rock and studied with lnterc.it ; In A us trulls many of these ancient treea are living. The impression Unit one la looking at a landscape Winch has for ever disappeared from oilier parts of the world Is so vivid thst the elms and maples and nek In of the city streets strike a Jarring not The trau. sit Ion from Jurassic to modem I lines Is painfully abrupt Mtinaal Orographic Wagaxine. Baal Nice. Bobble That Mrs. Amlih said some thing nice nlidtol yon Mrs Brown (purrlngi-Wlial wna It. Hobble? It.. I, ble Mia said you didn't show your age. London Tolcgrapb Mb Gets In Early. Do yoa sit np for your nasbandf "No; 1 am an early riser and am al ways up In time to greet Mrs. "-Detroit free Press The Servant Question. "Keg pardon-, mn'mji." Bail lb-' hol ler, "till your aon has Just oloed with the cook." "Tee. I put him up to It." replied Mrs Uppson. "Hhe's the Ix-ai rook we ever bad, and I don't want 10 lose her." -Indianapolis Ktnr An Expensive Luxury. "Tea." said the literary man. with a sigh, "style is a tine thing for a writer to have, hut Whetl his wife's got It lou It takes all the profit away." liar ; ir'a WHEN a is wr ring Classified ads, please mention the Democrat. BAGDAD TAKEN FROM TURKS IN SWIFT ADVANCE Ancient and Historic Capittl of Mesopotamia Fails Before the Pursuing British. Amstrrdam, Mar. II Bagdad has (alien to the british. From the historic, battle scarred citadel of the ancient Mesnpotamian metropolis flutters tonight the Union Jack, and for beyond the city's out skirts British cavalry is hard' on the heels ot the Turks fleeing northwest along Both banks of the Tigris. N'rws of Bagdad's capture by fien rral Maude's army rcarhed London lute Ibis afternoon. It was promptly flashed N broaden it and came to all Knropc as one of the greatest sur prises of tbe war. Quick Capture Surprise. That Ihr city would fall sooner or latrr w.i generally rxrrpted, but that t lie capture would come so soon sur prised even the most sanguine Brit ish military experts. The Turks had been expected to make a stulriiorn stand on the river Diala, six miles away. Only a few days ago Major General Frederick B. Maurice, chief dictator of military operations at the British war office hail predicted a hard battle. The idea was svneral that for two years the Turks had been busy constructing powerful defenses to ward off the final British onslaught. Entente Capitals Jubilant. All Knglnnd was jubillant tonight, m 1 ording to l.omlon dispatches, and nirvicrs from the other entente cap itals show that the spirit of triumph is fully shared there. The capture of Bagdad, it is felt, foes a long way tow. .1 1 1 -tahlishing the badly iniparnl British prrstage In thr near and far east. It wipes out the humiliating Mot of Kul-cl-Atiiara mill obliterates much o Ihr blackness the Dardanelles disaster left behind. To the Turks the revrrse is one of the worst they have suffered in the war. Severe Blow to Tarka It is rxprcted to deal a telling blow lo Ihr morale of the Ottoman army and to the sultan's prestage among Hie Mnliatnmrdan world. Bagdad has been in Turkish posses sion since 16.18, wki n Sultan Mitrad IV wrrslrr it from Ihe Fill liana. Two centuries ago a desperate fun futile effort to retake it was made Ivy Shah Vadir. Bagdad represents, thrrrfore, a precious page in Ottoman history. The Mohammedans have given It the name Dar ej Salatn, which rnenas City of Salvation or Cacred City.