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OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
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DO MORE THAN YOU ARE PAID FOR.
NUMBER of girls In u trulnlng school in
Bostou liuve adopted as their motto the
sentiment expressed In the above lines.
"If you never do more than yon are paid
for, you will uever get paid for more than
you do," Is the way they put it. These
girls have, early In their career, discovered
tho secret of business success. It Is a principle that
hau worked itself out in life a thousand times, and al
ways to the advantage and success of the follower of
It It has been the foundation stone of many a notable
cureer. Men right here In Pittsburg have accepted it
as their motto and have risen to eminence through it.
The streets are crowded with men and women who
have failed In life because they wore looking for the
soft snap aud the easy Job. Pull may get a man a po
sition, only bard work and merit lead to his advance
ment. Do more than you are paid for! It Is a motto that
might well be expanded into a philosophy for life. It
stands for fidelity, for honesty and for etllclency. It
stands for courage, purpose and zeal. It recognizes
the value of sincerity und abhors sham. It Is the true
pathway of worth and merit leudlng upward to the
serene heights of fame and business prosperity. Those
who do more than they are pold for, will soon have
stumped upon theui the seal of approval by their em
ployer. When hard times come, as come they some
times do, the man who gives more than value re
ceived will be kept on the pay roll, while the man wiio
scamps his work und shirks bis duty will be released.
Look out for the young man who says: "I wasn't paid
to do this, therefore, I won't do It." Very presently he
will not be paid for what he does wunt to do. Shirkers
und Jerkers are not wanted In any department of life
and labor. The worker Is always sure of a steady and
well-paying position. He exemplilies in Ills life the
doctrl ue of the survival of the fittest. Tho man who
gives less than h receives will be left behind in the
rnco of life.
Men who expect much and give little are doomed to
dlsrMolntment. They may accumulate money, but their
lives 'are destitute of the achievements which, mean
success. The only path to an honest success Is found
in giving more than value received. The servant, In
order to retain the respect and consideration of his em
ployer, must not alone be worthy of his hire, he must
be more than worthy. Worth Is the stepping stone to
better things. Pittsburg Press.
WHAT WE EAT DOES DAMAGE.
HEY suv that neonle cut too much nml Hint
I I many common ills spring from overfeed
I I lug. Professor Chittenden, of the Sheffield
experiments to determine the hygienic
modicum of food suitable for a healthy
human being. Taking as subjects three
classes of , men, a number of Yale professors, a num
ber of students aud a squad of soldiers from the reg
ular army, he put them on a diminishing diet. Ills
experiments lasted from six mouths to a year. He
compelled them to take physical exercises regularly.
At the conclusion of the experiments the weight of the
subjects was In some cases exactly what it had been
before, and In some cases slightly lower, but all the
subjects, he reports, gained in strength and bodily vigor
during the experiment. The dally consumption of food
toward the end of the period was only from one-half to
one-third as much as that of the average healthy man,
nlthough Professor Chittenden endeavored to satisfy
the uppetlte of each subject. And Professor Chitten
den's judgment Is (hut tho average man eats from two
to three times as much as lie needs or ought.
With all respect to Professor Chittenden, however, n
good many people will still Insist that tho uverage mau
does not eat too much. The great majority of people
are compelled to live frugally and they cannot afford to
eat a great deal more than they need. They consider
themselves fortunate to bo able to satisfy their appe
tite, and few of them are Inclined to cram food down
their throats whou appetite proclaims Itself satisfied.
Appetite Is nature's measure of what Is a sufllciency
of food and there are very few of uh who would not
go about hungrylf we lessened our dally consumption
of food by one-half or two-thirds.
Alimentary troubles come, It Is reasonably safe to
say, from the quality rather than the quantity of food
tiiken. Poor cooking and adulterated food doubtless
damage the health of many people. It Is said that hy
gienic cooking Is little known In this country, and ther
Is very little foodstuff that Is not "doctored" In one
wny or another. San Francisco Bulletin.
SPELLING.
HKRK is much omnnliilnt (hat tho rlulnr
& I generation can't spell. True, there was
I I complaint that some of tho forefather of
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iiiu inuauiiL uciiui aiiwu uium mil ispuu.
George Washington, Andrew Jackson and
other men eminent In our history con
ducted u spell-as-you-pleasu. Ancient
men of letters were poor spellers, In many Instances.
Still, the average has gone down-hill, it appears. Per
haps the memory of the tingling cheeks, nud the ready
birch in the teacher's hand, which accompanied a "spell
down," makes us children of an older growth think
that we loirncd to spell better than do these young
sters, nowadays. Usually, with the old methods, It did
not pay to miss the same word twice.
"Why Is It," the question used to go, "that nil tho
bad spellers become sign painters)" Is It because of
the strict union rules, nowadays, that the bad spellers
have deserted sign palnilng and overflowed Into nlj the
other occupations) Have modern methods of teaching
overlooked the desirability of teaching the hoys- and
girls spelling and tho three It's, in order to cram their
little heads with ornamental accomplishments?
There has been n widespread belief thut the restor
ation of the old fashioned spelling bees, "spell up and
spell down," would be a good thing. The Brooklyn
Eagle thinks so, to such an extent that It has offered
prizes on condition that the public school principals will
let their pupll3 take part In a series of spelling match
es. The principals do not take kindly to the notion.
Tho Engle saysj
'The nub of the matter Is Just this, the public
school children cannot spell. The principals of the high
schools know that they cannot spell, as does everybody
else who has occasion to receive letters from them. If
a series of competitions were held this most trouble
some fuct of the school situation to those on the In
side might be revealed to the gerat body of parents
und taxpayers. Then there might arise such a hue and
cry for common sense and the fundamentals of educa
tion as would annoy the authorities who now make out
our scientific ami philosophical course of study, which
slights spelling for general Information about every
body from Confucius and Buddha down to Admiral
Togo, If the school should once begin to moke time
enough for fundamentals, of which spelling is easily
first, there Is no telling how many fads and frills would
have to be cut out to Und tho time for essentials."
Albany Argus.
THE UNLUCKY CZAR.
liOiiK I.lnt of MImIiiui Which liuve
Attomletl IHn Cnrccr.
It has been suggested that Nicholas
II., Czar of all the Russians, is the
unluckiest of living men. One would
have no dltliculty In showing at least
that the Czar has had more mischance
than any other monarch on a throne.
Ills first mishap was that which pro
phetically came to him in Japan, lie
wus touring Europe and Asia in 1S!)1
with Prince George of Greece. At
Ussurl, Japan, although he had bad
splendid' entertainment from the Mi
kado, there was a feeling antagonistic
to Russia, and a Japanese drew a
sword to kill him, when Prince George
thrust It aside.
Afterward a Japanese maiden, in
atonement, went to a lompkv placed a
sword hilt down on the ground and fell
upon it. You might call the event good
or bad luck, ilnce the then Czarewltch
was preserved.
But what he was preserved for was
to turn later the first sod of the Si
berian Railway at the eastern end; and
for the dignity which he In no meas
ure desired, but shrank from of the
crown which came to him soon after by
reason of the death of his father, Alex
ander III., at Llvndhi.
This attack occurred in May a
month eventful to Nicholas II. It was
in May that he was born, thirty-seven
year u?, and In May he was crowned,
eieTen years ago.
He did not want at lid to rule the des
tiny of ItfO.OOO people. He had always
detested ofllclal life and the homage of
courtiers. But tho duties und respon
sibilities of autocracy fell upon him.
He began badly. On the occasion of
Ids coronation thousands of his poorer
subjects were crushed to death on
Khudynskol Plain. On that plain
came what many regarded ns the fatal
evidence of the HI luck which pursues
a'l makes his life woeful. Just before
bis accession he had become betrothed
to the Princess Alix of Hesse. This,
too, was outside his reckoning. Gossip
had It that lie didn't want to marry a
German princess, and that the Princess
Holene d'Orlonns, daughter of the
Cotnte do Paris, was very much ad
mired by him.
However much a liberal at heart, the
best accounts agree that the Czar took
up his Inhorlted.authority first with
distaste, and then with firm purpose of
continuing bis fallier's policies. He
kept his father's counselors, and lo-
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dared he would uphold tho principle of
autocracy.
Ills ill luck Interfered hero, too. Po
bledonotsert was obliged to retire.
Muravlefl' was taken from him by sud
den death. M. do Plehve, his baleful
minister of the Interior, a Muscovite
grand vizier, was destroyed by a bomb.
His best beloved uncle, the Grand Duke
Serglus, was blown to pieces by a
bomb. His governor of finance was
struck down.
Death has threatened his own person
many times. In Italy, in IDO.'i, a mau
named Goertz was apprehended In time
to spoil a plot of ussassinatlon. An
anarchist obtained admission to a state
reception at the palace at Tsarskoe-.
Selo in the uniform of u superior olilcer
of tho gendarmerie aud was discovered
with bombs in his pockets, Just In time.
A girl student, Mile. Merezhevsky, was
frustrated in an attempt to kill him at
the spring review in 1904.
When, last January, with ids court
the Czar was ending the ceremony of
blessing tho water of the river Neva,
a shrapnel from a buttery which was
firing a salute exploded near the royal"
pavilion, killing one man and wound
ing others.
Ho completed the Tmns-SIborlan
Railway, as his father desired, In order
to consolidate Russian power In Asia
and extend Russian trade, industry and
commerce. But this railway was one
of the causes that la-ought about the
unlucky war with Japan.
Kxpliilneil,
"Sny, paw."
"Well, sou)"
"What Is frenzied finance?"
"Frenzied finance, my son, is the
way your mother goes after my pay
envelope every Saturday night. Now
run and pluy." Milwaukee Sentinel.
Gruiul I.iiroeny".
He Suppose I steal a kiss?
She Oh, that would he oidy petty
larceny.
He And suppose I steal a hundred?
She Oh, that would be grand, of
course. Judge.
It may be called rudeness to enu-,
merato after dining at a friend's
house what you had to eat, but somo
times the friend gets up such nn
elaborate meal that It Is Ingratitude
not to.
Everyone thinks that everyone
twenty years older than he Js uhoulU
bo reconciled to dhx
Tho manuscript of Swinburne's
'First Book of Ballads" has been sold
for $1,000.
A blessed companion Is a book a
book that fitly chosen Is u lifelong
friend. Douglas Jerrold.
Mr. Bishop's experience In yellow
Journalism Is no doubt what enabled
him to make such a striking success
in yellow cunallsm.
Clarence S. Harrow, the Chicago
author of "An Eye for nn Eye," has
practiced law for a dozen years, but
says that he has uever taken a case
against labor.
In his essay on "Heroes In Humble
Life" In tho volume, "The Compan
ionship of Books," published by tho
Putnams, Dr. Frederick Rowland
Marvin voices Andrew Carnegie's
views which led to the hitter's "Fund
for tho Reward of Heroism."
Edward Atkinson, who died sud
denly recently while on his way to
his otllce, In Boston, was well known
as a statistician and economist, and
was the author of "Facts and Figures,
the Basis of Economic Science," pub
lished by Houghton, Mlllln & Co.
It Is asserted by tho newspapers
that women are writing tho best fic
tion of to-luy. The head of a largo
publishing house goes further and de
clares that "nine-tenths of the good
fiction of to-day Is written by wo
men." The substantial profits many
women receive toll loudly and convinc
ingly that In this channel their work
Is rated besides that of "mere man."
A book the admirers of Thackeray
will rejoice to possess has been
published. It Is "Mrs. Brookfleld and
Her Circle," and Is compiled by her
son and daughter-in-law from family
manuscripts never before used. It was
to Mrs. Brooklleld that Thackeray ad
dressed a series of letters, delightful
In their charm and humor. Mrs.
Brooklleld was the original of Lady
Castlewood In "Henry Esmond," and
her husband was tho Rev. Frank
' Whltestock of his touching little
sketch, "The Curate's Walk." Charles
Brooklleld, sou of this couple, Is a
well-known actor aud an excellent
story teller. One of his stories re
ferred to his father, of whom, though
very fond, he stood rather In awe aud
did not come to know Intimately until
about three years before ills death.
V)ne evening, when the lad was about
IT), he was hiding In a lumber room,
surreptitiously smoking, when Brook
lleld, Sr., suddenly discovered him. "I
am astounded," gravely exclaimed the
father, "that you, whom I always re
garded as a straightforward and
right-minded lad, should hide your
self in this manner to indulge in the
clandestine use of Unit, abominable
weed, tobacco. But since you have
contracted this odious, paltry, coward
ly, indecorous, unsanitary, pestilential
habit, and I suppose It's too lato to
try and break yourself of it, why not
come and-smoke socially with me In
my study?" Every after that son and
father smoked comfortably together
every day and grew Into an affection
ate intimacy.
SOME CLERICAL BLUNDERS.
lliimoroiiM .MlNtnk'fM .Mmlo liy I'nx
tom lu (he Pulpit.
Each profession has Its stock jokes,
Its stories Innumerable, and to each
belongs a flavor all Its own. That the
point of a jest lies not. In the tongue
of him who makes It, but lu t lie ear
that hears, Is the testimony of the
great dramatist. The doctor on his
rounds and the Judge upon the bench
have both an audience ready and will
ing to accept ns the highest wit the
boninots of tho speakers; and there
Is no club or gathering of men that
docs not acclaim one of its members
as supreme lu this respect nnd Is not
ready to yield due recognition of tho
gift, says Chambers' Journal. There
Is, however, a vast amount of uncon
scious humor always Uoating about,
and to those who perceive it the world
Is ever very amusing. It must bo ad
mitted that the blunders aud Jests
clerical stand for some reason pro
eminent both In number nud In mirth
producing qualities. The reason, of
course, Is not far to seek: tho very
surroundings In which they occur, the
very upsetting of one's preconceived
notions of reverence, all tend to cause
a reaction In the ordinary mental
equilibrium, aud the simplest mistake
or accident under such circumstances
assumes tho proportions of a huge
comedy.
The divine who In drawing tho at
tention of his congregation to a spe
cial communion service on tho follow
ing Sunday Informed them that "tho
Lord Is with us In the forenoon una
tho bishop In tho evening" Is chron
icled with praying for the children
of Ida parish, In those words: "Ana1
now, O Lord, bless tho lambs of tills
fold and make them meet for tho
kingdom of heaven." Whlio n Scotch
minister Innocently, perhaps, hit tho
mark by telling his peoples "Wool,
friends, the kirk Is urgently lu need of
siller; aud as we have failed to get
money honestly, wo will have to boo
what a bazaar can do for us."
There Is a certain amount of excuse
to bo-made Tor the young curate who,
remarking that some people camo to
church for no better reason than to
show olT their best clothes, finished
up as lie glanced over his audlencel
"1 am thankful to see, dear friends,
that none of you have come here foi
that reason."
An Irish clergyman Is credited with
having concluded a powerful oration
In this fashion: "My brethren, let nol
th'ls world rob you of a peace which II
can neither give nor take away.'1
Which la coupled with the remark of o
fellow country colleague who lu roa
Boning with a woman who had lost
her faith In Christianity told her
"Well, you will go to hell, you knowj
and I shall be very sorry, Indeed, to
see you there!"
But what can be said of tho negro
student who, conducting tho prayon
at one of tho great missionary colleges,
said: "Give us all pure hearts, give us
all clean hearts, give us all sweol
hearts," to which the entire congregtu
tlon made response, "Amen."
The giving out of church notices
has often proved a pitfall for tho un
wary. "During Lent," said a rectoi
lately, "several preachers will preach
on Wednesday evenings; but I need
not give their names, as they will btf
all found hanging up In the porch."
It was a rector who gave out a
hymn beginning "Awake, my soul
stretch every nerve," before his sor
mon, and a curate who read In thd
lesson for the day, "He spake thd
words, and en (hoppers camu ami
grasalplllars Innumerable;" but It was
at a young woman's Bible class that)
when asked what hymn should N
sung at tho close, they all with on
accord chose "Where Is my wandorlnj
boy to-night?"
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A ROTARY FIDDLE BOW.
nM-N Awny with Olil-Tlmo Hernpltia
ami In IIIk" Improvement.
A wonderful ndvunco has Just lately
been made In violin- playing by turf
Invention of the so-called "rotary d
die bow," which Invention Is the prod
net of the brain of TronJhem Qualm
qulst, of Lesueur, says the St. Paul
Pioneer Press.
It Isn't u bow at all, but a wheel
about eight Inches in diameter, con
structed of rawhide aud made of ro-;
volve by pedal and flexible shaft In!
the same manner that a dentist runs
his drills and other tooth-boring con
trivances. Every one realizes that tho great
drawback to violin music Is the con
stant seesaw back and forth which
the player is compelled to Indulge In
in order to produce the music. Ho
"fiddles" slowly when ho wants a
slow tune and saws with lightning
like rapidity when the exigencies of,
the music make hlin hurry, and thlrf
waving to and fro of his elbow some
times detracts in a slight degree from
the proper solemnity of the occasion.
But with tills new contrivance no
sec-sawing Is necessary. The violin
Is held In tho usual position aud th
wheel held lu the other hand, when'
brought Into contact with tho violin
strings, produces the musical vibra
tions by whirling its prlnietet across
(he chords. The wheel is so geared
that It can be made to run ten times
as fast as the man can draw a bow
and ho regulated with a small brake,
worked with the fingers, that tho
speed can bo Instantly changed -from
fast to slow or tho other way, as de
sired. It can bo made to touch ono
string only, or more than one, ex
actly as a bow Is used, and by hold
ing It erect or tipping It to ono sldo
the full breadth of the edge of tho
wheel Is brought In contact with tho
strings or only the sharp edgo of tho
perimeter. With a bow the same tono
can be prolonged for only the length
of time that the musician Is drawing'
his hand one full length, but no such
restriction Is necessary when tho
wheel Is used und the musician may,
dwell on one note us long as ho de
sires and shade off Into other notes
without tho stop or jerk necessary
when he uses a bow.
The improvement is marvelous and
Is sure to como Into general use. lb
Is not patented, and will not be, forj
Mr. Qualmqulst says that he would,
as sron think of making people pay
for the air they breathe as to restrict
them In any way regarding musical
enjoyment.
Content.
"Is your son doing well at college?'"
"Yes," answered Farmer Corntossel.'
"He had his picture took after tho foot
ball game, and It showed ho had bis
regular share of urms, an' legs. I should
sny ho was doln' right well." Wash
ington Star.
If you must huvu a confidant, audi
have no mother, hunt up some ono
who Is "deaf and dumb.
