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VOLUME 4, NUMBER 35
Tho Posslmlat
Long- hours of toil, a little sleep, -Somo
joys With sorrows blended.
A sigh, a tear, then shadows creep
And life at last Is onded.
TWO VIEWS OF LIFE.
Tho Optimist
A rosy youth with love aglow,
Great joysthe heart glows lighter.
Great deeds to do, good seed to sow
The circling sky grows" brighter.
False friends to faco, grim foes to
fight, '
Grim troubles without number.
Cold dawn, gray noon thon cometh
night
With its eternal slumber.
A battle grim is man's short lifo-r-yast
cares and little pleasure.
Long hours with heavy problems rife,
Dark trials without measure.
Tlio joys of youth are but a span
A quickly bursting bubble.
Then cometh years of work for man;
Long years thick fraught with trou
ble: '
Tho cradle bed, the yawning, grave
Betwixt the hard years sever.
A hopeless light however brave,
And then to sleep forever.
True friends to help the, burdpjis bear;
Grim foes to conquer daUy. ,
Tho light of love to banish, care..
And make the days pass 'gaily.-
A battle hard to nerve tho arm
To strike for those wo cherish.
Tho will to do, loye's golden fctiarin-r-And
sorrows quickly perish.
The jQys of duty .nobly done
Makes life a span of pleasure.
An earnest work from sun. -to sun
Then lovo that passeth measure.
The cradle bed, where mother sings;
Youth's joys and manhood's story.
Sw"eet smiles at home that' always
bring - . .
The fullest share of glory. .
SOME VAGRANT THOUGHTS ON -A VARIETY OF THINGS.
This, is a funny old world, after all. This experience may not. be of su
Most of us can not help fretting some- pretne interest to the general reader
times .that it is not just; as we would
have it, and tho rest of ,ho time wo
are glad that It is not the way we
thought we .would havo' It. There are
times when we are positive that we
could improvo on tho make-up of 'tho
universe if we but had a chance, and
at other times wo can not be. thankful
enough that wo were not given the
chance.
There's tho old story, for instance
about the man who lay down in the
shade of a giant oak set in tho middle
of a great field of pujmpkins. As he
gazed first at the tiny acorns on the
great tree, then at the great pump-,
kins on the tiny vines, he mused;
"What a mistake on tho part of the
Creator to put such tiny acorns on
Buch strong and sturdy limbs,, and
such huge pumpkins on such weak and
yielding vines. I should have reversed
the order had I been making tho
world. I should have put the big
pumpkins on the strong limbs so well
able to bear them, and tho tiny acorns
on tho "
Just then an acorn dronned and
smote him on tho chin. Leaping" to
his feet tho man exclaimed:
"Great Scott! What if that had
been a pumpkin'."
but it serves the purpose "of showing:
that the way things are is usually the
best way for things to be. And the
right thing, to do is the thing to do
right. A power infinitely higher than
mortal man planned this univorse and
made tho laws that keep it running,
and the sooner we get the notion out
of our heads that we could better it,
tho better off we will be. But getting
tho notion out of our heads is the
hardest thing imaginable. All of us
are so egotistical that we' just know
we could make things better if given
the chance. The majority of us are
just like the Irishman who couldn't
understand" why the' sun didn't shine
at night when it was needed for Hirhr.
instead of in the daytime when it was
already light enough.
Tho moulder of this department has
a great pity for the man who does
not love to get next to nature; who
does not love to tramp through the
woods and over the stubble; who does
not enjoy 'lying behind a blind and
watching for tho ducks and craso nn
they fly over; who does not love-the
whirr of tho reel and feel a thrUl of
etLuuy m mo nerce strike of tho
gamey blass bass or varl-colored trout.
jlii man wno does
a man becomes a brother without the
necessity of a formal introduction.
But tho little, dyspeptic, dried-up
man who looks with contempt on rod
and reel,! and who never set gun over
shoulder and tramped tho stubble or
waded the swamps if you wanted
good companionship, would you go to
such a man? If you were compellea
to have business dealings with him
wouldn't you feel it imperative to keep
your eyes. peeled and look out lest you
get badly' worsted in 'the deal? You
never feel that way with the true
sportsman.
Honestly now. you lover' of rod and
gun, of fresh air and open sky, which
would you rather bo: Poor in purse
and rich in memories of tho glories of
nature as you found them in woods
and lakes and stubble, or rich in this
world's goods and poor in memories
of the glories enumerated? You,
brother, whose heart is filled with love
for all mankind because you have
lived close to nature; and listoned to
her sweetest songs beneath the open
sky; would you trade places with Un
cle Russell S'age, who boasts that he
never took a vacation and, who has
nothing in this world but money?
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Taking a vacation does not mean do
ing nothing. It means a change of
work. The most discontented man in
the world is the man who has nothing
to do but eat and sleep. Tho nnhap
piest man in the world is the man
who has . nothing- but money. The
contented and happy man is the man
who has his work in this world to do
and does it with' all his might, doing
the best he can and getting." the most
out of lifek
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the members of their families.
A the close of tne war tne agri
cultural department of the govern
ment sent experts to Cuba and
Sumatra to study the process. Within
tho last five years tms process lias
been acquired by the American ex
perts and through the medium of tho
government experiment stations in
different parts of the country it has
been demonstrated tiiat tobacco of as
line duality and flavor as the Cuban
and Sumatra tobacco can be grown
profitably In the United States.
And getting the most put o life does
not mean piling up dollars.: Dollars
are something -that you can not take
With you' when you' cross over , to the
Other Side. But you can take with
you memories' of the help' you gave to
others, of tho good you performed in
this world, of ;the duties that were
earnestly done.
Mere platitudes, you say. Perhaps,
But it is well to get back to first
principles once in a while;
The moulder of this department
didn't mean to end up this way when
he 'began. He had an eibquent finish
all planned out, but somehow or other
he missed fire. It may be due to the
fact that this is written the first day
he went back to work after trying to
enjoy a week of doing nothing. A
week of that sort usually puts. a. fellow
into that "out-of-sorts" condition.
not lnvo TincQ
jj or monuis me mouiaer or. this de- i-uings is to do pitied. Indeed the
partment has been figuring on a moulder of this department is satls
week's vacation. Ho merely wanted to flea in his own mind that such a man
loaf a few days, and had no particular
placo to visit, and nothing in particu
lar that he wanted to- do he just
wanted to lazy around and see how It
folt to be idle day after day. Ho knows
now. By lively hustling he managed
to secure tho week, and he put it in
doing nothing but laying around the
'house, reading light literature, walk
ing down town and back, and "just
putterin' around," as somo folks call
it. He put in a wholo weolc just as
ho had been longing to put in a week
for months and months. It was about
the hardest .week the moulder has tut
In during the past twenty-five years
that being about the scan of his ac
tive' battle with lifo. when the. week
is tn Vrn mfofunt, ..i.i.jI
s v..j, vuu;ueu. xou nov
er.can get real close to such a man.
But there is the ni mrrf.-....
r 25? J?0 doe3 nofc snoot r hunt
for gain the man who loves sport be
cause it brings him In ninQ f.HXL7
nature and all of nature's glorious
works. You know him tho n,.n,f",:..
see him. Instinctively your heart
goes out to him. ami vL lBa
baccy,, borrow matches, an3 tell the
! ZZ 6t Camp and iraraP a"d be
sure of an appreciative listener The
real sportsman is always a man whni!
veins run rich, red blood. He cares
the triensrirA nf v.otn ..i. . ,.
---- -WS, UVjaiiiZ Bill! 1 T TIA .-.
vr? ,:' iii m.. 1.- :.:r nir flinr wB ,.:.D r v.x ." "pen
enaea ae wua ou uieu uwi, u yvui- - "" "4s iui witu rich, ozone
ebmed the return of regular work be- and getting a color in his stein that
pause it offered an opportupLity: fop rivals the brown of the autumn lb av es
' rest a- - . v fl you a e right sort ydurseltuch
Tho Woman.
For four and twenty years she toiled,
At 5 each morning rose, ,
And slaved away the livelong day
For just her board and clothes.
At last she did. make up her mind -
Suck ways she did not like,
And then and there she did declare
Herself out on a strike.
And hubby, when he missed his meals
Did. stamp about in rage; '
But In the end he did unbend
And pay his wifo good wage.
Fermentation of Tobacco
To ' demonstrate how American
grown tobacco is formentedr the seed
lings 01 wnicn were Drbugnt from
Cuba and Sumatra, a department has
been installed in tho tobacco exhibit
In the north section of the Palace of
Agriculture.
"When the tobacco cron ia hnrmef
m ! he se.asou tne government
will send experts to the world's fair
.to demonstrate how this scientific fer
mentation has been secured. Previous
to the Spanish-American war the
curing of Cuban and Sumatra tobacbo
was a process known 'only' to the to
bacco planters of these. Stories and
' " , New Theory
. .Through a lecture delivered here by
Br! 'Salisbury, of the University of
Chicago, it has developed that scien
tists, throughout the world are giving
earnestl consideration to a new theory
ofi'the origin of the earth, and that
so far not a flaw has1 been found in
it.. The- new .hypothesis disproves the
nebular, theory.
The hypothesis 'by 'Fror. Chamber
lain, of Chicago University, is termed
the planetesimal, and combines ele
ments of both the nebular and meteor
etic hypothesis, assuming a parent
nebula for the system, but not one
of hot gas. It assumes, further, small
solid bodies, cold, not hot, and pos
sibly the presence of gases, all revolv
ing -around the central mass, the sun,
and gradually evolving, the present
sola? system. The new theory has not
yet been finally perfected, Milwaukee
Telegram to the New York Tribune.
Bliss' Barrel Goes Empty
Republican campaign managers aro
much, disturbed by the result of Cornelius-
N. Bliss' call on Wall street
for campaign funds.
Over a week ago Mr. Bliss began to
sprinkle Wall street with little notes
saying he would call on the day men
tioned and hoped that the recipient
of- the note would se his way clear
to help out the cause of prosperity
and good government as in former
camaplgns. These notes were sent to
men whose names were on a selected
list- , nd
Mr. Bliss has been following ws
notes around and the result was not
what had been expectea.
In some cases men who contributed
generously before flatiy declined to do
so now. Others Informed the Repub
lican representatives that the situa
tion was nothing like it was in
n'r.A innn ! tViof flitoro WAS nOW DO
'call for a big barrel. New York
Tqlegram to the Philadelphia Telegram.
EPILEPSY CAN BE CURED
NotwiehBtandlng epilepsy is consldereu mj
pxoAt phyalclana aa lncurabfq.- Dr. Miles ,
ptoratiVe Nervine haa cutcd'lirtndredB of aimo
iiopoless cases. Ltf Us dold you testimonial
!frdm those who have been fcured, and tliej 1
bll'yoa all Jibout it. : ''' ' . TBIi
DR. MILES MEDICAL" 'CO, Klkbart, 0'
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