John Hopkin’s D.D.. on “Petering" Some things begin .small and get bigger. Others begin big and get smaller, in the fust class arc babies,! kittens, diseases, buildings, sins, po tatoes, and family squabbles, also several other things These all be gin small and get bigger. In the si e oud class are anticipations, plum pud ding. enthusiasms, resolutions, honey moons, boastings, and flannel under < lotiles. Those begin Itig and get smaller. Them is also a class of tilings of which you really cannot tell what they are going to do grow or shrivel swell or shrink, increase or diminish, lit this class come men, stocks,bonds, nations, social schemes, agitations, revolutions. They may begin smalt and get bigger, or begin big and get smaller Horne stair with a whisper j and end with a roar of artiilerv. Oth ers start with a blare as of fifteen; German bands and end like the song of a sickly mosquito. Home start like; a race horse and end up like a tired mule. Now tin latter class is peculiarly American. We like to start big in ! America, When wo set out for Kloti-j dike we like to announce it in the; papers in big headlines, and have aj brass band escort us to the station, j When wo start a club we like to be-1 gin with a $50,000 building, with i double-hack action pully weights and enameled bath-tubs If we don’t start it big we are sure i! will not be a success. Hut w- have also a strong tendency lo peter. In fact, Peter ought to have been special apostle to the, Americans, for 1 am sure lie would have under stood us. He proclaimed his courage and enthusiasm with the intrepidity of a Napoleon, and in a day or two was chased from the field by a ser vant girl. Ho petered so everlasting ly that that particular kind of per formance has come to be known by his name wherever it occurs. And it is of quite frequent occurrence. Most men peter more or less. When they start on a race they feel a strong tempatiou to spurt on- the first lap, Then when the excitment really begins they have to lie down and gasp. When a man starts in public speaking he usually wants to toll all he knows in his first speech, and quite often he succeeds. Then when the crowd hear his nest, effusion they all agree that he lias petered. We lay plans for tile biggest, cathe dral on earth, and after a few months’ building w< roof over the foundation and hold a prayer-meet ing for the help of heaven to get us out of debt. We start for the moon, hut. when we get up about one-hun dred feet vre sit, down on a chimney top and think. We soar up toward the sun and get no farther than up a tree. We start to turn the world up side. down, and end iiy thinking our selves lucky if we get our dinner cooked the way we want it. We lift up our two hundred pound burden; like a feather, but we set it down on tiie first milestone. We start with three cheers and end witli an apology We do our best work before noon. In short., w< peter. Now, this is the discouraging tiling about life. And our only hope in! life is based upon those tilings that do not peter, if babies began big and kept, growing smaller it would certainly make a hopeless job of it for us all. If our knowledge was large to start with, and grew less and less every day we went to school, we could scarcely blame our teach ers for being discouraged. If our love for our friends petered out more every time we saw them, our social intercourse certainly would not be a joy forever. Peter was not a success until ue j stopped petering. Nor will you and i succeed until we do likewise. The man who trios to distance competi tors in the first ten minutes, and leave his exhausted body in the road for them to carry the rest of the journey, is in no sense a success, in taking up a burden it is a mistake to take up one so heavy that after the first day you have to drop it upon another’s shoulder. When a man joins the church he is not a success if he is so good the first month that he has to be a little worsi> on each succeeding month. And when a young man falls in love he makes a mistake to fall in love so desperately that there is nothing left for him to do but to peter all the rest of his life, when in its trials and irritations his love has need to be at its strongest. Never peter. Grow, increase in everything you undertake. It does not matter how small you start, but it. does matter bow small you grow. Hather than lift a three hundred pound weight the first day, and then have to come down to two hundred and fifty the next, and two hundred the next, it is better to begin by lift ing one potato the first day, and two the next, and three the next, and so on. By the end of ten years you would be able to lift 3650 potatoes, potatoes, which might be more than one thousand pounds. In everything that, you do bt gin as small as you please, but see that today’s record is better—a tiny bit latter, anyway than yesterday',; lie a little strong er, ft tittle more courageous, a little more faithful, a tittle nearer God, this week than you were last. If you find you are beginning to peter .ton would better either pray to heav on for a change of heart, or else get your friend to shoot you before you spoil your record The world lias no use for peterers, it wants Peters. It is God’s way to begin small lie once started t.o save the world Wo might tune supposed that In reveal ing the terror of his majesty and the beauty of his love he would rend the heavens, and so astonish the I world that they would only he be ginning to forget about it now after nineteen hundred years. But ho did not. He started with a baby in it cow stable. He could scarcely have made a smaller beginning. Look back. 1.00k into the dark cave. A flickering torch casts huge shadows of long-horned oxen on the rough hewn witlls There is no sound but the low crunching of the cattle as they munch their hay. There in the midst of them is the young mother, forgetting for the moment her dis couragement and discomfort and sick ness. For there in her arms lies the Babe, her baby boy, arid about his face still plays the light of heav en, from which he came, unit the un clouded purity of it skies still lin ger in his eyes () 1 i t.fli • I la be <. t tin slab!**, who! would dream th;u t'hou ait a King?! Who would imagine that from that throne of thy gwei t mother's arms thy power would teach down along the ages, overturning kingdoms, es tablishing empires, changing the world, and that even today so many proud nations should Own thee as tin ir supreme Lord and King—that thou, O gracious Babe, shouldst he enthroned in so many faithful hearts, who would gladly lay down tin ir life and all they hold most dear for thy name’s sake. Truly well did In speak, that prophet of old, when lie said: "llnto us a child is horn, unto us a son is given; and the govern ment shall lie upon his shoulder; and Lis name shall he called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God. Kva Hasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the in crease (if his government and of peace there shall he no end." In all that he does God begins very small. God’s way is always the best. Nothing in which God has a hand peters out. Let us, as God's true sons, build according to his plans, that of the structure that our hands rear it may also he said, the last is best. Salesmen Wanted. The sales of our products for which tl)en> is general demand, among mer chants, farmers, schools, etc., now greatly increased by state laws re cently passed, necessitates opening a distributing office in this territoy. We desire resident sales manager, well ac quainted, of good character, who can superintend sales, deliveries, ad vertising, collections, etc., with $600 to $1,000 to carry enough stock to fill orders, salary $l,J00 to $1,800 an nually, extra commission, office and other expenses; no canvassing; posi tion permanent. Address Advertising Manager, “Liberty Mfg Association, St. Joseph. Mo. 6-Jt Dissolution Notice. 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The orchestra was excellent, the pianist ! especially, but first one waiter and then another, to their surprise, would , quit wailing and sing. One sang so well that he was en : cored again and again. That is, qunr ; tors were thrown at him from all sides of the room. Half dollars sometimes. | They fell in the sawdust about tiis feet, lie kept light on singing, mov ing toward tlie raining quarters, how ever, and pushing them nearer to him, so that he presently stood in an inter esting little circle of quarters and half dollars, the pianist playing his very host at Ids accompaniment, ringing in extra touches, playing beautifully, in deed. “How accommodating the accom panist is," commented a visitor. “Wait, and you'll see why,” said a New Yorker who was with them. Just then, the rain of money ceasing, the waiter quit singing, stooped, gath ered up the money, divided it in half, and gave half to the pivuist before he resumed his work of waiting on the guests. "That's tlie first waiter I ever saw give away,his tips," file visitor said.— New York Post. WONDERS OF THE ANTARCTIC Member of Expedition Impressed with the Fascination of That Remarkable Land. Dr. I .ion villi', who is with the Char cot expedition, in a letter to Paris, says: The Antarctic region is quite up to its reputation I understand how one can he la m inated with these weird landscapes, where everything that nature shows is strange and un accustomed. "The animals are prodigiously cu rious, and the formation of the moun tains and glaciers very unexpected, it is unfortunate that \vi cannot spend ten days at this place, ‘Deception,’ so inaptly named. Tin* penguins are most interested in my work When I turn over pieces of rock on the shores they come up to watch what I am doing, draw closer and closer, elbow each other to see better, peek the places where i am digging and end up by hustling me. i had to speak very plain ly to one this morning, and he walked gway limping." Poets of National Greatness. Victor Hugo once said in his lord ly, generalizing way, that it was Shakespeare who prevented Kngland from being only another Carthage; and it is indeed true that but for our great -poets we .mould not hold the place we hold in the opinion of Ku rope. Because of them we do not wince when we are described as a na tion of shopkeepers, for they prove that we. like the Florentines and Vene tians, are something more than that. M. Bourget lias expressed tho general wonder of cultivated foreigners that the Knglish nation, which seems so matter of fact, and even dull, should have produced two poets compared with whose works all other poetry seems to be prose; and these poets are the very two who are to he honored to day ill Uouy it is certainly a fact that more than any other nation we produce men of genius who vary ex tremely from our uormal type, and we never have produced more wonderful poets than Shelley and Keats.—Lou don Times. Stockholm "the Paris of the North.” Mr. Edward I). Winslow, who was re cently appoined American consul gen eral in Stockholm, lias arrived in Ber lin from America and will proceed in a few days to assume his post. lie speaks of the rapidly growing impor tance of the city of Stockholm as a center for tourists, and specially for Americans, ’who are more and more numerous every year. The influx is expected to be greater than ever this summer, in view of the exposition which is to lie held in Stockholm. "Some Americans already know the at tractions of Stockholm," said Mr. Winslow, ''hut more of them should know, for Stockholm is really the Parisof thenorth ’’—From a Berlin Let ter to tlie New York Herald's Paris Edition. Different It was tin- bachelor girl who stood at the door when the woman opened it “1 thought," she said, "that yon didn’t allow your neighbors to put their milk bottles in the hall. The last time I was here you were raising Cain about it. And here I hud to' walk through a forest of them to get to your door. What change has come i over the spirit of your dream?” The woman took her by the hand and drew her into tlie flat. "Talk a little lower, please,” sin implored. “Those milk bottles don't belong to my neighbors. They be long to me Very Conscientious Man. John William Ling, a butcher's manager, cut tiis throat at his house in Plumstead Common-road, London, recently, and at the inquest a strange reason was suggested. Ling, it was staled, was a very conscientious man,” and the fact that lie was going to open a business close to his em ployer’s shop pn yed upon his mind. He did not. like the idea of opening in opposition to bis master, who ho had served for nine years, as he had said, it would take away many of bis customers, and that would bo a mean trick. The Great “Men’s Movement’’ Iii 1S06 three boys attending Will lams' college, Wlllinmstown, Muss, look u stroll across the country They were caught in a tlnjndorslorni ami look refuge in a haystack. While tho storm was passing the hoys planned a missionary campaign thal has affected the activities of the entire protestant world. This little meeting will go down in history an the "hay stack meeting." In 1880, now twenty-four years ago, the Student. Volunteer movement was organized by a band of college students intending Moody's confer enee at Northfiold. It chose for Its rallying cry, “The Gvnngoliziitlon of the World la This Generation." I In tier the inspiration of this movement thousands of young men and wonie i in our colleges have laid themselves it living sacrifice on the altars of missions. If was in the year liHKi, at the Nashville, Tennessee Student Voliin leer convention that the seed thought that gave rise to the Laymen’s Move merit was planted. A young business man from Washington, I). (’., was in the convention. The cutliusiasm,zeal and consecration of the thousands of ardent college students gathered im pressed him profoundly. < >ii Ills return home lie conceived the plan of the business men of the country with their gnat wealth fur nishing tin1 necessary means for equipping and maintaining all the Student Volunteers on the mission field. For him to think was to act. t)u November 15 of the same year a l kindred minds met in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York and from that meeting the )(•> sent movement dates its begin uing. The Men’s Movement is wind its name implies. It is strictly a move men* only. Its purpose is pre-emi nently to inspire missionary zeal and enthusiasm. It investigates mission ary conditions, it agitates for an adequate missionary policy, and in spires and encourages laymen to do their reasonable share in prosecuting the missionary a divides of the dif ferent churches and boards. It has already proven itself to be oT tremendous advantage to every phase of Christian Missions. It is spreading with wonderful rapidity taking tlie people of the United States Canada, Great Britain, Germany and Australia as by storm. It is proving a mightv factor malting for a closer unity aiming proleniaut churches. I aat fall a series of conventions was tilaiiii.il covering practically the enlir. I niteil States by holding ses Ions at strategic centers. Richard son county belongs to I lie South l’lntie division, with its convention center ai Lincoln The meeting will open March lath in the auditorium and continue until the tTtii Pol. Sizer, Prof Me Bryan, h»d I*'1' Noi l hup of Lincoln came down to Kails City between trains Kriday ev ening to inaugurate the movement in Richardson county and rally del ('gates for tile convention. A com mittee was seleeted of one represen tative layman front each church, with (! I Crook as chairman and Samuel Lielity us secretary. At a subsei|uent meeting il was determined to send a committee consisting of one pastor and two laymen to visit each of the surrounding (owns In the county for the purpose of rallying the local forms in the Interest of this great convention. Assignments were as follows Humboldt Rev. It (' Hailey. Haw son Rev. Urooks. Salem Rev I’. 10. Hay. Stella— Uev H. II. Releltel. Ruin— Rov. Nellie. Shubert Rev. Nannluga I’reritnn W. II Wvler. Richardson county is in tIt race to win mid will seid at least a coach load of delegates In the Lincoln convention livery tamest Christian lias a stake'hi ibis grout movement and should loyally support the gen eral plana as they are being worked out ami plan'd before the people. Disposition Reflected in Voice. Ho cheerful, keep your disposition serene and genial. II you are a croak er you will have a croaking voice. 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