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.
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desire resident sales manager, well ac
quainted, of good character, who
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the firm of Wirth & Winterbottom :
to L. P. Wirth, and the business will
hereafter he conducted by Mr. Wirth.
All accounts payable to L. P. Wirth,
and all liabilities will be paid by L.
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WAITER WHO GAv t AWAY TiFS
Divided Money Received with Pianist
Who Had Played Accompaniment
to His Singing,
—-—
Some out ol town visitors were tnk
ing in an Wight h avenue cafe. 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. If
you are sunny your talk will he sunny
and It will How out like liquid amber
In h stream that will refresh your lis
teners.
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Letter From our Regular Corre ;po« •
ent at Kansas City.
Kansan City Stork Yard I<v|, j.
Hilo Conditions contiiiei favormbl
i lo ■■•Hers in the cuttle iiale today.
| following an advance of 10 to 2S
I eats last week, in^ to ail
! grades. Prices have mule about tin*
I much gain eacli of the pu t three
weeks, and now stand 50 to 75 cent*
[above their position when the meat
ugitnlion was at Its height The sug
ply l eie today Is 10,000 head, ami
pi ices are strong on steers and
i mintiy grades, cow stuff strong to
10 higher. There is a gord demand
from eastern killers for live animal*
and local packers are finding *
ready outlet for beef slaughtered her
whirl makes an Ideal mark'd from
the sellers standpoint. No extra
prime steers are here today. tie
lop cuttle here selling at $0 85 lo $7
and hulk of steers $5.85 to $0.75. To#
cows bring up to $5.75.
The hog market made good advam; •
last week in tIn* fare of a run lira*
lor than for several weeks, and th
close .Saturday was only a Imdo h-*
low the best figures reached during
the week. Supply today is 9,®0«
head market 10 higher, with pries*
all along the line at the highest point
reached on this bulge, and highest
ever known here, top $8.2f>. hulk $8.95
to $9,20, light hogs $8 X0 to $9.0
Mess pork Hold up to $44 In IX(54, ana
the price is now $24, while highest
price paid for lard in the hist fif• *
years was $20 per cwt . in 18(!5; th'"
price now Is $12.80. All provision ■>
futnii s ire now at the high' - I prie
of the season.
J. A. UICK.VRT,
Live Stuck Correspondent
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