THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1013.
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Here and Now
By ELLA WIIUELER AVILCOX.
Copyright. 1913, by Amerlcan-Journal-Exatnlner.
Hero in tho heart of this world,
Hero in the noluo and din,
Hero where our spirits wore hurled
To battle with sorrow and sin; ,
This ts the place and the spot
For knowledge ot infinite things,
This is tho kingdom whero Thought
Can conquer the prowess of Kings.
Walt for no heavenly life,
Seek for no temple alone; .
Here in the midst of the strife
Know what tho Sages hare known.
Stand not aloof or apart;
Plungo in the thick of tho fight;
Thero is tho street and tho mart
That is tho place to do right.
Not in 8omo cloister or cave,
Not in some kingdom above -
Hero on this sldo of the grave.
Hero we Bhould labor and love.
So many gods, so meny creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
Whllo juBt the art of being kind,
'Tls all the sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler
Wilcox on
Getting Ahead The First Step
is to Do Your Work Well
Don't Despise Any Occupation
Character the Foundation of
All Success
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Copyright, 1918, by American-Journal-Examiner.
The very tint step toward Betting on
)n life Is to do the work before you to
lay In the beat "manner and with as much
Jperfectton as It possible for you.
It may be work you feel Is beneath
ou; work which
a uncongenial and
lUtaateful; but the
pnly way to reach
better employment
Is to do the thing
ou know must be
lone,- and rise ,by
he accomplished
sk to something i
yond It
You who are em-
? toyed In any kind
C work no doubt
tonstOer your life
tull of hardships.
You wish you
(were In a position
to hire help, and
).hen you feel you
jcvould be happy.
But stop and examine yourself, and
think whether you are doing very much
o make your employer happy.
Arar you studying your especial order
tot work und mastering It In such a way
ns tc be a real assistant?
If you are an office boy. you should
Jn a week's time, at the longest, learn
What your duties are. and ypu should be
ible tq do them regularly and promptly
,wltholit bothering your employer by
tauestlons which have been answered ,be
"xre. ' I know a business man who went to his
Office: With his mind burdened with Im
portant matters which needed his con
centrated attention for several hours.
Hls"offlce boy had been given a mes
sage to deliver, and came back from the
levator to ask again about the address,
bs he feared he had mistaken the num
Ser. A clerk had been given a parcel to
post In a box, but he had mislaid It, and
came to the employer to ask If he had
Seen It. , ,
"When 'found, tho object was discovered
to have, a slight blemish. It was the busi
ness of the clerk to remove the blemish,
r to-.find a duplicate object, but he
interrupted his employer to ask what
Should be done about it
Then the office boy came back to say
that the man he was sent to see had
moved, and to ask how he should go to
Jl new address, by elevated or trolley.
Neither the office boy nor the clerk
realized, the absolute criminality of his
conduct for It Is a crime to steal and
take what Is not ours; and another
Jnon'S -time and brain energy are not
ours when we are paid to help him
keep '. them for his own uses. It Is
doubtful II the boy or the clerk will ever
be in a; position to understand the mat'
ter, since by their failure to use their
own wits and do their own work they
VIM not be able to reach any responsible
Position In the world.
j Now, whatever you 'are doing, do' with
your mind and force and energy,
Do n6t despise your occupation and
wish you had a higher callinr. and rush
through what you are doing In a slipshod
panner, nor shirt it upon other shoulders,
i jwu ciorx, or a nouseraaid,, or a
secretary, or a cook, or a stenographer,
nr a governess, or a man or woman of
all work, find out in the beginning what
arour duties are to be. and get at them
land get thr ugh with them without
nhtring anybody.
Consider your duties the Important
jones .pt the world until you have them
nocotnpllshrd.
No matter If yon are a bootblack or a
floor scrubber, go about Xha shoes and tho
Tloor ts dead tameaL.
Do .not ask anybody to find jour shoe
brash or jwr floor mop for you find it
tor jeersett. Do your own work, do It
wn and 4t Too. iiaro .ambitions tor higher
mplyinot, expect It It win never
. r
come to you If you half do what. you are
now attempting.
Try to be broad-minded enough to
realize that those who employ you need
your efficient aid, and that unless you
can take all mental, anxiety about your
work frorri them you are only half earn
ing your salary or wages, .and are guilty
of a species of dishonesty when you take
your pay In full. ,
If you are paid for carrying mortar up
a .ladder and your employer has to go
along behind you each trip to see that
you .carry It; "Jro "shouYd share; your
wages with- him. - '
It Is exactly so In every other depart
ment. If you make your employer do
half your thinking for you, you only earn
half your money.
Your life may seem a hard onei and hls
easy; yet you will never make your lot
better by shifting the duties he pays you
to do upon his 'shoulders.
Even If you We working for an un-
appreciative employer, you are not losing
anything by doing all your duty mentally i
and physically; you are building your own
character, and that will lead to better
positions for you by and by.
Think about whatever you aro doing.
and If you are merely sent upon an- er
rand, let nothing prevent your accom
plishing it short of an earthquake-or a
tidal-wave.
And every morning of your life say. a
little prayer gratitude to the Invlslbjo
powers for Bivlng you something to do.
No matter how distasteful the' . work,,
how inferior to the employment ,of your
Imagination, be thankful for It; and know'
by this sense of gratitude that you aro
preparing your mental ground for better
things.
Horticulturists and tillers of the ground
fish In the salt water for seaweed and
cast It on the earth to fertilise It
Cast your net Into the ocean of infinity,
and bring up the seaweed of thanks for
what you have; and from the soli of your
soul will gtow rich new harvests.
Advice to the Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
ire Will Not ImprOTc.
Dear Miss Fairfax: Among my numer
ous male acquaintances I have one whom
i tmnk I could learn to love, and who
I know loves me. He has often spoken
of marriage to me, but I hesitate on
account of his peculiar actions. He very
often says and does things which hurt
my feelings, after which he immediately
turns around and apologises and claims
he does so because l do not show that I
love him. Can a fault of this nature be
remedied after marrlageT DOUBTFUL.
The reforms that women have accom
plished after marriage are so rare that
it Is past belief that any girl has faith
In her ability to reform any man. If this
man has no regard for your feelings now,
he will have less after marriage. You are
seeing the best of htm now.
Probably Neither,
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a youncr
woman of If and am deeply in love with
a young man with whom I have been
keeping steady company for the last nine
months. Having asked me not to go with
any other man I have been true to him.
While at a social the othar AVenlnr his
attentions withdrew from me toward an
other young woman of whom I think a
great aeai. uo you think this was done
to hurt my feelings or to test my love
for hlmT He escorted me home and
treated me as usual.
BROKEN HEARTED.
It is more probable that the other girl
interested htm for a moment and he
forgot you. You are only It, too young to
give a promise of any kind to a man
Please do not take this affair so seriously
and please see less of him.
Forget Him.
Dear Miss Fairfax; I am a girl Qf It
and greatly In love with a fellow two
years by senior. He has taken me to
many Dlace. but some weeks aaro ha
didn't call on' me as usuaL When I meet
mm he speaks very cold to me.
AN. ANXIOUS OIRL.
You are too young to be seriously In
volved In a love affair. Try to forget
him, and In the future don't lay your
heart at the feet of every, man who
shows ypu any. attention. Believe me, it
does not .pay.
"The Golden Age"
"The Oolden Age," when her wakened
eye have seen eighteen summer skies,
the leanness of childhood la softened
into firm curves, but childhood's im
patient grace Is still In her hurrying
steps; the wondering woman looks out
of her eyes side by side with a lingering
belief in fairies; love she has not yet
known, but there is about her the beating
By VIRGINIA T. VAN DE WATER
Perhaps there M so more self-righteous
person to be found than the early riser.
He Is In the same class as the man who,
when the thermometer ts near sero,
mokes it his boast that he takes a cold
plunge every morning of his life. He
smiles with superiority at the person who
Involuntarily shudders at the thought
The early riser Is. howeyer, more of an
annoyance to mankind at large than is
the cold water plunger. If the latter
chooses to take- his Icy dip- each day, ho
Inconveniences nobody but himself, and.
since he makes it his boast that the ex
perience makes him "feel fine," It would
seem that nobody Is the worse for his
practice. I have heard that there have
been cases of persons with heart trouble
who actually Increased the undertakers
Income by cold plunge baths In winter;
but If this is so it only proves that an 111
wind (or water) does blow somebody
even if It be but the undertaker some
good.
But to return to our early riser. He
will return to us every morning at least
the sound he makes will. If
"Early to bed and early to .rise
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"
be often- gains these things at the ex
pense of some of the comfort of his
family.
Let us be fair and try to ascertain
what particular virtue there- is, In getting
out of bed two hours earlier than any-
Copyright. 191J, International Now Service.
Nell Brinkley Says:
of his scented rainbow wings; her cheeks
are child-flesh yet, firm and hard and
faintly colored; her lips are babylshly
smooth, but she has put her hair up for
good and her skirts down to her ankles;
the lure of newly found woman ways and
the tomboy who sits on the floor on her
curled-under feet, meet In her dletractlns
young person. She trails a chiffon gown
In a pretty queenUness at the "hop," and
climbs a fence the next morning In scorn
Self-Righteous Early Risers
body else does. It one does not want to
get up. and only does so to mortify the
flesh and chasten the spirit, that grace
that is supposed to flow from acts ot
penance may come to the early riser,
Yet I question whether It might not
really do the soul more actual good If
one were to forget self In consideration
of the person who must hear one get
up, apd who needs or, at least, likes a
morning nap.
One man rises at 6 on summer morn
ings, tramps downstairs In heavy shoes,
steps out on his veranda and, In
stentorian tones, calls his dogs, whistling
between calls. His neighbors, who do not
breakfast until two hours after he starts
off for his matutinal constitutional, are
startled from health-giving sleep, and
are hardly to be blamed If they vote him
an annoyance, to say the least espe
cially as, at his whistle, the dogs all
begin to bark in concert and keep up the
chorus for at least ten minutes. Yet this
man boasts ot hts early rising.
In an apartment house one suffers
much from the Inmate who would be
"healthy, wealthy and wise." One such
woman begins to move about' her room,
ralses windows, pulls out and closes her
folding- bed, calls to her little boy In the
adjoining room and, when be comes to
her, advises him to stand by the open
window and "drink in this glorious morn
ing air" which the youngBter proceeds
to do, accompanying the process by adJ
dressing snnii remarks to bis mother
By
of a gate; her busy llttlo .heart dreams
ahead to womanly things and a full Ufa.
apd yet still yearns tq climb a tree. In
her all the delectable things of the child,
the look, tho faith, the freedom, tho
whole heart, the tireless wonder, mingle
with the lovely things of the woman
awakened eyes, the out-held hand for
what life has to give, the growing wis
dom, the reaching mind mlnglo and
make for a golden minute In her life.
within the room or singing In a high
key the few songs he knows. And all
this at t a. in. I Is the student across' the
court, who works until long past mid
night, hopeleraly hard hearted If he turns
over with a muttered Imprecation
against "that Infernal kid?"
''But I can't Bleep!' exclaims the early
riser. Why waste morning hours In bed
when I might be at workT"
If It Is Impossible for one to steep, he
might have at the side of his bed a bis
cuit or a bit of bread,whlch he could eat
io stay his stomach, after whloh he could
rend until time for the other members of
the family to rise. Or, If he mutt get up
and go to work, let him not fling wide
hie shutters with a bang and throw up
his windows with a slam, causing the
person In the next room to wake with a
well, with something that rhymes with
slaml
After alt, why may not that same per
son In the next room, who worked for two
hours last night after the early riser was
sleeping soundly, deserve Just as much
credit as does the early riser who works
before break fast T I notice that the Mo
worker, at his desk at night long after
the rest of the household are asleep,
moves about his room In stockinged feet
when he prepares for bed, careful Jest
any movement of his may cheat others
of their slumber. The fact that he works
at night does not give lilm the right io
disturb .those who do not ,
I lnsifet that, If people must get up .early
Nell Brinkley
hrhe Oriental, tho singer, the dealer In
lovely words, would say o her: "Bhe Is
h troe of rosy blossoms, the tree between
)ts slim, thin-leaved springtime and its
season of rlch fruit Bhe Is this, the
bloom of the tree, that blows and ts gone
io soon the golden age between spring
And summer. Bhe is entirely sweet"
The golden 'age Is a breathless, fragile In
stant when the baby and the' woman
kiss. -
in the morning, they should determine
to awaken nobody else. The plea, "I
cannot sleep!" ts no excuse for lack of
consideration. One mother was aroused
In the morning by a-step in .the hall out
ride of her door. Bho glanced at her
(itch and saw that It was only 6: SO. She
ud not slept well and had been in that
jast delicious nap that comes Just be
fore It Is time to get up the nap we all
know and love. Her first thought was,
'Somebody Is ill," .and .she opened her
door. In the halt stood her son, fully
dressed. "What Is the matterr she
jisked. "Why are you walking about the
house at this hour?"
I "I couldn't sleep," was the aggrieved
reply.
. "But others could," the mother re
minded him, "If.you would allow them
o."
The reproof was merited.
I do not care how early people get up
n the morningalways supposing the
(iracttce does not Injure their health If
hey only do not make such a. racket as
o disturb others, and 'If (early risers,
forgive me!) they do not assume the air
pf superiority over those who, perhaps,
work Juit as hard, only at a different
hour of the .day from that which they
phoose as best for them. It may be it
rrobably Is best for them, but that does
l ot mean that other people, weary and
heeding rest, are Inferior beings Just be
cause they ran sleep after the first .crack
uf dawn has widened on the horlton.
Dr. Pankhurst's
Artiolo on Convicts A Visit
to the Felon 8hip "Success"
is An Education It Makes One
Think World Growine Better
. J) '
By DR. O. II. PARKIIURST. A
. oil.
When King Edward went aboard tho
convict ship Success he said: "The sad
dest thing about the ship Is that It wiA
In commission during the reign of my
good mother."
Yet no one will
suppose that this
gracious Christian
Queen was know
ing to tho horrors
that wero trans
acted thero any
more than she was
to the tortures In
flicted upon the
convicts after be
ing transported to
Australia.
The story gath
ered from official
sources, of what
was suffered on
tho passage and
subsequent to ar
rival nt the penal colony Is bloodcurdling.,
and lies ns n heavy black blot on Engllslj,
msiory. aiucn as we may extol English, Ai
character In general, English government -4
has shown Itself capable of atrocities, ,
that will cling for centuries to tho rec-MO
ords of British administration. It W-j
written down black In tho tragedy bx,
41 pittim cwiu in uio iniiumnn ciiorv lyf.
crawu oi'ium upon unina.
A visit to tho Success Is not an amuicv...
ment, but an education. One experiences,.
something of the old agony over agalng
when inspecting tho close, grueepmp
quarters In which the prisoner were,, it
confined, the triangle on which theyl,.,
wero triced up to bo flogged, the cat- ,
b'-nlne-talls In a frame close by, by, ,
which the victim was scourged till hs
back was gashed Into furrows flowing,..
with blood, only to be thrown Into thi Y
bath and scrubbed with salt water. Tho
Implements of agony are all there Just,,
ns they were 104 years ago. v
On the first voyage, mado In 1TS7, moreJ,na
than 100 died from close confinement hv,,,,
filthy cells, starvation and torture, iny.j
prtsonmcnt, torture and hanging con,,
stltuted at that date one of Great, Britain's.., j
active lines of business. Thero wcrn.ftl
forty-five capital offenses. The Jal""
were so crowded and tho hangmen weta a?
kept so busy that the overflow had Ifi
be shipped off to Australia, and as many
as possible disposed of on the wny.
It Is to people's advantage to get Intfeoff
vital touch with somo of tho ghastllness. .
of a century ago.and the. ship Is an ad-, ,
mlrable placo for doing It One acquires, "
somo Idea that will never have to hi.
learned over again. It Is not funny, bu?t
It Is wholesome.
The ship Itself has more meaning than, jt
can be crowded into any book. Them !
was shown me a letter written by thmt tf
governor of Rhode Island. Introducing--.
Captain Smith to Governor 8ulzer, li,.
which he says: "As an ancient an vi
historic relic the Success Is, I considers. vt
a valuable educational faotor In the hls-nlft
tory of prison reform." Governor Ross IT
of Massachusetts, writes: "I am veris ft
glad that the people of Massachusetts
have had the opportunity to see thtrVrt
strides that have already been mado 'tomirf
ward better methods of treatment r r
think you are doing a great public service" e
by the exhibition of theso horrible and ."
uDnoieie prison metnoas." tn
(, Thero aro two qultor distinct thougbta',','(
thnt a thinking man will be likely tV' x
bring away with him after a visit to the'"1"1
Success. The officers on board who were
responsible for tho fiendish torments ex- ,
penenced by tho convicts were men Whp,a,l
had been brought up on English soli,,' J
who. so for as we can ascertain, had. lived, -in
Christian communities, and who, ha4 -their
occupation In life been different and,,-,
their duties of an administrative rather- .
than of a penal kind, might have had th(.T.
reputation and have possessed a charac-oris
tor of consideration, sympathy and klnd-t.T
Hness.
NoW that these same officials, cltliens-.
of a country at least nominally Christian,
should not only have ordered the inflio
tlon of torture to the extent In some In
stances of tOO lashes delivered on the -bare
back, body and legs ofthelr victims, but
thai thy should have found amusement
in the agonised shrieks extorted by the
cat-o'-nlnt-talls, suggests that every soul
indevaleped dovll; that whether thpljjt
rf.vll ..111 K J f - i ...
of exercising satanlc authority over the
bouI that It Inhabits will depend very'
much on the circumstances In which one
chances to be placed; and, furthermore,!
that the opportunity to df,al with one's
fellowman Irresponsibly without fear rtnd
without restraint of law Is perhaps the,,
situation most likely to educate one Into 1
a condition of sheer diabolism.
That accounts for thp barhafltles thafi
nre sometimes practiced upon inflates oT
prisons and insane asylums.
When a man la so placed as to be abL
to cause suffering without being
danger of being called to account for it
the Inner devil feels that his npur Is
borne and that his chance has arrived.
'There was an old lady, and a very
saintly one, who found, Jt her supreme
Joy to read and Contemplate an HluBtrateQ,a
copy of Fix's Book of Martyrs. It Is,
not necessary to believe In total dr-
pravlty, but It Is safe to believe In frac
tional depravity and to take care that '
the fraction doe's not become total.
A second Impression left upon one by
a Visit to the convict ship will be a con
fident ;assuranc4 that as the world is
growing older It Is growing better. What
occurred for scores of years on .the Sue-
cess and In the penal colony wold not!
occur now for a single twelvemonth.
'There are touches ' cf barbarity, still. 5
but the eyes of the world are-watehlng,
and Uie heart of the world has grown
sensitive to human anguish. There Is I
no longer any continued place, In society,
in Jail or In hospital for men who ftn4C
devilish satisfaction Iq pure flendUhnees, I
We have not arrived at perfecttdn. anclt
we are far from having arrived, but w3
are on the road,
nit