Tim NEE: OMATIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12. 1915.
Birds of a Feather
By Nell Bfinkley
Copyright, 116, Intern'l Newt Service.
Street Sparrows
Men of
Might
By ELBERT HUBBARD
God sends (treat men In groups.
From about 1740, for the next sixty
rears the Intellectual sky seemed full of
shooting; stars.
James Watt was watching his mother's
toa kettla to a nur-
pose; Boston har-
linr tvua t r a n .
formed Into an
other kind of Hy
son dish: Frank
'.ln had been busy
with his kite and
key; Gibbon was
writing his "De
cline and Fall;"
fate was pitting
the Pitts against
Fox; Hume was
rhalle n g 1 n g the
worshipers of n
fetish and sup
plying arguments'
still blight with
use;
Voltaire and
Rousseau were pre
paring the way for
Madame Guillotine;
Horace Walpole was printing marvelous
hooks at his private press at Strawberry
Hill; Sheridan was writing autobiog
raphical comedies; Garrlck was mimick
ing his way to Immortality: Gainsborough
was working the apotheosis of a hat;
Reynolds, Lawrencoj Romney and West,
the American, were forming an English
school of art;
George Washington and George 1TI
were linking their names preparatory to
sending them down the ages; Thr as
.Jefferson was writing a constitution ani
formulating a public school system: Bos
v.cll was penning undying gossip; Black
stone was wilting' his "Commentaries"
for legal lights unborn; Thomas Palna
was getting his name on the black list
of orthodoxy; Burke, the Irishman, was
publishing his brogue so that he might
le known as England's greatest orator;
the little Corslcan was dreaming dreams
of conquest; Arthur Wellesley was hav
'ng presentiments of coming difficulties:,
Cioldsmlth was giving dinners, with
iatllffs for servants;
Warren Hastings was defending a suit
w here the chief participants were to die
before a verdict was rendered; Captain
lames Cook was travelling around the
globe and giving humanity new lands;
while William Herschel and his sister
were showing the world still other
worlds, till then unmapped.
So much for ' the unforgettable year
of 177G, at mention of which our hearts
thrill.
Now, the next great date In history Is
1!M4. Around this date will swing and
tenter the names of men who have made
their impress Indelibly on the times.
For Instance, the name of Thomas A.
Kiiaon will never die. You cannot look
out of a window In any civilised city of
the world without seeing the effects of
the handiwork and the brains of this
man, Edison, born in the little village of
Milan, O. Not a steamship plows tho
waters, not a railroad train runs any
where, that does not avail Itself of one
or more of this man's inventions.
Another immortal name is that of
George Westinghouse,, who Invented the
air brake.
The effect of the work of James J. 'Hill
is shown from St. Paul to Seattle, a dis
tance of 1706 miles, in 1.000 towns, cities
and villages.
Then come George M. Pullman, Elbert
H. Gary, Andrew Carnegie, John Wana
maker, Nathan Straus, Alexander Gra
ham Bell, J. Plerpont Morgan, Wilfrid
1 curler. Thomas Shaughnesey, WJllltm
Van Home, Marshal Field.
. All of these men did things, and are
doing things, for even those who are
dead have souls that are still march
Ing on.
At present the artists, writers and
orators are playing pianissimo.
The Kreat men1 of this dav are Invent.
ors, builders business men. This Is their
distinguishing mark molding humanity,
ministering to the thoughts and needs of
the time, and making of the world a
better place because they are here.
And my opinion is that we are on the
eve of bigger things than the world has
ever seen.
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sge is the fact that truth is an asset and
a lie Is a liability.
It is getting grained into the nature and
habit of every man that what Plato
called "The Reality" does not lie in
ease, rest or self-indulgence, but In ac
tion, work, play, study, laughter, love.
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Two birds of a feather on forbidden ground of Paradise! For
it seems that sunny, guarded gardens, where flowers blow and the
dust of the street Is only a distant rumor, gardens behind high walls,
with wrougbt-lron gates, are not for those two little street urchins
the dusty, scrapping, rakish, hustling sparrow and that other, who is
just as ragged, rakish and scrappy and who has just as hard a time
Ambition Against Discontent
By REV. LAW SOW CARTER RICH.
Did you ever feel discontented? Disap
pointed? Discouraged? Thoroughly out
of sorts with yourself and your surround
ings? Sure that you were meant for
something better than your present con
dition, and yet quite unable to impreas
that face upon your unsympathetic
neighbors? Disheartened by the ever
undeniable fact that there was little or
no uplift in your environment? Who Is
there among us who has not suffered
from experiences like these? It aecms
to be part of the very fibre of our mental
and moral makeup.
The great question is, what effect are
these serious struggles that go en within
us to have upon our dally life, and upon
our ultimate success or failure? It seems
as If there were ever within us the call
of an unsatisfied ambition, and It is
very poor economy to try to pass It over
by the cold dictum of disapproval or to
seek to forget. It by the aid of the opiate
of pleasures that seem to lull us away
from our disquieting thoughts. . Persons
who are keenly alive to the emotions to
which I have alluded may be affected In
quite different ways. The one con
tinually frets because of the unsatisfied
ambitions of his soul, and tired by re
peated disappointment Is ever seeking
to throw the blame on others while he
makes excuses for himself.
Perhaps after a season he grows dis
heartened, makes ip his mind that it was
all a mistake that ideal of his that
stirred his heart so strongly In by-gone
years and he settles down to. a dull dis
content which hopes for nothing and is
selJoin disappointed in finding what It
expects, In the dreary monotony of a
disappointed struggle for; existence.
The other, disappointed In his attempts
to rise above the level in which he finds
himself, takes it out upon his neighbors 1
In ceaseless vituperation. He Is not
cowed by his failures, he has been stirred
to a fearful capacity for hate. He hates
the successes of those whom he considers
his more favored companions. He grows
to hate mankind as a whole. Nothing de
lights him so much aa the disclosure of
some shortcoming in the lives of those
whom he feels have got the bestof him
in his life struggles. He finds geulal as
sociates in those who, like hlnuelf, de
sire nothing ao much as to tear down
what others have built up and thus
reduce all to the dssd level of his own
existence. ,
Now. I am willing to maintain that
neither of these two results is worthy of
the best that la In man. The spring does
not rise higher than the fountain, and
that deep spirit of unrest which once
saayed all my life, all uy activities, is
part of a royal heritage that belongs to
me, a human being, the highest work of
an almighty God. I may be mistaken as
to the particular destiny for which I was
Intended, but 1 cannot be mistaken In
tile fact that my gaxe is meant to be
upward, and that longing for the better
ment of self is a real, true part of my
nature, Science and religion are per
fectly at one on this all-important point.
The student of the working of God's
laws and the student who seeks to know
direct from God himself what man is
meant for agree that man is created to
struggle, and by struggling to rise to
higher things.
But you say. my tired brother, that
sounds very well and Is pretty to listeu
to, but the circumstances of my Ufa are
sordid and low and mean. The struggle
to keep from starvation la as much as I
can attend to, and the glamour of a dis
tant hope Is but an Ignis fatuus, which
has already well nigh led me to despair.
Ah, but Isn't the trouble, my brother,
not with the conditions of your life, but
with the use you make of them? Take,
for example, the life of some man whom
the world today esteems as great. At
the present moment our minds are di
rected toward Lincoln, and surely if
ever there was a life that proved the
power of an. Idea in animating a man to
overcome the hard conditions which seem
so unsurmountable. It is the character of
that martyred president whom we are
growing to love more and more as the
days grow into years and the years into
centuries.
My work today is not the whole of
life, but It Is my opportunity of proving
at this moment my true worth. I don't
rare whether my duties are In the little
i Dent-UD kitchen, whera mv mul n
crushed with the never ending round of
dull monotony, where I long for God's
sunshine and the inspiration of joy, and
appreciation of friends, and starve with
out them; or whether the fleece struggle
Do You Know That
Correct time Is announced every evea
hour in the port of Lisbon by means of
two lanterns placed on lro column 100
feet high. The lanterns each have three
races measuring si feet try ftet.
A knife with six parallel blades has
been invented for slicing bread in quan
tities. On Russian railways telegraph poles
are protected against decay by soaking
them for several months before use in
strong brine.
P r ' '
finding food and soft spots and a bit of beauty to sweeten its brown
bread of life the street child.
But sometimes some careless somebody leaves the gate open
Just a rift In the iron screen that the streeUbaby usually has to blink
through to see the marvels within leaves it open to the street a
tiny, forgetful place, where a narrow Jlttle body may slip into the
glory of faery-land.'
Ith my competitors In the business
world seems to banish every high ambi
tion save the pursuit of gold, I can make
of the circumstances of my dull exist
ence day by day an opportunity to prove
that my soul is truly great, and I am
willing to leave the future In the hands
of the great Architect of all things, and
recognise the fact that what I have to
do this minute Is quite within my reach.
This hunger for higher things makes
us admire heroes, at least, when we are
sure that they no longer stand In the
way of our own advancement. The
Christian church tells us of the greatest
of all heroes of history. We are told
that when God would give to the world
this pattern man. who has stood the
scrutiny of all the ages sine His birth,
and now shines out mora conspicuously
prominent and perhaps dearer to the
human heart than ever before, he did
not create a body out of the dust of
the earth, a body worthy of this high
est type of humanity.
He looked down upon a humble house
In a Jowly village and there beheld
sweet young woman busy about the con
cerns of a little country home. We may
picture to ourselves Just how humdrum
and commonplace those duties doubtless
were. The people .were poor. There were
the same domestic tolls for Mary as
make up the special duties of the home
of the poor today. People who have
visited the hamlet of which we speak,
tell us that there is shown to the cur
ious visitors the well In the middle of
the town, known aa the Virgin's Spring,
where Mary used to draw the water and
bear it home upon her head to supply
the household needs from day to day.
It was to this obscure home and to thla
bumble Virgin the message came that
she was to be the mother of the great
est figure in the history of the world,
and we can be sure that the reason she
was a fit mother for this Illustrious Son.
was because she had fulfilled the obil.
gations of her life before the great call
came te the fullest satisfaction of Him
who held her destiny m her hand. There
Is a tremendous stimulus In the contem
plation of a scene like that, and we may
all do well to profit by it and find the
true Incentive that gives the seat to life.
.The highest ambition is the parent of
the truest humility; It snakes one realize
that our ultimate aim Is so high that
we Deed a power far beyond qur own for
the accomplishment of to transcendent a
work; that If we are truly to be co-work
era with Almighty God himself in the
working out of the great scheme that
rules the universe, the task la far too
great for our Unaided efforts, and we
may confidently rely upon a power divine
ti help us in all our needs
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
Most people, when making a summary
of their own good points, aasure you
seriously, "I haven't a particle of Jealousy
In my nature," and most people In mak
ing this statement are telling vast un
truths. Unfortunately, "particles ' of
Jealousy" seem Inherent In the average
human being. And there Is probably no
more contemptible petty vice and no more
dangerous leading to major vlclousness
than this same quality of jealousy.
The most ususl form of Jealousy to
take Is that of begrudging the right of
one's loved one to care for other people
besides one's self. A loving and other
wise happy wife will make herself miser
able because of her husband's affection
for a favorite brother, for some con
genial comrade, or even because of a
fancied Interest In some of her women
friends, or In some girl he meets in a
business way. .
A girl will be miserably Jealous of her
sweetheart's mother or of some old friend
he chances to mention to her.
Men. too, are prone to this vice and
when , they are subject to it le all too
likely to take a violent end dangerous
form. But when women with nothing
better to do but devote themselves to
being jealous of all sorts of "phantom
rivals," tbey succeed In destroying their
own peace of mind and that of practically
every one who comes within the radius
of their miasma of contemptible feelings.'
There is probably no cure for jealousy
except the swing of the pendulum of one's
common sense toward sanity, kindly
judgment and the saving grace of a
sense of proportion.
Jealousy takes two forms that of fear
ing the known and seen and that of sus
pecting all the vast realms of the un
known. The wife who fears all the peo
ple of whom her husband talks affec
tionately, and the man who dreads the
Individuals over whom his sweetheart
waxes enthusiastic, are sllke absurd and
Illogical.
The woman who resents the existence
of people whose influence she suspects
of swaying her lover's mind, and the
man whe conjures up fancied rivals, are
after all fighting nothing more serious
than their own fevered Imaginations. If
these sufferers would only say to them
selves, "after all, I am merely calling Into
being things that probably do not exist,
and am looking for trouble that I may
actually cause by thinking it long
enough. I certainly won't be so silly
as to face Imaginary rivals, and to waste
my own energies in fighting battles with
enemies who don't exist," they might
vary easily dismiss the foolish shadows
And sometimes there is no gardener to stone the ragged little
brother of the street-baby, and it, too, dips into a gorgous taste of
real Dird-Country. And while one urchin leans and watches the
goldfish flirt In darting gleams below the water lilies' rosy cups with
widened beauty-hungry eyes, the other dips its humble beak into the
cooling mirror and ruffles its feathers with delight.
NELL BIUNKLET.
The Ogre Jealousy
that skulk In the land of evil shadows ,
cast by their own minds.
If there are real rivals for one's af
fection In the world, It would be very
sensible to save one's energies for a con
quest of them, and not to waste one's
self tilting at shadows. Fancied rivals
exist only In your own brain. Make sure
that the shadows they oast do not be
come perceptible te the eyes of your be
loved; for then, Indeed, "phantom Tlvals"
may heocme living realities
As for real rivals for your affection,
sitting about and hating them while you
resent your beloved's disloyalty, can only
accomplish one thing. It will kill your
faith In true love and cause yon to doubt
your own power to Inspire it. Instead of
belittling and hating the person who at
tracts the wandering fancy of the one
you love and forcing htm to secret meet
ing and all the thrill of a clandestine af
fair, drag the thing out into daylight and
Its Cobweb Illusions will go.
The mistake that most Jealous people
mske is to sit and brood over their
jealousy Itself. The real way to fight
the thing la first to make sure there is a
cause for it, and then te set about re
moving the cause. Don't hate your rival,
don't distrust your fsithless admirer, but
Advice to Lovelorn
By BBATOICS VAJBTAX -
Toe Yoa a.
Dear .Miss Fairfax: I am 17 years old,
well educated, and good-looking. I hsve
a splendid futtre Ufore in, because of
which f do nut Wish In hind mvuir fi,l
Uhly. I am verv much In lava ulih a
man of v-ars. which Is not merely a
childish Infatuation, but a love which
ha grown stnce mv early days. This
nian Is well educated, leflned and in
every way able to support a wife com
fortably. My parents approve very much
of our union. However, I hesitate, be
cause of our difference of , age and also
of taith. Would you advise me under
the conditions to attempt so trying an
enterprise? I also wish to add that our
al lections are mutual. C. C. C.
I consider a girl of 17 years far too
young to marry. This, however Is merely
a personal opinion, and perhaps since
your parents approve of your marriage
and you have filth In the 'durability of
your own feelings. It would be well for
you to marry the man you love In spite
of your extreme youth and his verging
on middle-age. Don't let your ambition
and the desire and hop for something
better stand In your way. But if you
feel with m that a child of IT years
ought not to mortgage her life to a man
of 40 ears. don't let yourself be talked
Into the marriage.
Instead proceed to see what charms you
may emulate in your rival, and what
weak points you make painfully evident
by your own superior fineness. By the
time you have gone actively about re
moving the cause of your Jealousy and
analysing the situation, you will find the
whole thing reduced to absurdity.
After all, when you begin to catalogue
and tabulate and analyse, Jealousy, you
are likely to find the most blameworthy
person in a lopsided triangle to te your
self. And when you come to despise
jealousy Itself, you will probably turn
Into a sane, broad-minded, lovable parson
Lwho could never, in the natural coursa
of things, have anything, to he Jealous
about.
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