Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the Lo, before us gleam her camp fires! We ourselves, dim unknown. Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own. Then to side with truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just, Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied. must pilgrims be. Launch our Mayflower and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea. Nor attempt the future's portal with the past's blood rusted key. [James Russell Lowell, patriot, ambassador, university professor and poet, made us all his debtors when he wrote the stirring poem of which this is a part. It is one of the psalms of the American people, deserving to be known by heart by every child and citizen.] Wisdom In Advertising Some young men engaged in the advertising business have asked advice as to the best kind of work in the advertising line for a young man to take up. The best kind of work in any line is the most honest, the kind that gives the best results to those that patronize it. If you go into business go into a good honest business. If you undertake to advertise something, undertake something of which you can be proud, something that you would sell to your own brother as well as to strangers. If you are proprietor as well as advertiser of the article, make sure that you are not throwing away your time and your money in advertising what is not good. A man who puts money into advertising ought to feel that his money is as permanently and safely invested as though he had put it into brick, mortar or building material of any kind. Every dollar in advertising should be a brick in a structure that will permanently pay on the investment. Many men have built up an advertising reputation, an advertising structure of words, facts and publicity worth more per dollar than any investment in railroads or hotels or business blocks. The advertisement that lasts and continues must be the advertisement of something worthy, otherwise every dollar of advertising means a dollar spent in enlightening the people concerning a fraud, and it means the end of the enterprise just so much sooner. The man who advertises in the right direction prides himself in having the confidence of the people and earning it. He looks upon advertising simply as a short road to public .confidence. And this is the day of short roads. The young advertiser should connect himself with a concern that gives the people value. In working for such a concern he can talk sincerely, and only the man who can talk sincerely and work sincerely can grow in his line of work. Get the right thing, advertise it and yourself, and prosper.-Chicago American. United States Leads World In Education "The United States excels all nations of the earth in education," says a writer in the Chicago Examiner, and mental progress and today the American schools, colleges and universities rank highest in the world. With this fact in mind, why should any of our American youth go to any educational institution abroad, when better and more liberal treatment may be had at home, perhaps in his own town or city? Education in the United States is on a broader basis than anywhere else in the world and, withal, more practical. Our higher schools are under the control of the highest type of practical educators and more liberally endowed than the oldest and best of the old world and they are more progressive and up to date. The education of the masses is the solution of many of the biggest problems that face our country. Education makes progressive and law-abiding citizens. It makes men think and develops their faculties along the right lines, regardless of party lines in politics or political preferences. Proper education on the right lines is an absolute cure for the money madness. Proper education upon right lines is the making of a real democracy upon broader humanitarian lines, so much needed in this day of desire for the accumulation of gigantic fortunes. Education has a tendency to improve the condition of the lives of the masses and divides the burdens more equally, so that the road to a competency for all is made less rugged. And, best of all, it holds the nation together in the bonds of good citizenship and makes for all that is progressive and right. The trained brain is the best brain, whether in the workshop or at the desk. When the bank seeks a clerk it would rather take a man with a liberal and practical education than one who has worked in a rut and who has not kept pace with the trend of the times. What is true of the bank is true of the other professions, and the salaried man who has the proper education and training is never at a loss to find a position; in fact, he is the man who is always in demand and sought for. This fact is also true of the workshop, for the man who is endowed with a technical education finds no trouble in securing promotion when his ability to do becomes known to his employer. In the workshop or factory education means intelligence of a progressive character, which wins promotion through ability to do. Education develops that which is best in the human mind, regardless of the trend of one's ambition. Therefore, the school is the natural place for preparing for the real battle with the world. Education in the Western states has developed more largely and in a broader and more comprehensive way than in any other section of this broad land, and this is one of the most salient reasons for the rapid development of this section. There is no higher class of educational institutions than are to be found in and around Chicago, the states of the great Northwest and, especially, the great state of Illinois. From the foundation stone of the public and parochial schools, with their manual training branches, to the universities, all are upon the practical high plane that fits the man for the battle of life in all the professions and trades. The men who have won fame and renown in public and in business, trade and professional life, have been those who have been ambitious in the schools and who have made their marks in their classes, where was developed the executive ability and mental and physical skill which has aided them in the later years to fame and fortune. Men who are mere machines do not succeed in life and they wonder why their talents are not appreciated. Men way below them have overstepped them in the race for promotion. No man can succeed today without a proper training, and he can get that training for any trade or profession in our schools, from the primary grade to graduation from the university. Summed up briefly, no man needs to go outside of his community to properly fit himself for the battles of life if he would earn his spurs in a manly and practical way of future success and greatness. It Pays To Advertise A Business Ditty When the dimpled baby's hungry, what does the baby do? It doesn't lie serenely and merely sweetly coo; A lesson plainly teaches-it pays to advertise. The lamb lost on the hillside when darkness closes round, With a Lesson Stands not in silence trembling and waiting to be found; Its plaintive bleating echoes across the vales and meads, Until the shepherd hears it, and, hearing, kindly And when its fears are ended, as on his breast it lies, tise. -Chicago Record-Herald. American Men "The American masculine claim of absorption in his work does not in the least justify such a condition," says a writer in the Atlantic Monthly. "Frenchmen support their wives and still find time to go shopping with them too! Englishmen do likewise and find energy left to place their sons in school, energy to watch keenly the love affairs of their daughters, unhesitatingly bidding this or that man be gone; moral courage and physical vitality left after the day's work to be in fact, as well as in fancy, 'the head of the house.' "They have the wisdom to leave hours for play, for pure boyishness of living. And all this may be observed in the same middle class that with us turns the whole issue over to the wife, expecting of her all wisdom, though knowing her sheltered youth; and all vitality, to run unceasingly and unaided the whole machinery of the family. "No wonder our women have 'nerves!' No wonder they are becoming more and more restless (one of the first evidences of strain) more and more discontented as time passes. Masculine kindness to our women is sometimes so tangled up with selfishness that there need be no surprise that there is some confusion regarding them. "Not that our men want the money, after which they are striving for themselves, for their pleasures. They do not. They are almost notoriously generous. Our rich men give, give, give; to their wives, their children, to colleges, to hospitals, to churches, until the whole world is amazed at their generosity. "The habit and fury of work, unreasoning, illogical, quite unrelated to any need, is a masculine disease in this country, and the whole social system has for years paid the inevitable penalty. Here and there a man tries to stop in time, but finds himself obsessed by work so that he can no longer think of anything else. He is as much a slave to it as is any opium taker to his drug and drunkard to his potion. It is a grave danger not only to the individual but to the whole American civilization. "If the truth were told most young American men are not especially interesting. They do not keep up their reading. They have a national obtundity when it comes to music, to art, to literature, nor do many of them take any of these things at all seriously. "The young among them are not good conversationalists. Our cleverest men are. monologists pure and simple. They lecture admirably. They are born orators along modified lines. They are inevitable story tellers. None of this is conversation; and women like conversation, like its courtesies, which at least pretend a little interest when their turn comes Ships That Pass In the advertising columns of a New York paper that makes a specialty of such things there appeared on Sunday morning, these: NED-All forgiven; come back to boys PAPA-Please write and let me know P. O. Box 96, Scarsdale, New York. er sick. TOAD. Condensed novels, epitomized tragedies! Who can take this glimpse at darkened homes and not feel the imagination stir with attempts to build the remainder of each unhappy story? The husband and father who has deserted wife and child; the daughter, longing for a wandering father; the brother for whom the mother on a bed of illness asks, but asks in vain. It is as if the door of some closet had been sudd'enly opened and shut, and afforded a momentary glimpse of its grinning skeleton. It is like the ship that passes us in midocean, bearing its load of humanity we know not whither, we know not whence. It is like those swiftly moving pictures the traveler gets from the window of the elevated train as it dashes through the tenement district of any large city -for a moment we are face to face with a drama of human life which the next moment swallows up forever. These three little "personals" are the saddest thing in a paper that includes columns of deaths, funerals and obituary tributes. Death itself is not a terrible thing under ordinary circumstances and in the ordinary way. It is the due and beneficent order of nature. The grave mercifully receives to unbroken rest the forms that at length have done with the battle and the fever, and the sorrow that lingers by it is touched with a sweet and sacred solace, sanctified by hallowed memories, illumined by immortal hope. The only real trouble in this world is that which is caused by wrongdoing. It is not the boy or girl that lies out at Crown Hill under December's snow or April's rain whose memory rends the heart with unmitigable grief, but the boy that went wrong, the girl that has gone astray. They are happy homes where husband and father left a legacy of brave and loving deeds, even through poverty and pain, and where mother and children may take up the battle with a smile and without shame. They are the unhappy ones where wrongdoing has cast its irremovable shadow, where husband or wife, son or daughter has listened to the voice of the tempter and turned the back upon duty and love. It was in infinite wisdom, as well as pity, that the Man of Sorrows undertook to save us, not from pain or death, but from our sins.— Character Signals By R. Dimsdale Stocker But whilst we may even go so far as to venture a guess as to the probable significance of so-andso's exterior, his nose, eyes, expression, gestures or handwriting, probably very few suspect how significant such things actually are. There is, to be sure, a prevailing impression among the majority, that features "mean something." The difficulty being to decide precisely what. Consequently, this paper is written in the hope of enlightening its readers upon the subject which it bears as its title. In the first place, let it be borne in mind that all exteriors bear some reference to interiors. Every plant, animal and human being assumes a particular appearance of one kind or another, which serves to guide us in our judgments concerning them. Every botanist, geologist, naturalist, and anthropologist is aware of the history, nature, habits and instincts of a mineral, a botanical specimen, an animal or human being, to some extent, from its form and growth. And it is this which is of the greatest importance, also, in enabling us to judge of the personal characteristics of our fellows. Practically speaking, in classifying faces, for example, we may note that there are three leading types, viz: Round faces, square faces and tapering faces. Round faces with expansive cheeks, full lips and general fleshiness, promise less force, more of the domestic, sensuous and animal, than intellectual. Those which are square accompany the greatest moral fibre, tenacity and strength. Whilst the pyriform type in which the brain is more exclusively in evidence is allied more to mental efficiency, intensity and refinement of organization. The more BRAIN a person possesses, the higher its quality, the more intelligent, he or she will be. The head, to indicate an ascending of intellect, should go far in advance of the ear openings. Large, protuberant hind heads indicate sensuality. The EYES show much, and their expression and fullness will bespeak all the emotions. Prominent eyes promise linguistic ability. Good writers and speakers have them. Small deeply seated eyes talk less, but think and see more. 66 The NOSE, which is the most important, as well as the most prominent feature of the face, is highly indicative of "character." Generally speaking (though there are some exceptions), a large nose denotes a more powerful and commanding spirit than a very small nose. Noses will not supply the deficiencies created by a want of "brains.' But, all else being equal, a convex, or arched nose, will show executive or administrative capacity; whereas, a small, concave nose will express feebleness, "bluff" and a want of true dignity and force of character. Noses may be thick or thin at the bridge, where they join the cheeks. If the former they will indicate that the "Almighty Dollar" weighs considerably in the estimation of the owner; if the latter, he or she will be a poor financier. The LIPS disclose much: When very full for instance, luxurious tendencies. The thin-lipped being destitute of any capacity for material enjoyment, passionless and cool. According to the manner in which the lips are held-whether firmly or otherwise-it becomes possible to estimate the degree of self-control which a person will be capable of exercising. Lips which take an upward curve at the corners promise wit, humor, or cheerfulness. The descent of the angles of the mouth will be found to accompany seriousness and gloom. Ás to the CHIN, it may be said, that the more prominent and longer the feature, the more will power a person will possess. Small, narrow or receding chins are the outward and visible signs of a defective mind or a feeble physique. A well developed chin must not be confounded with predominant jaws such as are to be met with in the criminal classes and among the uncivilized. Such arguing brute force, rapacity and cruelty. The NECK and the EARS, also indicate a certain amount of character. The long neck shows independence of spirit. The short stubby variety animal energy and exuberant vitality. large opening or "bell," will give evidence of musical The ear, when circular in form, and having a capacity; when angular or irregular in appearance, the ears afford the indication of a partial or total inability to appreciate "the concord of sweet sounds." Character, it may be said in conclusion, is known by every feature-by wrinkles, or want of them; by one's handshake, walk, laugh, speech, handwriting, and, in point of fact, by everything that one does. A little careful study on the part of the student will soon convince him of this. And, by degrees, he will become an accomplished reader of mankind. To attain proficiency in this direction is the matter of a lifetime. But the previous remarks should serve to simplify the subject to a considerable extent. By putting these rules to the test, and by allowing oneself to be guided in this way, one will soon learn that "of the soul the body form doth take;" and that this form, interpreted aright, is an aspect of him whose impress it bears. To "know thyself" is indeed a valuable thing; but to know other people is also useful. And it is this which scientific physiognomy enables one to do. -Cheer Up. Remove the sting; remove the whine; remove the sigh. They are your enemies. They are never conducive to happiness; and we all live to gain happiness, to give happiness. From every word remove the sting. Speak kindly. To speak kindly and gently to everybody is the mark of a great soul. And it is your privilege to be a great soul. From the tone of your voice remove the whine. Speak with joy. Never complain. The more you complain, the smaller you become, and the fewer will be your friends and opportunities. Speak tenderly, speak sweetly, speak with love. From all the outpourings of your heart, remove the sigh. Be happy and contented always. Let your spirit sing, let your heart dance, let your soul declare the glory of existence, for truly life is beautiful. Every sigh is a burden, a self-inflicted burden. Every whine is a maker of trouble, a forerunner of failure. Every sting is a destroyer of happiness, a dispenser of bitterness. To live in the world of sighs is to be blind to everything that is rich and beautiful. The more we sigh, the less we live, for every sigh leads to weakness, defeat and death. Remove the sting, remove the whine, remove the sigh. They are not your friends. There is better company waiting for you.-Progress Magazine. Being Sick In China are It is the custom for a Chinaman to visit the barber every week to have a general overhauling. First, the head and face are shaved; second, the ears scraped and cleansed with a small brush made of duck's hair; third, the upper and lower eyelids are scraped with a dull-edged knife, all granulations being smoothed away, and then an application is made with a duck's hair brush of salt solution. This is the reason why you will find so much blindness in China. They take no antiseptic measures whatever. Finally the patient's back is massaged, and after paying a fee of three cents, and no tip, he leaves the shop, feeling clean outside, but now must consult his regular physician. After going through the usual examination, which is a form of military inspection, the doctor diagnoses the case and treats it unless a devil happens to jump down the patient's throat. If this has happened the doctor can do the patient no good until he promises to set off 100 firecrackers and to make a daily visit to the joss house. This done, he receives the usual pills for those vacated by the devil. These pills may consist of spotted rhinoceros horns, said to be a wonderful cure for intestinal troubles. The spotted rhinoceros horns come from Southern China, and in the market at Singapore a single specimen will bring $25. Tiger bones when ground to a powder and mixed with Chinese wine make a great blood tonic which is used by all classes of Chinese in Northern China. The recipe is held by a firm in Shanghai that has become very wealthy by the sale of this tonic. Old deer horns are boiled down to make the medicinal glue which binds the fifty ingredients composing the average Chinese pills. As in these you may get anything from a pinch of gunpowder to powdered cobra tail dust, it is not the fault of WongYik-Chee if just the right kind of specific escapes the patient. Equal in medicinal efficacy to the above are three high-grade tiger remedies-the eyeball, liver and blood. As may be imagined, tiger eyeball, the genuine article, can be prescribed for only the exceedingly wealthy Chinese. Similarly the liver, when dried and reduced to a powder, is worth its weight in gold all over China. Tiger blood, when evaporated to a solid at a temperature of 110 degrees and taken as a powder, is believed by Asiatics to transform a craven into a hero.-Medical Record. A Clean Desk It is handed to me from several angles that President Taft is the man who will "clear off the desks." This is the kind of a man that he is, and it has set me thinking how much better it would be for many men and their affairs if they were "desk cleaners.' Within my checkered experiences I once knew a business man who had a habit of allowing his mail to accumulate. It was always stacked up on what came to be known as the "northeast corner," and was so designated by employes asking the privilege of getting the latest particulars regarding some transaction. may not annoy you to have your desk untidy but there is satisfaction in having a clean desk which tells that your business is cleaned up each day. Never get into the habit of running back for something that you should have in hand.-E. H. Beach. It |