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Good Reference.
A Lawyer.
John was fifteen and very an
xious to get a desirable piace in
the office of a well-known lawyer
who had advertised for a boy, but
doubted his success, because, being
a stranger in the city, he had no
reference to present.
I’m afraid I’ll stand a poor
chance,” he thought, despondently;
‘•however, I’ll try ro appear as well
as I can, for that may help me a
little.
So he was carefull to have his
dress and person neat, and when
he took his turn to be interviewed,
went in with his hat in his hand
and a smile on his face.
The keen-eyed lawyer glanced
him over from head to
foot.
"Good face,” he thought/ 1 and
pleaseut ways.”
Then he noted the neat suit —but
other boys had appeared in new
clothes —saw the well-brushed hair
and clean-loot ing skin, Very well,
but there had been others there
<|uite as cleanly; another glance,
howevery, showed the finger-nails
free from soil.
“Ah! that looks like thorough
ness,” thought the lawyer.
Then he asked a few direct, rap
id questions, which John answered
as directly.
“Prompt,” was his mental com
ment; “can speak up when nec
essary. Let’s see your writing,”
he added aloud.
John took a pen and wrote his
name.
“Very well, easy to read, and no
flourishes. Now what references
have you.
The dreaded question at
last!
John’s face fell, He had begun
to feel some hopes of success, but
this dashed it agaiu.
“I haven’t any,” he said,slowly;
“I’m almost a stranger in the
city,”
“Can't take a boy without refer
ences,” was the brusque rejoinder,
and as hs spoke a sudden thought
sent a flush to John's cheek.
“I haven’t any references,” he
said, with hesitation,“but here’s a
letter from mother I just received.
I wish you would read it.”
The lawyer took it .It was a short
letter:
My Dear John, —I want to re
mind you that wherever you find
work you must consider that work
your own. Don’t go into it. as
some boys do, with the feeling
that you will do as little as
can, and get something better soon,
but make up your mind you will
do as much as possible, and make
yourself so necessary to your em
ployer that he wiil never let you
RO.
You have been a good son to me,
and I can truly say I have known
never you to shirk. Be as gsod in
business, and I am sure God will
bless vour efforts.
“H’ml” said the lawyer, reading
it over the second time. “That’s
pretty good advice, John—ex
cellent advice, I rather think I’ll
try you, even without the refer
ences.”
John has been with him six years
and last spring was admitted to the
bar.
“Do you intend taking that
youug man into partnership?” ask
ed a friend lately.
“Yes, I do. I couldn’t get along
without John; he is my right-hand
man 1” exclaimed the employer
heartily.
And John always says the best
reference he ever had was a
mother’s good advice aud honest
praise.—Sacred Heart Review.
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A High Resolve.
" e
A great man once said, in an
idl* mood, "I hate a motive like
lingering bottle,” but he died for a
cause which had been the in-spring
motive of his life,
How many a young man and
young woman fails in life from
the lack ol a high resolve! Each
may have a good education, good
training and good opportunities,
but where a fulcrum of resolution
is wanting, no lever can work.
Anyone without a fixed purpose, a
high ideal as the menal and mor
al target toward which he con
stantly aims, shoots in vain. If you
read the story of Daniel, you will
see that the beginning of a charac
ter which could not be contamina
ted by the lewdness of and immoral
king, or corrnDted by a licentious
court, —the starting point of a de
termination which dared to disobey
a monarch’s mandate, —was the
high standard of condut establish
ed in the life of the young man
who “purposed in his heart” to be
all that man may become.
A stream cannot rise higher than
its fountain, and the youth who
starts out with a low ideal, or with
a week resolution, will accomplish
very little. Moreover he who fails
;o hold by, and work according to
that resolution, will fail in the
things whereunto he is, or may be
called.
The man who is to succeed in
the best sense is he who begins
with and adheres to a high stan
dard ; who purposes in his heart,
and then whatever Jcomes, stands
by his purpose. If he caunot ad
vance, he will not retreat. He
will at least hold his own until
the storm has passed.
Anyone can pose as a hero, when
everything goes smoothly and oas
ilv; but when storms comp, finan
cial disaster, and trying circum
stances of misfortunes, then the
man who does not swerve a hair’s
breadth from his purpose must be
a man made of iron, a man of
high resolve aud grit, who is deter
mined to transmute his ideal into
the real, no matter what the oppo
sition may be. Such a man com
mands not only the present, but
also the future. —Augusta Herald.
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you stop working for the day.
But all you do is take the rest
and go right to work again when
the symptoms quiet down. That
is no way to head off a terrible
disease that is fastening its grip
upon you. Stop the first leak or
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Rough On Bryan.
When Henry Watterson raises
the floodgates and pours out the
eloquence of his wrath aud dis
gust, it resembles a Johnstown
flood. In a recent issue of his
paper he sums up the recent past
and the near future of the Demo
cratic party in the following dra
matic and forcible language:
“All tha* the Democrats got of
Cleveland was the slaughter-house
of the succeeding administration
and the open grave into which, in
1896, William Jennings Bryan
walked.
“If the folly be continued in
1900; if it be sought to reproduce
the ticket and issues of 1896, with
an antiexpansion plank added,
there will be nothing left for the
mourners to do after the event ex
cept to close the open grave and
to plant some flowers above the
last remains of the Democratic
party, with the legend, 'Gone to
meet the Federals and the Whigs.’
and this inscription, ‘Whilst he
lived, he lived in clover; when he
died, he died all over.’”
These words of John Wesley tes
tify to the liberal spirit of the
great Methodist leader: “I will
not quarrel with you about opin
ions. Only see that your heart is
right toward God, that you know
and love the Lord Jesus Christ,
that you love your neighbor and
walk as your Master walked, and
I desire no more. lam sick of
opinions, and I am weary to hear
them. Give me solid aud substan
tial religion; give me an humble,
gentle love of God and man, a man
full of mercy and good fruit, a man
laying out himsilf in the work of
faith, the patience of hope, the la
bor cf love. Let my soul be with
these Christians, wheresoever they
are, and whatsoever opinions they
are of. Whosoever doeth the will
of my Father in heaven, the same
is my brother and sister.” —
Ex.
Another “lAbera!” llniversit y.
The official announcement is made
that Profesror John R. Commons, the
head of the department of sociology in
Syracuse university, is to retire from
the faculty.
It is said that Professor Commons
does not get out voluntarily, but has
been encouraged to do so by the univer
sity board of trustees. Recent facts
verify this.
It has been learned that Professor
Commons’ retirement is really due to
the fact that he is a free silver man.
The main point of the contention be
tween the professor and the trustees for
several weeks has been the currency
question. Professor Commons is a
stanch free silver man, and it is said
that his superiors insisted that they
could not swallow the free silver theory
nor allow it to be taught to the 1,800
or more undergraduates. Consequently,
if the professor clung to the repudiated
silver theories, it would be neceesary
for him to look for anew field of use
fulness. The professor would not give
in one inch, and his retirement is the
result
Government Telephones.
The announcement in the house of
commons that the English government
has decided to go into the telephone
business and has asked for $10,000,000
as a starter to enable the postoffice de
partment to develop the telephonic
communication of London is of more or
leßß importance to this country. Al
ready, it appears, the British govern
ment has acquired control of all the
telephone trunk lines, which it now
owns and leases to the company at a
rental. It has nothing to do with the
distributing lines, which are run by
the company. Tbe latter has a conces
sion which expires in 1906." It pays 10
per cent of its gross receipts to the gov
ernment, furnishes instruments and
service free to all the government bu
reaus, gives unlimited service in the
metropolitan district of 750 square
miles for $35 a year to subscribers and
charges only 0 cents a message at pay
stations. Tbe purpose of the govern
ment now, it seems, is to compete with
the private companies, permitting the
latter to continue in business if they
can.—Philadelphia Times.
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TRUSTS AND PRICES.
I I* • FkllMr Tbmt Trust* Are Pub
lic Benefactors.
“One of the most frequent arguments
in favor of trusts,” says The United
States Investor, “is that they reduce
prices. This contention is absurd. If
prices have fallen, it has been because
they tended downward with a force
that the trusts could not stay.” Con
tinuing, The Inveetor says:
“The advocates of trusts appear to
think that their strongest argument is
the fact that during the existence of
the Standard Oil trust the price of re
fined oil has declined in a very striking
manner. They attribute the decline to
the fact that great economies have been
introduced in the cost of manufacture,
and they assert that the trust has al
lowed the public the benefit of a good
part of the saving. We do not fora mo
ment believe, however, that it has al
lowed the public any more than it was
absolutely obliged to. The Standard Oil
trust started in to obtain a monopoly
of the oil trade. To do this implied the
suppression of all competition. The
trust was organized a great many years
ago, when the refining of petroleum
was much nearer its infancy in this
country than now. As the businesp was
more and more developed and as a
larger number of persons went into it
it "was inevitable that the price of the
product should falL The downward
tendency was in the nature of things,
not in the good will of the Standard
Oil trust. The price of oil was bound
to fall under competition to a point
which wonld admit of only a minimum
profit on the unit of production, a profit
so small as to be unattractive except in
the case of an enormous output. It is
competition or the fear of it and not
any desire on the part of the trust to
share its profits with the public that
keeps the price of oil at so low a figure. ”
After giving statistics showing that
the formation of the sugar trust did
not accelerate the downward tendency
of prices, but, on the contrary, had
considerable influence in staying it,
with similar statistics on the sole leath
er, rubber and tobacco trusts. The In
vestor continues:
“A trust may be an apparent mo*
nopoly, and yet be the occasion of com
petition. New plants are started from
time to time for the purpose of being
bought off by it, but before the trust
comes to terms it will fight its new
competitor for a time and slash prices,
the public obtaining a temporary ben
efit. Except under very special circum
stances the trusts cannot increase prices
materially.
“If this last is a correct statement,
then a very important consideration
arises. Many of the trusts represent in
dustries which were not very profitable
prior to the new’ departure. Now, if
prices cannot be advanced materially
the profits of the trusts must be derived
from other sources, such as greater
economies in buying and selling. Were
the trusts capitalized at amounts repre
senting merely the aggregate capitaliz
ation of the constituent plants it might
be possible to predict permanent pros
perity for them. But the saving from
added ecohomies will not be sufficient
to admit of continuous dividends on the
enormous amount of ‘watered’ stock
that has been issued.”
ANOTHER REVOLT.
Small Flxlna Thlngi I p to Follow
Proftmior Bemla.
The fierce attack upon trusts made
by Professor Albion W. Small of the
University of Chicago has created a
sensation.
He is a professor of sociology at the
university of W’hich John D. Rocke
feller is the mainstay, yet he delivered
an address on “The Value of Sociological
Study to the Minister” before the
Methodist preachers. In the course of
his remarks he said:
“In this age of so called democracy
we are getting into the thrall of the
most relentless system of economic oli
garchy that history thus far records.
“That capital from which most of
us, directly or indirectly, get our* bread
and butter is becoming the most un
democratic, inhuman and atheistic of
all the heathen divinities. It breeds
children only to devour the bodies of
some and the souls of others and to put
out the spiritual eyeeight of the rest.
“In spite of the historic campaigns
for liberty, in spite of the achieve
ments of Christianity, there has never
been a time since Adam was born when
the individual counted for so little or
availed so little as today.
“Compared with any worthy concep
tion of what society must become if life
is to be tolerable, the socialistic indict
ments against our civilization are es
sentially sound. Mind, I do not say the
remedies are sound, tut the indictments
are true.”
As abstract propositions these diag
noses expose with approximate truth
the ghastly inequalities and injustices
which our present social order sacrifices.
“It is a literal and cardinal fact that
our present economic system cries to
heaven for rectification. It stultifies
human nature. It nullifies the purposes
of God. The men who denounce present
society have profound reason for their
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complaints. We are In tne midst of tft
most bewildering labyrinth of social
entanglements in which the humat
race has wandered up to date.
“If you will heed the symptoms fro®
bank and office and factory and railroad
headquarters and daily press, you liava
discovered that the very men who an
making these combinations are begin
ning to be afraid of their own shadow
These very business men, who claim to
have a monopoly of practical common
sense, have involved themselves and all
the rest of us in a grim tragedy of
errors.
“They are already beginning to ask
on the quiet how it is all to end
Whether they realize it or not, our vi
sion of freedom is passing into eclipsed
universal corporate compulsion in tie
interest of capital. The march of bn
man progress is getting reducible to
marking time in the lockstep of capi
tal’s chain gang.
“I have no doubt whatever that the
vast majority of capitalists are good
capitalists. They operate strictly within
the rules of the game. Neverthelea
capitalism is not a good game, and it
is our business to see the reason why.
The whole programme of onr present
civilization turns at last on the calcu
lation of effects upon the accumulation
of capital.
“We have turned moral values up
side down. We are making men the
means of making capital, whereas cap
ital is only tolerable when it is simply
the means of making men.
“It would be infinitely more for bn
man weal if every dollar of wealth
should be cleaned from the earth if w
could have instead of it industry and
honesty and justice and love and faith
than to be led much further into this
devil’s dance of capitalism.”
Smith’s Remains at Home.
Nashvillk, April 17.—The remain*
of Colonel W. C. Smith, First Tennes
see regiment, United States volunteers,
who fell at the head of his command in
the first fight with the rebels around
Manila, have reached here. Beside the
escort and committees, a large crowd
met the funeral train at the station here
and followed the remains to Masonic
temple. There a guard composed of ex
members of the regiment will watch
over the casket until the funeral, which
occurs on Wednesday, with miliary
honors.
Second Louisiana Now Out.
Savannah, April 17. The Second
Lonisiana regiment, Colonel Wood, was
mustered out here today. A number of
the enlisted men of the regiment called
during the day upon General W.
Gordon, who was in command of tof
brigade in which the Louisiona regi
ment was included during its stay -
Miami, Fla. Numbers of presents wet*.
carried to the general and Mrs. Gordo
as a token of the esteem in which they
were held.
Katghts and Ladles Meet.
Bibmingham, Ala., April 19.
fourth biennial session of the
lodge of Alabama Knights and
was held here. Birmingham WW *
lected for the next meeting place* J ,
following officers were chosen: G r *
protector, J. J. Pepperman of M°nW°
ery; grand vice protector, A. W.
Huntsville; grand secretary,
hill, Mobile; grand treasurer, D. D
ker, Mobile. J. J. Pepperman w*
lected as representative loathe P rf
lodge. I
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