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IERR\, HOUSTON COUNTY, gJL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1902,
Pulling His Weight,
Strange Origin of the Christmas Tr
Most of
St. Louis Republic.
The President lately observed
that every man should “pull his
weight.”
With respect to pulling, man
kind divides itself into three
classes: Those who pull their
weight and more; those who pull
barely their weight, and those
who pull less.
There are a few heavy-draft fel
lows, veritable wheel horses, who
pull vastly more than their fair
share. They are societiy’s best
and truest heroes. Outside of
these the load is pretty • evenly
distributed. Upon the men who
pull more than their weight socie
ty depends for its advancement.
If they were to abandon the load
to those who pull simply then-
own weight and those who pull
less, retrogration would iuevita-
bly ensue.
It follows that the man who
pulls simply his own is only a
grade better than the man who
pulls nothing, His only virtue is
negative, his sole superiority lies
is the fact that he does not liter
ally retard progress.
As a matter of fact, he is equal
ly blameworthy with him who is
pulled along, for he moves with
the advancement made possible
by the pullers, takes advantage of
conditions created by them, and
his way is made easy by their
efforts; in return for whicli he
gives nothing and lends no assis
tance. He is the crime of medi
ocrity added to the greater crime
of selfishness.
The man who pulls nothing is
so much dead weight. He im
pedes progress; adds to the bur-
don of Ins fellow-man ; his exam
ple tends to demoralize the man
scarcely a degree above him who
does pull as much as his weight;
in geueral, he makes for confus
ion, disorganization and disorder.
He is a parasite and worse than
one. Fortunately, he constitutes
an ignomiuiously small frac
tion of society. He is the pauper,
the criminal and the merely idle.
He upon whom the greatest
censure should fall is the selfish
man who pulls his own weight
and who can pull more but will
not. He constitutes a large pro
portion of society, and conditions
of stagnation may be directly
laid at his door. In him is the
greatest latent power for good,
but he will not exercise it. He
represents the greatest possibility
for society’s advancement, but he
will pull only so much. In him
lies the hope of ideal conditions
as contrasted with existing ones,
if he can be induced to look be
yond his own fancied self-inter
est.
When the weight is evenly dis
tributed and every man pulls his
fair share, all men will be heroes,
mediocrity \Vill have no place in
the vocabulary, and the pauper,
the idle and the criminal will be
transformed into workers. What
is the magic out of which the
change will come?
, ;
The Richmond Dispatch (Dem.)
says: “Upon the whole the mes
sage is characterized by a caution
which the public would hardly
have expected of Mr. Roosevelt.
He seems to be feeling his way as
to many questions. He seesaws
between the trusts and 3 the labor
vote and in many places in the
message we perceive that he is
looking and hoping to succeed
himself in the presidency.”
Foils A Deadly Attack.
“My wife was so ill that good
physicians were unable to help
her,” writes M. M. Austin, of
Winchester, Ind., “but was-.com
pletely cured by Dr. King’s New
Life Pills.” They work wonders
in stomach and liver troubles.
Cure constipation, sick headache.
25/ at Dr. Holtzclaw’s drug store.
us know that the Christ- J M
mas tree comes to us direct from ■:$ i 1
Germany. And we know of the
tree-worship of the Druids which
obtained in England and Frunoe,
and which probably had some in
fluence on the later use of the tree
in the Christian festival. c >*
But we do not all know that a -V1 V I
similar festival with the tree as a *' 1
crowning feature is observed
among many heathen nations,!
aud tnat it comes from sun-wor
ship, which is older than history.' ^
The levival of the sun after the T-<?
winter solatia has ever been the' ^
subject of rejoicing aud of eele-1
bration by ceremonies which rep !
resent the new light brought back
to the world. Our tree, with its
small candles, its gilded knick-i I-I /All - A
knacks and toys for the children, j li-V/ iu'D
is a direct desendaut of this old !
festival in honor of the sun. i
Traces of it exist . in Iceland, j ' AOi
where the “service-tree” is found 663 MUBBAA
adorned with burning lights dm--!
ing Christinas night. The Eng- ■Doj-pr
lish yule-log is a faint survival i .
of this festival. But it is beyond
these that I wish to draw your at- ! ^ 1
tention, back further even than .'openiff!
the Druid mysteries of the Gal- 1
lie forests. It is to China, that
home of all wonders and of all As* J),
history. It has been shown that rtr
as long ago as 247 B. C. a trie EMMH
with a hundred-lamps and flowers
was placed on the steps of the
andieuce-hall. This appears again
in the records of Princess Yang, •
who lived 718-755 A. D., and who ,
caused a hundred lamp tree eiglv- j
ty feet high to be erected on |j
mountain. It was lighted dur-i
ing New Year’s night, and the il-
Afc a nominal coat by joining
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OF THC ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
UPOM TOTAL PORT RECEIPTS OF COTTON
1st SEPT., 1902, TO tmh jANj1
©ontbmbt- ©L.os&ac& o eEcS§:m SISST 3* m<
To the one WBaklnc; tho exact, or tho nearest to tho
the receipts of cotton AT ALL iSUiTBD 8 TAT F. 8 P
1002, to January 80, 8908-•
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STATISTICS OF EAST
SEVEN CROPS.
THE PORT RECEIPTS for
the puet few years, from Sep
tember I through tho ilrst tea
days of Jnnuary, are given to
aid you in making an intelli
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It is not necessary to itemlzo
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plain turn expressed in figures
tmiy: let them mean Just what
you mean to say.
Total Port
Receipts from
Cotton Year— Soot. -If to
January JO.
1805-6 3,662,190
1896- 7 5,139.272
1897- 98 6,961,253
1898- 9 6,166,283
1899- 1900 4.207,855
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