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LIOW e ipne Ay The Dirt f N 't ‘e Uirlue of Necesstty IS b o sey 24t 5 By Graham Hood, 534454420 RAZOR is an extremely useful article when it is applied to , Its proper purposes, but the man who tried to cut through : A”‘” 'l‘k&r‘i:on bars with”such an implement would soon find that it s of little value to him. He would succeed in dulling his. S W BRZOT quickly enough, however finely honed it might be, but ‘he wouldn't make much impression upon his bars. In spite of this very apparent fact, however, there are «#% Dlenty of people in this world who persist in vainly trying » PRRTCR SN to amake a razor play the part of a crowbar, Hemmed in by conditions that seem (® be too many for them, surrounded by obstaclessthat are apparently insurmountable, they still insist upon attempting to hew their way out of their predicament with the assistance of no more serviceabie weapon than a razor, : In contradistinction to this energetic but searcely wise class of individu als we have the example of those more reasonable human beings who are pol itic enough to make a virtue of necessity. I they have uo other possession than a penny candle they do not throw their property away in any vain attempts to run a universal lighting plant in’ opposition to the sun. Instead, they carefully hoard that little candle until the time ¢omes when they are sorely in need of it, on which occasion it asserts its value most advantageously, 80, too, given only a razor, they would find someé means of making good use of it, but 2lways in its proper place as a razor; never in lieu of a pickaxe. The inability to make the most of the opportunities that may have been offered by the pccasion in the failing that has frequently proved a serious handicap in the race for success; whereas, on the o:her hand, the knack of being able to make the best possible use of sich pale illuminants as the penny candle, or such impossible tools as the frail-edged razor, has been the means of helping many a man along the rough road that all must travel to reach the heights where fame and fortune dwell, the heights where alone one may find the realization of one's highest aspirations, In order to attain these heights, which appear so impassable as one looks at them from a distance, it is necessary to make use of every advantage which opportunity can offer. If they are suited to our purpose, it is well! If they are unsuitable, it is for us to discover some means by which we can bend them to that purpose. To accomplish these feats there ig no time like the present, The present is the time that is given to us for such achievements, for the nature of tomorrow’s harvest—whether it he a profitable or an unprof itable one—depends upon the manner in which we sow today. It is for this reason that the man who makes a virtue of necessity has an incalculable advantage over the fellow who is always waiting for a better chance. The former may be just as thoroughly dissatisfied with his present condition as the latter, but he does not make a lot of talk about it. He does not go about bemoaning the cruel Fa%e that will not give him the opportunity he deserves. On the contrary, he proceeds to make the most of the present, disagreeable as the circumstances may be. He sows his seed properly at the proper time, and then he prepares to cultivate it. Having cet for himself a goal, he directs all his attentions to that purpose, and every faculty that na ture has given him is made to do some good service. However menial his position, however slight his opportunities, he makes the most of them, and thus, unconsciously perhaps, he fits himself to take advaptage of the wider fields of usefulness that are certain to open to the man who has wisdom enough not to despise the small things which the present brings to him. It is very easy to be discontented with one’s lot, especially when it is filled with sms&ll, menial duties, To one who has not discovered the truth that the appearance of the building of the future depénds upon the construc tive work that is done today these menial tasks are extremely galling. It is when one leuarns that it is these little things that are the paving stones over which he must pass before he can attain his ideal that he reaches the point where he can seé the wisdom of making a virtue of necessity.—From the New York Globe. g 5 <& & & & The ar~vmm ? Girl and Her Jo ™ N R S DRS Sro Ey Hcrbogt,]. lg,apgood. ot e e HERE are few employers who realize the importance of edu cating the stenographer. Girls who take dictation, as a l rule, hav> had little better tha;? a public school ¢ourse. A few, perhaps, have gone half way through high school, but E=m=—==f{l even so, their knowledge of the English language is ridicu | ' lously limited. : ; ‘ It is necessary for the employer, then, to devise means e and methods of teaching the girls someching of the simpler rules for writing in good style. If he will take the trouble to do this, it will not be long before a marked improvement in the steno graphic work turned out will be noticed. I know of a large mail order house which employs over fifty stenograph ers, They are not high salaried girls, none of them earning more than twelve dollars a week, but their work ranks among the best I have ever seen, The secret Is this: The firm hires a man who has entire charge of the stenographic depart ment, He assembles all the girls once a week and delivers a ten-minute talk on good English. Supplementing this, each girl is given from time to time a mimeograph sheet of implicit instructions regarding points to be observed in matters of punctuation, capitalization, paragraphng, ete. One sheet is devot ed to the use of the comma, another shows the correct form of the more com mon abbreviations, and still another, the rules for using capitals. Occasionally more time is appropriated for the general assembly and the meeting is turned into an old-fashioned spelling bee. A number of prizes are awarled, and the girls show great interest in the event. It is said they brush up their spelling for days in order to be well prepared, & & e & VY - » g WN WY ee . sttt s By Ramsey Benson. $ ’ " | UM is a variety of things, ranging roughly from the bitters R 2 of the unco bunked to the booze of the bacchanal. ' R If efforts to abolish rum have proved uniformly unavail- E ing, it is perhaps because the time has not arrived when we | o can spare so effectual a scapegoat for carrying the sins of ! human weakness. Mankind fancies that if it weren't for i rum it would be middling decent, and, conceivably, this il d === lusion is worth all that intemperance costs them. Rum, at all events, relieves the race of responsibility, and for that is entitled to consideration, for responsibility is what differentiates us from the beasts and gives the beasts all the best of it in the pursuit of happiness, Rum, wrongfulness and rebates have called forth so much distinguished virtue, both religious and civie, that . 13 difficult to say what we should ever have done without them.—From Life, & =& & & N P | et i Capturing a Husband e ————— Ey George Harvey. AU A s g UCH that was thought and written years ago on how to choose a wife was good enough for the time, but the recent reversal of the relative attitudes of seeker and sought ren ders it valueless. Nevertheless, despite of the fact that in considering the points to be heeded and the precautions to be observed by womankind, we find ourselves in a fallow field, certain general principles may be regarded as estab lished. It is best, for example, to capture a husband while he_is still young, docile and plastic. Preferably also he should be in love. He may then be trained after the manner best calculated to serve the convenience of her for whom benceforth he must and should toil. ~~From the North American Review. L THE ART OF GETTING : = [NTO THE NEWSPAPERS & T The Short Cut to Fublicity Revealed by One Who Knows Every Road. " ind By-Path. . e The following clever and readable article on the subject uppermost in eévery newspaper man’s mind, ‘“‘adver tising,” is by Vietor Smith, the “On the Tip of the Tongue” man of the New York Press: Advertise, | Dear Tip-—What is the short cut to publicity? I have been striving in vain to get into the newspapers these geven years. What can I do? = Hackensack. PUBLICITY. Strive your hardest NOT to get in. Steal a million. Rob another fellow of hig wife. Spring a sensational di vorce. Beat the bank at Monte Carlo. But the best plan of all is to adver tise. lam in favor of the payv-as-you-t enter proposition. Commerecial houses, theatreg, circuses, ete., pay their way; why should not society and the pro fessions do likewise? The general press is under no obligation {o you. Address the business office at so much a line, and you can obtain all the publicity you require. Some newspapers are not profitable because they GIVE AWAY vast quantities of space in free advertising, or puffs, t the undeserving. The time is clos} at hand when everybody and every institution will have to “pony up.” The Eternal Equivalent, -+ | Every commercial business exacts} the eternal equivalent in the granting | of favors. Of no other institution in the world is so much exacted free as of the newspaper. It is a kind word here, a kind word yonder, a puff here and a puff there. For the price of‘ ONE cent a man expects, aye, even ‘i demands, space worth hundreds of dollars. But where is our quid pro quo? Thecirculation is not increased. We are giving something for noth ing. Once in a while Tip's column has a pardgraph about an interesting - man. It is good reading for all who,i take The Press; and the interesting man, being deeply interested, buys 100 or 500 copies and scatters them broadcast to interested people. What does it amount to? Five hundred copies cost $5-at retail; so there ig an outlay of §5 for SSOO worth of ad verlising. SHucks! The business is too one-sided. It isn't fajr. " Complimentaries. Those not in the newspaper busi hess imagine that the editor, mana ger, all the subs and every reporter and office boy, the compositors and even the scrubwomen go about loaded ‘with railroad passes, theatre tickets, boxes at the circus, police cards, steamboat complimentaries, telegraph and telephone franks, free use ¢ h mails, race track ~b&flw;a&?*§wa their friends on the outside are even insistent upon obtaining these privil eges. As a matter of fact, there are but few complimentaries of this char» acter flying about, and all are paid for by the eternal equivalent, the small matter of advertising. A Press man, for instance, sent to Chicago, may ride on a pass, but that pass has been paid for in advertising. Before the anti-pass law was enforced my life was saddened Ly my inability to meet the demands of friends for free transportation. Some had neo deli cacy abont asking for passes to San Francisco. Now it is easy to say: “You know the law: no mere freei passes.” As 1t is Done, No gentleman of the staff is sup posed to seek {ransportation from any railroad, steamboat or steamship company, from any submarine, air ship or automobile company, on his own recoguizement. If he wants to go to Carlsbad, or the heart of Africa, to the North Pole or to the antipodes, to Mars or to the howels of the earth, he is supposed to mention it to the business manager, who, if he chooses, refers it to the highest authority, Of course there are department heads who control certain and sundry priv ileges of the pass evil, such as the drama editor, the music editor, the sporting editor, ete. If I want a free pass for a theatre 1 may ask the dra ma editor, and he may (if he feels in the vein) send me a ‘‘pasteboard,” but it is a quid pro quo. llf I want to go to the circus I must ask the circus editor. Do I want to go to the race track? The sporting editor is the man to snuggle up to. Bte, Newspapers Overburdened, fi The newspapergives as a rule about Lwenty to one as its “equivalent.” No other imstitution on earth could af ford to do this and live. The news paper is the maker of all men and all corporations, the supporter of all. the adviser of all. Mind you, Ido not say CREATOR. Without its free pub licity most of the men in political and commercial lite to-day would he in their graves, We are really too gen. erous. The chief trouble is we do not draw tight enough the little line between news &and notoriéty. The theatres get an awful lot of:free ad vertising because a vast majority of the people patronize the drama and demand good report of it. oof the opera. 8o of horse racing. Ete. Just an Hlustration, The man who has a can of lard to Sell fails to understand why he does not get a column or (wo a day of beautiful description for his teu-line egate ad., when a racing association, with the same size ad., commands so great an amount of space. He over looks the fact that only a few persons may be interested in a can of lard, while tens of thousands are deeply concerned in racing. The theatrical éqnfilég‘nt cannot be estimated. A hundred thousand 'people, 500,000, 1,000,000, may be anxiously waiting Tuesday morning for a critique on Marz Lankershine’s new play of “‘The ’thhné‘?h"o' di Stearxwier.” The ad vertisement of the drama may amount to S2O, but that cuts no ice with the newspaper. It does its duty by allot ting as much space to the perform ance as the critic thinks the play is -entitled to. . ¥ — o Baseball. Baseball gets 1000 times {ts “‘equivalent.” Why? Because it is an amusement for vast multitudes of readers, The advertising of the game amounts practically to nothing, that ig, from a business oifice view. ‘‘No money in it.” But no paper could af ford to cut out its baseball reports. The Press baseball articles are the best, and they cost us a great deal of money. # T 1 Hunting and Fishing. No other paper in New York is so much.read by fishermen and hunters as The Press. Here again the “equiv alent” is altogether on our side. We give 100 times as much as we get out of it, but the Rod and Gun column is expected daily by a multitude of sportsmen, and to stop it would de stroy a prominent feature which pleases many who neither fish nor ghoot. ® ——— ,fi Wall Street, e + Wall Street receives an overabund jance_ot valuable space, you may say. ‘The Stock Exchange forbids advertis };_ng.,; More’s the pity. In a little _while, however, all this will be Tflchqn;ged through the publicity now being.thrust upon it. Thirty years ‘ago a physician who advertised was trowned upon as a quack. To-day ’some of the leading practitioners in ‘tfice themselves to the public by means of printers’ ink. Stock Ex fchén‘ge firms will have to advertise or go out of business. The day of the )“h@gh-horse” is past. 1 expect to see }th”itime when all price quotations ,lh% be paid for, and at big rates. ‘[!%gn y Clews made a great fortune in ‘the Street. He is a firm believer in [_mfiggrtlslng. and his card has been in ‘the papers for many years. He is the 'bfit)k‘x}own broker in the world. I — i ¥ 3 - WHY HINDOOS : WORSHIP SIVA. ig Romantic Legend Tells How ’: ' the East Indian De&ty Came 1o :; - Bless a Pcor Unlucky Hunter il S meTT % fi lindoos young and old solemnly 4 ived the fast of the Sivarathri, 0 "'f""redentffl\und!?,"xiid ‘gladly en dured its deprivations. For twenty four hours no religious Hindoo took a morsel of food nor slept a moment, but constantly prayed the god Siva to grant his wish and relieve his suf ferings or unhappiness. The Sivarathri rests on a legzend that comes from the misty past. A penniless hunter went out one morn ing, but when night fell only a puny bird had rewarded his long day’s hunt. Weary and fearing ferocious beasts, the hunter took refuge in a bale tree for the night, and hung the “game' on a twig. It so happened that Siva, in the course of his accustomed nocturnal wanderings, seated himself under the bale tree. The wind was blowing freshly, and leaves and the water they held from a shower fell on the god. This libation and the bird, pre sumably an offering, made Siva be lieve that some one in the tree was worshiping him at that late hour. Pleased, the god invited the person so devout to descenc. The hunter climbed down and told of his sor row and needs. Siva gave him many blessings and he lived happily to a ripe old age. 80, now, he who fasts and, sleepless, worships Siva at night, will be blessed andenjoy eternal bliss. -—SBimla (India) Correspondence of the New York World. W A Remarkable Cave, The President has signed a procla mation creating the Jewel Cave Na tional Monument within the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota. This remarkable cave, thirteen miles west and south of Custer, the county seat of Custer County, in a limestone formation, is believed hy geologists ‘o be an extinct geyser channel. The fational monument will’ embrace an area of 1280 acres. This cave, which was explored as late as 1900, has been found to consist of a series of chambers connected by narrow pas sages with numerous galleries, the walls of which are incrusted with a magnificent layer of calcite crystal. The opening of the cave is situated in Hell Canyon, the walls of which are high and precipitous. "The surface of the country in which the cave is lo caled consists of a high rolling lime stone plateau, about €OOO feet above sen level. The area is almost entirely covered by a forest of bull pine, a considerable portion of which is mer chantable, while the remainder con sists of & vigorous young growth. The ilewel Cave National Monument will ’uu\v be given permanent protection yby virt)xe of the act of June 8, 19046, which provides that objects of scien tific interest may he declared national monuments, if such action is deemed lercessary for their preservation and neoteclion.— Science. E The Soap Bubble and Its Secrets. How many of our young pegple have spent hours over those delicately colored wonders, the soap bubbles. i Many of us still believe, as we be lieved when children, that no gem ' surpasses a soap bubble in beauty; ‘and one cannot help feeling really sorry when each exquisite plaything ' bursts. Sir Isaac Newton, wno sought out the secret that a falling apple hint ed, said of the soap bubble that a man or child who could blow one that would last would confer a great benefit upon mankind. You may wonder at this saying, but the truth| of it will soon be apparent. | i .Perhaps some of you do not know‘! how to make a good soap bubble mix- ! | ture, so I give vou the directions for | preparing one. ‘ | Pat into a pint boitle two ounces | of best white Castile goap, cut into | thin shavings, and fill the bottle with | cold water which has been first boiled I and then left to cool. Shake well to ! gether, and allow the bottle to standi :{ until the upper part of the solution |is clear. Decant now of this clear | solution two parts, and add one part i of glycerin, and you have a soap bub l ble mixture very much like one sug | gested by a professor of Harvard Col | lege. ’ Some of you may wonder why bub -2 bles cannot be blown from water | alone. It is because the particles do | not possess sufficient attraction for | one another to form a film. Mys | teriously, the soap increases this at | traction, even if the quantity be as | small as 100th part of the solution. | We add the glycerin to make the film | more gorgeous by bringing about a | greater play of colors. Bear in mind ;that a carefully prepared mizture | will save you much disappointment. 1! The solution now being at hand, we use the ordinary clay tobacco pipe |in blowing. Always use a new one, | for one in which tobacco has been | smoked is poisoned. With a little | practice, and a moderate amount of ] patience, bubbles measuring eight or | ten inches in diameter may be pro ;duced, and even larger ones if the | lungs be refilled. The pipe, of course, should be held steadily, and the breath forced into the bubbles evenly. f In order to watch a bubble care | fully we may wish to support it in § some way. A common table goblet | will make a good stand if its edge is ] first dipped into melted paraffin, or | well soaped, which prevents it from | cutting into the film. " i ~ All bubbles and drops are round. | All liquids, when free to act, tend to | take on the spherical form. So it is with milk when it falls upon a but tered plate, a raindrop when it de scends, or the dew that glistens so beautifully in the morning sun. In ~each case the drop is composed of -tiny particles that are equally attract ed by a central particle, and as they cling regularly around it give the }drop a round shape. Your school ! books have told you that this attrac | tion that causes.all things to try to | come together is gravitation. | In the case of the soap bubbles the | case is reversed. The particles of I air within press with equal force out | ward upon the film in all directions, | producing the curved surface and 1 making a hollow spher2. If the room Be L L R T B ! TRAMP AND THE RAILROAD, | —— . Pennsylvania Lost $436,000 TLast % Year by Theft—A Conference of | Powers. [ That the Pennsylvania Railroad ; lost $436,000 last year by thefts by | tramps is shown in figures just made | publie to prove the seriousness of the i problem the railroads of the country | face in dealing with trespassers. This ! sum was paid out in 1907 in claims | for losses traced to thefts. | According to these figures on the | tramp nuisance, 4156 arrests for tres | passing and illegal train riding were , made on the Pennsylvania's right of i way and 466 men were arrested for | larceny. At the same time 809 men | were killed or died from injuries re -1 ceived while in the act of trespass ing. t The railroads of the country are | about to take concerted action look | ing to an abatement of the tramp | nuisance and it is to be one of the | important matters to be taken up at % the next annual joint meeting of the | State Railroad Commissions. Ac | cording to the railroad officials, local | authorities often refuse to make | arrests at all, whereas if the State | and county authorities would co | operate with the railroads the rail | road tramps would quickly decraase I in numbers. | The New York and Chicago Rail | road Managers' Association has taken l up the matter, and an attempt is to ‘ be made to enlist the support of til: | authorities in suppressing the evil !which the railroads contend is the | backbone ®* of all vagrancy.—New | York Sun, ok !.e e T v | Little Pay For Much Work. i The editor in proporiion to his | means does more for his town than | any other man, says the East Prairie | (Mo.) Eagle. He ought to be sup | ported, not because vou happen to | like him or admire his writing, but | because a local paper is the best in | yostment a community can make. It | may not be crowded with great ideas, | but financially it is of more benefit | than both teacher and preacher. To | day editors do more so: 1235 pay then { any other men on ezrih. i Is free from drafis, the bubple will be a perfect one, and win teach yg the principles that underlie the mak ing of a sphere. This perfect form, however, is seen only when the bub ble fioats. When resting upon the goblet, it appear; very much like an orange—that is, an oblate spherciqg, the true shape of the earth. Putting it into the simplest lan guage, the form of a bubble ig due to the holding together of the soap solution, to the outward bushing of the air within and the resistance of the film. If the air in the room is moderatsly cool the bubble will float like a oy balloon. The mouth and lungs at all times having a temperature of neariy 100 degrees, the air blown into the toy bubbles is warmer and conse quently lighter than the air which surrounds them; therefore they float, and it is their lightnessand gracethat, ‘with their beauty, give them such 5 charm. . As soon as the air within the ‘bnbble cools it slowly sinks till it ’reaches the floor, and the jar of jtg ’contact usually ruptures the film, The extreme thinness of the bubhle is indeed wonderful. It is estimateq that the film in some places is only one 3,000,000 th of an inch in thick- Iness. Probably few of us can con ceive of such thinness. Let me ex press it in another way. The Old and New Testament contain some 3,000, 000 letters. Now one 3,000,000 th is such a part of an inch as the first let ter of the Bible is a part of the sum of all its letters. g : The bubble, however, is not of equal thickness at all points, and it is for this reason that it has the various colors. For instance, wherever the film is orange red it measures about three I,ooo,oooths of an inch, and at a point where lemon yellow is prom inent about twenty I,ooo,oooths of an inch. Perhaps you wonder why the colors change from one part of the soap bubble to another. This is because the film of the soap bubble evaporates and grows thinner, but unequally so at different portions. A greenish blue with a pale rose red. spot near it indicates an extreme thinness, and at such a point the film is ready to give way at the least jar. You will be glad toknow the source of the beautiful colors. Every one is delighted with them, even if not in terested by the explanation of their origin. We may say that they come from the light. Light gives color to all objects, but not exactly as it does to the soap bubble. White light from the sun can be broken into the seven colors which we have seen in the rain bow. In that instance the raindrops Separate it into its parts. A glass prism will do-the same, as you may prove by looking througp a glass pen dant from a hanging lamp. When the light reaches the surface of the soap bubble a part is reflecied from it, and we see images on its sur face as if it were a curved mirror, Another portion of the light, how ever, enters the film and is separated so that a part of the sevén colors are thrown into the’bubble, and we can see them at various portions of the opposite surface. Another part of the light, after being broken by the film, is reflected by its inner surface back to our eyes, so that we see col ors at the point vshere the light en ters.—Christian Advocate. e e Gunners’ Deafness. X “The imminent danger,” says Sur geon-General Rixey, ‘““of the serious and in a measure preventable acci dent, rupture of the eardrums, de mands consideration in preparation for target practice or battle, and eévery man should be compelled to employ pledgets of cotton or a worthy substitute for filling the auditory ori fices. Tae necessity of compulsion in a matter so rational may be sur prising, but the fact is neither officers nor men iake kindly to the use of such artificial brotection, though the practice is more universal than it was a few years ago. Many of the Bun crews in the navy suffer from deafness of variable duration after target practice, and in a severe naval action it is probable that the impact of suddenly compressed air or re peated violent air vibrations conse quent upon big gun fire and the bursting of the enemy’s shells would produce not only deafness (tempo rary or permanent) among the per sonnel of the ships but also a dazed mental condition, which is a recog nized result, that would have the effect of physical disablement. “Prevention can alone deal with it, and the medical bureau hopes that some action may be taken by the Navy Department. The bureau has been making some study of the var ious’ expedients and devices of indi cating those deserving recognition and from among which choice may be made, but the adoption of any one to the entire esclusion of others with in the range of etr':cienc'y is neither necessary nor desirable. Action is needed only to the end that some efficient protection be made obliga tory among those etposed to the con cussion of gun fire or shell explosion, and the bureau has recommended a general.order to that effect.”—Wash ington Star. A On Jupiter. S A man of normal earthly size, if {ransported to the equator of Jupiter, would actually feel much lighter than he does here on earth, because the swift rotation of the planet would al most lift him from his feet and throw him into the heavens.—Cassell's Sat avday Journal, » e