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Whisky Is a Good Driver.
It Drives Away Friends. Happiness, and From the Mind Drives
Confidence and Courage.
(Copyright. 1913.)
Send the picture on this page to some man who needs it.
Many men need it, unfortunately.
As you see this man at the table and the two spirits that
leave him, you realize that man is not single, but made up of
many elements.
These are firmly compacted in the self-controlled man; they
work together to make him what he should be.
But whisky, the drug and poison, has the subtle power to
dissolve character and take away from the man who scarcely
knows it the best elements in his nature.
Whisky beggars a man! It finds him full of hope and cour
age and confidence in himself.
It finds him with friends, receiving and giving affection.
And one by one it takes these things from him.
The friends are taken and affection is taken. His strength,
his prospects go, little by little, as the whisky fills his tissues,
conquers his nerves and rules in the foolish brain which often
says so pitifully, “If I had just one more drink, I’d be all right.”
Just one more drink, and then another, and dozens and hun
dreds following.
And at last the unhappy man on whom whisky has fastened
its clutch sits like the man in this picture. Of all men he alone
does not see his degradation, the brutal defacement of what was
once a man.
Have you seen a buzzard, a vulture or a crow picking the
skeleton of a horse?
Whisky does its work as vilely and as thoroughly as the
meanest buzzard.
Bit by bit it picks from the man all he has that is worth
while.
Saddest of all is the scene in this picture, when the two spir
its that give man his chief hope leave him—when COURAGE
AND SELF RESPECT PASS OUT OF THE DOOR LEAVING
THIS POOR WRECK ALONE AT THE TABLE.
Is it even then too late, and is the case hopeless?
No, fortunately, It is never too late, and no man’s case is
hopeless.
HE CAN, IF HE WILL, RISE UP AND FOLLOW OUT OF
THAT DOOR THE SPIRIT THAT HAS LEFT HIM AND
OVERTAKE IT AND MAKE IT HIS OWN.
Some of the world's best work has been done and is done
now by those that were once robbed by alcohol of all save the
one spark that brings man back to his place WHEN HE WILL.
Many a man sits disconsolate, gazing into space, wondering
what is to become of him, bitterly repentant, anxious for those
that suffer.
And his hope and courage and confidence disappear in the
distance.
Help him if you can. Lift him to his feet, start him in the
right road.
He may overtake them, HE CAN IF HE WILL.
Portugal Will Never See King Manuel on
the Throne—With Gaby Deslys
on the Throne Steps.
TheTrouble With Portugal Is Ignorance of the People, INABILITY
TO READ, but the Republic Will Live.
(Copyright, 1913.)
News from Portugal, sent out by those that hate republican
government and that like ignorance, is to the effect that the
Republic of Portugal is in danger.
These reports need not seriously worry those that believe in
republican government.
For a good many years there have been periodic reports of
the same kind coming from France.
The world has been asked to believe that a French pretend
er, with a forehead one inch and a half high and the intelligence
of a canary bird, would succeed in putting up a throne and rul
ing the French people.
Everybody knows that that is a pitiful joke.
The French pretenders have about as much chance of ruling
in France as they have of ruling in Alaska.
The news from Portugal is disturbing only because of the
fact that the system of tyranny, brutality and superstition that
ruled there for so long, PURPOSELY KEPT THE PEOPLE IN
IGNORANCE AND UNABLE TO READ.
Those that would mislead the people, those that hate the re
public and hate government by the people, are helped by the fact
that the poor peasants in the country, and the clerks and the
workers in the cities and towns, are, as a rule, illiterate, unable
to read or to sign their own names.
There is no real danger, however, for the Republic of Portu
gal. There may be a revolution again, but it will end IN AN
OTHER REPUBLIC.
The interesting little Manuel will continue sitting at a little
tin table on the French boulevard; he will continue to be a mov
ing picture king—not a real one.
Never again will Portugal see him sitting on the throne,
spending the money of a people overtaxed and kept ignorant.
If the present rulers of Portugal are replaced by others,
they will be no men of the King Manuel type, but men of greater
force than the present rulers, able to continue Portugal as a re
public; able to carry on the real business of a republic—THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, THE ABOLI
T10N OF IGNORANCE AND THE SUPERSTITION AND
RUTALITY THAT GO WITH IGNORANCE.
Do You Know Any Man Ruined by Whisky?
Show him this picture and the two spirits, SELF-RESPECT and COURAGE, walking away from
this unhappy victim of his own weakness. This picture may send some drunkard hurrying out of the
door to catch up with the friends that have been driven from him. (See Editorial.)
A RE you a student of the
power of mind over mat
ter? Are you talking to
every one you meet about "Uni
versal Life Principle" and "Vlbra-
Uon” and "Mental and Spiritual
Science" and all the other ex
pressions so In vogue to-day among
advanced thinkers?
See to It That Your Life
Illustrates Your
Theories.
If you are, see to it that your
life Illustrates your theories. Do
not let It all end In talk.
1 have known a self-supporting
woman to use all her Income in
literature and lectures and les
sons on these subjects: "How to
Control Destiny,” "How to Grow
Success," "How to Attain Self-
Mastery" and "How to Be Well
and Prosperous.” Yet she was al
ways ailing. She had not one
penny saved, nor respectable cloth
ing In her wardrobe; she slighted
hei work and forgot her duties
and was altogether an unsaUsfac-
tory human being.
At almost any gathering of peo
ple identified with or interested in
Mental, or Christian Science, or
New "thought, or any kindred sub
ject, a large majority of tire uu-
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kempt and nervous and erratic
beings are to be encountered. This
Is true, we know, of all new
theories and creeds, for the dis
appointed and dissatisfied souls
of earth naturally turn to new ave
nues of thought, hoping to find
peace. But when we find these
unfortunate types representing a
religion or a theory and talking
its precepts to every passerby, it
Is a matter of more than temporary
regret
Until you can Indicate by your
life, your face, your manner and
by Btiur Oomptny.
your work that you have found a
solution for the problem of exist
ence and a panacea for human Ills,
do not talk about It Walt in the
silence and grow.
It is a simpler matter to be filled
with a conviction than It is to
prove that conviction to the world.
But while there are thousands
of people to-day talking and writ
ing the philosophy not ten Iq any
thousand are living what they
talk. A woman whb was all
nerves and hysteria and who kept
herself and every one about her in
DOUBT
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
T HERE Is a devil and his name Is Doubt;
The country and the city know him well.
He makes each human mind his citadel
And many an honest aim he puts to rout.
He argues well, about it and about—
He kills more love than any tongue can tell;
He leads obedient mortals to his hell
And mocks them when they seek a pathway out.
You do not know him. yet you doubt your friend;
You sneer at him, but doubt a mother's love.
He camps upon your trail until the end,
As smooth as silk, as fluttering as a dove
In every brain he builds his little fires—
He is tue, uuslicst devil (Satan hires.
confusion and excitement over her
troubles and aliments was urged
to try Spiritual Science.
“Why, I teach it,” she said. "I
do not need any one to help me in
that way, as I have had a class of
young women to whom I have been
revealing the truth for some
time.”
That is the great trouble with
the world to-day.
We have so many people teach
ing and so few living the truth.
Because you have gained a little
light and begin to understand the
philosophy of life do not set your
self up for a teacher or an ex-
horter until you have proven by
your life that what you teach and
preach is practicable.
Wait Until You Succeed
Before Preaching
Success.
Wait until you can keep yourself
in health before you begin healing
others.
Wait until you are successful in
your undertakings before you tell
others the way to win success.
Wait until your face expresses
pence and calm and happiness be-
'nre you preach the power of your
philosophy to produce these re
sults.
j—sve first—talk na j.
Elbert Hubbard
Writes on
High Cost of Living and
Wasted Crops.
Lack of Transportation and
the Clutch of the Middleman,
He Declares, Has Left Thou
sands of Carloads of Garden
Produce Rotting on the
Ground in Texas This Season.
By ELBERT HUBBARD
Live First = = = = = Talk Afterward
The Trouble with the World Is There Are So Many Teaching the Truth,
So Pew Living It—-Let Your Life Illustrate Your Theories.
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
D OWN in the beautiful and
peaceful I’ecos Valley in
Texas some months ago I
.saw tons of luscious strawberries
rotting in the field because the
markets of the North were over
stocked and the berries were not
worth the freight, much less the
cost of picking.
Southwestern Texas Is the coun
try that General Sherman had in
mind when he made a certain sar
castic remark that has gone clat
tering down the centuries like a
tin kettle to a dog’s tail.
The application, however, of wa
ter and intelligent labor to the arid
land of Texas has worked such
miracles that William Tecumseh’s
far-flung phrase puts that gentle
man’s perspicacity in jeopardy.
On a single acre of • irrigated
land I have seen produced ten tons
of onions, cabbages in proportion
and spinach enough to fill a silo.
The sunshine, the fertility of the
soil and water produce crops
which, if the truth were told about
them, would qualify the narrator
for the Ananias Club in any city
of the North, and quickly.
Carloads Rot.
The question, however, is to get
these fruits and vegetables on the
tables of the people who need them
most. Lack of transportation and
the clutch of the middleman has
left thousands of carloads of gar
den produce rotting on the ground
in Texas this past season.
Here is a question so big and
important that it deserves the at
tention of the most able men in
the United States to-day.
It is a somewhat curious fact
that our lawmaking is largely the
work of amateurs.
The men we send to Washing
ton are not the men who have had
experience in the matter of tak
ing care of great and important
propositions.
They are for the most part men
who have wormed themselves into
office.
The business of governm'ent falls
into the hands of the inexperienced
and the unfit.
This thing of government by the
selfish, the transient and the irre
sponsible is the most telling criti
cism to be made of our so-called
Democracy.
There should be a method de
vised by the Government whereby
the services of highly trained men
can be secured and utilized. And
one of the crying needs of the
trained man now is in this matter
of getting the desirable food
products of the South and West
into the hands of the people in the
cities of the East \tT10 need them
most.
rhe Problem.
With peaches rotting in the
orchards'in the Yakima Valley,
millions of dollars’ worth of ap
ples ungathered in Washington—
hundreds ctf carloads of onions,
cabbages, c spinach, berries in
Texas, and thousands of people in
Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and
New York going without fresh
vegetables and without fresh fruit
—this is the condition that chal
lenges our economic skill.
The solution of the high cost of
living lies in getting vegetables and
fruit direct from farm to family
with least possible expense.
And so here comes an invention
successfully utilized and worked
out whereby fruits and vegetables
can be dehydrated.
Most fruit and vegetables con
tain from SO to 02 per cent of
water. To eliminate this water so
the vegetables and fruits can be
kept an indefinite length of time
is a most desirable evolution to
bring about.
Green peas, rhubarb, spinach,
raspberries, blackberries, straw
berries should be on Christmas
tables fresh in all of the cities of
the North, and this at a very rea
sonable price.
Science to Help.
As it is things have to be shipped
in season, in refrigerator cars,
rushed through and sold quickly.
Otherwise they deteriorate and
perish.
The expense of transportation of
perishable goods is very much
greater than that where the article
is dehydrated and prepared so it
will keep indefinitely.
By evaporating the water in his
products the farmer can find a
ready market for a vast quantity
of fruits and vegetables which are
now practically worthless.
The market where the thing has
to be sold quickly places the ship
per at a great disadvantage and
gives the middleman his chance.
I expect to see the day when the
United States Government will
co-operate with big business to the
end that the vast crops of the irri
gated lands of the West and South
shall be harvested and marketed
to the people who need them most,
and this at a minimum of expense.
Washington a Mason
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
I T WAS one hundred and sixty
years ago that George Wash
ington was given the well-
earned right to look upon the
“hieroglyphic light which none
but craftsmen ever saw.”
The venerable and venerated
records of Fredericksburg Lodge
show that Washington was ini
tiated on November 4, 1752, passed
fellowcraft March 3, 1753, and was
raised to the sublime degree of
Master Mason August 4. 1753.
Strange to say, it appears to be
a fact that the “Father of His
Country” was initiated before he
had reached the required age of 21
years Daniel Campbell, Master
of the lodge, granted the special
dispensation which enabled the
candidate to begin his eastward ‘
journey while still a minor.
Grand Master French, of the
District of Columbia, declared in
an address delivered in 1851 that
no one stopped to inquire about
Washington’s age when his peti
tion was presented; that the ma
jestic proportions of the candi
date, together with his well-
known character and ability,
made upon all concerned the im
pression that might have been
made by a thoroughly matured
man.
It appears, however, that the
dispensation was based upon the
fact that the candidate’s duties
demanded it. So busy a man was
to be received w’hen it was con
venient for him.
W ashington remained a mem
ber of the Fredericksburg Lodge
to the day of his death. Among
the many other distinguished men
whose names appear upon lb*
rolls* of the lodge are George Wel
don, Washington’s adjutant-gw*-
eral; General Hugh Mercer, who
fell at the battle of Princeton;
Tacob VonBraam, Washington’s
instructor in sword practice, and
Fielding Lewis, Washington’s
brother-in-law'.
The Bible that was used at the
time \\-ashington was made a
Mason is still in possession of
the old Virginia lodge, and is
guarded with unremitting care
and affection. It is said to be
226 years old. and is still in an
excellent state of preservation.
In the evil days of the w*ar
between the States the old town
of Fredericksburg lay between
the opposing lines of Lee and
Burnside, and while the bloody
struggle was on thousands on
both sides thought of the little
temple and altar and Bible that
were so lovingly associated in
their recollection with the man
who made the nation whose very
existence w’as then trembling in
the balance.
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