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the. futuke citizen. PAGE & 50 with them and gave some of them presents. Then they were not so much afraid. He wished to light his pipe for them to stnoke. So he took out his burning glass. He held it in the sun. He held his pipe under it. THE HABIT OF HAPPINESS No matter what vocation or condition in life may be, every one owes it to himself and to the world to form a habit of being just as m , . , , , happy as he can. Happiness is har- The sunshine was drawn together harmony means health ■ nto a bright little spot on .he to to a ,f bodi , func ' ions . it the to began, to bacco. Soon the pipe smoke. Then he heid out his pipe for the Indians to smoke with him. That is their way of making friends. But none of the Indians would touch the pipe. They thought that he had brought fire down from heaven to light his pipe. They were now sure that he fell down from the sky. They were more afraid of him than ever. At last Captain Clark’s Indian man came. He told the Indians that the white man did not come out of the sky. Then they smoked the pipe, and were not afraid THE HAS-BEENS. (By Walt Mason) I read the papers every day and oft encounter tales which show there’s hope for every jay who in life’s battle fails. I’ve just been reading of a gent who joined the has-been ranks, at 20 years with out a cent, or credit at the banks. But undismayed he buckled down, refusing tc be beat, and captured fortune and renown ; he’s ^ now in Easy street. Men say that fellows down and out ne’er leave the rocky track, but facts will show, beyond a doubt, that has beens do come back. I know, for I who writes this rhyme, when forty odd years old, was down and out, without dime, my whiskers full of mold. By black disaster I was trounced until it jarred my spine; I was a failure so pronounced I didn’t need a sign. And after I had soak ed my coat, I said (at forty-three) , “I’ll see if I can catch the goat that has escaped from me.” I labored hard; I strained my dome, to do my daily grind, until in triumph 1 came home, my billy goat behind And any man who still has health may with the winners stack, anc have a chance at fame and wealth— for has beens do come back. means efficiency. Faculties give out their best wlrEn they are normal. To keep happy is therefore, the best personal economy and surest in vestment : it insures the greatest possible output of brains and body. Much natural ability is rendered nefficient because men and women do not know that discord, whether in fear, worry, selfishness, hatred or jealously, is a health and hap- )iness killer, an efficiency blighter. Many men waste more vitality and mental energy in a few minutes of bad temper that would be required in the legitimate running of their business for days. What would we think of a bank er who would open his vaults and throw all his money into ths street? But when, in a fit of anger or rage a man throws open the safety valve of his mind and dings out hts ener- egy, his precious life capital, char acter capital, we think very little about it. We can make ourselves happy or miserable, comfortable, or un comfortable, according to the emo tions which we allow to pass through our minds. Whatever goes through the mind must reappear it the character and physical condi tion. It is a law that every state of mind, whether good or bad, effects every cell in the system and is out- pictured in the body. We are thus the arbiters of our fate through our thoughts, emotions and passions. The time will shall know how of some form of discord. If the mind is kept as happy as possible it is difficult for discord to get a foot hold in the body. A happy mind is the best possible health producer, disease killer and discord destroyer. For centuries man’s happiness was looked upon by many earnest, thinking people as a condition large ly beyond his control. They seem ed to think that it depended mostly upon the temperament one happen ed to develop and that there were other things of so much more im portance that we should not con sider it too serious or take precious time to cultivate it directly. We are beginning to find, how ever, that even as an economical in vestment it pays immensely to make a business of being happy and be ing just as good to ourselves as pos sible, although not in a selfish way. We could not be good to ourselves in the higher sense by being selfish. There is nothing better that we can do for our children than to train them from infancy to form a habit of always being happy, cheerful and hopeful, and of making this a life principal. The habit of op timism, of facing life the right way, will be worth infinitely more t•> them than the greatest fortune they may inherit without it. Children should be given a bright outlook upon life. There is nothing like a sunny disposition, a happy temperament, and if they are in herited they may be cultivated. Keep yourself cheerful, j >yous and happy. It was never intended that you should be a grumbling, discordant, unhappy mortal. You were tn ide to be happy, exuberant , but do not mistake intoxicating ex come when we} citement, a titillulion of the nerves, . , 1 | l ° re ^ resh our *. for happiness. Real happiness is selves by mental change, by men- , tal chemistry; that is, by holding i as ca l‘ n as a summer sea, it 1 c p, in our minds the antidotes of the 1 quiet, serene. It works noiselessly, things that have wearied us or 1 silently but powerfully. We are vexed us, by bolding the mental I most powerful when most perfectly attitude which will neutralize the thought enemies that have thrown our bodies into confusion. There is nothing so dead to hap piness as mental discord. It para lyzes the thinking ability and de stroys the power of concentration and effectiveness. All diseases and sickness of whatever kind are the outpitching poised, when most serene. Happiness is a great stimulator of growth. Nothing grows when discordant. When we shill have learned how to conserve our ener gies by getting our minds into har mony', even the hardest day’s work will not tire us. It is nerve exhaus- 1 low is The Time For AD Good Men to Come to The Aid of The Future Citizeu A Hint, Etc.