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THOU MUST LIVE UNTO ANOTHER An unusually good book recently has been, published. It bears the title, "A Vagabond's Journey Around the Wjorld," and covers the daily, life of an athletic and braiiJy chap who circled the globe, penniless and on foot. He lived with the poorest of the poor. He was hungry often, and night after night his bed was the ground and his coverlet the sky. One fact stands out in that book as big as life. It is that KIND NESS abides in every clime. Whether one travels to the land of the Eskimo or abides for a time in the shadow of the pyramids; whether he mixes with the people of yellow skins, or "black or white, there is always human affection to be found, unselfish love of man for his kind. It was in a Burma jungle that an Englishman held out a hand ful of silver to the vagabond and said : "Take it, old chap. I know you don't want charity, but folks were good to me when I was on my uppers." m The native woman in her squalid hut made of leaves set out the best food she possessed, without hope of or wish for reward. A stranger was hungry. That was all she wanted to know. On board a steamer where he lived with coolies he found a bunkie the first night who was ready to share his every possession with the stranger. On the beach at Suez, arrfbng the riff-raff of nations, the cast offs of many ships, he found a sailor yes, a hobo, who traveled half of Europe with him,- who endured as he endured, who braved burn ing sun, wild animals, jungles, the perils of. rivers and trackless" Wastes, the days without food and the hours without water. And all because of human affection. . It is the pivot of life. It is the thing that makes the Big Scheme worth while. The more of it you give away the more of it you get. -s On it is builded Appreciation, TqlcratiQn, Sympathy, Friend ship. It is a coin current in all nations and among all tribes, fine gold in all age's and all times. It was old Seneca who wrote: "Neither can any man live happily who only respecteth himself, who converteth all things to Ju's own profit. Thou must live unto another if thou wilt live unto thyself." o o- ' Battleship New Hampshire badly smashed up by a passenger Steamer. Our armored navy never knows when it is safe from beinsr rammed to death by some wooden friendly powc " J