Topics of
the Times
Never judge a man by the opinion he
has of himself.
Women use calling cards In playing
the social game.
‘falk Isn’t necessarily cheap when
rioney does the talking.
Every man who knows himself knows
how selfish other men are.
A woman doesn’t thoroughly enjoy
anything she can’t cry over.
When a man borrows trouble he puts
up his peace of mind as collateral.
There are a good many noughts in
the sum total of the world’s inhabit
ants. :
The Panama cana] is being dug to
muslc. Why shouldn’t 1t? Uncle SBam
pays the piper.
After reading the report on the pack
ing houses you are almost ashamed to
look a corned-beef can in the face.
A man of the name of Bzisz was the
victor in a recent big automobile race.
How could they have stopped him?
There is one advantage possessed by
the man at the bottom over the man at
the top ; he doesn’t have so far to fall.
The Czar's attitude toward the Dou
ma ls that of a little boy who owns a
dog about 20 sizes too large for him.
It is sald the Standard people will
furnish Ban Francisco with water. 01l
and water may have to mix, after all.
Pleasestop asking concerning the pub
lle estimate of the joy of belng an ice
man In Toledo. Nobody wants to be
the lceman.
No great war is now being waged
anywhere. “Fighting Bob” Evans
must regard this as a very inferlor
sort of summer.
A London music teacher says Ameri
can girls have the sweetest volces In
the world. We may add that they have
the richest fathers, too.
It is announced that kerosene 01l ex
ternally applied wil] cure snake-bite.
This may cause H. H. Rogers to take
a firm stand agalnst the people who kill
suakes,
The scientists have decided that the
Ban Francisco earthquake was due to
ruptures in the earth’s crust. This re
lieves Thomas W. Lawson of a lot of
suspicion.
George Bernard Shaw says he would
rather sweep a crossing than live in
ldle luxury. Russell Bage might at
least encourage Mr. Shaw with a word
or two of approval.
While the girl graduates received the
poetic advice to keep their eyes on the
stars, the only advice the young men
graduates had handed out to them
wasé to keep their eyes on the ‘“Help
Wanted” columns.
The spelllng reform brethren now
clalm Willlam Shakspeare as one of
their confraternity and they are right.
A man who consistently refused to spell
his own name the same way twice in
succession certainly must be credited
with latitudinarian views in the matter
oi* orthography.
The late Michael Davitt, the Irish
bome ruler, who had served two or
three terms in prison for his opinions,
bequeathed to all his frlends “kind
thoughts, to my enemies the fullest pos
sible forgiveness, and to Ireland my
undying prayer for her absolute free
dom.” One does not need to agree with
qu‘l‘fit to admire the spirit which In
spired such a passage in his will.
- Addlson, in one of his “Sir Roger De
Qoverly” sketches, says: “A man’'s first
care should be to avold the reproaches
of his own heart; his next to escape
the censures of the world; if the last
futerferes with the former it ought to
be entirely neglected. If we may judge
from experience and from the sights
and sounds around us, this is scarcely
the principle which directs the conduct
of many of us. And yet there Is an
immense amount of practical common
sense wisdom In Addison's dlctu.m, for
in avoiding the reproaches of his own
heart a man Is taking the surest step
toward the highest good—happiness.
Persons who travel are aware that
the cake of soap for promiscuous use
has been growing less common in the
wash rooms of hotels, and in New York
aund some other large cities has almost
disappeared. Devices by which a small
portion of pulverized or liquid soap is
deposited in the hand have largely su
perseded the cake of soap. The reason
is the readiness with which soap re
celves and retalns the germs of disease.
Physiclans who tested cakes of soap
from various New York hotels found
filth and disease bacteria in nearly ev
ery sample—lin those from the highest
priced and most fashionable hotels, as
well as those from the cheaper ones.
Nobody contributes more largely to
the general good than one with a
hearty good sense of humor. Troubles
disappear at his approach, asd under
the mmgic Influence of his contaglous
genality cares and worrles, which
seemed so heavy, become light as alr
and mere cause of smiles. One with a
sunny, hopeful, humorous nature 1s like
a physician during a plague. It Is not
possible, of course, for everybody to be
witty or humorous. It is just as rea
sonable to counsel people to be poets
or to be beautiful as to urge them to
be wits or humorists. Wits and hu
morists are born, not made, and there
is hardly anything more melancholy
‘than the person without any sense of
‘humor or a grain of wit valnly striving
to win applause and dulling the edge
of patience. Franklin esald that no
fools are so troublesoms as those who
have wit, and those who with unsea
sonable jests make light of serious and
sacred things, If we cannot all add to
the fund of good humor by ‘“lambent
fleshes” of wit and the beautiful, gra
clous charm of an Oliver Goldsmith or
a Mark Twain, it 18 nevertheless with
in the power of all to take a cheerful
view of things and to cultivate our own
good humor. Our temperaments are
made for us, but our habits are of our
own making. And good bumor and
cheerfulness are largely habits. A
cheerful frame of mind comes with a
desire and determination to be cheer
ful, and the habit, llke all other habits,
grows with tlme and use. Whoever
cultivates the cheerful habit will find
his reward in his own bappiness, which
will grow as he percelves how much
his cheerfulness and good humor add
to the happiness of others.
Prof, L. H. Bailey, director of the
Cornell University’s agricultural de
partment, has been discussing the ques
tion of the cityward drift of farm boys,
especially of boys who go to college,
and his views are hopeful and encour
aging. He is certaln that In the neas
future there will be an excellent under
standing and cordial co-operation Dbe
tween the farm and the college, not
withstanding certain present tendencles
which he regrets. An identical letter of
inquiry to Cornell students born and
bred on farms’/or in rural sectlons
brought Prof. Bailley Interesting data,
which he summarizes in the Century.
One hundred and fifty-five students ad
witted that they were leaving the farm,
and gave thelr reasons for the decision.
These reasons are grouped under four
heads, as follows: Financial rewards,
physical labor, social and intellectual
interests, miscellaneous difficulties and
bandicaps on the farm. Many of the
students thought the farmer had no op
pertunity either for political distinction
or for soclal, humanitarian gervice. Fif
teen expected to return to the farm in
the course of time, after a successful
career in the eity in business or the pro
fesslons. Prof. Balley is not surprised
at the fascination exercised by the
great cities, with their wealth, their In
tense life, their infinite variety, their
social and political organizations, their
amusements and qrtistic and intellec
tual attractions. But he believes that a
reaction is in course of preparation.
Great fortunes made In trade and com
merce have a dazzling effect, but many
of the ambitious youths soon discover
that it is impossible for every one %o
get rich, and the professions are noto
riously overcrowded. Yale proposes to
make its law school a post-graduate
school and admit no one without a col
jege degree, and the suggestion is gen
erally commended on the ground that‘
already there are too many lawyers in
the country. Most physicians, archi
tects, literary men, artists say the same
thing about thelr vocatlons. The farm
holds out no promise of great wealth,
but It insures mental peace, comfort
and reasonable prosperity when proper
ly and practically managed. So far as
rural isolation is concerned, it is surely
becoming a thing of the past, as Prof.
Balley has pointed out in a commence
ment address, With the übiquitous trol
ley, the autocar, the telephone, the free
dellvery system, the construction of
new railways, and—we may add—the
gutomatic plano players and other mu
sical Instruments—who can justly say
the farm means dull monotony and iso
latlon? The farm needs the college,
but it can In turn do much for the ed
ucated vouth seeking opportunities. The
city will find the farm more and more
of a competitor with college men.
Mark Twain on Advertising. \
Meark Twain in the midst of a pane
gyric on advertising told a remarkable
story.
“Phere was a man,” he said, “back
lowa way who was so pleased with an
adverticement in the local paper that
he wrote the following testimonial let
ter to the editor:
«sMr. Editor: Sir—After selling all
I could, giving barrels away, stuffing
my hogs till they would eat no more,
I still had last fall about 200 tons of
big, Juley. fine flavored apples left on
my hands. I inserted in your valuable
paper an ad. that I was willlng to send
free a barrel of picked fruit, freight
paid in advance by me, to any one who
would apply, there being, of course, no
charge for the barrel. You will hardly
credit it, but that little 40-cent ad.
cleared out my whole stock of apples,
and I could have dlsposed of five times
i the quantity on the same terms.””
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a pint of methylated spirit, cork tight
ly, leave till the next day, then pour
off the clear liquid. Heat the brass
slightly and paint the solution over it
with a camel's hair brush.
We have known a great many won
en, and have heard hundreds of them
tell their love affairs, but never yet
knew one who recelved a proposal of
marriage in a conservatory.
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