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XfcfoMen /Al nteßg-s v& By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Llfe means action, the cradlo to funeral pile. The situation into vhich we are born :md our and physical equipments at are the re- i suit in other and all actions while here are forming conditions to come. There are ltmitless possibilities in this • to ov « rcome, conditions hamper or annoy us, and to bring in to realization whatever hopes or aspi rations lure us. We have not begun to sound the < depths in our minds. The most brilliant, the most stu dious. the most reverent, the most, persistent, have only sailed about! the shores of this great ocean; they I have not even imagined what deep I waters lie beyond, and what rare pearls He under those deep waters. But we have shining examples of individuals who have achieved so much under such discouraging conditions | that their lives become an inspiration j to nil who meditate upon them. Lincoln, born in poverty, reared in j the same hard school, surrounded by! the commonplace and the undesirable! and deprived of all opportunities for j advancement, made himself a colossal I figure in the eyes of centuries to come through high thinking, clean living' and the persistent cultivation of the \ old Immortal virtues of honesty, truth, ; courage and unselfishness and devo-! tion to those duties which stood near- I est. All his thoughts, all his ambitions, ! all his actions, from childhood to ma- i |Their Married Life! | By IK ABEL HERBERT URNER Warren Advertises For a Stenog rapher and Is Overwhelmed With Letters "There's a bunch you ean wade through," and Warren threw down a great bundle of letters tied together with a stout twine. "Not all those?" Helen turned over the bundle in amazement. "Surely you did not get that many answers to just one advertisement?" "That's the crop," grimly. Helen had untied the string and was now glancing hastily over the envelopes. In \ varied handwriting they were all addressed to "H. 166, The American." She started to open one. "Better wait till after dinner. I want to be fortified with a good square meal before I tackle that job. It's sickening—getting those from one ad for a twelve—dollar a week stenog rapher." Even Warren had been touched by the mute appeal of all these letters. There were at least two hundred — and all but one must be disappointed. "A 200 to 1 chance on a twelve-dol lar job," as he expressed it. All through dinner Helen thought oC that mass of letters waiting to be opened. It was appalling that so many women should be seeking this one very moderately paid position. While Warren had given Miss Perry eighteen dollars —she had worked up to that from twelve. When they went back into the li brary, Helen got the paper knife for Warren, a hat pin for herself, and spread out the letters on the table. Warren opened and glanced over a dozen or more, then took up his even ing paper with a discouraged— "You pick out the best of 'em. I haven't the patience to go through that lot." Helen was intensely interested. Were it not for her aching sympathy for so many girls seeking employ ment, she would have enjoyed going through these letters, with their varied glimpses of character. She was opening now a square white envelope of good quality. "Dear Sir: — "Replying to your advertisement in to-day's American, I should like to apply for the position. "I have had two years' experi ence in a lawyer's office, and six months with the Brockton Pub lishing Company, and have references from both these places. "Trusting that you will give me the opportunity of calling, "Very respectfully. 'EDNA M. WOODARD." Helen laid this one aside; its brev ity, the handwriting and the station ery were all good. A Disguised Letter The next was typewritten, and from the 6crawled signature it suggested that the typewriter was used to dis guise the weakness of the writing. When she had opened several more, NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA, GAS OR INDIGESTION v Pape's Diapepsin" settles sour, upset stomach in five minutes Time It! Pape's Diapepsin will di gest anything you eat and overcome a sour, gassy or out-of-order stomach surely within five minutes. If your meals don't lit comfortably, or what you eat lies like a lump of lead in your stomach, or If you have heartburn, that is a sign of indiges tion. Get from your pharmacist a fifty cent case of Pape's Diapepsin and take a dose just as soon as you can. There will be no sour risings, no belch ing of undigested food mixed with acid, no stomach gas or heartburn fullness or heavy feeling in the stom ach, nausea, debilitating headaches, dizziness or intestinal griping. This •will all go, and, besides, there will be no sour food left over In the stomach to poison your breath with nauseous odors. Pape's Diapepsin is a certain cure for out-of-order stomachs, because it takes hold of your food and digests it Just the same as if your stomach wasn't there. Relief in five minutes from all stom ach misery is waiting for you at anv drug store. These large fifty-cent cases contain enough "Pape's Diapepsin" to keep the entire family free from stomach disorders and indigestion for many """onths. It belongs in your home. MONDAY EVENING, turity, were directed toward the at tainment of those virtues and their practical application to every issue which life presented. Unconsciously to himself, he was treading' the path Ito immortal fame; he was building i a character which would invite tre j inendous responsibilities, and creating i the strength to meet them grandly. He knew what life meant. It meant action and achievement ■ through growth. ■ There is no such thing as inaction [during this life. We are continually going forward or backward. You are either stronger or weaker this year than you were last year. You are braver or more cowardly. You are more hopeful or more pes simistic. You are more capable mentally or less so. You have better or poorer com mand of your forces. You have more efficiency or not as much. You are nearer your goal or farther from it. You are a better human being or not as good. Xext year at this time you will be still farther onward or still farther backward. Every thought, every word and every act of each day is chiselling out the statue you are making of your self. If you desire to be an expression of the Creator's llnest handiwork you must work with care. Delicate tools are these thoughts of ours, and they must be used with caution. Every morning say to yourself (the Self self): "To-day I will think of whatever is beautiful, strong, noble, wholesome and worthy. "I will entertain hope, courage, rev- Helen was surprised to find how sim ilar they were. Apparently most of them were modeled after some speci men letter of application, given in the business schools. And yet there were distinctive ! characteristics about them all. The stationery ranged from the cheap bluish-white paper to frivolous note paper, tinted, initialed or even mono gramed. Helen wondered why so jfew had realized the value of a good heavy quality of plain white sta tionery. "Dear, listen to this one. Doesn't this sound rather good? "I feel that I am particularly fit ted for a position in a lawyer's office, as my father was an attorney in Bal timore, Md., and I was his stenog rapher for a number of years. I have just come to New York and am anx lious to secure a position here." I "Yes, that sounds all right Let's see it. Perfumed, eh?" with a disap proving sniff. 'Well, we don't want her." j "Walter R. Blake—why, that's a man!" mused Helen, glancing at the 1 signature of another letter. "He writes well, too. Dear, would you want a j young man stenographer?" I "Xope!" with conviction. "Why?" "Don't? tend to business. Xot as de pendable as a girl." "Well, then," triumphantly, "if women are as good or better workers than men, why are they paid so much 1 less?" "Because they'll work for less." But at that moment Helen was too with another letter to dwell I upon the unfairness of this, j The silence of the next half hour i was broken only by the sound of the paper knife as it ripped open the en velopes. Now and then one went on the chosen pile, but most of them Helen passed over with a sigh. "See here!" Warren looked up from his paper, "can't you tell by the en velopes? Just open the best looking 1 ones, or you'll never get through." j "Oh, no—110, we must read them all. ■ They at least deserve a hearing. I Dear, isn't this pathetic? A girl out ; in Jersey who's willing to work for less than sl2 until she can prove her | 'ability'—and she spells ability with | an e! Yet she's a graduate of Moore's > Business College." j "That's the trouble," shrugged | Warren. "These business schools i grind them out by the thousand. They're spoiling good cooks and houseworkers, and making blamed poor stenographers. How many an swers did you get last Fall when you put that ad in for a maid?" "Only three." "Three, eh? And for a stenographer I get about two hundred! There's your solution for your stenographer on starvation wages. Let some of these girls go to cooking schools, take some special course—say pastry cooking. How long do you think they'd be without a job?" "Yes. I know, dear. But I can understand—it's the social difference. In an office they think they'll have a better chance of marrying—and after all that's what they're hoping for." "Huh, they read" these newspaper yarns of the millionaire broker mar rying his stenographer. Well they stand about as much chance of that as a snowball in" "Oh, here's a wonderful one! Do listen to this: " 'I am an expert stenographer and typist Can operate any standard ma chine at ninety words a minute, and can take the most rapid dictation and transcribe my notes with absolute ac curacy. Can also take dictation in both French and German, and have studied law.' " I "Pass that up, she knows too 1 blamed much for sl2 a week." But on the whole most of the let ters were modest, earnest, straight forward applications for work. And in spite of Warren's cynical com ments, the average was very high. There were at least seventy-five let ters from experienced stenographers, any one of whom Helen felt would be a capable and conscientious worker, jOf these seventy-five she had se lected twenty which she now pushed j toward Warren. "Great Scott, I can't see all those! Half a dozen's enough." The selection of these final six was the hardest of all. One by one Helen discarded the other fourteen with the unpleasant feeling that somehow she was responsible for these girls not having a chance. Warren glanced over the chosen six, with a brief: "All right. Want to write them now and finish up the Job? Tell them to call day after to-morrow, Thurs day, before twelve." "But, Warren, shouldn't the let ters be In your handwriting?" "What difference does that make? They'll be glad enough to come. Here, this form will do," and on one of the j envelopes Warren scrawled: • "Please call Thursday between lerence, gratitude and love as the guests of my heart. I will make thoughts of health at ease In the guest chamber of my mind so disease may not enter. "■A-hd I will achieve something worth while in my chosen field of endeavor. I will work faithfully, but I will find t.me to sit alone with thoughts of my Creator for a little while, and no i worldly ambition or anxiety shall In trude upon that time." Just as surely as you begin and carry out your days along these lines, just as surely shall the true meaning of life come to you and you shall know God, and you shall know that the meaning of life IS God and that in Him are all the things for which you long; Health, Happiness, Pros perity, Usefulness, Beauty and Joy. And you shall know that earth Is not a vale of tears, but a great and beautiful preparatory school where the soul of man is sent to study and learn its divinity and to develop its wonderful powers. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee. Vast and unfathomed as the deepest sea Thy silent mind o'er diamond caves may roll. Go seek them, and let pilot will con trol Those passions which thy favoring winds may be. Xo man can place a limit to thy strength. Such triumphs as no mortal ever gained May yet be thine if thou wilt but believe In thy Creator and thyself. At length Some feet must tread all heights now unattained: Why not thine own? Go forth, I achieve, achieve! eleven and twelve for an interview re garding the position for which you apply. Yours truly, "W. E. CURTIS." Helen got out some of Warren's business stationery, and with pains taking care copied this form to each of the six chosen applicants. "Why in thunder don't you buy fifty cents' worth of stamps and keep them here?" growled Warren, when Helen, knowing that he always fumed at her inadequate writing supplies, reluctantly admitted that she had only two stamps. ! Later, when he grumblingly started out for them, Helen turned to the mass of letters that still littered the i table with a hopeless, ! "Dear, what SHALL 1 do with all I these?" "Chuck 'em in the waste basket. ■ What else can you do with them?" ! But as Helen slowly gathered them I up, she felt she could not throw them ; away. Every letter had its atmos | phere of hope and expectancy—and I now to send them down with the i garbage in the morning! | The next moment she had spread i out a large sheet of manila paper, in ; which she wrapped all the letters and ! tied them securely. | Then she got the kitchen step ladder chair and with the letters climbed up to the top shelf of the hall closet. As she pushed some boxes aside to make a place for the package she found the shelf was warm from the pipes that ran up through the wall. It was foolish, of course, but Helen laid them far back on the shelf with a sense of pleasant content, as though she was putting something almost human into a safe', warm and se cure place. "Hello, what are you doing up here?" Warren, whoh had come back, now j stood before the closet door. | "Oh, dear, I —l couldn't quite throw them away! You may want another stenographer some time—or we may 1 hear of some one who does. I couldn't send these letters down with the waste paper. Somehow I like to think of them being up here!" "Hold on there, be careful!" as t Helen started to climb down. [ He reached up his strong arms and swung her down. Then with one of his rare moments of tenderness, he stooped over and kissed her with a laughing, "You little sentimentalist, you!" THETIimWEI SIMPLEST DRESSES 8186 Child's Dress, 6 moa. or I yeal and 2 years. WITH LONG OR SHORT SLEEVES. . The bishop dress is a pretty one for tony children. Its very simplicity ren ders it especially suited to their needs. This one is made all in one piece 60 that there are only the under-arm seams. The gathers at the neck are drawn up and held y a stay and the sleeves are finished with tiny little bands. White 6eems to belong to the little children by natural right and fine white lawn is the material most in vogue for dresses of the sort, but there is a growing tendency toward the use of color as soon as the baby has put on short clothes and dresses of this kind of Dresden dimity are pretty for morning wear while among new materials is Dresden voile that is pretty and childlike in effect. For the a year size, the dress will re. ***" °* 27 ' y* l *- 3 6 The pattern 8186 la cot in ritei for children of 6 months or 1 year and 2 years. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Depart ment.of *"«? paper, on receipt of ten cents. Bowman's sell May Manton Patterns. HARRISBURG tggggg TELEGRAPH [A(V)U66M6f)T«SI MAJESTIC To-night—Rosa Karp© and David Lev enshon and tholr Yiddish Players. Wedn* sday .matinee and night—George Sidney in, "Busy Izzy." Thursday, matinee and night "The j Fire Brigade." Saturday, matinee and night "The I Spendthrift." ORI'UEVM Keith Vaudeville—Every afternoon and evening. COLONIAL. Vaudeville and Pictures—Every after noon and evening. YIDDISH PLAY To-night Edwin L Belkln is to bring his two-star organization. Bosa Karpe and David Levenshon, supported by the entire Lenox Theater company of Yid dish players. In a musical comedy in four acts, entitled "A Mother's Heart," to the Majestic Theater. Mr. Relkln has sent several of his stars here be fore this season, but never has present- i ed two on one bill nefore. and it is only owing to the fact that Miss Karpe has been the leading lady for Mr. Leven shon so many years, appearing with him in all of the new ventures, that the company could not appear to good advantage without the two stars in the cast.—Advertisement. GEORGE SIDNEY IN "BUSY IZZY" George Sidney, Carrie Webber and a remarkable cast of singers, dancers and comedians arc the attraction to ap pear at the Majestic Theater Wednes day, matinee and night, in the big 1914 edition of the musical fun success. "Busy Izzy." One of the features of this remarkable entertainment is the number of song hits which are sung by principals and a chorus who can really sing.—Advertisement. "THE SPENDTHRIFT" The attraction at the Majestic Thea ter, Saturday, March 14, matinee and night, will be "The Spendthrift." This play in its conception and execution is entirely different from "A Fool There Was," the drama which first brought Porter Emerson Browne into promi nence as a playwright. It deals with the frivolous extravagance of a luxury loving wife, and the financial ruin achieved by her husband as a result of his efforts to gratify her extravagant whims. When she realizes the direful pass to which their mode of life has brought them he demands of his wife the sacrifices that are necessary, pre paring at the same time to make them himself.—Advertisement. AT THE COLONIAL Interest in this week's bill at the Or pheum will undoubtedly center in the engagement of Joe Jefferson, of legiti mate fame, and son of the famous Joe Jefferson, who originated the charac ter of "Rip Van Winkle" in that well known play. The younger Mr. Jeffer son, after his father's death, assumed that same role and achieved fame also. The present season finds Mr. Jefferson appearing in variety, just Ilk© a num ber of other big stars, and certainly his appearance at the Orpheum this week marks the high tide of notable plavers that have appeared here In vaudeville this season. Mr. Jefferson will have excellent suppprt in a cast of players headed by Blanch Bender. Their com edy. entitled "Poor Uncle Jim," is said to be one of the very best playlets vaudeville has seen. Two old-time fa vorite attractions, namely, the Old Sol dier Fiddlers and the Emnlre Comedy I',our, will also occupy important posi tions on the new bill. The Old Soldiers, II HUFFY CHILD 11 JUSTIP HOURS If cross, feverish, constipated, give "California Syrup of Figs." Mothers can rest easy after giving "California Syrup of Figs," because in a few hours all the clogged-up waste, sour bile and fermenting food gently move out of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child again. Children simply will not take the time from play to empty their bowels, and they become tightly packed, liver gets sluggish and stomach disordered. When cross, feverish, restless, see if tongue is coated, then give this de licious "fruit laxative." Children love it. and it cannot cause injury. No difference what ails your little one—if full of cold, or a sore throat, diarrhoea, stomachache, bad breath, remember, a gentle "inside cleansing" should alwavs be the first treatment given. 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He de clared that he could not have gone much farther. Mr. Klinger was resi dent of the vicinity of Gratz for many years. He was a retired farmer and took an active interest in civic affairs during his younger days. ! relics of the Civil War, with a new : act and new stage setting, will present the most unique act in vaudeville, while .the Empire Comedy Four will give ex- i eellent account of themselves in new i i nonsense and new songs. A second I headliner of this bill will be the first I I local appearance of the Seven Original ' Bracks, presenting the most wonderful gymnastic act in the vaudeville realm. Other features will include Kirk and Fogarty, breezy musical comedy couple: Kitner and McCay. in a surprise com edy novelty, and and Dellla, of i fering a novelty heavyweight juggling act.—Advertisement. LARGB ADVANCE SEAT SALE FOR "THE EIRE BRIGADE" i Although the advance seat sale for ' the production of the convention fund play, "The Fire Brigade." which the Firemen's Union, of Harrisburg, are to present at the Majestic Theater on Thursday, March 12, matinee and night, has been uuite heavy, there are still a : large number of good seats yet to be had. and those who have not as yet I exchanged or purchased tickets, should I do so at once, as the firemen anticipate good houses at both performances. The | production promises something well t worth seeing, and the great fire scene, with its thrilling life-net leap, will alone give you your money's worth. , Seats now on sale at the theater box , office.—Advertisement. VICTORIA THEATER I A four-act feature film showing Ni agara Falls and the way a man goes over them in a barrel. Is the big picture for to-day. It is a great detective story well acted, and many other thrilling , scenes are shown in this picture. 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