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Heart toHeart
By EDWIN A.NYE.
THE WAY OF THE CROSS.
A dear old lady wants me to write
Something on the ministry of pain.
She asks why there-should be pain in
the world and, being here, how it can
minister to good.
Of course I do not know why pain
Should be in the world except as 1 can
see Its uses.
The poet says, "No pain the body
•offers that the soul may not grow
by," which is to say the spirit may
benefit by the travail of the body. By
overcoming, the spirit may strengthen
Itself.
A brutal view
Not necessarily. But if so it is in
evitable. None of us can escape pain
of the body or suffering of the mind.
In every life there must be sorrow and
change and loss aud decay.
How shall one grow strong except
one shoulders his cross? How- find the
virtue of endurance save by depriva
tion and agony of mind?
Being human, there is no other way.
You may or may not accept the re
ligious view. You may or may not
take up the challenge of the Nazarene
—"He that would be my disciple let
him deny himself and follow me."
But
You cannot escape the vicissitudes
of mortal life. If pain and struggle
do not come to you today they will
come nevertheless. The blight of loss
no less than the joy of increase is
part of your mortal heritage.
How will you meet the crisis?
Stoically? That may be for some
rfcre-sould Certain it is that, no mat
ter how you may strive and cry out,
you cannot change the decrees of des
tiny.
Why not try patience and submis
sion and courage and faith? By so do
ing you .transform the struggle from
despair to hopefulness. You give your
brave spirit a chance to fight its bat
tles.
And that chance for high courage is
one of the ministries of pain.
Whyjiotaccept that view? You can
not disdain your trouble. But yon
need *tiot cringe and cower under its
load.
Pain is a barrier against which forti
tude and patience and faith may cast
themselves and in the spirit of the
overcoming life become valiant, though
chastened.
"Whom, the Lord loveth he chasten
eth and gcourgeth every son whom he
mjetveth."
That is one way.
It Is the way of the cross.
DESIRE-WILL—SUCCESS.
What a man wants that he will get or
b* changed by the trying:.—Emerson.
"I have been wanting to write to
you," says my correspondent, "but
hitherto have not had the time."
I take my friend's words with a
grain of salt.
If he really had wanted to write to
me—not being ill nor unusually en
gaged—he would have found the time.
"My dear, 1 have been wanting to
call on you for an age," says the vis
itor, "but you know I have been alto
gether busy."
And the friend understands that her
caller has not wanted to call or she
would have done so.
What one wants he gets.
A strong desire puts the will power
Into action. A whole hearted wanting
of a thing Is a leverage in getting it.
Here is the formula:
Desire will success.
The formula is as true, other things
being equal, as is the law of physics
respecting a moving body. In order to
find the impact, or striking force, of a
moving body you multiply the velocity
of the body by Its weight.
So of accomplishment.
Multiply a real want by a real will
power and you will get the Impact of
effect upon the thing desired.
One of my friends, hearing of a mu
tual friend who at the age of forty,
though married and with a family to
support, entered a university, said:
"I wish I could do that. I have al
ways wanted a classical education."
He did not want It!
If he very much wanted that educa
tion he would get it. The man who
thus excused himself from trying was
rich and a bachelor.
Mostly we get what we want.
Miracles aside, nothing can defeat
the divine combination of wishing and
willing.
And—
As Emerson says, if in the extreme
exception we do not get our desire we
are thereby changed into something
stronger and better.
We get what we want badly enough
to try hard enough to get it.
"THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER."
For many years comic opera has had
Its merry jest at the expense of the
mock hero, who carried chocolates in
stead of bullets In his cartridge belt.
Ha, ha, ha!
To the ragtime of musical comedy
the people lipve laughed at the cari
tature'd soldjers of the Balkans—the
soldiers of Bulgaria and Servla and
Montenegro and Greece.
And now?
Thewe chocolate soldiers have met
the Itfvtncible Turk, and the crimson
Chapter has been one of the reddest in
the annals of warfare.
The laugh is out of the other corner
of the mouth.
These rehqcolate soldiers have chased
the retreating flag of the Ottomaji en-
pit'£ across the plains of Thrace and
whgre kiosk and minaret haVe flaunted
in defiance have lifted the cross in the
place of the crescent.
The Gordian knot which the diplo
matic palaver of "the powers" could
not untie has been cut by the sword
of the chocolate soldier.
Do you remember "Mme. Chrysan
themumV"
i Before the Jtusso-.Tapanese war that
opera was much exploited, and thou-
Bauds laughed at the droll nonsense.
The Japanese soldier was featured
i as the toy soldier. Ilis diminutive size
was exaggerated and his llliiputian
swagger made grotesque.
But—
The toy soldier soon put that opera
out of business when he began to tight
"the bear who walks like a man."
There- was nothing to laugh at when
the toy soldier went up 20.'! Meter hill
into the jaws of death, into the mouth
of hell. It was not a comic spectacle
when he gave his body for a bridge
over the dit'-hes at fort Arthur, and
the world did not smile when his small
self helped to make the windrows of
the dead at Mukden.
Longfellow says:
"War is a terrible trade, but in the'
cause that is just, sweet is the smell
of powder."
You cannot tell what is in a small
man until he is tested.
And 5od is not always on the side
of the heaviest battalions.
Beware of the chocolate soldier with
a righteous cause
IMPROVING THE TIME.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars arc
being spent in the effort to find one
sixteenth of a second that is missing
in the calculations of the world's as
tronomers.
A special building fitted with appa
ratus was erected—because In the hour
glass of' time one small grain of sand
was missing!
The fraction must bo found.
Because the world's longitude is cal
culated on the sun's time as recorded
at (Sreonwich and faris and Washing
ton, so that every calculation must ac
count for every atom of time.
If not
If not every meridian line on earth
would neoil to be shifted, every bound
nry line between countries and states
changed and every map of the world
made over.
And the movements of the planets
would be variant!
Io you see the tremendous import
of an instant of time? Time is now!
All there is of time or ever will lie is
comprehended in that now. The past
is nothing: the future is not born and
never will be. So far as humans are
concerned there is absolutely nothing
save now.
Therefore:
Let us utilize the only thing we have.
We cannot turn back the dial, neither
make the sun stand still. We cannot
measure the value of the time we have
lost nor compute the value of that
which has not yet come to us.
The present is potential.
He who best'improves what he has
best appreciates its value. Therefore
you will find upon the desk of the busy
man this motto: "Do it Now."
He is too busy for regrets over the
last chance and does not put, off until
tomorrow the only thing he has in
hand.
N-O-W spells opportunity.
Today is the day of salvation. To
day you have the desire to do. Today
you have the strength to perform. To
day you have the hope of accomplish
ment. Today you have the time to
succeed.
Do it today.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil—
and the good—thereof. Yesterday holds
nothiug but a memory: tomorrow noth
ing but a promise. Today is the only
day.
Do it now!
"THE WOMAN TEMPTED ME."
"Sixty-nine per cent of the inmates
of a western prison,'' says a recent
writer, "say that they were led to com
mit crime by the extravagance of their
wives."
Balderdash!
Within the limits of a reasonable
probability it may be stated that
per cent of that 00 are unconscionable
liars.
There's Adam, for instance.
Scarcely can there be a doubt that
our valiant forbear lusted after that
forbidden fruit until his mouth water
ed over the thought of its succulence.
And, after he had hypnotized Eve to
the point of plucking away the apple,
he laid the entire blame on her frail
young shoulders.
"The woman thou gavest me, she
tempted me."
And the males of lineal descent from
Adam to now have followed the like
excuse.
Now—
It must be admitted there are some
silly, improvident and extravagant
wives. And it may be that some hus
bands of weak brain stuff have indi
rectly been driven to the commission
of a crime by the sort of wife who
Insists upon spending more money than
her husband earns, but—
The excuse is a frayed one.
The reasons why a man gets drunk
are varied. He gets drunk because he
wants to drink, or because somebody
Invites him, or because he has made a
bad investment, or because he Is mad
at somebody, or just because.
Under the influence of the liquor he
commits a crime.
Whereupon'. having been bronght to
bay. he whines abjectedly concerning
his "wretched domestic affairs" and
avows that he was driven to the crime
by the extravagance or the nagging or
the unfaithfulness of his wife.
Mostly such charges are libel.
Exceptions aside, more men tluu
Mads of Beirijl Served
When the Tuilleries was being repair
ed Napoleon suspected that the up
holsterer's charges were higher than
they should be. So he asked one of
his ministers, who was with him, bov
much the ivory egg at the end of the
bell rope ought to cost.
"1 do not know," was the answer.
"It shall be ascertained," said Na
poleon. Thereupon he cut off the ivory
handle, called for a valet, bade him
dress himself in plain clothes, inquire
the price of such articles at several
shops in faris and order a dozen as if
for himself.
The valet bought them for two-thirds
of the price that the emperor had had
to pay. Napoleon, inferring that the
same overcharge had been made in
the other articles, deducted a third
from the entire account and informed
the tradesman that it was done at his
own express command because on In
vestigation he had found the charges
to be exorbitant.
A DREAM AND A CRIME.
The Story of a Slumber Vision That
Comes From Cicero.
Cicero furnishes us with a tale of
two Arcadians, who. traveling togeth
er. arrived at Magara. a city of Greece,
between Athens and Corinth, where
ouo of them lodged in a friend's house
and the other at an inn.
After supper the person who lodged
at the private house went to bed and,
falling asleen, dreamed that his friend
at the inn appeared to him and beg
ged his .assistance, because the inn
keeper was going to kill him.
The man Immediately got out of bed,
much frightened at the dream but, re
covering himself and falling asleep
again, his friend appeared to him a
second time and desired that, as he
would not assist htm in time, he would
at least care not to let his death go un
punished—that the innkeeper, having
murdered him. had thrown his body in
a cart and covered it with rubbish.
He therefore begged that he would be
at the city gate in the morning before
the cart was out.
Struck with this new dream, he went
early to the gate, saw the cart and
asked the driver what was in it The
diiver immediately fled. -The dead
bodv was taken out of the cart and
the Innkeeper apprehended and exe
cuted.
No Secret Telegraph System.
Many persons are of the opinion that
the wireless system of communication
Is particularly subject to tapping: but.
according to the Scientific American,
no telegraph system is absolutely se
cret. Any one familiar with the Morse
code can read ordinary messages enter
ing any telegraph office. At Poldbu,
on a telephone connected to a long
horizontal wire, the message passing
on a government telegraph line a quar
ter of a mile away can be distinctly
read. It has been shown that it is
possible to pick up at a distance, on
another circuit, conversation which
may be passing through a telephone or
telegraph wire. On one occasiou an
investigator was able to interfere from
u distance with the working of the or
dinary telephones in Liverpool.
Why Rain Clouds Are Black.
The color of a cloud depends on the
manner in which the sunlight falls
upon it and the position of the observ
er. It will be noticed that high clouds
are always white or light in color, and
this is because the light by which they
are seen is reflected1 from the uuder
surfaee by the numberless drops of
moisture which go to form the cloud
Heavy rain clouds, on the other hand,
are found much nearer the earth, and
so the light falls on them more direct
ly from above, giving a silver lining to
the cloud, though the undersurface ap:
pears black owing to. the complete re
flection and absorption of the light by
the upper layers. Seen from above by
an observer in a balloon, the blackest
rain clouds appear of the most daz
y.lingly brilliant white.
Death by Boiling.
In old England, before the law was
passed which prohibited "cruel and un
usual forms of punishment," murder
ers were often condemned to death by
boiling. In such cases the victims
were chained In large kettles of cold
water, whi i were gradually heated
until it cam -d the flesh to drop from
the bones. The last English victim of
the "boiling death" was one Rouse, a
cook, who. it was alleged, had killed
seventeen persons.
A Bad Egg.
"Owens Is trying to strike every one
he meets for a loan. He's a bad egg.
that fellow."
"Why do you call him that?"
"When he's broke he makes the fact
deucedly conspicuous."—Boston Tran
script.
No Deception.
Toff—You told me that horse was
free from faults. Why. It's blind.
Dealer—Blind? Well, that's not a
fault. That's a cruel misfortune.—San
Francisco Chronicle.
Those edges soonest turn that are
most keen. A sober moderation stands
•nre. No violent extremes endure,—
Aleyn.
Uphill' ll li* l"^ rrfrt'»»ir'riuVl nfri
With
Hon««ty and Economy.
Emperor Napoleon I., dressed in
plain clothes, often visitfed the markets
of Paris in order to learn the current
prices of food and find out whether
his household officers served him with
honesty and economy. In "Foreign
Reminiscences" Richard Lord Hol
land says that this was only one illus
tration of the emperor's thrift arid
shrewdness.
A FIGHT
FOR A WIFE
By M. QUAD
Copyright, 1912, by Associated Lit
erary Press.
"I dunno much about romance, as
i they calls it, but I reckon 1 shaved it
I mighty clus when I got my wife. One
day, when 1 was a young feller of
twenty-two. I seen n gal over on t'other
side of the mountings that jest filled
the bill. I made up to her and was
talkin' 'bout b'ars and wildcats and
slch when her mother steps in and sez:
'Stranger, mebbe yo' are wantin'
to take my gal away fur a wife?'
"'I'm reckcnin' to consider that I
would,' I replies.
'Then I'll blow the horn fur her pop
to cum outer the woods and tell yo'
what Is what!'
"She blowed and blowed. and bimeby
the old mau appeared. He was a
powerful man, and he didn't look good
natured. His name was Babbit, and
arter look in' me over he'sez:
'Stranger, it s got to be a mighty
good man who takes my darter Sue
away fur his wife. How fur kin any
body h'ar yo' holler?'
'Two miles, if the wind Is right,'
sezl.
"'And about yo'r jumpin'?'
'It's clus to eight feet when I don't
slip.'
'Hev yo* ever dun any climbin'?'
"'I hev. I've climbed the tallest tree
in sight of these yere Cumberland
mountings.'
'And the number of b'ars and wild
cats what yo've slain?' he goes on.
seemin' to want to pick a furse with
me.
"'They'd purty nigh 011 yo'r cabin.'
sez I, feeliu' a leetle riled at the way
he spoke.
'Well,' sez he, arter stoppin' to con
sider a bit. 'nobody kin take that gal
away jest bekase he kin hoot or climb
or kill varmints. He's got to lay me
on my back in a fa'r font. I'll gin you
a week to think it over. If yo' want
the gal yo' must cum back and tackle
me, and I'm tellin' yo' I'm a bad crit
ter as long as I've got one foot on the
airth.'
"I went away feelin' sort o' cast
down, but the mo' 1 thought of it the
mo' I wanted the gal Sue fur my wife.
That night 1 made up my mind that
I'd try fur her, and next day I went
back to the cabin. Her pop was thar
and walkin* around aud feelin' power
ful peart.
"Thar was a el'ar space in the front
of bis cabin," said the old man. "and
when the gal and her mother had cum
outdoahs we threw off our coats and
begun bizness. I was accounted a
powerful hand on a wrassle, but that
man was also a powerful critter, and
I reckoned I'd hev to hev help from
the Lawd to gain the victory. It was
10 o'clock In the mawnin" when we
begun, and the clock was jest strikin' 1
when I flopped him on his back. That
spot on the ground looked as if fo'ty
hawgs had bin rootin' it up fur a
week, and lie was so beat out he could
hardly speak. 5Io' than twenty times
In them three hours that critter had
me almost dun fur, but I'd send up a
sort of prayer and git a new hold, and
at last I fetched him. When he was
able to talk he riz up and took my
band and sez:
"'Stranger, it was a far wrassle.
and I've been flopped. I wouldn't 'a be
lieved yo' could hev dnn It. but yo'
did, and I'm sayln' yo' ar' a purty
good mau. Howsumever, it ain't over
yit. Yo've got to lick me to git Sue,
and I know you kin' never do it. We'll
take three days to rest up. and then
yo' kin cum back and tackle me.'''
"And did you go?" I asked as the
old man made a long pause.
"Fur suah," he replied. "I was
mighty sore and lame, but I knowed
he would be as bad off. Besides, that
gal Sue had hooted fur me when I
flopped her pop. and I knowed by that
she was with me and would hope fur
me to come out on top. In three days
I went back to hev it out. The critter
was a-lookln' fur me and glad to see
me.
'How's it to be?' sez I.
«"A fa'r fout,' sez he, 'no throwtn'
rocks nor hittin' with clubs. Whoop!
Cock-a-doodle-do!'
"Waal, we went at it. Sue and her
maw was out thar as befo', and the gal
gin me a smile as I went in. It was a
rough and tumble fout. I Jest knowed
I'd got to do my level best or go under,
and I lost no chances.- That fout last
ed mighty nigh two hours, and two or
three times I was almost on the p'int
of lettin' go. Bimeby, howsumever, 1
seen that Babbit was gettin' tired out,
and the gal clapped her hands and
sicked me on. Ten minits arter that 1
had him whopped. Thar wasn't no
mistake about it, bekase he riz up and
sez to me:
".'Zeb White, I'm a whopped man,
and that gal is yo'rs. I didn't believe
thar was a critter on these mountings
as could make me hoot, but yo* dun it.
.And now when do yo' want the gal?'
'Right now, I reckon,' sez I.
"'Ain't it purty sudden?'
'Not so very, bein' as she's ready
to go.'
'Then, maw, bring out the broom
stick and let 'em jump over it, and if
they wan.t to be married toy a preacher
they kin do It sum other tlmeA"
"And you took the girl home?" I
asked.
"Sartlnly," replied Zeb. "Yes, sab,
took her right home with me, with her
feather bed on my back, and she's out
thar in the kitchen makln' mince pies
this minit As I was sayln', these yere
marriages of today don't amount "to
shacks. When yo* lava gal and hev to
Mck her ole pop to git her then yo'
know (she's wuth the gittln'."
V u', -,
25 Per Cent
Discount Sale
Commencing with this issue we will, for two weeks,
sell the following goods at a 25 per cent discount for
cash. This is a real discount, and you'll find every
article marked in plain figures—you can figure the
discount yourself:
China
Both hand painted ana table China. For instance, a f2.00
plate will cost you during this sale $1.50.
Cut Glass
A $2.50 Sugar and Creamer will cost you $1.88. A $1.25
nappy will cost you only 94c. A salad bowl at $4.50 will cost
you ?3.38, and so on.
Jewelry
This includes e^eiything in our line except watches, and
our Big Ben clocks. It includes stick pins, cuff links, Bar
pins, neclc chains, brooches, pendants, etc., etc., at 25 per cent
off our regular preie.
Silverware
Spoons knives and forks, gravy ladles, etc. For instance,
a set of six tea spoons at $2.50 will cost you during this sale
only $1.88.
Hand Bags
$2.00 Hand Bags for $1.50
Hair Brushes
50c. Brush will cost 38c
$1.00 Brush will cost 75c.
$1.50 Brush will cost $1.12 and so on.
Rubber Goods
Hot water Lotties at $2.00 only $1.50 Hot water bottles
at $3.00, only ¥2.I'd, Fountain syringes, and in fact everything
rubber goods.
Pictures
We have an extra fine assortment from 10c to
they are priced low in the first place.
Hand Mirrors
In fact mirrors of every kind that we have in stock. SI.12
will buy you a $1.50 mirror. Mirrors run from 55c to $3.00.
Pocket Books, Pipes,
Box Paper, Box Candy
Soaps—of all kinds
Games, Sleds,
Pennants, Pillows,
Goggles,
Albums, Post Cards*
Casseroles, Vases,
Toilet Sets,
You will find this a good time to buy something you have
wanted in the above list. We sell our goods right at all times
and when you get a 25 per cent discount ait the Benno Drug Co.
it means MONEY SAVED FOR YOU.
REMEMBER---25 per cent discount until
January 15th
Thermometers
Every home should have a good thermometer. We have
them from 35c to $1.50.
Why not get a fever thermometer? It saves money in doc
tors' bills as it foretells ill ness, which will help you in prevent
ing it.. $1.00 and $1.25.
Get Your Eyes Tested
During the month of January we will test your eyes, and
guarantee the work, same as always, and we will give you the
benefit of a 25 per cent discount. $7.00 glasses at $5.25.
$10.00 glasses at $7.50. $4.00 glasses at $3.00. You who suf
fer from headaches, dizziness, pain in the eyes, will find this a
good time to get fitted with glasses. We guarantee our work.
411 Nyai Remedies 50 per
cent discount
We need room for our toilet section and to get it we intiend
to close out our entire line of N yal remedies at 50c on the
dollar.
Rexall Remedies
The kind of remedies we know are good, the kind we recom
mend to our customers. We couldn't afford to if) they didn't
back up our statements. Every Rexall preparation is guaran
teed to give satisfaction, or you get your MONEY BACK. You
don't have to take anything in exchange—just ask for your
money.
Rexall Lesperine
The good antiseptic. Every family should have a bottle
in the house to ward off dangerous sickness. Price 50c.
Rexall Blood Tablets
If your blood is poor, try a box of Rexall Blood Tablets.
Do it now. Don't wait till spring. Price 50c.
Rexall Rubbing Oil
For sprains, lame back and arms. We have also found it
the best thing a person can use for a cold in throat or chest.
Just rub it in and cover with a cloth. It will cure a cold in a
hurry. 25c and 50c a bottle. There is.no c.ure-all In the Rex
all remedies. Each remedy is the best known treatment Cor the
ailment it is recommended for. We have used them ourselves.
The Benno Drug Co. appreciates the business It has had in
the past year,' and we will endeavor to merit a continuation for
the coming year. We try to treat aU alike. Sometimes little
differences do arise, but we always stand ready to rectify any
misunderstanding. We are as human as anyone.
Take advantage of the new parcel post law. We will fill
phone orders and mail: orders promptly. You have the largest
stock of drug store wants and jewelry in the northwest to
choose, from at the Benno Drug Co.
BENNO DRUG
& JEWELRY CO.
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