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By WILLIAM CRERAND.
9ucc«nful Publisher Who as a Boy Kicked a Gordon Press.
EOPLE go out of their way to help a successful man, and
Pno man who has all his faculties has any excuse for being
a failure.
The lack of enthusiasm on the part of any individual
is one of the first signs of the “going-back-to-sit-down”
feeling, and a sour face on a man who ought to be hustling
is as discouraging as a “to Jet” sign.
The spirit of the times is all optimism despite the
muck rakers. There’s money and success in the air and
every man can get some of it if he will go out after it.
Every one wants to feel that he is in the company of people who
ire doing something, and unless a man gives some evidence that he
is making good the crowd don’t want to sit with him. They will stand
for disappointments that have made a man temporarily embarrassed
so long as he shows a disposition to keep moving and doesn’t stop to
cry.
That nothing succeeds like success is a saying as old as the hills,
and none is truer, and to get on in the world a man must make a show
of success.
When a workman in a shop achieves the place of foreman, he
gets other things that go with an authoritative job. The man who has
worked beside him is apt to sav he can’t see why the other man should
have the place and sulks. He goes on sulking, and one day his old
friend, the foreman, has to discharge him, and the man goes out into
the world saying bitter things about his old friend. A man at the
bench, just in front of the other man, recognizes that the man who is
made foreman is the foreman and should be treated as such. He tells
him little confidences as to things in his part of the shop. He is the
first to subscribe for a present for the foreman’s anniversary, and
seeing that the foreman is getting on successfully, works a little harder
to help him make good as to his part of the product. One day when
the foreman goes up to a superintendency the man who contributed
to the success is made a foreman, and then his success attracts the
attention of some other man who follows his policy, and so it goes on,
working in the same way and on the same principle from the ranks of
shoe string sellers to hank presidents, and every one can share in it
if they’ll be ready to cut loose when the whistle blows and keep it up
all the time.
I do not think the
young American will
learn nearly so much
by traveling in America
as he will by first going
to Europe, Asia or the
tropics.
To begin with,
every American knows
something of America.
He knows the village, the town or perhaps he has seen Niagara, the
Adirondaeks, the White mountains or New York city. If he has seen
any or all of these and has been through the public school he has
learned all he needs to know of hits own country to start with. A visit
to Canada, the Yellowstone, California or the south can be made when
he is older—even when he is an old man.
Traveling in our own country first is like studying modern his
tory before studying ancient history. For the young man or woman
of the United States will learn more of his own country by one snm
mer’s visit to Europe than lie can in 20 years by seeing the forests,
rivers, cities or prairit^ at home. And the reason is this: In Europe
he will find the beginning of all good things American. In the British
museum he will see the magna charta, and the declaration of inde
pendence. In Scotland, England and Ireland he will find the scenery,
the hills, towns, cities that have colored the intellectual life of his la
thers. The song-- we sing in America, the traditions we love, the laws
we honor he will find in the land <>t our fathers.
There are the lakes of Killarney, and Blarney castle; then Glasgow
and the Bonnie banks erf ioch Lowood, F,*linburg, seat ot Scottish in
tellect, Bannockburn a»d the Br*«a o’ Bonnie Doom Across the bon
dtr he will find England "satmy summits old in story,” Warwick
and Kenilworth, Stratford and Cambridge, Oxford and grand old foggy
London, which are our American heritage as well as Bunker hill and
(greater Uraamta
tn ®raurl Abroad
By REV. PETER MicQUEEN.
Gettysburg.
In France he will find Paris, the magic aty by the Seine, with its
glittering boulevards, its Louvre and its Luxembourg galleries; its
fcrehes and its memorials of that meteor man, Napoleon. He nvay visit
Madrid in 36 hours from Paris, and learn of Columbus, Isabelle and
the gloomy tyrant of the Escurial.
In Italy he will find Rome, the mistress of the world, where every
stone has a tongue to tell of the brave days of old. He cannot use a
sentence of his native American language without paying tribute to
Cicero and Caesar. Then Pisa, Genoa, Naples, the buried city of
Pompeii; gentle Venice and glorious Florence. In the galleries of
Florence alone he may learn as much as he did in school or college;
canvases before which an angel might bow, and statues that have frozen
into marble the hui^n form divine.
The vine-clad hills of fair Bingen on the Rhine, the blue Danube,
the minarets of old St am bool, the WIW of Moscow, the fjords of No*
way, the mountains of Switzer I—id. and the dykes of Hollands-all
Uses* should be sees* before vtafetof *>en our great plain* or the »&t8t
tb.vra Nevada#.
la yanCh w* »*a*d tM* teH.of a hard sea vopfl^e, and ftodfer
ctrau'ort of a strange land imtf* to eUer years. To our Ammti
Can raecoas we can be fcikee o* Initial steaiuers and flashing eoepres*
♦nuns, taken in comJ5u»t among a people we knew undJBtU uiurtlk
that we can relish, in a country where the language and WFpoms are
our own. All this I claim can be done easier th^n the foreign trips
such as to Canton. Yokohama «n:'fthe PRilrppines, Cairo or Algiers.
Moreover, coming hack from these older lands, we can note with
growing appreciation the excelling tenderness and justice our fathers
have given us here, and while we shall find our America far hebind
Europe in art, we shall also find her a more cherishing mother; and
while trying to remedy her defects we shall take the wide lesson of the
past. We shall thus strive to make our America not only what she
must always be to us, dear and pure as our own mothers are, but we
shall by our travels and observations learn
how best we can make our own land most 'Jfc+m £4 .««w
kwutiiul and hole.
Right Things
Right Price
Right Way
The fixed policy of our
house is to collect only
trustworthy goods, and
sell them to the consumer
at lower prices. Faithful
adherence to this plan is
steadily increasing our
sales each month, One
price to everybody and
that the lowest. Goods
are marked in plain fig
ures. Competitors who
admit our prices are low
er, claim that theirgoods
are better than ours.
Will you not examine ours
before you buy? Our
goods will be what we
tell you they are and if
for any reason you are not
satisfied with our goods
return them and we will
gladly refund your money.
Prescott Variety Store
Mexico uas awakened to the taot
that unless vigorous measures are
taken to prevent the wholesale de
struction of her forests Uie country
will soon he treeless.
SCHEME IS NOT FEASIBLE.
Proposal to Transmit Electric Power
from Victoria Falls to Johannes
burg Ridiculed.
It is gratifying to note that
the technical press has sounded
a note of warning against the
proposal to generate hydraulic
electric power at the Victoria
falls of the Zambesi river and
transmit it over a distance of
745 miles for use in the gold
mines at Johannesburg, says a
writer in the Scientific American.
But, although the proposal to
deliver this power at a figure
that would be at once economical
to the consumer and profitable
to the company has been ridi
culed by the technical press, the
lay public is liable to be misled
bv a scheme which, ou the face
of it. would seem to hold out
flattering prospects of success.
At the present time the most im
portant transmission of energy
for commercial purposes is that
from Niagara to Buffalo, where
the distance covered does not ex
ceed 20 miles. The longest
transmission, according to pres
ent information, is that which
is in successful operation in Cali
fornia over a distance of about
225 miles, so that the proposed
transmission line in South Af
rica will he 340 per cent, longer
than anything that has vet been
attempted. According to Prof.
William E. Ayrton, who not long
ago made a severe criticism of
the scheme in the London Times,
the .Johannesburg mining dis
trict consumes about 1,50,001)
h*»*(fpower. at an average cost
of £100 a horsepower & j«ar.
Niagara sends 24,000 horsepower
to Buffalo, where it is sold at
shout $125 a horsejxrwer a year,
and Buflnlo, a* we have noted,
is distant from Niagara only 20
miles. Furthermore. in the
neighborhood of Johannesburg
are abundant supplies of coal, of
which' an excellent quality efin be
delivered on the Rand for from
$2,60 to $2 a ton. Even if the
Victoria falls plant were to be
built and a great transmission
line constructed it is not likely
that the important mining indus
tries in Johannesburg would be
willing to trust the operation of
♦heir costly plants to the integ
rity of a feu copper cables ex
tending for over 700 miles
tfcroagk the wilds of a savage
country.
HE LIKED Ff.
Cholly—What do you think of the
engagement ring I gave your sister?"
Willie—Gee, it's great! She lets
me wear it when her other fellers is
callin’.
HUNT MAN-EATING TIGERS,
Dtngw* Xncountered by gportMMn
Who Go Out After the Fe
rocious Beset.
Men who have shot “big cats
of the Indian jungle” all empha
size the difference between an
“ordinary tiger” and a “man eat
er.” One varies from the other
as much as a domestic pussy
from a wildcat. The man eater
when it catches sight of a hunt
er is at once all aflame with the
passion to devour him. It has
tasted human flesh, and knows
its sweetness.
When the Britisher or Indian
goes tiger hunting, therefore, he
looks tlrst of aH to his own
safety. Having learned that a
tiger rarely looks upward, he
seeks a position at some distance
from the ground, as, for instance,
the howduh of an elephant, or a
niachan or leaf covered bos
perched in a tree.
The tiger usually keeps its
eyes on the ground, because it
finds its prey there and its en
emies also. The natural inhab
itants of the tree®, the birds and
the monkeys, it holds in con
tempt. But on the ground, be
sides the sweet-fleshed man, lives
the water buffalo, its most for
midable foe. In combat the buf
falo most times kills the tiger.
The peculiar sagacity of the
elephant 18 of great assistance
to the man who hunts tigers
from the howdah. At the ap
proach of the big cat the pachy
derm trumpets an alarm, and if
properly trained it will snatch
its master with its trunk, should
he be on the ground, and lift him
into the howdah on its back. It
then seeks the shadow of some
trees and stands perfectly still,
as if knowing that in this way
it will steady the hunter’s aim.
When one shoots tigers from
the machan or tree ambush he
usually picks a place where the
beast is wont to retreat when
alarmed. With a companion he
hides himself in his nest. In his
hand he holds a magazine rifle
loaded and cocked, while in his
belt he carries a half dozen pis
tols for instant use should the
gun fail him. Then he'sends out
a score or more of natives as
beaters to drive the beast toward
him. Encircling the region the
beaters begin to rap on the trees
and to shout, and those noises,
lie«viuse of tJutir strangeness,
frighten the aifimal.
MAKE PRETTY LAMPS.
New York Jeweler Has Found Good
Use for Supposedly Worth
less Arrowheads.
Men and boys who have lived
in the country have almost all
picked up an Indian arrowhead
now and again in train ping over
plowed fields. Many boys have
large collections of these relics
of the past, which they have
faithfully gathered during sum
mer vacations and Saturday holi
days. E>r.t Shu pure joj- of
the coflgctiou for its own sake Is
ahated it is found that the as
rowru-ads are littfco adaptable lo
any use excepting that of lilting
up tflitsv cases. Srarf pins and
belt pins may be mode of them,
but this does not usually use up
many of the arrow heals, even if
the bov^s list of friends ami rela
tives to whom lie may give these
pins is large. A New York jew
eler has now devised a way for
utilizing a larger manlier of the
arrowheads in the ornamenta
tion of a masculine toy.
Tlie armwehuds ace used in
conjunction with clipper to make
oTNvedingty attractive smokers’
hun{«. A »<|iiat little cop of the
eopjier iu tin* kunp proper, and
the arrowhead is used for tlw
handle. Ths Uswvt part ul tl«*
arrowhead is attaeh«d to tlw
lamp by i^Rper wi** on silver
binding, art* Uss g>ee«
of sfu*e ®r tffeiti tar me rtie
handle. Oshwr h*mj* are m»h*
of rfirer wish 4Ue kradhts.
In sfr'H oi’.wr* #?;<» nnf'mlsvwls
are used around the bronze cup
which forms the lamp. They are
placed upright, the points to:
ward the top. and are bound to
the lamp by wrappings of aiiver
bunds.
Sufficient Reason.
lilox—What is your reason for
thinking Hawker isn’t a gentle
man ?
Knox—His persistency In de
claring that he fau.Chicago
Daily News.
OU write a letter to Jones
enclosing a statement of his
account. The letter should be in
purple copying ink, the statement
in black record, the credits in red.
The New Tri-Chrome
Smtth Premier Typewriter
will doit all with one ribbon; do
it quickly, neatly and correctly.
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