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VOLUME Lmm.-NO. 34.
TUESDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 10. 1914.
THE PLEDGE IN THE PLATFORM.
MR. BRYAN, in a campaign speech at Harrisburg during
the presidential campaign, made the declaration that "a man who
violates a party platform is a criminal worse than the man -who
embezzles money.” Mr. Bryan helped to frame the Baltimore
platform, and it was Mr. Bryan who proposed that part of the
Panama canal plank which would exclude railroad-owned ships
from the canal. The platform as drawn was read paragraph by
paragraph and unanimously adopted in the committee, of which
Mr. Bryan was a member, and it was unanimously adopted by the
convention.
In his speech of acceptance President Wilson said of the plat
form: "For us it is a very practical document. We are now about
to ask the people of the United States to adopt our platform. We
■re about to ask them to entrust us with office and power and the
guidance of their affairs." The people adopted the platform and
entrusted the Democratic party with its affairs in order to carry
out that platform, which says: "We favor the exemption from tolls
of American ships engaged in coastwise trade passing through the
Panama canal." What now does Mr. Bryan think of "a man who
violates a party platform?"
A SEAT FOR EVERY PASSENGER.
A REQUIREMENT for trolley companies to provide a seat
for every passenger, proposed by the Brackner bill in the Assembly,
means that when all seats of a car shall be occupied the company
must bar admittance to any more people until seats are vacated.
How such a rule would work in Newark may be imagined.
The limit of safety is already reached in the number of cars
passing the Four Comers, and that point regulates the number
for nearly all the lines. In the busy traffic hours the company
exceeds the limit. If the company enforced the rule of taking no
passengers when the seats were all occupied crowds would be left
standing at every corner and thousands of people would wait for
an hour or more while filled cars passed by.
But they wouldn’t wait. There would be a riot at every stop
ping place by crowds of people demanding transportation. Men
and women would push their way into cars in spite of the con
ductor or the police. The clamor of complaint would fill the city.
For every passenger to have a seat would be ideal for our trolley
system, but it is utterly impracticable when the conditions are con
sidered. The public would not stand for it even though the Public
Service should consent.
A BUNCOMBE RESOLUTION.
TO FULLY carry out the object of the resolution introduced
In the House by Mr. Godfrey, of Atlantic, for a committee to make
a comprehensive detailed inquiry among the thousands of manu
facturing and other labor-employing concerns in New Jersey and
even in neighboring States, and also among the labor organiza
tions, respecting the number of the unemployed, the effect of the
tariff law and other details, the committee to report at this ses
sion, involves a job that might well appall any committee.
All this work is to be done by correspondence. To prepare
for it an army of clerks will have to be employed and an un
limited supply of stationery, postage stamps and other necessary
articles bought. It may be predicted that not one-half of the
inquiries sent out would receive any reply. Of those returned
many would need interpreters. And out of the lot the committee
would learn practically nothing. Mr. Godfrey’s resolution is a
foolish one and looks like buncombe.
UNDOING GOOD LEGISLATION.
IN EVERY new legislature there are men anxious to undo
the good that previous legislatures performed. This class of law
makers, or law-breakers, appear in the present Legislature and
have various objects. One wants to destroy benefits in the school
law. Another would repeal the resident gunners’ license fee and
take $60,000 of revenue from the State treasury, while others come
prepared with bills to emasculate the fish and game laws and repeal
other acts for which legislatures in the past won credit.
Nearly all these reactionary bills originate in small towns
and the rural sections and are inspired by a narrow, selfish spirit
that has no existence in the large centres of population, where
the broader and more progressive spirit prevails.
BOTH FISH AND BIRD CONSERVATION.
FEDERAL PROTECTION for migratory birds is the object
of a proposed treaty with England to cover the United States and
Canada. If a treaty is effected there will be no question of the
legality of the act of Congress for federal game preservation that
went into effect last October. But the federal government will
not need the power of a treaty to provide for the conservation of
migratory fish, and the bills now in Congress for that purpose,
if made laws, will be in harmony with game preservation and of
greater importance to the American public.
HALF WAY TO BOROUGH GOVERNMENT.
THE PASSAGE by the Assembly of the bill for borough
government for Ocean Grove by a decisive majority transfers the
fight on the bill to the Senate. The anomaly of a semi-religious
local government for a populous town in New Jersey, with the
people under the absolute rule of a few non-residents and with no
voice in their affairs, is too much for a Democratic Assembly to
■tolerate. How will a Democratic Senate regard it?
A NEW WIRELESS MARVEL.
LIGHTING AN electric lamp by wireless six miles away, the
latest reported development of wireless by Marconi, opens the
way for more important uses of this wonderful agent, such as
transmitting power, light and heat. The wonders of science of
this age beggar the age of miracles. The supernatural is outdone
by the natural. What would the ancient world have thought, in
. its ignorance of the hidden forces of nature, of the marvels that
L tave become commonplaces of our age?
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES_
An Overlooked Food Supply.
From the Providence Journal.
It seems that the “sea mussel
movement is part of a practical at
tempt of the government to attack
the high cost of living by introducing
cheap, substantial and hitherto un
used foodstuffs into America.” A
professor at Clark University, enlist
ed by the government, ha9 been j
studying tho value of the homely and
humble mussel as an article of hu
man consumption. He says that
these shellfish grow at the rate of
from six to eight thousand bushels
per acre—a conservative % estimate,
apparently. The finding is that ”25
cents’ worth will supply enough food
for ten persons,” which Is cheap
enough in all conscience.
some sKepticai persons, navmg «
casual acquaintance with sea mus
sels, might make the rejoinder that
25 cents' worth of crow would be
enough for more than ten persons.
After experiencing the savor and fla
vor of a mess of mussels one might
sooner share 25 cents’ worth with
nine other persons than eat them all
himself. However, let us not be un
receptive to new truths simply be
cause they are new. Time was when
lobsters were despised by epicures.
We could buy big ones for ten cents
apiece. The fish market man never
thought of weighing a lobster. If the
lobster palacefl of the present day
should be made over into sea mus
sel palaces the long-neglected mol
lusk migrht soon command a price be
yond the reach of persons of mod
erate means after taking out the In
come tax.
Mussels have long been a food com
modity of some value and relish to
dwellers on the coasts of the Old
World, but the generally accepted
explanation is that these people do
not know Narragansett bay oysters
or our juicy clam. Americans use
them for bait. There is no question
of edibility, to be sure, but so little
do they appeal to the popular taste
that they have not yet invited the
concern of the bacteriologists or other
pure-food agencies. The findings now
surprisingly announced are reached
only after exhaustive search for a
new. wholesome and Inexpensive food,
covering a period of several years.
How the movement is to be pushed,
in order to overcome long-standing
prejudice, is not vet explained. The
government may issue a new cook
book in which mussels will be
featured. If made fashionable for
chafing-dish parties, they should soon
find a welcome in the frying-pans and
ovens of the plain people.
The Immigrant.
From the Chicago Tribune.
To the average American the immi
grant Is a problem. The spokesman
of this class of citizens, whether oc
cupying the chair of sociology in a
university or a seat in the House of
Representatives, generally takes an
extreme view of the alien situation in
this country. v^hen an immigration
measure Vomer up for consideration
he frequently, in a feel in.'* or self
protection. as it were, s-n "'*th
those who would unreserved!, re
strict the foreign Influx. Our alien
population without a doubt presents
many social and economic problems;
but it is only a half knowledge of the
immigrant situation in this country
that will Incline one to view this
situation as a peril.
The immigrant Is America’s man of
all work, and his destiny is working
itself out with the destiny of the.
country. Eighty-five per cent, of all
the labor in the slaughtering and
meat-packing Industrie* 1* done by
alien laborers.- They mine seven
tenths of our bituminous coal. They
do 78 per cent, of the work In all the
woolen mills, nine-tenths of all the
labor In the cotton mills and make
nineteen-twentieths of all the cloth
ing. Immigrants manufacture more
than half the shoes In the country.
Half the collars, cuffs and shirts Is
made by them. They turn out four
fifths of all the leather output, make
half the gloves, four-fifths of our
furniture, half the tobacoo and cigars,
and nearly all our sugar. In the iron
and steel industries immigrants share
the greatest risks.
How to IJve to Be One Hundred.
Maxims of Sir James Sawyer, English
Physician.
Eight hours’ Bleep every night.
Sleep on your right side.
Keep your bedroom window open.
Have a mat at your bedroom door.
Keep your bed away from the wall.
No cold bath In the mornintr but a
bath at the temperature of the body.
Exercise before breakfast.
Eat little meat, and be sure that it
is well cooked.
Drink no milk. (This applies to
adults only.)
Eat plenty of fat to feed the cells
which destroy disease germs.
Avoid intoxicants, which destroy
the cells that combat disease.
Allow no pet animals in your living
room.fl for they carry disease germs.
Live in the country if you can.
Watch the three D’s—drinking
water, damp and drains.
Have change of occupation.
Take frequent and short holidays.
Limit your ambition.
Keep your temper.
Philippine* Not Worth Warship*.
From the New York Commercial.
It would be cheaper to give the
Philippines away than to build ships
for the sole purpose of defending
them. No one pretends that a very
large navy 1r needed for the protec
tion of the continental possessions
of the United States, and the acqui
sition of the Panama canal strip does
not add materially to the burden
because it will facilitate the move
ment of our war vessels from one
ocean to the other, w’hich will more
than compensate for the additional
territory that has to be guarded. It
is natural that the man who cap
tured Manila takes some pride in see
ing the American flag continue to
wave over its fortifications, but it
is evident that the glory whlbfi he
won Is a very expensive luxury for
this country.
How About i-ioos-eltaring.
From the New Haven Journal Courier.
It is to be shown that any scheme
of profit-sharing can be made to work
which does not take into account lean
as well as fat years. In principle, if n
manufacturer is to make a division
with his employees when the income
is large, owing to good times, the em
ployees ought to share with him in th<
distress of bad times. It is quite
likely that if labor should voluntarily
take that attitude, which is fair,
profit-sharing schemes would begin
to multiply. Meantime, it is obvious I
that the gradual consideration of j
profit-sharing schemes is making more
and more for industrial peace. They
do not exactly revive the intimate re
lations of master and man, as they
existed in the earlier years, but they
do establish a relationship of the moat
significant character. Indeed, the
United States has developed a new
vision, and it is bound to work to the
greater contentment of the country.
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
An Anecdote of a Great Showman’s Business Sagacity
The late Arthur Twachtman, who Is
slowly but surely gaining posthumous
fame as a.n American painter, whose
genius was not recognized in his life
time except by a few who were of
good judgment, had a wide acquaint
ance with painters and sculptors and
also with musicians. He was fortu
nate enough to hear the first perform
ance of Wagner’s “Meistersinger” at
Munich, and he had at that time
made acquaintance either with
Thomas Ball or intimate friends of
Ball, who related to him many anec
dotes about the latter.
Ball was a sculptor who lived many
years at Florence, Italy, and also
spent some months each year at
Munich, where Twachtman studied.
The bronze equestrian statue of
Washington In the Boston Public
Garden and the statue of Webster in
New York were Ball’s work, but he
was perhaps best known as the
sculptor who designed and executed
the Emancipation group which
stood on the Capitol grounds in
Washington.
Mr. Twachtman for some years was
a neighbor of mine, and T often had
the pleasure of hearing his anecdotal
reminiscences of men who had
achieved success in the world of art.
He had a very keen sense of humor,
and he once narrated the following
incident which was either told to
him by the sculptor Ball or by one of
Mr. Ball’s friends:
“In some way ’Tom’ Ball and P. T.
Barnum, the great American show
man, established an intimate per
sonal friendship at the time, when
Barnum w as in the height of his ca
reer.
“That friendship was maintained
until Barnum's death. How skilfully
the great showman was able to util
ize his intimacies with men who had
gained high reputation was discovered
by Mr. Ball just after Barnum had
built his magnificent country home
at Bridgeport, Connecticut, which he
sailed Tranistan.’ Barnum had often
invited the sculptor to visit him ’at
Bridgeport and the invitations were
sometimes accepted. But when Tran
istan’ was completed and furnished
Barnum urgently invited Mr. Ball to
go to .Bridgeport and spend a few
days at this beautiful country home.
The day was fixed by Barnum and
the Invitation was accepted. When
Mr. Ball arrived at the Bridgeport
station he found Barnum there
awaiting him. The showman led the
famous sculptor through the station
to a carriage drawn by four brilliant
ly caparisoned horses and provided
with a coachman and footman in
showy livery.
“Ball was somewhat astonished at
the magnificence of this reception to
him, but he unhesitatingly took the
seat in the carriage which Barnum
pointed out. The showman then
seated himself beside the sculptor
and the carriage proceeded on its
way.
“Spfeeedlly Mr. Ball discovered that
this carriage was at the head of a
procession which consisted of a long
string of circus and menagerie car
riages or wagons which were gaily
painted and In the midst of which
was a chariot in which was seated a
large brass band which tooted away
vigorously. The procession made a
parade through all the streets of
Bridegport, and the showman in ex
planation said to the sculptor that
this was the opening day for 'the
greatest show on earth.’
“But it was not till the procession
disbanded and Ball was enjoying the
household hospitalities of Mr. Bar
num that he learned that the great
showman had caused It to he widely
advertised that with him was to ride
in the procession the great American
sculptor, Thomas Ball. That ex
plained to Mr. Ball why so many
people on the sidewalk looked at him
with curious eyes.”
(Copyright.. 1914, by E. J. Edwards.
All rights reserved.)
TASTE IN NUMERALS
Is your business falling off?
Try changing your telephone num
ber. Perhaps your clients or your
customers can't remember It. Per
haps they can't say It so It will be
understood, says the New York Sun.
Certain employees of the New York
Telephone Company make the study
of numbers a part of their day's
work. And It pays both the company
| and the client.
There are always a few fussy folks
who are hard to suit In telephone
numbers. They want them made to
I their personal order, like their clothes.
The company Is only too glad to do
this when It Is possible, but mostly
It Isn’t. The company has to divide
its thousands of clients Into groups,
arranging them so as to give the
quickest and most nearly accurate
service possible to all. In the busy
exchanges every girl has to act daily
as the medium of a thousand conver
sations. If personal fancies dictated
the arrangement of the numbers this
would be impossible.
A few subscribers object to the
number "13" In any combination, but
not nearly so many ;ls one would ex
pect to find Others want their tele
phone numbers to be the same as
house or office addresses. Of course
there is about one chance in a thou
tuuul slue* this wu tut ananged. A
good many ask for numbers without
giving any reason; they simply have
"a feeling” that those are good num
bers.
And the majority of new subscrib
ers are wise enough to leave the
number itself to the company. The
commonest form of request is, “Give
me a good number.” Now, a “good”
number is one that is easy to remem
ber and hard to misunderstand. A
number with a repeated figure in it
seems to have some advantages, es
pecially if the two like figures are
separated as in ft64. But such details
must always be arranged with the
more important general rules.
An old, well-known number is a
business asset highly valued by most
firms. Sometimes a subscriber’s trade
will expand so that he keeps adding
one, two or three numbers until there
are ten or a dozen In his switch
board. It is very desirable that these
should be in consecutive order at the
company’s exchange. Every such row
is tied together by a line underneath
so that the operator can choose a free
wire quickly from the whole group.
But in cases where it i3 impossible
to place the original number in such
line the firm will often retain the
first for incoming business and have
some for the later ones changed to
make a consecutive group. Certain
numbers have been held in this way
for twenty years or more. They are
cherished like the original doorplate
or sign put up by tn« founder.
Roses in Winter
—
Roses in winter, needing not
The careful florist’s sheltered plot!—
Rarest of sights, I hear you say;
Yet two are daily seen by me—
Two roses that, bewitchingly,
Are reddest on the grayest day;
As sunsets, when the world around
Is whitest, are on the reddest found.
Two red, red roses! Come and see
Their beauty, and admire, with me!
But do not fix on them your eye
Lest there be seen commingling hues;
Lest they their clear distinctness lose,
Like rose-clouds in a rosy sky;
But look, and quickly look away,
Haply to dream of them some day!
Dear roses—may they never fade!
That have my winters summers made;
The duty that to them I owe
Is that most tender of all care
Which love—that gives the light and air
Oft solely needful—can bestow.
How sad their perishing would be
From thoughtless negligence in me!
—RALPH H. SHAW, in Boston Transcript.
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
FEBRUARY 10
Adelina Patti
Copyrighted, 1913.
BY MARY MARSHALL.
February might be called the month
of famous singers, for it contains the
birthday of more operatic stars than
any of the other eleven. And the
greatest of all modern sopranos is
among them—Adelina Patti, who was
born seventy-one years ago in Madrid.
It would be hard to find a singer
who made her home in more coun
tries than did Patti. Queen Isabella,
of Spain, and Empress Eugenie, of
France, each called her "her dear
country-woman,” because of her
birth in Madrid. But her parents
were natives of Italy, so it is no
wonder that that country claims her.
But when she was a very small girl
her mother and father brought her
to America, where she remained for
sixteen years and where she received
her early training and made her de
but. So after all we can’t be blamed
for dubbing her an American. But
after her fortune was made and a
very largo income it was—she went
to her princely castle of Craigy Nos
in Wales, so the Welshmen have as
much right as any one to claim the
divine Patti as their own.
Patti's earliest recollections were of
the trials of her parents on the stage,
for they were both singers by pro
fession. When she was six years old
she dressed up in her mother’s stage
costumes and put all her dons m a
row for her audience and then danced
and sang for them, pausing in her
performance just long enough to say
“Brave Adelina.” The next year
when she was only seven she made
her real debut when she sang “Una
Voce” in New York. All she hemem
bers about that performance was that
afterw’ard her father caught her in
his arms and her mother kissed her,
and a feeling in her child mind that
she had retrieved her parents’ for
tunes.
There was never a singer who re
ceived more universal tribute and en
couragement from crowned heads
than did Patti. In Spain and in
France she was showered with royal
favors. In Moscow she received five
diamond stars and two coffee cups
and saucers inlaid with precious
stones from the Russian emperor.
King Edward VII., when he was
Prince of Wales, called her his “old
and valued friend, Mme. Patti." But
still it was from the common people
that Patti received her deepest
tribute. During the FYanco-Prusslan
war her sister was in Paris, and when
a soldier entered her house to con
fiscate it he saw a picture of Adelirfa
Patti, and for the sake of the great
singer he closed the door and went
away.
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Science Baffled by Divining Rod
Do yu believe in rhabdomancy?
Have you faith in the practical value
of the dousing rod or of the douser
himself? Have certain individuals the
power to discover water or metals hid
den beneath the earth’s surface by the
use of a forked witch hazel rod or a
willow* twig?
A congress of scientists was recent
ly held at Halle, Germany, for the sole
purpose of testing the efficiency of the
divining rod in discovering the exist
ence of water under ground or of min
eral deposits. Tests conducted under
the supervision of the congress result
ed in the location of three potash
veins, of coal deposits and of water
courses. One divining rod expert gave
a practical demonstration of what was
claimed to be the power of the mys
terious rod and of a person operating
it by locating a leak in one of the
city’s water mains.
In this country many instances
have been recorded of the pow*er of
the douser. One especially notable
case is that of James Eastman, who
was for many years a passenger con
ductor In the employ of the Great
Northern railroad. No harder-headed
business man exists in the United
States than James J. Hill, yet when
he was president of the road he
thought so well of Eastman’s ability
os a finder of water that Eastman
was especially detailed to locate wells
along the line of the railroad, either
w’here the railroad contemplated es
tablishing towns or where water was
needed by the company for its own
use. Up to the early part of this year
Eastman had succeeded in locating
fifty-two wells along the line of the
road. He is the Great Northern’s of
ficial water finder.
Adolph Hupfel, the brew*er at 161st
street and Third avenue, New York,
says he has spent $100,000 less for
city water for brewery purposes since
1009, w*hen Charles Hallock, a douser
from the mountains of Greene county,
appeared one day at the brewery and
asked permission to try to find water
there, agreeing to ask no pay for his
services if he was not successful. Ho
held in his hands a forked wdtch-hazel
twig, and walking back and forth over
the grounds where the brewery is
located for a time obtained no results.
Then suddenly the rod seemed to
plunge downward, as If magnetically
attracted to some substance in the
earth.
Mr. Hupfel was sufficiently inter
How He Knew.
A certain young man's friends
thought he was dead, but he was only
in a state of coma. When, in ample
time to avoid being buried, he showed
signs of life, he was asked how it
seemed to be dead.
“Dead?” he exclaimed, “I wasn't
dead. I knew all the time what was
going on. And I knew I wasn’t dead,
too, because my feet were cold and I
was hungry.**
“But n*j.. did that fact make you
think you were still alive?” asked one
of the curious.
“Well, this way. I knew that if I
were in heaven I wouldn’t be hungry.
And if I was in the other place my
feet wouldn’ be cold.—Public Ledger.
Man’s Wants.
Man wants but little here below
To bring him peace and happiness—
That Is, as long as he can know
That his neighbor has a little less.
—Judge.
200 Ex-Patients Honor Doctor Who Op
erated on Them Successfully.
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—The man
who stands over your helpless form
with poised knife is not necessarily
your enemy. Indeed, he may become
your hero. Such is the opinion of two
hundred discharged patients who ten
dered a dinner last night at Lafayette
Hall to Dr. Benjamin T. Tilton, sur
geon-in-chlef at St. Mark’s Hospital.
Besides, there were three hundred
other admirers of the doctor there.
During the evening a loving cup
was presented to Dr. Tilton by his
former patients, at the same time an
nouncement was made that an annex
to St. Mark’s, to cost $160,000, would
be built In Second avenue. Dr. Til
ton's former patients ate and ap
plauded like well men. <
ested to have two wells sunk where
the divining rod appeared to indicate
the presence of water. In one bore an
abundance of clear, sparkling water
was found at a depth of 400 feet, and
in the other at a depth of 800 feet.
Not only has Mr. Hupfl made a sav
ing of $100,000 on the cost of city
water since that time, but owing to
the coldness of the water there has
been a large saving in the cost of re
frigerating for brewing purposes.
Reginald W. Petre, a mining engi
neer of Baltimore, relates that in 1889
he and his partner were mini>* on
the Mokelumne River, California. The
particular mine which they were
working had apparently given out,
no more ore worth taking out being
found. They were on the point of
abandoning the property when by
chance they met a retired Montana
mining man named Charles Thomas,
who was skilled in the use of the
divining rod.
They told him of their belief that
the ore body was exhausted, but he
asked to see the property. He axam
ined the interior of the mine and also
the ground near the exterior. Then,
taking a willow forked twig, he
walked to a spot several hundred feet
distant, when tho twig suddenly
twisted itself downward in his hands.
He indicated that mineral would be
found there by diggging.
Mr. Petre and his partner sank a
shaft and thirty feet below the sur
face took out some coarse gold. They
then went to a depth of 170 feet and
found gold quartz in large abundance.
W. W. Barrett, of Arlington, N. J.,
relates that several years ago he was
the guest of a friend in an Oklahoma
village. This friend erected a house
on a fifty-foot lot before having a
well sunk for household purposes. He
employed a well digger to sink a bore,
but was dismayed when told that
there was no water in the immediate
neighborhood.
Before abandoning the idea of
boring a well the host engaged a
man in the vicinity w’ho had a repu
tation as a douser. With a forked
witch hazel twig he walked about the
lot. When at the opposite end of the
lot from the place where the well bore
had been sunk the twig began to
twist downward. Belief in this man’s
power of divination was strong
enough in Mr. Barrett’s host to jus-1
tify him in having a bore sunk at j
the point selected by the douser. |
Plenty of water was found at a i
depth of eighteen feet.
One Of During 1913, The Prudential
. - -3 . had in its Home State one of
tne DcSl the best years in its history
Years in all features making for
in Its success, increased strength,
higher public endorsement
History. and' greater public useful
ness. Jerseymen know and
*
believe in
i
The Prudential
FORREST P. DRYDEN, Preairf.at
UPLIFT TALKS
BY ORISON SWSTT MARDEN.
Author of "Pushing to tha Front, ’ Eta
Copyright, 1918.
PUT NEW BLOOD INTO YOUR BUSINESS
A medical journal reports an ex
periment upon a very feeble horse
twenty-six years old. The blood of
four lambs were transfused into the
animal and he immediately showed
marked signs of new life and vigor
and seemed much younger. The
younger, more vigorous corpuscles of
the lambs rejuvenated the old horse
and imparted a new vital force.
There are business houses which
have become feeble from loss of the
old time vigor and vitality, sometimes
because the proprietors have gotten
along in years or because they have
made their money and are inclined to
take things easy. But whatever the
reason of a declining vitality in busi
ness, if it is resuscitated and reju
venated with new blood, with new
vitality, if it is not reinvigorated in
some way, dry rot will set in and it
will gradually peter out.
1 have in mind a proprietor who has
been running his business on the
same old plan, on the same old ideas
as his grandfather used. More pro
gressive young men have moved to
his town and have started the same
line of business, and although he sees
his customers gradually sltnnlng away
from him he says that what his com
petitors are doing doesn’t interest
him. He Is never looking to see what
others in the same line of business
are doing, what new methods,, new
Ideas they are adopting. The result
is that ho is helplessly in a rut and
his business is gradually dropping off.
A business must be fed just as much
as an individual, and it must be fed
on new food, it must be fed on new
ideas.
The progressive man keeps in touch
with his competitors.
The junior member of a firm re
cently established was asked by an
old business man how they managed
to get their store so quickly into line.
so fully equipped, and in such excel
lent working order. The young 'man
replied that he had been “on the
road” for some time, had visited
food fairs and model stores in differ
ent sections of the country and that
the firm has put into practise the
points he had gained while traveling. ,
He then confided to him some en
tirely new and attractive features
which they were about to introduce
as the result of his observations while
"on the road.”
When a man says to himself: “Now
I can breathe more freely, I can let
up a little, I have a field, I am head
and shoulders ahead of my competi
tors and I can afford to take things
easy," he is in danger. ^
Overconfidence is the first sign of
a decline, the first symptoms of de- k
terioration. We do our best work 1
when we are struggling for our posi
tion, when we are trying with all our
might to gain our ambition, to at
tain that which the heart longs for.
Ambition is the very mainspring of
efficiency, for without it there is no
motive for the necessary effort to
achieve. It is possible to ruin the
finest ambition in a short time. The
enemies of ambition are always at ,
work, discouragement, fear, worry, *
laziness, the temptation to take things
easy, to slide along the line of least
resistance, the feeling of satisfaction
in one’s achievements—all these
things, if not constantly watched and
guarded against will gradually under
mine the ambition.
This is true of the teacher, the
preacher, the merchant and the spe
cialist in every line. If they do not
keep up with the times, if they do not
keep in the very van of progress, al
ways on the lookout for the new' and
the progressive, they quickly become
back numbers. The new, the up-to
date, everywhere is crowding out the
old fogy.
CENTRE OF ANCIENT ROME
Prof. Bonl’s discovery of the
"mundus” or centro of the ancient
city of Rome, Is only now beginning
to be generally known, says the New
York Sun. There were some difficult
natural obstacles to be overcome in
the course of the excavation.
The "mundus,” a pit in which the
instruments used in founding Rome
were deposited, was reached after a
close examination of *the geological
structure by the sinking of a shaft.
The site, which is at the northwest
angle of the vast impluvium in the
atrium of the Palace of Domitian.
was entirely covered by the solid
foundation of a second century build
ing.
The Romans themselves lost the
site of what was once the most sacred
of sacred spots, and apparently
Augustus made unsuccessful efforts
to find it. Prof. Bonl laid bare the
shaft filled with the debris of the
Augustan era, which was probably
sunk in the explorations carried on
by order of the emperor.
Prof. Boni's report has not yet
been prepared. Meanwhile, archaeolo
gists are recalling that the references
to “lapis manalls" and "sulcus priml
genius" and the phrase "mundus
Patet’ in the writings of Cato, Varro,
Plutarch and others are now unex
pectedly illuminated by the outcome
of Prof. Boni’s patient work for fif
teen years, which has laid bare much
that seemed to have been hidden for
ever.
The “mundus” was sacred to Pluto
and Persephone, and was venerated
until the fall of the republic as the
centre of the furrow which traced the
ritual boundary of the primitive city.
It was the innermost shrine of the
ancient religion of Rome.
The “lapis manalls” is a square,,
rough-hewn slab of tufa, one of the
kinds of stone used in the construc
tion of Rome, pierced with two round
holes. Prof. Boni appears to have
braved the “terrible shades,” which r>
legend says guarded the “lapis mana
lis,” and he found the vaulted
granary and favissae below the
granary. The favissae, excavated
forty feet deep in the tufa below the
clay in the summjt of the Palatine
hill, guarded the sacred seed for the
primitive Romulean race.
The “lapis manalls” concealed the
most ancient mysteries of the “mun
lus," whence germinated and spread
forth the fundamental energies of the
Roman people, mysteries more ancient
than the Roman race itself.
i ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS [
Pay Unshackled and Unguarded Convicts
for Road Work.
AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 10.—Fifty con
victs will be put to work on the roads
of Smith county this spring, un
shackled and unguarded, and will be
paid $15 a month for their work, it
was decided on yesterday by Gover- j
nor Colquitt and T. S. Sikes, Smith ;
county road commissioner, to test the ;
governor’s faith in the honor system
for prisoners. • Half of the $15 to be
paid by the State will go to the peni
tentiary and half to the convicts. If
the experiment is successful the re
form will be broadened.
Burglar Got Expert Knowledge of Safe
Breaking in Library.
BOSTON, Feb. 10.—An expert
knowledge of safes and the use of ex
plosives was obtained by August
Kaufman, convicted of burglary yes
terday, from books in the public
library.
Officers testified that Kaufman told
them of his study of safe-blowing ana
said he operated alone because th*
work was too dangerous for con
federates.
Woman Wears Creased Trousers with
Overskirt Slit in Front.
LONDON, Feb. 10.—A woman wear
ing trousers of a masculine cut with
an overcoat slit in front which al
lowed the freest movement of the legs
appeared in Hyde Park yesterday
and drew the surprised gaze of a few
pedestrians, wrho noticed that the
garment was perfectly creased and
turned up at the bottom, displaying
colored stockings. The woman re
frained from going into the streets,
where she w’ould undoubtedly have
been mobbed.
Ability to Walk Restored to Girl After
Curious Bream.
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—“It was the
answering message of God to our
fervent prayers,” was the way Mr.
and Mrs. James A. Scott, of 43 Pun
tine street, Jamaica, referred yester
day to the restoration to health of
their daughter Helen, who had been
unable to use her legs for two years.
Helen walks from her home to the
Jamaica Traning School, and 1$
taking an active part in outdoor
sports. She has surprised her
mother and father by expressing a
desire to join a dancing class, so that
she may learn the new' steps in time
for the annual spring dance given bv
the students of the school.
The girl says she became aware of
the cure in a vivid dream in which
she saw herself throw away her
crutches. She awoke to find herself
standing unsupported in the centre
of the room and could recollect dis
tinctly having walked through sev
eral rooms of the house.
Mayor Does Washing: to Show He's far
Women Suffrage.
SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Ffib. 10. •
—"I am for equal suffrage, and if you -»
do not believe it come to my house
any Monday and watch me do the
family washing,” said Mayor Joe
Catick yesterday.
The mayor recently stated that
mothers and daughters who neglect
their homes and spend their time talk
ing politics should be prosecuted for
contributing to the delinquency of
minor children.
This remark was resented by the
women, but the mayor stated that it
was directed specifically against the
delinquents, and was not meant as an
attack on woman suffrage. So, to set
an example to the women, he has in
vited everybody to watch him do the
family washing every Monday morn
ing.
The Harsh Judge.
A Judge was recently at a private
dinner defending a harsh sentence.
"I believe,he said, "that it is bet
ter for law and order that sentences
should err on the side of harshness *jt
rather than on the side of lenity.
"Look at nature, the great judge of
us ail. Was there ever a harsher,
severer judge, than nature, who sen
tences each and every one of us to
hard labor for life?”—Exchange.