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VOLUME LX XXIII.—NO. 97.
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 24. 1914.
THE COLORADO HORROR.
Diverting attention from the happenings Incident
to the Mexican troubles are scenes of riot, bloodshed
and savagery In Colorado that are blots on civilization,
a reflection upon a great State’s ability to preserve
order, and barbarous to a marked degree. Southern
Colorado Is in a condition of lawlessness, owing to the
•trike of the miners; civil authorities have met with
rout and the militia has not only been defied, but at
tacked. Nine mineB have been fired and are reported
as still burning; property estimated at $2,000,000 has
been destroyed; all work has been suspended, striking
miners, armed and desperate, are roaming the hills and
mobilizing for battle with police, sheriff forces and
the National Guard; men and women are among the
•lain; privation and suffering confront all.
Colorado is in a state of lawlessness unparalleled
In the history of strikes, to judge from dispatches
received from the riot-ridden sections. Appeal is to
be made to President Wilson for federal aid to quell
the uprising, It is said.
Men, women and children, imprisoned in the shaft
houses of mines, have perished and their bodies been
Incinerated. It is charged that to make cortain of the
destruction and utter annihilation of these unfortu
nate persons, dynamite waB thrown into the shaft
houses with the frightful consequences that Inevitably
follow.
The work of devastation is In progress and the
frenzy of the miners is intensifying.
To read of utrocitles In seml-barbarous countries
arouses a feeling of horror; to read and know of a
lamentable situation in our own civilized land stirs a
sense of both horror and shame.
The mine owners may have been overbearing,
oppressive and unjust in their treatment of the miners,
thereby forcing the strike; the miners themselves may
have bei n encouraged to take drastic steps because of
starvation wages paid them and long working hours,
or the counsel of trouble-making leaders; but the
plain, indisputable fact remains that a cruel, shameful
and degrading situation has been created. The remedy
should bf applied without delay.
I
THE NATIONAL GUARD NOW AND IN 1898.
In 1X98 it was necessi.ry to break up the National
j,«7uarfl feglments, enroll them Into new organizations
and appoint different officers, for the reason that
nearly all the regiments were unfit for service. They !
contained inexperienced officers and untrained men j
and the organization did not correspond to that of the j
Tegular army. This will not bo needed now. The J
regiments, brigades and divisions as now constituted 1
will go into the field Intact and with their officers.
The sixteen division commanders will probably mostly
be taken from the retired list, of the regular army, but
they will all be regular army officers.
In the Spanlsh-American War the volunteers were
armed with the Springfield rifle, burning black pow
der. The arm they now have is the United States
service rifle, the finest small arm In the world. In
1898 our State Guard had no signal corps, and prac
tically no medical or hospital or ambulance outfit,
and the doctors did not know that typhoid fever was !
conveyed by flies to the food. Hence the deaths at I
Camp Alger. They know these things now. and,
moreover, there ban since been discovered a typhoid
serum which makes the soldier immune. So the
National Guard in going into the war this time is
far better organized, better equipped, better disci
plined, better protected and altogether better pre
pared than it was in 1898.
HOT THE VOICE OF PATRIOTIC WOMANHOOD.
The women of New York, suffragist and anti-suf
fragist. who gathered at Cooper Union last night to
protest against going on with the war do not repre
sent by any means the whole body of American
womanhood. There are thousands of women who
realize that their husbands, sons and brothers must
do their duty to their country and have the spirit of
the Spartan mother who enjoined her son to bring
home his shield or be brought home upon it. Not
even the suffragists are united In this unpatriotic pro
test. A suffragist anti-war meeting in Jersey City
was spoiled by the declaration from some of the
women that If they were true to their principles they
ought to enlist and fight alongside the men.
AN INCAPABLE SECRETARY OF STATE.
A newly elected President assumes a very serious
responsibility when he selects a man to conduct the
foreign affairs of the government. That fact has been
brought home to the American people since the ap
pointment of William J. Bryan as secretary of state
in recognition of his services in the Baltimore national
convention.
Mr. Bryan had had no experience in foreign affairs
and was temperamentally not fit for the great duties
of an office that forbids mere sentimentality, that calls
for the closest attention and study and for a definite
line of policy, with firmness in carrying it out. What
have we had in the secretary of state’s office?
Frequent and prolonged absences on private
money-making lecture tours, the negotiation of worth
less peace arbitration treaties, the substitution for
trained ambassadors and ministers of politicians as
a reward for campaign services, and general inatten
tion to duty at times when the national affairs were
In a critical condition.
How far all this has contributed to bringing a
war upon the country, and how far It made necessary
the plea by the President, "rightly or wrongly,” to
Congress to practically surrender the Panama canal
to England for its support in retrieving the blunders
in our foreign policy, who shall affirm? Secretary
Bryan fiddled while Rome was burning. As a states
man he is the worst failure In American politics and
the most unfortunate selection of any President.
THE SITUATION AT VERA CRUZ.
It is quite unlikely that the forces of Huerta near
Vera Cruz would make an attack upon the city, now
in possession of our bluejackets and commanded by
the guns of our warships. Such a performance would
be farcical and most disastrous. But Mexican fanatics,
In the spirit of the Russians at Moscow, might burn
the city or cut off water and food supplies to cause
a famine among the population.
We cannot rep< at the feat of General Scott, who
with the same small force fought his way from Vera
Cruz to Mexico City. To the sailors and marines at
Vera Cruz there must be added a large military
force, and an infantry brigade has already been or
dered there. A show of overwhelming strength is a
moral as well as military factor in Mexico. It cows
resistance and compels open doors.
FINANCING A WAR WITH MEXICO.
There need be uo apprehension in regard to the
financing of a war with Mexico, but it will neverthe
less be a strain on the nation's resources. The cost
of the Civil War was $8,187,223,385, and that war
lasted four years and was conducted without any re
gard for expense. The credit of the country was so
low during the war that the national bonds were sold
at a great sacrifice. Today the national credit stands
highest in the world and there would be a market
for hundreds of minions of bonds at low rates of
interest.
The sale of government bonds in large issues,
however, would have a bad effect upon large private
enterprises and also on the sale of State and municipal
bonds. With the government a competitor in the
market railroad issues would not find as ready sale
as they have. These are among the consequences of a
protracted war, which eats up the substance of a
nation, swells its debt and entails large permanent
obligations for posterity, such as the pension roll.
SHAKESPEARE DAY IN THE SCHOOLS.
The celebration of Shakespeare Day in the Newark
public schools yesterday was intelligently planned and
enthusiastically carried out. Naturally, the most in
teresting and valuable feature of the observance was
the presentation of scenes from Shakespeare’s dramas
by pupils of the high schools. Newark’s boys aud
girls took with them from their schoolrooms on the
UBOth anniversary of the great poet's birth lessons
and impressions that will stimulate the study of his
immortal works. Shakespeare is the common herit
age of all English-speaking people, and judicious
selections front his writings should find a place in
every American school curriculum.
MUST STRIP OUR COAST DEFENSES.
To provide a sufficient force of trained soldiers
for immediate service in Mexico our Atlantic coast
defenses must be stripped. The big guns have been
ordered out of commission and the coast artillerymen
are being drilled as infantrymen. If they are sent to
the front and war breaks out with an important
power our coast will be in serious danger, as the
national guardsmen know nothing about handling the
heavy artillery. It Is a scathing commentary upon the
system of neglect by Congress of our national defense.
| OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES I
Impressive Figures.
From the New York Son.
In 1898 the revenue received hy the
entire Pennsylvania system, lines east
and west, for carrying the government
inuils whs a trifle over $1,000,900. In
1913 this revenue was a little less than
$6,009,009. The 1913 return from this
source was, 111 fad, below that re
ceived In the vi ars 1906, 1907 and 1912.
Ill the period freight revenues in
creased from about $98,000,000 to al
most $260,000,000, passenger revenue
from $35,000,000 to .almost $84,000,000,
and express revenue from about
$1,000,000 to $10,000,000. Furthermore, i
in 1913 the Pennsylvania system had
under operation 735 more miles of
main track than in 1898. These figures
supply a striking illustration of the
manner in which the railroads have
been burdened with postoftlce business
for which they have received no re
turn. The people of the United .States
have become accustomed to seeing the
postal department run at a deficit
but probably it is not so well known
that this result is attained even in
spite of the department being In the
exceptional position of having a sab.
stantial portion of its overhead
charges paid by the railroads. It is
pertinent to ask oneself how long the
postal department could continue if it
had to be run as a business concern.
It is peritaps small wonder that uur
postal department should be criticised
as the most inefficient organization
for its size in the world.
The Regional Reserve Hunks.
From the Indianapolis News.
The proposed location of the re
gional reserve banks is causing an
outburst as vociferous as It Is undig
nified but quite natural. Seven cities
of Greece disputed the birthplace of
Homer. So, from the dawn of Intel
lect the trivial boastfulness of local
ity has been in evidence. We ought
to have learned to do better by this
time. The almost insane obsession
that takes towns now and again as
to the number of their population is
common. But silly as this is, it is less
so than th present strife o\er the
regional hanks. For it is not as if
non-possession worked financial harm,
"made money tight,” or did anything
else dire or to the disadvantage of
every town except the ones that have
the regional banks. Money is not
local or fixed, like the population of
a town. II is fluid, and the very pur
pose of these regional banks is to
render it fully so.
The objection to our unelastie form
of currency and banking was that It
failed to respond to monney needs in
various parts of the country. This
worked harm and distress. The very
Quality of fluidity of resources will
render of less account the location of
any reserve bank. ' With the obstacles
to a free ilow removed the full Quality
of money will appear, hence no city
can be deprived of its natural ad
vantages because il happens not to
have one of the banks. It will get all
the money that it can command, and
if it had two of the reserve banks it
could not get any more.
Money goes where there is a busi
ness demand for it. The mere posses
sion of a reserve bank will cut little
figure. Baltimore, for example, feels
Itseif actually insulted because Hi' h
mond got a bank. It is deeper than
rivalry. It is mortification. There is
apparent a personal note of deep and
inward disgrace. It is all very funny.
One consolation is that the country
will soon forget all about it. No city
is hurt in its prosperity or money ad
vantage because it is not one of the
chosen.
The Cost of Smoko.
From Power.
For the henelit of any who may not
see the analogy between a robbed
coal pile and a smoking chimney. It
may be briefly and simply explained.
The visible part in smoke is nearly
all carbon, either as soot or cinder,
and carbon is the principal combusti
ble part of coal, l.e., the useful part,
the part capable of yielding heat.
Carbon completely burned forms an
Invisible gas, curbon dioxide; there
fore, whenever the gases from a stack
show black they contain carbon,
which Indicates that complete com
bustion has not taken place In the
boiler furnace. In other words, all of
the available heat In the coal has
not been realized. It is the same as
though the corresponding part of the
coal fed into the furnace had been
thrown away, for, although it has
passed through the furnace. It has
been thrown away up the stack be
yond recovery. Is this, then, so very
different from robbing the coal pile?
The owner who, through ignorance,
allows conditions to exist which are
not favorable to the most economical
operation of his boiler furnaces, al
though he is unwittingly robbing
himself, is nevertheless stealing from
his own coal pile.
Iseful Hons of Millionaire*.
From the Now York Evening Post.
The process of deterioration which !
Is supposed to set In with the second j
generation of great fortune-owners
in this country is not really so wide
spread as one is led to Imagine. The
victory over England's professional
tennis champion by a rich young
man argues rather exceptional physi
cal stamina and a clean outlook upon
life. The heir to America’s largest
fortune has devoted much of his time
and means to useful work In the field
of social service. The young heir to
one of the great landed fortunes In
New York city has displayed a com
mendable Interest in matters of social
and civic progress. The heir to one
of the largest railroad fortunes In the
country has given a great deal of
time to coaching the university crew
of his alma mater. It may be that
amateur rowing or tennis, or even the
management of a campaign against
the social evil, Is not an exercise con
ducive to the conservation of great
wealth. The three generations from
overalls to oy'eralls, liberally Inter
preted. might still hold. But that
other form of decline which we as
sociate with the Pittsburgh school of
millionaire ethics, as brilliantly ex
emplified In the person of Harry K.
Thaw, Is apparently far from uni
versal among the children of the very
rich.
ODDITIES IN
TODAY’S NEWS
(Irnrnl Villa Is s Hammer Home, Soys
Pupil in Examination.
BALTIMORE. April 24 —What's the
matter with this sentence: "If you
hold a guinea pig up by his tall his
eyes will drop out"? If any one does
not know, let him ask the pupils of
Friends School, Park avenue and
Laurens street, to whom was given
recently that question In a test paper.
If the answer proves satisfactory,
there are forty-nine other questions
asked In the same paper, a number of
which would be bound to stump some
of the brilliant Intellectual lights of
this city.
Some Interesting Information on the
subject has been given by these stu
dents. The authorship of the famous
sentence "England expects every man
to do his duty” Is ascribed alike to
Napoleon, William Penn and Presi
dent Wilson. Disarmament, accord
ing to one of the papers, means to
be disrobed. A seismograph Is said to
be a form of moving pictures, and a
group of fish Is called a "fleet.”
One girl, when asked to give a fact
of important interest about General
Villa, said that he (It?) was a sum
mer home.
Baltimoreans will also learn rrom
the same source that Rudyard Kip
ling Is one of our foreign ambassa
dors, with his post of duties In China.
George Washington and Washington
Irving received the honor of writing
•‘Franklin's Autobiography.”
Some of those who took the exami
nation answered more wisely than
they knew. When asked to give a
good example of a martyr, some
wrote President Wilson, others Theo
dore Roosevelt. The difference be
tween a planet nnd a star, as revealed
in one paper, Is that one shoots and
the other doesn’t.
One of the tests assigned the pupils
was a statement on the Ulster ques
tion. The result: "Ulster is concerned
in the oyster fight,” “Ulster Is a great
artist," "The governor of New York
recently impeached."
Head Brother In Made Heir to Half Estate
by Sister.
NEW YORK, April 24—The will of
Anna Marla Welch, who died on Apr!1
3 at 163 West Sixty-sixth street,
leaves half of her estate to her
brother, James Welch, although he
died forty-eight years ago and Miss
Welch caused him to be burled in
Greenwood Cemetery and erected a
mounment over his grave.
Miss Welch left the other half of
her estate to a friend, Jane Guthrie,
on condition that Miss Guthrie give
aid to her brother’s family if they be
in want at any time. At the time
the brother died, in 1866, he was un
married, and his sister was his only
near relative. The explanation given
is that after burying the man she
supposed to be her brother she was
accosted while walking on Broadway
one day by a man who said, “Hello,
Bister. Don't you remember your
brother?" She became frightened and
hurried on, and after reachingn her
home, she wondered if she could have
buried the wrong man.
Hrua Support Church In Missouri
Town.
RAVENWOOD, Mo., April 24.—How
to make the hen pay the preacher
and bear all other expenses of the
church, and never know It, has been
figured out by members of the Har
mony Church, five miles northwest of
here.
The project followed Sunday's egg
collection at the Harmony Church,
when the worshipers brought the
Saturday product of their hens to
church Instead of the usual dimes
and quarters.
One hundred and sixty-eight dozen
eggs went Into the contribution
boxes, or $25 worth, figuring the valuu
at sixteen cents a dozen, the present
price here. This makes the value of
the eggs of the community $9,000 a
year, and there is a move on foot to
market these eggs, guaranteed, as -»
community, claiming the three to five
cents a dozen extra that is paid for
such eggs as compared with the un
certainties of the ordinary product.
The difference will pay the preacher,
keep the church in repair, buy spe
cial music and coal and keep the
church’s light plant running.
The women of the community have
agreed to undertake the plan, and
they will organize into an egg ship
ping company for that purpose.
The average government salary in
Washington Is $1,079, anil the aver
age ail over the country is $948.
The German Central Federation of j
Machinists and Stokers will hold its
twelfth ordinary general meeting on
May 31 in Leipsic. The point of most
importance on the agenda is probably
the "amalgamation question.”
Bank clerks employed by the Guar
anty Trust Company, of New York,
have solved the high cost of living
problem by the organization of a "co
operative club." At present their com
bined trade is getting for them a re
duction of ten per cent, on all com
modities.
The twenty-fifth congress of the
French Railwaymen's Federation
opened April 16 in Paris. The con
gress will deal at great length with
the question of what shall be done to
cause the railwaymen who were
victimized at the last strike to be
reinstated, as well as with the ques
tion of the nationalization of the rail
ways and the fusion of the railway
men’s organizations.
The new California compensation
law Is being accepted by employers,
many of whom have abandoned the
idea of forcing their workers to meet
the added cost, which officials are
showing is Intended to be placed on
industry. Up to date more than 2,500
applications for insurance have been
filed by employers whose payrolls
amount to $30,000,000.
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Answer to Yesterday's Tussle:
Catcher,
Spring-in tlK Suburbs
No more with steaming kettle and with rag
I’ll thaw the pipes that, thawing, quickly drown
The house, and, ’ere the plumber with his bag
Arrives, have brought the parlor ceiling down.
No more with aching back I’ll toil and slave,
With freezing hands and knuckles cracked and sore,
To clear the snow that’s fallen on the pave,
And find next morn it’s deeper than before.
No more upon a crossing shall I pause,
The while a trolley sweeper sprays my clothes
And fills with mud and slush my cursing jaws
And neck and cuffs and ears and eyes and nose.
Nor shall I, coming weary from a show
Or evening function where I’ve been to sup,
Find that the man has let the furnace go
Completely out, and I must build it up.
For spring is here, with sunshine and with showers
That nurse the starting shoot and opening bud,
And bring the tender grass and early flowers
And miles and miles and miles and miles of mud.
—J. M. Knox in Judge.
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
How a Wall Street Napoleon Met His Waterloo
The late Charles S. Brooke, at one
time esteemed among the ablest of
the criminal lawyers of the United
States, was retained by Henry S.
Ives to defend him at the sensational
trial in 1888 of the latter for alleged
fradulent transactions in connection
with some of his railroad operations.
Mr. Brooke’s attempts were partially
successful. He secured a disagree
ment of the jury. I had accompanied
Mr. Brooke to the courtroom several
times during the progress of the trial,
and he spoke to me frequently about
what he regarded as the narrow
escape of Ives from gaining a very
brilliant triumph in the held of rail
way operations In which he secured
national notoriety and a nickname
widely applied to him as “the Napo
leon of Wall Street.”
Ives had undertaken to get the mas
tery of several railroad systems, be
ginning with one in Ohio, and was
reported to have done this on what
Wall Street was accustomed to call
a "shoe string.” That meant the be
ginning of a very large undertaking
with no money capital to speak of,
but with a vast amount of assurance
and a considerable knowledge of
some of the peculiarities of the Wall
Street methods of those early days.
He became a conspicuous character.
He slipped up. No one could ever
tell exactly why. He just missed ac
complishing what he set out to do.
A few days after the trial was
ended I met Mr. Brooke and asked
him what he thought of Ives.
“Well," said he, “I couldn’t quite
make the man out. Even with me
he was somewhat taciturn or re
served. He convinced me os feeling
absolutely certain that everything
which he had done was within the
law, and that he owed his failure to
the fact that he ran up against some
men who were of greater experience
than he was. Yet he was persuaded
that the kind of attack which he
made, the guerilla method, the swift,
impulsive dash at his object, was the
only one which would succeed.
"Now I will tell you something
rather amusing,” continued Mr.
llrooke. "I learned incidentally that
Ives's methods hud greatly Interest
ed Jay Gould. Mr. Gould had been
told that Ives had studied Gould's
own career and thought he had
learned the lesson of that career per
fectly. There was something about
the dash and the audacity of Ives’s
attempt to capture a railroad system
which caused Gould to give some
heed to his performance. It was not
a matter of personal Interest to him,
since his railroad systems were en
tirely without the field of Ives's oper
ations and plans, and I suppose he
felt that if Ives should advance to
ward his own railroad system he was
perfectly competent completely to
throw the operator down.
"I mot Mr. Gould on the street only
a day or two after the trial. I knew
him pretty well. He stopped me and
spoke to me about the trial. Then he
made this singular statement to me:
'There was only one trouble with
Ives. If he had avoided that I think
he would have won. The trouble
with him was that he didn’t kim.w
what lawyers to retain. That is one
of the first essentials for success of
plans such as Ives had.’
“It then occurred to me that Mr,
Gould was unconsciously revealing to
me one of the secrets of his own suc
cesses, and I knew that he always
made a point of retaining the ablest
lawyers whom he could secure."
(Copyright, 1914, by Dr. E. J. Ed
wards. All rights reserved.)
April Has Queer History
Maybe the month of April Is to be
taken seriously and maybe It Isn’t. I
It one searches through the volumes
of classical lore on the subject one
finds that April Is Invariably treated
as a pood deal of a joke, says the San
Francisco Bulletin.
Chaucer is decidedly irreverent
about ’‘Aprille." He says that when
April has given everybody the wan
derlust people start to go on religious
pilgrimages. Maybe the religion is
the motive, he hints, and maybe the
wanderlust: the pilgrims are likely to
be April-fooled on their own Inten
tions.
Nothing about April is to be taken
seriously. Kven Its weather, accord
ing to tradition, never brings any
thing but good. "April showers bring
forth May flowers,” says one rhyme;
another proclaims that "An April
flood carries away the frog and his
brood,” while as to the winds, “When
April blows his horn ’tis good for
both hay and corn."
People don’t even know why it is
called April. There Is a Latin word,
aperire, to open; and some say that
April comes from that, being the
month when the buds open. But oth
ers declare that it comes from Aphro
dite, the Greek name for Venus, god
dess of springtime and other foolery,
and maybe that is so.
As to April Fool’s Day, everybody
admits that It exists, but nobody is
certain why. Some go back to Noah
and the ark and say that it was April
1 when Noah sent the dove out over
the face of the waters; which was
surely an April Fool errand for the
dove. Others put the custom on a
religions basis and say that the day
commemorated the passion of the
Saviour, who was sent back and forth
by his tormentors, from Annas to
Calaphas, from Calaphas to Pilate,
from Pilate to Herod, and back again
to Pilate. And these same people say
that the French name for April Fool,
"Passion d'Avril,” means "Passions
of April.”
Another funny thing about April
Fool is that various nations have the
custpm in different forms. Long be
fore Christ the Roman feast of the
Saturnalia was the same sort of
thing, when everybody tried to fool
everybody else. The Feast of Hull
in Hindustan, culminates in a revel
of “fooling” on March 31. For us
probably the custom started with the
French; the French were the first
people to hold New Year's Day on
January 1 instead of March 25, and
when the change was first made a lot
people would forget it every year. A
week of merrymaking, with visits and
presents, was always held at New
Year’s, and so April Fool Day. the
climax of this week, came to be the
day for jesting those who had forgot
ten.
A Money-Saving Primer
Occasionally a bank managed by
men of enterprise puts out a booklet
of very great interest to people who
don't know the technique of banking.
I wish that more of them would do it!
One of these booklets explaining the
simplest facts about making money
and then making money earn more
money has this catechism.
"How do people make money?
Through their labor and the products
of labor.
How do people save money? Uy
spending less than they earn.
"What Is the secret of money mak
ing? The real secret is the saving of
money, for saving money is the tirst
step toward making money.
“What 18 essential iu •
Making a start, no matter how small.
Every penny saved helps to save an
other.
"Is It the duty of every one to save
money? Yes. By doing this one need
never be dependent upon others lor
food or clothing and In time of sick
ness saved money will be a great
comfort. -
“Why should children save money?
Because it teaches them the value or
money; Its care and uses. |
“Why should parents save? In ad
dltion to always having ready money
for emergencies, by this means the
children may be educated or later
started in business.
“What Is the lesson for all? To ]
— —t \
The Victor.
Secretary Bryun, apropos of the
Monroe Doctr.ne’s new interpretation,
said at a dinner:
“We desire no territory, no ad
vantage, from our weaker neighbors.
We do not wish to be one of those
powers that snatch all the profits from
the quarrels of their proteges.
"The typical old-time power, which
we don’t want to resemble, suggests
the story of the bus.ness man who, on
his return fom the office, asked his
two little boys:
‘Well, what have you been doing
all day?’
” 'Fighting,' they replied.
“ 'Fighting, eh?’ said the father,
‘and who licked?’
“ ’Ma,’ they said.” — Philadelphia
Bulletin.
save for the benefit the habit brings;
to save for the children; for business
propriety; for old age; for Individual
comfort, and for the happiness of de
pendent ones."
At the bottom nothing is more sim
ple making money, saving it and
making the savings increase. As the
average man and woman hears them
discussed, however, these topics are
burled in a bewildering tangle of
strange words and terms. So I wel
come every primer talk on money and
saving I come across!—Chicago News.
I UPLIFT TALKS
BY ORISON SWETT MARDEN,
Author of "Pushing to the Front, Eta ,
Copyright 1914.
THE SECRET OF ACHIEVEMENT
A cobbler, when asked how long It,
takes to become a good shoemaker,;
answered, "Six years—and then you !
must travel.” That cobbler had the
artist-soul. I told a friend the story,
and he asked another cobbler the
same question: “How long does it
take to become a good shoemaker?’
"All your life, sir.” That was still
better—he was a Michael Angelo of
shoes!
Persistency Is characteristic of all
men who have accomplished anything
great. They may lack In some other
particular, have muny weaknesses or
eccentricities, but the quality of per
sistence Is never absent from a suc
cessful man. No matter what opposi
tion he meets or what discourage
ments overtake him, he is always
persistent. Drudgery cannot disgust
him, obstacles cannot discourage him,
labor cannot weary him. He will per
sist, no matter what comes or what
goes: it Is a part of his nature. He
could almost as easily stop breath
ing.
Money, position, influence—these are
no match for energy* and persever
ance.
With what delight we read Haw
thorne's "Scarlet Letter,” perhaps the
most powerful romance that ever
came from an American pen. It
seems impossible that such beauty of
diction, such facllltv of expression,
and delicacy of touch, could be elab
orated by any amount of drudgery.
But the notebooks of this shyest and
most l>ashful of mortals reveal the
secret of his genius. Drudgery,
drudgery, drudgery. Is written all
over his efforts. Nothing was too
trivial for record In his notes
Everything he saw, or heard, or
touched, or felt, was imprisoned In
his notebook, and compelled to pay
tribute to his fiction.
Thousands of men have been fail
ures in life because they did not go
quite far enough. Thev did not quite
learn a trade to a point of efficiency;
In other words, they stopped Just this
side of success.
The patent office in Washington is
full of contrivances wmcn are
successes; if the inventors had lia/l
the persistence to hold on a little
longer, they might have achieved -he
longed-for success, and died rich in
stead of poor. .
A poor boy started out, determined
to visit every office and place of busi
nesses until he found a situation, no
matter how long It might take. After
persisting in this for a time which
would have utterly discouraged most
boys he called at an office, where ho
was told they never took boys who
had had no experience, and was asked
who sent him there.
The old gentleman was so pleased
at the boy’s pluck when he told him
that he was calling at every office and
should continue to do so until he
found a situation, that he told b:m to
go home and write him a letter In his
best hand, and he would see what he
could do for him. Many a boy has
lost a situation by bad handwriting,
bad spelling, or an unbusinesslike let
ter But this boy’s letter was neat
concise and Intelligent, and he got
the situation. He proved valuable
and has been with the firm ever since.
Keep at it, whatever your work may
be with a dogged determination. Set
your teeth and say, "I will.” Let your
motto be, "Tenacity of purpose
Whc-n you hear it, it should act on
you as the bugle call does on a war
h*Faiiure Is the Anal test of persist
ence and of an iron will; It either
crushes a life or solidifies It.
If you have not thlB persistence by
nature, you must cultivate It. With
it you can succeed, you can make dif
ficulties bend, you can make opposi
tion give way, doubt and hesitancy
yield to confidence and assurance.
Without it the more shining qualities
of nature will not ensure your suc
cess. and will very likely bring noth
ing but failure.
It Is lesson after lesson with the
scholar, blow after blow with the
laborer, crop after crop with the
farmer, picture after picture, and
mile after mile with the traveler, that
secures what all so much desire.
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
APRIL 24
Hannah Snell
Copyrighted 1914.
BY MARY MARSHALL.
Hannah Snell was born 188 years
ago In England. Although a slight
little woman, sho has always been
remembered as the ‘'female soldier”—
the great English woman warrior.
Hannah Snell could claim no Illus
trious forebears. Her grandfather
was a hosier and her sister married
a carpenter named Grey. Hannah’s
mother and father died when she was
young and she went to London to
make her home with her sister and
brother-in-law. When she was twenty
she married a Dutch seaman named
Summs. From the point of view of
Hannah’s happiness this was an un
fortunate step. From the point of
view of her future distinction It was
a turning point. For If she had not
married this worthless soldier named
Summs she would not have had the
Incentive for her brave achievements.
Summs was a worthless sort of
husband and soon deserted his young
wife. But she was not content with
staying home to lament him. She de
termined to follow him, so she donned
borrowed clothing from her brother
in-law. Grey, and started out. She
felt that she could follow him over
sea better as a man than a woman.
Her first move was to Coventry,
where she enlisted In a regiment, as
suming the name of James Grey. She
marched with her regiment to Car
lisle, where for some failure in her
duty she was condemned by the ser
geant to 600 lashes. Bather than en
dure this punishment, she deserted
and, still In her disguise, she went to
Portsmouth, where she Joined the
sloop Swallow as a marine.
Hannah was more successful on sea
than on land. She became a general
favorite and because of her brisk and
sociable manners was called ''Hearty
Jemmy." She was looked upon as a
boy and for this reason she was
given the post of assistant steward to
the officers’ mess.
The crew of the Swallow disem
barked on the eastern coast of India
and all hands were ordered to take
part in the warfare going on. Han
nah proved to be one of the bravest.
She worked in the trenches and did
picket duty without flinching an.1
then received a wound after firing
thirty-seven rounds. Unwilling to
let the army surgeon into the secret
of her disguise she dragged herself
off the field of battle and found a
friend and faithful nurse in a native
woman, who dressed her wound and
sheltered her till she was well enough
to go back to her companions. Han
nah Snail next went with the crew
of the Swallow to Lisbon, where she
learned that her worthless husband
had been executed not long before in
Genoa. This news seems to have
come as a relief to her. At any rate
the excuse for her adventures was
over and she returned to England
to tell the story of her strange experi
ences. She wrote an account of her
wanderings, which was very success
ful and widely read. She appeared
on the stage for a while to satisfy the
public craving to behold the “female
soldier” und later ended her day® as
the keeper of a public house con
ducted under "The Signs of the Fe
male Warrior."
No Cut Prices in Society
New York society has become a
pay-as-you-enter affair, says the
Kansas City Star. It's easy to get'in
if you're sufficiently loose with your
bank account. The only objection is
| that the exit is precisely opposite the
entrance. The green millionaire he
goes right in and turns around and
falls right out again.
"Anyhow,” said Mr. Jason Andrews,
of a smoky city in the middle west,
"that was my experience. I am
through being a social butterfly. From
now on I will appear only in my well
known Impersonation of the human
crab. I wasn’t in society long enough
to get over shaking hands with the
butler.”
Andrews (that isn’t his real name,
though the story is true) was
approached by one of the "social ln
i troducers” who have recently ap
peared here, following the example
long ago set by Condon. It was ex
plained that he could take his choice
of four well-known members of New
York society as sponsors. They are
I regarded by the commonalty as mill
ionaires. but their cash boxes sound
I like a baby's rattle. Any one inter
ested will have no difficulty in learn
! ing the Identity of the quartet.
| “A dinner for twenty-five persons
i at which real leaders of society will
be present, will cost you $60,01)0," said
the agent. “A campaign to cover the
social season will cost $300,000 up
ward.”
Mr. Andrews ordered the dinner
at $50,000, was rehearsed with his
hostess, so that he might appear to
be on terms of Intimacy, and went
through his part in a ruddy glow.
For a couple of weeks he was “rush
ed.” Then It appeared that he did
not propose to pay for a campaign
against the social fortifications, and
he was dropped so hard that his
self-esteem was fractured.
“These prime old vatted million
aires,” said Mr. Andrews, "are en
gaged in a refined form of the grand
est indoor sport— taking money away
from folks who haven’t had it long
enough to get used to it. I can’t
holler. I sold a rotary corn sheller
to the steel trust for a rolling mill.”
Two of a Kind.
“This is my son Frederick. Mr. Fos
dlck,” said Mr. Glanders, proudly. In
troducing his flve-year-old boy to his
caller.
"Well, Frederick,” said the caller,
"do you obey your mamma?”
“Yes, sir,” replied Frederick prompt
ly, “and so does papa.”—Exchange.
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