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Show THE WORK THAT COUNTS. All parents of boys are worried more or less as to what direction-the minds of their children are to take and what occupation tby will select. All such people should keep in tn'nd that the occupation occu-pation does not give the standing of the man, it is the man who gives the status of the occupation. occupa-tion. There was a simple-minded inventor and mechanic in this country a few years ago, and he so lived that when he. died the Government of tho United States placed tenderly upon a ship of war his remains and delivered them to the men of his native land for honored sepulchre. John Ericsson might have been a success in any walk of life, but we doubt very much whether he could have saved his name from oblivion in any other work than the one he selected. Indeed, we suspect that his abilities wore so wonderfully pronounced in a certain direction that every other oth-er ambition was subordinated to minister to the one controlling trait. To find the secrets of Nature's Na-ture's controlling forces and to - bend their strength to man's uses were passions with him. Other men's gifts are not nearly so pronounced as were his, but nearly every one can do some one thing better than he can anything else. The first of August last was the centenary of Ericsson's Erics-son's birth. It was celebrated In New York City by stately ceremonies which included the unveiling un-veiling of his statue. Most people think of him as only the inventor and builder of the first revolving re-volving turreted ship, but were his other inventions inven-tions stricken from the world, thore would be confusion con-fusion everywhere. The Popular Science Monthly gives a partial list of them, and from the list can be seen what Ericsson was to his age. They include: The screw propeller. He built the Princeton for tho United States navy, with propelling machinery ma-chinery below tho water line something never before deemed possible. Tho ship was a model for all subsequent naval construction. He mado a dozen important contributions in the development develop-ment of ships of war and the mercantile navy. When a boy of 22 he constructed a 10 horsepower horse-power condensing flame engine. Ho, when 25, made the first application to navigation of con- H Consing steam and returning vator to the boiler. H He invented the first steam fire engine. In 182G H he invented a steam carriage which excelled in H speed Stevenson's Rocket, running 30 miles per H hour. Ho invented tho tubular boiler with artl- H ficflial draft. He invented the caloric engine. He H made important scientific instruments like the H self-registering deep-sea lead, a pyrometer and H hydrostatic gauge. His great invention was tho H Monitor, but that would have been impossible H had he not before invented the screw propeller. H Ho worked with tho elements around him and H in a 'le way imitated tl& 'exact mechanics H vhl vera tho creation 61 worlds. That occu- H 1 atioA uppeals wonderfully to the admiration of H men. H When successful it insures Immortality to H humblo names, such as were given to Watt, Stev- H enson, Whitney, Morse and scores of others; H to every one who adds to man's progress in domi- M nating nature's forces and giving man more and H more dominion over the world. The fields in H which men can work are limitless. We have but H to think what the last century brought to man,- M kind to make us pity tho race that lived a hun- M dred years ago for the comforts thoy missed. M Think of the comforts in the modorn homo com- M pared with a hundred years ago. Think of the M changes in modes of travel, think of the labor M saving machines which have come to us. Think M of a modern hospital with its anesthetics and M anticeptics, its hot and cold water; Its perfect scienco compared with what our fathers knew. Think of the new stars In the sky, of tho new H mercies to the earth and then remember that the H secret doors of science yet unlocked are more H numerous than those already opened and that H they but wait for the patient seekor, and then H havo hope. H |