Show f OUR DEPENDENCE ON EACH OTHER i One hears every day men remarking I that they do not c0 much care for some i measure Intended for the public good or that they have nol much Interest In politics and do not much expect toIle to-Ile or that they do not care to Join with their neighbors In some laudable purpose Such men ought to read of eac what Elllcott a watchmaker discovered discov-ered one hundred and sixty years ago lie left two clocks leaning against the same rail One was running the other not Later he found to his surprise that the clock which was not coclc running when he placed the two side by side had caught an Inspiration so to speak and was ticking away like Its fellow clock The scientists explain the phe nomcnom by pointing out that the timid Impulses of tho waves of sound imparted steady shocks from the clock that was going to the rail ri against which it leaned that these were conveyed con-veyed along the rail to the clock that was silent and it lent i at Inst responded by taking up Its own work I those impulses im-pulses act upon Inanimate mailer how much moro do the on sensitive souls I the mere act of work on the part of one clock can set another going who can tel how the work of one earnest manor the want of effort upon the part of an indifferent man may affect otherswithin the same sphere others who BO to speak lean against the same fafl l t But when the fact about the clocks was discovered some further experiments experi-ments were made The two clocks were alike wllu pendulums of the same length but when bttwhen one pendulum was lengthened It was found that the live clock Het the deadono going but the reaction stopped the IlrsL clock The oscillation of the pendulum had lo be the same to make the two clocks con tinueto work together That Is n hint to mortals If they would really influence in-fluence their foJIowmorlals they must bond down or stretch upward to the I level of the others When we talk or write over the heads of other men we I are apt not only to dono good hut t we are apt to disturb lie working of the others brain To gain the trust and excite the Interest ofother men It Is i neceosary to have the timid ncecfsary tmid Impulses I which vibrate from 111 one soul upon another an-other of that kind which carries an impression of sincerity with them When that Is l done the other I thnt t e aouls are made responsive Jtla a Icsllng pity that all men cannot have I scionUIlc training nothing elao J BO impresses men aan knowledge of Uitvnbsoluro laws on which nature in framed and hew this descends lo polnla which only I the microscope reveals We watch the worlds as they swing above us at night In their srpoodor and wonder Jf our I senses < ctf enough sublimated 1C wo could not hoar thu rhythm oC their I roll ins axles When the finished artist Impales Im-pales a butterfly and with Inllnllc labor la-bor ant tare paliUs the spots upon Us wings and works until his ulmoat skill is i exhausted through the mlcio II I scqpe hiD work Is jagged and rough I litlo on the real wjmjs though a hun i itod times majfniflod Ihoro Is ab oluto symmetry And looking deeper 1 f f we find ovarywheic perfect harmony I The drop of dow holds the sunbeam oven as dons the ether which beais It I downward and reflects Us splendor the human eye t This study makes men understand how Interdependent are our lives It draws man nearer to his felfownien It makes him more and more Impatient at anything like human pride it malces him understand bettor why men should join their forces and work to feClher for good lor In lhat Is the only real advancement of our race |