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Show i Uncommon ' y -6- Sense -o- - SITTING A MAK. The aviators who - tried te fly . serosa tha American continent be- j : twee dawn and daylight got only a little less than half way. but they -at least set a mark. If other filers do not accomplish what they tried to accomplieh be- I . fnre they do. perhaps tosy will as- ' compUsh it themselves. ( Ths fact that they tried to. per- ( form a definite feat la what la Ira- I portent. . That effort. If persisted In. will do more for the art and ths Indus- l try of flying than all th loop ths ' looping snd sky writing that gate by the bars on the hurdle. Th marks sra advanced aa th . Contest proceeds. And every record maker look at' " the hurdle when he la through and, -tells himself that he will eom-day eet that mark a little higher and cleer It. - One of the etrongeet Incentive for good work ta th knowledge thagf other men have done good work, w Rmalatlon. not snvy. makes tha . right sort of men try to equal tha recorde of their fellowa i The business man who set a mark for himself snd tries to attala it In i a drflolte period Is far more likely. to dd it than Is ths msn who Just V. keepe plugging aheed hoping, to get '"V somewhere eome dir. Ths clocks used In ' financial 1 "drives" for various Institutions are ' . I a useful illustration of the value of " mark setting. Ons pointer Is set at the fifty fhen. sand or ths million mark, according to tha ambition or ths capacity of th people of the community. The other la moved ahead a th fund 1 raised. Juet looking at the two hands has Inspired many a man to do hla share toward trying to bring thesa a closer together. M Ths young msn who lays out hi e work ahead and Usee a definite data f to st through a definite amount of i It will aaeure himself of steady pro. , ress. which will Increase day by day las hs sets higher and higher mark 1 of achievement for hlmeelf. f -J." hv. i,flI,d and predetermined l"u .w"hl" " Umtm ' ettaln- ability, is ths most wholeaom thing . anv beginner In life rsn do. ! He will find, if be reaches his daily Esxmnl!,."h 0o W,U " "U' ' M.A.ndv.br y he will discover that his capacity has Increased so rapidly thai be ean eet marks tht f ,7"r' ago ha had a Id. hi he could ever reach. Copyright. His, by John Blake, MIRACULOUS. Boy, pegs Diogenes. We're found: th honest party he looked for with hi lantern and tt'a a woman, not . a man. - Bhe'r Dr. Esther Love Joy. relief ' worker, who sails to Europe In th steerage, to aa v e funda Dr. Lovw-Joy Lovw-Joy will hav charg of twnty-on -relief hospital In Orec caring for refugee from Aala Minor. She eays: " Relief work ahould get io cent out of th dollar. To American people ar moet genflrou about relieving human suffering all J over the world and I refue to stand y by and let this money be ueed for V Joyriding." " |