| Show it is always in the most distinguish ed exploits that mens virtues or vices vice may be best discerned but frequently an action of small note a short saying or a jest distinguishes a persons real character more than fields of carnage or the chii greatest battles john barney a farmer living in the east is anxious to procure a wife about the age of 40 or younger he will require no work of her excepting to milk a cow or two occasionally on sundays mr barney will take her buggy riding take her to the moving picture show once a week and buy her a nice ostrich plume the happiness of our lives depends much on the active performance of the duties of our station nor have we any right to that if they are not properly discharged they would be better if we moved in a more exalted sphere usefulness is confined to no station and it is astonishing how much good may be done and what may be affected by limited ben gelo ence of heart and activity of mind c the difference between men consists in great measure in the intelligence of heir observation while captain brown was occupied in studying the construction of bridges with the view ale of contriving one of a cheap description to be thrown across the tweed near which he lived he was walking in in his garden one dewy morning w when en he saw a tiny spiders net huspen suspended ed across his path the idea immediately occurred to him that a bridge of iron ropes or chains might be constructed in like manner and the result was the invention of his suspension bridge so james watt when consulted ab sins ampf afy water A by icem under th clyde a along 10 lo ng etue iun eyen bed of the river turned his attention one day to the shell of a lobster presented at table and from that model he invented an iron tube which was found to answer the purpose brunel took his first lessons in forming the thames tunnel from the tiny shipworm he saw how the little creature perforated tie oe wood with its well armed head first in one dir direction edtion and their in another till the archway was complete comple and then daubed ov over er the roof and sides with a kind of varnish and by copying this work exactly on a large scale he was at length enabled to ac c great engineering work so it is the clo close se observation of little things which is the secret of success in business in art in in science and in every pursuit ursula in life though many of these e facts and observations observation ss seemed eem ed in the first instance to have but slight significance they are all found to have their eventual uses and to fit into th their air proper places wt naf A topeka girl went to law aw tn in order to secure payment of a claim on ia fa accident cont pany the tha company coin pany brouet out the fact that the girl had coma this als such a shock acock to her best beat follow fellow tuat ho be ceased Us tila and now the girl wonders whether th the she ehe got from the e om M y Is sufficient compi for thi the lou losa of her beau |
