Show mm THE BEST pal F 0 sy N X atu aa im N W LABOR AS JOY OR CURSE it lo 10 worthy of note that all tho the brest great historical rellis loDS of the world whet 0 of the millions of egypt tolling tinder under the lash to build the pyramids at tho the wage of a couple of onions anions and a piece of dry bread a day or ot at the millions of india working la in the rico rice swamps amid swarms of pestiferous tit ti erous insects or of the Lill lions of tho semitic race whose tradition traditions oae been gathered together in the story of t eden and of the fall in tho the book of genesis neals all have been rooted and grounded li a tho 0 problem of at tho the common doom of s r m n that he must eat his bread in the sweat of hia his body and the sweat of 0 hie his mind none ot of these religion religions affects to treat the issue flippantly rhetorically or with commonplace comman Place platitude platitudes but with awful seriousness the onor enormous overweight over weight of tho th burden of at the work in comparison with the strength spir it its interest and reward of the worker Is the minds of these teachers tear hers and prophets and brings thera them to the common couvil tion that this must be the outcome of some primeval curse and of bome stupendous moral catastrophe redemption demp tion from which Is the end and alxa of all higher spiritual hope labor may bo be either joy or curso curse all turn turns on whether it la Is encountered with freshness spontaneity and zest or whether it to IK the to the dregs the springs of life ne n e tor for all out with it fair and square and plump there ia Is no more dignity nor elevation in mere u labor than in a mechanical pump handle what it lifts from the living central springs bene beneath th determines all our joy must bo in ili this living water blung welling up as we ourselves quaff its refreshment or extend it to the thirsty lips of others for this sole joy that Is set before us must we endure tho the cross and despise the pain palli we think ahn poets exempt from this molt wall pura pure chil children dien of inspiration never the weary pump handle for them but only the tho leaping geyser but bear what milton has to say no worthy enterprise ter prise can be done by us without continual plodding and to oar our faint and sensitive abilities boston Iler herald uld SUBMARINE HAZARDS the deith of eleven men in tho the british submarine boat A 1 aa as a result of collision with a merchant steamer is the first fatality that baa has folloW followed td an accident to a modern craft of this kind when ready for ser service r with hatches battened down the early at under underwater bater navigation alo of course vere were only a form of suicide but the submarine boat of the latest type when properly handled seems to be as safe as anything that takes the chances of at the sea when the moccasin was cast adrift in a it storm she rolled ashore and after pounding on the beach 1 r several days was finally hauled orf oil as good as new any surface torpedo boat after her experience would have been a attal wreck even the british boat that has lust just bad had no so tragic an experience does not seem to hae bane been injured by a blow that probably would have sink a battleship tle ship the lesson of her experience ie to the particular need of at vigilance on the part ot at ho lookout on a boat which being invisible cannot depend on other othet craft to do any of her watching h tor for her perhaps too the peri perl the eye of the submarine may be opened to improvement new now york world WISDOM OF moderation instead of contemplating new are for extravagant display of force forte or wealth let the o country con consider slIer tho the wisdom of mode moderation raton it has been suggested that a public debt under certain conditions serves a wholesome purpose in restraining waste and checking those enterprises which have no other inspiration than national vat elory or aggrandizement vate credit Is wealth public honor ie Is security the nation that needs to consider economy Is not consuming vast wealth and exploiting immense resources in hage and monstrous armaments that challenge the world she Is likely indeed to avoid offense to other na nation to be slow to anger and to cultivate ane rewards ot at peace instead ex 01 seeking distinction as the exponent ot of mere splendid materialism such a people would meet the magnificent de that was made by the tle post lilton milton En inflamed flamed with the study ol 01 learning and the admiration of virtue stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patr patriots lots dear to god and famous to all ai agea ages bloston globe 4 d t 1 AA 1 ie f BOOMERANG OF GREED the failure of D J sully tho the cotton speculator la Is merely another ln 14 of overreaching grel if it mr sully had been content with a moderate profit of a million dollars or e pe perhaps raps of three or tour four millions be he could undoubtedly have come off with a whole atkin when cotton reached the abnor ItAl figures of tho the lust last of january but like other min mn intoxicated i by success he was not sat islet with his big achievement the laselva lov of 0 the arme game or greed for corp morp moneys they tb amount practically to tho the ii im ja thing urged him into another bu 1 move movement lie believed bell eved he coul I 1 atit cotton I tu to abnot any price he pleased 1 ard he failed the taso case la Is by no means peculiar pe eullar the successful peculator speculator aho a ho be bomea overconfident tries to run a corner and Is pulverized in n tha the at Is a fa familiar millar figure in american market history natural laws which t are always alaya at work mark eliminating the unfit karoly allow the too areedy speculator to escape occasionally a rare combination of at qualities may criesi save him but an as ft a rule the man who trie to hold up anglet and anti pick its it poetic pockets is 1 overwhelmed he ile may win fort tor a time whom the gode gods would destroys destroy they first inako make mad but in tho the endl benl enl be he rarely survives yet the tal lurea lures that straw the path dai d not deter other ambitious and grasping men from setting out on the same course every bew ew sa imagines that he will prove too smart to be caught tbt thi mistakes rale of othera others he will avoid lie does not aci 11 yi that bo be la Is defying tho the law that compensation pene pensa atlon tion legitimately goes only for 3 bervice done he ile doa doos not that finally ae he too will succumb fo io the boomerang of greed pittsburg dispatch Die patch VAST irrigation SCHEME irrigating the arid landal landa in wyoming will be much less thant the original estimates owing to aler tie fact that the government will be able to utilize ono of pa nature tures vast cestr volra for confining the waters from i tho the mountain country countr during the flood i season hiding near the boundary of the yellowstone Yellow atone national park lit la north western wyoming that natures 1 wonderland rushes rustles into a it canyon cut cutt down through solid granite the flow of the shoshone Shoe hone named mimed by the ludl i ana ans stinking water because oy it au sulphurous origin among the yf ow y stone springs Is highly variable in time of flood or cubic w feet per second and again as low tie a i 3 feet the possibilities of at this 4 act therefore llo in the storage of the floods joining tho the walls of this granite canyon the govern min will build a cement and etona stand dam dams Js immovable as tho the everlasting rocke rocks themselves and rising 1 ast above the river level forming a great lake covering acres and with a etor age capacity of gallons gallon 8 it Is estimated that acres will vV be irrigated utica globe RUSSIA LAND OF GRAFTERS t to petersburg came the aal AWI can business men to secure a ri auld old concession there are vw ii r places cherl gold Is found tu in russia and our friends minted the t 0 of at working ono one of those places first td ys 0 they had to deposit with tbt ministry of tho the interior as good faith so much for the regular legal pan part of the program now for the irregular illegal part they kept la in their th air room at the hotel lurono a bag of bard hard cold cash in golden rubles this cash they doted doled out in install mente ments first to this prince then to teab t count tor for influence each rach tim tima they landerl lan dejl out tho the gonei they that their proposition had been fad 0 good and promises were made at the concession would be a dily granted each timo time the would be concessionaires cession aires believed that they had hadi 11 accomplished something and each time they were disappointed and had to refill the money bag the we corne delays delay in the negotiation continued week atter week technical obstacles b st stac tes each mere more serious than the tte preceding one were brought forward and so week weeks grow into months and and the t aei leans were not one step n nearer e a r the goal deciding that bandru bankruptcy p t c y would acme before any kind pt a definite conclusion could be they benaway derway wen away way with what cash wel had left and an accumulated amount of 0 disgust their w re returned turied P with all legal formalities j conald crabby morar than nan that sum was ifft left in the handset hand 02 the princes and conets such hairl omi the experience of exar t other americans seeking to do laal bual ness ress in russia each in sheer desperation abandoning hiar cz all I 1 eon son weekly M i 0 f si |