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Show THE DESERET EAGLE. 32 CITY SILENCE IS GOLDEN. Keep still. When trouble is brewing, keep still. When slander is get-tiupon its legs, keep still. When your feelings are hurt, keep still, till yon recover from your excitement at any rate. Tbirjgs look differently through an unagl ated eye. In a commotion, once I wrote a letter and sent it and wished I had not. Iu my liter years I had another commotion, and wrote a Ion? letter; biu life had rubbed a little senae into me, and I kept that letter in my pocket hgainit the day when 1 could look it over without agitation and without tears. I was glad I did. Less and less it seemed necessary to seed it. I was not sure it would do any lsu?t, but in my doubtfulness I learned reticence, and eventually it was destroyed. Time works. wonders. Walt till you can speak calmly, and then you will not need to speak, may be. Silence is the most massive ne thlug conceivable sometimes. Ir. is strength iu is very grandeur. It i like a regiment ordered to stand slil in the mad fury of battle. To plunge in were twice as easy. Stl cted. LEARN TO DO WORK YOUR THOROUGHLY. Many are out of work because they have not g me in with all their might to prepare themselves in the best way for what they had chosen, Tney did iot go in to win. If one who has a lask to do puts all his soul into it, and resolves that he will do it as well as it can be done, no matter how simple it ij, that person will not be long out of trrployment. The world has its soul won ied out of it because of slovenly work. Life is a burden to those who hire employees because of things half done. All depend on the spirit with which one starts in life. The winner lie is selects his future carefully. bound to no particular rut of success. He only knows that whatever tat-- he has selected i e is going to accomplish It as well as it is possible to do it, and that in the long run be is going to win. lie may be out of employment He may be forced to change his occupation. But he still knows that in him is good, faithful work, that there is a 11 fid for it is somewhere and it is his place to find that Held. The winner is he who never does slovenly work and N. Y. never lets himself run down GIRLS WATER THEIR HORSE. W. W. Hall a young farmer nar Montpelier, eij yed himself hugely a few day3 back in watering a couple of city giils attempt to water their horses ii the trough at his place. Trie horses were checked up, and of course could not get their noses down to the water. Tnis seemed to surprise the young ladies at first, but fiaaliy realzingthe trouble they bo h g jtuutoi tlio ouggie. and gjiug behind If ted up on the hind axle tnd after racing the hind wheels clear off the ground peeped around the side of the vefiicle to se if the horsts drank. Finding the horses didn't seem to kuow enoug i to to stick their heads down at t ie same time they raised the hind wheels one girl remiined behind to hold the buggie up aud the other went to the horses' heads and tried to puil their noses d;jwu t ) ihe water. Alter laughii g till be shook several board.; of the side of the blacksmith shop from WLere he watched the girls lift on the buggie and pull on the horses heads till they were red in the face and almost ready to cry. Will went to their assistance and undecked the horses. Tje young ladies gazed at first in bewilderment and then with a kind of a don1. -- you ever- - ell look at each other calmly tucked the robe around them, leaned back in their stats, and alter waitiug lor the horses to drink, drove t ff ; leaviug Will to sit down on the comer of the troug i and ruminate over the city gal aud tier way of doing things. Modest Herald. BOYSTIUrSCCCEED. "A new boy came into curofiice today," said a wholesale grocery merchant to his wife at the supper tnle "He was hired by tai firm at the request of the sauior member, who tnougiit thi noy give promise of good tilings. But I feel sure that the boy will be out ot the ollbe in less than a week." "What makes you think sc.?" "Because the first thing he wanted to know was just txic ly aow much he was expected to do.1 "Pern-tpyou will change your s mind about him." r, 'Perhaps I shall." replied the "but 1 don't think so." Toree days later the business man School Journal. said to his wifp. "Abcir. that boy yon renumber I mentioned three or President Jordan of Leland Stand-for- four days ag). Well, he is the best Jr., University receives a salary boy that ever entered !he stonv" of $bO0O a year. "Hew did ynu li id that oti ?" mer-han- "I i the easiest way in the world. Tne first morning after he began wrk he performed very faithfully and systematically the exact duties assigned to him which he had been so careful to have explained to him. When te bad finished he came to me aud said: 'Mr. II. I have finished all that woik. Now what can 1 du?'" "I was a little surprised, but I gave him a little Jjb of work, and forgot all about him until he came into my room with the question, "What next?" That settled it for me. He was the first boy that ever entered our ofiice who was willing and volunteered to do more tta was assigned to him. I predict lor him a successful career for that boy as a businet-- man." s Business men know capacity when thoy see it, aud they mike a note of it. Willingness to do more than the assigned task is one of ctif stepping' stones t o commercial success. Select d. Salt effects the fret ziDg ol ice cream oy causiLg the ice to melt, on accjuut of its own slight ailiuity for water. The ice in meltirg rapidly absoibs ht at or renders beat latent, and hence reduces the temperature below that of ice, which simply melts by in at acquired from surroundii g oljects by conduction or convection of air. Tne points of the compass can be told from trees from the following simple obseivation : The side of a tree on which most of the moss is found is the north. If the tree be exposed to the sun, it heaviest and longest limbs will be on the south side. Four cities in Europe stand partly or wholly on islands, Venice is the best; known n account of its histoiical past ; next comes St Petersburg the capital of Russia, and the two last are the cities of Glcut, in Belg urn, and Amsterdam in Holland. The sta'ue of William Penn which is to surmount the Philadelphia public feet hig i buildings is thirty-seve- n and will stand f47 above the surface of the earth." Therefore, the figure could look over any building in the world, except the Eiffel tower. . d, Young JimesGirfleid is said to much resemble his father.the dead presided, and in manners, vuice and methods reminds his friends of the paternal likeness. |