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Show I Forming Characters. No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing diminish-ing the sum total of human happiness not only of the present but every subsequent subse-quent age of humanity. No one can detach de-tach himself from this connection. There is no sequestered spot in the universe, uni-verse, no dark niche along tht disk of nonexistence, to which he can retreat from his relatione to others, where he can withdraw the influence of his existence exist-ence upon the moral destiny of the world. Everywhere his presence or absence ab-sence will b,e felt. Everywhere he will have companions who will be better or worse for his influence. It is an old saying, say-ing, and one of fearful and fathomless Import, that we are forming characters for eternity. Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both, and in that momentous fact lie the peril and responsibility of our existence. Who ia ufficient for the thought? Thousands of my fellow beings will yearly enter eternity eter-nity with characters differing from those they would have carried thither had I never lived. The sunlight of that world will reveal my finger marks in their primacy formations and in their successive succes-sive strata of thought and liia Elihu Burritt St Louis is the scene of a lively battle bat-tle between organized employers and the waiters in hotels and restaurants, eta It is the same old strife over whiskers. whisk-ers. The employers want the men to be clean shaven, and the employees refuse re-fuse to allow the hirsute adornment which covers their faces to be removed. The trouble has even extended to the backmen and coachmen, who have combined com-bined with the waiters and have taken a firm stand against allowing their whiskers to be removed. They have been seeking to obtain the Eympathy of the labor organizations of St Louis, but the members of the Barbers' Bar-bers' union are against them and are ready to cut the objectionable whiskers off, shave them off, chop them off in short, anything to remove them. The legislature has taken a hand in the trouble, and two bills have been introduced, in-troduced, one requiring all waiters in hotels, restaurants, etc., to be clean shaven and the other making it a misdemeanor mis-demeanor for an employer to discriminate discrimi-nate against an employee who wears a beard. AJnanv Anrus. |