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Show Borne Circle j DAY BY DAY. Live day by day." I beard a voice at evening softly say. . Bear not thy yesterday into tomorrow. Nor ioad this week with last week's loaii of sorrow. Lift all thy burdens as they come, not try To weigh the present with the by and by. One step and then another take thy way-Live way-Live day by day. Live day by das, Thoueh Autumn leaves are withering round thy way, Walk in the sunshine. Tt is all for thee. Push straight ahead, as long as thou canst eee. Dread not the Winter whither thou mayst go. But. when it comes, be thankful for the snow. Onward and upward. Look, and smile and pray Live day by day. Live day by day, The path before thee does not lead j astray. Do the next duty. It must surely be The Christ is in one that's close to thee. Onward, still onward, with a sunny smile . Till step by step shall end in mile by mile. "I'll do my best," unto thy conscience say. Live day by day. - j Live day by day, I Why art thou bending toward the backward back-ward way? One summit and another, thou shalt mount. Why not stop at every round the space to count? Thy .past- mistakes if thou must still remember. Watch not the ashes of the dying ember. em-ber. Kindle thy hope. Put all thy fears away. Live day by day. About Temper. There are three reasons why one ought to control .his temper, and the first is self-respect. When one' loses command, of himself and throws - the reins upon the neck of passion, he may have for the moment a certain enjoyment enjoy-ment in the license, but there must surely come a reaction of regret. When he is calm again and the fit has passed away, every serious person must be ashamed of what he said and what he did, of the manner in which he gave himself away and the exhibition he made of himself. He will recall the amazement on the faces of his friends and the silence which they adopted as. a protective measure and the soothing language which they used, as if they were speaking with a baby, and the glances which passed between them. He will not soon hold again with them as strong as he did before this outburst, nor will he have the same claim upon their confidence as a sound and clear-headed man. He has acted lllra q ffatfiil noatriali Vit1fl on ' thns fnr the time forfeited his title to manhood and the place of a man. Read Up Your Faith. Few of our young men, even of graduates grad-uates of Catholic colleges and members mem-bers of institutes and lyceums, are thoroughly acquainted with the history of the church, with the rise and fall of heresies against it, and with the answers an-swers to the, objections made by non-Catholics non-Catholics to its claims and its doctrines. Yet every Catholic ought to know the record of the divine society to which he belongs and ought to be able to give the reasons for his faith. Our men are out in the world and every day they see. and hear and read things in oppo- j sition to their religion. Unless they are strong to resist, they cannot help but be influenced by these things, and, in their ignorance of the facts and of the reply to make, they first become confused and ashamed, and then they adopt the criticism -or misstatement as true and unanswerable. Certainly this should not be. To prevent it there are twenty books which every Catholic young man should read and re-read twice. Five of them will be mentioned here today: 1. the Bible: 2, Darras' "History of the Catholic Church": 3, Lingard's "History of England"; 4, Shea's "History of the Catholic Church in the United States:" and 5, Cardinal Gibbons' "The Faith of Our Fathers." If you have not read them, do so soon. If you can afford the money, buy them for yourself: if not, borrow them from some library. But don't continue ignorant ig-norant of the course of God's work for the benefit of your soul and for the salvation of the human race. Pitts-burg Pitts-burg Observer. "Which Is the HappierP Of two young men. one of whom belongs be-longs to a Catholic society and goes to the sacraments once a month, the other of whom has no use for church, drinks, frequents low theatres, and goes with vicious company, which is the happier? Certainly the former. The young man who practices religion has peace of mind, and an easy conscience, and self-respect, self-respect, and the esteem of his associates, associ-ates, and the hopeful feeling that comes from the possession of strength. But the young fellow that lives in sin, and is a slave to his stomach, and yields to his passion, has a soul.dark within him, and is without respect among decent folk, and feels gay only under stimulants. stimu-lants. His mirth is forced. His laugh is bitter. His heart is heavy. The blackness of a miserably eternity casts its shadow on his life. How can he be happy? Pleasant Aid to Digestion. Mint creams are thought to aid digestion, di-gestion, and are frequently served at dinners when the finger bowls are brought in. They usually cost about 60 cents per pound at the confectioner's, confection-er's, but may easily be made at home infinitely cheaper. Put in a granite . saucepan or th6 chafing dish two cupfuls of granulated sugar and a half cup pf water. . .Stir until the sugar isdi&solvedy but' no longer. Remove the spoon, and aftei the syrup begins to boil, boil just eight minutes. Remove from the tire, add eight drops of peppermint, rftir hard, then drop from the tip of the spoon on waxed paper or a marble slab. Way to Disinfect Books. If you have an atomizer, half fill it with a 40 per cent solution of formaldehyde. for-maldehyde. Stand the books upright on the end wide open with the leaves separated as much as possible, and spray thoroughly with formaldehyde. If the binding is very delicate and likely like-ly to be injured by the moisture, procure pro-cure a tight tin box large enough to hold the book and a saucer filled with formaldehyde. Stand the book upright , as described and close the box, leaving it for an hour, at least. j The Habit of Saving. In July of last year the individual deposits in the national banks in this ; country amounted to $3,228,000,000. j The deposits in the savings banks in I the country at the same time amount- ed to $2,597,000,000. The savings banks of the world had $3,908,340,000, repre- j senting 63,070,000 depositors. The aver- age individual account for the world was $141.24. The average individual i account for the United States was $4S0.-30. $4S0.-30. It should be said in a time of prosperity, very truly says the Indianapolis Indian-apolis News," that no habit is more valuable val-uable to cultivate than the habit of saving. Prosperity avails a man nothing noth-ing unless with it he has strength of character to save in proportion. Dickens Dick-ens has a character in one of his books that every time he prospers treats himself, so to say; indulges himself with some extra expenditure as a reward. re-ward. That is likely to be a tendency wun too many, n is ine om iruism about prosperity being more difficult to stand than adversity. No man can prosper that does not spend less than he makes. He cannot greatly prosper unless increasingly he spends less proportionately pro-portionately than he makes. While money making is a positive achievement achieve-ment as much as the creation of anything any-thing is, frugality is something that need wait on no gift, but may be practiced prac-ticed by all. Whether a man be rich or poor, whether he be' gifted mentally or emotionally or be dull, there is for everyone in this life ;the lesson of self-denial self-denial to learn, and as this life is an exceedingly practical thing, the basis of self-denial might almost be said to lie in material savings. Where a man has not the ability to increase his income, in-come, he should decrease his outgo. He that does this will soon begin to get a margin. The process of .saving is slow, but it is sure. It can literally work wonders, and once started it grows like the ' rolling . snowball. The smallness at the beginning should be no discouragement. discour-agement. There is an opportunity for the man that can save -10 cents a week as well as for the man that can save $10 a week.: The way is long, and to begin with may be difficult, but persistence per-sistence in it makes it easy. Life is more a matter of habit than of inten- j tion and the habit of thrift can as easi- ly be cultivated as the habit of prodi- i gallty. . . . The Great Advantage of Walking. Recent conditions in this city make pertinent the following paragraph: The great advantage of walking in the open air over other forms of exercise exer-cise lies in the fact that every muscle of the body is gently and uniformly brought into action by the swing of the legs and the arms, and consequently of the trunk in a. vertical direction. The undulations made by the head, chest and abdomen in a vertical plane are thus not only according to Hogarth's line of beauty, but also in that tending to perfect health. Every internal organ or-gan is gently stimulated to more robust action. Never in common walk does a person breathe twice the same air, because be-cause he is constantly changing his position. - |