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Show Keep to the broad highways of Hope and Cheerfulness. Cheer-fulness. Expect to succeed. Think success and you will succeed. Keep out of the back alleys of gloom and pessimism. Join the procession of the cheerful, the willing and the hopeful. Be sanguine. san-guine. Know the pleasures of living. Beware of the encroachment of the carping, pessimistic spirit. It is a hardy plant.. It takes root easily in the mind and, like the thistle, when once it gains a foothold it is well nigh impossible to uproot. But it cannot live in an atmosphere ( df sunshine and cheerfulness. cheerful-ness. Therefore, keep, to the highways. Keep out of the back alleys. 1 Nothing else gives such deep and inmost satisfaction satis-faction as the consciousness not necessarily of being be-ing virtuous, for no man is ever conscious of thet like all the greatest saints, they did not believe themselves good but the consciousness of striving earnestly day by day to conform one's life more and more to the principles that' are everlasting, that are embodied in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. ' Clarence Mackey, before departing for Europe with Mrs. Mackay, the other day, took out an insurance in-surance policy for $300,000, jointly with two companies, compa-nies, one accepting $200,000 of the risk and laying off $100,000. arger policies than these are carried by other rich Americans, at the head of whom stands John Wanamaker, who i3 iusured "for $1,-500,000. $1,-500,000. The oldest sovereign in Europe is the king of Denmark, who is 8G; the king of Sweden, 75; the emperor of Austria, 73; the king of . Belgium, 69; the king of Eoumania. 65; King Edward the Seventh, Sev-enth, 62; the sultan of Turkey, 61; the king of Greece, 58; the German emperor, 45; the king of Portpgal, 40; the czar, ,G; the kings of Italy, 35; the queen of the Netherlands, 23; the king of. Spain, 18. ' Nations are born and grow like human beings, and they decay and perish like Jona's gourd. Two thousand and five hundred years before the days of Abraham, an Elamite warroir conquered the whole world, and now a clay tablet in the Philadelphia Philadel-phia museum alone remains to tell the tale. The noblest contribution any man can make . for the benefit of posterity is that of a good character. charac-ter. The richest bequest which any man can leave to the youth of his native land is that of a shining, spotless example. Drops hollow a stone not . by their, force, but by the frequency in which one -follows another. x - |