Show 44 t ha 4 I M I I 1 home paragraphs 4 H 1 M I H H M HH 14 1 I we want to know when you have friends to eat chicken chi ckon dinner or to visit you it Is such items of dews makes tile the local page of 0 your home paper interesting 0 0 the farmer bends the knee to none and is less disturbed by tho the world orld wide alde reign of 0 gratt graft and greed than any of ills his fellows may he live long and prosper this son ot of the soil who is tile the balance wheel ot of the enverso un verso yes tea young man the gla clurs or of life are hard to climb and you will niber m ver make the trip without a guide the name ot of the 9 guide is work ic yourself to him young man and he be will pull you through all right no one is obliged to live where he is not suited it if one an encouraging cou raging word tor for the business enterprise ter prise and institutions of ills town le be should shut up and go way back nod and sit down the day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties help us to play pla the man help us to perform them with laughter and kind hind faces let cheerfulness abound with industry give us to go eo blithely on our business all this day bring us to our oui resting beds weary and content and dishonored lin and grant us in the end the gift of sleep robert louis stevenson in choosing a vocation do not ask yourself elf how you can make tile the most nonay or gain the most notoriety but choose the work that will call out all your powers and develop your manhood into the greatest strength and sy metry not money not notoriety not fame even but power in what you want manhood is greater than wealth greater than tame fame character is greater than tame fame character is greater hian han any career each faculty must be educated and any deficiency in its training will appear in what you do the I band and must be educated to be graceful steady and strong the eye must be educated to be elert discriminating and microscopic the heart must be educated to be tender sympathetic and true the memory must be drilled tor for years in accuracy retention and comprehensiveness the world does not demand demand that you te be a lawyer minister doctor farmer scientist or mechanic it does not dictate what you shall do but it does acquire that you shall be a master in whatever you undertake it you are a master in your line the world nill applaud you and all doors will fly open to you but it condemns all blotches blotcher blot ches abortion and failure can there be a being so vile and cil billous lous so dead to natures impulse who in return tor for constant care and such buch unvarying kindness can willingly or heedlessly wound the heart that cherished him and forsake the lonely one who nursed and sheltered him who can madly sever lever the sweetest bonds of human union and bring down the gray hairs of his hi parents in sorrow to the grave crave who can leave them in their old age to solitude and poverty widle while he wantons cantons in the pride of undeserved prosperity A normal boy Is mentally active he must ask questions his mind needs food as much as hla his body give im hin noble books to read fill his mind with the great thoughts of the large minded men ot of all ages and you give him an inheritance of more value than th an money teach your boy to read good boks by buying them tor for him history science the best fiction poetry essays a boy need never be lonely when he may have as friends the entertaining and men of all nations and of all time said it i you improve not today you will grow worse tomorrow I 1 0 it if you would have a clean hearted toy you must teach him to keep beep his body clean and vigorous give him wholesome food and conveniences for or bathing the body is the temple of the spirit A boys clothes way may be of the roughest but it if he ti flushes usher his teeth and takes a cold plunge of a morning he Is a gentleman and he will not find his mouth stained by foul words nor his body capable of evil deeds there Is no manhood mill which i takes in boys and turns out men what you call no chance may tie be your only chance dont wait tor for bour our place to be made for you make it yourself dont wait for somebody to give you a lift lift yourself henry ward beacher did not nol wait tor for a call to a large church with a cig salary he accepted the first pastorate offered him in a little town near cincinnati he became literally the light of the church tor for he trimmed the lamps kindled the tiles flies swept the rooms and rang the bell his salary was only about a bear year but he knew that a fine church and a great salary can rot make a great man it was work and opportunity that he wanted ile he frit felt that if there was anything in I 1 lim im work would bring it out the average boy of 0 today who wishes to obtain a liberal education nas a better chance by a hundred lold than had daniel webster or lames ames A garfield there la Is soiree scirce ly one in good health who reads these lines but can be assured that it if he will he may here as elsewhere the will can usually find the way and never before was there so many avenues of 0 resource open to the strong will vill the inflexible purpose as there are today the three most difficult things to do are to keep a secret to forget an injury and make good use of leisure 0 0 nor are the horrors of war minimized to any extent when we read that the troops in battle piled up their dead conrades tor for use as breast vi arks one of our fourth grade girls handed in the following composition on boys boys is men that have not got as big as their papas and girls is young women that will be young ladles ladies by and by man alan was wa 8 made before woman when god looked at adam he said to himself well I 1 guess I 1 can do letter better than that it if I 1 tried again and then he be made eye eve so much better than he did adam that there has been more v omen than men in the world ever since boys are a trouble they ire are bevry wearing on everything but soap it if I 1 could have my way halt half the boys in the world would be little girls and the other halt half dolls my bly rap pap is so nice to me that I 1 gue guess h he wust must have been a girl when hen he was a little boy 0 0 an indus industrious trio us energetic painstaking boy or young man never wants tor for a place and these with nth stability ot of character are all tile recommendation ommen dation needed and these fire eire so plain that every business man reads them and mentally concludes that boy will succeed because he deserves suc success eess 0 0 while the limit ot of commercial over lead talking had increased from strictly local to over 1000 miles as early as 1893 it was not until 1905 that ali at conversation could be had over long distance circuits of which as much as 20 miles was in underground cables by 1906 underground talking distance had biad increased to go 90 miles by 1912 it was possible to talk underground from new york to washington underground conversation Is now possible between boston and washington tour four times the length of the longest european underground der ground line telephone communication is established between new ork lork and denver Is po potent llly possible between all points in the united states and by 1915 will be an accomplished complis hed tact fact between new york find and san francisco your alther what did your mother say when you confessed to her that you loved ire she said that I 1 must take it from fathers side of the house that there had bad never been any insanity in her family 0 dont grumble the most unfortunate fortunate fort class of people living upon this green earth are the grumblers grumbl ers they rob home of its joys society ot of its dues and themselves of the best things filings of life from the days the children of israel grumbled and N vere nere ere sent on their tedious wanderings tor for forty years in the wilder ress up to the present hour the world has been full of grumblers grumbl ers the most unusual family record ever discovered by the pension ottice office is divulged in a letter from a man who is one of the triplets he had twenty two twin brothers and sisters whose mother was one ot of twins and whose fathers first two vives v ives were twin sisters the owner of tills this unusual family record is dr william warren 1016 locust street kt joseph mo blo the only survivor of a family of twenty five and one of thirteen sons who served in the civil war in the union army the pew new pension liw law requiring certified information as to the date of birth in order to fix the amount of the age pension caused the pension office to write dr warren tor for his family history in stating his inability to find exact information in the family tible up to the date of his birth dr warren made this reply to the officers in the pension department 1 I do not know whether there was a family record of the births of all my fathers children of whom there therel were twenty five by three wives who viere vere sisters the first two wives viere mere twins and the last one of twins my mother had triplets three boys of whom I 1 was one she had no other children all the ather vives children were twins by the three wives there were thirteen boys all of whom were soldiers A all 11 the twenty Y five children are dead but beado me he was given his pension bensic I 1 in rease |