Show home paragraphs RIDING A FREE HOUSE TO DEATH in no other business Is there a demand for or so much free service as in ili that pertaining to the publishing of a newspaper the space of a newspaper Is a commodity just as is flour or sugar or potatoes it has a fixed value but the publisher faces dally daily demands for donations of what he has to sell and very largely from individuals and from froin institutions that can well afford to pay their way at a recent meeting of the california press frees association the following resolutions bearing on this question were adopted WHEREAS the demand tor for tree free publicity has increased so as to become a great menace to the newspapers and WHEREAS there are many cases where publicity men are employed for the purpose of 0 securing free space for those who should be but are not advertisers RESOL abl mat the me members miters of this association are advised not to print free reading notices for shows exhibits races fairs political candidates causes and those who while providing budgets to detray defray other expenses do not advertise in the newspapers no publisher desires to be stingy with the commodity lie Is offering tor for sale notwithstanding that its value has been greatly increased owing to the advance in the cost of production but every publisher finds his mall mail flood flooded edwith with requests for donations of that commodity in almost every city and town the situation Is locally much the same it always did cost money to conduct a newspaper cost has now reached a point whore incomes must be increased and white paper expense reduced the resolution of the california publishers Is therefore timely and it applies with equal torce force to conditions in every newspaper office throughout the land the man who thinks he wants something for or nothing would hardly ask his grocer tor for a sack of potatoes his haberdasher for or a hat or his landlord tor for a donation of a months rent yet the cases of the newspaper publisher and the merchants and the landlord are parallel HELP YOUR TOWN building good houses builds a good town saie a little money and save a lot of worry good roads lead not only to town but to money be a live one and the town will vall never be a dead one A nice front porch has hag pie prevented vented many an old maid why should the town muzzle dogs and not knockers when someone plans to help the town plan to help the plan the best plans a man can have to the future are house plans A good way to make the world better is to begin with the home town A town is like a perambulator it much good unless it Is pushed dont spend all our time telling what you could do it if you had some time be like a ball player the thing he is always working tor for is home be one ot of the leaders ot of the town it if you can but anyway keep up it you think a cow cant laugh tor for joy let somebody sell you a good silo dont be a grouch everybody in this town wishes you well even the doctor lets not bo be trying to stop something all the time lets start something I 1 A good town will do more to keep I 1 the boys at home than good ad advice vi charles schwab the well known master of the bethlehem steel works has more patience with the man who W works arks by the time clock than has haa adam bede with his fellow workmen I 1 who dropped their tools at the sound of the whistle in hla his new book succeeding with what you have he writes 1 I have yet to hoar hear of one instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime I 1 not long ago a man was promoted in our works how did you happen to advance this fellow I 1 asked the boss well he explained 1 I hotl ed that when the day shift went oft off duty this man stayed on the job until he had talked over the days problems problem with his successor that s why the man anan who falls fails to give fair service during the hours tor for which ho he is paid is dishonest the man who is 1 not willing to give more than this Is foolish TEARS VS XV WAK the woman in these troublesome times ot of war must be well armed it if the poets ideas are correct what Is a homans womans weapon has been asked and answered in various ways A quarter ot of a century ago perhaps there went tho the newspaper rounds an exquisite little triplet of 0 stanzas each bearing an answer to the question and below Is the way it went what Is a womans comans weapon I 1 asked a charming girl she dropped her lashes slyly blyly and stroked a vagrant curl thon thian consciously she mur munner merod cd this rosebud nearly dearly cut 1 I have a strong suspicion her weapon Is a pout what Is a womans comans weapon I 1 asked a lover irue I 1 lie he turned him to a maiden with eyes of heavenly blue her velvet lips were parted all innocent of 0 guile and eagerly lie he answered her weapon la is a smile what is a womans comans weapon I 1 asked a poet then sudden inspiration ile ho seized upon lits his pen oh I 1 could name a thousand re 1 I cried with accents clear dut ut a womans comans surest weapon I 1 grant you Is a tear then it if tears are being shed froni from the weeping eyes and wounded hearts of troubled women in proportion to the blood that flows from the gaping veins of the fallen soldiers surely peace white winged must soon come with mith her mission of love and mercy MY what nenar Is my country well it la is my own little world where I 1 live it is the dear little aptt spot where my cottage stands it is the sunshine over my head and the blue vault bounding my vision this is my country again my country includes tile the wondrous history ot of three hundred years wrought out by heroic hands and loving hearts on american soil it includes the shocks of 0 battle batile and the pursuits of peace we kneel at its sacred altars sing its immortal songs we see waving over it the beauteous banner ot of the stars the dear old flag that is always alays and everywhere the symbol of 0 protection end hope and home way may this loye love of country be the satisfaction of our old men and the strength of 0 our youth until the dawn of a brighter whiter day than ever blessed us with its ray A day before whose purer light all guilt gl ailt and wrong shall flee away isyou it you have imy any fault to to find with anyone tell him not others of what you complain there Is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking der taking to do one thing to a mans face and another to his back we should live act and speak out of doors as the phrase Is and say and do what hat we are willing g should be known and read of all men TO HIS MOTHER 1 I owe a great deal to my mother she was a seamstress cook was hlady ady and never until late in life had a servant er t I 1 in n the house and yet she was a cu cultivated i bated woman she read cila 1 9 and d kept up with the literature of the day when I 1 was a litus little tot she used to read good books to me you young women have here every opportunity tor for literary culture and you ought to be very proud with money earned so honorably tor for money that Is not earned honorably will never do you any good the above words were spoken by mr Car carnicle nigle the iron master while talking to a large company of working girls in new york city and then this man of unlimited wealth closed by saying 1 I shall never forget how proud I 1 was when I 1 got my first wages of a week and how I 1 felt when I 1 was raised to as aa a telegraph operator to take home that sum to my may good mother gave me such a feeling ot of manly independence whoever helps to make a true home confers a benefit on mankind that no man can fully estimate indeed the influence of the true h home on for good is absolutely incalculable and reaches many even that never enter its inner circle simply to get a glimpse of it is to receive an impulse lor better things to obtain a more exalted view of life and to feel an excess of faith in god and the immortality of the human soul it is like a vision of the glories of the new and the everlasting habitations and no one can be wholly bad who has seen such things we certainly are blessed with an unusual number of bright little boys in this community little tots just starting one lifes journey they 1 stand upon the threshold of life with toot foot uplifted and hand outstretched ready to begin the journey and happy in anticipation of the tha beautiful and nd wonderful things they expect to see to them all is bright and promising no thought of 0 evil crosses their minds their imagination clothes everything with rainbow hues they little think that every rose has its thorn every pleasure its corresponding gr grief cef they are eager to be ott off the path Is narrow and on either side are yawning precipices which threaten to engulf them at every step numerous and enticing by paths seek 0 to o lure them from the narrow way that leads to safety and honor here it is that tile the counsels ot of Christi att mothers took root in their hearts and their saint alme faces will go before them on their lourney journey guiding stars whose gleam cannot ho be no matter how hard bard the storms of temptation may beat upon them |