Show F agg n jb fl AP 0 fj fitly fifty years ago there was some excuse for bad roads tor for the coun try was poor now the country Is rich and there Is no excuse its merely neglect I 1 0 0 41 have you ever seen a knocker who was successful in his bis chosen walk in life most of them to be perfect ly honest any chosen walk some of them may have plenty ot of this worlds goods but as a rule they have inherited it you cant knock your home town and everyone in it and get by with it 4 1 0 1 advertising la is no good said the man in the old clothes it never helped mo me none the millionaire merchant smiled that Is because i you tried it john as the indian tried the feather bed an indian took a feather placed it on a blanket and slept on it all night in the I 1 morning he growled pale face ace say i feather heap soft pale face heap tool too ugh you cant expect one little I 1 ad to bring in results five or six months after it appeared in the pai per W w 0 many a father has made the mis tage of af thinking his boy would make a successful merchant because he Is one let the lad choose tor for himself and dont doat bring pressure to bear on him in his early years that is the best way in the world to drive him away from your profession better I 1 have him even a successful editor than a poor merchant though it will probably not be as bad as that but seriously no one can be successful in a field he dislikes and though you may bo be keen abo about 1 ut merchandise lug your boy may have quite a different bent and lie has the right of every tree free man to choose 11 his as own profession 4 everyone is willing to concede that the home paper does a lot tor for the tha j town it gives the town a lot of free advertising sometimes in n conjunction with the citizens sometimes we say it sadly alone the best way the citizens can acknowledge this bervice lei vice on the part ot of the newspaper Is by doing a little advertising ot of his own for advertising Is the life blood ol of every publication every wideawake wide awake citizen knows that tho the money he puts into advertising comes back to him te ten told it you dont believe this compare comp 1 the business of 0 a heavy advertiser with that of a man who never advertises the latter may plod along and manage to eke out a living but unless he gets into the band wagon soon and starts advertising he is bound to be pushed to the wall it Is inevitable just as inevitable as the march of 0 progress I 1 it you think you are living in a dead town why dont you analyze the situation and tind find out what is wrong compare it with some town which comes up to your a live town what are the points of difference you will probably say there is always something doing in this other town well brother how many times have you tailed failed to subscribe to some som e movement so that there might be something doing in your town you know you tint have something doing any where unless someone Is behind it then you will probably say that in fit this other town the streets are always lull full ol of people no matter what day you happen to be there how many times have you told some outsider how dead your town Is about a dozen times probably and your poor old town has to suiter suffer the consequences s e qu ances ot of your search tor for sympathy undoubtedly you have said now it if you want a real live town you ought to try this other beautiful ul little hamlet bamlet no wonder the rival town has such crowds on its streets with all the citizens of 0 al joining towns pulling tor for it why it have you von cant expect people to come to your town in spite ot of your efforts to keep them away all these live ones are alive because their citizens pull tor for them the they y give generously to every improvement pro and enterprise because they know it Is money in their pocket they realize that the more enterprising and thriving their town the greater will be their business ani aal their property value just cogitate about this a while before you set your own town as the deadest dearest in the state the poor town cant act very lively if its pulling a heavy load of dead citizens 4 43 W THE WATCHER she always leaned to watch tor for us anxious it we were late in winter by the window in summer by the gate who had such foolish care and thought we mocked her tenderly the long way home would seem more sate safe because she waited there her thoughts were all so lull full of us she never could forget and so I 1 think that where she Is she must be watching yet till we come home to her anxious if we are late watching from heavens window leaning from heavens gate margaret 4 4 40 money you earn yourself Is much brighter than any yau get out of dead mens bags 4 40 aw dont be whining about not having a fair chance you need nc not be a horse because you were born in a stable 4 40 there is an old saying that truth crushed to earth shall rise again but there is not much hope held out for the man who does the crushing many is the blase biase person who has searched the world over for beauty and tired of looking gives up the quest the wonders of the earth cannot move him yet his child innocent and pure will find beauty in the snowflake in the tern fern in a dozen objects every day one may look the world over tor for beauty but unless he carries it with him he finds it not 0 4 40 harsh criticism ot of others causes so eo much unhappiness yet it is becoming so general in our modern life sometimes a man who Is so generous hearted that he would give his last crust to a brother in need enill be the most bitter critic it if that same man makes a mistake and steps a little to one side of the straight and narrow way sometimes people criticize because it they do not they fear others will believe they approve surely we may follow the teachings of the master in this at in all things lot let him who is vilt without hout sin cast the first itono stono it if everyone would follow this teaching teach lne where would the slander blander and the gossip find himself 7 trouble is a hard master but a thorough one sometimes those 0 of us who have hid had a large measure ot of trouble look with envy upon the lighthearted light hearted ones who go singing sl it ging on oil their way heedless of all but their own joys we should not envy them tor for they are not living they are only touching the troth froth and the thel bubbles ot or lile life trouble 0 puts us in true with our fellow men only those who have been initiated with an abundance ot of vexation and heart aches and compromises with life can give that secret grip ot of comfort co efort to others who are struggling on it is through trouble and adversity that we grow and everyone ot of us must attain full spiritual height before we can be admitted to our fathers presence so do not envy those who go singing on unheeding they must learn some time and some where frankness is the best luberi cating oil there is for the wheels of modern industry human motives in every line are bound to be in some degree selfish however the employer knows this his ats men know it everyone is working for his own ends and there Is no use in trying to mate make people believe your eferts are purely philanthropic why not admit this mutual selfishness and try to get some degree ot of mutual benefit from your efforts instead of constantly pulling in opposite directions frankness on both sides would to do much to straighten out the tai tangles igles in the modern industrial world just as sure as an employer tries to disguise a selfish motive under a cloak ot of some supposedly tropic endeavor his iNor workmen kmen are going to discover his deceit de celt and their confidence in him will vanish instantly their imagination will supply much darker motives than he had ever thought of it if he had told them frankly 0 of his claps possibly the gain to themselves would have been as great as his gain then all would have been well the majority of people have about the same amount of gray matter and they are pretty keen to see through any motives that are going to interfere with their best interests |