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Show WORTHY OF GREAT PRESIDENT This trlds nranda d Mount Vsraaa. wHsrs th. founder at th United States Hl a manhood, took Kit mr th FoteasM rhnr, south mi WsdUatoa. Rsstand ssactly as a Waak. fawtea's aay, teartsts Bock Is an tt la auay tbsoaaads svary yar. AH History Recorded in Scheme of Nature Nature will he reported. All tilings are encaged In writing their history The planet the pebble, goes attended by Iti slutdow. Tlie rolling rook leave Its scratches on the mountain; the river. Its channel in the Mill; the ani-mal, Ha none Id the stratum ; the fern nd leaf, their modest epitaph In the coal. The falling drop makes It sculp tore In the land or the atone. Not a foot steps Into the snow or along the ground, but prints, In characters more or less lasting, a map of Its march Every set ef the man Inscribes Itself in the memories ef Its fellows, and In bis ewn manners snd face. The air Is full ef sounds, the sky of tokens, the ground Is all memoranda snd signs-tare- s, snd every object eovered over with bints, which speak to the InteUl-- I ' tent Emerson. Long Eyelashes Called Signs of 111 Health Long eyelashes always have been considered a mark of beauty, but It remains for s Japanese physician to take the Joy out of life by pointing out that they are slso s sign of poor health. Doctor Tamaokl of the pedl-- atrlc department of the Kyushu Im-perial university, has made a two-ye-study of about 7,000 children and has concluded that most children wltb long eyelashes are In poor health, It has been reported U the American Medical association. The lashes of consumptive children grow twice ss long as those of healthy children. Sickly children have longer and prettier lasbes than those In good health. The laahea of healthy ohll- - siren will grow about sa eighth ef an I Inch during the first year of life, while those ef children suffering from scroruis grow nearly a quarter of an Inch, Doctor Tamaokl has found. No explanation of the cause of this con-dition has been made, nor has It been accepted as a definite criterion of the state of a child's health. Kansas City Star's (Science Service. Little Practical Joke) i Broke Old Friendship Crown snd White (which of course are not their right names) not only .were near neighbors, but they worked In the sume tilflce In the Times Square district. One Saturday Brown re-ceived notice from bis superior that tie would bave to leave immediately for Chicago to close a deal, "Do me s favor." he said to White. 1 generally buy a couple of books for the wife to read over the week-en-bat I can't do It now. Will you stop off st the store snd get a couple for her? She'll want tbem particularly ;thls week-en- because she will be lone 'some." White promised faithfully, but White was a practical Joker, and besides he knew quite a bit about the Brown 'household, Including the fact thut Mrs. 'Brown did not shine particularly st ' preparing meals. 8a, In sheer devil-'men- t, he bought two cook books, took them to Mrs. Brown and Intlmnted that her husband bad nnrchased them and asked him to make the delivery. Wben Brown returned boms there was tbt deuce to pay. Be hasn't i spoken to White since, but be has sent the latter a book devoted to methods of developing feeble minds. New fork Sun. ! HERE'S B.LLION PUT INTO COLD FIGURES It Is )iirt its winy to tiny hlllinii as million. The "rd km htvu spoken frequently and fain llnrly iliiHnfc the recent ulTnir in Hull Street. Anil m public grown um-i-I to In ore Humes bnsn't been inurli Impressed, f Kor ninny t'.i.vs recently the lm-- market fluctuated by Milium, one r the other. ('bar in Itaiisoiu, tiiiiil.fr muti of Memphis, Twin., turn the of pructlciil hiiiiuiniiiti'ii in it lilllinii dollar unit drtimiilinw u Here Is how It figure mil : If s billion had ix-c- ai'i'iiiniilnted 600 years Christ, liuil mil been allowed In draw linere) ami hud been paid out at the rate of fl.iXK) a day every day since, up to und including Nuvembi-- r 21, V.r.v. there would, still he tl12.r..iii left. If ynu ilon'l bellere It. n'iire It out for yourself. Anil don't forget the leap years. WHY WE BEHAVE,! LIKE HUMAN BEINGS I By CEORCE DORSE Y. Pa. D , Lt-- l. a a Four-Wheel- ed Machines and Human Machines PRACTICE makes perfect Even a better after the first thousand miles. And ss for the driv-er himself I At the end of the first day he ever drove a car he was a wreck. Kor two reasons. Tear lest he wreck the car: too emotional. Be suffered enough In an-ticipation to loee a dozen cars, several legs, ribs, eyes, lives. Other fears under bis belt moved him deeply: was It safe, any possibility of Its blowing op, would the gas bold out, etc.T Ha did not know bis car; It was a great unknown; the unknown la alwaya a threat. He did not know bis road, nor Its manners and Its customs, Its curves end Its grades. The new way Is alwaya a threat; what Is around the corner? The other reason. Bis own motor mechanism was tired all over. Through-out the day his muscles had been tense, taut as fiddle strings, keyed up for emergency action. Now he drives three hundred miles a day; Is aa fresh as a daisy; has a good time, sees the country, talks bis bat off, smokes a dozen cigars. Does not give his car a thought the whole day. He Is as automatic as bis en-gine. Same car, same road, same driver. And the same process In every act of learning, beginning with the act of standing up or the first walk In life. We have time for the high spots In life If we have learned how to cross the routine valley by force of habit Do you know which stocking you put on first this morning or which trousers' leg you filled first? Do you recall bow you felt th a first time you ever wore a dress suit, or how long It took you to put it on, or to learn to tie a bow-kno- Can you bathe, shave, and dress In six minutes? I can do It In less than five. A skilled performer at the piano or typewriter or on the tennis court acts like an automaton. But no mere auto-matonhuman or otherwise ever makes a great performer. For this reason: heightened sensi-tivity of the central nervous system Increases the response of the reflex arcs. A tap on flexed patellar tendon elicits no kick when one is asleep. Sleep means that central has bung up. But try out the knee-kic- k with your teeth clenched or your fist tightly dou-bled np; more kick. Get real mad; more kick. A good habit Is a d habit put to useful purpose. The competent driver guides his car as a clever boy his bicycle; the right muscles work to the right amounts at the proper time and In proper order. A car, or a curve, or a bole, or a bonk ahead. Is stimulus enough for eye or ear ; the adjustment is made as though It were a reflex, as easy as pie. It Is an acquired reflex. All our habits act by force of habit because these paths are worn. We awake in the morning and "before we know It" we are at the breakfast ta-ble, or possibly "come to" only when some headline In the paper catches our eye perhaps already half through cmr breakfast And yet, before we "came to," we went through a thousand acts: dressing, shaving, etc, etc., some of them reully complex performances re-quiring delicate adjustments. Yet there were a thousand re-sponses available for that breakfast stimulus. The stimulus was not neces-sarily followed by a yawn, a stretch, push covers down, one leg out, other leg out, slippers, etc. one conditioned retlex touching olf another. But that chain of reactions had been performed so many times thnt the paths connect-ing np these countless reflexes had been worn; all the other possible paths of response offered more resistance be-cause the; had not been worn b; con-stant action. A hubit, then, Is an act so often re-peated that It runs Itself: It does not need our conscious attention; we can give our attention to something else. The average mortal has only one habit The one stimulus which rouses him from sleep carries him through the day and back to bed and to sleep. All days Ionic alike to him. Saturday night Is also conditioned Into the chain; no fresh stimulus needed for the bath I Ills body's clock Is likewise set for Sunday. That day, too, goes by according to schedule, and when done Is Itself the stimulus to resume a new week. One habit after another, like a chain, functioning as one. Works like a clock wound up for life. Makes a perfect clerk, "hand," or maid. This one-hnh- lt mode of existence Is fine; It gives the brain a complete rest. The possessor need never have a thought I He Is a skilled performer, but never great, on piccolo, at lathe, behind counter, or on a stool. He does not even make a good soldier. There must be visceral dynamics eenerally called "guts" behind a bajonet charge; and nigh-strun- central-cal- led "brains" In control for a sharp-shooter. The difference between ac-tion In an automatic machine and In a human genius Is brains. 1(9 by George A. Dorsey.) Left Player Poadaring The farmer owned fields on each side of the golf links. It so happened that he was taking a short cut from one to snothcr when the club's worst member was addressing bis hall. The worst member waggled his drlv. er to snd fro for several minutes, missed four swings, and finally man-aged to hit the ball about a dozen feet Then he glanced up and saw the farmer. "I say," he protested, "only golfers are allowed on this course, you know." The furtner nodded. "I do know," he replied. "But I won't say nothln' If you don't" London Answers. Turtle Caaturies Old A giant sea turtle, five feet long snd estimated to be not less than five hun-dred years old, has been taken alive by Dr. W. J. Kent, curator of the Bastings (Neb.) college museum. The turtle was caught In the Bahama Is-lands. The reptile will be shipped to Bastings and placed In I tank of run-ning water at the museum. "When Columbua visited the Islands on bis voyage of discovery," a letter from Kent said, "this turtle was probably fifty or seventy-fiv- e years old, and measured six or seven Inches." Tit far Tat Senator Tydlnes of Maryland was talking about the revolt In Afghan Istnn. "King Amanullah." he said, "came and told Riirope how backward his Afghan subjects were, and then he went home and tried to modernize them, and they turned and kicked him out for an Iconoclast "Tit for tat eh? Like the two Strangers. "Two strnngers got Into talk In Cen-tral park. After s while one of them said: "'Well, III be leaving you. Here comes my wife with some old bag she's picked up.' "That's strange,' said the second, 'here comes mine with another.'" The Weeping Stataa In the ruins of Arbroath abbey, In Scotland, Is the decapitated statue of l Scottish king, and at his feet lies a headless Hon. This Is King William 'the First called William the Lion, jlle founded the abbey In memory of his friend, Thomas Becket Here the king was burled, and during the re-formation his statue and that of the lion were beheaded. It Is a strange fact that If the weather Is going to 'be wet, the stone over the region of the king's heart always becomes shiny and moist and sometimes water ac-tually trickles down. That Is why tt lis called "The Weeping Statue." Washington Keen Man of Business Bow does It come about that George Washington, a member of an agricul-tural fumlly, living in an agricultural state, and concerned primarily wltb the occupation and use of land, may be styled with absolute truth as the best and the most furslghted business man of his time? It has been my fortune during the last three summers to search out the family history of Washington's ances-tors, writes Albert Bushnell Hart, pro-fessor emeritus of history. Harvard tlngulshabte. love of figures that af-fects some men. Even Gambling Losses Listed. Washington loved to keep books. One of his biographers lias calculated his losses In gaming. He lost. 75 pounds In a year, and he kept the ac-count and added It up. But the biog-rapher fails to notice that on the oth-er side of the page Washington put down his winnings. Ills winnings weie TO pounds. Thut Is, he was S pounds to the good, because, after all. he had the fun of It and the fun must bave been worth at least 10 pounds. Washington constantly Increased hie holdings. He was s scientific agricul turuiist There Is In existence an In- - university. In the Nation's Business. From William tie Washington, who settled In the town of Washington rnlatinnte of Durham, In 1185, we think we have a straight strain of 2-- generations of Waslilngtons behind our George Washington thut can be sub stuntiated ; and In that set of ances-tors, father to son, among men of va-ried talents and Intellectual powers, I have as yet fulled to find a single scalawag. In that line you find the lawyer strain. Tou find Judges. You find for the most part landowners, holders of considerable estates, which they administered successfully. Line of Successful Men. There Is in the Washington line s strong strain of practical and highly successful business men. Otherwise It would be Impossible to account for the manner In which Washington reached out beyond his Immediate field as s landowner to greoter enterprises; and how eventually be became the first practical tnrnsportntion man in the United States. Washington, of course, was a land-owner. That is, hts prime business was to run landed estates, it was s declining business when he took it up. when by the death of his father and then of bis two brothers he came into possession of very large properties, In-cluding the Mount Vernon estate anil s number of adjacent plantations. Al together he had O.(KK) acres of land. terestlng correspondence between Washington and a man named Itlox-lia-whom he Imported from England to be the manager of his estate. We have a letter from Bloxhom telling what ho thought of George Washing-ton, and almost on the same day a letter from Washington telling what he thought of Bloxham, not very com-plimentary on either side, but they came to understand each other and Bloxham lived and riled In Washing-ton's service, Washington imported the best agri-cultural implements be could bear of. He was In correspondence with Arthur Young In England, s great reformer In such matters. He Introduced seeds, be planted cuttings, he raised trees and shrubs. He was a creative farmer. At least he made a living out of the farm, and left It much more valuable than he found it Found Joy as Surveyor, Again, Washington was a surveyor by profession. He began everybody knows It at sixteen years of age In the employ of his neighbor and life- - , long friend, Lord Fairfax, to go out ac ' and make surveys. We have copies of ' those surveys. We have the original drawings he made, and the original pints. Only a day or two before he died he was out surveying a bit of property. Be loved to handle the sur-- , veylng Instruments. He loved the ex-actness of the science. pretty much In one body along the I'otoninc, Including Mount Vernon. That land he carried on as a busi-ness enterprise, as you would do If you were charged with such a respon-sibility, to make O.IXX) acres of land pay If you could. He was the first Virginian to see that tobacco wns played out because the land was worn nut; that the land would not stand the pressure of continued tobacco crops. So he turned to the culture of wheat He built a mill to utilize that wheat and he sent it to market He had his own brand. Kept Accounts Faithfully, According to the customs of the time, be put up a distillery In order to make a different disposition of a part of his product That Is to say, Washington sought all the different kinds of agri-culture that could be maintained on his farm. He raised blooded stock of a superior kind. The king of Spain made blm a present of a very valuable jack, and he raised mules and appar-ently raised tbem to advantage. Furthermore, Washington was a natural accountant, and the proof is In his diaries and In bis account hooks. Almost the last thing that he put on paper was a little hit of bookkeeping. He kent his records in a clear, legible hand. He kept them according to the customs of the times. That Is, he re-corded whatever went on. His dluries have been published In four volumes but they tell you nothing of what Washington thought. He put down not what he thought but what he did, who his visitors were, if he went to church or stayed at home. Thnt Is, he kept a record to which he could refer to show very nearly where he was every day nnd what be was do-ing. tie was on analytic bookkeeper, nml i suspect one of the first In America. Hence we find his nccounts very care-fully subdivided. We find an account for each plantation, a general account, how much he gained out of wheat how much from tobacco, how many slaves ho had. "lint the expense hmi been, ami so on. lie had that Inex- - America's Lead in Doctors With the exception of the Cnlted States, which has one practitioner to every 753 people, Great Britain has a higher number of doctors proportion-ately than any other country In the world. There Is now more than one doctor to each 1.000 of the population. Aad That Was That "1 don't carry an umbrella over you any more awkwardly than I did be-fore we were murried, and you never bawled me out in those days," be growled. "No." she snapped, "but 1 had to hi., n?le t itpgp fro,,, ' FIRST INAUGURATION Waibinstaa recervlne lbs ptaudlta at ras crowd altar the Inauguration ae tba first j PmioVal sf th. United State. 8 Now is the time to build a foundation for your 8 I future independence and happiness, by saving a B part of your income. 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There were several appointments, 1 one wns ' complimentary with neither rank nor pay, und one, a unique ap-pointment, was by brevet It is customary to think of Waehlnf . j tos only as eoldiet or statesman. Bui j hs was also a man ml business, a builder j of transportation, snfineer. pioneer and promoter. Hs was aw first aailUooaa-a- . American Maearjna. I Spirit of Washington Worthy of Emulation pcrlmcnt In human relations nnd In the ' development of human values. It was fc his appreciation of this phuse of American possibility which Inspired his f pride and devotion. Chicago Tost Even tliotmh we may find It neces sary In certain particulars to modify the advice which Washington gave his country a century ami a half ago as, doubtless, he himself would modify It were he here today facing tiie world '.t Is there lr In the spirit of Wash-ington as a citizen and patriot noth-ing that we could wish to alter. On the contrary we could ask noth-ing better for America than a revival of that spirit. There was a noble selflessness and a generous breadth of vision in his attitude toward his pub-lic duties which must remain through all the years the high Ideal for Amer-icanism. He saw America as some thing bigger and finer than an oppor-tunity for material success; he saw It as a spiritual dventure, a great ex- - A True Helpmate The Welfare Worker Is It true that your husband does absolutely nothing toward the support of bis family? The Laundress No, It oln't true. Why, he hardly ever goes out In his flivver hut lie briugs back a washln' for me to do. Crowing in Grace He that Is faithful In the first al-ternative that tests blm, not only acta more promptly, but also sees further In the next Each little grace Invites a larger; and his step being upward, his view Is wider. James Martlneou. Inspiration to SUdenta George Washington appealed both to the essentially practical and Ue deeply spiritual natures of Americans. We commend this singular union of lofty and necessary attributes of character and performance to the attention of students who wish to know why the most noteworthy experiment In human government of all the centuries was put on a sound basis, and who would Inquire what shall be done In order that Its best aspects may be forever Actuary's Duties An actuary Is a computing official of nn Insurance company, one whose profession It Is to calculate Insurance risks ami premiums, a person skilled In theories and problems Involved In making these calculations. |