Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1910 — PAPERS BY THE PEOPLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PAPERS BY THE PEOPLE

PLATING CARDS FOR MONET.

By Elber Hubbard.

As a cold business proposition, let me give you this: I would not trust an amateur gambler as far as you could fling Taurus by the tail. The amateur gambler is not necessarily a bad man —primarily his Intents are honest. He plays first simply for recreation; then, to add interest, the game transforms itself into penny-ante. From this to betting all the money he has is a very easy evolution when the fever

is on. He wins. But to quit when you have won and give your opponents a chance to win their money back is more or less of a disgrace. He plays again—and loses. Then he wants a chance to get his money back. He first plays only in the evening—an hour after supper. Then, if he can get away from work at 4 o'clock and play until supper time, he will do so, just as scores of government clerks do, where the hours are easy. Saturday night the game goes on until daylight. If four men start in to play poker with $lO each or a SI,OOO each, it is just a matter of mathematical calculation before all of them will have nothing. All they have will go for cigars and drink and the midnight lunch, which they would net need if they went to bed at a reasonable hour. Do not imagine that all the gambling is done in the cities. Hardly a village in America is free from the scourge. Gambling means blurred vision, weak muscles, shaky ■nerves. Loss of sleep, lack of physical exercise, irregular meals, bad air, excitement, form a devil's monopoly of bad things and the end is disgrace, madness, death and the grave. Boys, we need all the brains we have in our work. If by concentration and cutting out folly we succeed in a degree, we do well. But I do not believe we can reasonably hope for success unless we eliminate the pasteboard proclivities. This is a cold bust ness proposition.—Chicago Examiner.

EARLY RISING SUCCESS.

By Dr . Madison C. Peters.

Benjamin Franklin said: “Six hours’ sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.” I advise you to take eight and get at least one to two hours of the eight before midnight. Night is the God-appointed time for rest. The birds of the air, the animals of the forest, the fish of the sea, even the trees, shrubs and flowers obqy nature’s behest, and

rest during the hours of the night. Man is the only rebel against the inexorable law. Many are the men, and women, too, who go to bed at 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning and then wonder why they can accomplish so little. All our great men, in every line of activity, early realize the value of time by making the best use of the morning hours. Among the an-' cients, they who lay abed in the morning were branded with the stigma of shame. Gladstone was ever up with the lark. Leo, the greatest of all the popes, was an early riser. \ So was Bis-

marck. The present German emperoi Is noted for habits of early rising. Humboldt, Goethe, Schiller and Heine have borne witness to the inspiration they got in the early morning air. r Heinrich Shliemann, ta 17, was selling sauerkraut and herring in a little German town; at 41 he retired from business with a big fortune, and during his spare time, mostly in the morning hours, before he commenced business, had mastered the Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, Greek, Russian, Swedish, English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and modern Greek kmguages, 'and as a result of this accomplishment he became the foremost archaeologist of his day. ' What a waste it would have been if he had spent his hours in the night in such a fashion that lie couldn’t have gotten up early the next morning. The invincible Napoleon used to put his reports under his pillow that he might study them in his wakeful moments and the early morning hours. Abraham Lincoln made the most of the early morning hours by lying flat on the floor with the fire of the torch - as Hsht, while he devoured the contents of books that he had walked miles to borrow—books which he never to return.

IS FLESH FOOD ESSENTIAL TO MAN?

By Dr. David Paulson.

The fact that thousands of working men are temporarily adopting a nonflesh dietary naturally raises the practical question as to what extent flesh food is really essential for health, strength and endurance. The result of this experiment, carried out on such a largo scale, may yet prove to be a greater contribution of popular dietetics than even its influence on the market prices.

of the laboratory at the University of Brussels made a similar investigation on the flesh eating and nonflesh eating students, and he reports that in endurance the nonflesh eaters surpassed the meat eaters from 50 to 200 per cent. They also found that the vegetarians recuperated from fatigue far more quickly than the meat eaters, hence this great authority recognized the nonflesh plan as the 'best system for workingmen. How often we hera the expfessiod that a certain man is as “strong as a Turk!” And those who have seen a Turkish porter fling a heavy trunk unaided upon his shoulders will do well to remember that these men rarely taste flesh food in any form whatever. George Allen, the man who walked a thousand miles across England and Scotland in seventeen days and a few hours, outdistancing his flesh eating rival by nearly seven days, was a strict vegetarian. The Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis says: “A little fruit, a little cereal and wheaten bread, a glass of milk—these are within the reach of all, even the poorest laborer; anything more is at the peril of the eater.” It is more than likely that if several hundred thousand workingmen shall carry out their present resolution to live without meat for a couple of months half of them will experience so much benefit that they will continue the experiment indefinitely.