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THE GREENCASTLE HERALD

FRIDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1»2«

MAN TO BE DEPENDED ON Level-Headed Character, Always Master of Emergency, Is the One Who Commands Success. The water in a little mountain Stream rliishili); down over the rocks niaki s more noise than the miKhty Mis--sissijipi river. The strongest charac* tors are never noisy. They are halnncetl, poised, serene, like a great river. They do their work quietly, efficiently and never permit temper, passion. prejudice, whim or obstacle to disturb their serenity or turn them aside from their course. The world is looking for the poised, level headed man. the man who < an al- ; ways he depended on, who won't fall down In an emergency or go to pieces over trifles. Orison Swett Marden writes In the New Success. No matter how hrlllinnt or how great a genius he may he in some directions. If a man is j not balanced, master of himself, he j does not Inspire confidence. He may ! do great things on occasion, when everything is going his way, with nothing to disturb or hinder him. Hut always In a great crisis or emergency, ; when a man is needed to assume tre- I tnendous responsibility, as when Foeh, J at the most fateful moment In the ; World war. was made commander hr chief of the allied armies, the cry Is. i “(Jive us n man with a level head, a 1 man we can rely on and always know

where he stands.”

SUCCESS MUST BE EVIDENT

Crowd Is Always Rtady to Flock Wherever There Is an Indica-

tion of Prosperity.

'Most of the Involved explanations we «t>e In print about why one business Is a great success and another a failure are pure humbug. One man or one business succeeds, while another falls, largely because of superior ability, or greater opportunity, or a happy combination of the two, and that Is about all there is to It. In a score of ways we may note how seriously people take that which is successful, the nation's business says. Let a theater put up a sign that tickets are to he had only for performances three weeks In advance

GET THRIFT HABIT

Saving Monoy Is More Important T han Earning It.

ADMITTED DEBT TO MQTHEH WORLD’S DEBT TO UNKNOWNS

All May Not Have Ability to Acqu.re Wealth, but Few Cannot Save Part of Earnings. A story was related in the Journal recently which illustrates the cumulative value of thrift. A woman died in an eastern city leaving a fortune said to lie close to $200,000, a large part of which was made fre.u a small

fruit stand.

lu the accounts of her death it was

and a crowd will form in line for two J stated that she was uot a miser, but Mucks trying to reach the box office, j she was noted for her beuefieeqt deeds One restaurant man hit on the scheme I in the community In which she lived, oi never having quite enough tables she was liberal and thoughtful iu her

to take care of the crowd. At a sea- - on of the year when the crowds were larger he had more tables, hut never quite enough. A few people always had to stand a little while before obtaining seats. In this way customers gm the Impression that they were in on something especially good, because it appeared that the demand exceeded

the supply.

PRESIDENT HAD HIS HOBBIES

GIVES THEM TIME TO THINK Unique but Effective Treatment Accorded Quarrelsome Married Couples in Swabia. In Swabia they have a curious custom aimed at reviving harmony in troubled homes. Whenever a married cfAiple, declaring incompatahility of temperament, seeks divorce, Instead of appealing for conciliation to a magistrate who may or may not he a psychologist and may or may not he blessed with persuasive eloquence, the authorities shut up husband and wife In a tower, allowing them only one fork and one plate between them. The result of the experiment Is then patiently awaited. The story goes that nine times out of ten, at the end of a few hours of this inconvenient regime, the two are released from the tower perfectly reconciled. Material necessities have -Irnwr them together and effaced the sentimental misunderstandings. And they return happily to their dwelling to breakfast more comfortably In the peace of the reconstituted home, whose imperfections they no longer perceive.

John Quincy Adams a Stickler for Regular Hours—Known as Student cf Astronomy.

attitude toward those of her neighbors who were in poor circumstances, but through the years of her life she was careful to save the profits from tier small business. She eliminated waste as much us possible. She watched the little things, stopped the little leaks and knew, the worth of making every penny count. tine of the great financiers of the world once said that it required much boldness and caution to make a great fortune, hut that when you got It it required ten times greater wit to keep it. It is not every one who enu become a successful iuoney»maker. The ability to acquire wealth is a knack,

.Tohn Oulncy Adams was n stickler ! 1 ’ u, 11 requires no special aptitude to

for rcg'ii i ■ hours at the White House. 1‘romptlj at ten o’clock every night nil lights had to he blown out. He behoved In going to bed early and getting up early. During the sunAner months iio arose at four o'clock, and.

learn to save money, and it is more important to save money than It is to

earn it.

It requires will-power and moral stamina to practice thrift, for, no matter how great may be our earnings, our temptations are always of corre-

uccompanlod bv his son John, who ' ,ur "■»'Pt»non* ar '‘

was hi> s.aaetarv would hustle down 1 -I'omling magnitude. Those who ran to the Potomac and indulge in a good 1 s ;' ve ° u " ,ncolne

swim for an hour or two, while Mrs. Adams was overseeing the preparation of a good breakfast for them. When it became too cold for swimming he remained In bed until six o'clock, and would then take a brisk walk up to the oapltol and hack before breakfast. Adams was a great student of astronomy. and had a telescope on the roof of the White House so that he could study tin* heavens at night. He planted many trees in the White House grounds ami urged members of congress to collect seeds and send them to their constituents.

REDUCED TO PLAIN ENGLISH Page Boy’s Abbreviated Complaint Left No Manner of Doubt as to His Meaning. At nno of the big London hotels there Is a page hoy who in his spsro moments is much given to the study of the best English literature. A few days ago he was paid his wages with a smtill fine deducted for some breach of regulations. Indignant, the hoy said to the manager: “Sir, If you should ever find It within the scope of your jurisdiction to levy an assessment on my wage for some trivial act alleged to have been committed by myself at some Inopportune moment in the stress of one's avocation I would suggest that you refrain from exercising that prerogative. The failure to do so would of necessity force me to tender my resignation." The manager, tottering, reached a chair and In gasps asked the hoy what he meant. "In other words, If you fine me again, I shall chuck the job!" said the lud—Tlt-HIts. It Must Be Love. Father was giving tin* fair young daughter a lecture about her beau. He exclaimed: "Does he know who pays the light hills? Doesn't he know enough to go home at the right time?" The daughter replied: "Yes, he knows enough to go, hut he was sick last night.” With that father started In again. “Don't tell me that a big husky fellow like him was sick. What on earth was the mutter with him?" As the fair young daughter started for the door, she sung hack, "He lias heart trouble.*'

NO JURISDICTION IN HADES Pope’s Witty Reply to Official Who Complained of Being Portrayed as a Lost Soul. The classical example of a painter’s spite, or artistic punishment. Is that of Michaelnngelo in his famous fresco of the "Last Judgment" on the wall of the Slstlne chapel. When one of the papal chamberlains reported to the pope, Paul III, that the painter was exceeding proper hounds in his use of the nude, the artist. In disgust, took occasion to Immortalize his critic by giving his features to one of the figures In the infernal regions, of which there Is a glimpse at the bottom of the great fresco. The aggrieved official complained to Paul III and begged him to order the painter to remove the portrait. “Where did you say he has placed you?" inquired tin* pontiff, who did not cure to Interfere with the foremost artist of his age. “He has put me Into hell I" replied tlie Indignant chamberlain. “Ahsaid the pope. *T have no jurisdiction there.”'—Youth's Companion.

will find themselves unable to do If their incomes become large, for the principle is the same, whether great sums or small ones are involved. Tile foundations of most of tile solid fortunes in America today were laid through the practices of thrift. Wealth gained too quickly or too easily seldom lasts; so that, from the standj point of material riches, thrift Is nec- ' essary for permanency and stability. N'o man can afford not to he thrifty, whether he he wealthy or poor. Jt is within the power of every one to save money, ever, though the amount limy be small. These practlei* will not bring n guarantee of wealth, hut they will assure at least modest suceess and often prevent total failure.—Chi-

cago Journal.

Might Be Either. "My wife asked me to bring home something. What Hie dickens was it?" “Haven’t you a clue?” “Oh. yes. Knowing what a wretched memory I have she told me to remember the first part of the Quaker ■ ■ "Why, that's plain enough. She wants a pen.” “It Isn't so all-fired plain at that— does she want a pen or a pencil?”— Boston Transcript. Marriageable Age. At what age should a woman marry? Opinions differ quite a bit. An English clergyman related that an elderly lady In his parish who was shout to get married consulted him on the wisdom of her step. “You see, sir,” she said, “the other night I got out of bed and tumbled down on the floor and I hadn't nobody to pick me up again, so I thought If was time I got murrled.”—Boston Transcript.

The Stilled Small Voice. Judge Gray, down In Mississippi, was about to adjourn court when an old colored man of his acquaintance moseyed in his countenance showing worriment. “.ledge," he mumbled, "mah conscience done trouble me, Is yo’ got a charge against me?” “Why, no. uncle; I haven't any charge." “.ledge, mah conscience suttlnly am disturbin': Yo' ain't missed a couple of yo' chickens, has yo’?" "N'o, uncle, I haven't; hut, even If there were a couple gone, I wouldn't know it. I never eount them." "Don' nebber count 'em? Mah-h-h goodness. Mah conscience am appeased. Good-day, suh, good-day."— American Legion Weekly.

War Made Smokers. A French economist told me that the war hail added 10.000,000 to the list of the smokers in his country, says L. S. Hirtland in Leslie’s. Almost every soldier eventually smoked. Smoking had a solace all its own to ease the terrific tedium of the trenches; and in times of crisis it acted in Us own subtle way as an anchor toward calmness. often in France there were tobacco crises—and terrible memories they are. In southern I'oland, any one possessing a package of cigarettes rented a safe deposit vault. One of the American Y. M. C. A. secretaries In Krakow discovered that he* could outclass and overlive the aristocracies of the palaces. For one eigaf'ette per day a valet (who had had his training in New Y'ork) came to his room and looked after his clothes and hoots'and shaved him. A hair cut came at the same rate.

Much of Sir Walter Scott’s Literary Success He Acknowiedgrd as Due to Her. In the Cornhlll magazine. Archibald Stalker, writing of Sir Walter Scott's mother, says: "She had about £fl(>0 a year, of which a goixl third went In. charHies of her own. On the remainder she was able to keep a quietly hospitable house. Out of his superabundance Sir Walter Scott oflcei offered her assist a nee, which was scornfully refused every time. She lived to see her lame son a hamnej. to read not only his vers’es hut his novels, and to point out to her visitor the discrepancies between Walter's plots ami the real stories. ‘Tie attributed a good deal of his knowledge of the manner and habits of the two or three preceding generations to her conversation. She had n fine memory and a gift for telling stories, and all the Scottish passion for genealogy, and could rattle off the ancestry of everybody she knew or had ever heard of. She hod proverbs also for every occasion, and two of them were often In Sir Walter's month: 'We must do as we do.' that Is. as we can do. and ‘Well betides her that hides.' Doth of these Illustrate a patient mind and a happy knack of minimizing present troubles."

Diffarent Social Standard*. Since the war. Long Island has gained many residents who, to the critical residents there, are known as roughneck millionaires. The verandas buzz with stories of crude social errors made by the new rich. There is one rugged old fellow who purchased a near-castle near Bnyside. There Is a magnificent e*ate with private gardens and lake and nil. He has a factory In one of the towns near by. His j wife Is large, rosy-cheeked and until three years ago had never been in an automobile. Consequently she Is Just a little awed by the swift change. Her husband's first name Is Mike. From her porch the other afternoon she yelled to the liveried chauffeur: "Oh, Mr. Kelly, drive around by the shop and pick up Mike."—New York Times.

A Fire Every Minute. A fire rages somewhere every minute of every day In the ITnlted States. Most of them are preventable, Charles E. Case, a New York Insurance man and fire prevention expert, told the chamtier of commerce at a "Fire I’reventlon" luncheon at the Hotel Baltimore. The epidemic of preventable tires the last year was attributed by Mr. Case to easy-going wastefulness because of prosperity. "It Is as If the people of the I'nlled Slates squandered $000,000 and 00 human lives each day," he said.

Nervy. “Pardon me, miss. Although a perfect stranger, I must tell you that you are beautiful.” “Sir, 1 shall call a policeman.” “I am sure he will agree with me.” —Detroit Free Press.

Contrary Statements. "Smith fold me he had a raw deal* “He complained to me because be was rouslcii."

Heard in an Office. “Sewing on your own buttons? Why, I thought you were married." “Oh, I'm married, all right, but you see 1 keep my independence.”—Boston Transcript.

PERSONAGES OF HIGH FAME Celebrated Nine Worthies Left Deep Impress on the Pages of Ancient and Modern History. The Nine Worthies were famous personages who are often alluded to and classed together In a rather arbitrary manner, like the Seven Wonders of the World, or the Seven Wise Men of Greece. The Nine Worthies have been counted up In the following manner: Three gentiles of ancient times. Hector, son of Prlain. king of Troy, who was killed during the famous siege, described by the Grecian poet Homer; Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia, who curried his conquest to what is now British India ; and Julius Caesar, who made himself ruler of the Roman world, and practically laid the foundations of the empire; three Jews. Joshua, the conqueror of Canaan; David, the second king of the children of Israel: and Judas Maecahaeus, a patriarch who fought against foreign domination: three Christians, King Arthur of the Ancient Britons; Charlemagne, who built an empire in western Europe after the Western Roman empire had fallen to pieces; and Godfrey of Bouillon, a valiant knight of western Europe during the Middle ages. A Putz'e. Billy and Mary stopped in the house next door to see the new talking machine. After they heard n piece or two, Mary started to look it over, and said: “It’s not like ours." Mrs Ease asked: “What kind of machine have you?" Mary engaged In deep thought. At last she exclaimed: “It's a Scotch collie." Mrs. Case said: “Why. I never heard tell of that kind of a talking machine." Billy spoke up. saying: "Mary is always getting things wrong; It's a fox terrier. If you don't think I’m right. Mrs. Case, you go over and look at the picture on It.” «

Stimulated Memory Judge Henderson claims that the oldest Joke is the one about \he Irish man who was in a brown study on the street. Another Irishman met him and said: "Why so downhearted. Mike?" “Well, Bat," said Mike, “my wife told me to get her something for dinner and for the life of me I enn't remember what It was I was to get." “Oh, cheer up," said Pat; “here, have a cigar; maybe you con recover your memory while you smoke." Mike lit the cigar and puffed It. Afler n few whiffs Mike brightened up and said, "You are right. Bat. That cigar made me llilnk what the wife wanted. The wife wanted cabbage,"—Aikansaw Thomas Cat.

Origin of the "Castaneti.” In the “castanets” we have a survival of the "crotoln” of the Romans. Generally made either of ebony, boxwood or metal, they differ little In slmia* from those of classical times, and are an essential complement to the national music of Spain. •The Andn luses are the most eX|>ert In the manipulation of this Instrument, expertness with which is only attained at the expense of much practice. It may lie said that they are Indispensable for the accompaniment of popular dances such as the Jota. Malaguena and Sequidilla. marking with Insistent emphasis the characteristic rhythms of each. Ha* Something to Boast Of. The city of Winnipeg, Canada, boasts of having the largest Individual railway yards In the world, and the cheapest electric light, the finest transportoton facilities ami widest streets In America. Tho Proof. "Do they show any degree of higher Intellectuality In that town?” "Sure they do. Every man you meet now is wearing a wrist avatch.”

Th* Farewell Maeting. The young man on the train, observing that the handsome girl across the * isle was looking at him very luteinl.v. thought he had made an Impression, and In a few moments he changed his sent to the vacant one lieslde her. “Haven't we met before somewhere?" lie ventured to ask. “Well, I'm not quite sure," she replied, "but I thlhk you are the man I saw hanging around the night our automobile was stolen." The young mail vanished Into the smoking cur amid the snickers ot those who had overheard them.—Boston Transcript.

Fitting That Services Rendered to Humanity by the Anonymous Should Be Properly Recognized. Underlying the splendid tributes of France and Great Britain to two unknown soldiers, as symbols of all the unknown heroes of the war. is a thought that should find more' general application in times of peace. It Is something new for unknown soldiers to he buried in Westminster and under the Arch of Triumph. Slate burial was once reserved for marshals and generals and conspicuous heroes, among military men. It Is only Just that the victory of democracy over autocracy should make such a difference, and it Is only natural that an anonymous soldier should symbolize common

service In war.

Such service has always been anonymous, but the anonymous have not previously been so honored. Compton service of an official character is usually performed by men In uniform— whether ns soldiers, policemen, firemen or sailors—who for the most patt remain anonymous. When one of these millions of official servants steps out of the usual routine and performs extraordinary service and becomes a hero, the public demands his name. Not that It matters; the deed is the Important thing, but henceforth the name and the deed are associated. Otherwise the anonymity of the hero's j service Is preserved. Some years ago Dr. Nehemiah Boyn- i ton made aji Interesting address In ! which he emphasized the debt we I owed to the anonymous in all walks | of life. Unofficial service is but slightly less anonymous in character than that of persons In uniform. We live In an interdepem^nf world, yet we know hut a handful of people out rtf countless millions. Life Is sailed on an anonymous sen, and it Is only once in a while that we speak a friendly ship. "What's In a name?” might be rendered “Why a name?” A rose without any name at all would delight us still.—Brooklyn Eagle.

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Rocks That Bend. There are rocks that will actually bend if placed in certain positions. Some sandstones will bend like pieces of India rubber. If a moderately thin piece of sandstone is supported only at its two ends, it will sag in the middle; while if a piece Is supported in the middle the two ends will drop. Flexible rock is found in India, and also in America, more especially in Brazil. It contains a proportion of mica, which is largely used for making lamp chimneys on account of its flexibility. The presence of mica does not, however, account for the bending quality of the rock, which, is due to the fact that the particles of quartz of which It Is composed are interlocked together like hinges, with spaces in between tlie particles, In such a manner that though the rock will give to a certain extent it will not break.

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The Snail and the Screw. It is no doubt true that nearly all human inventions have been suggested by natural objects. Fremont of the French school of mines points out an Interesting example in the case of the screw, the fundamental idea of which, he believes, was suggested to primitive man by the spiral shape of the edible snail. It was not the shape of the shell that suggested the screw, hut the spiral motion which It Is necessary to give to the body of the snail in order to withdraw It from the shell. This at once showed that an object of a screw shape embedded In a solid powerfully resisted attempts to withdraw it by n straight pull. The hint was enough, and the screw became one of the earliest of man's Inventions.

Saving Mother. Two bread rolls were loft on tho plate, and as it was passed Richard took the largest one. A troubled conscience Immediately caused him to look at his mother, whose stern countenance spoke plain er than words. “Well, mamma.” he said, although not n word had been spoken, "I didn’t want you to he the hog.” Looked Like Proof. Mr. Crlmaonhenk—You know, wills ky Is a medicine. Mrs. Olinsonheak—I can't believe It "Why enn't you?" "Because you never make a face when you're taking It. and If it wni i.ir.n •n,. you couldn't help mu kin, a face."

Not on Supreme Court Roll*. Daniel Webster, one of the most active lawyers before the bar of the United States Supreme court, never signed the membership roll of the court. Associate Justice John H. Glarke. a member of the Supreme court, never practiced before the Supreme court as a lawyer, and his name la not on the rolls as having been admitted .to the bar of the court. The same Is true of former Associate Justice David Da via, who, after the Hayes-Tllden contest for the presidency, left the Supreme court to serve us United States senator from Illinois. But as Senator Davis he appeared several times before the Supreme court.

Sorrows of tho Sultan. Six months ago an oriental potentate of note dismissed a dozen of hit wives on the ground of economy. Now the cables tell us he's changed his mind, foodstuffs and dross goods having declined, hut It’s too late Seven of his wives have gone on the movie stage and the other five are working as models In New Y’ork.— Richmond Tlmea-Dlspatch.

No Tuba Thare? “I see by the paper that Sheffield, forty miles from the nearest seaport, has asked the British government to build a waterway to the ocean," sold the man In the country store. “What's the matter?" came from Hiram, on the cracker barrel. “Haln't they got no barth-tuhs over In Sheffield. for gracious' sake?”

Still in Pursuit. Bacon- Did you say your boy yga* pursuing his studio still? Egbert—Yes, he Is. "Do you suppose he'll ever catch up with them?"

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