ADVICE TO THE SHIFTLESS
Hard 8ense, If Persisted In, Will Over
come Hard Luck—Don’t Tell
Your Troubles.
A very keen politician going
abroad for an extended tour ad
vertised for a man to relieve him
of the smaller worries of travel
ing, says the London Post. He re
duced the applicants to one, and
was about to complete the nego
tiations when the fortunate per
son began to tell him of his ca
reer, his ambitious, opportunities
and misfortunes—agenuinebard
luck story. The politician listened
for awhile,and then •suddenly in
terposed: “I And that I do not
want you,” and when pressed for
his reason, added: “I never hire
:bad-luck people, especially the
*kind who talk about it.”
There seems to be an injustice
in this, and there doubtless is.
iA.t the same time this politician
twas a judge of men, or he would
not have been a successful politi
cian. Most persons who have
achieved success are obliged to lis
ten to bad-luck stories, despite
their efforts to avoid them. The
main reason the modern merchant
.or manager protects himself with
|a guard of doorkeepers and ante
rooms is to escape callers who
[want to take up his time by nar
ratives of their misfortunes.
Every large center 01 popula
tion has its array of bad-luck suf
ferers, and among them are men
of education, men who are almost,
but not quite, strong enough to
reach success. Their point of
■view is out of compass, their hear
ings are wrong; their attitude is
that some one who has succeeded
must make amends for their own
shortcomings. These unfortun
ates are probably the most hope
less persons in the world—hope
less not so much in their own
ideas as in the possibilities of
their reformation. When a man
places his own inadequacy on ill
luck he is not worth anything to
anybody—not even to himself.
Luck is the tide, nothing more.
* The strong man rows with it if it
makes toward his port. He rows
against it if it flows the other
way. Fair or foul, flood or ebb, he
rows. And the world has very lit
tle time to waste on the man who
complains that the tide did not
turn at every bend to suit his
course.
NO TIPS FOR HIS WAITERS.
Hew York Restaurant Man Makes a
Discovery—Then Came a Change
in His System.
“My waiters get very few tips,”
said a downtown restaurant man,
“and I don’t have to print notices
to my customers that they are not
expected to tip the waiter. It is
really very simple and within the
power of a restaurant manager to
stop the custom if he wants to do
so,” says the New York Times.
“You see, when a customer tips
a waiter regularly he expects to
get extra service or to have his
check scaled down, and the res
taurant is beaten by the game. In
other words, the tipping of wait
ers took money out of my pocket.
“I said nothing, but kept my
eyes open for a few days, and I
saw that it was in handing the
check to the customer that the
waiters got their tips. When
they were doubtful of a man they
actually made him ask for his
cheek. That observation made it
simple.
“Without a word about tips I
made a rule that when a cus
, turner was served the waiter
should immediately lay down by
his plate the check for the amount
ordered and change it subsequent
ly if he ordered more. That left
no opportunity for the waiter to
dumbly suggest that his hand was
open, and it made it easy for the
customer to get away without giv
ing a coin to the man who had
served him.
"* “In a week tipping had practic
allv ceased in my restaurant and
the checks began to increase to
the right size. All paid for what
they' got and others increased
their orders as soon as they were
relieved of paying tribute to tin
waiter. It worked admirably and
- < helped my business. Restaurant
men are foolish not to stop the
tipping imposition. They can do
it if they want to.”
Average Man.
The average man either boasts
about his good health or howls
About his aches and bains.
GLOVES FROM RAT SKINS.
Only One Pair Was Ever Made and
That Was Very Small—Inter
esting Glove Lore.
A report comes from Copenha
gen that a great rat hunt has been
organized there, and that the
skins of many thousands of the
victims are to be used in making
gloves. If the rat hunters in the
Danish capital cherish any such
hopes, says the Pall Mall Gazette,
they are doomed to disappoint
ment.
Tint skins cannot be made into
gloves lit for commerce. The be
lief that a valuable raw material
is being neglected here survives
only in the minds of the inexpert.
The glove fhaker knows much
better. A Norwegian merchant
once came to England and in
formed a well known glove maker
that he had collected over 100,000
rat skins and was prepared to re
ceive offers for them. He was
fully convinced that the skins
were suitable for glove making.
But the manufacturer found that
the largest skin was only some
six inches long, and he held up a
kid skin for the smallest size of
glove, a child’s, wrhich was eight
inches long, and asked how he was
to cut such a glove out of a rat
skin.
Then he took up the smallest
kid skin for a lady’s glove, 11 inch
es long, and when he asked how
that was to be cut out of rat skin
the Norwegian merchant laughed
at the idea and wrent away disap
pointed. The best offer he got
for those skins, which he had col
lected with so much care, was five
shillings a hundredweight from a
man who was willing to boil them
down for glue.
A famous glove making firm has
a collection of curiosities relating
lo the trade, and one of them is
the largest pair of gloves ever
made out of a rat skin. The be
lief that such skins could be made
into gloves was laid before the
managers so confidently that they
resolved to put it to the trial, and
they ordered a number of skins of
the largest rats which could be
found in Grimsby. But the rat is
a fighting animal, and bears the
marks of many battles on his
body, and it was found that the
skins were so scarred and torn
that it was with the utmost diffi
culty that perfect pieces large
enough for the purpose could be
obtained. In the end, after ten
skins had been used, a pair of
gloves was cut and made, and
they are retained in the collection
to this day. But they are so small
that they would only fit the small
est of small boys. Thus it was
shown that, however cheaply rat
skins might be obtained, they
would offer no advantage to the
glove maker. The rabbit skin is
equally useless for the purpose,
and humane people may also dis
miss from their minds the fear
that the skins of pet dogs are
made into gloves. The dog skin
glove of which we used to hear is
made of nothing but the skin of
the Cape goat.
Cuban Cave-Fishes.
An interesting addition has re
cently been made to the Natural
History museum, South Kensing
ton, London, by the receipt of
specimens of some of the blind
cave-fishes of Cuba. The special
interest of these fishes lies in the
fact that their alliance is with
salt-water forms which exist in
the neighboring sea, and not with
fresh water fishes, as is the case
with Amblyopsis and its allies of
the great cave of Kentucky.
There can be little doubt that the
Cuban caves in which the blind
fishes are found were formerly in
communication with the s"ea, and
that the ancestors of these fishes
entered the caves from the adja
cent ocean.
Children Labeled for Traveling.
The practice of labeling chil
dren and sending them across the
Atlantic, addressed as parcels,
would appear to be getting rather
general. A number of children so
labeled have passed through
Queenstown from time to time
lately. From the Dominion liner
New England, which has arrived
there from Boston, was landed a
little boy not quite nine years old.
He was addressed to his uncle at
Kilkenny. He had traveled from
Chicago unaccompanied, and had
been transferred just as a parcel
would be by the various forward
ing companies through whose
hands he passed.
WORLD’S FAIR RATES.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
St. Louis, April 30th to Decem
ber 1, 1904. Rate for ten day
excursion ticket will be one fare
and one-fifth for the round trip.
Tickets on sale daily April 27th
to November 30, 1904. Rate for
sixty day excursion ticket one
I fare and one-third for the round
J trip. Tickets on sale April 25th
to Nov. 20th. Rate for season
EXCURSION TICKETS eighty
per cent, of double the standard
one way fare for the round trip.
Tickets on sale daily April 15th
to Nov. 15th, Final return limit
Dec 15, 1904.
Thos. H. Reamey, Agt.
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TO CALIFORNIA.
Via the Iron Mountain route,
one way colonist tickets, on sale
March 1st to April 30th, only
$30. For further information
call at Iron Mountain ticket office.
Thos. H. Reamey, Agt.
Found — Brass fixtures for
boiler and engine on road be
tween Newport and Diaz. Owner
may have same upon proper
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