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THE INDEPENDENT
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A Million for a Domestic.
The Chicago Croesus who an
nounced that he would give $1,
000,000 to the model domestic j
who should remain in his serv
ice until her ministrations should |
be no longer required, has solv-1
ed the long vexatius servant
girl problem.
He is said to be receiving enor
mous quantities of letters offer
ing faithful and continuous ser-1
vice, and this goes to show that
domestics can be secured by one'
having the genius and the mon
ey.
All that the servant girls have
needed is proper encouragement .
and a showing of appreciation.;
The family that expects a serv-j
ant girl to keep the home life
healthy and happy, while effac
ing herself, and all for a paltry
$3 or «$4 a week, is expecting too !
much.
The Chicago Croesus has set j
a new pace. He gets offers by
the ton, and is afforded an al
most infinite field for selection.
Men have milions to spend in
yachting, automobiling, horse
racing, philanthropizing and end
less other fads. Why should
they not spend a million once in
a while servant-girlizing?
A really good, staying domes
tic counts more for a family’s
real happiness than all the
yachts and automobiles combin
ed. Then what is there erratic
in offering $1,000,000 for a do
mestic who will serve satisfac
torily and stay as long as want
ed? Nothing. It is a most sen
sible offer.
The promise of a million throws
a glamor over an existence that
heretofore has been deemed ab
solutely barren of romance as
well as profit.
If this Croesus* example is not
permitted to perish but is fol
lowed by others and made the
rale, the troublesome servant
girl problem will pass away as
*one of the curiosities of his
tory.—Memphis News Scimitar.
The Main Aim Is To Get Rich.
With how many people does the
business of life mean literally
the getting of money?
We all have dreams of philan
thropy, perhaps, and would give
something to humanity, as well
as take from it. But with how
many of us does the idea of giv
ing come first, and that of get
ting take second place?
Money-making is the first
great pursuit—in this country at j
least. And the fact is showing |
-itself up even in the colleges.
Unprejudiced observers will
view the increase in the enroll
ment in the scientific depart
ments of universities as evi
dence of the growth of utilitari
an views of education. The
spirit of commercialism has
struck deep into the thought of
the time. Young men are seek
ing education that will help them
in the race to get rich.
Maybe the old-fashioned idea
of education, that it simply
made cultured gentlemen with
the habit of thinking things
that could not be applied in ac
tual life, was all wrong, and in
the future the office of the uni
versity will Jbe to make engin
eers of various sorts, doctors
without Latin, lawyers with
out logic or history, ministers
without literature and architects !
without the art spirit.
The young man of today is
dazzled by the enormous for
tunes and the boundless oppor
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tunities for wealth that lie all
around him.
He is impatient to get rich
and forgets that riches are not
an end of existence, but only a
means.
He forgets that he may culti
vate within his mind and heart
better riches than lie in all the
outside world.
Perhaps the majority of fa
thers and nearly all the sons
who take counsel about the mat
ter at all do not regard anything
as education which does not de
finitely and directly prepare the
boy for what is loosely called
the “business of life.”
Yet this “business of life” in
cludes little that makes living
sweet. Were there nothing in
this existence but the “business
of life”hell would be filled with
suicides in a day.
Is the aim and end of twenti
eth century education then to
become again the same as that
of primitive man, the sole en
lightenment of whose darkened
intellect was in the direction of
obtaining subsistence?— Mem
phis News-Scimitar.
Paul Revere’s Ride.
Paul Revere’s name is immor- ^
tal. Ever since that far-away i
April midnight when he rode !
from Boston to Lexington and
Concord, warning the patriots
along the way of the near ap
proach of the British, his fame
has been securely enshrined in
the hearts of all Americans.
Historians have honored them
selves in honoring him. Poets
have found inspiration in prais
ing him. He is an idol of child
hood, an example in the prime
of manhood and a solacing mem
ory of old age.
How few characters loom up
like great peaks above the moun
tain ranges of times!
And Paul Revere was one of
these. He was one of the prec
ious few great enough to grasp 1
an opportunity to do an incalcu-!
lable good to mankind.
But while we give deserved
glory to Paul Revere let us no
longer forget that there was
another hei’o in that wild mid
night ride.
There was the horse.
“Any other horse might have!
done as well, perhaps. So might'
so might any other man have
done as well, perhaps. Si might
we flippantly disparage any he
ro.
But the fact remains that it
was Paul Revere and Paul Re
vere’s horse that did it. And
the harder work fell onthe horse
that did it. But for the true
horse’s faithfulness Paul Re
vere wouia nave oeen a iaiiure. i
See what the poet says:
“A hurry of hoofs in a village street,
A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in
the dark,
And beneath, from the pebbles in
passing, a spark
Struck out by a steed flying fearless
and fleet.
That was all: and yet, through tile
gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation was riding that
night:
And the spark struck out by that
steed in his flight
Kindled the land into flame with its
heat.”
We need tear no garlands from
the head of Paul Revere to put
a wreath on the neck of his
horse. There ought to be en
ough flowers of gratitude in the
American hearts for both.
Volumes might be made up of
the horse’s part in the heroism
of history. But man ungenerous
ly takes all the glory to himself.
One of Aesop’s most pointed
fables is of the king of beasts
that saw a statue representing
a man conquering a lion, and re
marked that it would have been
a different statue if a lion had
made it.
It would be interesting to have
a history from the horse view
point of the great tourneys and
battles and rides of the world’s
heroes.—Memphis News-Scimi
tar.
WORLD’S DEBT TO THE AGES
Modern Progress, Thoroughly An»
lyzed, Not 80 Much of an Im
provement on the Past.
Not by a great deal are all the old
fashioned things admirable, but by no
means are they all inferior and out of
date because they are old-fashioned.
The best of them we may strain all
our modern resources to equal, and
not do It. The best products of old
fashioned training and education are
■till models for contemporary semi
naries. As far back as we can reach
Into the history of mankind we find
great people, easily the equals, and
often the superiors, oi our very best In
mental and moral qualities. Onr good
luck Is not that we are superior to
them in our human material, but that
we have at onr service an Immensely
greater accumulation of knowledge,
mostly about material things. Thanks
to that, we understand the laws of
nature much better than our fathers
did, and that has helped us to make
wonderful machines, and put them to
doing, after their fashion, what used
to be done by fingers, brains, and
brawn. But spiritually we got our
highest inspiration two thousand years
ago, and have been trying ever since
to reach up to It; and mentally, though
we use better tools, we are no better,
surely, than Pythagoras or Aristotle
or the author of the Book of Job and
hundreds of thinkers who must have
long preceded any of them.—E. S
Martin, in Harper’s Magazine.
SALLY’S LOSS, LONDON’S GAIN
How Maid Servant Lost Husband and
Wealth and City Became Pos
sessed of Fine Hospital.
That bequests to Individuals end to
public benevolences are frequently the
result of a mere whim or of caprice,
has no better Illustration, perhaps,
than the case of Thornes Guy, who
built and endowed the great Guy’a
hospital of London, at a cost of £238r
MS nearly two hundred yean ago
Gay had a maid servant of strictly
frugal habita, who made hia wishes
her careful study. He resolved to
make her his wife. The aeeeeeary
preparations were made tor the wed*
ding; and among othon many little
repairs were ordered by Mr. Gay la
aod about his heuae. The latter In
cluded the laying of a new pavement
opposite the street door. It so hap
pened that Sally, the bride-elect, ob
served a piece of pavement beyond
her master's house that required
mending, and of her own aooord she
gave orders to the workmen to do this.
This was done In the absence of Mr.
Gny, who on seeing more work done
than he had ordered was Informed
that the additional work had been
done by the mistress’s orders. There
upon Guy told Sally she had forgotten
her position, and added: “If you take
upon yourself to order matters con
trary to my Instructions before we are
married, what will you not do after?
I renounce my matrimonial intentions
toward you." So Sally lost’ a rich and
grouchy husband and London gained i
noble institution for her poor.
Woman’s Story.
▲ lady wrote to 25 friends sad toM
them she was giving a "white ele
phant" party, and that aaeh guest was
to come and bring the abeolnteet moat
aaeless tbfhg she psmasssd had the
whole 25 woama tamed ap with their
hasbaads!
Another lady was gMag whet to
caned a book tea -CMfcpmlhjiir.
asms ot each book had been gamesd.
with one exoeptlon.
The lady who still pussled everyone
wore a photograph of bar husband dk.
her bodice. No one could gases the
aame of the book she Intended the
picture to represent, and after they
had all given It up" she told them—
"Life’s Handicap.”
Grotesque Names for Children.
Certain philanthropic Londoners
have proposed a Guild of Godparents
to save innocent children fssom the
burden of grotesque names. Hundreds
of examples of this poor form of pa
rental wit occur in the birth registers
for the past few years. Noah's Ark
Smith. Sardine Box, Jolly Death,
Judas Iscariot Brown, One-Too-Many
Johnson, Not-Wanted Smith, BottII
Simpson Merry Christmas Flggett,
Odious Heaton and Anno Domini
Davis are the names of children prob
ably living who will have to bear them
through life.
Portuguese Jury Drew Lots.
A new method of administering Jus
tice was applied recently at Villa
Franca de Xira in Portugal.
A prisoner waa charged with oou
terfelting, and as the Jury were eren
ly divided and could not agree they
determined to draw lota. Two pieces
of paper were procured, one was In
scribed “guilty" and the other “inno
cent." They were tbsa folded up.
shuffled, and one was then choeen hy
a Juryman.
It happened to be the one Inscribed
"guilty,” whereupon the prisoner was
sentenced to the maximum penalty.
Legal Point of View.
First Lawyer—I was loajriag ova*
my boy's geometry lesson test night
I was quite interested in that propo
iltion, that the three angles of a tri
angle are equal to two right angles.
Second Lawyer—That isn’t ver)
complicated.
First Lawyer—No, but I was trying
to think what a man oould da If hi ;
bed the other aide of the case I
BE NEIGHBORLY
Tell your friends about Ross’
“Dead Quick’’ spray. Tell them
that it kills bedbugs, ants, fleas,
roaches, mites, lice and their
eggs; that it kills and keeps
away mosquitoes—that it is nice
i and clean for household use.
Tell them it is sold in Newport
i by your druggists. (Adv.)
•
Was Postmaster 27 \ears.
Special to Independent.
Jacksonport, Ark., June 22.
On account of Mr. Anderson be
ing sick so much and not being
able to attend to business since
his paralytic stroke last Novem
ber, he was forced to give up the
j postoffice so Mr. Bohler, the in
1 spector located at Newport, was
notified and the change was
made last Friday, moving it to
Burkett and Jamison’s store.
Mr. Anderson has had the
postoffice twenty-seven years
and we regret to see this change
| as we could not have had a more
' capable, efficient man for the
place, always on duty bright and
early.
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NEW ABSORPTION METHOD
It you suffer from bleeding, itching, blind
or protruding Piles, send me your address,
aud I will tell you how to cure yourself at
home by the new absorption treatment; and
will also send some of this home treatment
free for trial, with references from your own
locality if requested. Immediate relief and
permanent cure assured. Send no money,
but tell others of this offer. Write today to
Mrs. M. Summers, Bo* P, South Bend, Ind.
rHINK TOO MUCH OF M0NF1
Many Parson* Loss Chance at Happy
Marriage by Exaggerating the
Value of Wealth.
Scores of people lose their chances
of being happily married through mik.
log an unnecessary obstacle of mot*
ay. The importance of it is often ex
aggerated. Many a man hesitates to
/ropoee to a girl because of his small
Income. Very often much misery, ml a
aaderstandlng, and tangled lives result
from the silence More unfortunate
(ove affairs are the result of what has
not been salt* than of spoken words.
When a man has a small, sure in
come, and a prospect of Increase,
there Is no legitimate reason for hie
not speaking of his lore: no reason
for that matter, to present marriage.
People are so desperately afraid
though, of beginning married Ilte In &
small way. They fear the sacrifice!
<rhlch they will be called upon to make
—of tha criticism to which they will
be subjected. Many years of happl
aasa ara lost lu this way. It la such
a mistake for young people to want to
start marriage In the state that thair
par eats are ending It.
7o delay marriage until a “oomfoc
table’* Income la available la te prove
something lacking in the love.—An
Stove Wood
Any Size Good Mill Wooc
Close Prices on Carloads.
$1.00 and $2.00 Loads
Phone 58
West’s Livery Stable
Lighten the Housework
A plain iron sink returns very
little for the effort spent upon it.
A few minutes spent in cleaning a
Standard"' white enameled sink
and you have a veritable beauty
spot of radiance.
Our catalogue of sinks is very
interesting with its wall hanging,
corner and recess patterns. It is
free to all interested in good
plumbing and good fixtures.
IV. R. Whitten
McLain Bldg. Phone 154
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MRS. M. SUMMERS, BoxM ■ ■ South Bend ■
IDEAL LAUNDRY i
C. fl. WALTON
Proprietor.
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! Washing called for and delivered
to all parts of the city.
Phone 150.
Agents Wanted In Every Town.
Dr. Ray A.
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Just A Living or Something Mol
The world owes us all a living and something qB
The “something More’’ is represented by what w»fii
aside in the bank. It means we will have somethioBf
show for our years of work. A bank account wouldBa
that leak, save dollars that constantly slip away. YoBfl
losing money by putting off starting one, The soonerfil
begin, the greater will beyour accumulations. StartV
with
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The dollar mark is the only mark that is recognized in®
lands. Money rules the world. You can ^e one I
rulers if you cpen a bank account. Only the habit of®
ing secures this dollar ma rk—the mark of the *®
most successful men. 1
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