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Real Happiness.
Sixteen years ago W. D. Pyles was 19 years old. He tells the story of his life in The Rural New Yorker, William had worked for his father on the farm till he was 19, and had then only $5. He lent that $5 to an acquaintance, and never saw it again. That cured him for life of the money lending propensity.
Then William went to work at $14 a month and his board for a dairyman. He had the determination to get on in the world, so he began the first month to save money. After the first month the dairyman gave him more wages, and continued for several months to raise him $1 per month. The ambitions young man put it away in bank as fast as he could spare it. By and by he had $500 in bank, almost before he knew it. The little sums he saved required self denial and grit, but he had both.
With his $500 he bought a "truck farm" in Prince George county, Md., and began to raise vegetables for the Washington city markets. After that his money accumulated faster, and he was soon able to pay for his fifteen acre farm. Time went on and he still saved money, not grindlingly or in a miserly way, but shrewdy and carefully. In a few more years he added twenty-five acres to his little farm, paid for it and built a good house.
Now Pyles is 35 years old. He has everything paid for, is still young, has luxuries in the way of food, light, air, carriages and horses, etc., that persons in the city worth ten times as much money as he cannot get at any price. The hardest work on his vegetable farm he no longer does with his own hands. He hires men to do it whose fathers gave them an infinitely better start in the world than he had, but who are now so poor they do not even own a family cow. They did not have the grit the poor young man had. He attributes all his success to his early formed habit of saving part of his earnings.
If he only knows it, and he probably does, William is as near perfect happiness as it is allotted to man to be. He has every comfort that man needs and many luxuries. His open air life is conducive to the highest health, and there is leisure enough in it for intellectual enjoyment. If he wants to he can take a trip to Europe with the additional savings which he will acquaintate. What more does a man want than he has?
London Wash Houses.
One feature of London civilization might well be introduced into crowded districts in American towns and cities. That is the public wash house. A large establishment is fitted up with the most approved modern laundry appliances. Stalls and tubs are provided to accommodate perhaps 150 to 200 women at once. Hot and cold water, steam and drying and ironing appliances are furnished, so that in three hours' time a woman may finish entirely the laundry work for a small family.
A small charge is made to each washer for the use of the place. It amounts to three cents for the first two hours, and after that to four cents an hour. Small as this charge it is pays all expenses and a profit besides, so many are those availing themselves of the opportunity to do their family washing where they have plenty of room and water. This public laundry is an aid to cleanliness and health as well as a convenience.
The superintendent of one such establishment informed an American newspaper correspondent that it was patronized by not less than 900 families a week, necessitating the employment of each stall and set of tubs three times a day. Those in our own country who are
trying to help the poor in cities to higher and better ways of living have here a first class suggestion.
It is difficult for an American to understand the sensation of a person at the first sight of snow. As many as 100,000 south Italians and orientals experienced that sensation, however, for the first time this winter in various parts of the country. In New York no less than 40,000 Nepolitanians were in this plight. The cold doubled them up and knocked them out completely, but still they stood gazing up at the sky in a state of stupefaction, watching the snowflakes falling. They did not know what they were. This was not like hot Naples, where the people have their kitchens outdoors.
Owing to an accident the publisher of The Middleborough Daily Gazette in England was unable to print his paper one night. He resorted to a scheme to to get it out on time that was worthy of Yankee ingenuity. He laid some large iron plates in the level yard of the Grand hotel next to his press room. Then he brought a fifteen ton steam road roller into action, fired it up and geared it rapidly, and started it into doing the press work of his paper. The journal thus printed by a road roller reached its readers only one hour late.
The czar has ordered the suspension of the anti-Jewish laws, on the representation of his minister of finance that their operation would offend the Jew bankers of Europe, and his majesty might not be able to borrow money when he wished. Fortunately the Jews have thus one means of redress, and a good one. Money talks, and money can even set aside laws sometimes.
Public trials for heresy are sure to make more heretics, says The Boston Globe.
The Mexican Gilt railway, in Mexico, is the most gorgeously constructed road in the world. Its ties are of solid mahogany, and many of its bridges and culverts are of white marble. The contractors say these magnificent materials are the cheapest they could use, since both abounded along the line of the railway.
In Georgia the question has been settled whether a congregation can be compelled to pay its preacher. Chief Justice Bleekley has decided that the Baptist church at Antioch must be sold to pay the salary of its pastor. Doubelless that laggard congregation will now hustle to buy it in. They would scarcely like to see it pass out of their hands because they failed to pay their pastor.
Andrew and Rachel Jackson appreciated the corn cob pipe at its proper value when they used to sit, one on each side of their big fireplace, at the homestead in Tennessee, before the general was elected president, and smoke the tobacco leaves raised upon their own farm. They would have none of your new fangled meerschaums, would Andrew and Rachel. They contended that the flavor of tobacco smoke was never so sweet as when drawn through the bowl of a cob pipe. Now after all these years our British brethren, too, are about to be made acquainted with the virtues of the cob pipe. A Michigan factory is making these pipes and sending them to England. Doubtless the British will think they are from some rare and curious tree, and they will become a fashion.
old at 40, and aged at 50. Lincoln called himself an old man at 39, and when Washington was 55 he spoke of his "advanced season of life." Now nobody seems old any more as long as he can be a man among men, and do the full work of one. The average age of the United States senators at present is 59, and several of the justices of the supreme court are past 70.
A change has come over the estimate of mankind in regard to age, says a writer in The Century. Men used to be
When Are We Old?
As supplementing the article in The Century, Malcolm W. Ford, the athlete, has recently written a paper showing that even the physical activity of man covers a longer period than is generally supposed. He discusses the age at which an athlete's powers wane and he may no longer consider himself eligible for prize contests. William B. Curtis, one of the pioneer American athletes, was winning prizes in contests at the age of 46, and was throwing weights then better than he had ever done. Henry E. Buermeyer, 52 years of age, can still "break an ordinary man almost in two." The athlete who breaks down young is the fast liver. Donald Dinnie, a Scotchman whom Mr. Ford knew, was going around the country engaging in athletic contests and winning them at the age of 52. When Dinnie was 40 years old he considered himself as good at running and jumping as he had ever been. So when is a man to consider himself old?
The golden polypoly fern, known to botanists as Phlebodium aureum, is regarded as a typical species of the Phlebodium group. It is a strong grower, strikingly bold in habit, and owing to its glaucous foliage conspicuous. The popular appellation of golden polypoly, under which this handsome plant is best known, may have been derived from the glossy brown color of the scutes that cover the older portions of its rhizomes; but it may also be due to the intense golden hue of the underside of its fertile fronds. This class of ferns is very useful for decoration, the noble fronds producing a striking contrast with those of other ferns with which they are associated in the warm fernery. When planted out their naturally wild growing rhizomes grow apace and produce fronds in abundance.
As may be seen by the accompanying illustration of P. aureum, though their fronds are of variable dimensions, they have a natural tendency to grow on a single rhizome, and would in that way be of little use as pot plants. To obviate this mode of growth the extremity of the rhizome is cut off entirely when only two inches high, the result being the production of several lateral rhizomes growing out of the mutilated one in all directions, thus making a bushy compact plant. It requires substantial food; a mixture consisting of about equal proportions of fibrous peat, loam, and silver sand suits them best. They must also receive a liberal supply of water at the roots while growing, and during that time they will also derive great benefit from occasional waterings with weak liquid manure.
THE GOLDEN POLYPODY FERN.
I.C.G. Students of K.S.U.Returned.
Lo, the turkey is gone; the chicken is quaking an the doleful sound of the ox is heard, dreading the hour when the death knell will be sounded to go whence no beast or fowl ever returneth.
Be merciful, boys, and save the living by eating more of the I. C. G. goods, thereby building up your mental calibre, instead of too much physical anatomy.
WILDER BROS.,
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Nothing to Equal them in the West.
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MEALS 25 CENTS.
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Oysters Served in Every Style. Fine Cigars.
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