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40 ll "Hello ? ;; j | 11 || 11 I \ ?? : 5 ? ? : t n ! I 5; ? > I! + ? A I I A , j un 1 The Midwa j And make this stor i you even though yo 4 + 4 4 1 I WEMUST] Sometimes we say that our lives are failures and that we have accomplished nothing that we set out to do. Such a spirit, however, is not worthy of those who have the strength end ability to take their places in the ranks of the world's linrrl fii?htnr? and Qtrivn n noiv for t ha honora they have missed. It it unite probable, of course, that we may been handicapped, and still are. in our efforts to achieve something reall-1 ly worth while, yet, unless we are totally unfit either physically or ment-' ally for the battle which is forever going on, there is always a < hnnee' that we may at last turn our past1 failure into bright success. Sometimes, it is true, we lack the ambi-' sometimes we feel litat there is' ? nothing to encourage us to fo furtheffort; sometimese we wonder if the gome is worth thte candle, yet unless we are able to rouse ourselves from the apathy of indifference which at times settles upon us we shall soon drift into a miserable stateof existance far removed from the condi SfinV . tlon that, could have been ours. Our sun sets sometime before its rays have warmed our lives, and with its ions o ftlie past the daylight dies away and leaves us prostrate in the dark. It is not easy in such conditions to look up and accept the fate that lies at hand, nor is it easy to be satisfied with what is lef of our V.v,- warns w in mi others at our side en- I Joy to the full their cup of happiness. It is not that we begrudge them their Joys and their blessings; it is not that we would like to see them dissatisfied with life, nor yet that we think them underserving of their happiness but, the very fact that they revel In the blessings we have lmsaed, Is not conductive to our contentment. We mast not forget, however, thai behind all the apparent unfairness. as eiewvd by our human eyes, lies a good holesome reason, which, while not plain to as, la sufficient in the sight Of the Divine Providence which directs oar lives. We cannot alt in the sunshine all the t'me; indeed, many of us feel Its wamth for only short periods of our lives, and there are still others who are forced w_ throufh hard circumstances to stav n V in the shadows always. We may not he satisfied with our lot life, but f Central, gi ALL %* / w % MIDW WEL .. iL. L_ __* i y is one or ine ousiesi i e your headquarters. I u don't buy. For A , W. ( ' .? t . . _m. t i i j ' -tT NOT FAIL I! -:-+ :-* : -k : +-: +-: : +-:-+ :-i-:-+- :- ! : * 1 there is no condition cannot go just a little worse, and it is true that onto o{ the conditions that we call hardships would prove blessings to , those more unfortunate eircumstan- ( ted than ourselves. Because we , have missed the best that is in life it | does not follow that there is nothing else left that is worth while; be- , cause "our sun set before its rays . warmed our lives" is no reason why we must mourn in the darkness forever. There are many other things i nlife to light our way through the shadows and gloom that seem to ?imt us In at times, and these beacons i of hope can be sighted only by those i who determine not to give up without at least making a good fight td the lusttl If we remain inactive ond I indifferent as to whether or not we i accomplish anything at all; if we make no effort to find our way out i of the shadows, or if we are content I to hind ourselves from those who would give us a helpin ghaud if they knew, we can expect nothing save i failure and unhappiness. It is easy i enough, of course, to theorize upon < such a subject and we all know that I facts are much harder to counteract 1 than theories and counsel is often i not worth the time it takes to ofTer it, yet, when we come down to hot- i torn rock, as it were, it is unquestion- j ably rue that strength of character i of purpose, and of conviction are big I factors in solving the problem of sue- i cess. It is our inherent weaknesses i1 more than anything else?those nat- 1 ural weaknesses which are so appa- i rent to othters, and yet to which we , i are ourselves blind?that bring (i about our failure. It is true that the conditions under which we labor | have a great deal to do with the matter also, but we know, if we take the i trouble to inform ourselves, that cer- i tain conditions may be overcome if we are strong enough to attempt the i task. 11 Because things do not work out as we had anticipated, indeed, as we probably had every reason to expect they would work out, is no reason why we should give up in dispalr and admitting our failure, be content to be a misery both to ourselves and those about us. It is fur better to keep on trying even if we seem to do nothing very much at first, rather than to simply stand by idly and 1 *4 i THE LANCASTERNEWS, ve me The . RIGHl A Y'S IE/ ?=B1DS .COME msiness streets of the ci COME DOWN TO Ylake us show you what Royal W( M 1 dei "ON THE 1 log the lion est efforts or others. Wo | may not be able to win the success we desire, but at least we can piav ? large part in life whether we win lienors or not. It is the weakling who admits his failure and gies up In despair; it is the strong man who, undaunted by mistakes .works his way out of the wreckage of his failires and faces the w orld anew. True, th sun of our happiness may have wink to rest before we realize its blessings, but, at least, we can persevere until we find light enough from the source that never fails to guido us safely through the darkiiess. -News and Courier. m:<;i\\i\<; to wake rr. We certainly are glad to note that the country is beginning to wake up to the fact that corporations are lot the mean things they have been [tainted by a certain class of politicians and a few misinformed, misguided or misfitted liewsuauer men. We note that a bill was roently inl rod u red in the Alabama legislature liaving for its object the encouraging industries of this class by freeing iem from taxation for a certain number of years. Also a similar move was made by the city council nf Savannah, Ga. And the tone of the press generally for several months past has been in favor of more leniency toward corporations. This is nothing hut right and just snd shows that the people are beginning to see that in place of misrepresentation and abuse, corporations should be encouraged. When the Atlanta and Charlotte railroad was first proposed, this county voted $100,000.00 in nonds to have it come through the county. The narrow minded politician at once began a tirade of abuse of the commissioners who signed the bonds, making the people dissatisfied, and they actually went so far as to hang some of the commissioners in effigy; simply because they signed the bonds. The bonds, however, were paid in time and It has turned outtthat the voting of these bonds was the best Invest-1 ment that county ever made. A tnon-j ument should be erected by the peo-1 pie of Pickens county to the memory. of Jacob Anthony and his associates' who s'gned the railroad bonds. He was an honorable Christian gentleman and had the foresight and the manhood to do his duty, regardless of the clamorings and vRnorlngs of ( people who are governed. not by rea??*!. but by passion.?Kssley Progress j OCTOBER 19, 1915. Leading ' r. HFR DE WING J1 vni T I ^ I C3 ity, and W. C. Dees' i i THE MIDWAY you want to see. Wi drome C ES SI MIDWAY." SINGER'S RECEIPT FO HEALTH. Mine. Sehumniiii-lfcink, Opeiut Stai', ItccoinmeiidH lloiiscvvork for American <>irls. My mother was a fine lady. 1 r member her, with her little fit hands and her little feet. But si never had a tuaid, and so rlie had i do everything herself. She thougl it did not harm a daughter of a m jor or a captain to od her own wor i'roin Iter 1 learned to sew and dat stockings, and I could patch a pair < officer's trousers so neatly that y< could not tell where the patch wa Villi W hilt vt'fla nwirr* ilifBouli ?.?S11 could darn a hole near the neckbar of a shirt so that you could not tt there had ever been any hole; in fa it is due to this experience of mil that 1 have never emoioyed a mai \i.d I learned to cook, too. At to this day I love to do it. I do n cook in the American hut in tl Austrian style; but everybody \vl tries my cooking knows it is all rigli Very often when visitors come to n house in Chicago I am very sorr; hut 1 cannot see them because I ha iry apron on and am in the kitch* COOKIUg. I found that work about the hon developed In me a constitution th has been one of my most valuah possessions. There is no work th does more to promote health in a gii jor or a captain to do her own wor Sweeping, wrestling with a feath bed. or pushing furniture out of tl way while she sweeps, develops h back and her bust at the same tlm and makes her fit to fight the worl ? ov? wiifti; Itn uiuiucuu mat IVlliU work to all American girls.?Mm Schumann-Heink in the Saturdi Bvening Post. Evidently Not a Convert. At a revival meeting held In Nf voo, on the Mississippi river, one so mer, old Captain Kigglns strayed in the camp grounds, and before he kn< it found himself pretty well forwa among, the "mourners." The capta. who has Veen river pilot for ov thirty years, is troubled with we, eyes, and in consequence has frsqus recourse to a big red handkerchl One" of the active brethren of t meeting noticed his apparent interi in the proceedings, and thought bad hooked a eonvert. flo he i proaelied tho old. weather-beaten pll shook him warmly by the hand, ai said, "Well, Brother Hlggins, how you feel?" "Tough; how do you pt fhrnil ffh in thin A -A itore On Mid E'S ES, mCHAN' i THE Itore is the busiest spot of ?'// be glad to wait on you ome to ORE J SATO V? ! ; inu you ever walK down the street y L'~ >t' : fMie morning, in the free and le < arv uianner of a plain, decent cvervte " j 1 tojd.i. American citizen, and meet one t". (it of those fellows who looked down on |, ft- you with coldly arche I eyebrows ani! j tl k i then bite off a frozen word or two as ? J* hi passed ltis greeting? You ina> 11 ' have known him as intimately as one i enubl since von played together at ? iS. | \ j l th- mud-pie stage of your childhood. .and you know that his demeanor to- 11 j ward you is in no wise due to the a . I drubbing you gave him that dav a ct down by the "crick" when lie insultle1 i) ^ j < d you with some supercilious remark 1 j about your folks. That, long ago. N was sent by hint to the attic room of 1 ot s memory. llO e:.. II omvc )UU ?t- firuw 11 up suit! UIIUIU ^ ed the age of partial discretion no j man ever readies the lull measure of it. as some wiseacres would have * ' vou believe vou've learned the Vg ' plain, unvarnished truth. The poor fellow can no more change his manners or his opinion of others than a u> chameleon can regulate his hues. s Vou feel more charitable to him on ile that account, although you can't Ilt help a sneaking disposition to take r'' hold of him and shake him as a ter- ? k rier does a rat. t r'r I lie is a rare bird?a snob?if you H hp know what that means. You may be ? 01 versed in the fine arts and skilled in e> all the sciences, and yet you may not n really know what a sonb is like un- a ?' less you have seen one at close range j, ie* ?or unless you have felt him?and 0 then you'll never forget the type. ? A snob has no place in genuine t American life. He is an exotic, a ^ hybrid creature, a cross between a j IU" mollycoddle and a run-to-scod aristo- j, m crat. He ia a victim of old-world ? i to caste transplanted in a new world ^ r(j: democracy, whose spirit he can c lQ neither interpret nor appreciate. a oi | Do you ever, in a moment of weak- R ak I ness induced by the applause of your h nt lricnds for something unusual you (| ?f. | have done. And yourself thinking that ^ h*, you are just a wee bit finer clay than ' *1 other folks? Honestly now, do you? _ k* Well, If you have committed the11 deadly sin, you have set your foot in. n(j the path that leads straight to Snob j do land and you'd better reverse the ma- j jll chlnerv of your good common sense I j{ ?" and take back Iraok as rapldtv ?<! n I4 , ! 1 >> j ^ way! i! I! i II * I "I ?. . u T ii " 5 f I 1ft II ^ ? n a them all. 1 ? ) y and to talk to i ? n i H ! I ? ? i: i; ! s II 11 I! II i| \t J IBS I . ? i>u ran before It is everlastingly ton ite. Saint I'aul had some very sensible lings to say along this line, rationing every man "not to think more ighly of himself than lie ought to tiink," and so on in a vein of rure isdom and sound teaching and rirli unian experience. And in our own ay Henry van Dyke more than any 11^ else lias voiced the spirit of true viiierirani8in when he said that "detocracy means not that I am as good s you are, hut that you are as good s 1 am." Remember that a snob, unlike a net, can be made by training and enironment. But, like the poet, he ia sually born to his fate. Turn the earchlight of truth into your own Ife and see what the dark places will eveal. If you rai^stand up, honeaty and sincerely, with Paul or with an Dyke, you can cheerfully dismiss rom your mind all fear about yourelf. You're no snob, bless your oul, and you haven't a taint of tho reed in you.?Anderson Intelli- , enrer. ,**> A THOrcaiT FOR THK WKKK. The better wo understand life, the lore we come to the realization of lie fact that happiness is a duty. It ignifles that we are worklne in 'mr lony with the laws of our being. It ? one of the concomitants of right usneHB. Righteousness In Its last nalysis will be found to be living 11 right relations with the laws of >ur being and with the laws of the inlverse about us. This attitude, his habit of happiness, is also a icnefit to others. As cheerfulness nduces cheerfulness in others, so lappiuess inspires and induces haptines. We communicate this conlltion to those about us. Its effects ome back in turn from them to us jb love and sympathy inspires love nd sympathy in others, each of Its :ind, so cheerfulness and happiness nspfres the same in other.?Ralph Valdro Trine. No. 666 ThU It a prescription pnftwi aapedaPy >r MALARIA or CHILLS * FEVER. ri?? or tlx doaaa will break any care, and f taken then aa a tonic the Fever will not turn. It acta on the liver better than Calomel and doaa not frip? or aicken. 2$a