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in i: IA il 'ninnie Fi .lit 3?? Wathani?f <? Fowler, J? I' it were not for the atom, the molecule would not nave : been born, and if it were not for the molecule, there would not be particles of anything, and if lt were not for particles, there would not be anything. As the chemist honors t?e atom, so let us have due respect for those little things of business, those details, which, in combination, build up the ? - ? r ? . largeness of trade. There is nothing too small to be insig nificant, unless that something be worthless, for all bigness * . is but the combination of little things. The very greatness of the mighty steamship, is impressive, and we mar vel at man's ability to produce it. Superficially we admire it for its greatness, and often* forget that if it were not for the little propeller in the stern, almostf microscopic compared with the bulk of the hull, this huge mass of steel and Iren, this floating palace, would be but a derelict on the sea of commerce. That mighty engine, with its 50,000 h. p., is controlled by a lever small enough for a baby to handle. An appreciation and a mastery of detail aro ne;*ssary to the consummation of any result worth accomplishing. The master minds of the world in science, art, or business have never neglected the details, the small things, which, collectively, make great things possible. True, many a great captain of industry may, in the heyday of his success, ap pear to care nothing for detail, and to ignore the little things. Als a matter of fact, he does nothing of the kind, although:he may seem to do so; but, even ii', he did, investigation would show that he became a master by being a proficient servant, that he learned how to do great things by properly han dling little things. The successful business man, and the success in any other direction, springs Invariably from the man wao succeeds all along the line, who mastered the little before he attempted to handle the great, who .was lieutenant of detail before he took command of great responsibility. I am aware that there are some experts ia,detail who never rise above th? management of small things, but this is'not an argument against the most careful attention to detail, because no man can handle great things suc cessfully unless he has as successfully handled small things. No man eyer "began at the top and succeeded. All success begins at the bottom, and step by step, rises to the top. There is nothing too small to be noticed, and he ?who ignores the details of business, who bas not mastered them, is sure to fail, not only at the start, but all along the line; and the reason he is able to command business is because he obtained a command of business detail. at at ? I The Rich and the Poor | Ey Samuel McChord Crothers. ft OU must have noticed how much of the literature of good will is devoted to the praise of the Blessed Inequalities, how the changes are rung on the Strong and the Weak, the Wise and the Ignorant, the Rich and the Poor-especially the Poor, who form the hub of the philanthropic universe. Nobody seems to meet another on the level, Everybody is either looking up or looking down, and the" are taught how to do it. I remember attending the ajinua* meeting of the Society for the Relief of Indigent Children. The indigent ? children were first fed and then insulted by a plethoric gentleman, who ad dressed to them a long discourse on indigence and the various duties that it entailed: And no one of the children was allowed to throw things at the speaker. They had all been taught to look grateful. Now these inequalities do exist, and so long as they exist all sorts of help ful offices have place. The trouble is that geed people are all the time doing their best to make the inequalities permanent. You have heard how divines have Interpreted the text, "The poor ye have always with you." The good old doctrine has been that the relation between those who have not and those .who have should he that of one-sided dependence. The Ignorant must de pend upon the Wise, the Weak upon the Strong, the Poor upon the Rich. As lor the black, yellow, and various parti-colored races, they must depend upon the White Man, who gaily walks off with their burdens without so much as saying, "By your leave." Now it is against this whole theory, however, beautifully or piously ex pressed, that the protest has come. The Spirit of Democracy Is a bold icono clast, and goes about smashing idols. He laughs at the pretensions of the Strong and the Wise and the Rich-to have created the things they possess. They are not the masters of the feast They are only those of us who have got at the head of the line, sometimes,by unmannerly pushing, and have se cured a place at ?the first table. We are not here by their leave, and we may go directly to the source of supplies. They are not benefactors, but benefl. 'claries. The Spirit of Democracy insists that they shall know their place. He rebukes even tho Captains of Industry, and, when they answer insolently, he .suggests that they be reduced to the ranks. Even toward bishops and other clergy his manner lacks that perfect reverence that belonged to an earlier time; yet he listens to them respectfully when they talk sense. ll St St ai ? ?I f*m?.JIM, .afi H? M i ,n<Tl ? A[e w port S o c ie ty It Has None of the Dreadful Attributes that Popular Superstition Attaches to lt : : : 5y Gouverneur Morris. HE society of Newport is no more exclusive than any other society. It Isn't a club that meets to elect or blackball. It is a number of more or less agreeable people who are quite ready to be friendly with any number of other more or less agreeable people, once they have found them out, and liked them. And their judgment of others in broad, on the whole, rather than narrow. , To be clean and neatly dressed, to be polite and agree , able, and reasonably honest, and reasonably likable, are the kindly and simple qualities that admit to this exclusive society. But one would not, naturally; armed with only these qualities, land upon the long wharf and be immediately invited to dine on Bellevue Avenue; any more than would King Edward, traveling Incognito and landing at the railroad stajtion of Oshkosh, be invited to dine by the humblest citizen (so exclusive is Oshkosh), unless the humblest citizen happened to be a bunco-steerer with an eye to England's watch and chain or India's scarf-pin.-Everybody's. ai ai ai ai ? * r*~~**?^Teaching'*r*?~^ t But Wot Educating Ey President. Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton HE children of the last two or three decades have not been educated. The pupils of our colleges of the last few decades have not been educated. With all our educating we have in structed nobody, and with all our instructing we have edu cated nobody. I have been teaching for some 20 years that is, I have been conducting classroom exercises, but I do not think that I have been teaching any appreciable part of the time. I have been delivering lectures, sometimes about things of which I had heard. The result has been that my pupils have remembered my stories and forgotten my lectures. Only One Death in Family in 50 Years. "This was a notable day in the af fairs of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Kulp of this city, for it was just fifty years since they were married. Today's event was attended by the six children and eleven grandchildren, their families and other relatives. There has been but one death in-this family-that of a grandchild, which oc curred twenty-six years ago.-Lock Haven correspondence Philadelphia Press. .No Relief. Knicker-Maxim has invented a noiseless gun. Bocker-Roosevelt will circumvent that; his i will have a typewriter at tachment.-Nev/ York Times. Manley Lawton, son of the late Ma jor-General Henry W. Lawton, who was killed at San Matel, Philippine Islands,, in 1900, has been appointed second lieutenant of the Philippine Scouts. y .-Cartoon by Roi WAR ON RECKLESS DR? Judge in Bis Charge ta fte Grand Juro $ ere" and "Joy Riders5' Have milting the Old Cri New Ycrk City.-There is no mis take about it this time; public indig nation against the "scorcher" and the "joy rider" is thoroughly aroused and they are going to be vigorously dealt with. The newly formed Highways Pro tective Association and the Automo bile Club of America, representing sane and responsible owners and drivers of automobiles, are prepared to aid in prosecuting offenders. They ?re resolved to demand, infliction of the severest penalties, and the magis trates and judges seem to be im pressed with the necessity for vigor ous action. So much for the offenders when caught, and the arrangements for catching them are more widespread and complete than ever before. As a result cf the organization of the spe cial squad of policemen mounted on bicycles, motor wheels and some in automobiles scores of offenders are being arraigned before the magis trates and in the courts. . Owners of automobiles are warned In the address by Judge Swann to the Grand Jury in the General Sessions, telling them that the owner of a car who employs a driver known to be reckless should be found equally guilty with the latter for any crime committed through carelessness or overspeeding. In short, there is a general awakening to the demands of the situation and to the serious re sponsibility that rests upon those who drive . automobiles, more particularly through a city's streets. Where the driver instead of stop ping and caring for an injured per son claps on speed and runs away the presumption is that he is guilty, and by making sharp discrimination on these lines this heartless practice can be stopped. The community in general and the prudent and responsible owners of automobiles, who are taking an active part In the present crusade, are to be congratulated upon the prospect of a successful issue. Judge Swann in his charge to the April Grand Jurors in Part I. of Gen eral Sessions expressed his opinion of automobile speeding, which he called DOGS RACE 412 M Alaskan Teams Start in A Dash From Nc Seattle, Wash.-In the most gruel ling race of dog teams Alaska ever has known, the plucky malamutes, owned by Al. Berger, carried off first and second honors in the All-Alaska sweepstakes for $11,000, and annexed In addition the Suter Gold Cup. The race was from Nome to Candle, a dis tance of 412 miles, and much of it was run under conditions as put the animals to a bitter test of strength and endurance. No American Derby ever enlisted In the United States a keener pop ular interest than this flight of dogs across the stretch of country between I the starting and finishing points. From the time the racers were sent away on their exacting contest busi ness at Nome was practically at a standstill. The focal points for the townspeo ple were at the stands of the book makers. At these thousands of dol lars were wagered on th? result, the biggest single bet having been placed on a Siberian team. A pool of an even $100,000 was put up .that these animals would score a victory. One wager of $10,000 wa3 made that the race would not be finished within ninety hours. This bet was lost, the time of the winners being eighty-two hours and ten minutes. All Nome watched the start of the race. The dogs got away in a blind ing snowstorm. Thermometers were registering fifteen degrees below zero. A strong wind swept the snow and ice clad hills. The dogs did not mind the Survival of the Fittest in a Scramble For Job. New Haven, Conn.-The superin tendent of the Carlyle Johnson Manu facturing Company, of Manchester, advertised, one day only, for twenty men to whitewash the inside walls of the nsw factory. Over 300 men out of work applied next morning. The superintendent threw twenty white wash brushes from a window and the men scrambled for them. The twenty who were fortunate enough to get the brushes* got the Job of white washing the place. The Field of Labor. The employes of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation will be paid by check instead of cash. About 400 maisters employed In Dublin (Ireland) breweries have struck for increased wages. The National Federation of Post office Clerks ls considering plans for the erection of a home for its aged and worn-out members. As the result of au agreement the coal miners effected between the coal miners and operators there will be no strike in Southern Alberta and South ern British Columbia. The miners get better wases and hours.. jert Carter, in the New York American. rs Expresses a Belie! Tbat the "Seorch Found a Kew Method of Com me of Manslaughter. "a new method of committing old crimes." . He.said: "Within the last ' month many crimes have been committed by men possessed of the speed mania. They run down women and children on our streets. Women and children and the infirm and the-aged are entitled to the use of the streets as much as the strong. No man has an exclusive right to the streets.- Even the man who devotes his time to speeding fhls modern engine has no more right to the public street than the weak and infirm. "Men who do'these acts recklessly and without regard to the rights of others, and who. either maim or kill, are guilty of either manslaughter or other grades ot crime, and it seems to me that it would be a proper and fitting thing that,.if such a case comes before you, you should not hesitate to indict ii! the. evidence warrants it; and that you should not hesitate to indict for the crime of manslaughter if you think that that crime has been committed. "This is just about the time, it seems to me, for the Grand Jury of this county to call a halt on such ex treme selfishness as is evidenced by those possessed by the abominable speed mania. "It is further provided by Section 29 of the penal laws that a man who aids and abets in the commission of crime Is equally guilty with the man who commits the crime. The owner of an automobile will sometimes take deliberately- a chauffeur who has been kh?jwn ^ibe. reckless in his driving.^ The miwute'that the owner of the automobile puts such a chauf feur upon his machine in the public streets the law presumes that the I owner knows the ordinary -act that the chauffeur Is going to commit. A man ls presumed to intend the ordi nary and usual results of his own acts, and the owner who puts a reck less chauffeur in an automobile and sends him through the streets could be properly found by you to be equal ly guilty with the chauffeur of the crime, whatever it may be, that may reasonably be expected to be com mitted by that chauffeur." ILES IN 82 HOURS. retie Blizzard Por Exciting ? me to Candle. eold, but the wind tossed Sakes of snow plainly gave them distress. With all the zest of the chase they moved off at the word, while the crowd cheered and the drivers waved goodby, not certain they would come out of, the contest alive. The Berger malamutes No. 1 and No. 2 teams, driven by "Scotty" Allen and Percy Blatchford, respectively, finished in the order hamed. A mixed team of hound and bird dogs driven by George Pink came in third In the race. The Siberian dogs, which were the favorites and heavily backed, became snow bound and were hopelessly out of the race. ' Their driver was forced to turn back. The fete of some of the other starters is still unknown. Teams are straggling back to Nome, some of them in pitiful condition. ' It ls estimated that $200,000 changed hands. Prohibition Law Held,Valid. The Supreme Court at Montgom* ery, Ala., declared the State prohibi tion law valid, all the judges concur ring in the opinion. This is the sec ond time the court has upheld the State wido act of the last Legislature. It was attacked on several constitu tional grounds. Anarchist Commits Suicide. John Mercadante, an Anarchist, whose wife had left him, killed him self in New York City. Brewers Join Forces With the Anti-Saloon League. 'Cincinnati, Ohio.-The brewers, the Autl-Saloon League and the Mu nicipal Reform League will unite in an effort to put the bad saloonkeeper out of business. Through the efforts of the Ohio Brewers' Association the State Legislature passed a law de signed to suppress illegal selling. One brewing company at Hamilton announces that it will not sell beer to any saloonkeeper who persists in keeping his*saloon open on the Sab bath day. Jottings About Sports. Thus far the sum of $75,000 has been pledged toward the new Dart mouth gymnasium. It is a hard blow to the Harvard track team to have Jaques, the crack miler, on probation. The motor boat exhibition at Monte Carlo was opened by the Prince of Monaco, and is more InternaUg"gj than ever because of the presp'" American boats. Alfred G. Vanderbilt's famo,( four-in-hand team won in co mr. with seventeen others at the Horse Show. THE HEWS I BRIEF Items of Interest Gathered By Wire and Cabie i GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Live Items Covering Events of More or Less Interest at Home and Abroad, Midland, Texas, had a $300,000 fire Thursday. Representative Hillburn introduced a bill in the Florida Legislature Thursday in favor of a constitutional restriction of the manufacture and sale of liquor except for medicinal, scientific and mechanical purposes. Madame Modjeska, the famous Polish actress, died in Los Angles, Cal., Thursday, at the age of 65 years, of Bright's disease. The body will -t a later period be taken to Cra cow, Poland^ for interment. Fred Bell, only six years old, kill ed Ethel Thomas, three years old, at Union, S. C., Thursday and tried to hide away the body. Fred is in prison charged with murder. Kate O'Dwyer, a "bad angel," broke the iron shackles from her arid sawed herself out of ehain gang pris on at Athens, Ga., last Sunday night. Charles N. Haskell, governor of Oklahoma is standing trial charged with fraudulent connection with the Muscogee town lot affair. The Chesapeake and Ohio canal was opened for navigation Friday. Crazy Snake is not captured yet, and the pursuit, is to be continued. The Attorney General of Kansas has handed down tho opinion that in that State a married woman, may or may not take the name of her hus band and that he may even take her name. The Arkansas State Senate Tues day passed a bill placing a heavy penalty on persons drinking intoxi cants on trains in the State or on station platforms. This will probab ly affect buffet cars, although in tended only to stop rowdyism. Indalecio Alarcon, of Chicago, on las! Sunday stabbed himself 12 times about his heart, cut his throat, took carbolic acid and threw himself out of a third story window, but lives to say that he does not know how to account for his condition. Daniel W. Johnson, 18 years old, attempted to blackmail his Sunday school teacher, Asa G. Chandler, in Atlanta. Ga., recently, but was quickly caught. Trashy novel read ing, he says, caused him to do it. A cruiser of the Pacific Squadron picked up 40 passengers of the wrecked steamer Indiana in the Pa cific Monday. Pope S. Hill, a lawyer of Macon, Ga., Monday was found murdered in a lumber office as the' third victim slain in litigation over the . Dodge. timber lands in Georgia. Wasliington Notes. Diplomatic relations have been strained between the United States and Nicaragua and a cricis is expect, ed. Representative Murdock of Kansas has introduced a bill in Congress to require amounts of money distributed or loaned to the 26 states under the Andrew Jackson administration to be refunded to the national treasury. It is opening many eyes. Judge Richard E. Sloan has been selected for Governor of Arizona and all thc leading teritorial officials will be changed. The motion to put lumber on the free list was voted down Tuesday by 170 to 176, more than 30 Democrats voting for protection. An entirely new series of notes, silver and gold certificates and green backs is to be issued. Mr. Payne declares that the de partment stores are inspiring women to protest against higher duties on stockings and gloves. Senator Aldrich's committee is putting the finishing touches to the substitute tariff-bill and will be ready to report it to the Senate as soon as the Payne bill passes the House. Senators Raynor, Bacon and Dan iel attacked the Republican policy and forced Senator Aldrich to allow Democrats at the hearings . of the Senate Finance Committee on the Tariff bill on Tuesday. The Senate adopted a resolution limiting the legislation at the extra session to the Tariff bill and the Census bill. A combination of Democrats and Republican insurgents in the House defeated Speaker Cannon and Chair man Payne on the 25 per cent duty on crude petroleum and fixed the duty at 1 per cent. The House took off all tariff taxes on tea and coffee Wednesday. Foreign Affairs. Ex-President Roosevelt arrived at .Naples, Italy, on Wednesday and spent several hours. He there left the Hamburg and went aboard the Admiral, which will carry him to Mombasia. The Krupps Works. Germany, are making a gun especially to fight air ships, as the airship when completed seems to be the worst of all hattie' fiebters. Thirteen school boys were.-'drown ed near Kamentz, Russiay*iast Tues day as a result of the^uoods. They were on a bridge otffer the Morritch river at the Village of Orinina when the structure eoV~*psed and they Were precipitated ':a^? the water. Ex-Pres>?ent Roosevelt had -4Hf" audier Wlt? King Victor I&nman vwi, who went with him tn-*?esiner. KingFrW . father a. they octive . ' .WHITEWASH THE r-POUt/TRY HOUSE. ?n application of whitewash to the poultry bouse, roosts, dropping boards, walls and ceilings should'all foe touched, is a strong factor in in creasing the egg output. The appli cation is made more efficient as a germicide, insect and disease destroy er by having a little carbolic acid and coal oil added to it. Use the wash hot and thin, forciing well into all cracks and crevices with a strong spray pump or good brush. Repeat the application every three or four months. Time spent in f s brings good returns. Try the investment and foe convinced.-Farmer's Home I ?Journal. A woman's interest in a divorced man, thinks the Indianapolis News, never lets up until s.he discovers why he was divorced. THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA, AUGUSTA. GA. L. C. HAYNE, CHAS. Pw CLARK, $ President. Cashier ? . CAPITAL $250,000.08. 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