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Vacations 2? Elbert Hubbard HERE tire three good reasons why all employes .should have .Vacations. One ls so that the employer can see how easily any body's and everybody's,,place can be filled; the next is so jUxat w.len the employe, returns he can see how well he can X^J ll .J?B spared, since things gc right along* without him; the * I third ls so the employe can show the employer, and the Fm JJ /employer can understand that the employe is not manipu lating the accounts or engineering deals for his own benefit. Many a defecation could have been avoided had the trusted man been. *ent away two weeks each year, and an outsider put in his place. Beyond these, the vacation has little excuse. As a matter of recuperation, the vacation does not recuperate, since, as a rule, no man needs a vacation so ' much as the maa who has just had one. The man who is so run down that lie needs a vacaUon can never adjust or reform himuelf in two weeks. What ie really needs is to retranBform his life. To work during the year at so rapid a pace tha?: in August one's vitality fe exhausted, and a rest is demanded, is rank folly. What we all need is enough vacation each day so that we can face each :aew morning with health . sufficient to do our work in gladness. That is to say, we need enough of a play spell every day to keep us in good physical condition. The/man who ls done up and fagged out has not found his work. And the man who lives during the year in anticipation of a. vacation does not de serve one, for he has not ascertained-that lt is work, and not vacations,- that makes life endurable. ! Tlie only man who can really enjoy an outing is the/ man who doesn't need it. And tho man who keeps his system sp strong and well balanced that lie doesn't need a vacation is the one who eventually 'Aw ill marry the propri \ ?tor's daughter and have his name on the sign.- Before you manage a busi ness, you better learn how to manage your cosmos. However, this does not mean that I never take a vacation myself-I do, otherwise how would I know the facts?-New York American. A Dinner to an Ele* phant k Ey Lilian Sell ^ N what>proved to be the coldest night of *the year, a man, said to represent a brand of wine he is anxious to export, en gaged the largest stage in the world from midnight until the next noon and gave an entertainment in honor of an ele phant to which were bidden the men and women whose HI lights shine mostly on the Great White Way. These people were requested to come dressed as - ! "rubes," in the hope of making themselves as ridiculous as possible. But that was unnecessary, as the report of their antics while the wine, represented by their host, flowed with increasing free dom, did for them what no amount of caricature in dress could accomplisn. Out in the cold of this same freezing night there ia a hread line. Station ed at various places in this city are municipal free lodging houses. To these flocked the army of the hungry and homeless, seeking for food and shelter Xrom the bitter cold. Of course, nobody blames a wine agent for advertising in any preposterous vay he can. Nor does one blame his guests, who can find no excitement so suited to their taste as the sort given at an elephant dinner-where no dinner was-for going and giving themselves up an abandonment of vinous enjoy ment. , New York Is a city of contrasts, and, In spite of the piteous tales of suf fering, printed every day in the newspapers, the idle and the thoughtless con tinue to give parties, fulR of spirited and sniritnous entertainment, where hun Self'help for Country Women By Maud Howe HAT else besides assurance has the city woman that the country woman lacks? She has polish. Her manners are kept smooth by the continual friction with all sorts and conditions of men and women. More polish, more assurance, greater ease of man ner; the average city woman has more of all these than the average country woman. She is usually quicker tongued, but not necessarily quicker-wltted. Her speech comes more readily than her sister's from the country, but ibr all that it may not be better worth hearing. What are the influences in city life that make for this finer polish, this greater refinement, this urbanity? What are the refining influneces In the of Rustica's sister who lives in the city? ? She learns something every day by watching her neighbors and the peo ple in the streets. She has gone to the great school of the city. She can hear the best preachers, the famous lecturers, the formost actors and musicians. They all come to the city to teach her what they have learned of religion, sci ence, music, art. The pulpit, the theatre, the art exhibition, the concert room-these are the class-rooms of the city school of life. Cities civilize, pol ish, educate largely from the outside. The dwellers in cities improve by imi tation; they learn from one another-Harper's Bazar. \9 How Germany Saves By IVilUum H. Tolman EGARDING the accidents in the United States, it is the opin ion of Lae engineering profession that one-half of them are preventable. If so, the next question is, how? A conserva tive estimate of the number of apnuiil accidents which re sult fatally, or in partial or total incapacity for work, is 500.000. Reckoning the wage earning capacity of the aver age workman at $500 a year (this makes no allowance for the professional men, railroad presidents, industrialists and ready for the ballot. Their day will come, but it must not other high-salaried ofilcials who are Injured or killed by the railway!*, mines, building trades and other occupations), we have a social and economic waste of $250,000,000 a year. What we are thus losing in work ef ficiency 'Germany is saving. "One billion marks in wage earning efficiency annually we conserve for Germany through our sanatoria, museums of safety, convalescent homes and other forms of social Insurance, bj' which we safe guard the lives and limbs of our workmen and prevent the causes' and effects of dieases which would lessen their economic efficiency," stated Dr. Zache? director of the imperial bureau of statistics, in reply to my inquiry as to how* much Germany saved every year.-From The Century. Gasoline, Gasoline. Following. sea-legs, housemai l's knee, bicyclists' hump and other phys-. leal idiosyncrasies, Dr. Samuel G. Walker has discovered what he calls "motor mind." As we understand it, briefly and untechnically, it is hav ing one's think-tank filled with gaso line.-New York Mail: Angleworms may live fully ten years, as has been shown, by experi ments made in Marburg, Germany. Pretty Raw. If a chorus girl fully made up for the stage may for economic purposes be regarded as a finished product, can't a logical plea be made for the free admission of raw materials like paint grease and false hair?-New York Tribune. The rubber output at Assam, India, last year was not satisfactory in quan tity-only 8346 pounds obtained from 642 acres, or IS pounds an acre. BONING FOR NEW EMPIRES Millions of Acres of Indian I Settlement-Offer Homes * Fanning, Timber am Idaho, Montana : Washington, D. C. - Millions of acres of fertile Western lands will be made available by President Taft for bomeseekers during the next nine imonths if be follows the policy which has been laid down by the Depart ment of the Interior. The settler may make his selection in any one of the three States of Idaho, Montana and Washington. - . It is proposed to throw open 2, 872,600 acres, comprising part of five different allotments to Indians. They include farming, timber and I mineral lands, sufficient not only to provide homes but wealth to the suc I cessful applicants. The sections under consideration Include 310,000 - acres at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; 64,000 acres at Lem hi, Idaho: 1,200,000 acres near Flat head, Mont.; 153,600 acres near Spo kane, Wash., and 1,145,000. acres in the vicinity of Yakima, Wash. Long ago it was decided that the Indian reservation must go, the In dian bs absorbed Into the civilization cf the Aracrioan continent and the districts set aside for him made avail able for homes for sturdy Americans. It ha3 been decided that the present yea r is th fl timo to do this. The readiness of the people of the tlie Pi Seattle. Wash.-J. J. Hil!, chair man of the' Great Northern Board of Directors, discussing the recent wheat corner, said: "It ?3 a mistake to say James A. Patten cornered the wheat market It is merely a case of a man taking advantage of an opportunity. It has been b^t a few years since it was es timated that the average consumption of wheat per annum in this country was 2ix bushels, but now the experts argue that lt is seven bushels. The census of 1910 will show that we havo a population of 90.000,000, which will mean that we will require for our own use CS0,000,000 bushels hereafter. . "We raise now probably C50,0"00, 000 bushels of wheat in the United States: with good crop conditions. EELi SOI. VES PH His Tetrahedral Kite Will Philadelphia.-Expressing the hope that In the very near future^ perhaps some time this summer, he will have perfected a flying machine that will revolutionize navigation of tho air in at least two important particulars. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. Inventor of tho telephone, detailed to the' American Philosophical Society the, experiments he has made and tb ose that aro to come. In his offert to evolve a perfect ma chine Professor Bell wi?l leave the aerodrome type of machine aud place his dependence in what he has de nominated the tetrahedral kite, a kite tfhieh has the form of a hugo triangle and ls cen: posed ot many small colls. "AH of the machinas now in nse," the inventor said, "even that of the Wrights, who lead the world Ju flying raacjjind cMstructioD, Rick etPfbllity In th& ?fe. Tnat H one fttuft Ancth- j ta ?ml mt ^troa? fl?Mr fe the Steel itrust to Drop Dealings TTith Unions Altogether. Pittsburg.-Notices were posted at thc various plants of the American Sheot and Tin Plat? Company that on and after June 30 the company will refune to deal with the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, Sheet and Tin Plate V/nrkers. The company the list cf the subsidiaries of the United States Steel Corporation to df-nl n'Jth union labor, and It is as serted that the corporation hm: now d'-olded lo drop dealing with the union altogetb/cr. Tbv Field of T<nW. Tho jurisdiction of the Cigarmak ers' International Union Includes the United States, Canada, Cuba and Porto Rico. Boston (Mass.) Bartenders' Union has made an appropriation for the purpose i of booming Eoston as the next convention city of the interna tional body. In the Birmingham (England) district the employers have with drawn their notices of a reduction in engineers' wages of one shilling a week for a period of six months, so that a strike is averted. m by Berriman, in the- w ashington Star. FOR PIONEERS. .ands io Be Thfovm Open For ind Wealth-Include Rich i Mineral Tracts in md Washington.; each to go to the sections where the openings,took place; which.is one of the requirements, j Almost all-the applicants for the new lands come ff om east of the States in which the new lands are lo cated, but very few lestve the Atlantic slope to try their ?fortunes in the West. Twenty States, furnished the greater part of the applicants last year. Nebraska headed the list with 37,268 applicants. Till? ii accounted for at the Land Office by the fact that the settlers in Nebrina were pio neers, and'while they havo been suc cessful they have in .many cases in sufficient wealth, tb establish their sons in the high priced lands of that State. This is true, porhaps in A les3 degree, of, the fertile State cf Iowa, which is credited with . 32,413 appli cants. South Dakota furnished 17, 124; Illinois, 7988; Indiana, 918; Kansas,.6371; Kentucky, 153; Mich igan. 726; Minnesota, 3020; Mis souri, 6058; New York, 191; North Dakota, 554; Ohio, 344; Oklahoma, 364; Pennsylvania, i90; Texas, 134: Washington, 19; West Virginia, 19; Wisconsin, 1778, and Wyoming, 3S. Lands were offered last year in the town of iregory, S. D., at not less than ^1 an acre, .after,. having been 4-"Ltharratfi of $2.50. eoplc Thi3 will leave us but 20,000,000 bushels as a surpluo^or export, while in the past we have ?exported upward of 120,000,000 busjiels. per annum. So one can see tjbati we will- need all our wheat to feed four OWL people. Within the next AVA years the wheat of Eastern Washington will be shipped eastward to feed thp people of East ern and Central Western States. "And in considering these facts it must be remembered that the number of live stock slaughtered last year was 1,000,000 few?r than the year previous. When farmers of Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska can get sixty-five cents a bimbel for corn at the country station [they will not en dure the risk cf hog cholera and the labor incident to hog raising, but will sell all their grain."! AIR. Settle, Not Fan, if Shot to ces. fact that when an accident happens to one of these machines lt falls to the earth with extreme rapidity, en dangering the lifo di the aviator. On account of their ra?lc, bf stability in the air the safety oE.'the aviator de pends almost eat! "The tetrahedil stable in the air, j stratcd by repetiti] aa accident it upon his skill. ?ktie is' .perfectly has been demon tests. In case of descend to tho earth gently and smoothly as a bird would. It could eijeu be broken in half and still reach lb? earth in safe ty. In times of w?.r??his would bo an invaluable attribut^, as the kite would be ablo to staad any amount of shelling." Tt ls these two things that will be the subject of the experiments this I summer. Professor Boll has been conducting his wort at his summer hoaso in Braddock Nova'Scotia, a SOJCH town on the si ore of Lake Bras ?'tfa anttbi l??mmondspart,.N. T. CJiicago Bonds Order Special Cars io Ran to Cemeteries. Chicago.-Pians for funeral cars for the surface linesjwe; o Eent to tho officers of the Chicago City Railway Company by Blon ,T. Arnold, chief traction engineer. Kaste in getting the cars has been precipitated by tho carriage drivers' Btrike. The first test on the surface libes is to be made on the Calumet and South Chicago Railway, cow operated by the City Railway. They arel already used by the Metropolitan West Sido Elevated P.ailway. . Prominent People. Admiral Evans says the Maine should be raised. At St. Petersburg Former Chief of Police Lopukine was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for belong ing to criminal associations. After simple services in Fairhaven, Mass., the body of Henry H. Rogers was placed in the family tomb in Riverside Cemetery at that place. Professor Jeremiah WT. Jenks, of Cornell, defended college instructors against a charge of being influenced in their teachings by protected in terests. -Li.- - - THE NEWS IN BRIEF I Items of Interest Gathered By Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Liye Items Covering Events of More or Less Interest at Home and Abroad. ( Engineer Flannigan on the New York Central was making good speed when he saw a child sitting between the rails. He brought the engine to a halt ten feet from the oh:ld but wrecked a parcel of his freight ??ars that had to be moved before he could proceed. Joseph West is in th? penitentiary at Dayton, Ohio. He has tubercu losis of the knee. He is under sen tence to be electrocuted July 9. Now it is decided that the leg will have to be amputated to save his life till that date, and if amputated the ex ecution must be delayed till the .leg gets well enough. In the recent riots in Philadelphia, it was found that the fire department with its hose could disperse a mob more effectually than officers could with sticks and pistols. Mrs. Rebecca Burns died in Ohio Monday at the age of 115 years. She claims to have seen George Washing ton. The instant . that President Taft touched the gold nugget button that started the machinery at the Alaska Yukon-Pacific evposition, the Mayor of New York fired a gold mounted pistol to signal the starting of six motor cars from that city to the ex position grounds, 4,000 mites away, on a prize run for $2,000. Robert Lincoln suffered a slight sunstroke on Monday while attend* ing the unveiling of a monument to his father at Hogansville, Ky. Ile could not take the three milo ride to visit the home where his father was born. Miss Alice Prout, a trained nurse, st Pittsfield, Mass., lost her life last Sunday from having a surgeon pad so-red up in her when operated on in January for appendicitis. . A late test of Dr. T. Leary's anti toxine proved so successful in the cure of what seemed a hopeless case of blood poison at Boston, Mass., recently, as to give hope that medical science has risen to the occasion for its prompt cure. Some one who has studied the rat problem has found that it costs the American people $100,000,000 a year to feed and thereby support the ro dent family. A jury unable to agree on a verdict last Saturday night, agreed on Sun cutting off the boys head and direct ed where to find the body. He was almost lynched, but was discovered to be insane, when the supposed body of the boy was found to be that of a dog. A tornado swept up through part of Texas, Oklahoma and striking down in North Dakota killed G2 per ple in the path of its fury last week. Young Evans has been released from custody under charge of killing his antagonist "Greek Jimmy" last week. Fifteen persons were killed in a cyclone in Oklahoma city last Sat urday night. James Kureaser, "Greek Jimmy" Ryan was killed in a prize fight last week in Savannah. He was knocked down and the fall fractured his skull. The Charleston News and Courier informs us that President Taft gained eleven pounds while in North Caro lina. President Taft in his speech at the Gettysburg monument unveiling made it clear that he would not favor a reduction of the regular army. Washington Notes. Lieut. Alex. C. Davis has been dis missed from the army for drunken ness and gambling. He was doing service in the Philippines. Some friends gave President Taft a draw ticket issued by the"Sandusky Elks and it proved to be the lucky number for a barrel of Sauerkraut. It is now decreed that Midshipmen at Anapolis must not marry until after they have taken their two year cruise unless perchance the rul ing may be softened to those who are sufficiently able to support a wife. , Foreign Affairs. The International Congress of Applied Chemistry recently held in London, accepted the invitation td hold its next session, 1912, in Wash ington. \ Madrid, Spain, is suffering a ty phoid fever scourge. Gen. Carlos Garcia Valez, the Cuban minister to the United States, declares that the Cuban government is good and its finances in satisfac tory condition. Ex-Vice-Presideent and Mrs. Fair banks met the Micado in Tokio on Monday. Along with Ex-President Roose velt's hunting in Africa he is writing a book. The American steamer Precursor drifted for three days with a broken rudder, with many of her passengers ! panic striken, till through wireless I telegraphy a vessel was sent that J towed it into Guyamas, Mexico, Mon ! day. A Back-Water Town. "It was one; of those sleepy, one horse, back-water towns, like Squash," said Representative Burton, describ ing at a Hot Springs dinner a town that he disliked. "Squash-is the Hmlt A gentleman arrived there the other day and wanted a hair cut. He found the bar ber shop, and, after shaking the bar ber vigorously, managed to awaken him. " 'How long will it take you to cut my hair, barber?' he asked. m 'Not long, boss,' said the barber. And he rose, yawned and stretched himself. Then he called upstairs to his wife: '"Hey, send the kid down to the newspaper office to tell the editor I wa~t my scissors just as soon as he's done edltin' the paper. There's a gent here waltln' for a hair cut.' " HEM'-M H-I-H Il HI I WI HIE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA. AUGUSTA. GA. L. C. HAYNE, CHAS. R. CLARK, President Cashier CAPITAL $250,000.09. Surplus & Prouts $190,000.00. Tbe business of oar out-of-town friends receives the same careful attention as that of onr local depositor*. The acoooots of careful consev <atiTe people solicited. (??!,I.,H ,M.?"M. H444W<4H ?Mill I MM 11 TIM H-H .9. ai\d Savings Bank Augusta, Ca. Pays Interest on Deposits, J? Accounts Solicited. LC. HAYNF, PRKoiDE.W. CHAS. C. HOWARD, CASHIEit. RESOURCES OVER $i,ooo,ooo. ^Miiiiiiiil-H'iii'H'I", i noWj represent a strong line of Fire Insurance Companies and can insure your property. Your patronage will be appreciated. . A. 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