"It is related of Mr. Hearst that for a long time he edited the Journal with his feet. That is, in order to get the perspective of the make-up, he laid the paper on the floor and, pointing out with his toe, dictated as to what should be killed, what changed and what enlarged. Newspaper gossip has it that in doing this one night he kept his foot on an editorial which should have been killed, and which very soon caused grievous trouble. Mr. Hearst is but thirty-five years old. He has socialistic tendencies, but has, nevertheless, been heard to say that he regarded Mr. Rockefeller as one of the best and greatest of American citizens. This, too, while ever pursuing the Standard Oil Trust. His explanation is that such enormous wealth must be kept in check, and that the magnates must understand that the people know all about them. Mr. Hearst is a hard worker, and there is scarcely a morning at three when he is not to be found in the composing-room. He can do anything on a paper from setting type to writing editorials."-Allen Sangree, in Ainslee's.

Life Is What We Make It.

"Our lives are what we make of them ourselves," writes Edward Bok, in the April Ladies' Home Journal. "If we are weak and accept the artificial our lives will be so. And just in proportion as we make our lives artificial we make them profitless and unhappy. A happy life cannot be lived in an atmosphere surcharged with artificiality. That is impossible. No hope is defeated unless we defeat that hope ourselves. No life is thwarted unless we thwart its highest fulfillment and development by our own actions. It is with us, and with us only, whether we allow the 'swift currents of prevailing customs' to make our lives complex. They do, unquestionably, and they dwarfing the inner lives of thousands of women, and killing thousands of others. But it is cowardly and unjust to lay the blame and the responsibility upon those 'customs.' It is optional with us to accept or reject them. There are certain social laws which seem to make these 'customs' right, but every phase of a higher law, the Divine law, proves them wrong. There must be certain laws and customs for the protection of the social body. These are likewise for our own individual protection and are right, and ordinary common-sense teaches us what these are."

are

Every one occassionally maps out a course for himself, which he proceeds to travel ⚫ straight away from when the opportunity arrives.

If you never had a good time be glad of it; one good time makes a man spend the rest of his life in useless longing for another.

A man never wants to be a woman except when a woman abuses him; then he would like to be a woman, to talk back.

A woman is always funny, but she is particularly funny when she appears on the streets carrying a carpet satchel.

Everybody Delighted.

Quinine and rum and a whole lot of other things, are pleasant to rub on the scalp after washing it free of dandruff, but not one preparation of the general run will cure the dandruff. A germ causes dandruf and falling hair. It is necessary to kill the germ to be permanently cured of dandruff and to stop falling hair, Newbro's Herpicide will positively destroy that germ so that there can be no more dandruff, and so that the hair will grow luxuriantly. "Destroy the cause, and you remove the effect."

Shakespeare on Base-Ball.

And so I shall catch the fly.-Henry V.
I will run no base.-Merry Wives.
Let me umpire in this.-Henry VI.
A hit, a palpable hit.-Hamlet.

Now let's have a catch.-Twelfth Night. He'll have the striking in the field.-All's Well.

After the score.-Othello.

Where are you with the bats?-Coriolanus.

Let us see you in the field.-Trolius and Cressida.

Trice again to make up nine.-Macbeth. What foul play had we.-Titus Androni

cus.

No other book but the score.-Henry V. -Exchange.

Overcoming Nervousness.

A man of nervous organization recently said that he had gained immense benefit by simply watching the modulations of his voice and persisitently resisting the inclination to run into high tones. He had found not only relief for his vocal chords, but a steadiness and calmness of thought and feeling which made him conscious of the great blunder of wasting nervous strength by suffering the vocal chords to sympathize with an excited condition rather than keeping them under steady control. This is one illustration of the possibility of overcoming the common forms of nervousness. To "let one's self go" is not only to lose force at a particular point, but to invite a reaction along the whole line of physical expression, and so to continually stir up and agitate, instead of continually restraining and calming. There are a great many people who lay these minor faults to the shoulders of a nervous temperament, and who do not know that a nervous temperament, under control, is a tremendous force, and that it is just as susceptible of being governed by the will as the grosser appetites or passions.-Religious Herald.

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