The Prague Record (Prague, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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Dr. Marden's
Uplift Talks
By ORISON SWETT MARDEN
Qupyrlgbl by McClure Newspaper Syndicate
PUT NEW BLOOD INTO YOUR
BUSINESS.
I
A medical Journul reports an ex-
periment upon a very feeble horse
twenty-six years old. The blood of
four lambs was transfused Into tile
animal and he Immediately showed
marked signs of new life and vigor
and seemed much younger. The young-
er, more vigorous corpuscles of the
lambs rejuvenated the old horsĀ£ and
imparted a new vital force.
There are business houses which
have become feeble from the loss of
the old time vigor and vitality. Some-
times because the proprietors have
gotten along fn years or because they
have made their money and are In-
clined to take things easy. Ilut what-
ever the reason of a declining vitality
In business, if it is not resuscitated
and rejuvenated with new blood, with
new vitality. If it is not retnvlgorated
In some way, dry rot will set in and it
will gradually peter out.
I have in mind a proprietor who has
been running his business 011 the
same old plan, on the same old ideas
as his grandfather used. More pro-
gressive young men moved to his
town and have started the same line
of business, and although he sees his
customers gradually slipping away
from him he says that what his com-
petitors are doing doesn't Interest
him. He is never looking to see what
others in the same line of business nre
doing, what new methods, new ideas
they are adopting. The result is that
he is hopelessly In a rut and hiB busi-
ness is gradually dropping off.
A business must be fed just as much
ft* an individual, and it must be fed
on new food, it must be fed on new
Ideas.
The progressive man keeps In touch
with his competitors.
The junior member of a Arm recent-
ly established was asked by an old
business man how they managed to
get their store so quickly into line, so
fully equipped, and in such excellent
working order. The young man re-
plied that he had been "on the road"
Tor some time, had visited food fairs
ftn'l model stores In different sections
of the country and that the firm had
put into practice the potnts he had
gained while traveling He then con-
fided to him some entirely new and
attractive features which they were
about to Introduce as the result of his
observations while "on the road."
When a man says to himself. "Now
I can breathe more freely, 1 can let
up a little, I have a field, I am head
and shoulders ahead of my competi-
tors and I can afford to take things
easy,'- he 1b In danger.
Overconfldence is the first sign of a
decline, the flrBt symptom of deterio-
ration. We dn our best work when we
are struggling for our position, when
we are trying with nil our might to
gain our ambition, to attain that which
the heart longs for.
Ambition is the very mainspring of
efficiency, for without it there is no
motive for the necessary effort to
achieve. It is possible to ruin the
finest ambition in a short time. The
enemies of ambition are always at
work, discouragement, fear, worry,
laziness, the temptation to take things
easy, to slide along the line of lenst
resistance, the feeling of satisfaction
In one's achievements all these
things, if not constantly watched and
guarded against, will gradually under-
mine the ambition.
* This Is true of the teacher, the
preacher, the merchant, and the spe-
cialist in every line. If they do not
keep up with the times. If they not
keep In the very van of progress, al-
ways on the lookout for the new and
the progressive, they quickly become
back numbers. The new, the up-to dats,
everywhere Is crowding out the old
fogy.
WHAT DO YOU SEE IN OTHERS?
"The image of God Is in the lowliest
outcast, and we can find it if we look
for it and be a neighbor of that man,"
says Jacob A. Iiiis.
One of the finest fruits of culture Is
the power to see the man or woman
whom God made in his own image
and not the one who Is scarred by
faults and deficiencies, the one who Is
dwarfed by vicious living. It Is only
the generous, loving soul who ever
attains to this degree of culture.
Most of us are Inclined to Judge peo-
ple too much by their mean traits, by
their mistakes, their shortcomings,
tlieir peculiarities. It is only the
broad, charitable, great-hearted man
or woman who is blind to the defects
cf othcrB and always ready to enlarge
upon their good qualities. They real-
lie the truth that there is a God In the
meanest of men, a philanthropist In
the stingiest miser, a hero in the big-
gest coward, which an emergency
great enough might call out.
A fault-finding, criticizing disposi-
tion Is fatal to all excellence. Noth-
ing will Btrangle growth quicker than
a tendency to hunt for Haws, to re-
joice In the unlovely, like a hog which
always has his noBe In the mud and
rarely looks up. The direction in
which we look Indicates the life Rim,
and people who are always looking
for something to criticize, for the
crooked and the ugly, who are al-
ways suspicious, who Invariably look
Mr Ike won! tide of others, are but
giving the world a picture of them-
selves.
A charming woman who was re-
cently asked how she managed to get
along so well with disagreeable peo-
ple said: "It Ib very simple. All I do
is to try to make the most of their
good qualities und pay no attention
to the disagreeable ones." The people
who help us most are those who, like
this woman, ignore, or, rather, try to
eradicate our faults, by drawing out
and emphasizing our better qualities
and attuning our minds to high
ideals.
We are all of us constantly, but
unconsciously, molding others by our
thoughts about them. The qualities
you see in your friend and those with
whom you come In contact you tend
to enlarge. If you see only the little,
mean, contemptible side of people
you cannot help them out of their
faults, for you only Intensify and fix
them; but if you see the good, the
noble, the aspiring traits in them,
you will help to develop these quail-
ties until they crowd out the baso.
unworthy ones.
An opportunity to associate with
people who see the best Instead of the
worst In us is worth far, far more
to us than an opportunity to make
money. It increases a hundredfold
our power to develop noble charac-
ters.
Whenever you hear a person trying i
to belittle another, discard him from |
your list of-friends, unlesB you can
help him to remedy his fault. Do not
flatter yourself that those who tell
you of the fallings of other people
and criticize them and hold them up
to ridicule, will not treat you In the
same way when an opportunity pre-
sents Itself. Such people are incapa-
ble of true friendship, for true friend-
ship helps, Instead of hinders; it nev-
er exposes the weak point in a friend's
character, or suffers anyone to speak
111 of him.
The disposition to see the worBt
instead of the best grows on one very
rapidly, until it ultimately strangles
all that is beautiful and crushes out
all that is good In us. No matter how
many times your confidence has been
betrayed, do not allow yourself to
sour, do not lose your faith in people.
The bad are the exceptions; most
people are honest and true and mean
to do what is right. When everybody
else denounces and curses a man,
charity sayB: "Wait, wait, there Is a
God In that man somewhere;" and
this is what we want to see In men,
the God image In them, uot the Sa-
tanic reflection.
BRITISH MILITARY AMBULANCE TRAIN
No Other Need Apply,
She was attired in the rakish style
which suggests the bashi-bazouk, and
she swept into the shoe store with a
dashing alr>
"Oh, where Is he?" she exclaimed,
all her dash wilting with sudden dis-
appointment. "I mean your little shoe
clerk that had the bald headāand one
of his legs is bent."
"Sorry, madame," smiled the pro-
prietor. "He has left our employ. He
Is employed by the firm across the
street."
She waited to hear no more, but
Balled forth making for the store
across the street. There at the door
stood the little bald-headed clerk on
his bent leg waiting for customers
like Patience on a monument, smiling.
"So glad!" she exclaimed breath-
lessly. "I must have a pair of shoes,
and I simply cannot wear them unless
you fit them for me!"
Such are the whims -/hlch govern
trade In the retail market, ovei. as the
winds blow without apparent logic.
Philosophy for the Day.
"It Is an optical illusion that makes
the task at hand seem commonplace,
the far off significant. The mountains
near by appear rocks and stubble
fields; in the distance they are clothed
with blue beauty, majestically out-
lined against the Bky. Similarly, we
see about us the prosaic details of
life, while in far off times great deeds
and lives appear splendidly outlined
against the gray horizon of the past.
Sc we are apt to think that If we
had but been born in some distant
time and place, we, too, would have
lived heroically to the great causes
then challenging men. How gljidly
would we have died at Thermopylae,
fought at Hunker Hill, shared the pris-
on of Socrates or stood with Hruno at
the stake! Illusionāsheer Illusion of
time and place! Life lias always been
commonplace to commonplace people;
it has been sublime only when men
have lived sublimely."ā"Self-Culture
Through the Vocation," by Edward
Howard Greggs.
Realistic Scenery,
Pneumatic Bcenery and stage set-
tings are now being used in an en-
deavor to make them more realistic
and at the Bame time conserve the
portubleness and convenience of the
present type of flat and built-up paper
and wood forms. This is made of a
rubberized fabric and so arranged that
it may be inflated quickly und moved
about with ease. The Idea has been
worked out in reproducing trees upon
the stage, with the result that they
appear very real from a short distance.
A very large oak tree may be collapsed
and packed In a small space for ship-
ment.
Victory.
Victory was heard to use Intense
language, under her breath, concern-
ing her skirts,
"Will I ever," she exclaimed, "learn
to manage the dratted narrow things
so thai when 1 get ready to perch on
one or another of these banners, tbe
bystanders won't look askance atid
wonder If It's really a moral victory?"
FUNSTON'S MEN BACK FROM VERA CRUZ
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The transports Kilpatrick and Sumner, from which the American troops
which occupied Vera Cruz are disembarking at Galveston.
INDIAN TROOPS WEIGHING RATIONS
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One of the great problems of the allied armies Is the feeding of the
troops from India. Several of them are here shown in a camp near Ypres,
weighing out their rations.
Present-Day Caesars.
Since the days of that vigorous and
successful mau of war Julius Caesar,
who did at last succeed In overcom-
ing sbnie parts of Britain (B. C. 551,
after conquering Europe and the rest
of the world, the Hotnan emperors
took upon themselves the name Cae-
sar, which became a title. After the
destruction of the Roman empire
which had become Byzantine by the
removal of Its capital from Home to
the new city of the first Christian
emperor or caesar, called after him-
self Constantinople, several monarch-
ies which arose upon Its ruins claimed
to represent the authority of the
caesar, and called their monarchs by
that title. Those surviving today are
the czar of Russia, the czar of Bul-
gar'u, the kaiser of Austria-Hungary
and the German kaiser or einperor.
Both czar and kaiser Rre lingual equiv-
alents for the word caesar, and repre-
sent a claim to more than Imperial
monarchy. Though as Shakespeare
put it: ,
Imperial Caesar dead and turned to clay
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away!
Tommy ar.d the French Tobacco.
The only grievance against the
French which Tommy han Is their to-
bacco. There are no "Woodbines,"
that fag beloved above all others
by the British army, to be had In
France, and as for French tobacco,
although It is smoked, it is not the
same thing. "I never could like It;
It Is too much like kissing one's own
sister, no taste to it."āAlfred Stead,
in the New York Independent
PRINCE ABDUL MOUNEM
Little Prince Abdul Mounein is the
eldest son of Abbas II whom the Brit-
ish have deposed from his position as
khedive of Egypt because he joined
forces with the Turks.
LOCATING A "SNIPER"
German "snipers'' have harassed the
forces of the allies to such an extent
that details of men have been as-
signed to the task of locating and
"potting" the snipers. The photo-
graph shows one of these details of
British fighters searching a beet field
where one of the "snipers," dressed
in khaki to make it more difficult to
find him, Is known to be hidden. The
men are standing in trenches as a pro-
tectory measure against shots from
the sniper's gun.
A Caretaker.
"This plant belongs to the begonia
family."
"Ah! And you are taking care of it
while they aro away."āBoston Times.
tOMnNINI USIFM rot MAS
Sold at the best storeĀ®
most everywhere. If
your dealer cannot
huppljr, we will gladly
assist you. Illustrated
(older on request.
York
I.. E. WATEBMAN COMPANY
178 Broadway Mewl
DEFIANCE STARCH
is constantly growing in favor because it
Does Not Stick to the Iron
and it will not injure the finest fabric. For
laundry purposes it hu no equal. 16 OS.
package 1 Oc. 1-3 more starch for same money.
DEFIANCE STARCH CO.. Omahs. Nebraska
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LITTLE CHANGE IN MANKIND
This photograph conveys an excellent Idea of the appearance of a British military ambulance train. In its spot-
less Interior the wounded are conveyed from the battle lines to the base hospitals. Every aid known to modern sci-
ence and surgery is called on while the men are being borne in this train to the hospitals.
Ccientists of Opinion That Dispersion
and Separation of Races Wat
Not Rapid Process.
Though it Is conceivable that man-
kind may have spread from a common
center over the entire earth In a few
thousand years. Prof. Arthur Keith, In
a Birmingham university lecture, has
pointed out that the discoveries of the
last 50 years clearly indicate that the
dispersion and separation Into widely
separated races has not been a rapid
process.
The inhabitants of the lower Nile
valley, though Immigrants have ar-
rived among them, show clearly per-
sistence of the old types for 8,000
years. The permanence of human
types has been also shown In Amer-
ica, and a human skeleton of Yansing,
Kan., found at a depth of 23 feet in a
glacial deposit, probably dates back
12,000 years.
The men of England of 5,000 years
ago had the modern stature, with the
form of head and strength of muscle
of many men of today. Professor Keith
declared that his audiences had rep-
resentatives of the men of the Derby-
shire cave, In America the red In-
dian preserves the form of men who
lived before the last glacial Invasion,
and the predynastlc Egyptian survives
In tribes on the Red sea.
Coinage.
In the fifteenth century a Bkllled
coiner, of whom there were but few.
might be able to turn out by hand
fifty or sixty coins a day, a result to-
tally inadequate to cope with the vast
quantity of treasure, chiefly silver,
that shortly began to arrive from
America. To multiply coiners was to
multiply forgers, and thus the coining
machine became a necessity of state.
A laminating mill and screw coining
press was invented in Italy, 1547;
Spain, 1548; France, 1553; England,
1561, reign of Elizabeth. After sev-
eral trials and abandonments the mill
and press were established perma-
nently under Charles 11, whose golden
guineas, struck in 1602, were the first
regular issues of machine coins made
north of the channel.
A Pleasant Way to Help.
"Mamma," lisped the cherub, while
a smile of seraphic sweetness Illu-
minated his baby face, "do you know
that sometimes I help Catherine's
mamma?"
"That's nice," prompted the proud
parent. "And what do you do to
help her, dear?"
"Oh," replied the cherub, "when
Catherine's naughty, I punish her."
āYouth's Companion.
Perils of Bathing.
"There'B nothing I enjoy more than
splashing about In the ocean."
"I once got a nasty cut that way."
"How did it happen?"
"I slapped a tomato can."
MESMERIZED
A Poisonous Drug Still Freely Used.
Many people are brought up to be-
lieve that coffee is a necessity of life,
and the strong hold that the drug,
caffeine, in coffee has, on the sys-
tem makes it hard to loosen Its grip
even when one realizes Its injurious
effects.
A lady writes; "I had used coffee
for years; it seemed one of the ne-
cessities of life. A few months ago
my health, which had been slowly fail-
ing, became more Impaired, and I
knew that unless relief came from
some source I would soon bo a physi-
cal wreck.
"I was weak and nervous, had Bick
headaches, no ambition, and felt tired
of life. My husband was also losing
his health. He was troubled so much
*ith Indigestion that at times he could
eat only a few mouthfuls.
"Finally we saw Postum advertised
and bought a package. I followed di-
rections for making carefully, and
added cream, which turned It to tho
loveliest rich-looking and tasting
drink I ever saw served at any table,
and we have used Postum ever since.
"I gained five pounds In weight In
as many weeks, and now feel well
and strong In every respect. My
headaches ha e gone, and I am a new
woman. My husband's Indigestion
has left him, and he can now eat
anything."
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to
Wellvllle," In pkgs.
Postum comes In two forms;
Regular Postumāmust be well
boiled. 15c and 25o packages.
Instant PostumāIs a soluble pow-
der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly
in a cup of hot water and, with cream
and sugar, makes a delicious bever-
age Instantly. 80c and 50o tins.
The cost per cup of both kinds I*
about the same.
"There's a Reason" for Postum.
rāĀ«old by Qrocera,
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Nipper, Frank S. The Prague Record (Prague, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1914, newspaper, December 24, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc147785/m1/2/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.