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THE BEK-KKKl'ERS' REVIEW. 



The next morning, while riding in the 

 ars on his way home, a young nian 

 S'.t'id that this assertion of Mr. Todd's 

 liad ti-oubled him not a little, and he 

 did not see how Mr. Todd could justi- 

 fy himself in making such an asser- 

 tion. Mr. Todd asked the young man 

 to look out of the window at a house 

 they were passii.g. "Keep your ey 

 on it,*' he said. "There, does it look 

 the same now as it did at first V" 



A moment later he said: "There, 

 look again. Does it appear exactly 

 as it did at first? Don't you get dif- 

 ferent views of it?" The young man 

 admitted that he did. Mr. Todd ask- 

 ed him why it was that he got dif- 

 ferent views of it. "Because I am 

 moving," was the reply. "That's it 

 exactly," said my friend. "So long 

 as you remain stationary you get the 

 same view, you stagnate, but as soon 

 as you begin to move, to progress, 

 then you get a new view of the sub- 

 ject." 



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JOKES ON TWO EDITORS. 



As the special car of bee-keepers, 

 two days out from Chicago, was bowl- 

 ing aleng in fine style, and Bro. A. I. 

 Root wag the center of a lively, chat- 

 ting group, he jerked his handkerchief 

 form his coat pocket and showered 

 the company quite freely with a pack 

 of playing cards, that those who know 

 Mr. Root will readily believe were 

 placed there by some one that exact- 

 ly this might happen. 



Some of those present guyed Mr. 

 Root quite unmercifully; but he took 

 it all in good part and laughed with 

 the rest of us. 



And now for a little joke on myself. 

 We stopped at Hutchinson, Kansas, 

 for supper. Mr. France was behind me 

 as we entered the dining room. As 

 we approached the table, I noticed a 

 lady walking in front of me. She 



drew back a chair, as a waitress usual- 

 ly does for a guest, and I plumped 

 myself down into it. 



She said nothing, but drew out the 

 next, as I supposed, for Mr. France, 

 but, instead, she sat down in it herself. 

 She was one of the guests from the 

 train, and I had mistaken her for a 

 waitress, and taken her chair, as she 

 drew it out. Of course, I had to go 

 back to the car and tell of it, that all 

 might join in the laugh at my expense. 



These are only samples of the fun- 

 ny things, by which the long journey 

 was enlivened. 



THE HABIT OF OVERCOMING DIFFICUI,- 

 TIES MAY BE ACQUIRED. 



No man makes a grand success of 

 life without first overcoming many ob- 

 stacles. Some inherit will-power and 

 executive ability, while others find it 

 necessary to cultivate these attributes. 

 The Presidents of railroads, the man- 

 agers of great corporations, etc., pos- 

 sess these faculties in a high degree. 

 As a rule, it is the possession of these 

 raits of character that gives them 

 their positions. Railroad companies 

 must have for managers, men who do 

 things. There must be no "if" about 

 it. So many men complain of their 

 hard luck, ^hey could have accom- 

 plished this or that "if" it had not been 

 for such and such obstacles. Success- 

 ful men overcome these obstacles; and 

 the Avorld doffs it hat to the man who 

 "does things." And right here let it 

 be said that there is such a thing as 

 cultivating a habit of overcoming ob- 

 stacles. Every obstacle overcome de- 

 velops a man's faculties in that di- 

 rection, just as surely as muscles are 

 developfd by exercise. Let a man 

 form the habit of giving up when he 

 meets what seems like an insurmount- 

 able obstacle, and success will never 

 be his. Careful investigation and 



