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HERE AND NOW. 
Here in the heart of this world, 
Here in the noise of the din, 
Here where our spirits were hurled 
To battle with sorrow and sin. 
This is the place and the spot 
For knowledge of infinite things; 
This is the kingdom where Thought 
Can conquer the prowess of kings. 
Wait for no heavenly life, 
Seek for no temple alone; 
Here in the midst of the strife 
Know what the sages have known. 
See what the Perfect One saw, 
God in the depths of each soul; 
God as the Light and the Law, 
God as beginning and goal. 
Earth is one chamber of heaven. 
Death is no grander than birth. 
Joy in the life that is given, 
Strive for perfection on earth. 
Here in the turmoil and roar, 
Show what it is to be calm; 
Show how the spirit can soar, 
And bring back its healing and balm. 
Stand not aloof or apart, 
Plunge in the thick of the fight; 
There in the street and the mart, 
That is the place to do right. 
Not in some cloister or cave. 
Not in some kingdom above; 
Here on this side of the grave. 
Here should we labor and love. 
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Youth's Companion. 
One of the hardest parts of business 
life for women is to acquire the habit of 
looking at things from a business stand¬ 
point. It may be the fact that we are 
unreasonable creatures, which makes 
the explanation, “ Oh that's business” 
seem a rather unsatisfactory one. For 
it is strictly by reasoning that men have 
made business laws. They were not 
evolved from the Ten Commandments, 
or implanted in the human heart by in¬ 
stinct. 
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Writers wish to make reputations, 
and regard editors as their helpers so 
long as their manuscripts are published. 
They should bear in mind that the editor 
has a better knowledge of the tastes of 
his readers than the contributor can 
have, for he has the advantage of read¬ 
ing the criticisms which the readers 
make. The rejection of a manuscript, 
in some cases, may be as effective in 
helping the writer’s popularity, as the 
publication of an approved article. Yet 
an editor gets no thanks when he refuses 
to place a contribution before an unap¬ 
preciative audience. Though it may be 
the writer’s best, that matters little, if 
it be not suited to the paper which re¬ 
jects it. This age of specialist work has 
had its effect on papers, and each paper 
is intended to please its own particular 
audience. The daily papers of a large 
city well illustrate this fact. 
OUR NEIGHBORS. 
HOW TO MAINTAIN PLEASANT RELATIONS 
WITH THEM 
A LTHOUGH thereis an apparent simi¬ 
larity in the peas in the pcd, there 
is always a slight difference, sometimes 
in the color, size, shape, or smoothness. 
Precisely so, is the human race; while the 
great fundamental principles apply to 
all, there are never two people exactly 
alike, in stature or characteristics. So 
we have as neighbors, the inquisitive, 
close, gossipy, melancholy, always-bor- 
rowing-but-never-returning, as well as 
the sensible, accommodating, jovial and 
trusty. Go where we will, there is 
always more or less contention among 
neighbors, and especially true is this in 
our rural districts. 
What is the cause, and how can it be 
remedied ? A careful consideration of 
the subject has led me to conclude that 
it all arises from a mistaken sense of 
individual superiority, when we attempt 
to cast the mote from our brother’s eye, 
while the beam in our own obstructs the 
view. In the daily contact with our 
neighbors, innumerable bones of con¬ 
tention arise if we are on the lookout for 
them. Therefore, certain concessions 
must be made by contracting parties. 
Frequently, very trifling affairs will lead 
to a veritable feud, when a few well- 
chosen, judicious words at the right 
time, would have saved many hard feel¬ 
ings. 
An excellent illustration of this re¬ 
cently came to my notice, and although 
the incident happened several years ago, 
its relative value is as good now as then. 
Two farmers, A and B, owned adjoining 
land, a common rail fence dividing the 
lots. A devoted his time and energy to 
hay, while B invariably planted pota¬ 
toes. In order to utilize every available 
inch of ground, B thought it necessary to 
remove the fence until after the crop 
was in. A readily agreed to this, but 
with the proviso that the fence be re¬ 
placed exactly as before. After a few 
years, however, A observed that it re¬ 
quired less sweeps of his scythe to cover 
the ground than of yore, and so positive 
was he that the fence had not always 
been accurately replaced, that he offered 
to pay the expense of surveying if B 
would give him the profits, if any, from 
the land that was found to be unjustly 
utilized by him. This, of course, was 
only fair, and when the line was placed 
almost two rods in A’s favor, B good- 
naturedly passed over the profits on the 
same amount. 
Now, how easy it would have been for 
A to call B anything but a gentleman ! 
And what might have been the result? 
“ But,” you say, “of course, the fence 
was moved intentionally, and did not A 
have the law on his side, and ought not 
B to have been punished for such mean¬ 
ness ? ” Perhaps it was done purposely, 
perhaps not. Is it not always wisest to 
“ judge not that ye be not judged ” ? 
Another little incident comes to mind 
where a neighbor let his team, and the 
parties hiring it entertained their com¬ 
pany, a city cousin, by taking her to 
ride. The cousin in question happened 
to be a rather ponderous individual, and 
when the team was returned, the farmer 
charged 50 cents more than was his cus¬ 
tom, “ Because,” as he explained, “ Miss 
Letty is quite heavy, and Bess isn’t very 
large, so she will need extra feed to¬ 
night.” Now, do you suppose that neigh¬ 
bor enjoyed his 50 cents, or Bess her in¬ 
crease of oats, half so much as the par¬ 
ties who hired the team enjoyed the 
hearty laugh in which they indulged as 
soon as they were out of hearing ? 
It very often happens that one gets 
caught in a thunder shower, and seeks 
shelter in the nearest barn. If that barn 
happen to belong to one of his own neigh¬ 
bors, he wouldn't expect to pay the reg¬ 
ulation fee for stabling, would he ? “Oh, 
no,” you say, “I have no patience with 
such people,” and this is exactly where 
the trouble begins. 
You detect some little act in your 
neighbor which you call stingy, or small, 
and forthwith, you are constantly watch¬ 
ing for all such little acts. You may rest 
assured that you can always find them, 
for it really is surprising how everything 
appears to bend toward the one point, 
once you are convinced of the fact. If 
on the contrary, you keep your eyes 
resolutely shut against such trifles, you 
will soon cease to recognize them. 
No one is so utterly bad that there is 
not, at least, one good characteristic in 
him, and why not seek to find it, and 
arouse it from its dormancy ? In so do¬ 
ing, the other disagreeable qualities will 
appear less multitudinous, if your neigh¬ 
bor has his peculiarities, bear in mind 
that, in his estimation, you are not per¬ 
fect. Never be familiar with your neigh¬ 
bors, for familiarity breeds contempt, 
and contempt is the basis for innumer¬ 
able wrangles. 
If you imagine that you have been 
slighted or injured, try to bear and for¬ 
bear, and never foster a revengeful feel¬ 
ing. Cast it away as soon as a suspicion 
of it appears, and you will find that you 
will be much happier. Oftentimes the 
author of an injury expects revenge, and 
is disappointed if it does not come. He 
will soon learn to let you live in peace 
when he understands that you intend to 
remain on neutral ground. When we 
cease to criticise and enumerate our 
neighbor's failings, but try to overlook 
them, be patient, sympathetic and cour¬ 
teous, then, and not till then, shall we 
have peaceful, happy neighborhoods. 
ELSIE LAURILLA. 
FROM COUNTRY TO CITY. 
U P here in the “ cold Northeast,” as 
one of the potato men puts it, 
lives on a farm, a 13-year-old boy, whose 
mind seemed so full of shot guns and 
fishing tackle, that there appeared room 
for nothing else. He had no idea of a 
city, or whether it took five days or fifty 
to go to California. So this spring, be¬ 
tween two terms of the country school, 
his father planned a “personally con¬ 
ducted ” expedition of two to Boston, 
with other cities in the background, if 
the boy proved able to “stand it.” 
After they had seen Bunker Hill, the 
navy yard, some of the big ships, the top 
of the Ames building, a theatre or two, 
and bad trudged over 100 miles or so of 
sidewalks, there wasn’t the slightest 
doubt that the boy could stand it, while 
very grave ones existed as to his father. 
However, they joined one of those ex¬ 
cursions which promise so much for a 
small outlay, and soon found themselves 
upon one of the magnificent steamers 
running to New York, on their way to 
Washington. The narrow East, and the 
busy North rivers attracted much atten¬ 
tion, but the first stop of consequence 
was at Philadelphia, where the mint was 
visited, where the boy noticed that 
money seemed no easier to get, where 
they made it, than it was at home. 
Summer now seemed to be coming all 
at once, and the latter part of the 
journey, between Philadelphia and 
Washington, was hot and dusty. The 
heat in Washington was terrific—not a 
breath of air day or night—and that too, 
though quite a heavy snow had fallen 10 
days before. The natives seemed to be 
completely overcome. The hotel rooms 
were furnaces. Kennebec ice clogged 
the river, and lined its banks when they 
left home; yet here it was the only 
thing that made life endurable. All 
day and nearly all night, the bell boys 
thronged the corridors with pitchers of 
ice water, and when guests did not call 
for it often, they would knock at one’s 
door and innocently ask, “ Did you ring, 
sir ? ” 
These three days were days of hard 
work, but the small boy stood it bravely, 
and slept like a top. The magnificent 
buildings, the beautiful parks, the grace¬ 
ful statues, the broad, white streets, the 
cable cars in place of electrics, and the 
magnificent drives, opened up a new 
world to both our travelers. While most 
of the party labored day and night in the 
effort to see it all, this particular sec¬ 
tion of it took things easy, and obtained 
rather a general idea of it. The Capitol, 
the Washington Monument, and the 
Navy Yard received especial attention, 
and of these, the monument, a splendid 
shaft of white American marble, seemed 
the most beautiful and impressive of all. 
Of the numerous tablets wrought into 
its inner walls, the gifts of States, na¬ 
tions, corporate bodies, etc., and noticed 
as we slowly ascended, one in particular 
attracted my attention. It was “ From 
the Governor and Commune of the Is¬ 
lands of Naxos and Pharos in the Grecian 
Archipelago.” The government conveys 
free all visitors to the top of the monu¬ 
ment, and an elevation of 555 feet affords 
a fine bird’s eye view of the city. This 
is one of the few places in Washington 
where tips are neither “ expected nor 
accepted.” 
The building which impressed me 
deeply was within a stone’s throw of the 
monument, the Bureau of Engraving 
and Printing. The possibilities of this 
plain building, from the standpoint of 
our Populist friends, are literally beyond 
our comprehension, for only let Con¬ 
gress pass the necessary laws, and from 
its doors would flow rivers of wealth, 
without money and without price. The 
mint would be a poorhouse compared 
with it. 
In the navy yard, the small boy lin¬ 
gered lovingly about the big cannon 
which Commodore Decatur captured from 
the Tripoli pirates ; and I fancy that his¬ 
tory and geography will henceforth be, 
to him, not dead terms, but instinct with 
life. The city is one for all Ameri¬ 
cans to visit, and to be proud of ; yet, as 
our colored driver remarked as we re¬ 
turned from Arlington, “ The war made 
it.” With minds filled with beautiful 
images and pleasant recollections, the 
party turned again northward, half fear¬ 
ing that summer had preceded them. 
But this was entirely unnecessary, for 
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