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MAKING OUR OWN WORLD. 
A BSTRACT WISDOM.—At a certain 
university a number of doctors and 
professors discoursed long, and in ac¬ 
cordance with their philosophy, wisely, 
on certain philanthropic measures. Cer¬ 
tain social problems were thoroughly 
treated as to their cause and effect upon 
humanity in general, and no one in par¬ 
ticular. Carefully prepared papers were 
duly read, which showed no little literary 
ability, but a very slight personal knowl¬ 
edge of the subject in hand. Finally it 
was decided that such and such benevo¬ 
lences were greatly needed, that the world 
was certainly in great darkness and 
error. But as to the proper methods of 
applying their so-called benevolences, 
well, that must .be left for future dis¬ 
cussion, and thus they adjourned. 
Concrete Experience. —Not many 
blocks away from this university lived 
a woman, a widow with three little chil¬ 
dren. She had a very common school 
education, but a very uncommon stock 
of good horse sense. She was not physi¬ 
cally strong, but she could sew and she 
did. With the little money she' had. she 
bought material and made the things 
women most love to wear, good material, 
well made. She soon had more than she 
could do, and hired a girl. She brought 
up and educated her children to useful 
manhood and womanhood. Did she com¬ 
plain, or shift her responsibility upon 
others? Not a bit of it, her song was 
as merry as the whirr of the sewing ma¬ 
chine, her smile was as cheery as her 
days were long. A serene, cheerful, 
patient soul, who multiplied all the joys 
of life, and minimized its sorrows. 
Doing the “Impossible.” —In the 
Spring of 18S0, a certain farmer with 
his family went to the Northwest region 
of Minnesota, away up just north of the 
forty-eighth parallel, which cuts across 
the northern bend of Lake Superior and 
passes Montreal well to the northward. 
The virgin soil was rich and productive 
as the day it was turned out of the crea¬ 
tive mold. Hundreds of acres were 
thrown open by the Government for set¬ 
tlement, and people came from the East, 
the South, to pre-empt, in homestead or 
tree claim, their share of land. The Gov¬ 
ernment gave the land for certain re¬ 
quirements regarding the different land 
rights, but the Government, powerful as 
it is, could not control the seasons, the 
early and late frosts that bore down in 
all their silent might upon the agricul¬ 
tural efforts of the settlers. Corn is one 
of the mainstays of agriculture, and it 
was soon discovered that “You can’t 
grow corn up here.” “But w f e can grow 
corn; I’ll show you,” said the farmer of 
18S0. And he did. lie experimented 
again and again; he tested and worked, 
until at last he produced a corn that 
would mature and ripen in the short 
growing season peculiar to that climate. 
He sent the seed to the Experiment Sta¬ 
tion and agricultural college, and the 
demand for seed of this variety is large 
from all over the Northwest, even to the 
Pacific Coast States. 
The Pioneer’s Courage. —Many there 
were who grew discouraged, dissatisfied, 
and forfeited their rights to seek a bet¬ 
ter country, and may it be said, many 
of them are still seeking. “I will not live 
in a country where fruit will not grow,” 
said some. “But it will grow,” asserted 
the farmer of 1880, and it did; his apples 
were famous, as also were his grapes. 
A man who had stood the sieges of the 
Civil War, who had fought his way in 
the Indian wars, was not easily daunted. 
His courage was equal to all occasions; 
one who made the most out of life, and 
the world better and richer for his hav¬ 
ing lived in it. In his own simple honest 
way he has been a benefactor to the race. 
In every town or country in which I 
have lived the people who were most un¬ 
happy and discontented were people who 
in worldly goods were well-to-do, and in 
most cases had no serious burdens to 
carry, except the one of constant worry 
over their own precious selves. 
Work for Social Betterment. —A 
certain country community in the Far 
West, made up of good progressive folk 
from all parts of the country, became a 
little dislocated with themselves. They 
were people of various creeds and de¬ 
nominations, holding services in the 
school house. The people as a whole were 
unusually prosperous, and a wonderfully 
intelligent community, but somehow 
things were at a standstill socially; the 
religious spirit was failing, and they 
could not agree. Finally a family of 
still different faith moved into the com¬ 
munity. The woman was a great tact¬ 
ful one, full of love for all, and young 
people in particular. After a time, she 
organized a society of young people, 
young women and their young men. They 
loved her devotedly. She taught them 
in the Sunday school; they had week¬ 
day meetings, socials, picnics, and the 
parents became thoroughly interested, but 
in the beginning of this work they 
banded together to help outside calls, far 
away from themselves, thus quite for¬ 
getting their own trifling misunderstand¬ 
ings, and in their zeal and united effort 
for others learned to love each other and 
work together without friction. Then the 
subject of a new church was brought 
up, and it was finally built; a pretty lit¬ 
tle country church, the social and re¬ 
ligious centre of the community ever 
after. “Making our own world?” Yes, 
to a certain extent, and that of those 
around us. 
Intellectual Courage. —The great 
modern philosopher Schopenhauer, main¬ 
tained that “This was the worst possible 
world; that if it had been any worse it 
could not have possibly held together and 
kept running; that the greatest mis¬ 
fortune is birth, the only good is death, 
and the only truth in the Old Testament 
the account of the fall of man and the 
ruin of Paradise.” Schopenhauer was a 
man of comfortable fortune, fine social 
position, who dined sumptuously every 
day; who carefully avoided domestic 
cares and responsibilities, devoting his 
whole thought and income toward pro¬ 
moting his own bachelor comfort and 
enjoyment, yet Schopenhauer was a 
miserably unhappy man. Contrast with 
him Epictetus, poor, maimed, a slave, 
one upon whom fortune poured her 
hardest blows: sickly in body, sold in 
early childhood to a tyrannical Roman 
master; cut off from all opportunities 
of knowledge and all chance to rise in 
the world. This was the man who wrote: 
“The great world is not made for any 
individual satisfaction. Must my leg be 
lame? Slave! For the sake of one 
miserable little leg do you find fault 
with the universe? Will you not cheer¬ 
fully assent to this burden for the sake 
of Him who gave it? Great is God; we 
ought to sing because he hath given us 
hands and means of nourishment, un¬ 
conscious growth and breathing sleep.” 
How could Epictetus, do you ask, thus 
ignore the hardships and miseries of his 
lot? Because he had early come to see, 
as he himself said, and as all true earnest 
souls find sooner or later, that “He is 
a slave whose soul is bound, though his 
body be free: but he is free whose soul 
is free though his body be bound.” 
the country gentlewoman. 
The Horned Owl. 
C AN you tell me how many groups of 
families of the horned owl there are 
to be found? i. m. h. 
There are four groups of owls in the 
United States which have feather tufts 
on their heads: The great horned owl 
(Bubo virginanus), the long-eared owl 
(Asio wilsonianus), the short-eared owl 
(Asio flammeus), and the screech owl 
(Otus osio). The great horned owl, 
which is divided into eight geographic 
races, is found throughout the greater 
part of North America. The screech owls 
are very sensitive to environment, and 
are broken up into 13 races. The long¬ 
eared owl and the short-eared owl, al¬ 
though of wide distribution, have not 
split up into sub-species. 
The great horned owl measures from 18 
to 23 inches in length, and from 48 to 
52 inches in stretch of wing. The long 
and short-eared owls are about the same 
size, averaging in length from 13 to 16 
inches. The screech owl, the smallest of 
the “eared” owls, averages from 7% to 
10 inches in length. 
A green brakeman on the Colorado 
Midline was making his first trip up Ute 
Pass. They were going up a very steep 
grade, and with unusual difficulty the en¬ 
gineer succeeded in reaching the top. At 
the station, looking out of his cab, the 
engineer saw the new brakeman, and 
said with a sigh of relief: “I tell you 
what, my lad, we had a job to get up 
there, didn’t we?” “We certainly did,” 
said the brakeman, “and if I hadn’t kept 
on the brakes we’d have slipped back.”— 
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