knowledge and education, the sun that will make men equal, that will put light in the dark places, the sun that is destined in the years to come to answer upon this planet that most beautiful prayer, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

PROGRESS

Once when rulers made a treaty, each would sign his name in blood to prove he meant it.

Sentimental young people wrote love letters in blood. Now they use a typewriter.

FOR CHILD BEATERS

You can forgive an army mule driver who says the mule can be controlled only by brutality. But what about parents that say the same of their children and beat them? Beating a child is breaking the mainspring of a watch.

To be economical is important, for economy means independence, and the absence of independence means slavery.

Think and be discontented, wisely discontented with yourself, and you will go as far as it is within you to go.

Are You One of Those That

Push the World Along?

The Pushers, poor or rich, that do their share in pushing the world along the path of PROGRESS, are the only men and women worthy of the name.

THERE are only two classes of human beings in the world-the useful and the useless.

To which class do you belong?

The useful class consists of those whose work, besides maintaining themselves, does good to others.

The useless class, large unfortunately, consists of absolute drones that do nothing at all, and relative drones whose work, concentrated exclusively on their own welfare, does no good to anybody else.

While idlers and the selfishly active constitute a large class, it is fortunately a fact that useful workers, the pushers, outnumber the others a hundred to one, or

more.

In the first place and in the first rank stand the mothers of the country, the great army of patient, unknown, unrewarded workers, whose best years and strength, intelligence and knowledge are devoted to the perfecting of the future generation.

And then come the fathers, millions of men that work regularly and uncomplainingly at humble occupations, denying themselves and saving, that their children may be well dressed, well fed and kept at school.

Many a man in this country could have been great and famous, well supplied with food for his vanity, had he been willing, in seeking greater conspicuousness, to risk temporarily the welfare and comfort of his wife and children. He felt that he had no right to take risks, having bound himself to provide for others, so he kept plodding away, and gave up his opportunity to be among the admired and applauded.

But he is one of the real pushers. Like the soldier in the ranks, he sacrifices his life, without hope of glory or even mention; it is he that really wins the victory for civilization in the end.

Those that do most for Progress, whose life and activities are absolutely essential to it, are the men and the women never heard of; the patient, plodding pushers that sacrifice themselves and live in obscurity for the sake of duty.

All of us, young or old, men or women, are either helping to push along civilization or we are useless drones, basely living on society like the crab in the oyster.

Every one of us has his work to do and can do it if he will.

The old man or woman, past the age of work and of material usefulness, can do great good by the setting of a good example.

A cheerful tone in the aged, an optimistic view of life, kind encouragement for those that need it, very gentle criticism of the faults of youth, can do a very great deal.

The young man who knows enough to respect him

self, to keep free from gambling, drinking and other destroyers of the future, benefits others as well as himself.

If he has courage to preach as well as practise, his influence is great on those about him. A thousand such young men in their actual lives can do as much good as many clergymen or editors.

Every young woman has a chance to do her share of the work. If she is self-respecting and inspires in the young men who meet her a high ideal of womanhood, she is helping to push along the development of humanity in her little corner of life. Incidentally, she is preparing herself for a wise marriage and that most useful of all work, the addition of really good children to the population.

The man who digs his ditch or lays his brick honestly, making life comfortable and secure for others, is useful and praiseworthy.

The engineer who takes his rushing train and a thousand passengers safely through the night, helping on commerce and the exchange of commodities, making life safe through his punctuality and nervous force, is one of the pushers.

The very successful, the ablest, and many of the richest men are also among the pushers and among the most useful of them.

The senseless denunciation of legitimate wealth is harmful to the country, as well as unjust.

The United States is a nation of great progress. Its growth has merely begun.

We need in this country the ablest minds, the most energetic men. Europe has sent them to us in the past, we have developed and encouraged them here. We must continue to do so.

In these days the highest reward that one man or a body of men can offer to another is apparently a great sum of money.

That great sum of money, at least, is what the able man in America, the powerful pusher, today wants.

If he wants it he should have it, for the laborer is worthy of his hire, and we should be prepared in this country to pay the highest legitimate prices, not only for eight hours of honest manual work each day, but for eight minutes or eight seconds of the inspired work which develops a great idea and involves, perhaps, employment for thousands.

Who would be foolish enough to denounce the large fortune of the man who invented the Bessemer steel process, adding thousands of millions of dollars to the wealth of this country alone?-he was only half paid, no matter how much he got.

And the man who in any direction works to develop the country, to give employment to others, to make new homes, open new territory, devise new industries, is a great benefactor, well worthy of his hire as a laborer in the higher fields. America should be prepared always to encourage him and pay him gladly and ungrudgingly the highest price for the highest pushing ability.

If a man uses his brains and his money to build a railroad in a new place, developing agriculture, back