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246 President Jordan of Stanford University, in emulation apparently of William E. Channing's famous "symphony," has issued a sort of creed or scheme of life in which he says: "My message shall be to do things because we love them, to love things because we do them." . . . That is a creed that will not stand the test, for it holds out the same justification to the wrong-doer as to the righteous man. The drunkard drinks liquor because he loves it and loves it because he drinks it. So with Rockefeller and his money-making wiles. Though we should study a certain degree of contentment we should not suffer ourselves to love things merely because we do them. It is but a poor moral platform which is so broad that all men, whether bad or good, can stand on it.

Some suppose that a watch ticks once a second. This it never does. Watches vary from two beats a second to beats registering fifths of a second.

A farmer's wife wanted to send a lot of butter to market last Saturday, but she did not have the churning done, nor did she have time to wait until it was done, but she was equal to the occasion. She poured the ripened cream into a milkcan with a close fitting top and set it in her buggy, and drove in; the rough and rigid roads did the rest. Upon arriving, she took the lids off the cans and with the ladle and butter tray she had provided she dipped up the butter and had it ready for delivery in a jiffy. Even the rough roads can be turned into utility by the gumption of a Kansas woman.—Douglas Tribune'.