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 right. I was always afraid I would not say or do the right thing, and now I can not do anything. (Text.)

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A master in Italian music was Arcangelo Corelli. He was once performing with Handel, and on another occasion with Scarlatti, in the presence of the King in Naples, when his cunning failed him and he made certain faults in execution which so chagrined the artist that he died broken-hearted from brooding over his mistakes.

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TOBACCO HABIT

Rev. W. F. Crafts is authority for the statement that four-fifths of the men who now fill positions of large responsibility in our land did not use tobacco before they were sixteen years of age, and even those who did, with three exceptions, mention the fact with regret.

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TO-DAY The following is from The British Weekly:

Just this day in all I do To be true; Little loaf takes little leaven; Duty for this day, not seven, That is all of earth and heaven, If we knew.

Oh, how needlessly we gaze Down the days, Troubled for next week, next year, Overlooking now and here. "Heart, the only sure is near," Wisdom says.

Step by step, and day by day, All the way, So the pilgrim's soul wins through, Finds each morn the strength to do All God asks for me or you— This obey. (Text.)

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TOIL ACCEPTED

An unidentified writer pens this brave poem:

I ask not When shall the day be done and rest come on; I pray not That soon from me the "curse of toil" be gone; I seek not A sluggard's couch with drowsy curtains drawn. But give me Time to fight the battle out as best I may; And give me Strength and place to labor still at evening's gray; Then let me Rest as one who toiled a-field through all the day.

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TOIL AND PROVIDENCE

God helps those who help themselves.

It is common to attribute the great discoveries in science and industry to accident or sudden inspiration. But however suddenly discoveries are made, in some sense they are usually a result of long and patient toil and experimentation. Daguerre worked for many years trying to make the light print a likeness on glass or metal before an accidental hint gave him the clue.

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Toil and Study—See.

TOKEN, VALUE OF A

The following incident appeared in a New York daily:

Bent with age but bright-eyed and alert, James Swift, eighty-four years old, was committed at his own request to the almshouse yesterday by Magistrate Krotel, sitting in Yorkville Court.

"I'm goin' to start for California just as soon as I come out of the almshouse," Swift told the magistrate. The old man displayed a silver watch with copper chain, which, he said, was a perpetual pass over the Union Pacific Railroad. It had been given him as a token that he was one of the men engaged in the construction of the road, the presentation being made on the occasion of the driving of the last spike in May, 1866. All he had to do, he said, when he wanted to ride over the road was to show the time-*piece to the conductor.

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