and passing ships by the use of accumulators, for the shutting down of the engines ended the power of his electric dynamos that ordinarily give the power of transmission to the wireless.
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According to dispatches from Hartford, Col. Jacob L. Greene, who was the head of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company from 1877 until his death a year ago, left a fortune of only a little more than $50,000. The smallness of his estate created comment from the newspapers and much surprize in insurance circles. It was supposed that he had taken at least some little advantage of the many opportunities for money-making which his position gave him.
The settlement of his estate seems to show that, during all the time he was in the insurance business, he conducted himself in strict accordance with the axioms which he had laid down for the guidance of insurance men and insurance companies in general. One of these axioms was, "A mutual company ought not to be mulcted for the benefit of the agents." Another was, "True mutuality in life insurance does not seek to favor a few at the expense of the many, nor to give to a few what many have lost." (Text.)
(1049)
Faithfulness Before Rulers—See Magnifying a Sacred Office.
FAITHFULNESS UNTO DEATH
A little girl one day, whose mother had
entrusted her with a penny for some small
purchase, was crusht in the streets. She
did not drop the penny. Recovering from a
fainting fit, dying, she opened her firmly-closed
fist, and handed her mother the
humble penny, whose small value she did not
realize, saying to her: "I have not lost it."
(Text.)
(1050)
False Estimate—See Work Despised.
FALSE INFERENCE
Rev. A. R. Macduff, in his book of anecdotes
about missionaries on the frontier
force in northwestern India, says that India
is a land where, when a tale is once set
going, it is no easy matter "to nail the lie
to the counter." Rowland Bateman, the celebrated
cricketer, who went as a missionary
to India, was a stanch teetotaler, yet a
rumor was started that he and his fellow
missionaries were worshipers of the whisky
bottle. It came about this way: Once, on a
preaching tour, they spent a night in a "rest-house"
which had previously been occupied
by some carousing European travelers.
Empty whisky bottles were in evidence, and
Bateman utilized a couple for candlesticks
to hold the lights for the evening Scripture
reading. With good conscience, Bateman
gathered his little company around the table
on which stood the candles, and they knelt in
prayer all unconscious of the interpretation
a spying native was putting upon the service.
In the morning he and his band were
hailed as whisky-bottle worshipers.
(1051)
FALSE LIGHTS
Young people, sincere people, impulsive
people, and imaginative people have all a
common danger—that of being led astray by
false lights. Of these false lights there are
many kinds—some bewildering the intellect,
others entangling the affections in hopeless
morasses, others again misleading the sympathies,
the imagination, the belief. But
they all end in the same thing—mischief,
mistake, and a loss of way. To the young
and sincere—and the young are generally
sincere, up to a certain point—organized
craft and falsehood are arts of which they
do not know the formula, foreign languages
whereof they do not understand the very
alphabet. Appearances stand for realities,
and words are not so much symbols in themselves.
They are able to tell their own little
white lies and act their own little falsities,
of a small and insignificant and, for the
most part, transparent kind; but they do not
apply their own rules to the grammar of
their elders; and when those elders say so
and so the younger believe them, and when
they show such and such lights they follow
them—in many instances to the same result
as those doomed ships which were deceived
on the Cornish coast, at such time as that, let
us hope legendary, parson sent out his hobbled
horse on the cliffs in a fog, with a lantern
fastened to his forefeet, to simulate the
plunging of a ship in the sea. Then said the
sailing masters of those doomed and predestined
ships: "Where one vessel can go
another may," and so plowed their way
straight onto the rocks and into the hands
of death and the wreckers. So it is with
certain false lights held out to the unwary
and ignorant.—London Queen.
(1052)
FALSEHOOD
A form of words that is strictly true may be used to state what is wholly false:
Daniel O'Connell was engaged in a will
