INDIVIDUALITY OF GERMS
Change is stamped upon life, but according to science, the opposite also is true. Life, in its minutest subdivisions, is true to itself. It knows no variation nor shadow of turning. Dr. Stirling remarks concerning protoplasm:
Here are several thousand pieces of protoplasm;
analysis can detect no difference in
them. They are to us, let us say, as they are
to Mr. Huxley, identical in power, in form,
and in substance; and yet on all these several
thousand little bits of apparently indistinguishable
matter an element of difference so
pervading and so persistent has been imprest,
that of them all, not one is interchangeable
with another! Each seed feeds
its own kind. The protoplasm of the gnat
will no more grow into the fly than it will
grow into an elephant. Protoplasm is protoplasm;
yes, but man's protoplasm is man's
protoplasm, and the mushroom's the mushroom's.
(1591)
INDIVIDUALS, GOD'S CARE OVER
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was in Washington
and brought a case of need before a
distinguished Senator, who excused himself,
writing that he was so taken up with matters
of wide public interest that he could not
look after individual cases. Mrs. Howe
wrote in her note-book that "at last accounts
the Lord God Almighty had not attained to
that eminence." (Text.)—Franklin Noble,
"Sermons in Illustration."
(1592)
Indolence Forerunner of Dishonesty—See Dishonesty. INDORSEMENT Old Gorgon, apropos of letters of introduction, hands out a whole string of neat conclusions. "Giving a note of introduction is simply lending your name with a man as collateral, and if he's no good you can't have the satisfaction of redeeming your indorsement even; and you're discredited. . . . I reckon that the devil invented the habit of indorsing notes and giving letters to catch the fellows he couldn't reach with whisky and gambling."—George Horace Lorimer, "Old Gorgon Graham."
(1593)
Industrial Church Training—See Practise and Industrial Training. INDUSTRIAL TRAINING The boy utterly unable, even if he were studious, to keep up in book knowledge and percentage with the brighter boys, becomes discouraged, dull, and moody. Let him go to the work-room for an hour and find that he can make a box or plane a rough piece of board as well as the brighter scholar, nay, very likely better than his brighter neighbor, and you have given him an impulse of self-respect that is of untold benefit to him when he goes back to his studies. He will be a brighter and better boy for finding out something that he can do well.—American Magazine.
(1594)
INDUSTRY AND LONGEVITY
Capt. Robert McCulloch, who was elected
president of the United Railways Company
at the age of sixty-seven, was asked recently
why he does not retire and live comfortably
on his income. As general manager of the
$90,000,000 corporation, Captain McCulloch
is frequently at his office at 5 A.M. and remains
until late in the evening.
"I had a friend once," said Captain McCulloch, answering the inquiry, "who started in life in a very modest way. He sold railway supplies, and to help him along I bought some of his goods. Eventually he branched out, became the general manager of a railway-supply house, and in time got rich.
"I met him two weeks before his fiftieth birthday. He told me he had acquired a competency, having several hundred thousand dollars invested in gilt-edged securities, besides his magnificent home in Chicago, and that on his fiftieth birthday he was going to retire and enjoy life.
"Just a year later I received his funeral notice. If he had kept on working like I have, he would be living yet. Work is necessary to enjoyment, good health, and length of days. That's why I don't quit. I prefer to live a while longer, and know I would die if I quit."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
(1595)
INDUSTRY OF BEES
It is estimated that, to collect one pound
of honey, 62,000 heads of clover must be
deprived of their nectar, necessitating 3,750,000
visits from bees. It would seem from
this that the reputation of the wonderful
little insect for industry has not been over-*rated.
Wax is a substance secreted by the
