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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See Genius Discounted; Self-consciousness; Tact.
Tipping—See Ridicule, Apt.
Tithes—See Giving, Faithful.
Titles—See Labels, Misleading.
Toast, Witty—See Washington, George.
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 Missionary, A, in the Making.
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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