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Gleanings
No man can do more than his
best ; but a g-ood many men can do
more than they think is their best.
Fortune's wheel turns best for the
m.ia who puts his shoulder to it.
One wouldn't mind having no
stake in the country if one could
always be sure of having a steak in
the cupboard.
An Eastern firm advertises : " Our
great success has led another unscrupulous
firm to imitate our methods."
TOURIST
(at
Niagara):
Are we
near the falls ?
Guide : Yes,
sir.
As soon as the
ladies stop talking you will hear the
roar.
After all,
there's
little difference
between the Labor platform and the
Lord's prayer.
Both say, " Give us
this day our
daily bread."— Queensland
Worker.
Why import population when A
superior article can be grown on the
spot ? Population should be born
not made.
The compulsory insurance cf
miners in Austria is effected through
special provident funds maintained by
equal contributions of employers,
and employed, except that in the
case of workpeople employed in
the State mines the entire cost of
insurance against sickness is borne
by the State.
Without animation, man is naught
—nothing is accomplished, nothing
done.
A man loves himself and marries
his ideal and then blames his wife
be-ause she does not live up to all
the virtues he can imagine.
The other day Australia admitted,
at Hobart, two stowaways who had
been refussed permission to land at
Capetown, White men who are so
und sirable that Chow-importing
S'Africa won't have them, can still
find cracks to wriggle through, and
are given a week's free board and
lodgings on arrival, althongh
officials know the ship is stopping
only 12 hours in port. The "alarming
stringency" of Australian
immigration laws is mostly flam.
Fight Fate and Fate will run away.
Resign yourself to Fate, and Fate
will accept the resignation.
The most uncertain way of making
a living is to work for it.
A Yankee paper advertises :
"The man who got his wife's memoriam
cards printed at this office
and forgot to pay for them, can have
his own done free of charge by calling
upon us at an early date."
The most general features assumed
by Social Problems, relating to
the waste of work, are these—many
are not working, many are overworking,
most are not doing that work
which it is the interest of society
they should do, or are not doing it
the best way they might.—J. A.
Hobson.
Nature made us for progress.
She did not crook our knees for a
crab's march nor stick eyes in the
back of our heads.
Recovery by the public of the public
property that belongs to the public, and
that is now held by individuals as their
private property would not be Confiscation.
The confiscating of private
property has been done by these individuals
who, owning the things by
which public necessities are produced,
have power to levy and enforcc tribute
from the rest of the people.— Worker's
Gazette.
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