| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo: trouble her, as she watched the lumbering elephants, the restless
lions, the long-necked giraffes and the striped zebras, that came
and went in the nearby circus lot. And yet, in spite of her own
curiosity, she could not forgive her vagrant "worse half," Hasty,
who had been lured from duty early in the day. She had once
dubbed him Hasty, in a spirit of derision, and the name had clung
to him. The sarcasm seemed doubly appropriate to-night, for he
had been away since ten that morning, and it was now past nine.
The young pastor for a time had enjoyed Mandy's tirades against
her husband, but when she began calling shrilly out of the window
to chance acquaintances for news of him, he slipped quietly into
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: have perfected, and which it is claimed will create considerable
surprise, is the aerial torpedo. Many of the Krupp claims are
wildly chimerical, as events have already proved, but there is no
doubt that considerable effort has been expended upon this latest
missile, for which the firm is said to have paid the inventor
upwards of L25,000--$125,000. Curiously enough the projectile
was perfected within gunshot of the British aerodrome of Hendon
and is stated to have been offered to the British Government at
the time, and to have met with a chilling reception. One fact,
however, is well established. The inventor went to Germany, and
submitted his idea to Krupp, by whom it was tested without delay.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: determine which side of battle is in the wrong. Neither does a
great nation send its poor little boys to jail for stealing six
walnuts; and allow its bankrupts to steal their hundreds of
thousands with a bow, and its bankers, rich with poor men's savings,
to close their doors "under circumstances over which they have no
control," with a "by your leave;" and large landed estates to be
bought by men who have made their money by going with armed steamers
up and down the China Seas, selling opium at the cannon's mouth, and
altering, for the benefit of the foreign nation, the common
highwayman's demand of "your money OR your life," into that of "your
money AND your life." Neither does a great nation allow the lives
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