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Don't Be Afraid to Laugh.

Learn to laugh. A good laugh is better
than medicine Learn how to tell story.
A well told story is as welcome as a sun
beam in a sickroom. Learn to keep your
own troubles to yourself The world is too
busy &c care for your lis and SORROWS.
Learn to stop crOaking. If you cannot see
any good in the world, keep the bad to
yourself Learn TO hide your aches and
pains under pleasant smile No one cares
to hear whether you have the earache,
headache orrheumatism. Don't cry. Tears
do well enough in novels, but they are out
of place in real life. Learn to meet your
friends with smile. The good humored
man or woman is always welcome, but the
dyspeptic or hypochondriac is not wanted
anywhere, and is n nuisance as we'll Fix
phanpp
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ton crop was considerably damaged by
the dry weather we had in the latter
part of July and August; yet it is turn
ing out great deal better than the
farmers thought il would.
Miss Katie Baker returned home last
Tuesday from a protracted visit to
friends in Alabama.
Miss Susie Baker, who has for the
past six weeks been great sufferer
from an attack of infiammatory rheu-
matism, is, we are glad to announce,
slowly improving.
The protracted meeting at Mt. Olivet,
as was announced in our last weeks
communication, began last Sunday, I'M
der the brightest hopes of a glorious
revival. BUCKLAw.
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CRAWFORD HOLLOW.

CRAWFORD Hollow, Sept l4.-Brother
William Anderson is conducting the
meeting at New Lasea this week. He
is an excellent preacher, and we hope
much good may be accomplis she'd
The health of this neighborhood is
very good.
On last Saturday there was birthday
dinner given at the home OF Mr.. w. r..
Atkisson, it being his 69th birthday.
Thirty-three relatives and friends were
present.
What has become of "Maud and
Blanche?" We would be glad to hear
from them often.
With best wishes, am as ever,
LITTLE STRANGER.
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at Cross Bridges last week as represen-
tatives of the r pck Spring congregation.
Mr. Wesley Flowers and bride re-
turned last Saturday.
Messrs. JAS Pope and Wilburn Sow ell
attended the Butler-Cayce debate at
Thompson Station last week.
Mr.. Wallace Hardison has suspended
school for week because of the
diphtherla scare.
Mr.. Green Witherspoon preached to a
large congregation at Union GroN e last
Lords Day. RIPPLING WAVES.
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MALLARD.

MALLARD, Sept l4.-This beautiful
afternoon as the sun is sinking behind
the western sky, L will endeavor to
write a few lines for the dear old HER
AID.
Mr.. Jerry Bunch of Nashville, died
September 10, and was brought here to
the old Bunch Grave yard for burial;
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GladneSs Comes

NNIith better understanding of the
w transient nature of the many phys
ical ills, which vanish before proper eff
forts-gentle efforts-pleasant efforts
rightly directed. There is comfort in
the knowledge, that so many forms of
sickness are not due to any actual dis
ease, but simply to constipated condi-
ton of the system, which the pleasant
family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt
ly removes. That is why it is the only
remedy with millions of families, and is
everywhere esteemed so highly by all
who value good health. Its beneficial
effects are due to the fact, that it is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness without facilitating the
organs on which it acts. 1t is therefore
all important, in order to get its bene-
fetal effects, to note when you pur-
chase, that you have the genuine arti-
Gle, which is manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. Only and sold by
all reputable druggists.
If in the enjoyment of good health,
and the system is regular, laxatives or
other remedies are then not needed. If
afflicted with any actual disease, one
may be commended to the most skillful
physicians, but if in need of laxative,
one should have the best, and with the
well-informed everywhere, Syrup of
Figs stands highest and is most largely
used and gives most general satisfaction.
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0nr Gnrtntq Correspondents,
GLENN'S STORE.

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of using the market house property to
provide library building We
have not known. of any project
within the last ten years that
promised SO much in every way to
the advantage OF st. Paul. socially
and financially, as this plan to rescue
the market house from the schemes of
avarice that will continue to thrust
themselves forward in the council as
long as 1t remains in its present con-
dition, and to do with 1t what every
private citizen. would be delighted to
do today with unstable real estate;
that is, to exchange it for something
that would minister to his actual needs
at the same time that it brought to him
a handsome revenue. The present sit
uation of the matter is wholly unsat-
isfactory to the people OF st. Paul, and
those who are responsible for prevent
ing further actioni VIII have an I'M
pleasant reminder of it in the future.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS"

4 William of Germany is carrying his
majesty aloft with a high hand. While
other monarchs are more prudently
concealing their belief in the divinity
of their persons and rule, the impetuous
young ruler of the German empire pro-
claims himself sacrosanct and metes
out punishments right and left to those
who dare asperse his concept of him
self. Action and reaction are always
equal, and one can find in this mediev-
dictionary movement so rapidly mass
ing strength under the name of Social
Democracy The one is the inevitable
complement of the other the product
of the operation of the law Of COM
pensation. If the momentum of the OPP
posing movement is maintained for
few years, the collision is inevitable
and the result unquestionable, unless
Germany is an exception to every other
country. 1t is incredible that in that
country the fate of the man who in
sists on the divinity of kingly rule
shall be other than what it has been
elsewhere where civilization has
moved with advancing steps.
The news dispatches from Germany
give us occasional glimpses Of the eff
forts made by William to impress on
his subjects the sacredness of his
majesty and the peril of questioning
it; but the Contemporary Review has
more detailed statement in an article
by Mr.. Eubule Evans, giving incidents
illustrative Of the ferocity with which
the laws against lese majestic are en-
forced. The offense is no longer bail
able, and editors accused Of "majestats-
beleidigung" are imprisoned pending
trial They are brought from prison
to court in prison garb, with heelless
slippers and metal numbers on their
breasts to prevent their escape. In
Cologne German, just returned from
visit to this country, was warmly
praising our liberty. "As for the
Kaiser" he said, when the thought of
the danger of making a comparison
flashed on him and he stopped. It was
too late. He was overheard, arrested
and received three months imprison-
ment not for what he said
but for what he was going
to say. At Danzig man
was arrested for saying that a bust of
the empress was not worth a mark.
Another man escaped punishment by
showing that his remark, What
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fool that Kaiser isi' was meant for a
citizen of that name. These are but
instances of daily occurrence in all
parts of the empire. Cautious persons
now refer to the emperor as Herr
Muller"
Is the unrest in Germany not explic-
able by such conditions? Is 1t sur
prising that the reichstag refuses to
make Observation-Disclosures a more
far-reaching offense than now? Is it
strange that the opposition to the
extension of the war power of this
war-lord is so strong? Is it surpris-
ing that there should have sprung up
under such influences a political party
casting over two million votes that
purposes to carry government to the
other extreme, and breaches the vox
populi voX del doctrine in it's extreme
of state socialism? Judging the Ger
man by our own standards, the marvel
is that the people have not broken out
into open revolt long before this; but
even the conservatism of the German
character cannot resist the impulse to
repel this arrogant assumption of the
emperor, discarded elsewhere among
civilized peoples, and the growth of
the Social Democracy is evidence of it,
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FOR ARMENIA1S RELIEF.

The mass meeting which has been
opera house this afternoon to extend
relief to the sufferers in Armenia
should be attended largely by our cit
liens from every walk in life. There is
no cause that can appeal more power
fully to the instincts of humanity, and
to the sympathy of men and women
everywhere, than that of these people
who have been and still are suffering
uneXampled misfortune without a hand
held out to rescue or to aid them. Re-
cent events have shown that the trials
Of Armenia are continuing. The mas
sacres in that desolated region are
not over. The Turk, having learned
that he has nothing to fear from Euro
pean intervention, is proceeding to car
ry out his policy of absolute extermina-
ton of all those who will not accept
profession of the Moslem faith. Hun
dreds and thousands of men are being
put to death every week for no other
reason than their adhesion to Christ
ianity. Women and children are left
helpless and a prey to a fate infinitely
worse than death.
All the succor that the civilized
world can give is needed for Armenia
The people of the United States are
precluded, by the distance at which
they live, and by the agreement of the
European powers to support the in
fanny of the Turk, from dealing with
this horrible crime as they propose to
deal with it's counterpart in Cuba. But
they can, at least, and they ought to
do their share, in alternating the awful
distress that accompanies. it. The meet
ing to be held today will be addressed
by some of the strongest speakers and
representative citizens of st. Paul,
and it ought to result in an effective
tribute not only of sympathy, but of
help, to the victims of the greatest
crime of the century We ask for the
cause of Armenian relief the ready
assistance and the cheerful bounty Of
our city.
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A FIELD FOR PHILANTHROPY.

The institutions of Minnesota for the
care of the criminal and defective
classes are conceded to denote a high
order of civilization among our people,
and take precedence in their excellence
of similar institutions in many older
and richer states. This being the case,
it is worth while to offer a sugges-
ton for the trial here of an expert
ment in philanthropy which has al
ready been tried with success in
France, England, Germany, Austria,
Switzerland and Italy We refer to
what is known as the "after-care" of
the insane.
The patient who energies into the
world after confinement in an asylum
finds it always Indifferent and often
unfriendly. His work is gone, his
place in society is filled. His friends
may have died during his seclusiOn
from life as a ward of the state; or, as
is frequently the case. they may be
too poor and uninfiuential to give him
the aid which he needs as never be-
fore, for, while discharged as cured"
the man or woman who has just left
such an institution has lost the habit
of life in society, and is always alb
normally susceptible for a time to con-
ditions and environment. Such indi-
viduals need work. a quiet life and
friendly oversight for a time. If they
do not have these things their relapse
is almost a foregone conclusion. Says
DR.. Fere, distinguished French ply
stefan: "The cured insane who do
not find work on leaving the asylum
will inevitably return there"
This being the ca Sc, the state would
probably be saved the expense of their
subsequent maintenance by undertake
ing the inexpensive task of befriend-
ing them sufficiently to overlook their
manner of life for a few months after
their discharge from state institutions.
This task is performed In the countries
mentioned by private benevolence, but
in France at least steps have been
taken to make it state affair. AS
with released convicts, money aid is
inadvisable rather than otherwise, adj
vice and encouragement being more
needed and more valuable. The num-
Der of persons needing such over
sight who are discharged from our
insane hospitals cured. is not numer-
ically very large. and The field for
philanthropic endeavor, whether pub
lie or private. that they offer would
be fruitful rather than extensive.
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takers sent their uniformed clubs with
quartettes and music and speakers into
the state. Other organizations over
the nation Joined in. Open air meet
ings were held everywhere. in the
cities on the street corners with empty
packing boxes for rostrums, at country
crossroads, in the churches and school
houses. Literature was distributed; coll
porteurs traversed the state visiting
the homes, the shops and farms The
leadeSs of the movement addressed
great mass meetings. Three thousand
In Wilmington packed the hall to hear
Father McGlynn. and 1000 more were
turned into overflow meetings. George.
Shearman. Mcguire, Herne, the actor.
and many other prominent men took
active part. The simple proposition is
everywhere laid down that the earth
is the common property of man; that
ne who occupies any portion Of 1t
should, as matter of common right
and Justice. pay into the common
treasury for the use of all what the
right of exclusive occupation Is worth.
Everywhere it Is insisted that the sim
gle tax involves the gospel of "the
brotherhood of man and the fatherhood
OF God" The spirit that inspires the
crusaders is unselfish. They give their
time and money and look for no re-
ward save the success of their cause.
1t Is the spirit of that Saving rem
nant' that each generation has al
ways had in sufficient numbers to pre-
vent humanity from lapsing into a
mass of stagnant selfshness, the spirit
to which civilization owes the best
OF what 1t has today.
however one may view the movement.
It's outcome will be watched with in
terest, and by none more than by that
large class of intelligent men who sense
the injustice and wrong of our present
system of taxation and are willing to
have tried any experiment that prom
lses better results in Juster and more
equal bearing Of the common burdens.
1t Is not necessary to be q single-tax-
er to take this view and to svrnnatb,ze
with the crusaders Of Delaware.
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to the greatest number, and offers
Out Of all the school children of St
Paul, only a small percentage ever
reach the central high school. Of the
remainder, only a little fraction ever
reach the higher grades. The school
enrolment is broad at the base, mar
rowing at the top to a favored few. 1t
has been the reproach the too just re-
proach, of the past that too much of
our funds and of our teaching energy
were devoted to this minority of the
elect. One of the greatest excellences
of the school system of ST. Paul is the
care that is given to primary instruc-
ton. The kindergarten goes one step
further yet. 1t furnishes the sub
structure on which the whole fabric
must rest. 1t builds that broad and
sure. 1t gathers in the little ones at
the most impressionable age 1t reaches
those who, a few years later, must
leave the school room to help their
parents or to battle for themselves
with the world. 1t adds one year or
two years to the school life of those
pupils whose advantages are fewest
and whose needs are greatest What
ever changes or economies may become
necessary, it should be the last sacrifice.
AS long as there is dollar expended
in st. Paul for public instruction, as
long as there are children gathered
anywhere to be prepared for manhood
and Womanhood and citizenship, the
kindergarten should and must be doing
Its work. Take first, if anything must
go, the educational advantages of the
children who have been longest in
school, of those whose parents are best
able to give them private instruction.
But preserve the kindergaEtens. Guard
the helpless, and protect public educa-
ton at its most vital and its most de-
fenseless point. This is the cry of
the mothers Of st. Paul 1t is the
demand of the great masses of the
people of st. Paul. In the name of the
people it will prevail.
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A NEW PERIL.

1t is time that the pretensions of
scientists to be humanity's benefact-
ors should be exposed Everybody
knows that the mental and spiritual
development of man In the last hun
dred years has not kept pace with ma
terial progress, which has rushed on
at such headlong rate that the bodies
and souls which are our Inheritance
from quieter century are sorely put
to 1t to keep their foothold In such
a rushing age. When the world had
more time than it has now, living was
an art; in this generation it has been
reduced to science, that is to say, 1t
has been robbed Of both beauty and
leisureliness. The hours that have
been added to our days by the time
saving devices OF the era are more
than reabsorbed nv the amount Of
skilled lodging necessary to keep out
of the way of such devices of science
as the trolley car and the microbe We
asked of science gifts, and she has
given us duties. Under the pretense
Of earning our gratitude, her devotees
are daily making the world more
difficult place to live in. and life
more arduous exertion.
The latest enemy to our peace is DR..
Allan McLane Hamilton. who comes
forward in the Century Magazine to
offer a most distressing warning. DR..
Hamilton is q New York alienist and
ne says that in order to keep our cere-
bration healthy and our word-symbols
we'll in order we must not trifle with
either, and must devote greater atten-
ton to our speech. Careless, slovenly
habits Of speech will react upon the
speech-centersa of the brain, causing a
functionary perversion. Under some
circumstances the resulting disorders
may closely resemble those due to
actual, structural disease OF the brain,
and it is conceivable that disorganiza-
produced by this purely peripheral
stimulus. Among the bad habits like
ly to lead to such dread results DR..
Hamilton points out society small-talk,
baby-talk and the affectfonate employ
ment Of dirninutives such as are used
'by young lovers or by those who for
the first time stray into the devious
and f1owery paths Iof matrimony."
OF course DR.. Hamilton knows what
he is talking about, and, we shall prob
ably meekly succunb to utter ration
ality of speech as we have done to
boiled water, health woods and whole
wheat bread. At the same time is it
not conceivable that the little Ian
guage" used by mothers and lovers
may amount at times to recreation,
and be an actual rest and benefit to a
brain oyertaxed by severe. logical
thought? We. inYite the attention of
alienists to this possibility. 1t de-
serves consideration. And in the mean
time let all who wish say "didums"
and "tweetest" freely, in view of the
fact that the unsparing hand of science
may shortly uproot these desirable vo-
cables from our speech.
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GREETED DIR. RHODES.
Pastoral Reception to Rev. and Mrs.
Dudley Rhodes.

The members of st. Johns church
gathered in the guild hall last even
ing to greet and make welcome among
them their new rector and his wife.
Rev. and Mrs. Dudley Rhodes. The
rooms were decorated prettiIy with
evergreen. while brightly lighted, soft
ly shaded banquet lamps added color
Heavy rugs were placed about the
floors. Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Irving
and Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Schurmefer
stood with Dr. and Mrs. Rhodes, and
introduced the guests to them. Mr..
and Mrs. w. T. Kirk and Mrs.
Mitchell greeting newcomers at an
other part of the room. Coffee and
chocolate were served from a table
presided over by Mrs. H T. Meginniss
and Mrs. G. Fl. Prince, assisted by the
Misses Ames, Richardson, Gussie
Richardson, Chapman, Van Worries,
Kelley, Beebe. Badly and Cooper.
Among the many who came in during
the evening to meet DR.. Rhodes were
Gen. and Mrs. w. B. Bend, Mrs.
Matthews. Mr.. Finch, Mrs. Green, DR..
Price, Maj. G. O. White, Misses White.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Peet. Mrs. VIII
lam Wright, Mr.. and Mrs. F. l.. Chap
man. George Squires, Misses Smythe.
Miss Horn, Fitzhugh Burns, Mr. and
Mrs. d. Moreland, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. $.
Bryant, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Bryant,
Mr.. and Mrs. Badly. Miss Badly, Mrs.
F. B. ekllogg. Mrs. Mairs, John Town
send, Mrs. Cook, Mrs. n. NJ. Pearce,
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Rice, Mr.. and Mrs.
Sturtevant, Mrs, Goddard, Miss God
dard, Will Goddard, MIR. and Mrs. J.
C. Morton, Mrs Dennis Follett, Mrs.
J. H. Ames, R. B. c. Bement, Mrs.
Sylvester Cary, Mr.. and Mrs. w. II.
Merrick, Mrs. Charles Shandrew, Miss
Shandrew, Mrs. S. S. Wemott, Misses
Wemott. Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Eller, Mr..
and Mrs. McGucken, Mr.. and Mrs. B.
Bliss; Reverends Holmes, Haupt,
Andrews, Dray and Gessner The
ushers We're: Messrs. Myers, Stewart,
Moore, James Denegre and II. L.
MeginnisS
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THE SINGLE TAX IN DELAWARE.

THE SINGLE TAX IN DELAWARE.
Delaware is entitled to attention be-
cause of something going on in its
narrow limits more significant than
the question whether Gas" Addicks
owns it or whether Mr.. Dupont shall
sit in the chair in the senate that the
Bayards have graced. 1t is now the
theater of a movement in which pol
tiles and morals taxation and ethics
are mingled, and the moral sense
is appealed to as it has not
been since the nation was stirred
by the little party that named
James c. Birney. as it's presidential
candidate and entered on a moral cru
sade against slavery. On that little
state are concentrated the efforts Of
those men all over the nation who be-
lieve in the tax system promulgated
by Henry George, whether they accept
it to the extent that Mr. George
breaches 1t or, whether they view it
from the practical side of the best pos
sible solution of the svexed and aggra-
waiting system of direct taxation now
in vogue in all the states.
The single takers decided, in their
national conference that preaching
had reached the point where practice
should be attempted. They were
blocked in most of the states by diff
culties that seemed insuperable. Con-
situations, with their provisions for tax
levy, stood in their way. The size Of
states and their population made too
formidable an obstacle. So they decid-
ed to select a small state. In Della
ware they found the most favorable
conditions. The constitution provided
only that the legislature should make
whatever system of taxation it adopt
ed uniform over the state, leaving it
free to adopt any system The field
is promising one and the conditions
are favorable. The legislature con-
sists Of thirty members, nine in the
senate and twenty-one in the house,
representing the counties, each of which
has, regardless of population, three SEN
ators and nine representatives. There
are only about 10000 voters in the state
and the much lafgeraipart of the popu-
lation reside I'M the' cities and towns
while the farmssa area largely owned by
the old families1and occupied by ten
ants. !
The crusade-f8r a Crusade it is, with
all the religioustferNor of one--began
last June. and has beSp pushed steadily
ever since. The Philadelphia single
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GREEN BAY SALE POSTPONED.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Feb. 29.-An
appeal from the order of sale of the
Green Bay, Winona & st. Paul rail-
road has been taken by W. S. MONEY!.
representing the first mortgage bond
holders. A stay of proceedings has
been granted, pending the appeal. 1t
will require from 80 to 60 days before
the court Of appeals can take up tho
case.