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long run than II he We're compelled to
stay In Office to keep his children from
starving. II 4 happens that n man can
find within the councils OF his party q
leader older than he Is. and Whom he
trusts thoroughly and to whose fortunes
\ he can attach flmself. II believe 1t to be
a good thing. The fact that this sort
of attachment batween4 o. leader and fol-,
lowers ID so OF ten used for bud ends In
American politics should not blind us to
Its rightnesa and excellence when It Is
used for good ends h n "a s35
"a mans attachment to Ia party, looked
at In this way. does not imply that he
agrees With every artlcle Of Its platform
any more than n mans attachment to- n
particular church implies that Tho be-
leves, or even understands. every sin
gle article of Its creed. a party, like q
church, is an institution and one which
seems to have proved necessary In the
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time, appeared scoft lctory. An army
OF three, entirely Under my orders ! "
Erendy plars we're shaping IL my + \ e END
41,ut putting trust nsprovidencc, y said
nothing. & + Ard otit III the wilds Il he four
OF us tlei,artea. Il was ON only child n N Y
own infancy Iiud passed fro1l, my mem en-.
Dry NJ Id me- II 81 tw clve, the ideas OF siS
we're ns SincomprcticRsible as are those OF
stwcttys to d tic universally professor OF
forty wanted 10 be a pirate. found
tho corner and across the road, Building
operations were in progress. Planks and
3poles lay ready to one q hand. Nature II,
Tho neighborhood #had placed convenient,
sly d shallow pond. tSwas Saturday 4.
5teinuoii. The nenrcst public-house was
slialii IN mile away. Immunity from inter-
3fcret,ce BY the British workman was thus
nssiiGed. u t occurred TO mo that by plac.
Ing my three dcpressed.looking relatives
on ono raft attacking them ysclf from
another, taking the eldest CIR $ slxpcncc
away from her. disabling tlieir raft. and
leaving them to drift without q rndder.
Innocent amusement would DO provided
for hal nm hour mt least. * Il 5sS Il IN
$is trheyEdld notsswnnt 10 play al pirates
5At{nrst sight Of the Spord thekthing that
called itself 81 boy began8sto crS.2i@l The
six-ycar-old5 lad snil she did mot like the
smell OF 1t. Not even after lad ex-
planned the game5to them were they any
the more enthusiastic for III u proposed
Red Indians They could go 4 to sleep IN
the unfinished building upon a sack of
$iima:,I would creep up through the grass.
set rro To tho house. and 3daEce around H.
whooping and waving my tomahawk,
watching withstiendish delight the frantic
but futile efforts OF the pale faces to 3es-
cape their doom, II did not catch on:
mot even that, The precious thing lin The
lace col Id begar to cry h n gain T he
creature concerning whom I could not
have told you whether II was male or fe--
male made no I attenlpt at argument, but
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BY SIR EDWIN AR OIL u!

the upper ranks rs Russia \ L society IA
characteristic as is the somber nd ss lttsss
perstttlous tempe ent Of the peasants
and common people. They called tho
Japanese yellow m onlseys. y and are orr
lly to-day learning what 1t means to so to-
way with q. nation Of 45,oooooo, all las
homogeneous as the rice grains In al
sack, all educated. sober. loyal. patriotic
and fearless OF deaf h-not witt the dntl..Ss
hopeless obedience OF the drilled Ssmo nj ~
but with the glad devotion Of q free and
respecting race,
N Even now the leaders OF = he war party
In st. Petersburg and MOSCOW are count
Ing upon the scores OF Ignorant yillagerng::
whom their generals and u.lrals can
afford to sacrifice, instead OF those sprtn15s
3ciples Of Justice and peaceful sproKrSssE
upon which their opponents take Sa stand.fa
How can It ba doubted 81 to VII ich9 infiursSs
ience civilization will prefer TO confdess
the future OF China and the Far - I8s s
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pretty generally recognize that a wise
man should not let his CHOICE OF candi-
dates be governed BY their national par
jty a ffiliations n l n
Ss Iaut even at the best the exercise Of
this political independ ence Is accompan-
led BY a loss OF; positive influence, The
independent vote may win ono election;
It'll can rarely Win two In successio AS
American politics Is conducte ed party or-
5gailization seena absolutely necessary for
the continuous carrying out OF a. DEF ined
policy from year TO yea r. q nd Z. even to
the consistent. execution Of any set OF
measures by the administration and leg
slslature within the limi of o. single year.
we may not like this fact, but We can
not a ford to- ignore it., s 4. Is
i. I believe 1t is both possible and wise to
take middle ground between the tlle-
cries OF the extreme parts on the one
hand and those Of the extreme lndepend-
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Sent on the her, and shat he who takes
this middle s ground lands the best
chance OF combining, tho requ site amount
of influence and hide pendence to make
/, hissw work a power for good NJ
In taking this 5lniddl ground I should
advise al m an to 80 "A = to- polite ur,
TIL he had some indep pendent means OF
support sufficient to keep y him and his
family from S tarvatio on on which he
could fall back Il Il he were q efeated for
office or felt he could no III Ii onorably ac-
jcept office under the coidi tions Imposed. !;
iIt ha has mo Inherited sweal til, s. II i swell
for him, toNget a. su ticlent start ms "a law
yer. or list. or, business man to
support before becoming a. candida e;s si
Z, This, basis u having ,5s been, al lined, q I
should advise him to n connect himself
with the :g part " whose; attitude on the
whole most meets his ~ lev, 4 Of what the
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!. BY .JERO ONE X. JERO Ml

tn that lot now. Why it'th 5iiks skss
10 pptht of,,th., IT, It'll the n otnins is t
a.'t.You'voS been buying lib II cteAH
suggested. Between 8ntli,p v SansWs
BB.,yeth, / think we've got them all. 4
Lbe a. few more 4 don't think tsW
&n1lticd an w OH MI sell ri tlisfii
more than SSyoti CAV u for them Hin
S,'Youre Etlimart,'' he answered \. regard
mo admirlngl y. yotl thee througllSex
st1ing, I'll you do. Is isi
5s.,1Iow do you work 1t ~ q sked&h
There Is Il time In tho day Sthens lfisl
confidential. i 3. Here Is this man HI
take lie you have botig him up $at,
average or a l1urdre1 pounds ID pictl
and that at that price m ost owrers!sW
fairly glad to sell. NJ z w folks outside
art schools have ever heard OF him
bet that at the present moment TIL
ism tone art critic who co III d Y spell
name without reference to . d tloilStI
in eighteen months YOU vi u ri be- selli
him for anything from ore til 0usaf,dsI
ten thousand pounds How Y rs z II dor
" How It'll everything done hiatt do33
Hwell,, he answered 6'"tby Garnet ht ffors
( get d chap on 8 OF your thort SofS chaptH
no wrlt'tht an article about B i -. is II 11st
another to arlthwersS hlm.t q Bsfor0Ss1s
$dono there,ll be a. hundred arti clesSabo
H. nth life, hi tn ear thrugg les me
do tn about his wi te. Then a s,ilIss
Sthold lat public auction Tor a 4 iousai
guiiieath. ''.s'' But how can YOU be Scsrta
1T will fetch thousand gu1eas ?'s
tterrupted. III happen to know thaszdt
Swho'th going to a buy e ill., He Fwmks
and fIg underst TODD. n "a fortnjs hts lat
there will be q thale n Of ha, q a doth
and the price will be- gone up by t Y
tina t.,.i he replied !. rising, n .sthe Am,Stici
smiollionaire hell jutht be& waifirg
the door-thtep A 70 the 8 thai e&s Soprrlss
4 by any chan co y corAe aero
Va H - said, laughing s, as turned
Ego. DOM you hold II on; to to Ion
that til all. was his advice.
Isl ls AZ sfs5 J Err ONE KEJERODfN
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see Their, ruff. / found him utterly so 5A'i
less x Al Z. & N. J. . ]. 4 Asst
10 expect a boy TO love learning and
culture Ii like expecting him 10 prefer
old vintage claret 70 gooscbctry wine
Culture for the majority Is an acquired
taste SpeukIng personally lam entirely
N agreement with the universlty pro-
lessor. 4 f,nd that knowledge prompting
TO observation and leading to reflection
tho most salts factory luggage with VI ich
q traveller through life can provide him
solf; 1Awouldg that I had more OF it, 70
be a bic To enjoy q picture is OF more nd M
that the university prot essor can urge IN
favor OF idealism am prepared to en-
Bdorse. But then i anl:--lct us say, thirty.
nine At fourteen my cnrdld 5opinlon was
that ito was talking rot / looked at
the old gentleman himself: a narrow
chested, specialized old gentleman, who
lived UP d bystreet He did not seem to
/ have much fun gof any sort. 1t was not
my IDEAL He told me things had beer,
written4in8a Language called Greek hat
X should enjoy reading, but: Ind not
even read ali Captain Marryat. There
were tales 81 OF Sir Walter Scotia ck
& IIarkaway's School avs q I felt I could
walt a while. There w9s IA chap called
tAristophanes, who had written comedies,
tsatlrizlng the political institute Ions Of $ e.
country that had sdisap peared two I ous-i
and years ago. Il say 1t without shame
SDrury Lane pantomine and Barnums
Circus called to me more strongly Wish
ing to! give the old gentleman q chance.
Ii dipped into TRANSACTIONS. Some OF these
old fellows were not as bad as I had Inn
n IA
written some really interesting stuff.
Here and there may be he was n bi long
awinded hut. takins him as a. wi ole.
there was go Sin him. There was an
other OF them Ovid was his name. IIe
could tell a story. Q vid could !. lie had
Imagination. It was a lmost as good as
gRobiEson Crusoe. : thought It would
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party service rather than public service g.
lis made to constitute "a claim for appoint.
8ment to salaried office or some form Of
reward. Pr 4l55 W b
u Seeing the evil which results from athls
loss OF kinlepende soHe men are N 4
tclined to go to the OF her& extr eme-to 6cut
loose from party organizations altogetll--
or, voting for the best m measures and the
best men without regard to the question
which party supports them. Those who
hold this view say that even 2 sma al
lminority5of independent voters could force
tho regular organizations to compete for
their approval and thus compel those
organizations to do better things for the
country than would otherwise be proba-
bile, They point to the presidential cleo.
Btions of j SS4 as an instance where this res
suit was actually accomplis he'd, Such
an independent vote is often q useful
thing. In municipal affairs It 4 Is now
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started to run; IL seemed to have taken
IL dislike TO this particular field. Il Stun.
bled over a scaftoldfng pole, and then y
also began to cry vhat could one do to
nmlise such people XII lett II to them to
propose something They thought they
would like Ito play at r. others'-t,ot In
this field. but III some other Held. The 1t
eldest girl would be other The Other
two would epresent ller children. They
had been taken suddenly III. NV ater--3
worlss.' as had christcned him. was to
hold Ills hands to his middle and groar,s
His face brightered up at tho suggestion
Tho nondescrlpt had the. toothach It
took up Its part without q moments hes
sitation and set to work to scream.
could be thssdoctor and look at thelr tom X
CUES. That was their "ideals" game. As
Ilhave said. ctnemberlng that afternoon,
Lean sympnthIze with the university
professor. mourning the absence OF TINT
versity ideals in youth. Possibly at six,
my own Ideal game may have been
aATothcrs.', Looking back from the pile
OF birthdays upon which 4 now stand. "
occurs to mo that worry proba bly, IT. was. y
But, from the perspective OF twelve, the
Protection that there were beings IN the
world who could md recreation IL such
fooling saddened me-. Eight years later, I
his father not being able to afford the
time, Il conducted Master aterwor ks,
now healthy. uninterestlng, g'nwky lad
to a school In Switzerland. It was my
first continental trip ! should have ems
joyed 1T better had he not been with me-
LIE thought Paris .'beastly hole He
did not share N dmiration for the.
Irrenchwoman: 3 he even thought her bad =
" dressed. why. she's SO tied up she.
can't walk straight" was the only I'M
preston she left upon him. We changed
the subject; It irritated me to hear him;
talk The beautiful Juno-lke creatures
We came across further on IN Germany
He said they were too fat. He wanted to
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INCREASING DEMAND FOR POETRY IN AMERICA

suggests the wreathed bays) says that
some OF them have orumhled lready.a 81
ri But this bewilderlng pile OF poetry lies.
before mo, 4 It is. indeed. an astonishing
array, and the hundreds ot lyric titles In
the publshers' new catalogues are still
more Astonishing, There Is everything In
this present boiling OF the bards, from
"IIasty Pudding Foemsn and 'sonnets
of a Telephone C;lrl"isto ,srhe Queen'A
Chronicler" and 'eThe Great Procession,
shown and BY the announcements Of 3lfur
ture publications made by the men who
feed the hoppers. In tho poetry mill that
half the population Is either writing or
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stra.tion, inasnu UGH as hey q re nose on
which a ration finds It hard estl to recede
from when has on &c ken UP q posi-
3tlon so that the friend " interyen ton, Sof
ia third party is especia Il y va ua BILE. r.
however, there be 8as gen eral provision for
referring such quest ions. It becomes 2
matter of3dutyS and, good faith to- stand
by the "a treaty ard lie tjR these questions s.,
be referred (. / & there be nc such provision
the referring OF them lis distasteful. be-
cause liable to \ be Il construed as 4indi-
eating want OF spirit One general ar
sbitratlon treaty at least has. believe.
been already concluded between3two pow
5ers providing for a reference TO- 7 lie
Hague tribunal OF 4 al d isput es " hatever
which have failed ,to bes settled by ordi7
nary5negotiations.g "
The value Of 81 Tbitratio Ion. or o Of con-
Citation by til Irds party lies not merely
In Its 5proyiding;a means 70 determining a.
difficult ISSUE 81 y awS or fact but ain
Its making it. easy conte ding
partieg' Is aba te their Te ectiye spreten.
SONS with out ] any For
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the Ellzabethan age. And nobody OF all
these rhyming folks but is WILLING. to adj
nit that what is written In the way Of
verse now Isl. on an sayerag &c, as good po-S
setry, X notsbetter. than what WAS writ
ten In the reign Of the red rheaded queen
when that serene senate OF intelects, the
scholars OF the future. shall weigh and
slit the postlcal product OF the ages they
will find as much merit IN What Is now
find In the poetry OF the past They are
capable OF fvolcng tho dictum that In
that distant day the idols we now, wor-
deed, IIamlln Garland "a poet whose name
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BY AR THUR q. HADLEY
q S President Of Yale University

government Of the country. We attach
ourselves 10 It when we believe Sit sisg dos
ms good y and rs long as. We have SYM
spathy with Its general aims and 4 pslrsr
poses, and believe that lis doing more
good than harm, there Is no oblga ton
upon us to separat q ourselves from n on
to act In antagonism to- 1t becausa ere
Nare men within It's pale W hose onduct,
we disapprove Or articles in Its Plat fornnS
concerning which we feel serious doubt
The man who becomes a free lance In
either politics or reli on bituall ~ loses
more In the way OF influence for good
than he gains IN the way Of independ-s
lence from, evil. His error IS almost as
great as that ot the man who so COM
gpletely sinks his indy lduality In the
party that lie Is not able to improve Ats
standards or insist that It shall become
n means OF service to the nation. n e
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a neat little skirt dance the while,
She wesntedying "a rterB all. I, IA
Iow do we know this MI \ Il Because Of the
fact. that Spll les OF poetry are coming from
the press that in one month#no less than
forty three different volumes Of verse
ton alone. There now lies be fore me on
my desk printed volumes OF verso by the
score. All day / have been drinking at
this new Pierlan fount, LAYING In it.Iand
il am prepared 10 oyerwhelm with confl-
sion anybody who says this snot1 a poetic
age. III. q
Why, tits safe to say that there are
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We Have n 20 Poets, '8I8f which was that.
|. now-a-day Us nobody read poetry orscared
to listen to 1t. fact. we have been told
so often that this was not ~ sing ms age
or an age that lent an ear I o song that
we had come to accent, the scholar
5lyf folk had assured us was "the prosuic.
tendency OF the times VI Us ii q
55 The wise ones said that the Muse was
dying, and that settled IT,
Ngf But Just when We had thought that we
throat. and were wondering II fred AUS
@tinswould be induced to act as one o & her
fpall-bearers, Rup. sho springs from. where:
forth FORT She bubbles Into soulful song doing
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i Coming immedlately a fterl a. statement
made in a; special cable by Lady Henry
Somerset that the taste for poetry Is on
tho wane among English women. this
article by Bailey Willard. the noted
4 American author, sis OF extra ordinary In
4terest |: = 81 4 " 5Ss}. H
Whoa, Pegasus /! Let mo get my feet
into the stirrups b Oh, how can I joinl-the
l'arnassian steeplechase without o llrm
seat II, the saddle? u
you know about that, dear reader Don't
you know that the Ca 10 vi Muse is Oft and
away rough lding like mad WI tn whole
roMgllrriddeni herd stampedadg a her heels
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By BAILEY MILLARD

one OF the books at hand bears In its9
preface the solemn assertion that ,,s,all.
men are poets. \ and ]. for one. cannot
galnsay It. II (: Il Ssf 4 A
OF course, many Of the torty-three new
volumes OF verse are by Lyrical Ilttlsj
The front, But there IS in the batcl, good
poetry, as we'll as bad, which Is no great
wonder. seelng how thoroug hly the infec-}
a ton has spread over the land, "a
Bliss Carman hlmself-who says that thia
Is not poetic age and that we ara nor d
singing nation. With so many writer's Of
verse (and hetnumber is growing daily,
there must be also numberless read ers, f.5
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time like youth.'' and that during a brief
score or score and a half Of years IL
the best of life's happiness and Its Keen
est enjoyment, to be found,
B recall a. day In early youth wlenJI
looked out on ~ colorless prospect mud
srebuked Fate for delaying enjoyment,
There are only a few more years left,
for me to enjoy pleasure aud amuse-
ment.'' said. After they pass there
5MlllFb be nothing but duty, aud ambition,
ana usefulness but the power to enjoy
the good things Of llfe WILL have gone
With youth Do not cheat me. Q FataI
ss my little share While am able to
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output OF poetry-an amazing, ~ in ere
ible output-and all tho liternti who ma We We
been telling us that this Is not a poetic
age either know not Of what they speak
or else they are trying to lull s'us Into l,f'
5fancied security Sd "a .
Hiss Qarmany whose forth bright at
been particularly painful and many other
stern critics Of THIS supposed Day of
the Dollar have been hurting their bolts
against the indifferent Public because;
poetry. When Mr.. Carman said not long
ago that poetry was out az date, hose
Of the aesthetic life sighed. ~ A las, too
true |" Other magazine, writer's have
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t m, II HAS been tho fashion for men
& ri and women, particularly ,Yo-
" speedy PASSING OF time and N to
M H regard youth as the only season
OF absolute happiness or satisfactory en-
JcSment. & 4 s y III Z 4 5siS
s. I'oets and authors have enpha s. lied this
idea to ISL CHI an ex lent and with such
artistic nhrasing, and painters and sculp-
tors have no embodied At In iYilyg works.
I that 4 IT. seems almost a confessiq1 a Of
utter lack of ideality to CUES tlon II.
s{ YetssIlot only do question i. but Il 81.
ilyrefIt the sass erticn Of ages nd
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ARBITRATION BETWEEN AMERICA ENGLAND

$of any auesti Ions which may iiereaftes
arise between til Gin. 50 far ass Britai1
5is5 N csrned, here need Be no doub
any, goyernmen {. whe Their liberal ors
would favor IT. and would be he artily
by P rliament and by the na
Stion.s5 Isl however for The United statS1|
rather than for E,ngl md y to make ths]
fliext move. Our people have "A great sd
smirntton and regard fort dent Roosesl
welt and for If. Hay who IL well srea
mem bered here as one Of the most ems
aging personalities iii the long and dis
list OF American am bassadors
to- Britain. e Is safe Ito say tha 81 No
friends Bof Amer RIGA nd the friends offs
reace will follow thu sympat
good will wllateve r nc ion may 10 ken
Eirf The United States on the Ines ind M
Gated by the resolu ions d Of the Nv shss
fillgton Con ference Of January s. our
Anglo American league IS prep M
formulate d response to t hose resolu tons
and believes that n t will be In accord
with the general feeling Of this coun-
try
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ience to traditional creeds, not by long
prayers for God 10 do our work for US,
but by our continual application Of the
God-gyen qualities which lie with u.s.
love, Will, selr-control. helpfulness and
hope. ~ Al "
heavens on earth, and In the realms be-
yond. { W - {
They do not depend upon youth for their
But Youth depends upon them.
5A While.thRy last youth lasts. Every day
II hear men and women OF middle age
signing for the lost II usions OF yoltll.
mora beautiful, than the Ala n1pedi M t1ssa4
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~ HERE AND NOW y

thought in verse, and nd. sent 1T ont to de-,
press other liyes and other hearts. ii
1t was something about The cruelty OF
Fate which sent Joys too lat e-and those
final words were SEQ MS n requiem
over the graves of hope and happiness.
That was long ago, and have lived to
learn that nothing comes too late unless
we choose to Believe hat all happiness
Lies within cirenmscribed period Of
years. 1t Is the mind or man, not the
irony OF Destiny, which makes delayed
desires disapp in ting.
IN he ep he emotion alive With sympathy
i ke en- the amblt ions alive with hope, keep
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depression In the other. down the main
streets OF Toxic and St. Petersburg. One
bears the name Of the Gina, the other
is known I'd all the world as the Nevskt
Prospect The contrast between them
would seem as strongly marked as Is the
difference between the empires them
selves in climate. situation. inhabitants.
manners and national dress.
The main street in the Russian metrop.
oils might almost be styled magnificent
IN the long Vista of Its unbroken range.
and the Imposing character OF Its public
buildings and monuments. London has
nothing which can match in striking eff
feet that wide thoroughfare viewed from
the banks OF the Neva. In the broad,
open space upon which the noble street
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V By Ella Wheeler Wilcox y

30 arc the realities of mature life more
beautiful than tho Illusions Of youth, II
We have used care IN the stitching. Even
a. We have narred the design We have
the added experience which youth lacks,
and wa are prepared ia do better work
on the next pattern, given by the Great
Artist. TOO late! There Is no such thing
as any know ledge, or success, or hdppi-
ness coming too ate;
In our Imagination.
It is all eternity, X Is a circle without
beginning or end. S..8l I q M
We have always lived ,aKd Will always
liSe,S ii M ~ sSs w IS " M
There y no aes1 os8 letting youF body,