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mental outlook the mind has become alb
Solutcly sterile, 1t is Incapable of genu-
inely original reflection; and ultimately
reaches point at which 1t comes to n
dead stop, and remains in a stultined con-
dition, inaccessible to new ideas. That is
the fate of the majority. People call it
growing Old. they say a man Is m tiQuatcd
in his Ideas, or that ne is a gen ration
behind the times. The mind has no bust
ness 70 grow old. and was never intended
by the natural process of evolution to do
so. AS long as the intellect remains I'M
impaired by bodily disease. il should pro-
gress and expand. This mental advance
is retarded, not assisted, by the conveu-
tiOnal method Of what is called improV
Ing the mind. People read far too much
and think great deal too little. The
former is good only inasmuch as it en-
Courages the latter. The man-let him
be Smith or RobinsOn-who gives out to
the world one original, albeit humble,
thought of his own, is worth dozens OF
specialized savantS who are so ChOCkful
Of Renaissance and quotation that their
minds are incapable OF being applied praC-
tically to the common things Of everyday
life.
How intelligent people can be expected
to put their minds-like Chinese labor
into a compound to be restricted within
prescribed limits, it passes common sense
to explain. But these are the prevalent
conditions of the intellectual world Of to-
day. A clever child of six or seven, so far
as 1t is capable of applying its powers of
reflection at all. can invariably-and often
very inconveniently-hit upon the simple
truth in matters that come directly under
it's observation. This power is lost as we
grow older, because 1t is driven out OF us
by our standards of education and culture.
There is no other explanation of the mem
tai deterioration that takes place IN
adults. The Imagination, which Is the
most delicate piece Of machinery IN the
whole composition of the human being Is
destroyed at the earliest possible period
during the ordinary educational process;
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carry out their plan of terror without arm
ing their members. So the committee
promptly decided to supply them all with
reSolyerS that would shoot far and after
careful consideration those of the Brown
ing pattern were chosen. At that time the
Russian police were armed with M inferior
weapon supplied by army officers who made
a fortune out of the contract by paying one
third of the price the government had al
lowed them. Since then terrorism has
taken such strong hold on the country
that the government has followed the ex-
ample of the Bund and given the police
"Brownings."
Having decided. however. what kind of
revolver 1t wanted. the Bund's next move
was to get them into the country. A depu-
tation went to Germany, ordered large
quantities of "Brownings," and left their
expedition in the hands Of a man they could
trust, who lived in Berlin and had some
connection with coal merchants. To those
who know the vigilance of the Russian
frontier gendarme 1t must seem a hopeless
task to smuggle thousands of reyolvers into
Russia at time when their sale in the
gunsmiths' shops was strictly prohibited
and nobody was allowed to bring single
hrearm into the country. but the Bund as
usual arose to the occasion. The nearest
route from Russia to Berlin 10 By Warsaw.
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ment of the piece the identity of which
is undIstinguishable for several bars of in
coherent and spasmodic change in velocity
and strength of tone-the only two char
acteristics which the mechanism is able to
produce. a Limitation that Is amply COM
pensated for by the extent TO which. they
of the composer. The amateur exponent OF
Wagner gradually works himself to a de-
gree Fahrenheit ruinous to the starch in
collars and shirt front and at the grand
climax resembles a Dervish in the last eX-
trerncs of religious ecstacy more than any
thing else known to be human The over
ture is now over, and the exhausted per
former explains to the admiring circle
around him that the entire expression, which
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playing is bound TO be The conductor Of
an orchestra studies every note in the score
Of a symphony or other musical work which
lie is ambitious of presenting. He knows
the value Of every note In it. the signin-
canoe of each theme. the part allotted to
every single instrument for which il has
been orchestrated, Every meditation Is
ianlllar to his mind; in all probability he
could make a very respectable attempt at
writing out the entire score from memory.
Paderewski himself would not venture to
play a single piece contained in his great
repertoire in public, until every theme had
been carefully phrased every bar brought
10 technical perfection, the whole construc-
ton of the work analysed and reviewed
until the composers aim had been eiuCi-
dated. Not so the manipulation of the
mechanical piano player, who. armed with
his expressive feet and prmed by the
automatic instructions on the perforated
roll. boldly grasps the two levers which are
to be the spokesman of his soul confident
that he can achieve in five minutes what It
has taken every artist, from List DOWN
ward, years Of hard and incessant labor
stimulated by genius OF the highest order
to accomplish.
But, after all. bad as it Is, the mechan-
Teal piano-playtng craze Is only one CT
the latter products of a spurious culture
1t is branch, not root, of the evil The
trouble originates, as has already been
suggested, in the traditional method Of
training. the mind. There is a certain
stock of ideas, maXims facts and other
items of knowledge contained in recog-
nized educational works. To become a
cultured person in the ordinary accept
ance of the term it Is necessary to i'm
bibe as much of this secondhand material
as the individual mind is capable of taxi
ing in.
To call this accumulation Of stolen goods
culture" is a sad misconception of all
that the term should imply. Under the
process of acquiring this ready-made
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SQUIRRELS WINTER STORES
Hoard Very Little-Chipmunk's Pre-
paration for Cold Weather.
Fro the Bangor News.

J A1N1iS-OAl pnunk Pre-
paration for Cold Weather.
Fro. the Bangor News
Here in Maine-in fact all over New r-~,-
land-reC squirrels - not nut h,. --,,
hoards of any kind for winter uso W.
a Maine red squirrel has filed itself g.r-b
acorns and beech nuts 20 Will HID. r.,,,
here and there-uu3 r leaves. in h.lI,g, nos
IN cracks OF riftgd trees and among sto-,
heaps.
An average red squared, having the run
81 an oak grove in the fall OF the wear may
IN me course Of tWo weeks hide away fror,
TWO TO four quarts of acorns. though they
VIII be in perhaps twenty different places
ana III no instance which We have noted has
any nut been shelled
The squirrel which plans a hoard nj ,,,,.,
and makes deliberate preparations for win
ter is the little chipmunk or strJped sc,,,r-
rel, which seeks winter quarters soon after
heavy frosts and which remains I'm hiding
all winter. The chipmunks often hide as
many as two quarts of shelled beech nuts
in one place. Their storehOuses are as a
rule, under the ground in slcping and sandy
soil, the burrows having been dug with trlIo
engineering skill, 50 that no freshct can
drown them out.
There is a colony Of chlpmunks among
the mounds of graves in the cemetery m,
Indian Island Old Town. which numbers
nearly 100 individuals; and it speaks well
for the kindness Of the Indian children to
know that the little workers are permitted
TO live so near to human habitatlons. for
the Indian cottages are on all sides
1t Is believed that most observing woods
men Will say that the red squirrels OF tGis
vicinity seldom make large caches of pro-
visions for winter consumption and never
shell the stored nuts In fact, the red spe-
cies have no need to pay much heed TO such
matters as they are abroad and active in
the coolest days of winter, as much as they
are in midsummer. so precautions for food
are not demanded. As the red SQUIRRELS
subsst for good part of the year upon tho
cones of pines and spruces, which hang In
the limbs they do not care how deem or
hard the snow may be. feeling secure in
finding all the food they want among the
treetops.
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Moreover, large quantities of German coal
are sent to Warsaw from Berlin. The reader
viii now see the Importance of the man In
Berlin who had some connection with coal
1t was he who loaded the covered coal
trucks with Brownings, which were packed
in small cases and lightly covered with
'black diamonds"
Once these trucks reached Warsaw the
Bund. who had already made their ar
rangements with the local merchants. took
care that the men who unloaded them In
the goods depot were all in their pay. and
thousands of Brownings We're smuggIed into
Warsaw while the government was diligent-
ly searching the gunsmfths' shops and the
frontier stations. At last their suspicious
were aroused and all coal trucks searched.
But the Bund. which had got wind of the
discovery. telegraphed to its Berlin agent to
send no more Brownings for the present
and turned to another resource, that of
disarming policemen. This Is done in the
small hours of the morning. when even the
military patrols have returned to their bar
racks and the streets are deserted small
band of armed Bundists will approach the
uniucky policeman a. he shivers at his post,
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pinion him to the ground, gag him. take
away both his revolvers and disappear In
the darkness as suddenly as they came.
This disarming became so frequent IN
Poland this winter that the authorities or
dered that there always should be two po-
licemen on duty at given points instead of
one. The Bund, however then sent eight
men instead of four, and shot both police
to be wondered at that the police force.
whose ranks have been terribly thinned by
assassination during the last twelve months,
lacks both candidates and courage.
So until the failure of the Moscow revolu-
ton. which was the defeat of all the Rus
sian socialists, the Bund was carrying all
before it. But when the authorities were
convinced that the military could be trusted,
they took strong measures against the
Bund. especially in Poland, where Jewish
socialists predominant and where terrorism
hos reached a pitch unknown In other parts
NJ RUSSIA. The Jewish quarters in all the
towns were patrolled from morning to
night. houses raided and persons arrested
by the hundred, both In the streets and
cafes and even in their own homes. Those
arrested in houses where bombs are found.
as we'll as those caught throwing bombs,
are shot without trial. Two Jewesses.
both Grauman's accomplicas, were promised
that their lives would be spared and that
they might even hope for pardon from
the car II they would swear to have no
further communication With the socialists,
but as they declared they would be more
revolutionary than ever II they regained
their freedom they were shot.
It cannot be said. however, that these ex-
treme measures have stamped out the Bund
or the terrorism It's members practice. Jews
and Jewesses of the lower class. carried
away by what they consider the heroism of
those lately shot, are Joining the society In
larger numbers than ever. Manufacturers
who refuse to pay for strike times are still
shot, policemen still murdered. bombs stin
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ana the % pnP Tsep he has I lust eo%-
stuffed with alien ideas until he is
lectual development except the acquisition
OF borrowed knowledge and the stealing OF
other peoples ideas.
We have seen the unrealHy Of what
passes. in general and accepted sense. for
modern culture. What. then is genuine
culture2 How Is the. reality to be produced
IN place OF the sham? 1t Is not easy to be
constructive in the face OF tradition that
has enveloped US all since we first became
aware of the possession OF a thinking fac
ulty, and from which It would REQUIRE a
superhunan effort TO achieve entire esnan-
cipation. But 1t may safely be asserted
that the intellectual perspective which pre-
sents itself to the impartial observer Of to-
day Is an absolutely distorted one. and that
he who wishes to find the truth viii have
to grope his way forward almost in total
darkness. 1t is easier to perceive what Is
wrong than to suggest what Is right The
probability is that we are all PhIIstlnes
If We only knew ii. and that nothing else
could possibly be the outcome OF the tradi-
tlonal bringing-Hp to which all persons in
modern civilized countries are more or less
subjected The attainment OF a esrrfg.
uhsopms teated culture would probably Is
| me work OF generations. when once the
tlsht road 10 that intellectual end has been
discovered; though the world is not ana
never has been, entirely void OF eyean is-aI
individuals for whom something approach
ing that Ideal standard might De fns. =,
| GAINED. II was once said by Sir tYqH.r
scout That the best part Of mans sdurs-
ZION - that which he gives To himself
ne only education which is OF real service
70 we Individual IS that which develops his
thinking faculties; whereas the whole i....-
cSs OF teaching is directed toward their de-
stfuctlon hy hlliug the mind with ratar.-
mace stock of knowledge instead OF trg.r-
ing II TO make its own inyestieatf-rs .,,f
mus 10 add something 10 the sum af .--
i4ah WISDOM Culture which consists of
setNile suoJectton TO conventional stand
| afds OF taste, sentiment and intrIsafrl..s
attainment Is merely a stucco imitation III
tne genuine culture possessed by chat small
minority Of artists ana thinkers on u,......,
mental Independence the rest OF rla ..f..-
Gated world contentedly battons
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thrown. Indeed, the Bundists affirm that
they are stronger than ever, that this re-
preston pleads their cause and that they
will be revenged for every citizen" who Is
shot and every revolver which Is confis-
Gated. Workmen, demoral'zed by the long
strikes and excited by the Bunds propa-
ganda, being dismissed from factories
which. unable to withstand the present
financial crisis have been obliged to close
their doors. These men, starving and des-
perate, will join the ranks of the terrorists;
massacre and rap'ne must inevitably fol-
low. and the last state Of Russia viii be
worse than the first.
X
The Bunds new program includes a gf-
gantic scheme of propaganda among the
raw recruits. In five years time they af
firm, all the men serving in the Russian
army will be theirs. will join the Jewish So
cialists and refuse to obey the car. OF
course, 1t IS impossible to foresee how this
will work out. but the Bund IS rich, many
Bundists serve in the army, they have any
amount Of audacity and are moreover I'M
commonly well informed as to the govern
ments movements, If Russian officials put
on the convocation OF the dum8 much
longer. men whose opinions are now mod
crate Will join the Bundists out of sheer
despair, hoping to- effect by terrorism what
they have failed to obtain by moderate
means.
In a word the Bund, In spite of its acts
of horror and its anarchism, perhaps
rather because of these acts, has a future
before it, not In Russian Poland alone but
in the whole of the Russian empire where
Its influence Is spreading daily with such
leaps and bounds even the apathetic gov
eminent has been forced to recognize Re-
preston will not COW its members, for there
are too many Russian Jews who have moth
ing to lose and may have something to gain
by revolution. Their aim now IS to get as
much political influence as they can before
this revolution comes. as to take the lead
when the great moment arrives To those
who know the Russian or Polish Jew, his
tenacity, his stubbornnsss his solidarity
his hatred of his Christian neighbor, his
powers Of endurance. his genius for plotting
and his ability to sacrifice all for cause he
believes In, there can be little doubt that
the despised son of Israel, the outcast
Bundist and his enthusiastic sisters Will yet
play very large part In Russian history
X, c. Y
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transmitted to the instrument by his feet.
which appear to be capable OF unsupported
Lepths of emotion and 10 be the most sym
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STUCCO CULTURE
nY nARoLn Z. GoRsr.

- OCIETY. as It has organized and de-
veloped itself. has succeeded in
evolving monstrous network of
~ fallacioas and spurious shams which
is grossly misnamed culture.
The same cast-irou influences are brought
to bear upon the Individual mind at every
turn. There are canous of taste which
nobody dares to challenge. and to the rigid
exactions of which the vast majority sub
ject themselves without protest and In all
probability with perfect faith in their I'M
questioned propriety. Some have. ii is true
an air of FEASIBILITY on the surface: but
their ridiculous fallacies are easily explod-
ed. and do not bear the least investigation.
Take. for examp {, the prevalent notion
that 1t is bad taste to wear cheap jewelry.
Almost everybody will subscribe cffhand
to this absurd social axiom But cons der
the matter a little c, eyer vs. THAT IS good
taste in the We ring OF Jewelry? Does II
consist In the decoration o. person at tIie
rate of so many to~4us SteILAS Notiiie
could surely lie -.u.C vulgar than Tor
woman to cover UlIsel. with diamonds for
the purpose OF maxi splay OF wealth.
The truth is. Of cgur-e. that JeNelry should
only be worn 4 use it is IN itself beautl-
fui- not because D. represents so lnuCh
value. 1t would ag y.l gar to wear precious
stones of any Kind because they cost i
large sum of ulaeys and IL would bc stu
7.
Earity to wear la.r stones TO convey the
same impress on. The question is one. not
OF sterling value, but Of beauty and aFuSuc
merit.
49,,
Every thlng Us Il cei upon Stcn Il l''iS9
and artificial tasis that even the sent-
mguts natural TO human nature instead OF
being left TO deve Oh Themselves at the
right moment, are worked mp by artificial
means Every TcTular resort or pUpic
place Of amusement is carefully proNldeu |
with band tAe nauSiIe ~l o f
ne - ,,rrng t[a foshionabIo
.r,v-.Is that flock nancy together for that |
express purpose.
To judge OF the nHAetce tNetelSeu ny |
sham stimulus OF thlS khu N eNFIgHiy /
llie' az IS only necessary ~ I'Nllt nv
produced by the common O, Sdi ueH pl~ro
organ upon The norman Wllu- n tetIII'4S 1
toward maudltu sentiment IS experienced /
even 10y AN indy dual oi The most cuitiFtOc
Ell and refined taste uHoet the 4HIueute u
the siclly tr1Na7ly OF music percussloned |
ont Dy this Instrument OF torture me
iiioue asceudency II gains over lne iniIu
will Ie acknowledged - the candid NlcIlm' |
who knows how Gebased the artistic per |
Crpuuu can become by hearing Brndley |
Richards 'JajGen's Prayer vibrating |
above the traffic in disCOrdant octaves TO /
the aUlDmuanimCut of sOul-thrilNng runs |
ru and down the scale varied by harrow |
ing turns and beart-rendng shakes 1t Is |
said that e. panorama of his past life is |
com fr.r.I no viyid,v i'm the mind of drown |
frs man. who views i'm rapid succession all !
tra chief incidents Of his early childhood !
ana rrorfh which have impressed them
tf sr,fFiriantly y-ilainously PLAYED. accom- |
-,....i,.a an ti,fs for five highly strung indi-
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Probably no member OF the Bund has
manufactured so many bombs as Grammar.
whose likeness appears here. He was the
terror OF all quiet citizens in Warsaw for
he first organized the armed groups which
enter private houses and demand large
sums of money from the frightened oceu-
pants IT the Bund committee wanted
hsrnbs. Grammar could always supply them
In sizes varying from an ordinary sardne
box to that OF a ten-pound biscuit tn. He
batt1ed the police for long time. just
after the New Year a patrol nearly ran him
TO earth by following three suspicious look
ing men into his house They were ar
rested and the whole house was searched
but though the gendarnes found over
eighty bombs several thousands Of bullets
and twenty pounds OF dynamite, Grammar
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pathetic medium for conveying the inten-
tons OF the composer.
Even the unmusical person must perceive
what q travesty of art this mechanical
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safe. where rufHans and hooligans have
gained the upper hand OF the quiet citizen
md where financial ruin. the sure conse-
quenee Of anarchism, now threatens even
the richest inhabitants.
In Poland bomb-throwing is OF daily oc-
currence; policemen are assassnated at
he rate Of five a week. at least. In broad
DAYLIGHT and IN crowded streets In Poland
manufacturers and other labor employers
are forced to accede TO their mems extrava-
CANT demands by crowds OF armed rufiians
whom the men call to their aid at every
crisis II an employer declines TO be bull
lied he is killed by some mysterious bullet,
shot from nobody knows whence II ne
closes his factory he must flee from the
country with all speed otherwise assasifts-
ton il sure to overtake him. In word.
Poland today represents such a picture OF
terrorism as the world has not seen since
the horrors of the French revolution. over
hundred years ago
The perpetrators OF these crimes. the
makers OF all this trouble, are, of course,
the socialists aud in Poland, at least. that
party of Jewish social SITS commonly known
as the Bund 1t IS the Bund which dictates
ridiculous terms TO the manufacturer End
teaches the workingman to strike II Is the
Bund which signs the policemens death
sentences and fires the shots which kill the
manufacturers: 1t Is the Bund which arms
the masses, obtains dynamite and hurls the
deadly bombs which spread destruction
around them and make SO many innocent
victims.
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Some time ago the leaders of the Bund
saw that 1t was impossible fog them to
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Nv = EEE THROUGHOUT lIe IengIl
and breadth of the cars empire
has terrorism reached snch n
pitch as Ia Russian Poland,
where human life is no longer
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Crr..sal ir the United States and Great Eritaia
ny Curtis Hrownl
r..-1rtrT Natr-F obvious reasons, this article
...r.f b- s}gupJ. but the writer j. ii resident ~
wa--ae who is lu uuaCmmouly good position
PHI. .ruv whereof lac speaks Suffice 81 20 say that
D.. is the author Of the recent. much clsgossed
-...|. r tae Contemporary Review on Socialism
-... t..v5re Tty article printed herewith was
-r Hsr. raeu Illustrated vita photographs but the
Warsaw Photographer who was engaged for me
purpose ty our garrespoudeut set ont one day VITA
h.. camera yo take the pictures. and has never
f..l ...u aIaur. The Illustrations are therefore
HrE. from drawings bg Warsaw artist under tbs
-....-.- -1fer' isirn.
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- OCIETY. as 1t has organized and de-
veloped itself. has succeeded in
evolving a menstrous network OF
~ fallaclous and spurious shams which
is grossly rnisnamed culture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-01

To call this accumulation OF stolen goods
culture" is a sad misconception of all
that the term should imply. Under the
process of acquiring this ready made