The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-21


 interest to the origin of figure
 which Is used to characterize those
 writers and critics who are accused of looking wholly for the faults in public men and of passing by much that Is good in our system of government and in the representatives of the people. The man with the Muck Rake in the Pilgrims
 Progress was one whose mind was fixed
 on carnal things and who could not be jersuaded to lift his eyes to the celestial
 joys which might have been hls.-Kansas City Star.
 Then ran Innocent in (for that was her
 name), and said to those within, Can you
 think who Is at the door? There is Chris tiana, and her children, and her com
 panlon, all waiting for entertainment here, Then they leaped for joy, and went
 and told their Master. So he came to
 the door, and, looking upon her he said, Art thou that Christiana whom Chris tian. the good man, left behind him when
 he betook himself to a pilgrims life? | Christiana-I am that woman that was
 so hard-hearted as to slight my husband s troubles, and that left him to go on his journey alone; and these are his four children: but now I also am come. for I
 am convinced that no way Is right but
 his fA
 Interpreter-Then is fulfilled that which also is written of the man that said to his
 son, "Go work today in my vineyard.
 And he said to his father, will not; but
 afterward he repented, and went" (Matt.
 xxi., .2s-29.
 Then said Christiana, So be 1t, Amen.
 God make it true saying upon me, and
 grant that I may be found at the last of
 him in peace, without spot, and blame lessl
 Interpreter-But why standest thou thus at the door? Come in thou daughter of Abraham. We were talking of thee but
 now, for tidings have come to us before,
 how thou art become pilgrim. Come, children. come in; come. maiden, come in. So he had them all into the house. So when they were within, they were bidden sit down and rest them; the which
 when they had done. those that attended upon lne pllsIlHiS III lho HVuso tdiuS itto
 the room to see them. And one smiled, and another smiled, and they all smiled for Joy that Christiana was become a pilgrim. They also looked upon the boys; they stroked them over the faces with the hand, in token of their kind reception of them. They also carried it lovingly to
 Mercy; and bid them all welcome into
 their Masters house After while, be-
 cause supper was not ready, the Interpre- ter took them into his Significant Rooms.
 and showed them what Christiana's hus-
 band had seen some time before. Here
 therefore. they saw the man in the cage, the man and his dream, the man that cut
 his way through his enemies. and the
 picture of the biggest of them all, to- gether with the rest of those things that
 were then so profitable to Christian. This done, and after these things had been somewhat dgested by Christiana and her company, the Interpreter takes them apart again, and has them first in a room where was a man that could look no way but downwards with a muck
 rake in his hand. There stood also one
 over his head, with celestial crown in his hand, and proffered him that crown for his muck rake; but the man did neither look up nor regard. but raked himself the straws. the small sticks, and the dust of the floor.
 Then said Chrstians, l persuade my self that l know some what the meaning