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BY Fl. MONKS.

their rights as citizens. but also along the only lines calculated to prevent the mixture and consequent deterioration of the race.
 treaty between the United States and Japan which secures to each country and its people all the rights ond privileges of the other may appear on its face a square deal, but the fact must be borne in mine that very few, if any, Americans will take advantage of It's provisions by going to Japan in pursuit of employment or in,- provement, while thousands perhaps mil lions. of Japanese are ready to come to this country. The influence of the whole population of the United States would not Amerieanize one Japanese.
 The language, laws and literature of this country are Anglo Saxon, or, as We term it, English. The race is Caucasian. although there may be varying shades of color There should be no Dutch nor Dagos. and least of all should there be colonies In which people from European countries congregate to preserve their own language and customs It Is from such colonies that Mahas and Black Hands and anarchists take their origin; 1t Is in such colonies that danger turks and discontefft finds it's tools to avenge supposed injuries
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as may be heard when men say Amer ica for Americans" or England for the English" If we substitute the phrase, America for all men who agree to live according to American laws" we come nearer reaching the purpose of the AL mighty when He made the earth. Every nation has the right to make such laws as are best calculated to promote the happiness ->I welfare of it's people, and every stranger coming into a new ooun- try should be prepared to abide by those laws, if not, the sooner he leaves tho better, both for himself and the country If this principle were once clearly ex- pressed by one side and understood by the other there would be a sudden end to anarchists and their doctrines.
 When or how 1t occurred that the hu- man family became divided into distinct races is not clearly known, but certain 1t is that the intermlxture of these races is attended with deterioration and, on that account, their preservation depends upon the preservation of their individu- alsm. This is best accomplished by each race remaining In that part of the world to which it was assigned by nature and while the earth is free to every inhab- tant thereon to visit or sojourn the grow
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were, of a society the welfare of which it is his interest to promote. If he were given this knowledge and this feeling and no longer regarded as an alien or spoken of as a foreigner he would seek the socie- ty of and mingle with the vast cur rent of it's citizens in which he would soon forget his old language and customs and learn those of his neighbors. Against the known criminal and the anarchist the door should be rgldly closed, and should one of either class manage to get past the barrier his expulsion should be promptly done and publicly known.
 In this country there are millions of fertile acres lying waste while the peas ants of European countries are eking out a bare existence on small and barren plots of land. There are undeveloped re- sources here awaiting the hand of the la borer, who is standing idle in Europe; there's the opportunity for every man to live and prosper under the laws if he will consent to be governed by these laws, and it is not right to shut the doors of this country against the oppressed or im
 poverished or ignorant of other countries who desire to reap the advantages to be gained here. No more foolish or selfish expression ever was uttered than such
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by no means adequately secured nor have they ever been, by any system of law that has ever been devised in this world. A spiritual law, which dwells in the heart of the man, is the only known law that has ever properly regulated the social conduct of any human being.
 The old notion that when men entered upon society out of a state of nature, they yielded up a certain portion of their natural liberty in order to secure the rest, is a mere political speculation apart from the known historical facts. No man ever had a natural right to injure his neighhor. There can be no such thing as a natural right to do wrong. Besides, men did not originally center upon so- elety out of a state of nature." The first man that was born into the world was born into a society, and the so-called "state of nature" would, if 1t had ever existed, have been q most unnatural state. Man Is in his natural state only when he is in society. From the very nature and circumstances of his existence, so- eiety Is a necessity to him. Outside of social relations, he cannot even be born. We are born into families, and a family is
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CENTENNIAL HYMN.

By John G. Whittier. Our Fathers Godi from out whose hand The centuries falli like grains of sand, We meet today united. free, And loyal to our land and Thee, To thank Thee for the era done, And trust Thee for the opening one. Here. where of old. by Thy design, The fathers spake that word of Thine Whose echo is the glad refrain, Of rended bolt and falling chain. To grace our festal time, from all The zones of earth our guests, we call. Be with us while the New World greets The old World thronging all its streets, Unveiling all the triurnphs won By art or toll beneath the sun; And unto common good ordain This rivalship of hand and brain. Tn ou. who hast here in concord furled The war flags of a ga athered world, Beneath our western skies fulfill The Orlent's mission of good will, And, freighted with loves Golden Fleece, Send, back it's A onauts of peace. Fo- art and labor met in truce. F , beauty made the bride of use. We thank Thee: but, withal we crave The arstere virtues strong to save, The honor proof to place or gold. The manhood never bought nor sold Oh make Thou us, through centuries
 long.
 In peace secure. in justice strong;
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BY REV. s. p. WEST.

works of fiction. This would destroy q taste for solid reading matter. and there is too much knowledge to be acquired in other directions.
 In the brief space of this article at- tention cannot be called to all the works of fiction that may be read to profit, but a few may be mentioned representing the standard that should be set. In the House of Seven Gables Hawthorne has made valuable contribution to this class of literature, showing clearly the truth of the statement of Divine inspiration, "Be sure your sin will find you out" His gospel of need shows unmistakably the need of the one who came to deliver from sin In Scott's Iyanhoe, the aim is high and the purpose is pure. Victor Hughes, Les Miserables, Dickens David Copper field, Roes Barriers Burned Away, and the works of our Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, whose productions had their birth in the gulf city of our own state and whose best production Is probably Beulah. and Lew Wallaces Ben Hur, the hero of which Is the one ideal man of all the ages. BulWer and a great many others present true ideals, and may b eread to profit. Let the novels, almost without number, that have in recent years fallen, and are constantly falling from the press es of the country be judged by the proper standard, and let them stand or fall upon their merits. If they are true to human nature" If they do not pre- sent high ideals, they are not worth while. Let them alone. You do not have to read them to find out. You know strychnine is poisonous without taking 1t.
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"HE desire for literature in the form
 story is deep seated in the human
 X breast The most attractive liter ature to children is in the form of stories It is only a matter of adaptation to young and mature minds. Jesus Christ the incomparable teacher recognized this form of literature and taught great truths by parables. Great care should be ex- excised in the selection of works of fiction. Much of 1t is not onily waste of time; it is positively hurtful
 False ideals have been inspired, and many young life has been runed by the worse than worthless stories that have been put upon the market. Take a novel that tells of man who fell des- perately in love with another mans wife, and because of this unlawful love his whole life is blighted. Upon the mind of the young the impression is made that failing in love" Is a matter entirely beyond their control In which will and judgment have no part; that 1t Is like disease, they take and cannot help it, and from which they can never recover. Being thus impressed they take the first youthful fancy formed as being a fate from which they cannot be delivered. Nasty and immature marriages follow that result is blighted lives. Infdelity to ,Ie marriage VOW, and crimes of vari ous kinds are the result of reading bad books in which sins are apologized for and vice made acceptable by familiarity with ik.
 h works of fiction the ideal and not
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BY IRENE GARDNER.

She was an American woman married to an Englishman.
 And, when you come to look at tn e matter fairly, doesn't 1t seem as if her view was correct? Can a home be peaceful that has two heads equal in authority? You may say that when two people are rightly mated this may be possible. But such marriages are not frequent on this earth where we are all pretty human.
 According to the trend of opinion in the discussion refrred to a woman who had offers of marriage from both an Englishman and an American would have this question to decide. Shall I accept the American and thereby have a husband who always recognizes my auth ority as equal to his own, even wh len he doesn't want to, because he knows if he does other wise there will be trouble, or shall I marry the Englishman, who, nine times out of ten, will defer to and follow my opinion, not because he doesn't dare do otherwise, but because he prefers not to use the authority which he knows I recognize as his?"
 In one case she'll get a husband who yields to her because he has to- the other yields to her because he wants to,
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JOHN C. SPOONER
TOTAL DEPRAVZZ

pronigaey to another until they reach the lowest rung on the ladder of their downward course
 How many times one sees beautiful women who have been delicately reared and seemingly have all the noble qualities that could be desired in a woman, married well, their husbands Loyalty devoted to them, for whom for some physical indis position physicians sometimes prescribed some drug or alcoholic remedy in the use of which they not infrequently become perfectly reckless? In their abandon to the frivolties of society they may have also lost all control of themselves. and become quite indifferent to the appeals of their husbands, children and friends. No power seems able to restore them to their sense of duty or self respect-death alone bringing relief to them and their heartbroken friends. In such cases who shall say there are not inborn tendencies to total deprayity?
 If women in all their weakness are vic- tims of such innate evil propensties what of the countless numbers of men, who In their careers betray the old Adam that is said to be in every man? In their early life they seem to be ambitious, proud men, they may be talented and in all re- spects eligible for any position.
 They win the hearts of all who know them, frequently the heart and hand of
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wise and as honest as we could wish them to be, still there are certain very terrible kinds of wiclddness against which no legislation can provide. Envy, hatred, malice and all unehSSjtableness, which do not result in some overt act, may be in- dulged In to your wicked hearts content, and yet the law of the land cannot touch you. Suppose that you are stand ing by a deep stream on the banks of which a four-year-old child Is carelessly playing. It loses its balance, falls Into the stream, and Is drowning so near to you that you could lift it out and save it without wettng your feet. But you have in your heart a burning hatred to the father of that child; and you stand there and chuckle over it's death, simply and solely because of that hatred. It is my deliberate opinion that many a man who has been hung, and justly hung, for mur- der, was not so guilty before God as you are; and yet no human law can even ar rest you for that abominable wicked ness.
 Law. indeed, Is very imperfect sup port to morals Even the civil rights which come within its proper domain are
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a size and number altogether impossible under the rigorous application of the law in the countries from whence the stream flows.
 With this knowledge in mind it must certainly be regarded as strange that there are to be found advocates of the colonization schemes of which so much is spoken and written. The natural ten dency of foreigners is to congregate in communities where the language and GUS toms of their own country exist, but the great purpose of the government of the country in which these foreigners arrive should be to separate them as much as possible and thereby not only weaken their natural affection and predelection for their old institutions. but to intro duce and strengthen a desire to adapt themselves to their new and better con ditions So long as the United States leaves it's doors open to European immi- grafton the United States must expect the implied invitation to be accepted by all those whose circumstances in their own country lead them to hope for oppor- tunities abroad which are beyond their reach at home, and millions have found these hopes realized in America. Vic tims of oppression, poverty and ignor-
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THE JOURNEY ONWARD.

By Thomas Moore.
 AS slow our ship her foamy track
 Against the wind was cleavinR Her trembling pennant still look'd back To that dear isle twas leaving So 10th we part from all we love
 From all the links that bind us; So turn our hearts, as on we rove. To those we've left behind us! When, round the bowl, of vanish'd years We talk with joyous seeming With smiles that might as well be tears, So faint. so sad their beaming; While memory brings HIS back again
 Each early tie that twined us. Oh, sweets the cup that circles then To those we've left behind us And when. in other clirnes, we meet Some isle or vale enchanting, Where all looks fowery, wild and
 sweet
 And nought but love is wanting; We think how great had been our bliss If Heaven had but assign'd us To live and die in scenes like this. With some we've left behind us!
 When eastward darkIy going, To gaze upon that light they leave Still faint behind them glowing So, when the close of pleasures day To gloom hath near consign'd us, We turn to catch one fading ray
 Of joy that's left behind us
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courage to the sticking place, he arose, and thus addressed the chair MT Speaker. The ginerallty of mankind in gineral are disposed to impose upon the a-the-Mr Speaker upon the a-the gin erality of mankind in gineral." David Crockett who was sitting near him, pulled him by his coat tail and said: You set down; you crawl in the same hole you caN9e out at"
 Now, this legislator, with all his em- barrassment and confusion of mind, had unconsciously given utterance to a pro- found truth-a truth indeed which lies at the foundation of all government. MT. Calhoun, one of the most profoundly philosophical thinkers on government" that ever lived, Is credited with the say ing that "the object of government is to restrain the excess of Individuality If men had no disposition to help them selves at the expense of the just rights and privileges of their neighbors, then there would be no need for what we call government" for every man would be law unto himself, and there would be no" excess of Individuality" to restrain.
 As a matter of fact, our best people
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BY SAYOYARD.

pie In London He hired the Star and Garter at Richmond for three days and no one was allowed to pay for anything whatever. The door was kept open to all and sundry and the loafer fraternity had 9a fine time of it. He bought pictures like Glead F. Beck of "The Golden But terhy,' and paid a thousand pounds for a chromo-lithograph in the belief that ho had bought picture by Wikie; he bought tapestry, without knowing what 1t was, and he purchased a whole stable of horses without looking at them Coal oil Johnny of oil City. was not whit more reckless in his extrava gances.
 This thing went on for about six months. At the end of that time I met our Montana man looking rather seedy and downcast All of his million dollars had been spent and he was on the verge of starvation. Somehow or other he man aged to scrape together enough money to pay his fare home, and off he went Three months later he appeared on the scene again armed once more with a contract Tor mine and the accompanying blue prints. This time it was the great Mr. fooley who gave him half q million dol lars Tor the property. But he had learned to be wise in the meantime, and left not day between himself and London but went straight back to Montana, where I hope he Is still q respected citizen and a millionaire.
 The times have changed and there are no more American company promoters n London. The public bought until all it's money was spent and when the dividends failed to come in they stopped raising more capital, so that in the end 1t was extremely difficult even for good. sound. responsible hnanciers to obtain capital here. Then came the Barring failure, and the bottom was knocked out of the bar rel altoRether
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them they must be intrenched in the law.
 There never was d great lawyer who was not a conservative man. John C. Spooner Is great lawyer and he Is d conserN alive. His very greatness drew the shafts of little men. as did Tilden's. They said that Tilden was corporation lawyer. So he was, perhaps the greatest. They said he was railroad wrecker So he was not. He took In hand railroads that others had wrecked. reorganlzed them, set them on their feet, and made them paying properties The republican party had wrecked out great political corporation by 1876 Had they not stolen his job Tilden would have restored that, too, and we would have escaped all the agrarian vagaries of the next preceding double decade.
 l apprehend Wisconsin will have trouble In finding somebody to i'll Spooner g shoes. Villas is the only man she has whose feet are big enough, and Villas party is out of fashion in Wisconsin at this time. Mir. Spooner, like Mir Carlisle, will get more satisfaction out of the pri- vate station. It is as easy to hem spar row In the corner of worn rail fence as 1t Is to retain the confidence of constituency of the average American commonwealth
 Gotta was beaten for Tractor. The name of the successful candidate at that cleo tion has escaped my memory.
 Copyright by E. W. Newman.)
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WHEN JIM WAS DEAD.

By r. l.. Stanton.
 When Jim was dead, Hit sarYed him right" the nabors sed, An. 'bused him for the life he'd led, An him a-lying thar at rest With not a rose upon his breast! An. menny crule words they sed.
 When Jim was dead 'Jes' killed hisself," "Too mean ter live, !" They didn't have one word ter give Of comfort as they lowered near An gazed on Jim a-lylng therel Thar ain't no use ter talk" they sed,
 Hes better deadr' But suddenly the room growed still. While Gods white sunshine seemed ter
 All
 The dark place with a gleam of life, An OCT the dead she beut-Jim's wifei An with her lips close-close to his. As though he knew an felt the kiss, She sobbed--a touchin' sight ter see ''Ah Jim was always good to me,' I tell you when that cum to light It kinder set the dead man right; An round the weepin' woman they Throwed kindly arms of love that day, And mingled with her own they shed The tenderest tears-when Jim Is dead.
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BY J. C. HIDEN, D. D.

society. As soon we are capable of recognizing our relations to this socie- ty. 1. e., the family, our duties begin and so does government, good or bad. Your parents, if wise. will do what they can to regulate your conduct in such a way that the rest of the household shall suffer no injury at your hands "Civle righteous ness' is learned at home. A well known preacher of Birmingham in giving an ac. count of his educational opportunities said.
 T went through all the state lnstitu- tlons of learning of my day. but I waa educated at my fathers table" How shall we deal with the terrible question of mob voleneel" Deal with 1t in your home, by teaching your children that mob violence is wicked. mean, low, vile and eowardly; and that no man who calls himself decent should for a moment think of joining a mob. The government that can wisely, justly and adequately pun ish mob has not yet ben invented but the right sort of family government in the home, will leave us no mobs to pun Ash
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big ditch ordered Spooner supported the administration, and but for him Morgan might has prevailed
 In the entire history of the republican party there can be named no other man who has fought so many battles on the floor of the Senate for republican ad- minstretions as John C. Spooner, and he never got half thanked for single one. Last March MT. Spooner resigned his seat and returned to the practice of his profession. He has two sons, young law yers. just admitted to the bar. They have au office in Wisconsin and the fa- ther has entered 1t to give hs aid. An other son is of a poetic and artistic tenn perament, and 1t may be that history will find in this chap, the youngest, the greatest man of the family
 Of course. they are going to sheer that Spooner is now a corporation lawyer. If by that they mean a man learned in the profession and help to the court in the administration of justice, they are exactly right But that is not what they mean. They seek to insinuate that Spooner will lend himself to corporations to oppress the people. Why did he leave the Senate? If that is his game he could have earned millions in that body. Many was the day that his absence from the sitting would have been worth large sums to spe- clal interests but IL IS uouptiui II there ever was a senator more regular in at- tendance, and 1t is certain that. for his length of service no other senator ever knocked on the head so many jobs on the private calendar. There were other senators as honest as he-plenty of them but love of detail is q gift that few men have to the degree that SpoJper has 1t. There was no real duty of a senator that he did not love that he was not masta of, and that he did not conOtantly dis charge.
 ..e have fallen on times when men who think they are full and overfiowing with political vrture that came down to them from Thomas Jefferson and Abra- ham Lincoln, two lawyers-are actually persuaded that no frst-class lawyer can be an honest man. The fact is that free government in England and in America is the invention of hwYars- If thare