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when Doc. Reason Dawns

AS there must be point back along
the line of our descent where conscious
ness began-consciousn in the anil
NAL and self consciousness in man
so there must be a point where rea-
son began. If we had all the missing
links in the chain no doubt We might
approximately at least determine the
point or the form in which it first
dawned The higher anthropoid apes,
which are, no doubt, lateral branch
of the stem of the great biological tree
that bore man, show occasional CLEANS
of it, but reason, as we ascribe it to
the lower orders, is more a kind OF
symptomatic reason, vague foreshad-
owing of reason rather than the sub
stance itself For a long time the child
is without reason or any mental con-
cepts, and all its activities are reac-
lions to stimuli, like those of an AMI
NAL. 1t is merely a bundle of instincts,
but by and by it begins to show some
thing higher, and we hail the dawn OF
reason and its development from the
animal plane into the human.-John
Burroughs in Outing Magazine.
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Pamela stood by the piano watching ana
listening delightedly as Castellani impro-
vised-
He talked in brief snatches, playing all
the time-playjns with the easy brilliancy,
the unerring grace Of one 10 whom music
is native tongue--as natural a mode of
thought expression as speech itself.
Il hope | don't bore you very much. y
said Castellani, looking up at Mildred as
she sat silent. the fair face and pale
gold hair defined against the olive bro
cade of the chair cushion.
Bored? No, it is delightful" answered
Mildred, rousing herself from reverie.
by thoughts went back to my childhood
while you were playing. l never knew
but one other person who had the gift
of improvisation, and she used TO play
to me when l was a child. She was al
most a child herself, and of course she
was very inferior to you as pianist but
she would sit and play to me for en- hour
in the twilight, inventing new melodies,
or playing recollections of old melodies
describing in music. The old fairy tales
are forever associated with music in ms
mind, because of those memories. | be-
lieve she was highly gifted in music"
Ito be continued.)
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CHAPTER VI.

Mr.. Castellani did not wait long before
he availed himself of Mrs. Sreswold's
permission to repeat his visit. He ap-
peared on Friday afternoon. when Nil.
dred and her niece Pamela were sitting in
the drawing room, exhausted by LONG
morning at Salisbury, where they had
explored the cathedral. and lunched in
the Close with a clever friend of George
Greswold's who had made his mark on
,nodern literature
Il adore Salisbury Close" said Pa
msla. as she looked through the old-fash-
Toned window to the old-fashioned gar
den 1T reminds me of Honoria-"
She did not deem it necessary to ex-
plain what Honoria she means, presuming
universal acquaintance with Coventry
Patmore's gentle heroine.
The morning had been sultry. the home
ward drive long. and both ladies were
resting In comfortable silence. each with
a book, when Castellari was announced.
Mildred received him rather coldly, try
ing her uttermost to ssom thoroughly az
ease. She introduced him to her niece.
Miss Ransome.
The daughter of the late Mr.. Ran
dolph Ransore and the sister OF Lady
Mountfordg" Castellani inquired present
ly. when Pamela had run ont on the lawn
TO speak TO Box.
Yes. You seem to know everybody =
belongings"
why not? II is the duty of every
man Of the world. more especially Of s
foreigner"
To-day CaSsellani was In high spirits
Mildred sat idle with her head resting
against the cushion OK high-backed arm
chaizt exhausted BY ,Se afternoons labors.
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BRYAN ON THE PLATFORM.
Calls It "Silent Republication of
Rooseveltian Principles"

William j. Bryan reviews the Repub-
lican platform in his paper, the Com
moner. He denounces the document as
"a silent reputation of almost every
Rooseveltian principle" He scores the
planks on currency, the trusts and the
negro problem, calling the last-named
section the 'quadrennial quota of
taffy." President Roosevelt is praised
and his policy commended in contrast
with the aims of the party as expressed
in the platform. On this point Mr..
Bryan says:
The highest aspirations of the Ameri-
can people have found a voice. ca re-
Election is here implied on previous Re
publican Presidents who have failed to
furnish voice for 'the highest aspira-
tons of the American people," 'Their
most exalted servant represents the best
aims and worthiest purposes of all his
counrymen. American manhood has been
lifted to a noble sense of duty and obi
CATION
But the President must not feel that he
is the only Republican deserving of praise.
The recent Congresses, according to the
platform. have been full of patriots and
the Republican legislators have been keep
ing step in the forward march to better
government What does the President
think of being bracketed with Republican
Senators and members of Congress in this
indiscriminate praise2
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BORN WITHOUT FEAR.
Yet Minds, of Children Are Mad
Boyle Houses by Parents.

Il "a
Boyle Houses by Parents.
MY little boy is naturally SO timid-"
My little girl is so easily frightened.
We are trying to cure her of it, but
she was born with that sensitive ma
ture, and we have to be very careful
So fond parents are sometimes heard
to say when child shows some special
form of fear.
Yet, according to Clara Louise Burn
ham, who writes in Appleton's Monthly
ON How to Keep Your Children from
Fear" almost all children are born
without fear, and fear is carefully In
stilled into them by parents and nurses.
Nature, she says, generaiy hands the
child to the parents physically perfect,
and still more often she hands them
over full of optimism and faith. Moth
ing is too good for me" is his natural
attitude. Then comes, perhaps, his first
fall Straightway the aE1ioas mother
rushes to him with aacry and picks him
up with such mapner and words that
screams with terlsOr'-and SO the In
stiIling of fear gees on.
I'm afraid begins too many Of the
remarks parents make to their children,
says this author. Christian parents
constantly disobey the Bible, which is
full of commands to fear not" rejoice
always" and while processing to be-
lieye the Bible undermine the child's
native confidence by teaching it that
the world is beset with "snares and pit
falls to health and happiness" So the
child becomes, as it were, mentally
slouching and stoop-shouldered, instead
of facing life, as he was born to do,
with an upright, joyous carriage.
Fear disaster, sickness, should not
be talked of in the presence of children.
Even though they may not seem to I'M
derstand it at the time, it sinks into
their little minds; it is disturbing,
distorting influence Even worse in its
influence is the mistake of the anxious
mother who is always imagining that
her child is ILL., Are you sure you feel
all right, dear? Haven't you a pain
anywhereY 1t need not take much OF
such insistence to make the healthiest
child If not physically i'll, at least nerv-
ously upset. The unwise nurse does
no end of harm. "She may be Kind and
loving" says Mrs, Burnham, land yet
consider the mysterious boyle man and
the obvious policeman her legitimate
allies in enforcing paralyzed obedi-
ence." And so fresh elements of fear
are introduced into the child's horizon.
Another thing this writer strongly
denounces is the strange tradition"
that into every pantomime or play for
the entertainment of children monstros-
tiles must be introduced; cardboard
giants, weird figures with google eyes
and awful grins, which strike terror
into the baby hearts. She makes spe-
cial remonstrance concerning Capt.
Hook and his pirate band, in that 9TH
erwise charming play, Peter Pam No
child under u should have his nervous
system shocked by these gentlemen and
their awful captain" she says, and she
describes how at one performance She
saw child with Its head buried in its
mothers lap, begging piteously to know
If "the pirates had gone"
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The Great Northern has placed its or
der for 10000 tons of steel rails for
which it was in the market some time
1go. 1t amounts, in all, to about 425
miles of track. lNe
Western transcontinental roads threat
en- TO abandon oriental business rather
than publish rates showing proportion
paid by inland shippers as ordered by in
terstate commerce commission.
Arrangements have been made with j.
p. Morgan & Co. to meet the interest
charges ON the Erie bond issues, so that
the entire earnings of the road may be
devoted to the completion of improvements
which will increase its earning power.
The Pennsylvania railroad continues to
reduce its working force, and it is said
that by May l the number will have
reached $4,000. 1t is understood that
this step is in preparation for reduc-
ton in wages after the first of next
month The cause of the last lay-off was
the dissatisfaction felt by old employees,
who had been working on half time since
last fall. These have been put on full
time and the difference made up by dis
charging newer hands.
OF the 100000 miles Of railway in the
world only about 10 per cent are found
in strictly tropical territory. ard no more
than 10 per cent within what would be
termed tropical and sub-tropical areas.
Tracks abound in the temperate zone.
The Public Service Commission of New
York City issued an order requiring the
street car. companies to provide sufficient
cars and the right conditions for seating
all of their passengers. An exception is
made during rush hours. The minimum
number of cars to pass on busy streets in
each fifteen minutes, it is thought. viii
have to be twenty-five.
That the proposed general freight rate
advance by the eastern railroads. effective
Oct /, is in reality above the announced
10 per cent IS the contention of traffic
managers of large industries. Since the
roads have announced the advanc. officials
of manufacturing plants have traced the
effect on their particular lines OF industry.
They find that in some cases the increase
is as high as u per cent.
At Lansing. Mich. it was learned that
the rates "a Pullman cars in the State
are to be advanced to half cent a mile.
instead Of on the trip basis as at present.
and the mileage basis viii soon be ex-
tended over the country.
]. s. Newman. a Montana 3 eep man,
got $500 damages from the Great North
ern railway because a shipment Of his
sheep were starved in the cEs until they
ate the wool of each Others backs.
The penalty clause and other features
Of The Alabama railroad rate acts have
been declared invalid by Judge Thomas
G. Jones at Montgomery. The decision
does not. however. pass on the reasonable
ness of the rates themselves. but does
express the opinion that tie roads should
have per cent interest on a fa[ valua-
ton of the property within The State
The effect is 10 continue tha injunction
against all parties until the reasonable
ness Of the rates shall Be determined
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SHADOW ON THE SUN.
Annular Eclipse Visible All Over
North America.

NORTH America.
The recent eclipse of the sun. where
not obscured by clouds, was visible all
over North America. The eclipse was
annular and little iportance was at
tached to the phenomenon bv scientists.
Some interest was attached TO the suns
submersion, however, from the fact
that the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars,
Neptune and Jupiter are in cluster
near the sun and could be seen in the
western horizon shortly after sunset.
This popularity is not expected TO be
repeated again in several hundred
year, although it is said to mean moth
ing automatically.
With field glasses or opera glasses,
with colored or smoked glass over
the ends, it was possible to see the
mountains and valleys of the moon.
The sun served as a strong background
to bring out the irregular outlines of
the moon. The outlines indicated how
irregular the moons surface is in 6
striking silhouette ~
Down in Tampa. Fla, in Mexico
City, or in the Bermuda Islands observ-
ers of the eclipse had a much better
opportunity to appreciate it. At these
places and in a strip about ninety miles
wide the eclipse was seen directly in
the center of the sun. The outer edge
of the sun encircled the Swallowed part.
This popularity of me eclipse gives the
name "annular' to it. When the moon
appears exactly IL trent of the sun the
annular or ring phase is visible.
Every city in the Unired States was
able to observe this eclipse, together
with the whoie of North America. the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07
TROOPS ARE RUSHED
TO TORREON, MEXICO
Bandits Operating with Insurrec-
tionists, and Federal Soldiers
Are Sent to Crush Them.
UNITED STATES is NEUTRAL.
State Department Will Make Effort
to See that Neutrality Laws
Are Enforced.

Bands of revolutionists are making
things Interestingly warm in Northern
Mexico, not far from the American line.
Government troops have been rushed
TO the scene. Fifteen hundred federal
soldiers have reached Torreen to re-
enforce the garrison there, 200 more
have reached Juarez, and in Chihuahua
soldiers are patrolling the streets and
the public houses and jails are guard
ed. The Mexican ambassador to the
United States, Enrique c. Creel, has
been ordered back TO Washington.
where he will ask the government that
any of the revolutionary ringleaders
who may be caught on this side of the
boundary line shall be tried for a yio-
lation of the neutrality laws. There is
precedent for such a course.
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EngIand,s Record BattIeship.

Having already outclassed all existing
battleships and battleship plans by the
construction of the st. Vincent. which
will be launched in October, 1900. it is
now reported that England viii break thi.
record by laying. in September next, tbs
keel for a still larger war craft. The
st. Vincent is of 1920 tons and will
cost S9,5O0OO0, while the later mode
will be of 21.O00 tons and viii cost Sill
10000. The latter viii be equipped with
gas engines and viii consequently have
no tunnels.
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G. W. Averill. Los Angeles man OF
moderate wealth, who is said to have just
inherited a fortune Of 100000 from
IN aunt in Massachusetts,, says that he
proposes to make 10000 people happy by
giving them the cash help they deserve,
and will open headquarters in an eastern
city TO begin the distribution. A novel
feature of his plans is his purpose 70
help bad people" on the theory that the
good are taken care Of by the churches
and charity. He wants to hep the ex-
convicfs, the incorporate and the fallen
HrnrnRn
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the famous naval O. II. p. BELMONT.
battle on Lake Erie in the war of 1912.
Mr.. Belmont was born in New York in
1858 He was ten times a millionaire
and had magnificent home Brook
halt villa, near Hampstead. His villa
at Newport was one of the show places
of that fashionable watering place
Preparations were under way when he
died for the erection of house in
New York. NJ
-
The man who will be chiefly respon-
sible for the accommodation and en-
tertainment of the delegates and 9TH
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M.nafacsurinx rcicle.. :

''Stick" ice is a commodity much In
demand In upper Austria Water is
allowed to fssi slowly over 8 series OF
poles, where. by the natural process
it freezes in the form Of gigantic ici-
cles. These icicles are broken OF a.
fast as they are frozen and carted
away TO storage quarters.-Popular
Mechanics
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THE ECLIPSE OF THE sun.

No well-defned reasons are given for
the trouble in the Southern republic.
This so-called revolution had its coun-
terpart just sixteen years ago, when
CATERING E. Cara led a band of Next
cans and Mexican-Texans against an
army post just over the border and put
most of the garrison to death. Cara
crossed the Rio Grande into the United
States, and for two years his followers,
taking advantage OF the cover of the
chaparral, kept Southern Texas in a
turmoil until finally they were round
ed up and captured by American
troops.
1t is charged by the Mexican autholi-
ties that the bands which are causing
the present trouble were recruited in
large part in the United States. Texas
has been the haven in the past of Next
cans watching their Revolutionary OPP
portunity," and there probably IS a
basis for the charge that the United
States in this instance was the scene of
the chief plotting and the base of the
first operations.
This government within the last two
years has made several arrests of Next
cans who were known to be melting re-
bellion against the rule of Diaz from
the supposed security CT American soil.
The arrests apparently did not accom-
plish the end sought. The restless part
of the Northern Mexican population has
mad grievances largely local in theH
nature which they have expanded into
grievances against the Diaz government
and against the existing order of things
generally.
The insurgents, it is said have fed
northward after a defeat at the hands
of force of Mexican regulars. If they
have had their strength broken as an
organized force, which is not at all
certain, they may follow the Cara ex-
ample, take to a mountain or chapar-
raj fastness and become bandits pure
and simple.
The Cara uprising cost the United
States government a lot of monepy.
Troops were in the field along the Rio
Grande for at least two years before
the outlaws finally were rounded up
and sent to prison. These Northern
Mexican troubles are a concern to two
governments In one or two uprisings
In the past the United States has been
the chief sufferer Our State Depart
ment is now carefully watching devel-
opments. The department officials feel
that the trouble will be adjusted salts
factorily and every effort will be made
for the preservation of neutrality.
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capacity in China. He served as min
lister to Venezuela and has for years
been making a special study Of COM
mercial opportunities and trade
treaties. There Is no better authori-
ty on the consular service Of the Unit
ed States. The japanese Exposition
will be d most important one, and viii
form a splendid opportunity for Ameri-
can manufacturers to learn trade con-
ditions in the Orient and 10 push the
sale Of American products. The United
States government has appropriated
$4,000 for an exhibit there
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The Tsdewater Pipe Line Company,
which operates a 6-inch pipe from Brad
ford. in the Pennsylvania oil region. to
the seaboard at Bayonne, " J., has con
tracted to build at once an extension OF
this line across Northern Ohio into the
Illinois oil fieid at Robinson at cost Of
$4,000. When completed this viii be
the first time that oil has been pumped
from Illinois direct 10 the seaboard.
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southwestern part of Europe. the south
east corner of Africa, and the northern
portions of the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans. In extreme southern portions
of Florida the northern limb" instead
of the southern limb was obscured.
Another eclipse, which will not be OBJ
servable here, will occur Dec. 3.
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erS who Will attend
the Democratic ma
tional convention
at Denver is John
e. Osborne. He is
chairman of the
committee on en-
tertalnHent. Mr..
Osborne is n ma
tive Of Westport,
n. Y, and is A
years of age. He
graduated in med
icine and pfacticed
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An old friend OF the family had
dropped in to see young lawyer. whose
father was still paying his Office rent
so you are now practicing law" the
old friend said, geniaIly.
no. sir said the candid youth, Il
appear to be. but am really practicins
econony.--Youth's Companion
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Of the Mohmand
punitive expedition,
His brilliantly sue
cessful week end"
war against the
ZaSka Khel on the
Afghan frontier has
won him the praise
of all Englishmen.
Willcocks is an
ideal man for from
tier campaigning,
as he knows the
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leading tribesmen GEN. wILLcocKs.
of that restless region well, having
served in the Afghan war of 1S79-s0
in 1900 ne commanded the Ashanti
field force which relieved Kumasl
-:
Information comes from Washington
that Francis r. Loomis. formerly AS
sistant Secretary Of state, is to be
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made commission
er to the japanese
Exposition of 1912.
1t would be diff
cult to find anoth-
err person more en-
inently fitted for
the post. Mr..
Loonis was at one
time a newspaper
correspondent 1T
Washington and
served In a similar
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Brig. Gen. j. b. Aleshire. quartermas-
ter general OF the army. has made ar
engagements to largely increase the wax
works exhibition, which Is one Of the
sights of the War Department building
In Washington. The figures show scenes
in camp and on the field.
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Hampstead, L. l,
Mr.. Belmont was
the son OF the late
August Belmont, a
noted financier and
the American repre-
sentative of the
Rothschilds. Ills
m o t her was a
daughter of Com
modore Give: IIaz-
ard Perry, who won
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Six seamen who, with twenty-five 9th
ers, had a narrow escape from death
when the British steamer Cacique blew
up and sank Of the Peruvian coast last
month, arrived at New York on the
xteaner Finance from Cristobal.
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the entire country
will unite to re-
joice with the
bin d statesman.
Few men. ham,
pered as has been
Senator Gore from
childhood, hav e
risen to such high
heights of useful
ness and honor.
Losing the eyesight
of both eyes--each
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Forts Guns Do Accidental Damage.

1t was estimated that Uncle Sam would
have to pay for about $4,000 damage
done to private property by the concus-
sion caused by the target practice at Forts
Hamiltcn and Wadsworth in New York
bay. While the big guns were grounding
imaginary fleets off shore hundreds OF
broken windows and tumbling ceilings re-
corded the result on land. One woman
was seriously hurt by falling ceiling in
Bath Beach. Ocean liners were held up
and the big Lusitania, coming to sudden
halt, grounded on a mud bank and was
delayed for some time. During the week
elaborate army maneuvers were conducted
by Gen. Grant with several thousand reg
ulars and militia at Pine Plains, \. y.
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The Wisconsin railroad commission has
ruled that the 500 railroad may enter
Superior at grade. This was bitterly OPP
posed By the other railroads, which sought
to compel the 500 TO enter by subway.
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his profession until he entered on com.
mercial pursuits. He served as vice
chairman OF the Democratic national
committee in 1898, has been a member
of Congress, and was Governor of wy
and Is the owner Of the largest sheep
ranch in Wyoming Mr.. Osborne is one
of the many Empire State boys who
helped to make the great West what
1t is.
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william Kent Of Chicago. class Of
1887: J. Pierpont Morgan and Senator
Epooner Of Wisconsin were given honor
arg degrees as doctors Of law by Yale Col
lege-
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If science demonstrates that it is pos
sible for United States Senator Gore,
of Oklahoma, TO recover his eyesight
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The man Of the hour in England, or
rather. the man of the moment, is Maj
Gen. Sir James Willcocks. the LEADER
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