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long hours in stooping over sewing ma chimes.
 If they could also give them a little sunshine and nourishment, 1t might save the trouble of further legislation on the subject of hours, conditions of work or rates of wages.
 As result of many petitions received at the home office for the release of the girl, Daisy Lord, who was sentenced to death Ca sentence afterward commuted to penal servitude for llfe), for the murder of her infant child, an interesting state ment has been issued by the home secre- tary.
 While giving hopes that the law under which the death sentence can be passed for offenses of this class may shortly be amended, he notes that there seems, in some cases, an undesirable tendency to ig-
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candle on the mantel shelf snread O ,,.., or light in the dark above her beaa 1ya. hair was gray, her face was withered Ijk, me white rose that has been pressed between the leaves of heavy book and ner bosom was fiat like a nuns. For a minute l couldn't speak Somehow couldn't think of Mary's bein. old ana gray Then I recollected that the uttis gal, Annie Lee, had run off long ago and got married and that Prim Mavberry.. youngest boy brung Mary things from ina store now.
 When she seen me standin' there he- lore her she stood up and looked at me as II She knowed what was comin,.
 Mary, sez l, Bill needs you. He's had stroke, and he's lookin' for yo1 everywhere I turned around and start ed back down the mountain. I knowed she follow by all them years she'd obeyed the law Bill had laid upon her. And she did follow at first, then she outstripped me. and l had to run to keep up with her. There Is a strange spirit of fidelity even in tho most unfaithful of women If you can ever find it and break 1t in. and pore Mary's had been brok en in this many year.
 we 1ound stark teetertn' around in his house callin' her name and oryin' that he had lost her. She went straight to him. ketcbed hold of his arm with bold hands and sez:
 Here's Mary, Bill: you amt lost herr
 ''He turned round slow and seen her. face in the moonlight. stared at her with his vacant eyes. then drawed back from her.
 You ain't my Mary he sez: .fler hair was black and aha was voinRp
 Yes, I am,' she laughed, then she cried. still holdin' to him, I am your Mary. Bill, and you told Pappy you want ed me-
 "Yes.' sez he. sropln' with one shak- ing hand to lay 1t on her head, T been always wantin you
 Then she begun to laugh and to take on, and talk like she'd been off on a visit and she'd come to fetch him home I never see anybody look so happy. It seemed to me she was crazier than Bill. not to realize that 1t want him no longer, but just the creepin' helf-dead body of a man. He was ready enough to follow her back up the mountain, and the last I seen of em she was leadin' him and 1aughin as she went"
 Pappy shaded his eyes with one hand. and pointed to a tiny cabtn clnging like a butterfly far up the side of Blood noun tain, as he concluded:
 Anu they hic tiiCiC SCt' hhShi tNo whtenin' sorrows in that white house with so many flowers bloomin' agin the sides of it. Everythin' has changed some hereabouts but him and her. He jest sets up there with his saggn jaw and va cant eyes watchin' her as if he never wanted to take lem off of her. And she never tires of nursin' him. She laughs and chatters to him all day and plays dolls with him as she used to play with the child-and she's happy. That's what breaks my heart. Mister, her happiness; that the soul of a pore frail creature should be tried till she can kiss her curse and call 1t her blessin.'
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other drug hends. Rustin obeyed.
 By and by the insidious monster told Rustin he must kill himself. The doctor readily assented. But his once fine mind remembered his duty to his wife and chil- dren. Yes, he would die. but 1t must not appear to be suicide, else he would for felt his insurance.
 That's easy" whispered Hyde.
 Dr. Rustin inoculated himself with ty- phoid fever germs so that he might seem to die like honest men die. But he over did the matter by afterward mixing a potion of tetanus germs. One neutral ized the other
 Still the monster was not appeased.
 So one night they found Rustin dying on his porch.
 Just how it was done 1t was not quito clear. There is 8 story that 8 fallen woman made a pact with him by which they were to kill each other, but her nerve failed her; that he later found a fellow drug degenerate who performed the last grim service.
 Anyhow the Hyde syndicate of evil got a majority of the Rustin stock. The Hyde partner got the mortgage on Rustin's soul-and foreclosed it.
 And so ends every attempt of a man to live a double life.
 Dr. Jekyll may smile with his lips before the world and dissemble the MT. Hyde that is in him, but-no man can serve two masters.
 One of the other names of MT. Hyde Is Duplicity, one of the devils favorite fends.
 At Cleveland, O., some time ago, this advertisement appeared in the newspa- pers:
 Wanted.-Two hundred laborers and teamsters immediately. Wages s2.50 per day. Apply D. E. Brown. The Hollen- den.
 Mir Brown was assistant superintend- ent of the Crucible Steel company of Pittsburg. He had just been married.
 The newspaper account goes on to say,
 "In blissful inconsistencies of the trouble in store for him MT. Brown opened the door and was greeted by a delegation of teamsters and laborers who wanted work. He told them there must
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help given by the committee of ladies who do not hold any official position" We wonder why women must always work unofficially! Apropos, a very eloquent ar ticle appears in the Nineteenth Century this month by Miss Frances Low, in which she pertinently inquires why the thousands of intelligent women whom we are told are yearning to help their poor CT sisters, do not begin. Let them start at once By~studying the organization of the German Frauen Verein and form branches all over the kingdom of a sim liar organization to help these poor moth CTS in their hour of supreme need, and above all, to help them to keep their children, not, as is So wrongly encouraged by the "foundling' institutions, and so often by private persons willing to adopt children, to give up their claim to them.
 If they would do this they would do >something to disprove statement that
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1 to say the school accepts 60 to 75 per cent. which tacitly admits the fact that the standard Is too high.
 Therefore If your boy or girl does average school work you should be satisfied. And do not be asitated if the teacher says your child Is dull.
 Here are some remarkable facts cons piled by William McAndrew:
 Listeni
 Beecher was 34th in his class Linnaeus' teacher said he was unfit. Darwins that he was dulls Stewards that he was stupid, Wordsworth's that he was a disappoint- ment, Sheridan's that he was a defective, Humboldts that he lacked ordinary in- telligenee, Heine's that he was a dunce, Byrons that he belonged to the tail. Hux- ley's that he was notably defective. Schil- ler's that he was very deficient. Lowelrs that he was negligent.
 More?
 Godsmiths teacher said he could not learn, Wagner's that he was a mental sloven, Goethes that he was unsatisfac- tory, Emerson's that he was hopeless, Pasteurs that he was only average, Thackeray's that he was undistinguished Gladstone that he had no unusual ability, Watts that he lacked the qualities of suc- cess, Ibsen's that he belonged to the low est grade Currie's that he was too stupid for school
 Besides
 E. J. Swift, in Mind In the Making" gives 30 pages of eminent men dubbed fail- ures while In school by their teachers. There is a reason: School is not life. Our present system of education pro- vides an artificial mental diet. It is-be- yond few fundamentals-unht for real life here and now. The men who formu- lated the system lived long ago. They did not study real life and try to repro duce 1t. Any well posted educator will tell you so if he is honest.
 The most that can be claimed for our school curriculums Is that they will give the student mental discipline-brain exer- else We'll
 Marks" and credits" cannot deter- mine brain progress. They may be in- dices of memory; that's all.
 Do not be disturbed if your child is only average" in school study. School Is not life.
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OXYGEN FOR ATHLETES-By Lady Henry Somerset

ucation is only just concluded. Such ex- change ought to do much toward breaking down the barriers between the nations which only ignorance has kept up, and if carried out on a sufficiently generous scale, should help to bring us one step nearer to the federation of the world"
 It Is doubtful if the managers of London opera houses will be in a hurry to install MT. Lee de Forests new apparatus for wireless telephony, if-as he claims-it will make 1t possible for the music to be heard as far as 30 miles round London. at any rate. not at the, price he mentions as the maximum cost-namely, four shil- lings a month.
 The installation of the receiver Is priced at not more than three pounds.
 If 1t Is not at present used to save us the trouble and expense of going to the
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stand that, and none of us knowed or could think what was in her mind
 Mister, 1t used to nigh break my heart first before people quit talkin' about the way Horton looked flyin' through Brass town in his bloody rags, and the way Bill had all but banished himself to his own house and field The years passed and we got used to it like a pain in the side that never gets easy. mean we got used to Bill sulkin' down there in his house that seemed to rot and fall to pieces above his head, and used to the idea of Mary up there in the shack. She faded from most peoples minds except now and then when somebody seen her stand in like a ghost agin the skyline high up on the shoulder of Blood mountain. She would always be holdin' shawl over her head with one hand, shadln' her eyes with the other and gazin' down into the val ley. The women claimed that it was a sign of calamity, because she'd been seen that way every time before some baby died. But of course that was just talk. The thing noticed was the change in the looks of the shack. That little white house was like a prayer she'd published on the mountain side. so red she made it with the bugle blossoms of the trumpet vine, so pink and golden with laurels and marigolds.
 Mister. 1t used to night break my heart to look at that flower garden, for I knowed it meant that the pore creature was still Twin that terrible waitin life of hope, and I used to wonder If Bill Stark didn't understand when he looked up from his dark house door and seen all them flowers callin' and fiingin' kisses at him, but if he did he never let on. He was n hard man. And I don't know how things would have turned out if some thing hadn't happened to turn 'em, as it always does. We go along thinkin' we know where we are goin' then something reaches out, ketches us by the scruff of the neck, faces us about In some direc- tion we never thought of, or filings us into the grave. So it happened with Bill. One night he walked into my house here with his under jaw haugin' loose, looked at mo with a foolish baby stare aud asked if I knowed where Mary was. Lowed he'd been lookin' for her and couldn't find her. Well, sir, didn't know what to make of it. but before I could think he was gone.
 .'In about an hour he come back, asked me again if I knowed where Mary was and said ne cOuldnt [ lllo her, anu went off the same as he'd done before without waitin' for me to answer. l knowed then that he'd had stroke and was out of his head And knowed too that at last Mary was to have the answer to her prayer Mister. there ain't nothin more terrible than the answers we git to our prayers, and many a time nothin' more eart-breakin' than to realize the hope we have cherished. And I'll tell you. sir didn't feel like no messenger of glad tdin's as I went up the mountain that night to tell Mary her husband wanted her.
 'sThe door was open and she was settin' before the spinnin' wheel as usual. The
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of metaphysics, rather than in that of physics. l feel more confidence in ac- cepting the argument of Des Cartes, ob- seure as 1t may seem, than in committing myself to what is called "the argument from design" Des Cartes built upon an acknowledgment of human ignorance; and, skeptlcal as he may seen, he com mitted himself to a theory which was in reality the highest development of faith.
 There are in this man bold humility and a decisive caution which contrasts strongly with the fiippant assumption of knowledge which is the most striking feature of some modern speculative theo- logians. In fact, modern "cosmogomy" has reached such pitch of self-sufficient complaeency that the wonder is that some
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nore the gravity of the crime of infanti- eide.
 He goes on to state that the death sem tence is commuted to one for life in the first instance in order to give the home office a free hand in dealing with each case on it's merits, and it is very rarely that more than three years are served.
 If the prisoner responds readily to wholesome influences. and has friends or a home where she can be received, she is soon condltionally released but is kept for a time under supervision, till it ap- pears safe to restore her to complete free dom.
 This course will be followed in the case of Daisy Lord, and should certainly satis- fy the reasonable hopes of those who have appealed in her behalf
 Among the helpful influences brought to bear on prisoners, MT. Gladstone notes the keen interest shown and valuable
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theatre, there will probably he no lack of persons. however who will be eager to use 1t for the business Of daily life.
 There appears to be plenty of new ex- elements and new dangers to those in search of them who have money to pay for them. The newest craze in Paris seems to be "ballooning." and women especially appear to be taking to the pur- suit with enthusiasm.
 A new society. the "Femina Club Aero- nautique." has been founded, and, as it's name implies. it's members must be wom- en. Mme Surcouf, the wife of the celee brated aeronautcal engineer. has mads many aseents, and now frequently takes her callers to have tea in the clouds, two or three thousand feet above the ground Surely. much of the original coziness Of the "5 o'clock" must be lost at this alti- tude.
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

to a concern for work. He was asked his age and, perceiving no virtue in evasion, told the truth, whereupon he was refused employment. But at the next place of application he volunteered the information that he was 16-and got the job.
 We'll
 Harry Buehler will get on in the world.
 Instinctively the boy hit upon the meth cd by which many swollen fortunes of our day have been made.
 He discovered the short cut to wealth.
 When this boy grows to manhood he need only follow his early devices to be- come a successful promoter Of special in- terests. As head of big corporation he will be able to swap good money to some political "brakey" who will send through the city council or the state assembly the ree7ed franchises. and that without the delay or formality of the regular proceed uIe.
 The boy will get on.
 He has the nerve and the initiative and the fertility of mental resources which have distinguished so many of our cap tains of industry in their successful ma nipulation of high finance
 Besides
 The boy learned another thing-in his first lesson in practical business" When asked his age he told the truth-only once. He found 1t did not pay to be too truthful. He learned the world wisdom of evasion and prevarication.
 Harry Buehler saw that if he was to ar rive anywhere in the commercial world he must not be hampered by the baggage of too much conscientious scruple. He therefore dispensed with that superfiuous luggage. Surely the boy will get on in material things. In his transportation to Success station he will be able to get along with out the regular ticket" He will arrange with the 'sbrakey"
 The boy Is smart enough to "steal ac- cording to 1aw'-and keep out of the pen itentiary.
 What Of his morals?
 Boshi
 What connection is there between high finance and ethics?
 Do not become too much concerned if your child makes slow progress at school.
 Only a few students are expected to come near the standard" The standard is unattainable, which Is absurd-that is
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LESSONS FROM CREATION MO- 2-By J. C. Fiden D.

he turned his back upon the sun. and came back to earth in the darkness of his own atheistie shadow"
 To accept the Biblical account Of crea- ton requires faith-humble, ehild-like trust The very first sentence in the Biz ble tests this. It is well to sound the key note at the beginning. We can thus start right. At the creation "the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy.9 At the birth of Jesus. the angelic choir took up the notes of the anthem. Gods people, the church mill- tant, are still singing it as their battle- song. and when the fight is ended, and we lay our armor down. the song of tri- umph-the song of Moses and of the Lamb-shall celebrate the victory as faith gives place to sight, and grace to glory
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eye of unbelief, he finds her reheeting his own wild fancies. or else refusing to throw back any image at all. Newton, reverently believing in the oracles of God, neered Into the heavens. He was humble, chlld-like. truth-loying. and he saw and told to the world more mysteries than it was able to receive. He gathered shells on the beach of the great sea of trouble, as he humbly said; but the glory of those shells is that
 ''wherever they go, they will sing of the
 sea-
 they will be representative. and thus will give momentum to true progress. La- place had no faith. and rising to the heavens on the wings of Newton's faith,
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Copyright. 1908, by Edwin A. Nye) "HIEF OF POLICE RICHMOND of
 Council Bluffs. la, has novel
 method for reforming unruly and mischievous boys without the aid of a juvenile court. In Q word this is his recipe:
 Make a policeman of the boyl
 Richmond's 'kid police force" is pop ular,S and about every boy in town wants to join. Juvenile crime has al- most disappeared, and ''young men criminals get no recruits from the ranks of the boys.
 Nearly every normal boy wants to be a cooper"
 On that desire Richmond has built his law and order force of youthful po- liceman
 The force includes street arabs. newsboys and bootblscks. besides boys from the best homes. It is changed for different occasions, so that every boy gets a chance to serve. There is no heavier disgrace than to be arrested while member of the force.
 To illustrate the chiefs method
 Previous to the Fourth of July four years ago he forbade the shooting of hrecrackers before a certain hour. On the Sd a policeman brought in a dirty faced little fellow who had violated the order.
 "An right" said the chief. Put the kid in that chair"
 Jimmie" said Richmond. who under stands boys, what do you say to helping me make the gang behave to- morrow? want a good boy"
 ''Not me-" replied Jimmie T ain't goin to tell on my pals.'
 "No I don't want you to do that, my son. I'll put you on the regular police force"
 And kin have a starr"
 ''Yes; I'll give you a badge" said the chief.
 "Al right I'm wid yer" answered Jimmie who was then and there sworn in as a special policeman-an act which immediately made him good citizen.
 How much better than to drag the boy to court and prison, making him hater of the law and of It's officersl
 Jimmie's sense of honor was keen. He
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Y oNDoN. October 24-There have ing the value of oxygen to athletes, Az been several articles lately discuss and it is even proposed that it shall be given to race horses, to add to their pow CT to do heavy work during prolonged periods.
 These experiments may be very inter esting scientifically, but it seems almost a waste of energy and of oxygen to use 1t for such purposes, while so many human beings are compelled by their over-crowd- ed homes and insantary surroundings to do their daily work with very insuffi- cient supply.
 Perhaps the doctors who are interested in the subject might be induced to try the effect of periodical doses administered to some of our anaemic and over worked home workers. whose breathing power is diminished and lung power destroyed by
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of our great scientists do not illustrate their theories, and astonish the nations of this vulgar earth by making half dozen worlds some fine morning, by way of get ting an appetite for breakfast. Great artists. however. frequently employ some artizans to perform the mechanical part of their work; and the trouble would be that these theories of world-malsing are so sublimated and ethereal that no arti- gan under heaven could ever be made to understand what was to be done.
 We hear much of reasoning through nature up to Natures God,' but such reasoning has been mostly confined to those thinkers who have. in one way or another, been enlightened by revelation. The general tendency has been the other
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would not "tell on his pals" But
 A policeman's star! He jumped at that. Now let the gang behave itself or
 You see, Jimmie and every boy-is at heart manly. His ideal of manliness may be no higher than to wear the badge of authority. But he lives up to his ideal. He Is true to his sense of duty. In doing that he becomes more manly.
 Give the boy a chance. Trust him. He will not dlsappoint you If you give him a "square deal" Put responsibility on his young shoulders. One of the finest things in his heart is his big sense of justice and his fidelity to a trust
 Trust him.
 Put obligations up to him.
 And you will make a man of him.
 Should you chance to read the story of the devotion of General David K. Ward well in the pages of Balzac you would declare the tale is overdrawn.
 Truth is not only stranger than fiction; 1t is oftentlmes more beautiful.
 General Wardwell was a veteran of two wars a retired United States army of ficer. Some time ago Mrs. Wardwell con- tracted 1eprosy. AS the disease devel- oped she felt she must leave her husband. Secretly and with much suffering she got to Los Angeles and gave herself up to the authorities. They held her for de- portation to leper colony.
 But the old warrior would not give up his wife. He pleaded for permission to take her to Mexico. He was refused.
 Then one morning the window of his wife's room in the hospital was found open
 The old soldier had taken his wife out by ladder.
 They left note. It read:
 We've gone to die together."a
 Fleeing toward Mexico, they stopped at Tombstone, Ariz. The health author ities said the couple must be separated, and the wife returnened to Los Angeles
 The grizzled veteran appealed to the federal government he had served so long. There was much correspondence. Finally 1t was agreed the county author tiles should have charge.
 Meantime the general and his leper
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modern advocates as Paley and McCosh, is not altogether satisfactory. Aristotle distinctly repudiates 1t. As an indirect argument. however, it has it's legitimate place. The most rigidly logical of all the ces,smathematics, frequently uses in- direct proof. The 'reductio ad absur- dunn" is a common method of proof in plane geometry. If our natural theolo- gians would use the argument from de- sign for what it is worth. and not insist upon it as a method of direct proof, we should probably find less difficulty in meeting the "scientific" objections of some modern investigators.
 If were looking for direct proof of the existence of such a God as is assumed in the Bible, I should look in the direction