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No. Only there is in it the touch that makes the world kin-kin it may be for only an mpulsive moment, but kin never theless
 Some of those present at the governors reception saw only the little girls, excited, flushed, fearful, but happy. Others saw this picture:
 A sick bedchamber lacking many com forts, the face of a father with a look of longing on his wasted face, lonely wait ing for his little ones, q brightening look when the tots came home in a carriage loads of posieS, tears, joy.
 And those precious kids!
 Amid all the stirring spectacle of the reception they thought chiefly of the sick father and how he would enjoy a flower. What were the presidents and governors to them, or the grandly dressed women whose toilets almost took away their breath, if only they could have flower a big flower for poor papa?
 Poor? Whatever his circumstances, that father is rich.
 You have doubtless read the book of Job, the greatest drama ever written.
 Job was a millionaire of his time. His swollen fortune consisted of lands and herds, and he was the father of seven sons and three daughters. But
 Because Eliphaz and Zophar were older than he-such was the respect for age in that patriarchal time-Job was compelled
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Suppose all men practiced what Judge Hough's prayer implies? Well, he and Keegain would be out of jobs. There would be no use for lawyers. or govern ments in this damned wicked world we live in. Sir Oliver"
 I sec F'oraker has rung the fire alarm again. See Proverbs xxvi:11. He ad- vises a resort to the anarchists bomb to destroy the monument to Wlrz, whom the south holds a martyr and the north a monster; and yet fewer Yankees died in rebel prisons than rebels died in Yan- kee prisons, and that, too, when the Christian north made medicine a contra band of war. something unprecedented since Cain invented war. lilly nor Wal lenstein ever dreamed of it. As for Jeff ferson Davis, the obliteration of his name from John Cabin bridge did him no harm, as its restoration did his mem ory no good. And besides, his image on the silver service of the battleship Mis- sissippi did the navy no harm, as 1t did his fame no good.
 All l meant to say Is that Foraker Is striving to bring copperheadism in fash ion again in Ohio, and therefore 1t may become necessary for Judge Hough to return to that state and run for governor on a Vallandingham ticket.
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to sit still and listen to their censures.
 With us," said Jobs "comforters,' - "are both the gray haired and very aged men much elder than thy father"
 And Job. meekly admitting said With the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days is understanding.
 When Elihu, the younger, broke into the discussion he apologized most pro- fusely and confessed, T am young, and ye are very old wherefore I was afraid and durst not show you my opinion.''
 But times have changed
 In these days the wisdom of the ancients is at discount, except in such places as China and Hindustan.
 Why?
 Because progress is so rapid. The wis dom of age fails to keep pace. Today, unless he keeps pace with the procession, a man at fifty is ''has-b -been," at sixty a ''moss-bacS,' at seventy a back num- ber."
 In a former time man could teach his son the wisdom of bootmalSing. Today the son must know how to put on the heels or cut the lace holes with a ma chine.
 Formerly man was wise as a wagon maker. Nowadays his son gives his en- tire attention to a machine that makes hubs.
 Or
 In his time the father was an all around doctor who treated levers, cut off legs and pulled teeth. Today his son is a
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specialist" In his time the father only needed to tickle the soil to reap a har- vest. Today his son must know the cbem- istry of soil and plants.
 In some things experience is valuable, as before, but
 Skill in driving an OK cart helps noth- ing in steering an automobile.
 These are some things we older men cannot help, but let us not fret ourselves because of that. There is only one way to keep along side of the band wagon get new ideas, get one a day. We must keep our minds open and our hearts warm and our entbusiasfns, youthful.
 AS the world moves we must move.
 Charles I<irtland, of Salina, Kansas, has solved the much discussed problem of keeping boys on the farm.
 MT. Kirtland owns 250 acres six miles from Salina. He has three boys-Fred, aged sixteen; John fourteen, and Ches- ter, six. There are three girls.
 In the winter MT. Kirtland's family lives in Salina on account of school facili- ties and to enjoy the social life. Sc much Is the family in love with the country, however, that before the snow has fairly gone all are begging to go back to the farm.
 The secret of 1t?
 Cooperation, partnership.
 The FIirtland family is pure democ- racy in which every member is a citizen,
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TYHD Hotel Clerk drew from his
 breast pockets a number of con-
 A densed time tables folders, posters and circulars. printed in three or more colors. Upon the backs of most of these were pictures of shiny summer girls pro polling shiny canoes across shiny lakes with shiny paddles or else lovely sum mer boys with form-ftting duck trousers on and their sleeves rolled up, sitting on the grass playing guitars. From which a close observer could have told at a glance that the Hotel Clerk had been acquiring advertising matter dealing with this va cation proposition. He piled the collec- tion up on the desk in front of him and gazed at it.
 And to think it's not there," he said morosely. "All this mass of summer ltier- ature by the best authors and not a sign of it.'
 Not a sign of wot?" inquired the House Detective of the St. Reckless.
 '"rhe place where l fain would spend my hard earned vacation and money this summer,' answered the Hotel Clerk. Tt doesn't appear to be in ethe books. Here we have all the leading authorities on the subject, and I don't seem to be able to find 1t anywhere"
 There's more'n 10000 places you might go to-" said the House Detective. "Yes. s I know" said the Hotel Clerk And no matter which one I picked out, I'd wish I'd gone to the other 9,999, thus insuring that my fate would be the common fate of all. Here I am with my mind all made up that my system is sufficiently
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Judge Keegain. an Irishman. a Catholic, a fellow lawyer and a republican. An tagonistic in q thousand ways religious and political these two are as closely knit in friendship and fellowship as any brothers in all the land. While I that write this plead guilty to the charge of being something of rufhan. I envy Hough and Keegain the character uni- versal they have made as perfect gen. tlemen, a term held all too cheap in our land, but it fits these two as the bark the tree.
 am now going to quote the daily prayer of Robert Townsend Hough, and if any boy in his teens, or of tenderer years shall do me the honor to read this account of a rather obscure great man, I want that boy to memorize this prayer, repeat 1t, morn and eve, and live it:
 Today let me live content, be clean. re-
 fined, worthy,
 Act frankly, go slowly, listen well, think
 quickly,
 Fear nothing do my full share of the worlds work, and rest tonight,
 knowing I have injured nothing
 that exists.
 That is simpler than the advice old Po- lonius gave Laertes and just as good.
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strong and rugged to endure one of those fortnights of rest and recuperation out of town. and now I find myself violently up against uncertainty and suspense"
 Well wot kind of place do you want?' asked the House Detective.
 "All l want" said the Hotel Clerk, 'is place that's not on the shore, or up in the mountains or by a lake, or near a mineral spring full of water that tastes like the wrath to come. A place that has no. hunting and no fishing, no bathing ex- cept bath-tubbing, and no boating except gravy-boating. A place without golf links or tennis courts or facilities for walking and driving. A place that does not ad- vertise either a family table a French cuisine by the best French cuisinists. A place that is not dear old farm house, or a large plank hotel with verandahs and scandals extending all the way around it. I don't want a hunting shack in the woods, or a bungalow within sound of the breakers.
 If you happen to know of a place, Lar ry, that hasn't got any of the regular va cation facilities or attractions whatsoever I'd be very pleased if you'd whisper the name to me and I'll go right now and wire for accommodations.
 Tt looks to me like you don't know wot you want" said the House Detective
 Maybe you're right" said the Hotel Clerk, but I know what l don't want. In times gone by Larry, I have gone deeply and expensivey into this burning
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against him. He weighed 190 pounds, his muscles were as iron, his eyes as fire. He had a giants strength and gripping his pitchfork, he uttered the de- fiance, Come on. can whip any ten of you" The entire layout was tanned by the master spirit of that boy and work was resumed and politics dropped.
 Robert T. Hough was the boy, and ths boy was father to Robert T. Hough. the man, the jurist, the thinker, the states man whom I came know some 40 years later. His father was Methodist and an abolitionist; but this boy became a follower of Nallandingham and a reader of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Character is the only coin that is full legal tender and young Hough, when candidate for Congress in that community some years later, on tho democratic ticket, got 4s majority in that very precinct where not a democratic vote was cast in 1864.
 As was the case of Frank Hurd, the intolerance of frantic republicans made an intense democrat of hobert T. Hough, and he would vote his party's ticket though it were headed by the eternal old cloven-hoofed devil himself.
 Isl 1871, at the age of p, Robert T. Hough was graduatel from the Cincin- nati law school, and soon thereafter was elected clerk of the circuit court of
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Ty HIS true incident, which at the time
 it occurred was limited to the Mad ! ison CWis) newspapers is worth retelling.
 President Roosevelt was holding a reception in the office of Governor La Toilette at Madison. Two little girls edged their way through the crowd. They were not as well dressed as some of the other girls there, but their raiment was neat and clean.
 Governor LaFollette noted the presence of the children and asked them if they wanted to see the president
 The girls were abashed because of the attention that was paid to them. They shrank back, but the governor pressed them. Finally the elder one answered the governor:
 "We don't want that, but we would like something else"
 What would you like?' kindly inquired the governor
 ''Wed like that fiower,' volunteered the smaller one. Papa is sick at home and couldn't come, and we'd like to give him a f1ower''
 She was given the flower, a large Ameri- can Beauty rose, and was so happy she broke down and cried. Then willing hands stripped several of the vases, and the two little ones were take home to the sick papa-and carri- age to carry them in.
 Not much of story7
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at the same place? Do they keep them In close captivity in some dark under ground haunt during the off-season and plant Is abloom on the lea? I know this you don't see 'em anytime all during the year, until all of a sudden, some morning, they come out on a hotel porch and be- gin to effervesce. But I know all by the backs. There's the stout lady suffering a great gathering of sudden wealth on the chest who comes down to breakfast broken out all over with diamonds like the casino, and wearing a large Doric head of taffy hair, some of it being home grown, but most of it brought on.
 There's the willowy sister who dresses herself up in close-fltting white stuff un- and does plastic poses in the hammock, with the skirts drawn in very close, so as to give her figure a chance to cause com ment There's the grass widow with the orbs of startled fan and the low flute like sympathetic notes, who's talked to by all the men and talked about by all the women. There's the eagle-eyed lady sharp, who makes 8 speciality of bridge, and does things with cards that would make the late Soapy Smith turn oyer in his grave and bite the name-pate of his coffin.
 There's the very, very wealthy family consisting of one prematurely old father, one prematurely young mother, one daughter who knows the piano and plans, one son who doesn't know any thing and is also working at his trade,
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TWO INTERESTING PH1ILIPINO TRBES-By H. S. w, M D.

ligious practices and beliefs they are very non-oommittal and I have never been able to induce one of them to give me the faintest hint concerning this subject. They have an established form of government presided over by dato or head chief. They cultivate small farms and live principally by az
 riculture. They are said to be the most prolific tribe in the islands. The children in a single family will num- Der from six to eighteen or twenty. A large tree that contains four or five shaclks will be swarming with kids. The terrible blow guns. the most dreaded and deadly weapon in the islands, is used by Mindayas against their enc mes in tho use of which they are marvelously expert. The "gun" is a slender hollow straight reed about seven feet long, the inside diameter of which is about one-eighth of an inch. The projectle is a dart about an inch long made of a light wood and tipped with iron, which is ground to needle like point. The darts used in warfare are poisoned and the slightest wound caused by one of them Is deadly. A very poisonous snake, species of the adder family, Is found in profusion in Mindinao. The Mindayas capture this serpent and making it thoroughly an- gry, hold small piece of new meat be- fore it, which the adder, in its rage. strikes repeatedly. At each stroke its deadly venom Is injected into the meat which in short time turns to a dark green hue Into this poisoned flesh the points of the darts arc thrust and allowed to remain until thoroughly coated with the poison. After they arc dry the points look as if they were covered with a kind of glue, the glossy coating very much resembling the virus on an ordinary vaccine point, Should one of these darts penetrate the skin the result is the same as if the victim had been bitten by the adder and death results quickly. The person in
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with rights and the privileges of citizen ship.
 Ever since they have been old enough to be interested in any way the children have had some share however small. in the farm. Each has something he can call his own.
 Mir Kirtland has "toted fair'' with the children. If they were not old enough to exercise judgment as to money or prop erty they were properly credited on the books It Is interesting to note how the boys are getting on.
 For instance
 Last year Fred and John, having ac- cumulated some capital, rented an ad- joining forty acres. They used the fam fly teams to break the ground, paying stipulated sum per day for their use They bought seed wheat and paid Tor the thrashing.
 The two boys made a profit of $450 on the venture Next year they say they will do better. And they did this without neglecting their home duties or their schooling.
 Do you wonder these boys are content l and happy on the farmP | Chester, the little one of six years, de- termned to acquire some property. He bought with his little savings a couple of orphan pigs, baby pigs. That was a year ago. Twice daily he filled his little pail from the milk separator and fed the orphans.
 The pigs thrived and short time ago,
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Highland county. When the term ex- pired he entered actively on the practice of law and took high rank at the bar. MT. Cleveland appointed him solicitor of internal revenue, and no abler man ever held that responsible office. His history of. and argument upon. the income tax schedule of the Wilson tariff bill is & production of which any leader of the American bar might well be proud; but it is as a practitioner in the court room that Judge Hough has gained most rep utation. He Is that marvel of lawyers one never taken by surprise, never cap tive of a flank movement of an adver- sary.
 When Mckinley was first elected Judge Hough resigned and entered upon the practice of his profession at Washing ton, where his friends are numbered by the scope of his acquaintance. A man of the broadest charity, one of those sin ners, "of whom am one of which," who believe it was the mission of our blessed Lord and Saviour to succor "the un- worthy poor' and to bring soace to the heavily laden in spirit Hough is narrow in nothing but his politics. He is val Ter dog" democrat, and that sentiment is imbedded to the marrow in his great. ponderous Pennsylvania Dutch corpo- rosity.
 His most intimate personal friend Is
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tist and interdenominational-i Richmond and in Birmingham. and has belonged to such conferences in another city, and in every one of those conferences the regu- lar proceedings and the interest have been repeatedly and utterly wrecked by "ax- grinders who came to secure our in- huencen in promoting their pet schemes.
 Speakers - male and female - whose tongues. like the map of the globe, have
 both latitude and longitude. have be- sleged us with endless harangues urging us to push their plans. One man wants our Influence" to secure the erection of palatial building for a Young Men s Christian Association at some college hundreds of miles away. Another wants us to assist at the birth of an infant chamber of commerce. A third urges us to encourage people to ride on his rail- way. If we have lost our power, why do the people who hatch up all sorts of out landish schemes rush to us for our in fluence" as soon as their schemes are
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tie. After a Bagoba has killed a cer- tain number of men or has given num- Der of heads-I have forgotten how many he is allowed to wear badge of dis tinction In his turban, which badge marks him as warrior of great valor and also gives him a permit to kill The duel is a recognized institution and each man is a law unto himself. but cold blooded murder among them is punished by death. The victor in a duel is permitted to take the head of his vanquished antagonist. They are so quick to take offense that they are not permitted to carry weap- on of any description when they visit the camps of American soldiers. The Ba- goba are polygamists. They are permit ted to have as many wives as they can support and, as the men consider labor or work of any description beneath their dignity the number of wives is governed by the number of women a man can in- duce to labor for him. Only the chiefs of this tribe are permitted to own slaves.
 Their principal food is rice and fruit. The only work the men will do is in the nature of sport for they are eX- tremely fond of hunting and fishing. Their weapons are the spear, barong and bow and arrow They are experts with the spear with which they can pierce the body of a man at the distance of 50 feet. Both sexes are very fond of to- bacco which the women of the tribe to some extent cultivate, but their favorite habit is chewing the betelnut. This habit stains the teeth a deep red color and in time eats away the enamel and causes a premature decay of the teeth. The nuts are on sale in the native stores not only here but throughout the Philip pines as 1t is universal habit. The nuts, as they are offered for sale, look something like our white walnuts.
 Beside them are always some strips of palm leaves and a little pile of moist slacked lime. When a customer orders a supply of nuts the store clerk (al- ways a young girl or old woman( spreads
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I made within a small fraction of 5000 visits, L e.. counting every visit made to each person. as one.
 A carefully kept Record of Sermons and Addresses" showed that these aver aged five per week straight through the year An extensive and inevitable core spondence is to be added to this mass. Nothing but one iron constitution and systematic habits of work ever carried me through such an ordeal. These per sonal details are given here in order to show that pinisterial service is still in demand. Let me close with few paragraphs which I recently published in the Religious Herald:
 Has the Pulpit Lost Its Power7
 The diletante men of letters. who write with gold pens, in purple and perfumed ink, on tinted paper are continually telling us that 1t has; but the general public seem to be marvelously slow in finding it out
 Within the last 10 years this scribe has presided at Ministers Conferences-Bap-
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oculated will die in the most horrible convlusions imaginable.
 This blowgun is also used in hunting small game. The natives are so skillful In it's use that they can without difficult ty knock parrot out of the top of the highest tree. The Mindfnayas live in comparative peace, as the neighboring warlike tribes have long since learned that the insignificant tree dwellers are a rather dangerous proposition, so they hunt heads in other localities.
 This tribe disposes of its dead some think like some of the North American Indians did one hundred years ago. A platform is built upon two upright poles and the corpse, which is sewed up in a piece of rough mating. is laid upon tho platform. The vultures, and especially the ants, which swarm in myriads, soon pick the bones clean, and in a short tina only tho white. bleached skeletons re- main. These are scattered under the platform by the winds and in a large burial place the ground is white with hu- man bones. The platforms are used time and again, sometimes as many as six or eight bodies being laid upon them. After the simple religious ceremonies over the dead are performed by the na- tive priest the remains are Nuspended from a bamboo pole about eiEht fees long. Two men grasp each end of tho pole, Wnlch they place on tneir shoulders, and start to tho burial platform in a swift trot The corpse, sewed in the strip of mating will sway from side to side as the men trot along. The writer has followed such a bier to the platforms but never mourner could he see. The two natives climb up to the platform and with ropes draw up the body and, while laughing and chatting, dump the corpse upon it's last resting place as if it were bag of rice. The Mindinayas. as we'll as all other native tribes, look upon death as a matter of course. and even in dying seem to regard death with about as much concern as if they were only going to take short nap, instead of going te their last long rest.
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company rides a long distance over what Is probably the worst road in the known world. The moon either does or does not come out, and you sing songs ap- propriate to the spirit of such a mad evening, and coming back, you nearly always break down In the middle of a swamp where the gallinippers are the size of casowaries, and the native pinch ing bug files blithely around, with an arrangement like a Set of sugar tongs sticking out from his naturally low and forbidding forehead I certainly would crave to take one more-straw ride-and then die"
 'All that line of talk don't put us no nearer to the place where you're goin' to spend your vacahon." said the House Detective.
 Well" said the Hotel Clerk, T have a place in mind where l know I'd be perfectly satisfied and comfortable I'd eat the things l love to eat ond I'd talk to the people I want to talk to, and I'd go to the places I like to go to- wouldn't be bothered by lot of refugee exhibits that escaped from human curio cabinet because somebody left the door open. I wouldn't be charged 30 more every time my name happened to acci- dentally come into the hotel managers mind l know I'd be happy. But don't think 1t would be proper to spend vaca- ton there. It's not according to form and never heard Of anybody that did it."
 "Wots this place calledT' asked the House Detective.
 This place" said tho Hotel Clerk, .qs called home"