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earth. To dangling vine fibre, which
is attached to the roof directly over the
center of the stand, is hung the rice
pot. A few handfuls of bamboo shaw
ings or small twgs are sufficient to
boil the rice and cook the fish or meat
and the days homework is over
When the "chow'' is ready a large
bowl of rice on top of which are small
bits of meat or fish is placed in the
center of the floor around which the
family and guests, If any, seat them
selves, with their feet doubled under
them, and proceed to get busy. Out
side of the aristocracy knives and forks
are unknown Each individual thrusts
and with thumb and fingers mould a
small quantity of rice in the form of
pyramid. This is conveyed to the
mouth with the middle and index fin
gers o< the left hand and showed into
the awaiting orifice with the thumb.
The right hand holds a bit of meat or
fish or fruit, of which they take a bite
between mouthfuls of rice. I doubt
very much If the natives ever saw a
piece of bread before the Americans took
possession of the islands.
Another important factor in the ma
tives family life is the carabou, or bet
ter known among students of natural
history as the water buffalo. They are
the Philippine beast of burden and are
indispensable to the natives who could
hardly get along without them. They
are huge beasts, about the size of the
American Durham bull, but are larger
in circumference and will probably
weigh more.
They are easily domesticated, quick to
learn, slow in motion, that is when not
angry, and very willing. workers, pro-
vided they are permitted to immerse
themselves in water or mud whenever
they so desire, which is often The car
abou has a thick and exceedingly tough
skin like the hog and the hair which is
scanty is of a deep red color and close
ly resembles the stiff coarse bristles as
seen on the average American porker.
They are also like the pig in their fond
ness of wallowing and II this privilege
is denied them they become raving crazy
and are exceedingly dangerous. For this
reason the driysrs frequently stop, espe-
cially during the extremely hot portion of
the day. and releasing the animal from
the load 1t Is either carrying or draw
ing, allowing it to indulge in its favorite
pastime. I say the native allows him to
battle. for well he knows that Mr.. Cara
bou will have his bath anyhow, utterly
regardless of the drivers wishes in the
matter.
when the buffalo manifests a desire to
bathe or wallow the driver makes all
haste to free him of his load, for when
the carabou wants to get into the water
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resources limitless in quantity and sur
prising in diversity. The soil is unsur-
passed for all the grains, tobacco, all the
grasses and orchards bearing all the
fruits known to the temperate zone. For
breeding and rearing live stock Of all spe-
cies and for dairy and poultry products
the Pennyrile is the equal of any region
under the sun.
And there, too. is now lodged the polit-
ical supremacy of the old commonwealth.
1t is the citadel of the old democratic
party and furnishes the majorities that
keep It in power in the state when it is
in power.
want to write something about two Of
the most conspicuous political leaders
of western Kentucky now on the carpet
and try to contrast them as | see them
Ollie James of the First Congressional
district and Owsley Stanley of the Sec
ond. Seemingly they are much alike,
actually they are as different as the
hammer of Thor and the rapier of Crch-
ton. Both were born to politics, though
James is the son of successful lawyer
and Stanley is the son of a devout and
beloved clergyman.
Do you know that Mr.. Lincoln was
wrong when he made that witty COM
ment, after he got to be President, and
was distributing the pie, that what pes
tered him was that too many round pegs
got into square holes, and too many
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establishment and kill every male on the
place. was he inspired in uttering that
oath? Yes, with anger. hatred and re-
yenge.
David knew that Saul was bad man
He had chased David like a partridge
upon the mountains, and forced him to
run clean out of the land. and take refuge
among the heather enemies Of Israel -.e
knew that Saul had repeatedly lied to
him. in order to destroy him And yet,
when Saul had fallen on Gilboa. David
composed a highly poetieal funeral dirge,
in which he said that Saul was lovely and
pleasant in his life Was that dirge in
spred-nay, was it even true?
Finally: Those famous foreign mission
aries, Paul and Barnabas, once had
notable quarrel over the question whether
Mark, who had deserted them on one mis-
sonary tour, should accompany them on
the next. And the contention was so
sharp between them that they departed
asunder one from the other" Was their
quarrel inspired? Well, after fashion,
yes Barnabas was inspired with par
TALLY for his Sisters son." and Paul
with anger at Marks desertion
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Copyright, 1909, by American Press Asso-
ciation)
IF the little lad at-your knee should in
herit 100000 in money, would you be
4 glad or sorry?
Think the proposition over carefully
before you answer
That large sum has been left by his
great uncle to Hunt T. Dickinson of
Augusta Ga.
And young Dickinson is but years
old
Judged by what he says, the father of
this boy is really sorry his son should
have inherited 100000. He fears the eff
feet of it on the boys future.
Mr.. Dickinson says he will keep the
news of his inheritance from him as
long as possible.
Says this anxious father:
'"That is enough money to ruin any boy
I do not want my boy to grow up feeling
that he need never work-a false idea.
want him to be plain, honest man. I
want him to do some of the worlds work
and learn that the greatest comfort in
life is to know that one has done sonle-
thing to make the world better"
Wise Mr. Dickensoni
He knows that much money is more apt
to be q curse than a blessing.
If Hunt Dickinson grows up to feel that
whatever happens to other people he is
sure of plenty without effort he may put
himself up on pedestal and come to feel
that he is different from those that toll.
Even should he resist the temptation to
souander his money in riotous living he
may come to think that he is nodded of
different putty from the ordinary men.
And that would make him cold and
hard and selfish.
He would come to believe that he is in
the world to be ministered to rather than
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rejects Grimms Law of interchange.
and imagines that, because two words in
different languages look or sound alike,
therefore they must Ae etymologically
akin, he has taken leave of science and
gone on a wild excursion into guess land,
and 50 of the exegete who ignores, for
gets or rejects 1.-THE historical method
of Interpretation, and magines that he
is at liberty to use his ingenuity in
squeezing some great spiritual truth out
of every detail of parable. These de-
tails are often the mere dress of the story,
and have no historical significance what
ever.
Ingenious interpretations are almost al
ways bad interpretations. Much Of Lange's
learned commentary is vitiated by its in
genuity
In the parable of the Ten Virgins, five
were wise and five foolish. Are we war
ranted in holding that half of the human
race are saved and half lost?
Now. is there anywhere in all Christen-
dom a trained and competent exegete
who believes that the story Of the Rich
Man and Lazarus is veritable history?
Or is there one who would attempt to get
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merous Of the venomous trio and are
most dreaded by the American soldier.
In appearance they are very much like
the centipede found in the southwest of
North America, and no doubt are very
poisonous, although I have never known
of anyone being bitten by them; but they
frequently drop from the roof upon
sleeping person below. Should they fall
upon a part of the body unprotected by
clothing and run over the bare skin a
fiery red streak is left that rapidly be-
somes infiamed and smarts, stings and
burns. This Inflammation, however,
quickly subsidies Another species of CEN
tipede that also makes his home In the
roof is about an inch. wide, six or seven
inches long and jet black in color. This
fellow, fortunately, Il seldom seen. His
bite is deadly When a native is bitten
b yone of them he Immediately sends
for the priest The bite of tropical
tarantula is also very poisonous, but II
you will allow them to leisurely crawl
off of your body, and do not get them
angry. they will not harm you.
After falling on you and finding that
he has landed upon something alive and
part, but he does not forget to plunge
his stinger into you at every jump,
whereupon you jump and yell and the
chanceS are you will break the third
commandment into small bits and hurl
the pieces at scorpions, the Philippines
and the fool patriotic sentiment that
caused you to enlist.
The snakes are scary. but will not hurt
you. If big one he is likely to be
the family pet and occupies about the
same position in the Philippine snack
as the common house cat does in the
American home. He is generally found
in the roof hunting the insects and small
lizards that he knows live there. me
family pet snake will keep away the
rats and mice His displays an aston
come when called and eat out of your
hand They are of a very affection
ate disposition and like to be stroked
and petted They will not bite and are
therefore not venomous. Domestic cats
are unknown In the Islands, but TINS
snake, in a large measure. fills tabby's
place You will always find these snakes
covered with scare received In pattles
with the large black vicious Phil1pplne
rats. They kill the rat by construction
and after crushing to a pulp every bone
meal time comes the family snake and
the family dogs are always on hand.
The native lady only cooks once day.
The firewood that an American house,
wife consumes in the preparation OF
one meal would last her Philippine sis
ter a month A little bamboo stand
about IS inches square is built In
corner Of the shack on top of which Is
placed six or eight inches OF well packed
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wook floors, Persian-rugs and an auto
mobile-if somebody would pay him
10 cents instead of "a cents for his
milk.
There is lot of common sense as
we'll as grim humor in Farmer Browns
retort
Whatever the need of better sani-
tary conditions on dairy farms, there
is no excuse for the insanitary tone
ment shacks OF the large cities.
There are no slums or tenderloins on
the Chenango farms.
And Mr. Brown well added, When
you have plucked the beam from your
own eyes, come again"
In a New York gallery there recently
hung two pictures by the Spanish artist
Sorolla y Bastida.
One was a picture of sunshine.
In this picture the artist flooded the
Valencian sea and shore with the splen-
dor of June The sunburst falls in great
Lr1llianoy upon the bronzed faces Of fish,
ermen in their gorgeously colored plaid
skirts. The luminous brightness lights
up the shiny coats of the stolid oxen. 1t
touches with gliding the white foamed
waves as they break inshore. 1t trans
forms the Tapping sails of the fisher
mems boats into cloth of gold The
waters beneath are illumined, and the gol-
den air holds up q purely azure sky.
At a glance you understand. 1t Is
sunshine and happiness
The other picture by Sorolla is a fit
companion piece. Beneath 1t is written:
"a Sad Inheritance"
There is no sunshine in this picture.
It's pervading color is not gold, but gray.
The same sea and strand are shown,
stretching out to a forbidding horizon.
Grewsome shadows Turk in the depths Of
the dark waters, and over all looms a
threatening sky.
That is the background of this awe
some picture.
In the foreground are the nude figures
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as it does in the islands, I have seen 1t
rain day and night for six weeks without
a moments pause. The annual rainfall
is in the neighborhood of four meters
(over 10 feet.
On account of the floods, which are the
natural result of such vast quantity of
rain, the floors of the shacks are built
from to 10 feet above the ground and
are entered by means of ladders, also
built of bamboo and the rungs dashed on
with strips of vine fiber. A visitor in the
islands is ,astonished to see with what
ease and dexterity dog will mount
these ladders. In the number of mon
grel ours a Philippine village can sue
cessfully compete with any Mexican town,
and l have yet to see a dog which is
large enough to walk that cannot run
up a ladder while native is thinking
about 1t. The floors of the huts, also
the walls, are made of small narrow
strips of bamboo cleverly woven together.
The whole structure, when complete, is
elastic and springy, SO the most severe
earthquakes, which are of common oc-
currence have no effect whatever upon
them The average shack is about 10
or 'lean-tos," they are enlarged to suit
the requirements of large family, or
even two or more families. Should two
housewives engage in a quarrel, or for
any other reason neighborhood should
become dissatisfied to a native, he sum-
mons five or six friends to his aid, picks
up his shack and transports 1t to a
more congenial locality.
1t is a common thing to see a gang of
natives carrying a house through the
streets of any village. Should the native
so desire, and have sufficient energy, he
can, with his bolo as his only tool, and
bamboo and different colored dyes as his
only materials make his home very at
tractive The best and most pretentious
houses are cozy and homelike. For count
less generations the natives have worked
with bamboo until they have in the high
est degree acquired perfection in all
forms of construction. They make all
kinds of furniture, suchsas beds, chairs,
tables, etc., and even the most artistic
decorative ornaments
The interior walls of the best houses
are draped with bamboo mats interviewer
with colored grasses So expert are thew
In the art of hand weaving that aside
from the pictures of trees, flowers, land
scapes and animals, the portraits of MEM
bers of the family are often seen. The
features, and even the expression are
marvelously reproduced. Such pieces. like
the panama hat. are woven under water.
The thatch roof of a native shack ar
fords an excellent dwelling place for
many different kinds of insects, small
rnakes (sometimes big ones) and liz
ards The most troublesome inhabitants
of the roofs are tarantulas, scorpions
and centipedes. The latter are most nu-
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"OU always damage your cause
when you cite weak, tneonolusive
= or illogical arguments to sustain
it. One of the highest compliments ever
paid to John Stuart Mill, as a logician,
was put thus: THE next best thing to
having Mr. Mill on your side is to have
him against YOU for. in stating your
case, in order to refute it, he will state
1t more clearly and strongly than you can
state it Yourself"
Mr.. Gladstone. who became one of the
greatest leaders that the liberal party
ever had. began his political career as a
high tory; and while training in the
tory camp, he wrote his notable book on
church and state. Macaulay reviewed
the work In a respectful tone, but with
utterly annihilating logic, and in the
course of his review he showed that Mr..
Gladstone had given away his cause by
using variety of arguments. which
were logically worthless, and sometimes
absurd.
Now, in a recent number of the ''West-2
ern Recorder" my excellent and revered
brother, j. NJ. Weaver of Louisville has
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"HE islands of the Philippine archi-
neIaro number away up in the
i hundreds. Some of them are not
INV larger than an ordinary dining ta-
b1e. MANY of which are not charted,
while others are as large as many OF our
larger states. Luzon, the continentai
island of the group is about the size OF
Colorado, and the next largest, Mindanao.
is nearly as large as Oklahoma. All OF
the coast towns and villages of the ISL
ands are frequently visited by violent
tornadoes, called typhoons, which within
a very few minutes completely wipe d
town out Of existence. Within As hours
after such storm the village is again
occupying its old site as If nothing had
happened. Wherever the banana grows,
no matter in what tropical country, the
inhabitants are invariably lazy, and |
verify believe that the natives of the
Philippines are the LATEST of all. About
the only work native will do is to build
the shack in which hH and his family
live and plant and cultivate his rice
s'paddie" Nature has, with lavish gen
crosby, supplied all of his simple wants,
and about all he has to do is to reach
out his nanu anu gather WHdl Ho IeuuiTes.
The male native is a firm believer in let
ting the women do the work After ty-
phoon has swept away a village the ma
tive proceeds to the nearest bamboo
patch and with his working bolo "a thick,
heavy. long-baded knife) chops down a
number of the giant canes and carries
them to the plat of ground upon which
he wishes to build The longest and heav-
TEST poles are used as uprights and extend
from the ground to the caves of the roof.
with the exception of the roof the entire
house and its furnishings are made of
of bamboo, which is the universal build
inq material of the Philippines. When
the four uprights are in place they are
lasheds together with the half of bam-
hoo cane split lengthwise, which forms
the foundation upon which the floor is
laid. The four sides of the shack, rs
VI ell a . the floors, are made of small strips
Of split cane which are laced or woven
together with a strong, tough and ex-
ceedingly pliabe fiber obtained from a
vine which resembles the common rattan
vine of America. In the entire construc-
ton of hut not nail, screw or piece
of metal of any kind Is used. inc ROOF
ia made of a long, tough swamp grass
called '.nipa," or pima" This grass.
which is about seven feet long, is tied at
the root ends in bundles the size OF a
mans wrist They are securely tied In
LAYERS to the framework of the roof, be-
ginning at the caves and overlapping
each other like shingles. extending TO
&the apex This thatch roof Is excellent
md absolutely waterproof. as 1t necessa-
INV must be- as the Philippine winter Is
the rainy season. and in no other place
in the world does the rain come down as
csaselessly and in such dense quantities
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quence" was at the zenith of its popular
ity it would have ranked with any sim
liar Grafton ever delivered in an Ameri-
can political convention.
Stanley, too, is the author Of a notable
speech-the reply to Mr.. Dalzell on JEFF
ferson and Hamilton. Dalzell had got his
history from that Harvard college set
Theodore Roosevelt is one of 'em-and it
is history made to order, the facts to fit
the prejudices of the historian. John
Sharp Williams and Champ Clark told
Stanley to leave Dalzell alone, that he
was the most dangerous man in Congress
to tackle; but Stanley persisted, worked
like a Turk day and night for a week
in research. and when he delivered 1t
there was not scrap left of Mr. Dalzelrs
speech.
Ollie James was made for a turbulent
body like the House of Representatives:
Owsley Stanley was made for a sedate
body like the Senate. On the spur of the
moment James can electrify the House;
after intense study and research Stanley
would captivate the Senate with new
phase OF an idea. or a new idea itself.
James has a life lease on his seat ia
the House, as much so as Alexander IT.
Stephens or Thaddeus Stevens. Some day
he will be speaker, a successor of Lynn
Boyd, also of the Gibraltar district.
The country will hear a heap about
these two young fellows the next %
wears
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to minister-that he is here to get what
he thinks is coming to him rather than
to give the world what is coming to it,
He would lose all touch with his fell
lows.
Is there any wonder why Mr.. Dick
enson should dread the influence of
those millions on his sons career?
A boy thus handicapped has no fair
chance with the poor boy who must
fight his way up to success, keeping
elbow touch with the world, making
himself strong by earning what he
gets, developing his character and MAX
ing himself useful citizen.
= Mr.. Dickinson may we'll fear the in
cubus of 100000 on the shoulders of
his son.
This is loves story in real life of a
king who gave up his kingdom for the
sake of a maid.
To be sure, it wasn't much Of king
dom, consisting mostly of phosphate
rocks. But he was monarch of all he
surveyed-except when the phosphate
trust issued an order from London.
John Davis Murray is the name of
the ex-king. He graduated few years
ago at Purdue university, Indiana, and
went out to the Christmas Islands, in
the Pacific ocean, to seek his fortune.
John got to be very popular with the
natives of the three tight little islands,
and they made him king.
He was q sort of George AIDE comic
opera style of king, with corporaps
guard and a gorgeously gilded throne,
and issued DEGREES written on both
sides of a sheet of foolscap, with an
imperial seal as big as your fist
All the same he was king-under the
phosphate trust.
He might have married whole
harem of savage beauties and founded
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the dynasty of the house of Murray.
But
Here is the romance on the top of
romance: He turned his back On his
empire DOTTED hi scrown, went to Lon
don and-for love-married Margaret
McMicken, a sweet Irish lass.
The king got acquainted with Mar
garet when he was loafing around Lon
don town on a kingly vacation.
Pretty story
Reads like some of those things you
used to devour from the veracious pages
of Dana and Captain Marryat or sweet
Robert Louis Stevenson.
You see, John Davis Murray, Hoosier
found In England a greater king than
himself.
/ Edward Rex? No. The king he came
across Is bigger than Edward, King of
England, Ireland and Scotland, Emperor
of India, defender of the faith, etc. Who
then?
Love is the greater king!
All lesser sovereigns bow to his kingly
scepter, and his mild but imperious sway
moves the minds and hearts of all, be
they potentates or peasants
That king told King Murray he must
decide between his rocks, his natives, his
Job as easy boss and Margaret, the one
woman. And John Murray promptly adj
Dictated.
p S.-John is worth 100000 or so in
cold casr-safe in the vaults Of the Bank
OF England-got from his phosphate roy
alties
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Jumping at Conclusions.

From the Bohemian Magazine.
Two small boys had strayed in the
mummy room of certain museum.
''Wot's these?" said one.
"Them guys wot's bin dead a long
time" answered the other
''And wots them letters. B. c. II, over
the guy In the corner?''
Guess that's the number of the auto
bile wot run over the poor blokes."
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Herein is richness:
A New York city health inspector went
to a Chenango county farm and prepared
his inspectors report, giving the farm
SO per cent on a scale of 1O0 The defects
pointed out were these:
The barn windows had not been proper
ly washed, the inside walls of the stable