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they both thought in Old Testament
language, even when they gave no hint
that they were quoting 1t. Note the
following instances:
In Rom. xii, 20-"Tf thine enemy hun
ger, feed him; If he thirst, give him
drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap
Goals of fire on his head"-is almost
an exact reproduction of Prov. XIV. 81
22 and yet Paul does not say here,
1T is written" nor does he use any
of the formulas for quotation. 1t Is
not easy to believe that our Lords
parable of the vineyard duke Xxx.
9-16) is altogethe r independent OF
Isaiah's parable of the vineyard, as set
forth in the first seven verses of the
fifth chapter of that prophet. The dy-
ing words of Christ MY God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me? are the
very words of the opening of the TWEEN
ty-second Psalm.
Here Is q Selection which ought
to be wholesome reading for summer:
Does piety melt and then evaporate
when the thermometer gets among the
nineties? Some churches in our large
cities close up for the heated term. The
reason given Is that the people have
gone away for the summer, and there
is no hope of keeping UP the congre-
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the Sixty-second Congress. What will 1t
do with it? There's the rub. MY friend
Bob Gates who represents a Memphis
paper in the press galleries. House and
Senate, in the capitol edifice, one night
demonstrated to me by rule and plummet
that except the negro race, nothing be-
tween earth and sky, since the creation
of animal or vegetable life on our planet,
had ever received as much volunteered
advice as the democratic party. He was
rebukng me for some advice I had given
the democracy in an editorial l had writ
ten, printed in a Washington newspaper
that very morning.
I am now going to volunteer some more
advice to the democratic party, viz: Re
store the word only to the tariff plank
and keep it there. Make the tariff para
mount, and discipline every insurgent and
execute every deserter. That Is starter.
IF the House shall turn up with a dem
ooratio majority. make Champ Clark
speaker and let Champ Clark make up his
committee on ways and means of such
democrats as Ollie James-he's the real
stuff-and then let the committee go nos
Ing around and dig up the Mills bill of
the Fiftieth Congress. add to 1t an income
tax feature, report 1t to the House, give
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the trade secrets he has sold and will
tell the truth about some of the fraud
ulant preparations on the market.
However
The old man is over the fence and out,
and his i'll deeds will doubtless go up with
him to judgment.
This is not a Temperance lecture, but
If an extraordinary genius cannot daily
with the invisible spirit of alcohol with
out ruin how shall the ordinary mortal
hope to escape?
talents of the great what will 1t do
for brains of less ability?
This writing on how to train a baby
is by a man.
The presumption of 1t!
What does a mere man know about
babies? Strange as 1t may appear, a
man may have learned something from
observation, and his point Of view may
be very well worth while.
Anyway, you will please permit man
who has had babies in his house to
say a word to young mothers.
I would advfse you to decide very
early in the baby's career who is boss
YOU or the baby.
OF course your baby Is Just the finest
and sweetest baby in babylon, but all
the same 1t doesn't know what 1t needs
1t thinks 1t knows what 1t wants, and
30 it frets and cries and kicks until
something Is done. And then
When 1t gets something done as its
reward for making noise and demonstra-
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E<T HE little beggars are doing ex-
actly what I don't want them
L to do" said the famous natural
list, Charles Darwin, as he examined some
plants which he was cultivating with
great care. They were not plants from
which he expected to gather vegetables
for his table. He left those to his gar
dener, and took very little interest in
them. He was a rich man and not at
all dependent upon the plants for liv-
ing; but though his living did not de-
pend upon them, his theory did, and they
were not behaving in way to suit his
darling theory. They were not minding
Natural Selection" and were paying no
attention to 1.-The transmutation of spe-
cies''; but were just growing in their own
way-or rather In Gods way-and this
did not suit Mr. Darwins views.
Is not this much of a piece with the
way in which too many preachers treat
the Sculptures? Your proof text" is
shown to be on the other side. If it be
fairly interpreted. Do you rejoice at the
new light; or do you grieve over the loss
of your proof text? Or, what is worst
of all, do you sit to work to torture the
text, and make 1t say something that the
inspired author never thought of? Is the
text, under the light which honest and
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THRILLS OF LIFE By A. B. Bealle

ing, self-enwrapped, when the vision ex-
tends to all the secret places of society.
In return for what man or woman
gives of concern as to the social welfare
of the race are received genuine thrills
of living experience. Perhaps no expert
ence may rightly be termed small, Of lit
tie worth. Let us believe that in spite of
the Nietzsches and Schopenhauers, with
their grim pessimism this old earth can
be made really habitable-that a life may
be worth spending. Surely the sweetness
and light and the thrills of the common
est humdrum existence are counteract-
ants to the deformities and vulgarities,
THE siclSly forms that err from hon.
est Natures rule"
Flung together here. whether as
friends or enemies, for little space, we
must perforce spend our days and nights.
Shall we not be attentive to all of the
songs and tears as well? Shall we not
go with linked hands in the pageant?
And whether or not there come to pass
dwelling down and a levelling UP to
consummate the dream of all democra-
cies. let us at least go on our paths with
seeding eyes and ears that hear.
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let us be glad; they are infallibleI as the
night and day--woven In the scheme.
And so the rational man or woman can
be bored no more. seeing that with
drawing from society is equivalent to
blindfolding oneself to the pageant a
pageant which can have no stopping, nor
any beginning, nor any repetition of that
which has past.
We are all part of 1t:
The poor devil I saw yesterday made
happy when the foreman of shop gave
him d days work.
You at your desk there with poised pen.
perhaps designing homes for men and
women.
The boy or girl with plans and dreams
Of tomorrow, of tho small tasks and the
great ventures.
The painted woman with the hunted
crushed look in her eyes.
ALL all part of the pageant, than
which none can be greater. think, fuller
of import-all august and miraculous;
peace, mercy, loving kindness, the lessons
underlying.
Too much is at stake for us to be dron-
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levied principally on non-competitive ar
ticles of merchandise. | look for it from
some republican of the Dolliver- Cummins
stripe. When Dolliver made those two
speeches. one on the cotton and the other
on the wool schedule OF the Payne-Ald-
rich monstrosity he was headed straight
for the free trade camp and he is on the
toboggan at that Nothing, not even his
own volition, can stop him. 1 wish he
was President right now, and l expect to
see him President, for the democratic
party doesn't seem to have any ambi-
ton in that direction, and would not
know what to do with one if presidencies
grew on trees and were as plentiful as
leaves.
Opportunity came to the democratic
party In 1893. All it had to do to kill the
republican party as dead as it had killed
the wing party 40 years earlier, was to
follow Its leader, Grover Cleveland, as
faithfully as it had followed an infinitely
lesser man. Frank Pierce, in 1863 But
1t threw the thing away deposed its lead
err, denounced him and his administration
In it's platform, and then spent the next
ten years cussing Cleveland because he
was not spaniel enough to lick the hand
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you many unhappy hours and possible
ruin to your hopes
You can make your baby fretting
unsatisfied little animal by giving it
everything 1t wants, or you can make
it an obedfent, contented and happy
child
Your baby is not a calf.
1t is a sentient soul
The names of Wilbur and Orville
Wright, inventors of the aeroplane, will
be written down besides those of Morse
and Edison. And one reason why fame
and fortune came to them is because
They had real father and motherl
The boys got their mechanical ability
analysis from their father. From both
parents they got sympathy.
Mrs. Wright Is one of those rare wo-
men who can do things with her hands
She made sleds for her tots, and when
they grew older she helped them In every
thing.
When Orville was Is and Wilbur II the
boys printed a newspaper. They got in
hurry and left one page blank Bishop
Wright promptly suppressed the whole
edition. You see, he was teaching his
boys that work must be well done.
Thirteen years ago the Wright brothers
began to be interested in flying machines
They read all the books they could get
their hands on and watched the flight of
birds whole Sunday afternoons, lying on
their backs on the hills near Dayton, o.
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democracy enough to make hard money
platform and sagacity enough to nomi-
nate Salmon P. Chase as their candidate
for President.
BY 1868 the hard money party of Jack
son and Benton had become the rag mon
.ey party of George II. Pendleton and Will
liam Allen. In 1869 the rag money party
of Lincoln and John Sherman began to
try to be a hard money party, and by
1900 1t had pretty nearly succeeded, and
In this particular the democratic man
turned to republican serpent, and the
republican serpent got to be something
pretty nearly like the democratic man.
Something like that Is going on right
now in this here very town, where repub-
lican protectionists are turning to tariff
reformers, and democratic tariff reform
ers are changing to republican protection
lists. There is Deliver who vaguely i'm
agines that he is a protectionist; but he
is no such thing and by the opening of
the campaign of 1912, Jonathan P. Dolli-
yer will be as much as a tariff reformer
as John G. Carlisle or Roger @. Mills.
1t was not Golden or Bright who made
trade free in England, but Robert Peel,
a protectionist, and when we get free
trade in this country. that is, a tariff
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N one of his finest essays-the second
one he wrote on Within Pitt, Earl of
- Chatham-Lord Macaulay illustrates
political situation of century and a
half ago after this fashion:
Dante tells us that he saw. in Male
bolge, strange encounter between a
human form and a serpent. The enc
mics, after cruel wounds inflicted, stood
Tor a time glazing at each other A
great cloud surrounded them and then
a wonderful metamorphosis began. Each
creature was TRANSPORTED into the like
ness of its antagonist. The serpent's
tail divided itself into two legs; the
mans legs intertwined themselves into a
tall The body of the serpent put forth
arms; the arms Of the man shrank into
his body. At length the serpent stood
up man, and spake; the man sank
down a serpent, and glided kissing away
Something like this was the transforma-
ton which, during the reign of George l.
befell the two English parties. Each
gradually took the shape and color of its
foe, till at length the tory rose up erect
the zealot of freedom, and the whig
crawled and licked the dust at the feet
of power
And then the mighty wizard of antithe-
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A PensIoned horss.
Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
A faithful government servant has
been recognized and rewarded by Orms-
by McT1arg. Assistant Secretary of Com
merce and Labor. This servant is an old
horse named Caleb, which for twenty
four years has devoted his energies to
pulling a wagon belonging to the United
States Fish Commission at Green Bay,
Me. Last week. after a serious attack
of boils, he showed his inability to
serve the government any further by ly-
ing in his stall and refusing to be har-
messed.
The officers at Green Bay, knowing
that the animals days of usefulness
were over. reported the fact to the De-
partment of Commerce of Labor and
asked for new horse. also expressing
the intention of killing Caleb. This re-
port fell under the eyes of Secretary
McEarg, and he Immediately issued an
order that the faithful animal be placed
In the pasture until no died a natural
death. This is one of the few cases on
record in which horse has been
placed on the governments pension rolls.
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OF WOMEN-By F. l. Monks

which has been made along these lines
in the last half century that has inspired
the "Futurists' to proclaim a crusade
against modern art. mapners and morals
in the hope that, as a result of the de-
bacle new order may arise in which
equality will be the cornerstone If the
modern novel, especially one of the class
known as the best Sellers" is to be re-
garded as a picture of present times and
existing men and women there need be no
further proof of decadence. Eratie wom-
en- and men obsessed by the spirit of
femininity are the heroines and heroes
who HAYS supplanted the knights and la
dies of the old romances. No romance
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who has his finger on the worlds political
pulse will tell you that war with Japan
and Germany is not only possible, but
very probable. If the future brings such
a conflict to pass the strength of the land
and sea forces of the nations involved
will be of interest.
In the navies Of the world Great Britain
ranks first, America second, while Japan
and Germany are tied for third place;
Russia ten years ago occupied third
place. but since the war with japan she
has tumbled into eighth place.
With Germany to engage us on the At
1antic let US see what Japan could do to
us on the Pacific. Japans navy always
stays In Pacific waters. Our naval force
on the Pacific coast is as follows
Pacific fleet, Rear Admiral Uriel Sebree
in command.
FIRST SQUADRON.
First Division-West Virginia, armored
cruiser, IS guns; Colorado, armored cruz
ser, 18 guns; Maryland, armored cruiser,
IS guns; Pennsylvania. armored cruiser,
Is guns.
Second Division-Tennessee, armored
cruiser, 20 guns; Washington, 'armored
cruiser, 20 guns; California, armored
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more natural than that woman should
come to believe she was co-ordained with
him in his pursuits and mission in life?
Thence arose the confusion of IDEAS the
conflict of supremacy, and the domestic
eatastrophies, the wreckage of which
floats before our eyes in the columns of
the daily papers.
The novel has always been considered
the picture in which the habits, man
ners and customs of the then existing So
ciety are portrayed. Taking such as
source of information it is worth while
to note the difference between the female
dramatis personae of Maria Edgeworth
and of Marie Corelli. 1t is the progress
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sion to the higher studies and sciences,
but she has herself refuted In the most
practical manner such an absurdity. 1t is
by teaching and training that one man
becomes a carpenter and another man a
mason. 1t is by teaching and training
that George becomes a doctor and Gladys
a lawyer. Parents generally decide what
to make their sons and educate them ac-
cordingly and just the same thing is pos
sible with their daughters. so that, after
all, 1t is purely a mater of teaching and
training.
But now comes the question. are the
laws OF nature being observed or violated
in such cases? Certain It Is that so long
as people live in houses and eat cooked
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would be worth the reading if the love
motif did not predominant, but the love
which animated the hearts. of brave men
and noble women was vastly different
from the mawkish sentimentaity which is
little less criminal than silly.
1t is the boast of the present day that
all avenues are open to women. From
platform and pulpit their voices are
heard, the legal and medical professions
are being invaded and 1t is only a ques-
ton of a few years until the whole cleri-
cal force in public and private offices will
consist of women. This condition will
necessarily require a reimbursement of the
present relations between men and wom-
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TT is a remarkable thing how many
women there are today who consider
n they have a vocation for everything
and anything except that for which ma
ture intended them. Men are house build
ers, women are homemakers. This law of
nature has been recognized and observed
among all peoples. civilized or savage,
from the most remote ages until a few
years ago when the spirit of revolt gained
admission into the ranks of women and
stirred up their minds to a sense of fan
cied grievances and unfair dscrimna-
tons. Co-educated with men. co-eoual
with him mentally and physically, what
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duties must fall upon the man, whose
former occupation has fallen into the
possession of his wife. With the single
exception of the poet, there is no pro-
fession In which a person, man or wom-
an, may not reach a certain degree of
success IL he or she diligently pursues
the course on which he set out. A wom-
an Is no exception to this rule and all
praise generally bestowed upon a success
full woman is applicable rather to her
defiance of conventionality than her su-
perior intellectually. Philosophers and
psychologists have wasted words and time
in discussing and Weighing woman's
brains to prove her unfitness for admis-
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sse CHM. ss' s s's' e 's.'ss lived i .asas
4 these people and have made a
study Of their personal as well as nation
al characteristics and are fair minded and
practical enough to take an impartial
summary of the future possibilities and
ambitions Of the Asiatic, cannot help but
entertain grave fears of the so-called
r'yellow peril"
Fifty-eight years ago, when Commodore
Perry sailed into Nagasaki harbor and
introduced western civilization to the land
of the Mikado, the Japanese were little
less than superstition-soaked savages At
this time firearms were practically I'M
known to the Japs. They were always
and still are a war-like people. Before
they began to adopt our civilization they
fought their ancient enemies, the Coreans,
and also fought among themselves in
their numerous feudal wars and the
weapons used were bows and arrows,
spears, swords, blow guns, etc. In the
short space of IS years, very short in
deed as time is measured in the growth
of nations, they have become one of the
worlds great powers. When we take into
consideration the fact that these people
have but recently brought what was be-
Iieved to be the worlds mightiest nation
to It's knees IN Q6Iedt Tic pooSiDiheicS VI
accomplishment by the Japanese cannot
eve be imagined.
Thirteen years ago China. and Japan
were at war.
To the American mind the Japanese
and Chinese must hate each other with
a hatred as intense as that which exist
ed between the north and the south until
the Spanish-American war healed the old
wounds, but such Is not the case.
An American cannot understand or ap-
preciate the workings of the oriental
mind until he has lived among and
studied these people-or can we readily
understand the intense friendly feeling
that exists between these two nations
that were so recently at one another's
throats. The Russo-Japanese war was
the cement that bound these peoples of
kindred race together, and today they
are as friendly as II they never were at
war with each other
The victory of Japan over Russia was
China's salvation, for had Japan suffered
ldefeas r-anchuria would have been lost
20 nins- ais war opened China's eyes
ana the ping yellow giant reused up
nnd bssau to appreciate the narrow
ascare ], I'd had and Immediately pro-
ceoded 70 set busy organizing modern
army "a arder to guard against similar
syc1 1acl ents in the future. Now
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food there must be some one to cook the
food and mind the house. AS children
require the care and attention of some
one and the shelter of house 1t has been
universally conceded that the domestic
duties belong to the mother and for thou
sands of years she has nobly and faith
fully discharged them. The oo-educated,
co-equal and co-ordained woman may be
able to create a ripple on the surface,
but never can reach the depths of the
mighty ocean of humanity. The mother
of children is teacher and preacher, her
word is law and her love medicine for
every Ill. Her vocation comes from God
and her avoeation is in accordance with
nature.
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the republicans all the rope they want to
discuss it, and read out of the democratic
caucus every member that refuses to sup
port the bill. Then pass the bill in the
House.
OF course the Senate would reject It,
as the Senate rejected the Mills bill in
1888; but If the House of the Slxty-sec-
ond Congress shall turn up with a demo-
cratic majority all may be sure that there
will be at least IS democrats in the Sen
ate of that body. That would make the
tariff paramount and the House bill the
democratic platform for 1912. And as
sure as eggs is eggs the democratic
victory will be as signal and as trium-
plant as it was in 1892 And what is
more. even a republican Senate Of the
sixty-second Congress would pass the bill
as 1t came from the House, that the coun-
try had just approved. Had the demo-
Gratis of the Fifty-second Congress made
a complete tariff in 1892, instead of
Springer's "pop-gun' bills, the half-baked
democrats of the Senate would not have
dared to put the party perf1dy and party
dishonor they did In the Wilson bill.
Advice costs little, though it is oftimes
valuable, as per the foregoing.
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A NY success after long striving.
. First sight Of the open sea.
\ A sudden purpose.

"A 8uuueu puIpOSc.
A truth seen for q truth.
The gracious feel Of cold water to a
fevered brow.
The feel Of green grass under the body.
and the blue sky seen to it's furthest
reach. ~.
First sight Of a new born child.
The conscious vigor of perfect man
hood or womahhood.
For a moment, ones most searching
concept of time and space.
A clear night and clean mind.
A child's voluntary kiss
Seconds, minutes, hours for the soul;
compensation for lives wounded by hurts
and ills, shut in by narrowness and greed
After all ARE not these thrills of the day,
rather than hopes and fears, In truth the
real balancers Of men-the guides Of men?
Not by yesterdays or tomorrows are we
in the last analysts moulded, trained. but
by the hints, thrills, the fieeting expert
ences of Now. These We cannot escape.
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Ninth Is Gods medicine. Everybody
ought to battle in ito. w. Holmes.