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was in his heart-and where is he now? In the dreadful earth?" Miss Sally shivered. She, too. had once stood beside new grave.
 "There Is a tree near him and 1t rustles sound of tree rustling in the wind. He said 1t had a lonely sound. And now he'll have to listen to it forever and for ever. He can't get out. Oh, I'm going back to him. I left him too soon. He will think, dead though he Is. that l might have stayed little longer Do you hear me? Let me gol"
 Not tenderly, but instinctively Miss Galloway frightened her hold.
 "Be quiet,' she grasped. "Stoy carrying on. You'll make yourself sick. Let me show you to your room, Mrs. Smink."
 Don't call me that Ever! He used to. In fun My name is Esther. Call me that.''
 'All right. Now you quit crying. It's bad for you"
 'But I want to diel" She was again clinging to her unresponsive companion.
 Not in my house-Pll have no such thing" fumed Miss Galloway striving to free herself Better go to your room and lie down a bit"
 "Td rather stay with you." sobbed the girl
 "Of all the leechesr' muttered Miss Galloway in despairing recognition of the fact that sympathy was imperatively re- quired of her. Lie here then" She dumped her charge upon the lounge and patted her several times, woodenly, as if she were humping a sofa cushion. Don't you budge one budge till l bring you cup of tea"
 Leaving the room, she muttered Since I've started at tea I might as well do the other thing, too," therefore she trans ferred the sweet peas to her lodgers bureau and strode on angrily to the kitchen.
 In this fashion did Esther become member of the Galloway establishment As a lodger she proved desirable, for she minded her own business, was quiet and neat, and, by the Dorcas society," was kept supplied with so many patrons that she not only paid her rent but began to put aside a little money. She persisted in loving Miss Sally as her truest, frankest
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expiring That Spain is now dead and we have a new Spain
 Barcelona is a progressive city. modern and a center of industry. As busy as the average American town, the music of her anvils and the cadence of her looms prom ise renaissance of a people as interest ing as any in history. It is a splendid race, and land of poetry. of romance of heroic achievements, of historic mem- ories, reaching back before Hannibal and the Scipios. It was the most valuable province Of Rome, and the first to re- vive the literature of Europe after the dark ages. The natural resources of Spain are exceedingly rich. The iron is equal to any in the world, if not superior for out of 1t was fashioned the Toledo blade that smote against the sclmetars of the Berber chivalry. Corn, wine and oil are abundant and unsurpassed. Honor was too oft soiled with cruelty, but the Spanish grandee lives In the story of mankind as a type of nobility never sur passed by the choicest of other peoples
 It is not very edifying to an American to contemplate our war of 1898. There discovered that 1t was worthy of the ad- miration of all who had read of Jones, of Preble, o1 Decatur, of Chauncey, of Perry of MacDonough. of Bainbridge, of Stewart, of Porter, of Hull, of Lawrence, and the others that gathered so much of glory for that arm of the service.
 But Spain unloaded the Philippines on us. No doubt we shall govern them bet ter than Spain, but what may they do for us?
 That is question no living man can answer.
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n HE following anecdote is in direct
 line with the subject treated in this
 article:
 "fhe Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, successor to MT. Henry Ward Beecher in the pas torate of Plymouth church. Brooklyn, tells an interesting story of a discussion between himself and his wife, in which discussion Mrs. Abbott evidently out preached her husband. Dr. Abbott is pretty we'll known to us as voluminous and rather hay writer upon current so- cial problems. One day, when he was in his study busily engaged upon a manu- script, Mrs. Abbott came in, and began to tell him about certain domestic mat ters which were not going on. exactly to her mind. When she had stated her case, the preacher and reformer said,' in gagged in settling the social problem of the universe. Mrs. Abbott promptly re- piled, Well, if you would take hold here, and help me settle the social problem of this household, you would be more use- fully employed After reading some of Dr. Abbotts writings, we are free to say that we suspect that Mrs. Abbott was in the right. Possibly he would have been of some service in helping his wife; but it is difficult to conceive how his cloudy specu- lations on the social problem of the uni verse will ever be useful to any mortal"
 In his splendid critical and biographical essay on Lord Bacon, Maeaulay has oc-
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1 friend. All this Miss Sally could do in return was merely to tolerate her-not much more-and even this toleration would not stand a strain, as Esther soon discovered It was on the day that she found Bartholomew in the garden hang ing on fence nail (Miss sally's sde) and had brought him into the house to roll him upon the floor and generally to enjoy his babyship. Hearing his shrieks of an- guished mirth Miss Sally descended in a fury.
 "Take that nuisance out of here" she commanded
 "Se says oo's noosance,' gurgled Es- ther in Bartholomews tiny ear.
 Miss Sally went white with anger and said shakingly:
 "Is it possible you do not understand me?"
 Esther looked up, frightened at the un- mistakable hatred in her landlady's face, and lost no time carrying Bartholomew to the door.
 T found him in the garden" she stam- mered, ''and just brought him in for frolc He looked like a bit of sunshine"
 "Then put him where sunshine belongs outdoors" said Miss Galloway grimly, regaining her composure.
 This incident troubled Esther, and she brooded over it until Sally Gallo way felt forced to justify herself.
 All my life I've been the victim of children and their selfshness," she burst out suddenly. "A child-that is, the bearing of one-cost my mother her life. My childhood was squandered tending the thankless brood she left; then my father married again; the second batch of squallers eventually drove us first ones from home to earn our living; I became nursery maid. It was all I knew. My girlhood went as my childhood -wasted-stunted-- crushed l saved a little money. Now that I am old they keep on badgering mel Do you wonder that I hate them?"
 Poor Miss Sally" whispered Esther. slipping away to her own room and her sewing.
 In the evening Miss Sally Joined her there and they sewed together in their usual silence. Miss Sally's one weakness was love forssewing, and she took it
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IT ONDON, February 6-The first wom- an member of parliament addressed - an audience in London last week, Dr. Thekla Hultin stood on the platform with a girlish figure and red-gold hair and a smiling, womanly face. She is one of the 26 woman M P in Finland.
 we are interested, said she, fin watching the suffrage movement In Eng land. In Finland so far as this reform is concerned, we used only constitutional methods.
 There was big strike, and all traffic and business was stopped. Men and women stood together, and the new elec- ton law which was then granted Is the most democratic in the world. The fran chise is given to every citizen, man or woman, married or single, who Is over 23 years of age.
 Twelve of the women who are elected are married, and of these three of the husbands have been elected also There was no excitement when women were elected. it was taken naturally and simply.
 'Women have been so long working in postoffices, banks and departments of state work that their election to the diet came without surprise"
 A question was asked from the hall, at which the lady looked surprised. 'Who looks after the babies?"
 'The grandmothers, of course,' was the answer. And then" she continued, Finnish wofnen would not dream of neglecting their children"
 But do not your women go to dinner parties, tea parties, garden parties and balls?"
 Such social duties, as they are called come between a mother and her home far more than the mere fact of voting once in three years or sitting in parlia- ment for three months in each year"
 MT. Alfred Austin has set himself the difficult task of contradicting in prose the
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worth noting that the value, the dignity and the saeredness in which human life is held by any people, or even by indi- viduals. may usually be relied upon as a fair test of their general condition, nor ally, and even intellectually"
 Now careful elaboratlon' of this thought would give employment to the logical powers of any thinker in any pull pit We do not often have sermons on the resurrection; and it is not easy to say why. The theme is full Of interest. and the New Testament is full of the theme. l once read the Epistle to the Romans through at a sitting simply to count. the allusions to the resurrection. and in a letter that can be read through in half an hour the Apostle mentions the resurrection 12 times.
 I am not advising preachers to cast about themselves for new ideas about the resurrection. It Is wiser to eonfine your self to the revealed facts, and to show your people what these facts mean, and how such facts are related to the proper conduct of our lives here In this world. From this point of view, there is not in the whole range of New Testament teach ing a more practical subject than is this of the resurrection. Let us learn a les son from Paul, who closes his splendid argument with the intensely practical con- clusion:
 Therefore. my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord'
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poetry of his predecessor, Tennyson, with regard to woman. Ta1nyson's poem, "The Princess" was a prophecy, it was a view of the ideal, and the ideal is the business of poets, but MT. Austin's prose has no resemblance whatever to the prophetic vision of an idealist.
 In a singularly crude letter to the press, he goes over the well-worn argu- ment that because women cannot fight they must not vote. but he advances the rather original view that peace Is likely to be imperilled in the indulgence of sentiment characteristic of women rather than by the calm, deliberate judgment, free from all untimely or too generous emotions, distinctive of man. War, he says, might be brought about by women against the effort of man to divert it. So we are led to believe that indulgence in sentiment and a too generous emo ton is cause of war, but calm, de- liberate Judgment is the cause of peace.
 A woman writer asks most pertinently, Among the recent wars of modern times, the Franco Prussian, the Russo-Japanese and the South African, what were the causes that brought about these conflicts? Was it indulgence in sentiment or too generous emotion?' If the cause of peace is to be the ultimate end on which the suffrage is granted, there can he little doubt that to woman peace is of in- finitely greater import than to man. For her in war there Is none of the glory or excitement, there is the waiting, the heart-break, and the anxiety. Certainly, MT Austin is not an idealist, and more over he Is not a psychologist either
 Among the many changes which mark the passage of time and the transition of thought there seems to me nothing more significant than the change that has come about with respect to what is called psychical research. The name of Fred erici Myers. the author of Human Per sonality," book which is now recognized in three of our universities as stand ard work on psychology, is now associ-
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THE EXCLUSIONIST-By Marion

heartache in it as she shut out the world and went back into her empty house. Yet at that very moment had neighbor run in and attempted to be neighborly, Sally Galloway would have resented it so sin cerely and aggresslvely as to have dis couraged further advances from that quarter for all time.
 "And if Mrs. Skunk (SminB) thinks she rents my whole house for a dollar a week I'll show her she's mistaken the moment she poSes her nose into my pri- vacy," she muttered at the conclusion of her work of putting to rights the room intended for her widow. And I'll pick every last flower from my garden and put them in my own room straight off Which she did, with quieting effect upon her nerves.
 In the afternoon, when a carriage bowled down the honored and delighted avenue, Miss Galloway was quite ready for it in boarder-repelling gown of stiff alpaca. The carriage let out it's one occu- pant, a black-robed, grief-stricken girl not much more than child-widowed at r. She groped her way into the house and ran unasked into Miss Galloway s outraged, unready arms.
 Why, where's Mrs. Smink?" demanded the spinster. But she knew, and tried to shove away the hands which chung to her.
 "Oh, Miss Galloway" sobbed the girl, pressing against Miss Sally.s stony bosom, and there pouring out her agony of loss, fit is so good of you to befriend me, to give me a home Oh, how could [ have borne to go back to the place they took him from, where he has lain three days dead, three days
 Its over Don't harp on it," advised Miss Galloway, still nervously pushing at the young fingers. She objected to tears on her dress and on her carpet.
 "-three days, without word to me, without look, without movement of his dear arms, so cold, so still-and we were always talking and laughing. Why couldn't I die, too?"
 You will, if you go on like this. It does no good'
 We used to go everywhere together, why not down to death together? My only heaven was in the light of my dear ones eYts, and my only possible home
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to coax a dress upon the cat Thomas was too lazy and too connding to object, and he was soon garbed and loling com placently in Esther's arms. She laughed. but Miss Sally looked troubled
 Don't, Esther, the mother mightn't like it."
 T won't mention 1t to her"
 'I quite hate to see them finished. They are, though, aren't they?" Yes" Esther was grave again. Well" and Miss Sally pulled herself together with snort, let's take them where they belong"
 Esther slowly heaped the little gar ments Her very touch was a caress. She put her lips to the bundle and kissed it. Then she stood unsteadily and gathered the things passionately into her arms and held them against her heart
 They are where they belongl' she cried.
 angry as she felt. Then she stalked to the door. Esther chung to her arm.
 Miss Sally, do you want me to leave your house?"
 "Yes"
 Tonight"
 "No! not until-until@" Esther flung her arms around her neck and kissed her.
 It was along toward fall when a cy- clone struck Miss Sally's house. It was upset from top to bottom. Not a chair was where it ought to be. Bottles and dishes reclined upon the sofa The out ragged furniture became mere clothes horses to hold weird wee garments. God Bless Our Home" supported several socks Neighbors, cheerfully chatting. fiocked in and out all hours of the 24. Peppermint and paregoric fought for the atmosphere by turns. And in the midst of the chaos, worn-out but happy Miss Sally tramped patiently up and down holding in her weary arms squirming. squealing, fight ing bundle of a baby boy. She had walked him almost necessarily for fortnight. The upstairs bed held Esther, weak and contented as a kitten.
 In the baby, Miss Sally met an expan- sionist of the most yirulent type. All her barriers were down. And she was glad of 1t. Mrs. Riordan came freely in; she brought broths. The Jarvis girls were prodigal with jelly. Jim's Jessie-turned 12-ran over night and did up the wash ing There was not one not anxious to do a neighborly turn, and Miss Sally's hard heart melted away beneath the kindly sunshine of good deeds. All this time the baby necessarily yelled.
 He must be named Galloway in- sisted Miss Sally. 'Smink' is an ugly name Galloway Smink is refined and distinguished. What say?''
 Its long name for my pretty dear,'' said Esther, timidly
 Pretty? He's homeiier than a toad. Homely as two"
 "The doctor says can get up tomor- row"
 If I rub his hair the wrong way. 1t will come in curly" observed Miss Sally, not of the medical man.
 When I am able to work again" ques- toned Esther must I leave you?"
 Miss Sally was too busy to listen. T think I'll knock a board out of my fence"
 What for, Miss Sally?"
 Sos Bartholomew can get over easy to play with Galloway"
 Esther turned her face to the wall and cried, softly, happily. But Miss Sally did not hear that, either. Miss Sally, with terrific, whirlwind sweeps of her calloused hand was rubbing "Galloway's" purely imaginary hair the wrong way.
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WOMEN IN PARLIAMENTARY Lady Henry Somerset

ated with those investigations which are being scientifically made as to the value of automatic writing, and the justfica- ton for any belief in communication with those who have passed over
 Sir Oliver Lodge and Professor Crook are now deeply engaged in examining the evidence, as it comes under their mo- tce.sM Mrs. Verrall, a member of the Coun- cil of the Society and lecturer at Newn- ham college, has received scripts purport- ing to be written by MT, Meyers and Mrs Holland, who was in India. likewise received communications through auto- matic handwriting, which seemed incom- plete.
 Neither lady knew of the existence of the other, but two years later the manu- scripts of both came into the hands of Miss Johnson, who on examining and comparing the two discovered a strange ross-correspondence by which the com munications of both were expanded and explained The evidence is of very complex nature. but it is quite clear that this is not question of thought trans ference or of telepathy.
 The work of the Psychical Research society is contributing much to sap the foundations of the materialistic pholoso- phy, and science is repairing the mischief that in many instances science itself pro duced
 Sir Oliver Lodge in his cerent book, Man and the Universe" has pointed out very clearly the extraordinary influence that the establishment of telepathy as a fact has haa on the thoughtful minds of our generation.
 'Telepathy has opened" he says "a new chapter in science, and is Of an in- portance that cannot be exaggerated. Even alone 1t tends nightly to strengthen the argument for transcendence of mind over body so that we may reasonably expect the one to be capable of existing independently and of surviving the other
 : But telepathy is not all Telep- athy is indeed only the first link in a chain. There are further links. further steps in the road to scientific proof"
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A New President,

From the New York Evening Post.
 Mrs A. Deucher, we read in the smallest type in the most obscure corner of the morning newspaper, has been elected President of the Republic of Switzerland.
 We congratulate MT Deucher. We hope he beat the Swiss Bryan by the usual handsome majority, and that some Alpine Haskell made mountain goat out of him self to aid him. Also. we trust that he spoke plainly about Switzerlands need of 'two-power" navy.
 Going into office after such campaign the new President of the Swiss cannot fail to make name for himself. In fact, we expect MT. Deucher to become quite as well known as his immediate prede- cessor, MT. F. Brenner
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