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, when the constitutional government sup
 presses an instruction it acquires no
 rights over the conquered which it had not at the beginning. This is the rule of free government always.
 The Congress or the fragment in ses- sion, at once appointed joint committee of 15, 12 republicans and three democrats, F from the House and three from the Senate with Thaddeus Stevens of the House chairman. This committee was in- tended to propose measures for the gov ernment of the south. Has a joint com-
 mittee power to propose amendments to the constitution? The constitution pro- vides that amendments may be proposed by either the Senate or the House. There is in the proviso meaning and the mean ing cannot be contained in a joint com- mittee report.
 The joint committee did report to Con gress in January, 1866, fourteenth article of amendment Senator Henry Wilson from Massachusetts, member, made the report of the joint committee to the Sen- ate. It was in these words, plain and . full:
 Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included in tue union ac- cordIng to their respective numbers, counting the whole pu.1her of persons in
  Provided, that whenever the elective fran clise shall bo oenied or abridged in any state on account of race or color, all persons of such race or color shall be ex- cluded from the basis of representation.' That was all. The committee or 10 or fered that much and no more as the con- stitutional reform to follow the victory at Appomattox. The committee offered no citizenship proviso. There was no pro- viso to conflscate the debt of the extinct Confederacy, none to forbid the govern ment payment for slaves emanoipated by the Thirteenth Amendment, none to make sacred the bonded debt of the govern ment,
 The committee report of an article of fourteenth amendment was vigorously voted down in the Senate and remained down for some weeks. The debate which preceded the vote was full and animated Senator John Sherman said 1t would be idio to expect Ohio to remodel her state constitution and laws to permit negroes to vote, and much less probable was It that Ohio would give up any part Of her representation in Congress because or the prohibitory negro suffrage clauses of her
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1t produces upon the life and the char acter of the individual and of society; i; and unless 1t can be shown that 1t may be good for a man, or for society, to be- lieve a lie, then the value of religion is inseparably bound up with it's truth. The two must stand or fall together. As a matter of fact then there can be no such thing as religion "as a mere per suasion, apart from the question of It's truth" and MT. Mill, in his very state ment of the matter, Is proposing to argue the question whether a figment of his own brain Is indispensable to the tenl- poral welfare of mankind. I think not. Mankind could somehow manage to get on without 1t.
 2. The subject of religion is of such a nature as to make 1t impossible to ap- preciate it's temporal results without talk ing account of the spiritual and eternal. From the very nature of the case they are inseparable. A religion which pro- fesses to teach nothing about mans ori- gin, and nothing about his destiny, can not produce any results worth mention ing, and, indeed, it is not worthy of the name of a religion. How came man upon this earth?' and What is to become Of
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HFART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

ther Burbank, the plant wizard-incorpo- rated him into the Luther Burbank Pro- ducts company.
 They say corporations have no soul, but this corporation certainly has soul-the soul of Luther Burbank.
 Twenty-Five years ago Mr. Burbank came into public notice by his production of the potato which bears his name. In the years since he has wrought wonders in the perfection of plant life by his cross breeding.
 For instance
 He has produced plum with the taste and texture of Bartlett pear. He has eliminated the thorn from many varieties of fruit and has produced a spineless cac- tus. There is scarcely a vegetable or fruit or flower on which he has not made Improvements.
 Of all these "the dehorning of the cac- tus' Is believed to be his greatest &C., complishment- It is this latter feat in hybridization that has excited the interest of capital fists and led to the incorporation of the company. They can easily see the mil lions in it.''
 Already MT. Burbank has developed sew eral varieties of spineless cactus. some of the new varieties having the flavor of the cantaloupe and of the peach.
 Tho possibilities of this plant of the plains, now practically useless and cu- cumber of the ground, are amazing. MT. Burbank will turn the cactus into & fod- der that will yield three or four times as much as the tame grasses.
 That will literally make the desert blos- som as the rose
 No wonder moneyed men want to put MT Burbank on a commercial basis.
 Like Edison, his mind is worth millions. But
 While the men of the markets see the potentialities of wealth in the wonder working mind of Luther Burbank the lover of his kind sees more.
 He sees In the future days myriad roof trees where now there are none, cheaper food for the people. a world more bloom ing and boantiful, race content, leisure for the higher tihngs-not the millennium, but the preparation for the millennium. All because of the gray matter in a big mans brain pan.
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, ness of Washington you should multiply
 the man by his mother. George Washington was peculiarly
 mothers boy.' His father died when he was but 10
 years old. leaving the widow with six children, of whom George was the oldest,
 and upon her first born she put the inn pact of her forceful character At the age of 16 sturdy George wanted
 fo run away" and seek adventures. but
 his mother kept tight grip on the boy 8
 affections, and he stayed. Mary Washington was great woman. The test came when the thunder clouds
 of black war gathered over the devoted
 head of the American colonists. The Washingtons were wealthy landowners, whose natural ties were with the aris- toeracy of the new world. Which side would they take? The son of Mary Washington, nobly
 backed by his splendid mother, cast his
 lot with the struggling patriots. Even when Congress turned coward and
 he was beset with spies and jealous gen. erals it was the spirit of his self-sacri-
 fcing mother that kept him on the field of
 honor.
 And when the long red years of war
 were ended 1t was the mother in him that asked no greater reward than to peace
 fully retire to his quiet farm.
 He was no conquering Napoleon; he had
 patriotic mother. It is peculiarly gratifying to know that
 Mary Washington lived to see the boy
 of her pride made the first president OF the republic. She was justified in her son.
 You cannot understand George Washing ton unless you know about his mother.
 Where got he that self-abnegation. high courage, patience and faith in the right? There was @ woman behind him. There's a soul of goodness in things evil.-Shakespeare. Xerxes, the great Persion, tried to im- pose his oriental civilization on Europe, and he might have succeeded but for the | Greeks.
 | In beating back the hosts of Xerxes the l Greeks exhausted themselves. It was
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of all ages and sexes before the Four teenth Amendment was adopted.
 How does this original right of African citizenship, under the constitution of 1787, stand under the Fourteenth Amendment? The amendment specifically, in express words, takes away the ancient federal right of representation in the government enjoyed by the Africans and leaves their federal citizenship absolutely at the dis erection of the states in which they live. In the whole range of law, organic or other, there Is no such vindictlve discrim- nation against a race or class as tho sub stttution of Section of tho Fourteenth Amendment for Article 1. Section of the constitution of 1787. Whenever Alabama IS willing to send five members to Con- gress instead of nina. she stands autbor- ized by the Fourteenth Amendment to ex- punge the entire right of federal citixen- ship in every African within her borders, so that the race everywhere may be no more than beasts of the field, in the eyes of the government In face of the text of the article itself, only recently we had a school history in Alabama which taugfft "the Fourteenth Amendment gave the right to vote to the negroes"
 The ''motives'' of the amendment were Q) to destroy the influence or the south- ern states in the government, (O, and mainly. to secure the bonded debt of the United States, Read the debate, It proceeded for months.
 As to the motive of citizenship of the United States, q status, we may phrase it. of individual increment of political rights. there was no necessity for an amendment of the organic law to provide such an inevitable fact, The constitution already provided that every citizen or Alabama, for example, temporarily res7 ident in Massachusetts, for example, should possess the protection of Massa- chusetts laws and of the federal courts there, Railroads, tsiegraphs, the malls, etc., ete,, connecting states and producing business .Rnd establishing social eonnec- tions between the people at large, must have compelled the courts to erect vir- tually a status of federal citizenship that would have been uniform and acceptable to the public. The realisation of prac- tical federal citizenship was inevitable from the maturing business and social connections of the people of all the states, liable already to the proossses of the federal courts. Tho eternal principles of
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the common law must have evolved d federal citizenship, in fact, without re- sort to amendment of the organic law. The doctrine of John Marshall, if lay man may construe it, was that the means are constitutional which effect a consti- tutional result.
 Now, Mir Lincoln's second nomination, in 1864. was a very different thing from his first in 1S6o to accomplish. He had precipItated war as the only power avail- able to him to save as much of the, union from dislntegration as was left to him when he took office, March 4. 1861. Things were bright for the Confectionery in the spring of 1864, and dark for MT. Lincoln when the presidential nomination In the United States was then pending. Sumner, staunton. Greedy. Beecher. Governor An drews of Massachusetts were bitter op- ponents of tho reelection of MT. ldn- coln, The elections of 1884 brought a very radical Congress in with Lincoln.
 Under 0 benignant Providence. Congress was not in session when the Confectionery fell, President Andrew Johnson, one of the masters of statccraft of aii American history, promptly set un Gtate Sovern- ments in tho south that no Congress was
 
 chosen in 1884. met in first session In December. 1865, eight months after Ap- pomattox,
 This Congress at oneo accepted tho re- turns from aIi the states to whom Ntho Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slav- cry, had been submitted for ratification.
 Tho a9th Congress. therefore. among It's earliest aets accepted the ratification or the Thirteenth Amendment from every state, except Texas. that had formed tho QoHfaderaoy and thus acknowledged those states as integers of the union iil the most solemn and most binding proceedings al- lowed under the constitution to that body.
 The constitution was amended by con sent of Alabama, the cradle of the Con- federacy, and slavery was abolished tn every state of the late Confectionery, Lew is H, Parsons and George 8. Houston stood at the door of the Senate of the United States and knocked for admission as ambassadors from Alabama, But in vain, Congress closed its doors upon the white south, States of yesterday were not states of today, yet. without offense, they were states in parpetuity. When the arbitrary monarch goes out to con- uusr, he retains pnssssusoa o6 his conquest,
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has to wash with one arm. It is awfully hard then. and 1t nearly breaks her back She didn't use to have to wash"
 You see. the good Sioux City man made no mistake about Hazel being fairy.
 Fairies do not care much about them selves. They are always trying to make other people happy. And that is why Fairy Hazel Klegin is happy-she makes others happy.
 She felt so sorry about her mothers rheumatism and the ache in her back!
 Oh! the fairy stories are not all in the story books my dears. Once in a while the stage gets hold of a vital truth of life.
 In one of the new plays a motherly maiden aunt takes occasion to give ad- vice to her nephew, reckless but good hearted boy.
 In the course of her heart-to-heart talk the doting aunt says:
 My boy
 "I understand and sympathize with your high spirits, and I do want you to have a good time. You are full of health and new-found strength. Maybe you are growing up harder than most boys. Your bills for broken glass have been numerous and large. But only love you the more for your high spirit. There Is only one thing you might do that l could not for give, and that is-
 ITO hurt a woman!'
 Could the wise spinster have inspired a nobler sentiment in the heart of her fa- vorite boy?
 Theologians have disputed as to what Is the sin against the Holy Ghost-the unfor- givable sin.
 1t is just that-to hurt a woman.
 That Is the one irretrevable, never-to- be-condoned sin of all sins. Every woman who has borne son owes 1t to her sex to burn that lesson deep on the tablets of her boys young
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example which he adduces, then logic has no force.
 As a clear proof of the little fear which mankind at large have of eternal punish ment, the author points to the fact CD that "almost all persons who have not been guilty of some enormous crime (and many who have) are quite free from uneasfness as to their prospects in an- other world, and never for a moment seem to think themselves in any real danger of eternal punishment" This phe- nomenon, he says. is noticeable, as 1t manifests itself commonly on the ap- proach of death.
 On this point I am constrained to deny what MT. Mill calls fact It is true that, on the approach of death, many persons are in no condition to manifest their be- lief as to their prospects in another world; but I am satisfied that a large proportion of the ungodly live and die in mora or less fear of endless punish ment: and I believe that this Is the opin- ion of the great body of intelligent and impartial observers. Burns was no mean authority on human nature, and he says:
 '"rhe fear O hel's a hangman's whip To haud Chold) the wretch in order.
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JOHN STUART MILL ION THE UTILITY OF REGION-B C. hden D. D.

believers. Some of the very best Chris tan men that have ever known could not read a chapter in the Bible without many blunders; and not a few of the most objectionable church members that I have ever known were highly cultivated people. Lord Bacons life is alone suffi- eient to stagger any candid man who finds himself inellning to MT. Mil1s opin- ion on this subject.
 But what shall we substitute for this ''coarse and selfish" Christianity? The religion of an ideal Humanity" says MT. Mill. If such an object appears small to a mind accustomed to dream of infinite and eternal beatitudes 1t will expand Into far other dimensions when those baseless fancies shall have receded into the past" To call the hopes Of a sober thinker like Bishop Butler "base1ess fancies," and to assume that all such hopes are mere dreams, which are des- tined to recede into the past" is a speci- men of dogmatism which 1t would be diff flcult to match outside of skeptical litera- ture. If our author really knew what he has said; if he had ascertained that all hopes of heaven are ''baseless fancies' which are to "recede into the past" then it is clear that in the last century we had an inspired prophet among us, and that his name was John Stuart Mill.
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him when he leaves it?" are questions which underlie every rational answer to the question. How should he behave while here?" And thus human character and human conduct are absolutely in- separable from human beliefs as to the origin and the destiny of man. A trav- eler who knows not whence he came and cannot tell whither he would go, will hardly be careful about either his road or his gait. His walk" will not be regular; nor will his conversation" be "to edifcation.'
 In spite of MT. Mills statement, how ever, he cannot avoid taking some ac- count of the effects which the idea of hereafter produces upon the character and the conduct of individuals. "Often, during a temporary state of depression, these ideas take such a hold upon the mind s to giva 3 nermsnent urn to the character; being the most common case of what in sectarian phraseology is called conversion. But if the depressed state ceases after the conversion, as it commonly does, and the convert does not relapse, but perseveres in his new course of life, the principal difference between it and the old is usually found
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Mir. Mill looks upon the fear of hell as a coarse and selfish social instru- ment" for the prevention of crime. He evidently thinks that a substitute might be found for it, and that 1t would be good thing for society If some better motive could be brought to bear upon men. On this last point I cordially agree with him. It is the grand end of the Gospel of Christ to put men upon a course of training which, honestly and faithfully prosecuted, will rid them of the fear of hell-to supply them with pas sionate love of holiness-a hungering and thirsting after righteousness constrain- ing love, which will cast out fear. Still. it is a pity that the fear of hell did not deter MT. NH from saying a good many things that are printed in his Essays on Religion"
 The author is highly pleased with some of the noble moralites'' of Jesus of Nazareth, and says: That they should ever be forgotten, or cease to be operative on the human conscience. while human beings remain cultivated or civilized, may be pronounced, once for all, impossible" !" But unfortunately for MT. Mills theory, we find that practical belief in these mo ble moralities'' is not proportioned to the cultivation, nor to the civilization of the
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Twice recently in New Jersey women
 have lost cases in court because they wore high heels on their shoes. Damage suits were brought against street car companies because of injuries sustained ythe women in alighting from
 the cars. The companies showed in court that the plaintiffs were wearing shoes with opera
 heels at the time of the accidents, and the suits were dismissed In legal phrase these women were guilty | Of contributory negligence" That is to say, If you have an accident l and you have contributed to the negli- l gence of the company by your negligence | you are guilty along with the company l and cannot recover. l It was held to be negligence on the part
 of the women that they should wear high
 heels that tended to trip them on the 1 steps of the cars. l We'll , No mere man can quite conceive why | any woman should want to wear this kind
 of suited foot gear. Is 1t because she conceives the idea that | her foot looks smaller in such an unnat- ural posture? As a matter of fact. the foot of my lady appears larger in such
 a situation. And her carriagei
  No ordinary woman is able to maintain
 a graceful boise of her body on stfited
 shoes. A danseuse who has devoted her life and talents to posing on her toes may do so without awkwardness. but the un- practiced woman who tries 1t makes a really pitiful spectacle of herself. | That the high heel shoe is unhealthy 1 goes without saying. | Any physician will explain that not only | the limbs, but the various parts of the i body, are put into a false and strained position, causing Arrangement. | The curious thing to the average mas | culine mind Is how a poor creature can transport herself at all under such diffi- l culties.
 And
 l If the woman who goes along the street 1 with her feet thrust forward. inching painfully along like blind horse. seek 1 a great and eeifiess love.-Lfiian Bell. l see herself others see heri
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"HIs is a fairy story-a true fairy
 story.
 And, strangely enough, the little girl of this fairy tale is her own fairy, though she doesn't know it.
 This fairy went to bed one night poor and woke up the next morning worth x sl0000. Doesn't that sound like some oth- CT fairy had waver it's wand over this < fairy while she slept? Her name is Hazel-Hazel Klegin-and she lives in South Omaha. Neb.
 She is 12 years old and is a good little girl, kind, gentle and helpful to all about her.
 HazePs parents formerly lived in Sioux City, and because Hazel, when she was a little bit of a thing, was so sweet and kind and gracious a man in that town < who was a neighbor took a great fancy to the little girl, whom he called his \ ''black- haired fairy" Hazel Klegin has black hair in long braids. and twinkling black eyes
 We'll
 Two years ago the Klegins moved to South Omaha, and shortly after that the father died. Hazeps mother was obliged to take in washing in order to buy food for Hazel and her little brother.
 Now, can you fancy little fairy carry ing big bundles of washing?
 This black-haired fairy did that. And some days the past winter the weather was very cold, and sometimes the bundles were heavy; but she never complained. She kent on smiling like a good little fai- ry-and everybody loved her.
 And now she is an heress.
 Her old friend, MT. Matthews of Sioux City, bequeathed her the little fortune because she was such a sunny and kind little girl.
 And Hazel says:
 T am so happy because mamma won't have to wash any more. She has rheu- matism dreadfully, and sometimes she
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heart-that to harm a trusting woman IS to commit the capital crime.
 Read the newspapers.
 Analyze the crimes of our day and you will discover that most of them, In one way or another, are crimes against Wo- manhood.
 What is the reason?
 Is it too much to say that it is partly the fault of the mothers, who, because or false modesty, fail to teach their sons the truth respecting their conduct toward all women?
 Of course the father is under obligations to deal frankly with his son concerning the questions of sex-the great life ques- tions. But how few of them do It!
 However,
 If the boy from infancy hears the ad- monition from a mothers loving lips "Never hurt a woman," he will not forget the teaching.
 Never hurt a woman!
 Would there were more Aunt Marys like this one of the stage to teach the high chivalry of noble action toward woman kndi
 6uCn u SeUlllncnt LII Co III tAiS SOoA VI StAS young men would make a new world.
 Doubtless some of us asked ourselves this question on February 22:
 What made George Washington great?
 And the answer that some of us ar rived at was this:
 His mother.
 Do you remember that rule in physics about finding the striking force of nov ing body? You multiply-if we remember correctly-the velocity of the body by its weight, and you thereby figure out the impact, or striking force, of the body.
 Just so of a man.
 If you will multiply his best personal endeavors by his heredity you will get the Impact of that man upon the society of his day.
 Therefore if you would figure the great