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r N his argument on Immortality" page
 200. Mr. Mill says: Substance is but . general name for the perdurability of attributes Wherever there is a series of thoughts connected together by mem ories, that constitutes . thinking sub- stance" A mans thoughts. then. are all there is of him. Such a statement as this will require reform of the dic- tionary, and of everything that can prop srly be called psychological. It is not only the purest assumption, but it is d. rectly in the teeth of the testimony of human nature in the formation of lan- guages itself. If 'substance'' did not mean more than Mir. Mill discerns in 1t, then no such word could ever have estab- lished itself in the language of thinking men. The almost universal testimony of intelligent human consciousness points to the conclusion that thought is a product, and that a substance Is the producer. Mir. Mills definition simply reduces the substance to zero.
 Our author finds 1t difficult to believe that a miracle ever occurred; and If miracle be what he calls 1t, page 22l, we can hardly wonder at his skepticism. He says that to make an event miracle it must be produced by direct voli- ton, without the use of means, or at least of any means which, if simply re- peatsd, would produce it." Now. the Duke of Argyle in his very thoughtful book. The Reign of Law" maintains that there is no reason to believe that God ever accomplishes anything without tho uss of msans; and hold that Argyle
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yourself in veritable botanical garden, full of magnificent trees, beautiful trop- ical plants of all descriptions, and the most gorgeous flowers on earth. This Is indeed earth's garden spot. Nowhere else on our globe do flowers grow so lux uriantly, and the varieties are legion. 1t is the custom of the natives to twine wreaths of roses around their hats.
 Honolulu is a city of 60,o00 population, but in wealth and business enterprises it will compare favorably with any Amer ican city of five times its size. It's res- idences in most cases have wide, beau tiful grounds, large velvety lawns and a prodigal wealth of roses and other wild flowers. Flowers that require hot house culture in this climate grow in profusion in the Sandwich Islands. Hon. olulu is very old. How old I cannot say, but it was a city long before San Fran cisco had a place on the map Honolulu is the heart of this island group. Through 1t flows all the commerce of the islands, and the amount of sugar alone 1t exports, to say nothing of fruits, coffee, rice and many other products, Is enormous.
 The general topography of the islands
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be unafraid in acting that part, whether the fruit Of it be in temple e-building or hod-bearing.
 Here and there in the world appears teacher or a scholar. Nature in her own sure way, and with such little ma- terial. implants the hope for culture in mems minds Among these teachers Browning occupies an unquestioned place, a place from which all the Browning clubs" for the exploitation of his lit- erary vagaries. may not dispossess him. Those who launch "Setebos, setebos. and Setebosi Thinketh He dwelleth in the cold O tho
 moon. Thinketh He made 1t. with the sun to
 match, But not the stars; the stars came other
 wise; Only made clouds, winds, meteors, such
 as that: Also this isle. what lives and grows
 thereon, And snaky sea which rounds and ends
 the same,' in the hearing of audiences foregath- cred to quest for oddities, fear that a clear reading of these splendid lines might stamp their master common poet:
 "Oh, we're sunk enough here, God knows! But not quite so sunK that moments
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thropic woman named Dorcas.
 A modest woman, she made clothes for the destitute and won immortality by her needle. Thousands of Dorcas societies have paid tribute to her memory.
 Are there women like Dorcas today?
 Thousands of them.
 Take the case of Kate Barnard of Okla homa. She Is known as the angel of Oklahoma" She has clothed and looked after a small army of children. She has secured employment for hundreds of men and women. She has reformed men. res- cued women and saved little children.
 And besides all this-the work of hundred Dorcases-she has been a potent influence in the organization and early legislation of the new state.
 Kate Bernard may never be sainted and will not go down in history as Dor cas has-because Dorcas lived so long ago.
 '"rhe good old times?"
 Why, these are the best times the world has ever known. Talk of the Cold en Age" This is the golden age.
 The trouble is with our spectacles. They are adjusted to long range vison. and we cannot see the people and things near us.
 If you yearn for tho good old times
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and no reproaches. The husband got a job by which he was able to make. . bare living. The wife gave up her sumptuous home and servants and went to small fiat. where she did her own work and helped her husband besides.
 Despite their misfortunes they were quite happy together.
 Then came another turn of tho wheel and by inheritance the couple was rich again.
 And then the sequel
 The money that came to them proved a curse instead of a blessing. The hus- band could not stand prosperity. Lux ury enervated him. He lost moral fiber He fell into evil ways. Gradually tho husband and wife drifted away from each other-she into society, he into business and sports. Finally the husbands inn delity became intolerable. He was no. toriously untrue to the wife who had stood by him in the day of diversity.
 The story reached its climax In the sordid proceedings of the divorce court.
 All of which is typical.
 Al between the two 1t would seem that poverty has its advantages over great wealth in connubial matters.
 True, the hard conditions of the poor take much out of life's romance and tend to make men and women callous. But
 Poverty endured in the right spirit does tend to bind husband and wife together in close and intimate fellowship.
 On the other hand
 Wealth tends to separate man and wife The husband is busy making money or taking care of his property. He, as rich man. is subjected to temptations poor man never knows. The wife, with noth- fx.<x kN I4 g>rk af q f society, entertainment or fiirtations. Both of them, if they are not careful. weaken themselves by self-indulgence. And they drift apart
 The divorce court record ends 1t.
 The poor man and wife have no leisure for luxury. They are too busy to seek sensations or daily with ''affinities." !" Lacking money for entertainments they are thrown together for companionsfip. Mutual suffering binds them together.
 On the whole one Is inclined to pray the prayer of Hagar, Give mo neither poverty nor riches"
 Few of us ever sit down and delfb- erately take an inventory of our lives.
 Some of us are too busy. Some of us never think about 1t. Some of us shrink from the ordeal
 "Where are you at?''
 Take some paper and pencil and write down faithfully what you have done during the "A hours of the day.
 Make an accurate record.
 If you have merely gone about at your accustomed work write that down. being very careful to note whether or not you have done good job or poor one.
 If you have had a useful thought that would have benefited somebody, did you make 1t known? If so, put 1t down in your record to the credit of good inten- tions.
 If you have spoken kind word to some one, oheered child. put your hand on some mans shoulder by way of en- couragement, helped some one by sug- gestion. given a dollar in charity, visited the sick, helped to bury the dead. or dry an orphans tear-put 1t down.
 If, contrawfse, you nave been entirsfy
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world can be grown. The increasing in- terest and profit in coffee growing will have tendency to bring under cultiva- tion even the steep mountain sides, as the plant is hardy and wherever you can get enough soil for 1t to take root 1t will grow. Realizing the importance of the coffee growing industry and its great future possibilities the government has. as rapidly as possible opened up roads into the coffee belts and plated public lands for settlement.
 Many Americans are taking up lands and planting coffee. The industry has passed the experimental stage and is proving more profitable than any other crop the islands produce. There is still plenty of land in small tracts that Is suitable for coffee culture. It Is esti- mated, upon a basis of actual returns that 75-acre coffee farm will pay it's running expenses for the first five years, and after that time the profits will be from $So00 to $10,000 per year. The trees thrive best at elevations of from 800 to 2600 feet. On the islands of Maui and Kauai coffee culture has proved a great
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N approaching the Hawaiian Islands
 by steamer one will be disappointed 1 in the appearance of the country, as it looks barren, bleak, rocky and un- inviting.
 That part of the Island of Oahu, which you first see, looks as bare and deso- late as the Death Valley of California. It Is composed of rugged craters that in ages past were active volcanoes. as the islands are entirely of volcanic origin. The sides of these craters are scanned and rent by the lava flows of ancient days. As the steamer draws closer you see other hills covered with a mantle of emerald hue, and, passing Diamond Head, you come into view of low hills covered with green tropical jungle growths. Tall, graceful palm trees, their slender branches nodding in the contin- ual breeze, seem to bow to you a well come, and the buildings of Honolulu peep out from the midst of a forest of palms and other luxuriant tropical trees.
 As you land and walk through the city's wide, well-kept streets you find
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success, as in. that climate failure is practically impossible. on the island of Molakai the coffee bean grows wild, and this uncultivated plant furnishes bean that brews a delicious drink of fine flavor
 There are a number of large coffee plantations on the large island of Oahu, and the product is of the finest quality Coffee experts say that the better grades of the bean grown in this district will bear favorable comparison with the finest and most expensive grades of Turk ish coffee that is said to be the finest in the world.
 The Hawaiian beans are full and heavy. It Is believed. if present condi- tions are sustained that these islands will become ideal coffee fields, for both soil and climate are suited to the produc- ton of the berry to a remarkable degree. It requires very little capital to start with, and after the trees have reached the bearing stage they will continue to produce for a life time.
 If a young man has a little capital. say $500. he can go to Honolulu. buy his land, say 25 acres at s7 per acre, and
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is the same; they are wildly rugged, each being made up of one or more mountains. scanned with valleys and gorges, some of which are more than 1500 feet deep. Between the mountains lie fertile valleys, and at their base are rolling. narrow plains, extending to the sea. The valleys, plains and the lower sloping portions of the mountains fur nish the only lands suitable for cultiva- tion. They are covered with decomposed lava that in places sometimes reaches the depth of 50 feet. This rotten lava forms soil that has been richly fertilized by the guano of sea birds for ages, and 1t is so rich that 1t Is practically impossi- ble to wear it out. Fifty acres of such land, which can be had for between $6 and T per acre, is gold mine for a small coffee planter. Bonanza plantations cannot be had in the islands, as large tracts, which are few, have long since been gobbled up but small spots or mountain pockets" of from 20 to 50 acres in extent are numerous, and on these spots, from sea level to an eleva- tion of 5000 feet. the finest coffee in the
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start in to lay the foundation for a good income. The climate is the most ideal on earth. Frost is unknown. Anything that you choose to plant will grow with the most lavish profusion. A few acres of land that can be cultivated in the Hawaiian islands means good living for any family
 The coffee raiser first clears his land of trees and jungle growth. He buys his coffee trees of a nursery for about cents each and sets them out. They are cul- tivated from year to year, and at the end of the third year they begin to pro- duce. They will be in full bearing in the fifth year. From this time on, for 25 years or even longer, they will bear bountifully and bring the grower a net profit of s100 per acre-a very liberal re- turn on the amount of money and work invested
 The process of building up such a plan tation is of course governed by the amount f capital in the hands of the grower and the amount of labor he can employ. After the land Is cleared which is the hardest work of all, the crop will practically take care of itself. About the
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Sure, though seldom, are denied us,
 When the spirits true endowments Stand out plainly from its false ones, And apprise 1t If pursuing Or the right way or the wrong way, To its triumph or undoing. '"There are flashes struck from mid
 nights,
 There are fre-fames mondays kindle, Whereby piled-up honors perish,
 Whereby swollen ambitions dwindle, While just this or that poor impulse, Which for once had play justified, Seems tho sole work of a lifetime,
 That away the rest have trified'
 And the "Serenade" of lover full of passion and tenderness, which might be effectively done by student of Brown inc.
 - When life gropes
 Feebly from the path where fell Light last on the evening slopes,
 One friend in that path shall be, To secure my step from wrong;
 One to count night day for me, Patient through the watches long.
 Serving most with none to see, Is expurged for sake of this: . "Gr-r-r-there go. my hearts abhorrencel Water your damned fower-pots, dol If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, Gods blood, would not mine kill you7 What? Your myrtle-bush wants trim
 miugf
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Oh, that rose has prior claims Needs its 1eaden vase filled brimmng7 Hell dry you up with its 1amesw Matthew Arnold's definition of sweet ness and light, that is culture in its broadest, deepest sense, is at least fore shadowed, suggested in Brownings statelier passages, in the "Toccata of Ga1luprs" that haunt one's memory like rich organ-tones in the solemn sweet ness of Ben Ezras philosophy; in the valiant march music of the "Epilogue to Asolando," where praise is said for "One who never turned his back, but
 marched breast forward,
 Never doubted clouds would break, cd. wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight
 better,
 Sleep to wake. NO, at monday in the hustle of mans
 worlktime
 Greet the unseen with cheer! Bid him forward, breast and back as
 either should be,
 Strive and thrivel cry 'Speed-fght on,
 fare ever
 There as herer"
 When we consider the relative worth of mems lives in the world, we do well to reckon their deeds before their words. Yet may we not go far astray if we reckon ,the greatest servant to mankind
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Which comforts while 1t mocks- Shall life succeed in that 1t seems to fafli What I aspired to be,
 And was not. comforts ms; A brute I might have been, but would
 not sink f the scale"
 Here is no obsourity, no Caliban theoi- ogy. but the perfect hymn from "Pippa Passes:
 "All service ranks the same with Gedf IT now as formerly he trod Paradise. his presence fills Our earth, each only az God wills Can work-God's puppets, best and worst. Are we; there is no last or first. Say not a small eventr Why smafiT | Costs it more pain that this, ye cai1 great event. should come to pass Than that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life. one deed Power shall fall short in or exeeedl" And may we. too. out of the striving life-out of the unalterable groove of things-learn the large lesson of optim- ism, the while we hear the voice of "Pppa" singing:
 ''The years at the spring
 And days at the morn;
 Mornings at seven;
 The hilsides dew-pearled;
 The larl's on the wing;
 The snails on the thorn;
 Gods in his heaven
 Alls right with the worldy'
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repeatedly printed as a serial in the Ledger. Dom Piatt declared that Mrs. Southworth had moro creative power than. any other American writer, and if she had had the genius of Mrs. Caskell to re- late what she conceived her fame would be everlasting.
 ''The Hidden Hand" was an impossible tale, the scene laid in Prince William county, Virginia Colonel warfield, "Old Hurricane" was a character. His body servant, a negro. was Wool" and his housekeeper, a white woman, was Mrs. Condiment." His ward. the heroine, was "Capitola Black" and personally know something like a dozen women named "Capitola" from this hoyden heroine of Mrs southworth's delightful old novel And one of her breakfasts, as she de- scribes them: Who knows what toast is or biscuit unless he has read one of the Southworth novels, and they are legion?
 The other day tried to get a copy of '@The Hidden Hand" in the Congressional library and not one was there, not even the copyright copy. Sic gloria, etc. etc.
 This is rambling letter of a gar rulous man now approaching old age. Soon I'll take up 8 new series, and I solemnly promise to be extremely dig nlfed, probably profound, possibly dog matio.
 Copyright. 1909. by E. W. Newman)
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

and overlook the good new times, change your focusl
 Men and women are not the better be- cause they have been dead a long time. Where one was brave or pure or heroic in the old days there are a thousand brave and pure and heroic today.
 Many June brides are now suffering ac- tual heartaches over the new and differ ent problems of housekeeping.
 The honeymoon not yet over, the new wlfe's domestic task is already cut out for her. In setting up the household gods of the new home severe tests have come to the inexperienced housewife.
 You see, in the first place. there are husbands and husbands.
 One sort sympathizes with the per plexed wifey and laughs good naturedly over her mistakes May his tribe in- creasel Another sort-the spoiled dar ling of doting mother-does not refrain from observing that
 "The kind mother used to make is dif- ferent'
 Or, ''Mother does it this way"
 The obtruse young fellow does not real ize how acutely sensitive on this point his wife may be.
 Comparisons are always odious, and especially in this matter
 Mothers ways may be the best ways or not. That Is not the point Each young married woman, when she sets up housekeeping, has ner own views.
 Mother-in-law may put the dishes in the cupboard at an angle of 45 degrees or lay them flat. She may place the broom in the corner right side up or up- side down. It matters not. The young wife has her own idea us to the disposi- tion of brooms and dishes.
 And she is entitled to her way.
 So 1t Is exasperating when Wills moth CT or sister notes the wfe's way to ob- serve, "Yes, that Is good. but, you see, Will is accustomed to have it done this way" The young housekeeper resents this gratuitous advice.
 And when Will himself suggests that ''rnother's way is so and so 1t is like rubbing salt into the wound.
 Mother never had any trouble?' No. mother has been doing the thing over and over for quarter of century. Of course she has no trouble that Will can remember about. But Wills wife has been at the task for only few days.
 Poor young housewives!
 Do not hamper them by much advice. Nor do not critlcise them nor institute comparisons with mothers way" or grandmother's or great-grandmother's
 Have a care, Madam Mother-in-law. Give the girl a chance to work out her own salvation.
 And you, young fellow-be very help ful and very sympathetic. Your wife Is doing her best to please you.
 And you, the bride of month or so- why, you will smile on all these trials in the years to come.
 This is an unusual tale of judicious husband and a silly wife.
 An Illinois man learned somehow that his wife intended to elope with another man. He made no effort to prevent the elopement, merely taking care to inter- cept the train on which the wife departed
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COFFEE CULTURE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS-By H. S. w., M. D

only work required after the young tees are set out is to keep the land cleaT os weeds, vines, etc. Fifty acres in coHse should produce. at a low estimate. at least s6O00 per year, that Is. after the fifth year This is estimating the yield at one pound to the tree, at a profit of 10 cents per pound.
 The soil will produce any kind of trop- ical fruit. It will grow the choicest pineappes and bananas, and every kind of vegetable, including potatoes. Never theess fruits and vegetables are very high in Honolulu markets. Most of the potatoes used are brought from Cali fornia. This is land of lemons, Hines and oranges where they can be grown with out danger from frost but the great dis tance from all except home markets is feature of uncertainty in growing perish able fruits. but this Is not the case with coffee.
 Many people have an idea that these islands are in the torrid zone, but this Is a mistake. The climate is ideal. Cool breezes always blow, and in the higher elevations the people sleep under blank cts. The Hawaiian islands are an earth ly paradise.
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A LIVING saint is as much better "A saint than dead saint as life is 4 \ better than death.
 Miss Sophie Wright of New Orleans is living saint-"St. Sophie" they call her. You women who think your lot is hard, who feel that you have no chance to do things that are worth while
 Listen to the story of St. Sophie:
 Miss Wright was born with a species of hip disease that has made her cripple for life. Every step she takes Is torture, and although she is young woman in years her sufferings have turned her hair snow white. Her parents were poor and barely were able to sup port her through high school.
 A life cripple, poor, without friends, how could she earn living sainthood? She began teaching school. That was 25 years ago when such a thing as night school was unknown in New Dr. leans
 One night a young man, a stranded circus acrobat came to her and said he could get a good job if only he could read and write. Would she not teach him?
 She did, and that was the beginning of
  came for free instruction until she was crowded out of her little home into larger quarters.
 Today, as the outcome of Sophie Wright's self-sacrifcing- labors, the night schools of New Orleans instruct 2O00 pu- pills, and some of the leading citizens have been educated in these schools.
 Miss Wright started a private school for girls, which is very successful. She makes her living by teaching in this school all day and gives her evenings to "her boys" in the night schools.
 That is not all.
 This crippled woman has built home for crippled children. She is the main support of the Home Tor Convalescents and scores of other charities.
 Every year the Picayune, newspaper, gives a loving cup to that citizen who has done the greatest public good for the city during the year. Several years ago Miss Wright was awarded the cup. In 1t was a check for $10,000, subscribed by the people of New Orleans to cancel a debt she had assumed in making room for her night schools.
 Is 1t strange they should call her "St. Sophie" or that she is also known to the people as "the best citizen Of New Or leans?
 She has effectually answered the age long query respecting woman, What can she dor" She is of that noble com pany of women who are coming into their own in this our day
 Kate Bernard, "the angel of Okla homa."
 Sophie Wright, Heading citizen of New Orleans"
 And there are others-plenty Of them. The newspapers printed story not long ago that illustrated the old truth that happiness in marriage is not de- pendent upon money
 A rich young marriage couple, by some turn of the wheel of fortune lost all their money. Instead of being wealthy these people became very poor.
 "Neyer mind, dear,'' said the wife; you can get a job and can cook"
 There were no repinings on either side