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police stations for the sole reason
that they. being destitute, were obliged TO
apply 10 the police for accommodations.
Police matrons contend that their duties
connected with caring for women charged
with drunkenness and crime are oneroUs
enough without having 10 supply the wants
Of respectable women temporarily without
means
Then women who are in the police quar-
tiers for the first time are hard to control
They become hysterical when the disorder
" inmates make night hideous with their
foul English One matron told OF a Httle
Canadian musician who had to be assured
repeatedly that she was locked in secure
Iy and that her Drawing neighbors in near
BY cells could not harm her.
At the Desplaines street station over
twenty-five women year undergo the ig-
nominy of occupying police cage. There
is a lowering effect not only upon the re-
spectacle woman but the hridewell wOm-
an who often returns to the police station
day after day with Sc dislike to come back,
but where can I go? Won't you please lock
me up. matron? l am trying to be good
Three matrons said that they believed
that many women just out Of the bridewell
without money and without clothes could
be saved from the streets If the unfOrtu-
mates could he fed and protected until they
had time to look about for employment.
Upon examining the records at the Hsr-
rison annex, which has only thirteen beds.
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By Richard II. haste.

the same song. in which the news from
Maine is celebrated and its effect duly eX-
pounded:
Have YOU heard the news from the woods
OF Maine. Maine, Maine?
The votes came down like a shower OF
rain
And gave my policy a rap on the brain.
Hip hurrah, for Maine."
These TWO fragments OF political history.
hot from the pen or a marCIer in the ranks
OF the great Log Cabin campaign, reveal
more OF the human interest Of the times
than do pages Of formal narrative.
There is nothing new under the sun. nor
moon. either, and little that is new in our
present day magaz ines. Il one may judge by
a certain parody TO be found in an old vol
ume OF Godey's Lady's Book. Mary and her
lamb always have been a fruitful subject
for the parodist, but this ancient twister
OF words did so well that her work promises
TO become immortal
In a formal but flowing hand (evidently
feminine) we find written;
Mary had swarm Of bees. and they, 10
save their lives.
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Bp Jobn Fl. IHowIano.

all the head organization say
speeches there's always top
ambition the something 70 be fostered He
he
position that he be eenay asking
dissatisfied occupies important position
already he giving
do tit isn't in human
Must sound his praises ~ Rather than the
meek, shrinking dumbuessyes. But
tons eteSting the
Of business stand selfpraiSe
empIoye He such employee
evidence weakness BaSical in human nature. is
myself departed many. many things how
ever still feel them dragging after incubus.
Are there certain basic principles Of which
arrives follow Absolutely No accept
Ninetenhs successful
today mapped plans after
attained Get the whole
today years youH
$4,000
you down this morning and
tanty YOU will alive Sunday morning. you can
this good many complexities life simphed
n eulSelve
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Bp Robert III. GauIt.

distinguishing shades feeling thought others
simply studying the II is perfectly clear
what is by change Of
in the body.
When peasurabe feeling it is toes but the
mouths the thought of food it
saliva begins flow perspraon but gastric
juice increased quantities This principle that
absolutely depended upon every thought and feeling
kind appropriate
II that right kind thought feeling ought
physical changes Of the body what
then delicate which bring about the
circulation the blood through organ! And
why consequently thought feeling there
induced the nutrition which the
joint that requires modification whatever!
Here have before the fundamental law which the
mental healer obey when he gives his treatment and that
the question which proposed
little while agonamey; how the physcianthe psychohersp
dispense healing which be doed with sponl
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Bp Marp O'Connor NeweII.

And how the little MICE much after the won't Of human
beings this wonderful that they loved
much of the fir happy night hadn't made impression
Of their friends.
All the time the old listened attenvey The words OF the
straight his he enchanted Now
the fir has become his childish OF illusions
KumpeD umpe who but referred the story having
fallen and princess, had TO be ered out be
his inquiries about him. 80 mother learned
something celebrated fairy parsonage whose stupidity
his card nasmuch he happened fall upstairs IN
princess could induce laugh But
laughed KmpeDumpe and had carry her promise
o wed the who made her laugh.
In the foods books that poured forth
his supposed pleasure nothing straight 10 the heart OF
old rhymesnd yet call them simple
things Eternal vitality makes them with ting and life and all
that is mysterious and impossible explain
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when forlOm state Of the former
he bestrode and plays happily all day with H.
Another small boy had played all year with train Of cheap tin
until had he entirely discarded piece by having lost
Wheel by being stepped accidentally from
all shape usefulness planned give him
beautiful surprise in the shape of expensive engine and train
perfect the thing This put
carefully in sight Christmas together with simple cheap
little which had other gifts This done merely
compliment OF Billy wouldn't for anything so like
the old
e@4cy That Billy did On Christmas morning h
ignored the real train entirely grabbing the other to him with
finding long lost joy He hasn't tired Of il yet The
expensive equipment suks retirement waiting the time when
Billy will be old enough 10 play with it,
doll entertan Jennie while but watt and
she'll be back again happily dressing her old baby in the
will bosom only when
battered and had the varnh the rubbed of
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Mtno as an A0ent OF Dealtno.

the general circulation Of the blood and consequently upon the
nutruona throughout Hail then TO the man
and to the who be cheerful when sick!
Hail the born physician whose scientific medical
education has made dgnocian and opinonated
dispenser Of drugs alone.
1t is enough physician administer medicine in
spoon a through hypodemc needle But how be
dispense the influence which thinking: He must
his confidence fundamental which the action
Of the human mind
The law which first that which is expressed
the tendency every idea thought itself
Do that think Of
without starting A people hear
without themselves incpienty with the actual
That is why many people have tired feeling in the
throat after listening chorus Then again
person the beahers finds himself strike the
ball when he is especially for a three Dagger.
Everybody familiar with way in which feeling ike that
JOY grief expresses people expert
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(Sander's) 20 PIutarch's lives in the refer
ence library is:
&" If you don't believe this book IS mine
Look on page one seventy-nine.'
You turn to page one seventy nine and
are rewarded with:
" John Harris his book
Fool look who steal my book
Evidently the original John Harris re-
earded this as a bIt Of humor, and IL must
have had some merit in that time, for IL has
passed current as a nyleaf joke for more
than 200 years. Wit or humor that lives
that long must appeal in some Vay 10 he
universal mind
The Gentlewoman' Companion: Or the
Young Damsers Instructor was pub
lished in 1871 and was sold only by sub
scription. Its preface informs US that 1t
contains 500 recipes for Cookery & Con-
dictionary & Many Dissertations on
Fevers and Coughs" Il was doubtless a
useful and popular book, and valuable, too,
for on one of the blank leaves there is in
scribed in the precise penmanship of the
day the lines:
Steal not this book for fear Of shame.
For here you see the owners name"
IN 1881. when Satan was having his in
nings and was by no means the myth that
he is today, John Belden OF Salem. Mass.
wrote the following dramatic warning on
the fiyleaf OF Il choice book;
'' This is John Belden His Book
You may just within 1t look
You mad better not 90 more.
For Black Satan is at the door,
& Will snatch you stealing hands
Look, behind you, there he stands"
During the opening years OF the last cen
fury II was the fashion to indicate pretty
fully the scope and contents Of a book in its
title. Thus we find a Christmas volume
bearing this Illuminating title: Christ
mas Tales for the Amusement and Instruc-
ton Of Young Ladies and Young Gentlemen
In Winter Evenings In one Of these
volumes we find written, doubtless by a
white pantaietted young woman who reg
ularly attended church and Sunday school,
the following:
Do YOU solemnly svare
This book not to tare
Nor soil nor fray?
For your soul l will pray
II its return YOU delay"
Books were scarce in those days, If We
may judge by the precautions taken to Sc
cure their return. We know they were
scarce and much priced merely as books.
But knowing this We still find il hard TO
conceive how any one would care to Dor
row. and not return. such books as Medi-
tations 'Mong the Tombs and The
American Young Gentleman's Best Com
panion, = The Universal Letter Writer"
and other equally Judged from the stand
ard OF today fat and improbable publica-
tiOns.
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Children the Great Conservatives.

The ayidiy with which children swallow the originals Of stories
which have been doing them simPhed editions
and reminds Of the remark OF the
old with had left commentary on the
bible Sure it's fine book and the bible do make it wonderfully
clear"
In idle moment gancing Hans Christian AndeF-
sens fairy tales meaning read them boy day five
six hence but for the trying TO get the thread OF
them to them in language simple enough for his year old
comprehension Read mother read he kept saying he
leaned knee So began with the Of the Christmas tree
the the little mice thought old because he all
dried how loved the Of lis happy evening
when he the paror and heard the story OF
klumpe Dumpe who fell the stairs and the princess
More mother, mother he begged went in the exact
words the telling the little mice brought their friends
rats hear this splendid Who when they learned that
the fir didn't anything about cupboars and rich fat bacon
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and him whether he remained there quietly talked 10 you OF
things tedious nights aching joints aud
raced he felt better and that
your opinion the old doctor did nothing
but and again.
you your health the doctor always told
getting you like yourself
day painted little showing what you
doing weeksyOu didn't always quite believe him.
good to him talk that way. You became quite well
again then you exception the general rule away
deep your YOU glad that had been sick
excepting course the first day of the month following when
the bills came in With good you told
When and Dr. Wemore coming see
times a day
mingled with his physc the
and both ingredients necessary 20
compound value Yes there he question
sufferer be looked among
working good ill., cheerful mind induces
mild Of system. This
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10 COnspire against the teacher and run him
out OF the district Il possib'e-has left his
compliments 70 the teacher whose personal
proves proved too much for the conspir-
ator You will find ii in many Old school
books. and We who have lived nearly half
q century and whose early childhood was
spent in the back country districts have
seen the legend written on the biackboards
the morning after some untamable young
G,er had found The discipline Of the school
too narrow for the exercise OF his genius.
1t always ran:
"Good-by scholars good-by school.
Good-by teacher-darned old fool
The third word from the last was usually
stronger when written on the blackboard.
But those days Of the birch rod and phys
icsl force as a means Of education have
passed. and the fly leaves and marginal
spaces Of the school books Of today tell
quite a different story. The footnotes are
less. and what are found are indices OF
mental development rather than record
OF strife.
That the philosophy Of Omar has invaded
the high school is evidenced by the follow
ing quatrainS found written on the inside
cover Of a geometry:
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keep everaStngy insisting that his employer give speedy recosna
with larger responsibilities their attendant rewards?
lacking if he does akng-or al
vancenentf
Should length Of service, excellence achievement trust
woness loyalty, be the weighest advocates for advancement
mus sound his praises ndusriousy:
basic principles of which the who
arrives IN follow absolutely"
this young almost for
that il stripped address Any
thar this Young writing
having ahge in bis problem Strengthened for
will Of business expeencehavins than
outline these anges generadare risk SPECIFIC advice
hope can help him:
just years
preachers
that end whom has than theoretical doctrna
course lay for the Quesioner
! talking with banker who been depoung
exertng
the country Especially those old,
securities which Wall had dealing
He predicted that half NEUROLOGICAL
kinds and other evidences Of money which had
selling and reseng. year year
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I sent two Notes across a dozen Rows
To tell my neighbor SCOT was on her Nose
And presently I trOtted I'D the Aisle
For in the Teachers hand my Notes repose,
" Ills moving Finger wrote. and having wit
Moved on nor all my Beauty nor my Wiz
Could lure him on 10 cancel half my Name
Nor all my pouting change a word Of it."
Following this in an immature masculine
hand (they must have been studying omar
in the English class was the following
variation Of Fitzgerald's famous paradise
qustrsIn:
" A book Of Coon Songs underneath the
Bough-
A Sandwich hsm), box Of Fudge. and
Thou
Beside me spooning by the River Dam
0, any Dam were Paradise enow.
On the wide leaf margin OF & leather
bound volume OF Byron's poems found s
bit Of Byronic rhyme that piqued my curl
osity and ! wished the writer had done
more. at least enough 70 anchor the mag
nation. lie gave a hint Of g possible To-
nance and then left the curious reader r.
the air:
" met her-once We CHANGED 20 meet
The time and Place matters not,
I've met q thousand now forgot:
I pass them strangers on the street
The kindly glance. the friendly nod.
May interest show. or craft conceal;
Not all the penitents who kneeI
Before the altar worship Cod"
One will find little or nothing IN modern
libraries in the way OF footprints. II IS
against the rules. and the average reader
writes only in his own books. But there
are exceptions, and one Of the most notable
scribbers was the late Eugene Field. He
wrote in everything that came under HIS
hand and fortunate was the book tina. hap
pened to be in his way when the mood was
upon him.
He was an ardent lover Of old books
He wanted them-he wanted them for lis
OWL. but somehow his pocketbook never
grew fat and his desire for a rare volume
had often to go uusatisfed. He was a
constant visitor 70 the Saints and Sin
ners corner in McClUrg's old stand He
would go over the treasures there with
longing eyes and reverent hands. Some OF
the old books he was able 10 buy. but many
more he wanted and could not buy. After
his death II was discovered that lie COW
eted many a book on which he left his
mark. sometimes his initials only. some
times a line, often BIT Of verse. On one
especially desirabl find he wrote:
Swete friend for Jesus sake forbars
To buy We boke thou fndest hers.
For that when I do get We pelt
/ mean TO buy thys boke myssk"
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The second hand book stalls are the places
where one may find a varied assortment Of
these literary asides Some Of these throw
valuable light on half-rorgotten historical
events. In a certain downtown book
stall there is. or was, and old United
States history, heavily bound in stamped
leather. the narrative ending somewhere in
the thirties 1t IS illustrated with quaint
ana queer old wood curs-tue fronuspiece
being a reproduction Of the Night Of
Blood. On the second fyleaf IS written:
Have you heard the news from old Yer
mount Mount. Mount?
The Green Mountain boys are rolling the
ball for T1ppecanOe and Tyler. too.
And with them wen beat little Van. Van.
Van, he's a used up man"
This was when the October elections IN
certain states were regarded as prophecies,
forecagting the result Of the general presi-
dental election in November. The results
evidently confirmed the prophecy OF the
campaign song, for when the votes we're
counted Tippecanoe was elected and Tyler,
too. and little Van was used up man.
Lower down on the same page is a frag-
ment Of another song. or il NAV have beer
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Z dilute books and elaborate toys for chill
dren, we give them washed out editions and
hand wound playthings, but nothing pleases
them like the old. whether it be in books or
toys-rhymes and fairy tales that began when
the world was new, toys our antediluYian
ancestors might have played with.
Children are the eternal conservatives. Elah-
crate toys, like three ringed circuses, entertain
the elders more than they do the children. You
can't say they do either harm or good to chill
dren, for the little ones resolve them finally to
their simplest elements and play Herewith
most contentedly.
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~ a child did you write things in
~ your school books little rhymes
F that came into your childish mind
childish rhymes and other things
that were not rhymes? And now
that you are older are YOU in the habit
of making comment on the things that you
read on the margin Of the pages-the wider
the margins the wider the scope Of the
comments II not. then this is not for YOU.
If the books YOU love and have loved are
sJiIl clean PACED: If YOU have left no visi-
BILE trace OF Your mental pain through their
tangled depths and along their sunny WAYS.
You viii not be Interested in what the long
line Of children and grownups have writ
ten in their books before you were born.
Not all good literature finds publisher.
The footprints Of many a mute. ingIorious
Milton may be found along the great high
way OF unpublished literature. This plav
of the untrammeled fancy that finds ex
preston in the solitude OF ennui the gray
dulness Of rainy day. or under tie excite
ment Of stimulated mental action is often
humorous. sometimes pathetic. always in
terest.ng
Go 20 the garret-alI well regulated homes
have Carrets-and rummage among the old
school books musty and yellow with aee
their leaves dog cared and thumb marked :.
the school books Of your parents. perbaps
your grandparents, queer looking books
they are. some with leather covered backs
and with type Of the age when Of" and
"s " We're alike; primers with green coy
ers. cook books, and books on etiquette
with dates a century old.
Here hidden among the fly leaves Of
these auc.onts you viii find a cryptic his
tory Of the times when these books were
new, and il YOU viii look deeper you viii
find a disconnected but traceable biography
Of the owners. an intimate record OF s. sly
lougines. their ambitions and mayhap their
failures. Here, too, especially in the school
books YOU may find a record OF their loves
and their hates, for children are naturally
frank and honest with themselves.
When YOU have finished the garnet with
its family history go to the old library and
note the margins Of the pioneer editions.
They viii disclose much that was never
published. Here you will ind homemade
Wit Of every generation. And this Wit
must have been the real thing, for it has not
been affected by time The Inscriptions
made during the eighteenth century differ
in no essential particular from those Of the
twentieth century. The writing may be
formal and the spelling wear an ancient
cloak. but that marks about all the differ
ence. The human soul travels in circle,
and wit never grows gray. A joke may be
two centuries old but perfectly preserved.
indeed so well preserved that you often dis
cover 1t adjoining the virile page Of current
literature.
The most common inscription TO be found
in the old books from the first reader
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'CASIONALLY in trying TO deal with general
ties which affect the average young man IN
business l have been accused of peSSimlSm.
As nearly as l have been able to interpret the
accusations, they have sprung from the dis
position of so many people to confouud theory
with a stern condition. 1t isn't a nice thing
To have To say to a man asking your advice
as TO whether he shall 30 to work in a certain
position for Cheetham * Co: Don't do t
unless You are prepared 70 sacrifice every pria
ciple of right ana honor which you possess
But if you are going 10 tell the truth as It
bears on conditions of fact and not fancy,
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-ERYBODY is interested in the idea that the
mind is an agent of healing. Some embrace it,
others laugh it TO scorn. 1t has inspired the
practice Of shameful quackery upon credulols
subjects so that the history Of the application
OF mental influence to healing would be a good
account of the credulity Of mems minds
throughout many centuries.
Numerous have been the exposures Of
psychotherapy, however it has been named
from time to time by astute men OF science,
but it is still vigorous Whatever can thrive
throughout several centuries Of billings AMI
cursings deserves a hearing.
Two cInims are made for mental Influence
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ally Cheeham thousand lines Of business They
understanding any
dealing beating
one whether he be a competitor empoyf
All OF which leading letter which received the other
day young who introduces himself much perpIexed
and 'unarrived worker" lie says:
VIII sou kindly assist much perpeXed unarived
viewpoint successful just
employer:
Should results speak themselves measuring capabilities
and fitness of empoy6? Or should he all
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hobbyore which in the bateng
head all its Christmas sotous aunte
gave the boy splendid gogeouy caparonedust the
stupid wnups think make lovely present
The thing boy did aune gift knock its head
off The next 10 tear every trimming
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in connection with First, that it positive curative agent
awaiting good pleasure Secondly
that it S a O preventing disease.
the first claim. You who have experienced
benign adversely illness remember how the
kindly family physician regularly quietly bedside
and amo.nhe good seemed then to close both you
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Lower down on the same page is a frag-
nent Of another sons, or it may have been
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-03-17
GENERAL MARKETS

PHILADELPHIA : FLOUR weak;
winter clear, $3.50Q375; city mills,
fancy, $5.25@5.75.
barrel.
WHEAT weak; No. 2 red, new, 80
091c.
CORN quiet; No. 2 yellow. $40
52hc.
OATS quiet; No. white, S6kc.;
lower grades, 35c.
POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 100
16Rc.; old roosters, 11@11hc. Dress.
cd steady. choice fowls, 17kc.; old
roosters, 13c.
BUTTER firm; extra creamery, 2Sc.
EGGS firm; selected. 20@23c.; near
by, 19c.; western, 19c.
POTATOES firm: s5dbOc. bush
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-03-17
Walked 16 Miles For Life.

Raced and walked on skating rink
floor in Bloomington, Ind, for six
teen hours and beaten with rough wet
towels and rubbed with salt until his
flesh was raw, Thomas Edison went
through a narrowing experience to es-
cape death from morphine.
Edison had taken ten grains, and
then, full of repentance, hunted a doc
tor To keep him from going into
fatal sleep the doctor summoned to
his aid score of university medical
students.
In relays they started sixteen-hour
Marathon. Edison was stripped to the
waist. His legs were laid bare by cut
ting his trousers off at the knees.
With students at each elbow, he was
walked and trotted by the hour. A
third student followed, beating him
over the back and legs with rough
wet towel. When the flesh became. raw
salt was applied.
Five hundred persons witnessed the
performance, among them Edson's
wife, trouble with whom is SAID to
have caused him to attempt his life.
Several times he came near going to
sleep in spite of the heroic treatment.