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revalue the souls of It's young and also its own soul, or it will never care to save either
 Nations and ages have, like individuals, dual consciousness, the subconscious self potent and compelling, beneath the changing surface of it's eager, active. noisy counterpart. the conscious self The two together make the nations life or the life of the age. But who imagines that when this is recognized the last word has been spoken or the last analysis made It Is not evident that the old Pauline distinction is equally real, and that We scious mind of every nation into two conflicting streams of tendency? Every where is the equivalent of the Jekyli- Hyde personality, become the national tpye. We suffer, as every nation suffers from divided counsels. law in our mem bers warning against the law of oul minds and bringing us into dire captivity to the law of sin that Is In our mem bers. Alongside of the ward politician is unblushing sycophant. who dotes on of flee and it's emoiuments. is standing the keen-eyed exponent of civic duty, Ora ham Taylor. John B. Andrews, or 6 Walter Rauschenbusch.
 Hence when we allow ourselves to think of the incompleteness of our civil ization so far we are at once rAminded of the struggle between the forces oi light and darkness now proceeding apace Which will oonQuer2 There surely can be no doubtl Just as certainly as that eco homie forces are at work compelling Birmingham to burn it's garbage instead of piling it in disastrous heaps, so cer- tainly similar forces are about to compe every community to do it's utmost to stoI the leakage of it's best life into the sewer of shame. It Is possible for boys to grow up clean and noble and intelli- gent and free from stain. Disease, mora or physical. is no longer matter oi course. Great masses of lads drifting ul
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A our yacht hears Gay Head, her A high. rugged cliffs of over lso fee. .. 4 A above the water, in sections or vivid colored clays, blue, red. white and yellow; her summit crowned by an old red brick church. and a tall lighthouse, with the long lines of exquisite tints Of purple, pink and green shadows of wa ter, so softly beautiful, present a highly picturesque scene. Here Is an Indian at the landing with 8 cart drawn by two stout oxen, the only means of transpor- tation up the long winding hill to the top of the Head A southern lady of our party declares she will draw a line on an OK cart" but another says our colonial mothers whom she has no doubt were as dainty in taste as the ladies of the pres ent day, were often glad to avail them selves of the OK cart transportation, and that she on the present occasion will fol- low their example
 She takes her seat in the OK cart with half dozen girls and thumps up the three-quarters of a mile hill, gayly way ing to us tramping through the sand. The
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Christian" "Did you know herr" asked
 a man standing by. "No,' was the re- ply. 'Then which did you say that she was Christian?' Because of that heav- enly expression on her face; it is so
 peaceful and almost exultant in its sweet
 ness; no one could face death with that countenance who had not made a cove
 nant with God" The listener, an un- godly man, was so impressed by the re-
 mark and the lady's face, that he took
 some care in making inquiries, and found that she had borne @ lovely Christian character.
 We sail around to the town on the east
 ern extremity of the island, known as Cottage City. It is g. summer resort and is famous for it's annual Methodist and
 Baptist camp meetings. As we land at
 the pier there are severaD we notice the
 bluffs 30 feet high above the water In
 lew moments we reach the street car,
 which takes us through the streets of summer cottages, and around the Meth
 odist and Baptist Tabernacles. There Is a Congregational church, high school and several other schools. national bank, town hall, daily paper, three good
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and means, all right. but as Carlisle did with Bland on the silver question, Randall loaded down Woods committee with pro- tectionists.
 But there came out of Egypt, Illinois. Dick Townsend, and he was chairman of the committee on revision of the laws. One day Dick introduced a bill to repeal certain sections of the revised statutes. In those days measures were introduced In open session every other Monday. Ran dall, an excellent parliamentarian, promptly referred the bill to Townsend's s committee. The next call of the commit tee the bill was reported, put on the call endar, and when 1t came up for consid- eration, To and behold! it provided for free wool, free salt, and free lumber! I doubt if the old horned devil himself was ever half as mad as Randall was when the bill was read. He called Geddes of Ohio to the chair, rushed down on the floor, organized filibuster with the solid republican minority at his back, and after
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DICTIONARY-No 4-By Dr.. w. E. Euo

1 theatres, concert halls and the like. It is "the deadhead" ticket, one that ad- nits a person to an entertainment with
 out its being paid for. But why is such
 a. ticket called a deadhead?" For the
 reason that far back in the days of Pom
 peips theatrical amusements, tickets granting free admttance were small ivory
 death-heads. and this shape was given
 the tickets, because financially the hold
 CTS of them were dead men.
 | In your dictionary you will find a
 number of meanings given to the word
 meet. It Is employed in the King James version of the Bible many times.
 It means fit, or suitable. Therefore. we read, Bring forth fruits meet for re- pentance;" that Is. suitable to express repentance Now, a curious thing has happened to this word meet It has
 been compounded with another word
 and has the value of compound noun In popular speech. In Genesis we read: "But for Adam there was not found
 help, meet Cor suitable) for him. ,
 But many people read 1t thus: But
 for Adam there was not found help meet lOF Hllll. ilCiPhioeO eid hOiP iiiStt are thus counfounded, which was not
 the case originally. They have been
 so consistently confused, however, that at last the dictionaries have yielded to popular usage. and some of them give "helpmate' as synonymous with
 "help meet" though one of the dic- tionaries at my right hand declares 1t to be "an absurd compound"
 verb that one often hears used, I fear, will finally find its place in our dictionaries and receive the au- thority of lexicogra phers. I refer to "resurrect" Up to this time only one dictionary, I think, admits the word without comment. One calls it slang; an- other says, "It Is inelegant;" 1t Is pro- nounced 'Inadmssible from an etymo- logical point of view 1t Is an Amer icanism:" still another which I have just consulted calls 1t "a colloqualism;" one dictionary charges the "newspaper press" with responsibility for this yer
 bal creature. T resurected an old let ter;' T resurercted an old coat" q
 resurercted last winters gloves"- Bah! It is slang and poor slang at that Yet 1t Is no worse than that mon strosity "enthuse." which some diction- aries omit altogether, while others which print 1t, call it slang, or collo- quialism.
 Not very long ago a convention of ministers was held to consider the ex- pediency of expelling one of their num- Der for holding opinions that were out of harmony with their standards of faith. After hearing statement of the
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a tremendous struggle of 92 consecutive hours he got Townsend's bill off the cal endar and had it referred to ways and means, where it slept the sleep that knew no waking.
 One day Sunset" Cox clapped John caldwell of Kentucky on the shoulder, and pointing to "Old Bilp' Morrison, said: "That man will some day be Pres ident of the United States. and there will
 be in the White House a combination of honesty and bad manners such as were never in authority before"
 In 1880, in the leafy month of June, had an invitation to be present at the opening of Abners Beer Garden, corner of Eighth and streets, northwest,
 Washington, D. c. In company with my
 grand friend, old enough to be my fa-
 ther H. M. McCarty, and a delightful gentleman from Arkansas of the name of Lynn, sat that night under pear tree
 that was said to have been planted by l Henry Clay, and the site was the home
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apologize to him, and I am sure he saw some degree of sincerity in my contrition. Later we became excellent friends. ana can freely say that in my opinion Henry G. Turner was the purest public man \ ever met. o, get that speech of his on the Hurd case. and there learn civil gran- deur.
 He only Is free that the truth makes free. And all are slaves besides.
 never saw Turner aroused but twice. and then he was simply magnificent. He was as modest as bashful girl; but when once in action he was as terrible as ths most puissant plumed knight of chivalry. When he grappled with Tom Reed in the Fifty-second Congress he crushed him; and later when he invited to the contest great man of his own party, he was lion.
 I repeat Henry G. Turner ought to have been chief justice or President
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Testimony on Painting

From the New York Evening Sun.
 "I heard of a man once who fainted," said John Russell. There was a crunch- ing of chair legs and in the gathering darkness all faces turned to John. "He was a young fellow then" he confessed, "and one of the neighbours barns caught fire. They tried to get the cattle out, but the fire was too swift. And-well, this young fellow just up and tainted"
 Seems to me-" said the deacon. there's sight that would make any of us faint if we only knew what twas" The deacon was a believer in predestina- ton, although in his own particular case he always made it fight it's way. He had that look of austerity which is usually found only in the ascetics, and a fringe of whisker underneath his shaven skin was all that outwardly identified him with agriculture. "Of course,' he continued, lone mans sight wouldn't make another man faint and t'other way round, but somewhere or other do be- lieve there's such a sight which would be too much for any of us if we only happened to see It."
 Like Joe Farcey giving his chickens enough to eat.' suggested one.
 And so the conversation turned to scan- daL
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eternal law that if one member of the family suffer all the members suffer with
 it, and if one have cause for joy, all the others likewise exult, or should exult
 On the other hand has appeared the equally growing sense of social waste, and particularly the waste of boyhood- and I might have added girlhood-be- tween the insufficiently equipped home and the insufficiently organized state. The tremendous problem awaiting solu- tion, not alone by philanthropists, but by the community, following the lead of philanthropists, Is to save this waste of young lives and young characters with due regard to the liberty and dig nifty of the children themselves and of their homes. I have ventured the sug- gestion that perhaps some local author ity might be used to reinforce the home, to restrain the restiye lad or girl quite without disgrace to either and yet with out a question as to the rights involved. Better a thousand times that the youth be handled masterfully, with sort of divine absolutism, just when he feels no limits to his freedom, than that he spend itdil HIS yedhs iediillnS tHdl tuo sed of life hath quicksands, breakers, storms, and pitiless rocks for his frail and ad- venturous bark. 'How often, oh, how often,'' one has wished that somewhere there were a court of appeal from the distracted mother and the truculept boy or silly girl, court of appeal to kind ly, intelligent, noble-hearted board of specialists with authority to carry out their own prescriptionsl Tn a muddle- headed fashion we are feeling our way toward this remedy, but our utmost gain still smacks of anger, the sense of dis grace and of defeat And yet the con
 viction is growing that. for instance, every child in the community belongs in the last analysis to the community no less than to the home, belongs indeed to the home for the community. So that when disastrous failure. neglect, cruelty arises already the state may step in
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rides the waves. The water with a smashing sound flows over our deck and around our feet as she cuts her track through the sea. Her sails fill and stretch like white wings in the wind. The sun sinks beneath the horizon. The cold comes up from the sea, the waves arc capped in long lines of ghost-like white. the moon and stars so far up among tho fieecy clouds, throw down their pale light away out on the gray water turning 1t into sheets of shimmering silver.
 And through the drifts the snowy clifts Did send a dismal sheen"
 And only the moon and stars and ny- ing clouds are witnessing our cheerless, chilled condition, as we draw our wraps around us and with chattering teeth. sit
 in silence gazing and longing for the beacon lights of Fort Taber; but no fam ing beacons cast their blaze afar." The waters beneath us look so treacherous that our hearts yearn for the home land. After all, yachting has it's two sides, like all other pleasures in life.
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supposed that so much could be said about the willow tree. The weeping will low has for many ages been recognized symbol of sorrow. Centuries back gar lands of mourning were made from the weeping willow. It was an emblem of being forsaken also; hence. in Shake speare we read Gin Much Ado About Nothing), "I offered him my company to a willow tree : to make him a garland, as being forsaken." Willow (China) ware Is referred to in one of my dictionaries. was brought up'' on this peculiar quality of china. It Is blue and white, and ornamented with Chinese scenes The platters and plates repre- sent beautiful romance whose se- quence Is continued to the last of the set. The only daughter of a rich mandarin, whose handsome home is located to the right of a stream, is loved by peasant. She consents to marry him. The father, however, overhears the lovers vows and forbids the union. The young people es- cape to the river, on whose bank in the foreground there is a large willow tree growing, near which there is a bridge. The lovers hastily row up the stream and are pursued by the irate father. One of the plates represents the escaping couple as nearly captured when kind fortune turns them into doves. The last plate of the set Is a beautiful picture of the two doves fiuttering in the air over a peasants cottage. Because of the willow tree at the bridge we get the title willow ware"
 The word tick" has several meanings. one of which is ito buy on credit" or abbreyiation of ticket" A ticket was given in the seventeenth century in ac- knowledgment of debt in small com- mercial transactions, grocers' bills and other family necessary articles; those given such tickets were said to be '1iving on tick" or tickets.
 When a certain dog that know was being taught various tricks, such as many dogs perform, she was compli- mented always by the satisfying express sion, That's the ticket" But ticket in this case is not the ticket of the illus. traitor above. This ticket of compliment is an abridgement of the word etiquette and means that's the etiquette" or the proper behavior. Omit the first ''e" and you will see how easy It is to make ticket out of etiquette. Thackeray uses the word in this sense in The Newcomes, as does Trollope in Orley Farm. That's the ticket" means simply That's the right thing to do.'
 There is another kind of ticket still. It Is frequently in evidence at the doors of
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ard who abandons his fight, he shows
 the white feather, he is not game. At about this season of the political year we hear the candidates referring to the palladium of our liberty, my fellow citizens" What does palladium
 mean? The word comes from the name
 of the goddess Pallas, whose image In ancient Troy was supposed to be an ef- fectual protection against its enemies, so long as the statue remained within the city walls. ''Hold on to the figure of
 Pallas. and no power can batter down
 our walls" But Ulysses carried off the
 image, and Troy fell.
 The Scotch nation considered the stone
 of Scone." at one time. to be their pal ladium; but in the time of Edward I 1t
 was removed from near Perth in Scot
 land, to London and placed in the ab-
 bey of Westminster, where 1t Is now. It is securely fastened in the coronation
 chair of England. It is associated with
 the coronation ceremonies, because upon it stood the ancient Scottish kings when
 crowned. This stone has an interesting
 history. It was taken to Scotland from
 England, so tradition relates, in the early
 morning of British history, by Fergus
 the son of Eric. By the Irish 1t was regarded with profound reverence. By
 the Anglo-Israelites 1t is thought to be the stone upon which Jacob rested his
 head on the night of his wonderful vision of the ladder upon which angels were ascending and descending. Long after wards this stone was placed in the Holy of Holies" in the temple on Mount Mo-
 riah, from which sacred place 1t was finally borne away by the Host tribes." who wandered over sea and land until they came to Ireland, where they per
 manently settled. was in Canada a few years ago when the Anglo-Israelites were creating quite an excitement, though in this country they have never awak-
 ened much interest. They hold that the British are descendants of the lost tribes and that a special Providence watches over the "Stone of Scone," and so long as that nation owns this palladium they will grow in importance and power. Longfellow has poem on "The Luck of Eden Hall." in which a goblet Is the palladium of Eden Hall. You may re-
 member the lines,
 "If that glass either break or fall. Farewell the luck of Eden Hall." The constitution of the republic is con-
 sdered to be our palladium. by politicians
 and Fourth-of-July orators.
 In dictionary at hand the word will
 low has four quarto columns devoted to
 its etymology and exposition. Until look
 ing into the meaning of the word never
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and send the child to-alas! to what? Generally to voluntary institution strug- gling against its own sense of inade- quacy and sordidncss. And self-satis- fled sigh escapes us that we have got the indgestible bit of 'kid'' down some- where through the social gullet! Those other signs, those feelings of injustice and tyranny and righteous rebellion we'll ing up in the little bump of kid" hu- manity-ah, no, we do not so much as imagine them! Socially speaking, we seethe 1t alive in It's mothers milk
 And yet, so full of hope and zeal is our age. so awake to the new meanings of society, that already we may meet scores who have been snatched from the maelstrom and the mud. All praise to the brave and wise who make East Lake industriacl schools or George junior re- publics or the boy scouts, or Barnardo homes of Okayama orphanages through ou the round earth and In every land How the faces of redeemed children and youths shine as they march past the pessimists And yet, for every one saved, how many were lost? Do these that ar riFe try to tell us III tnose unIOrSetaDie words of Arnold:
 We bring
 Only ourselves! We lost
 Sight of the rest in the storm.
 Hardly ourselves we fought through,
 Stripped, without friends, as we are,
 Friends, companions and train
 The avalanche swept from our side"
 Nothing that I write must be taken to imply an underwriting of that which is done. Rather I desire to say for those who are doing this that only they can know how necessary 1t is not merely to Co more, but for more and more of the people to discover that the work Is so wide, the demand so omnipresent, that it can be only met when they, as a com- munity, lay hold masterfully through the trained brain and hand of the sociological student. Only the community will ever save its own young. But first 1t must
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BEAUTIFUL INDIAN BAsKEKTs
The Owner of a Specimen of the Better
 Sort Possesses q Treasure
From the Los Angeles Herald.

From the Los Angeles Herald.
 All too unknown are the beauty and the art comprised in the basketry of the North American Indians. Their baskets are believed to be the finest in the world. and they are the product of the Indian women.
 Indian basketry saw its prime before the advent of the white man, since when, through the introduction of foreign ele- ments, 1t has been on a gradual decad- ence. Fine speciments are still put out, basket of the better sort is the possesor of treasure.
 Basketry antedates pottery. whose mother it Is said to be- Baskets were used by the Indian for every conceivable household purpose. Materials for them were culled from the natural products of the land round about Hence we have baskets of birch bark and spruce root ornamented with gayly colored quills. baskets of sweet grass and baskets of hazel tongs, redbud, stripped cedar, sea grass, pine root, fern stalk and willow One versed in the subject can tell at a glance just where basket came from, the nature of the soil. color of the rocks and growth of the region.
 The woven baskets are considered finer than those which are sewed. The higher grades of these are exquisite in work weaves are employed today. Five more are to be seen on ancient baskets, but the knowledge of their making has be- come extinct. The Indian woman took as much pride in her basket as any Penelope of today. She counted her stitches with most careful precision and interwined her weaving with marvellous imagery of color and design. The sym .bolism of the shape and ornamentation of the baskets is a fascinating study. Students have spent years in working 1t Signs os tho zodiac. man. beast and flower, ali appear on the various articles. The coloring also has it's significance and must be understood before an Indian basket can bo fully appreciated. There
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"IHoEvER will dare essay to write
 NA/ on the incompleteness of so
 w necessary and fundamental a thing as civilization takes, so to speak,
 his life in his hands. Every superficial and youthful person carries box of tags, bearing such forbidding words as "pessimist," "socialist,' communist" and even "Nihilist." besides many not so dreadful. To him every man who sees the shadows as well as the light is a "pessimist''; every one who rejoices in the promise of coming social unity is a socialist; everyone who advocates political progress is a "revofutionist," and all who observe the coming of such changes elsewhere as have recently passed upon Turkey and Portugal Is either crazy enthusiast, nourished on prophecy, or a Nihilistic maniac. Ac- cording to this astute philosophy the only sheer optimist who ever graced this planet was the ungentlemanly mon- arch who is reported to have played the violin while Rome went up in smoke. This tendency of youth to put us all, docketed duly, in appropriate pigeoh- holes proves that sciolists are self-plant- ing weeds that grow in every garden. because every baby-mind inevitably be- comes smatterer about things not yet understood. Sciolists were as plentiful in the antidiluvian world as now, and these today will still smatter and still eibe, or even wax incredulously indig- nant, until the day they see the new Noah sailing across the deserts of Ari- zona in an up-to-date ark. But does not the threatened deluge even now lap the door-sill of many home, already in- undate many a fddling political gang boss, the modern equivalent for that ancient Nero who. according to reports, did not quite escape the deluge of fire?
 Tn my first and second paper I have set forth the growing sense of human brotherhood, the new realization of the