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All the Same to Him.

Wife-John, there's a burglar going
through your pockets. John-All
right! You two fight 1t out between
yourselves.
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The prizes were the most realistic
vegetables-cabbage, corn and irish
potatoes, which were candy boxes
filled with bon-bons in shape of corn
kernels, wee carrots, etc. The re-
freshments consisted OF delicious salad
in green pepper cases, cucumber sand
wiches, olives and sailed nuts with
coffee.
MADAME MERRI.
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coat of sheer white handkerchief line.
and fine English embroidery over Q
slip Of pink China silk. Hat Of linen,
lace, blue ribbon and wee pink rosc-
buds completes costume small girl will
be proud Of
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1t isn't every family tree that bears
dAsirabk
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len with storms that bears a thousand
blossoms on it's troubled waters, I have
experienced such deep emotion as hardly
to be able to speak. The exquisite ten
derness of his voice, the wild compassion
and forlorn pity of his looks, bestowing-
that upon others which above all others
he most needed; the melancholy restless
ness, the bitter self-scorning; every shad-
ow of expression and information was so
full of all the mingled anguish that the
human heart is capable of enduring, that
my eyes scarce fixed on his ere they were
scene was over the letters ana the jewel
cases 1 was rendering him were wet with
tears. 1t made my heart sore to act it."
Again she said: Nothing in my mind
can exceed the exquisite beauty of his
last. Go on; 1 will follow thee spoken
to the ghost"
THE KEANS.
next name the Keans-Edmund, the
father, and Charles. the son. They were
both famous Hamlets. Edwin Booth said
that upon the brow of the elder Kean
there was set the tragic crown" Lord
Byron, In an outburst of rapture said:
"Kean's Hamlet Is perfect" But the sad,
destroying frailties of the father and the
constitutional limitations of his gifted
son are a Justification of this brief ref
erence to them. therefore close this par
ticular sketch with short account of the
elder Kean's death. He and his son were
acting before brilliant London audi
ence. Upon their entrance upon the
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poet, Alfred Tennyson. has given his es-
innate of Macready in verse, and I beg
to refer the reader to the exquisite lines
in Tennyson's poems. His high charac-
ter and his literary accomplishments rem
dered him most companionable friend to
Tennyson.
Macready never loved his profession.
could he be moved by the critics from
his conceptions of highest art, for with
him the highest art was the perfection
of naturalness. Though he had an IN
wept, he was a distinctly religious man.
Therefore, at comparative early age,
he retired from the stage and spent the
rest of his life in acts of benevolence and
devotion.
Macready had a fault quite common
with great actors, and pre-eminently so
with the late Richard Mansfield. He liked
to hold the central spot on the stage, no
matter how inconspicuous 1t made those
acting with him. According to Sir Henry
Irving on one occasion Macready's pur-
pose In this regard was foiled. The last
act of Hamlet was near its close. The
poison was supposed to be burning in his
blood Macready, as Hamlet, was NOV
ing towards the central spot to die; but
the king was to die also. and he deter
mined that he would die at the very place
selected by the prince. Writing in his
death agony the king lay at the coveted
place on the stage. In an undertone
Hamlet said: Get off that place, IT'S
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don't depend upon 1.-THE government" to
take care of you. Forgive us our debts"
etc. Cultivate a forgivng and gentle
spirit towards your neighbors and don't
be on the lookout for affronts. Lead US
not into temptation" Don't run heed
lessly into 1t. but "avoid it; pass not by
it; turn from it. and pass away" DE
liver us from evil'i Tor the evil one-i. e.,
the devil.) Then do your best to keep
out of his way. Don't fool yourself with
the wild, unscriptural and impossible
CROCHET that the devil is nothing but
'the spirit of evil in the abstract" as
is the spirit of evil could exist anywhere,
bu; in a person 1t was not an idiotic
boy, who, when his father, a close-fisted
deacon, prayed that the Lord would feed
the poor, said: Father. if | had your
corn-crib. I'd answer my own prayers"
And the principle has a wider application.
We are too often tempted to content our
selves with laziy or stngily calling upon
the Lord, when orr own hands should be
at the pillow or in our pockets.
The Inconsistencies of weakened
Christians, we are told keep a great
many people out of the church. There
are serious reasons for questioning the
truth of this iterated and reiterated state
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stage they were greeted with thunders of
applause. The father took the son by
the hand and approaching the front CEN
ter of the stage they bowed their ac-
acknowledgements Hats were waved in
the air. handkerchiefs huttered and the
applause made it impossible to proceed
with the play. Finally quiet was re-
But later, in an exciting scene, the elder
Kean reeled in a swoon and chung to his
son for support saying, before he be-
came totally unconscious, 20, God, I'm
dying; speak to them Charles" Upon re-
gaining consciousness, the old actor tried
to bow to the audience, but he was led
away He never acted again, but soon
trod the path that
Leads to dusty DEATH
WILLIAM C. MACREADY.
Macready was a superb Hamlet. He
was a gentleman of highest character a
distinguished scholar and a gifted and
great actor A little too dignified for the
lighter parts of Hamlet he was never
theless, wonderful and renowned as an
interpreter of the moods and passions of
the princely Dane. l have his portrait
as he appears upon his seeing the ghost
for the first time. 1t is a picture of in
tense horror, every line in his face and
the glare of his eyes were intelligently
employed to express his overwhelming
emotion. Barry Cornwall. quoting Shake
speare, said of Macready: This is the
noblest Roman of them ALL Another
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ment. Let us look critically at some Of
these reasons and see IL they are logically
sound:
There are so many hypocrites in the
church that | don't want to go into it,
says some heightened gentleman. Now,
the only ground upon which this charge
of hypocrisy can nationally rest assumes
that the church is a good institution. If
1t were bad one then the evil ways of
the members would not be inconsistent
Their inconsistencies are nothing more
than departures from the standard of
conduct for which the church stands, and
the very fact that these Inconsistencies
are condemned by outsiders shows that
the outsiders themselves believe the
church to be a bulwark of righteousness.
These critics, then. If they were consist
emit, would take hold of the church, strive
honestly to live up to its teachings. and
to cleanse it of the foul "hypocrites" who
are bringing the noblest of institutions
into dsrepute and thus weakening its
power for good. Are they doing anything
of the kind? No: they are, as a rule
living worldly, self-indulgent lives, and
seem to be building their hopes of saliva
ton upon the Inconsistencies of their
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THE ETHICS OF COURTESY-By The Rev. George Eaves

tivated Chinese or Japanese meets more
rudeness In half an hour from landing
on the Pacific coast than in all those
years 1 say this in the face of the
Chang-sha riots and of the Boxer out
RACES. Those riots were the maddened
anger of the hungry crowd, ill-directed
because ignorant. Those outrages were
the cunningly fostered conspiracy of
political cabal in Pekin. But in most
cities the American crowd has had no
time to be over-considerate, for everyone
was kept on the jump for the dollars
which were being dropped from Column
bias horn of plenty. Thank God that
this madness never reached the south
and is passing away even in New York.
But shall the observant reader conclude
that true politeness involves an abject,
crawling, Uriah Help-ishness? Does it re-
quire that the student shall leave mis-
books, the editor his desk, the merchant
his trade. at every call? Has man no
duty to himself that must be performed
at every cost? If so, how could man
get his life-work done? But no. The
wisdom of the highest rather teaches
that the thing we do, the daily task, the
study and the trade and dle acquisition
of gain. one and all, are but forms or our
dedication to the larger man which Is
not self, but man. The curse of our
civilization and l may say without Of
Tense the curse of our courtesy, arises
from our schismatic habit Schism is a
rending, splitting. Confucius found the
essence of culture in the discovery and
pursuit of hrptherly love. But we try to
L. courteous while we aim rather at
what is due to ourselves and was jealous
of any invasion, even while we confess
as Lord Greater than Confucius, whose
doctrine of life has already been referred
to: "As We would that men should do to
you, do We also unto them likewise" Does
this broad humanism become more Wild
in the deep and mystic saying of Paul,
the commentator, I'VE are one body one
loaf of bread?"
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divers others Some of the men to whom
large space is given were entirely I'M
known to me; indeed, 1 had never heard
of them. Farrar gives liberal space to
telling how deeply divers of his ''men"
had been impressed by his (Farrar's) SER
mons on Eternal Hope"-an old ac-
quaintance of mine, which years ago re-
minded me of the intensely Carlylean
phrase, 1.-THE malodorous phosphorescence
OF a post norton sentimentality." If
yon have or can borrow Robinson Cru
soe," then don't waste your time on Men
l Have known
A correspondent from a university town
favored one of our exchanges with a pro-
gramme of the exercises at commence
ment, and the young gentleman seemed
to have exercised very considerably On
Sunday morning came the baccalaureate
sermon from famous bishop on Monday
morning the morning german: Mon
day night, another german; Tuesday
night, a third german and Wednesday
night the final ball-one sermon and
four dances!
In Shakespeare's play. Henry w, part
1, act 2, scene 4, Peto finds Sir John Fail
staff fast asleep behind the arras. Prince
Henry, who is full of pranks, has Fall
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always have leisure to be gracious. The
same thing makes itself felt in Atlanta
and in every southern city 1 know. Gym
les may say that in all this there Is
keen eye for trade in London or for rep
utation as very chivalrous persons else
where. To which one may answer per-
haps fittngly in these other words con-
corning the conduct of the "kunshr':
Ornament is as substance; substance is
as ornament. The hide of a tiger or
leopard stript of its hair is like the hide
of dog or a goat stript of its hair"
But since with the leopards spots and
the tigers stripes go claws and thews to
match, so l suppose Confucius means
that the form of courtesy must not be
divorced from the spirit of sympathy any
more than the spirit of brotherhood from
the expressions of reverential regard
ITO save the face" Is pitiful proceeding
if 1t leaves the heart Inundated PRO
pretty" the thing that is fitting. must
be discovered by that most sensitive an
tennal of the soul, sympathy, and the de-
veloped sense of personality, whereby we
PUT ourselves in the other PERSONS place.
1t can only be fully observed by the
heart that in its innermost chambers ex-
ats that other person above ones self
1t will not wait for an Introduction, but
will instnctively shun whatever may
wound ''the least of these" our brethren.
in the last analysis. or perhaps / had
better say in the final synthesis, this
high, courageous, gentle deferentlal cour-
tesy is the perfected sense of the COM
mon life of all men, and Is eternally
aware that the outraged suffering mind
of the most sensitive child becomes
great milestone around the neck of it's
violator, while whatsoever is blatant
blabs nothing so loudly as its own shame
But the rushing, greedy, rude, elbowlng
throng would not develop these antennal
or learn how to connect the milestone
with the discounted babes revenge in a
hundred thousand years. A man who
has lived half a lifetime among the cill-
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staff's pocket picked. and tavern score
is found, reading thus:
Item, A eapon. %. ID
Item, Sause, 4d.
Item, Sack. two gallons, IS. Sd.
''Item Anchovies and sack after sup
per- IS. Sd.
Item Bread, OBJ
Prince Henry exclaims: 20 monstrous.
But one half-pennyworth of bread to this
intolerable deal of sack"
Lawrence Sterne tells us that when the
excellent and pious Uncle Toby swore,
the accusing spirit that flew up to heav-
ems chauncery with the oath. bushed
as he gave it in, and the recording angel,
as he wrote 1t down, dropped a tear upon
tho word and blotted it out forever. This
is poetical fancy, but it is bad theolo-
gy. Even an angels tears cannot wash
away sin. Even Mrs. Browning, in her
superb poem on "Cowpers Grave" has
some lines which we cannot defend, and
which Cowper would never have attempt
ed to Defend
Deserted, who hath dreamt that when
The cross in darkness rested
Upon the victims hidden face,
Nc love was manifested?
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IHEN I was lad, fresh from
M quiet town and plunged in the
w vortex of busy and exceed
fngly representative city, it was my hap,
as Bunyan might say. to attend the min
istry of that colossus of independency,
DR.. R w. Dale, saint. theologian, scholar,
pastor, patriot and political radical, whose
writings are still to be found in every
preachers library. Some of those vir1le
and luminous addresses, whose 40 or 50
minutes duration was all too brief, still
haunt my memory, and none more Win
somely than one given to young people
on the text, Even Christ pleased not
himself" The preachers theme was 1.-The
1 making of gentleman, and he most
Internationally startled some of us
Nwhi1e he set forth the Master of men
bnd Savior of the world as presenting
HE ideal of that high courtesy which
us connoted by the word gentlemen. The
text was the expression of this attained
IDEAL He who does not please himself
Is in 50 far Christian gentleman. But,
Of course, the sermon, with its reiterated
emphasis on this principle, consisted in
such Illustrations as would guard the
youthful audience from extravagant ap-
plications of it, on the one side and from
bad-tempered adhesion to 1t on the other.
A sample of his pungency recurs to me
In the advice: when you give your sis
ter a tart, don't put vinegar in the jam"
But leaving the Corine Dale, who was
Of the time and breed of Maurice, Rob-
ertson, Kingsley, though a most uncom-
promising non-conformist, 1 propose to
'disquise,' as one may say, on the suf-
hciency of his analysis. (Note to proof
reader and other readers: If to make
disposition is to dispose, why is not to
make a dsquisition to disguise? But up
speaks the etymologist Indignantly: "The
words are not akinl' Quite SO, brother.
But why, then, If inquire becomes in
luuisition," why does not 'disquisiton"
nerive from "disquire.'' Permit me to say
that / will disQuire.)
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when at the close of japanese letter,
the writer literally says, "Humbly raising
this to the eondescension of your high
sincere than we when we write, your
obedient servant" to a man we have
never met. Such epistolary forms are
everywhere stereotyped rather than per-
sonal. So also are the voluminous utter
ances of felicitation which an Oriental
will eloquently emit when meeting an old
acquaintance or when being introduced
to new one. Those many abasements
of the forehead to the earth, those alb
ject apologies for ones self and all he
owns, or does, or thinks. are nevertheless
indicative of the spirit of poiteness,
whether Oriental or Occidental. It savors
of excess, no doubt when one so far de-
preciates himself as to refer to his wife
as 'gu-sai,' which is my fool of a wife"
This is apparently pales asunder from
the spirit of chivalry as exhibited, for in
stance, by Sir Nigel Loring In Conan
Doyles stirring romance. 1t reminds us
of the story told of a certain duchess to
whom an abseduious curate introduced
his wife as IA poor thing, my lady, but
mine own and smiled at his own wit
But she did not smile! With a CLEAN in
her eyes she said speaking to the wife,
MY dear, why not use the comparative
degree?" The timid, brow-beaten girl
managed to stammer. THE comparative
degree, my lady?' Yes said the Ouch
ess, land introduce this gentleman to
your friends as a poorer thing, but mine
owner
But this is where Oriental courtesy be-
comes involved in Oriental estimates of
woman, which are usually less advanced
than in the west, as perhaps the most
energetic suffragette would allow. The
fact remains that the soul of courtesy is
a living humility, a living generosity, a
keen desire to save the face of tine
person opposite" as those Japanese in
sist on honorably naming you. Honor,
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ing caste and privilege instead of real
courtesy. Hence it is clear that the old
type of English gentleman was less Of a
Christian as he became more of a gen
tleman." But he would have been foam
ingly indignant to be told so. What
courtesy had he for his butcher, his farm
hand or his footman? There is a suspi-
cion of gallery play about all the Euro
pean types of courtesy which grew up
from the passing of chivalry to the birth
of the age of toll and machines. Some
how they are not quite inevitable, not
quite spontaneous enough. There is still
the thought of caste and condensation
and still the sounding of trumpet while
Milford escorts milady to the supper
room or bows SO gracefully to the bishop.
But get him socially in puris naturalibus,
so to speak. minus his powder and his
ruffles and his grace, and hear him curse
milady for a vixen, proving himself moth
ing more supernatural than a very abus-
i've pig, garrulous and gluttonous and
ever grumpy and granting when he does
not squeal!
They have caught the real essence of
courtesy in Japan. Under the "Alphonse
and CASTOR" symbol our humorists have
gently jeered at it, but surely it deserves
more generous recognition. Like every
thing Japanese, 1t originated in China,
and Is rooted in the philosophy that pre-
ceeded Confucius and Menicus. 1t has be-
come familiar to many In the phrase.
Saving ones face; but found wider
utterance in certain observations pub
lshed by correspondents with the armies
during the Manchurian war. A Christian
saying might well be taken as its motto:
Let each of you esteem other better than
himself" In war 1t expresses itself as a
competition for the honor of dying. OF
course 1t lends itself to the same exag-
geration as some expressions of our own.
But when we say, "Sir'' we do not lit
orally mean that the person addressed
owns us, body and soul, though Sir
does mean Lord In the same way,
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cipient of more aduation than all the
other Presidents together, more than
showered on Clay, Douglas, Blaine and
Bryan combined. Is it not perfectly nat
ural that he should hold himself infalli-
BILE? When he was a sort of bureau
chief in this town, during the admin
istration of Ben. Harrison, he was one
night very garrulous at supper, on
which occasion Tom Reed was guest
Teddy was, even for him, exceptionally
dogmatic, arrogant, peremptory, dicta-
torial and pragmatic.
Tom Reed remarked to his next neigh
Dor at the table, THAT young man, Roose-
welt, has Just made an original discov-
ery of the Ten Commandments.
But why should Roosevelt not believe
that he is not only the most precious
piece of flesh now in the world, but the
most superior piece Of humanity In pro-
fame history? He has been told so 10000
900 times by sycophants, many of whom
I shame to say, are newspaper men, some
of them preying on the garbage that fell
from his political kitchen table.
But to get back little to this Catholic
Methodist episode. The chancellor of the
vatican, in terms that it is not easy to
mistake the meaning OF, SUGGESTS that
Theodore Roosevelt. American citizen
when he goes TO Berlin. firsts visit the
Polish club in that town, and then wheth-
err Emperor William will receive him In
the Imperial palace And Theodore
Roosevelt owes it to every Catholic citi-
zen of America to subject the Emperor
of Germany TO the same test he imposed
upon the Pope of Rome. But he dare not
He knows that If he shall accord to the
Poles the same consideration he was so
swift to declare he gave the Methodsts,
that the Emperor will shut the door in
his face as the Pope did. Are you a free
man. Colonel Roosevelt? Then go to the
Polish club in Berlin. There are hundreds
of thousands of the race in America,
mostly voters at that.
But as / write this I hear the colonel
has hedged by snubbing the Methodists
of Rome. Mark Hanna was our greatest
man. He annexed the major part of the
Catholic vote to the G. o. p. without
chilling the northern Methodist church.
Mckinley was twice elected by the Cath
Ollie vote 1t elected Roosevelt in 1904. 1t
elected Taft in 1905 1t will elect Taft's
successor in 1912.
Would it not be poetic justice, as well
as a triumph of patriotism. If Colonel
Roosevelt should turn the Catholic vote
back into the democratic fold where that
church found refuge against the fanati-
cism of know-nothngism So years ago?
Wouldn't 1t be glorious? Bully for you,
colonel. Try 1t again!
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more honor, and still more honor, must
be rendered, till you are sure of your
high place in this gentleman's regard.
est trifes that they may minister to your
assurance. l am reminded of how Elmer
son would attentively listen to. every
man, however ignorant or inconspicuous.
with the expectation that surely there
was something to be learned from him.
for the making of the sage was the con-
victlon that he knew, alas, so very little!
Here. too, is the old Chinese doctrine of
the ''kunshi." or superior man. Confu-
cius put it thus;
Death and life have their determined
appointment; riches and honors depend
upon heaven"
Let the superior man never fail to
order his conduct reverently, and let him
be respectful to others and observant of
propriety; then all within the four seas
will be his brothers. What has the supe-
rior man to do with being distressed be-
cause he has no brothers?" Is not this
worth printing or the same page with the
Golden Rule?
1t has seemed to me that a certain
keen sympathy is always involved in this
the highest poiteness. 1t is far more
than a matter of propriety and etiquette.
The conceited person who thinks to sus-
tain the reputation of a gentleman on the
basis of etiquette learned by note is in a
hopeless case. Twice lately beautiful IL
Illustrations have come my way, one from
a gentleman deservedly held In high es-
TEEN for his services to this city through
its great morning paper. After trave,irg
though many lands he concluded that
London is the most courteous city in the
world since there everyone Is willing to
go out of his way to direct or aid the
stranger Very curiously few days
later, Chicago editor paid the same
compliment to our own city of Birmlng-
ham and on the same grounds! He had
been here only a few hours but had dis
covered that the people of Birmingham