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It is true that these arc points to be felt rather than described, and that 1t is extremely difficult to state them within the brief compass of an article in newspaper. But as they were never sug- gested to me by any one, and as they nat urally forced themselves upon my atten- tion without my seeking, I am decidedly of the opinion that they are real points of contact between the two compositions
 Tn saying that the author of the Book Of Job was not to be held irresponsible for the sentiments which he puts into the mouth of the father of lies.'' I did not mean to impugn the personal existence Of satan, nor did mean to imply that satan never held any personal interview with Jehovah. l meant no more than said When we say that Tacitus is not respon- sible for the sentiments which he puts into the mouth of Agricola: or that Sallust is not responsible for the senti- ments he puts Into the mouth of Caesar. in the memorable speech on the trial of the conspirators, we do not impugn the historical existence of Agricoia or Of Caesar.
 As to the mode of "satan's existence" and his personal presence and manner of presenting himself among the worship pers' of Jehovah, I must confess to n ignorance so profound as to make silence 8 virtue, if not s necessity.
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C. Hidden, D. D.

and Paradise Lost all have interlocu- tors.
 Again, though some of Dr. Conant's statements are stronger than I should be willing to make them. still upon the whole. I believe with him as to the gen. eral character of the book. Let us then draw parallel. Julius Caesar was real character. So also were Brutus, Cassius, Mark Antony. Portia. Octavius and Lepidus. Tho battle of Philippi. the assassination of Caesar, the suicide of Brutus and casssus were real historical events. Now, Shakespeare has taken these events and characters, and under his poeticsl treatment they became a drama. which is entitled Julius Caesar" In much the same way we have Henry ", Richard III, and sundry other dra- mas. Is something like this true of the Book of Job?
 Further, there is to my mind much in common between the Book of Job and the ancient Greek dramas of sopnScles and Euripides. Some of the discourses in Job remind me very strongly of some of the speeches, and especially the ohoruses, in the Greek tragedies. Sub stituting Fate for 'tProvidence,' and making due allowance for the difference between the Semitic and the Aryan caste Of thought, l see many points of con- tact between the "Oedipus Tyrannus'' and the Book of Job.
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by the way. men are exceedingly slow to learn.
 Dr. T. J. Conant was one of the ablest Hebraists of America. His Monograph Commentary on the Book of Job Is one of the best that has come under my notice; so let us hear him on this ques- ton. which he was so well qualified to discuss:
 After referring to the well known pas sages in Ezekiel xiv:14-D and in James vi to show that Job was a real person, and twas actually subjected to such a trial of his faith and patience as Is here described,' pr. Conant proceeds: But we must not overlook the manner in which these things are presented ic us. The greater part of the book has the poetic form. The subjects are discussed in a series of discussions. conceived and ex- pressed in the loftiest spirit and the most perfect form of oriental poetry. These discourses all proceed from the inspired writer. The supposition that we have here the very words of Job and his friends. that uninspired men expressed themselves thus, and the sacred writer only repeats their language, is too ab- surd to be entertained for moment The whole Is the production of the inspired writer; and this Is the mode selected by divine wisdom for giving us the discuss sion of the various topics of the book
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ness with the thought that here's thing that ought to be looked into right away.
 And theren there's mental treatment. You think you have a thing-and you have 1t. Then you think you don't have it--and, of course, you don't. It's very very simple. If you could only do your think-you- It's before you do your thlnk-you-do's, you'd be so healthy that 1t would be positive shame. But the trouble with this lies in making choice. To the new thoushters, all the rythmic breathers are persons au gratin, as the French say, and a rythmic breather has nothing but the low, derisive sniff for all the members of the opposition cults what soever. They don't care for the East Indian Yogis-who are no kin to the Swiss Yodlers, although equally noisy at times-and the Yogis don't care for the Free Headers and suppose the Free Healer's look down on the Menthol Heal CTS and all the other brands of heal CTS. I understand that Mazdaznanner thinks a person that's ailng doesn't need the help of a Swami teacher any more than the Sing Sing Star of Hope needs fashion editor and as between the Theosophists and the Metaphysical bunch there's really nothing in common, hear. except that each used the same hammer stroke in discussing the methods of the other. So it doesn't behoove the ostens- bly sick person to put off making his
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Such being the case with the poetical por- tions, there can be no doubt that the sacred writer's manner is the same In the introductory and concluding chapters. It is his object to bring the case which Is the subject of discussion before the mind of the reader. The facts of the case are stated, but in form corresponding with the rest of the book. The existence and agency of a malevolent spirit, the tempter and the accuser is recognized here, as in other parts of the sacred volume (com- pare. for example. Luke xxi :31: Peter v:3 Rev xii:10). But the manner of rep- resentation-for example his appearance among the sons of God, when they present themselves before Jehovah; his language to Jehovah and the replies-all this is to be understood in accordance with the gen. eral poetic character of the book"
 Let me not be misunderstood to say that the Book of Job Is "an inspired drama" for in my previous article distinctly declined to be responsible for such view; but as I held that much might be said in its favor; and as Brother Hudson asked me to say what may be said.' I am simply complying with his published request.
 But, on the other hand: The mere fact of the existence of interlocutors does not make the composition a drama for the great epics, the 'Iliad,' the "Aeneid,"
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glass, and some orange bitters. and spon and-and sugar-no. I said sugar. didn't l? Let's see: was there anything elsef Oh, yes, I remember now And then I'd ask him to pour in just a few drops of preparation that was first made by an old Kentucky family and named for a line of French kings. Yes. that's it, Bourbon. How these little things do escape fellows memory. And I'd invite this friend of mine to take little of the mixture for himself be- cause the remedy I have in mind will either cure you of what you have or else give you something to be cured of. If you haven't And then"
 Come on then,' said the House De- tective. T see wot you're driving at. l reckon this ain't appendicitis after all. It's probably just plain stomach ache But if did have anything real serious the matter with me, you bet there ain't no new fangled doctor or teacher or nobody could get a chanct at me un- less he had the materials to prove he wuz the goods. When it comes to bein' showed I'm from Missouri
 There's the Missouri Compromise? 2" suggested the Hotel Clerk
 "Wots that?" asked the House De- tective. 4a
 Being shown up," said the Hotel Clerk.
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sciousness a few days later with kind of hollow, empty feeling inside, which is more or less Justified because the ma jority of your vital organs are already over at the museum in bottles for the students to look at and make personal re- marks about. Or you fail to recover consciousness altogether and the florist down at the corner gets a contract for an appropriate funeral design consisting of a tube rose column sawed through in the middle. The drawbacks to this system are that you can't keep your innermost secrets to yourself because everybody around the hospital gets to know 'em and then, too, you so frequently suffer from exposure. We've got surgeons now in our midst who'd operate on you at the drop of a pulse let alone the drop of a hat If a street car cuts off your leg and it's the street cars fault, you col lect damages from the company; but If a specialist does the same thing, on lit tie or no provocation, he collects the damages from you and keeps the leg. It doesn't seem fair But l will say this for the system, it's thorough. After a surgeon has removed your arm at the shoulder you'll never suffer from hang nails or coupon thumb again But 1t does seem at times a trifie radical and I hate the thought that all my medical friends size up my increasing plump
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<<T GOT kinder pecooliar feelin'
 here," complained the House
 \ Detective of the St. Reckless, in- dicating a point slightly south by sou'- west of the fourth button of his waist coat. 'I only hope I ain't gettin' this here appendicitis. Wot'd I better do bout it?"
 That all depends" said his friend and spiritual adviser, the Hotel Clerk. Tn the old days the proper prescription would have been a dark blue somber kind of a looking pill about the size of a thrush's egg and if you lived through the treatment twas a sign your system was hardy enough to conquer the disease or any other disease. or else the local root and herb doctor brewed you up nice hot mixture made out of medicinal plants. Twas easy to tell the medicinal plants of nature. Any plant that tasted bad enough was known to be medicinal So you took a quart of the mixture every hour, meanwhile making swimming motions with your hands and feet, and if you didn't drown YOU got we'll Drowning was more or an inside job then than 1t is now Now it's frequently brought on by rocking the boat; then you could often accom- plish the same result by carelessly rock ing the patient.
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TNROM Virginia newspaper which copied my article on "Satan's Slan- 4 der." recently published in The Age Herald. I take the following para graphs:
 Having read with much interest val uable article from the pen of Bro. J. C. fIiden, concerning "Satan's Sander" I desire to say some things that may pro- yoke him to a further discussion of the subject of Satans figuring In Biblical history. Let me make two statements and ask two questions:
 1. The book of Genesis is surely a real history. Adam and Eve are real characters in the sacred record, and, if they are real, so also is Satan, and his first affirmative sentence, 'Ye shall not surely die,' is a pointed contradiction of the Divine word, and the bitter experi- ence Of the fallen race has proven 1t to be a lie The book of Job carries with 1t similar evidence of being historical; therefore, believe it is a truthful record of facts, but all it's speakers are more or less wrong, until the Lord himself speaks to put them all to silence. Will Brother Hidden say what may be said fin favor of the view that the book is an inspired drama?
 9 Satans slanderous saying in Job, All that man hath will he give for his life,
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practically useless some ten months of the year.
 Speaking of freight rates on the Ohio, MT. Stanley says:
 When you propose transporting your finished product, do you know that the freight rates upon the Ohio river-when you have a river-are cheaper than any, where else in the world? Why, the water rates upon the Oder are about 3B mills per ton mile; on the Elbe, 2.5 mills, and on the Rhine, f.3 mills. On the Great Lakes and through the Sauh Ste. Marie the canal rate is .sl of l mill per mile. Coal is carried from Pittsburg to Cairo for less than 1s min per ton mile. or, ac- cordng to the official figures. 0.0447 cents per ton mile; that is, ton of coal is car ried from Pittsburg to Cairo for 43.25 cents."
 And he supplemented that statement with the declaration that more commerce is borne upon the bosom of the Ohio than upon any other unimproved river on earth.
 When the Ohio river is properly im- proved and a nine-foot channel secured the year round from Pittsburg to Cairo it will create another Pittsburg at Evans vile and vicinity, and Owensboro and Henderson on the south side of the river
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that is the main thing in a speech, and he startled his hearers, as well as his readers, by the extent and thoroughness of his knowledge of the subject. As I read and read could but marvel at the gift the man has for research, the pa tient industry, the zest for pursuit. the long possession ia single train Of thought. What a lawyer he would make if he should lose his love for politics, which he won't.
 The Ohio river has numerous navigable tributaries. the Allegheny, the Mononga- hela, the Kanawhas, the Sandy, the Mus kingum, the Kentucky, the Green, the Cumberland, the Tennessee, and the Wa bash, representing navigable waters 3500 miles in extent bearing freights aggre- gating 100000 tons per annum. It Is pro- posed to canalize the Ohio, which would give a nine-foot channel every day in the year, and cheapen freights to 13,0000 GOO of our population. At present the ohio has an eight and one-half-foot channel, but 79 days of the 3s5. And thus when the tributaries empty their 100000 tons of freight upon her bosom 1t must remain there to await a rise in the waters. And thus again the millions spent in the im- provement of the lesser streams are
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carry the additional freishts the water traffic is certain to make for them. It is a fact that an additional expendi- ture of billion on our rivers, lakes and harbors to facilitate transporta- ton would not give to our waterways half the efficiency of those of France. and yet at this very moment France is expending large sums to widen. and deepen her rivers and canals.
 Of course when Congress embraced the policy of canalizing the Ohio, the work had to begin at Pittsburg and make it's day down, though that was a mistaken notion. It would have been worth many times the cost of the whole thing had bonds been sold and all the 54 dams constructed at once. By this time the thing would have been com pleted and hundreds of millions saved to the commerce of the Ohio and it's tributaries; but they would not have it so and it will be many years before the work is completed.
 The most important dam of the whole lot is that at Henderson, to conserve the commerce of Green river and lend immense advantages to the triple cities of Henderson, Owensboro and Evans vile. Congressman Stanley has worked for this end without ceasins ever since
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dant-coal. lumber, including walnut. oak. hickory, ash, gum, beech, elm and poplar; tobacco, corn, wheat. oats, po- tatoes, all the vegetables, cattle, mules, hogs, sheep, slaves, hubs, rims, spokes. poultry, eggs and fruits, amounting in all to 100000 tons per annum.
 As soon as this merch andise emerges from Green river it runs up against a sandbar about 300 days of the year, and that is why it amounts to only one tenth of the entire commerce of the Ohio. If there were a dam at Hender- son there is no question that the traf- fic on the Green river would soon be doubled. There are folk who look cool
 ly upon river and harbor improvements because they hold it tends to cripple our railroads. There never was yet a more mistaken notion. Cheap rates make business, and 1t Is impossible for the river to be swarming with craft laden with merchandise without it's making additional trains on the rail- roads laden with freights. James J. llill, as good authority on the subject as any man now living, welcomes river improvements if judicially directed and his opinion is that the more commerce floated on our rivers and lakes the more cars the railroads will need to
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h ehas been in Congress and just before the recent holiday recess Of Congress he prevailed on the river and harbor committee Of the House to give him day in court and they granted him hearing January 8. 1910.
 He scampered home and aroused his constituents. At Owensboro 1t was after night and the night of the blizzard at that. But six men composed his audiencs later swollen to some Is. In the biting cold he spoke to them and raised $125 to help defray the expenses of a dele gation to Washington to appear before the committee. At his home town of Henderson he raised $500 and at Evans vile they put up 1900. Then Owensboro reinforced her contribution, and Janu- ary there was a large delegation of business men from the three cities. They championed the cause as only business men could and the committee was sinp- 1y astounded at the resources and pos abilities of that region.
 I hope that Henderson dam will be or dered and appropriated for. Such zeal and energy as Stanleys deserves success and the delegations he headed from Ev- ansvills, Owensboro and Henderson were as fine specimens of splendid citizenship as the union can show.
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HHE Panama canal will cost s5OO.OOO,-
 000 before 1t is finished, and as an
 A artery of commerce it will be worth to the American people less than one-tenth the benefit they would derive from the expenditure or $63, ,000, 600 to im- prove the Ohio river upon the plan laid down by the board of engineers of the army. But the isthmian canal will be invaluable in that it will afford a means to reinforce our fleets in the Pacific with war craft drafted from the Atlantic fleets. If war should come with Japan after the canal is finished, 1t may pay for itself in a few weeks.
 I never dreamed of the stupendous in dustrial and commercial possibilities of the great valley drained by the Ohio river and its tributaries until I read a speech of A. O. Stanley, member of Congress from the Second Kentucky district, de- livered before the Ohio Valley Improve ment association, at Cincinnati last au- tumn. The remarks Of MT. Stanley are q little more ornate than John G. Car 1isle or Nelson W Aldrich would have made them; but that is excusable in a successor in Congress of John Young Brown and James A. Mckenzie. Yet ev- erybody understood what he said, and
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THE OHIO RIVER-By Savoyard

will be the ''vicinity." Pittsburg depends on iron, steel, glass and coal. The new Pittsburg, already the first hardwood manufacturing center in America, if not in the world, will have cotton mils flour mills, tobacco factories live stock yards. whisky distilleries and in addition steel, iron, coal and glass. For commercial ana financial purposes the three cities, Evansville, Owensboro and Henderson, will be one, and if Evansville shall be the largest of the three it will be due to the fact that it is directly opposite the con fiuence of the Ohio and Green rivers on the south bank of the Ohio.
 And that brings me to say something of Green river that l have known from chi1dh ood. For the volume of water it discharges 1t is the deepest river in the world, and 1t drains the region of the "Pennyrile" of Kentucky, unsur> passed in fertility and unrivaled in versatility of products in all the world. The climate is as admirable as the temperate zone can furnish, and it is scarce to be wondered at that one tenth of the entire commerce of the Ohio river comes down Green river.
 The products that come out of Green river are as varied as they are abun-
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choice too long. He's liable to become ostensibly dead while waiting. and be ostensibly buried by an ostensible under taker in an ostensibie cemetery Such things have happened, I'm told, under the head of prolonged enor."
 I'm a patient guy all right an I'm willin' to listen to you s'long as I can stay awake, but you ain't told me noth- in yet that helps this pain any, said the House Detective.
 We'll said the Hotel Clerk, If it was me, I'd give it a system of mental treatment and then possibly. If I could run across a doctor friend outside Of his business hours, I'd sort of bring the subject up in an off-hand kind Of way, describing my symptoms to him casually, as If I was telling him about the way great uncle of mine felt at one time in the spring of 1874, and I'd see if I couldn't extract a line of ad- vice out of him without paying for it. I'd try both schemes If twas me be- cause they both have the great merit of being inexpensive And then If didn't feel any immediate relief from either. I tell you what I'd do I'd ask some near and dear friend to go along with me for moral support and I'd walk back to the cafe and I'd request the gentlemaniy attendant to mix me up some sugar and water and lemon peel in
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EMOTION IN DREAMS.

In the second paper of this series l
 shd that in dreamland our emotions are
 a real as when in our waking moments
 H experience them. That is to say, they
 sem as real. Many times are we awaK-
 aed by our own laughter, and in mos
 aent or two are oblivious of the cause F { our hilarity, but we know that we were
 auphing. and that there was sufficient
 ause therefor. So with sorrow and tears
 have awakened from sleep and founo hyself sobbing and weeping, and have cen thankful that had escaped from ny dream In sadness.
 L There is a certain emotion that many people have. and which often have and ever gladly welcome; 1t is that quality Of pleasure produced by gliding through the air. It is not flying, for one is conscious that he has no wings. It is simply rising above the earth to a height of 20 feet, say, and then gliding unaided by an artificial means In a distant city Gin dream) I was walking on street that led to the east, but coming to street whose course was northward, paused and iooKed upon a beautiful scene. The houses on each side of the thoroughfare were dwellings, and on the piazzas and galleries In front of the houses sat great crowds Of ladies and gentlemen. Children thronged the street, playing games that required some sort of rhythmic motion, which, was, in- deed. performed with grace and beauty of action There were all sorts of colors displayed in the clothing of the children in the street, as well as among the mats and dresses of their mothers on the gall leries. Over the bewitching scene there hung a soft, spring-like atmosphere. As far as I could see to the northward the lovely picture of varigated colors and harmonious life stretched away. want rN heels, threw my weight upon my toes and gave an upward spring, and l was In the air l did not mount to the altitude possible to me. I rose, I fancy, about 16 feet: then heading northward. began to glide The sensation was indescribably delicious On and on I passed without effort or conscious motion. It seemed, though, that the people were accustomed to men gliding through the air, for no one was startled at seeing me, as passed and repassed only few feet about their heads. I had perfect control of myself. I could remain in the air as long as I wanted, and could descend at will.
 Years after I had committed to paper an account of my disposition to turn to gliding in my dreams, I came upon sketch of Leigh Hunts mental pecul1ari- ties, written by himself. He relates that he had experiences of gliding in his dreams. He dreamed that in certain city a large hall had been built for per- sons who liked the sport of gliding. He went to this hall and was met by the woman who had charge of the building. Perhaps. sir." said she. you would like to try the room." Then" said Hunt, 'I made no more ado, but sprang up and took two or three genteel circuit about the room: now taking the height of it like house lark. then cutting the angles like a swallow. Very pretty flying, in- deed. said we. and very moderate ,a.S
 There are emotions. however. excit6dsn