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Certainly there is wise reticence in the conduct of life Highroads are useful, but they are not at their best for all pur- poses Once. in Japan, was startled by the vision of an excellent village woman taking a bath at her front gate in what Trilby called the "altogether and a tub and discussing the weather with the vil- lage carrier This was at least not re- ticent There was no need to tell all that she knew, any more than there is such necessity laid upon modern newspaper measure of restraint Is as befitting as spirit of frankness. A man Is not there fore certainly a. traitor because he holds some facts in reserve, nor Is every man bald who wears a hat.
 Ones heart goes out to the poor wretch who owns an automobile which Is mired
 in the bogs. or torn to shreds on the rocks. or vainly ploughing through clouds of sand. I have also seen strawberries growing miles away from the railroad and such a trail between farm and shipping point as would shake the milk out of a cocoanut. That patient grower, too, one pities.
 But it is the child who cannot get to school who is far nearer to the right of rebellion. Two kinds of road are neces- sary. One Is a good macadam highway from every home to the district school and on to the high school and college. An other is a road, unseen, but real, from
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the result of an evolutionary process. The Tales when first told by the wan dering story teller, were simple and short. But in the course of years they took on much other matter. Everything that partook of the marvellous of which the human mind could conceive the Arabian gave a place in his wonderful stories.
 The stories were written on manu- script for their preservation, and were gathered up into volumes after they had been told by the wandering min strels and tellers of stories. This was the work of many ages and was wrought in many different kingdoms That the Arabians were equal to this work of composition and this ex- quisite fancy there can be no question The Arabians were a learned people They eXcelled in the arts and were given to the study of the profound sciences. The way to the favor of the khalifs lay along the path of letters Al Modhi. Al Rashid and Al Mamoun and many others, were men of learn ing, and patrons of the arts and sciences. Politeness, genius and ac- complishments in learning were the avenues to their benefactions. In every way they encouraged and fostered scholarship. There fore, the greatest achievement in science, or the best com position in the realm of literature re- ceived royal reward. Hence the ex- cellence of the Arabian Nights Tales
 It is certain that the Agustan Age of bian literature was about the 17oth year of the Hegira. At this time the em- pire was one of the mightiest that ever existed. It extended from the Gulf of Persia and the confines of Tartery, to the Mediterranean and the Indian seas, and embraced all the habitable parts F,.;a fvn,o ha Ucfh nf n the Atlantic ocean. Of this great terri tory Bagdam was the literary center. The tales of this vast country were brought to Bagdad where they were
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THE DAY OF ROADS'-By George Eaves D. D.

the Japanese so much, and presently we shall not even despise him or fear him. when we have established larger com merce with him. One chief reason why northern people are less just to the ne- gro than southern people is that we in the south have learned not only his eco- homie value, but his individual qualities
 A road is a communal nerve and artery.
 Roads are the symbol of genuine inde- pendence and understanding. Absolute independence Is so ungodly as to be im-
 moral. Get a method of approach and
 you get a basis of society. On the other
 hand find groups that have no mutual de pendence and there you find all the ma terial of deadly conflict. There was no inter-dependence between the western ser- tier and the Indian tribes. no commerce between them, no real road from the one to the other. The only valuable thing the Indian had was the land he lived on. By consequence there was misunderstanding, hate. injustice and most ruthless blood
 shed, spattering shame and wrong, as
 well as suffering, on all too recent pages of our history.
 It is art that makes life wide, and road building Is art Roads are the
 antithesis of tribal and racial isolation
 Selfish as commerce is it makes for
 brotherhood. When story teller in a
 recent publication sent a scion of the British aristocracy to sell potatoes in
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BILL VINES ON COATS

would run him in to the Rug House, l and an indignint judge would plaster | him ovver with a fine of seVVerl k1llo- watts, and "Sosiety" would hand him large and butifully engraved pink slip On the uther hand a lady can get away with enny thing. I've seen em .sithout a coat and with shirt waste on that was a cross between flag Of truce. and assault and battery, and 1t would cause no greater censasion than to make a few "rubber-necks" on the corners stand on there left eyebrows and make signs wish there feet. [Icas- sun is big man. but l am afraid that he cannot ovVercum the decree of the fen1ail contingint and that decree ts that we must ware coats, and let them ware what they please. But if they have been cruel to us, they have been equally as cruel to themselves. They may insist upon our waring coats to be presents but they also insist to be in good form themselves that they must be encased in sheet of armor plate. or about the same thing, and guess we'll have to stand the coats, as long as they put up with the armor.
 But enny how, we admire Hobsun for tlk1l4g d snot at it. but before he makes it the fashion, that wah he speeks of with Japan will be ovver and will be recorded in the history of our country. At the same time l don't see enny cents in enny of meer men raising up about it, let the wimmin call him down. They don't vote yet enny how. Hobsun hes recovered frum wurse attacks than tLis and sereenly continued on his way up, He's got brains enough to becum President sum day, if he only lived in tNe rite part of the U. s. he'd be sure winner. and he may land there as 1t is; we hope so. And If he does we hope that
 
 tior in his shirt sleeves, and make it a risdemeener for a man to ware q coat, in the good old summer time. A man who objects to such a fassion can neV- yer becum a serious rival of Solomon. Yours trooly BILL VINES.
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THE ARABIAN NIGHTS-By Dr. w. E. Evans

resources were greater than his trans lation. Many of the tales he omitted from his work because they were of in different literary style, and many others were not translated because they were unsuited to people of refined manners About 17s9 Edward Wortley Montague, Esq, brought from Turkey seven volumes of tales, which, after culling, he pub lished. This publication was said to con- tain "the complete" tales. But we may question that statement. There were many in Galland not found among these tales. From time to time translations into English would be made, until Ed ward Foster, Esq, gave his version of the great tales in four volumes, in 1902, which l am fortunate to have.
 It may be interesting to the reader to know more of this translation. When g. child young Foster was attracted to Gal lands Les Mile ct une Nuts, Contes Arabes," and, youth, he saw more and more the beauty that the stories held. While at Oxford as student the young man would frequently entertain himself by translating the French into English This work was done without any idea of publication. But, being urged to give his work to the press, he did so; not without carefully revising his work, however. This was the most popular edition of the Tales for many years, and from Fosters edi- ton many others followed. Later followed a German translation, by Zinzerlng But neither this translation of the Tales, nor any other that followed was full rem dering of all that had been grouped to- gether under the head of The Arabian Nights Tales. Many of them were too indelicate to publish, and, therefore, were left in oblivion. At least, it was thought that they were left in oblivion. But they were not.
 L.. and linguist, Sir R. F. Burton. deter mined to give the world the Tales as they were told by the Arabs. Bur ton said, that he wrote not for chill
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dren nor for women, but for men of letters. Indeed. he would not permit his wife to read the tales as they were retold by himself. In this work the stories are related without expurga- tion; and it is difficult for one to see what letters have gained by this series of stories so full of indelicacies and gross vulgarity. Fortunately, the set of Burtons volumes is beyond the reach of most readers. The Tales were printed in IT huge volumes, and were so handsomely bound, and so exquisite ly illustrated, that they cost (originally though now they can be bought for less) $1o volume, or s17o for the set. Burton's contention was, that the world had never seen the Arabian Nights tales, and that he would give the world that opportunity. But men are none the richer for the vulgarity that Burton has given it.
 We may suspect book that publish CTS advertise as the unexpugated" edi- tion. I received from publisher lit tie while back list of French stories 'unexpurgated." knew what it meant It meant Here are Blank S stories, as he wrote them with their filth and obscenity, grossness and vul- garity." Expurgation has it's work to perform. We expurgate Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Sterne, and the works of others. and by the same law the Ara bian Nights should be cleansed There fore, I affirm, that Burton has done no good by his volumnous work with it's nastlness.
 We are not to suppose that the Arabian Nights Tales appeared a completed work originally. They simply grew. Hence, one kingdom or province, would have a series of tales which an other would not have. This accounts fn ha iafx rf ha Ta1 gathered at Constantinople differ from those best known at Cairo; but they all bespeak the manners and customs of the Orient. They also were, doubtless,
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told, revised and polished, and incor- porated in the manuscript volumes. and preserved as 'The Tales of d Thousand and One Nights"
 The title, "The Thousand and One Nights" had its rise thus The Sultan Schahriar being eXasperated by the un- faithfulness of his bride. made a law that every one of his future wives should be put to death the morning after her marriage. One of his wives, named She herazada, determined to have that law abolished By the charm of her stories she would induce the Sultan to defer his purpose She would begin her narration and continue them until something of a climax was reached and would then break off, promising to continue the next day. This custom she continued for a thou sand and one nights, two years and nine months. By this time she had become the mother of two children. At the con- clusion of the tales she presented herself and the two children before the Sultan on his throne, and pleaded for her life and the abolishment of the cruel law. She was successful and the law was re- pealed.
 Not only did the Arabians write won derful tales and treatises on philosophy and science, but they wrote the most splendid poetry. Many of their songs were brought to Europe by troubadours who learned them from the AraDlans Ariosto and others of the European fan = ciful writers found the substratum of the widest fancies in the songs of the Italian and French torubadours, which they had received from the Arabs In deed Suenser's Faerie Queen had it's origin In the same source.
 Yet we are not to suppose that their poetry was all fanciful Some of it was philosophical as the great poem cf ParSian naieyb hnr r khayyam. in his great Rubaiyat. The solemn matters of life, death, time and eternity engage their thought. l give an Illustration from one of the most
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But Henri Dunaut started out to make his dream come true. Like Paul, he was not dfsobedient to the heavenly vision. He spent his life and his forune in organizing the In ternational Society of the Red Cross. It was a gigantic realization of gi- gantic task, the uniting of the world of men In works of common mercy.
 What was money beside this dream? And so Henri Dunaut literally became poor that the world through his pow erty might become rich in pity and in deeds of mercy.
 And the world forgot.
 Not long since it remembered what it owed Henri Dunaut, the founder of the Red Cross. He was old and poor. having impoverished himself In his labors. He was voted the Noble peace prize, which will amply provide for him until his death.
 Who of the moderns has dreamed or accomplished a nobler dream? Talk of captains of industry-the world Is tired of the stories of material sue cess Here is captain of mercy. Here Is man who has syndicated the good Samaritan.
 Where battlefield of fire or flood or
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times on record. fare ladies. also Rev. coat he would expose a sadly ovver- worked shirt who's frunt and possibly reer, would preesnt as uncleen and un- tydy appeerense as the platform of the republican party. Again there has been times, at leest with sum gentlemen, that
 if they pulled off there coat 1t would develop the shocking fact that there shirt was composed of white linin frunt, ana a rcd flannel back, which would sertaln- ly mock the shoddsty of brass immage, and would be verry improper indeed; ; but If mans shirt has a health ser tirlcate frum the laundry, and not full of holes and is in evvery way a perfectly mild shirt why we fale to see why it should cause ennybody to have fit.
 Of course there air shirts and shirts. We've seen shirts, that if a man was to pull of his coat and turn all of thim on us al once. we would want blind brid : dle on if we stayed around; but there is no evidence whatsoever that Hobsun had on such 0 shirt; no objectsion, that we have herd has been raised to his shirt, but the simply kick was on the fact that he pulled off his coat. We give 1t up. It has always been still stranger thing to me, that us man air obliged to stick to one conversational way of dressing enny how. The ladies, Heaven bless them have got 1t on us when it cums to dressing to suit them selves. They can put on enny thing they please and dub it the latest thing frum Paris. and we stand round like a tot of Carrots, and say it Hooks good;' they can ware shirt wasts cut enny old way, and without enny sleeves, if they have pretty arms. and its perfectly propper. Suppose sum yung Appoller with perfectly chizzeled arms was to walk down the streets of Birmingham. in lis shirt, with no arms to it, exposing to the admiring gaze of the public his bare, but alabaster, complexion that ough. to be cuvered three deep with two shirts and a coat? Suppose so? What would happen? Why about 14 policemen
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of arms. Let me repeat and try to make it plain: MT. Carnegie, without the expenditure of one cent-not even the unearned increment-puts an an- nual tax on the American people to pay him interest on $160,000,000 bonds of the United States steel corporation. If MT. Carnegie had put his property Into the concern at what he had said 1t was worth, only while earlier. that com pany's burdens would have been less ened by $160,000,00 But would it have relaxed its grip on the industries of our people? I doubt It. Naboth had vine yard. Coveteousness is not a sin that is as yet entirely exercised. As Sir Peter Teazle said in the play: This is a blanked wicked world we live in. Sir Oliver"
 Well, here comes the head of the steel trust and lays himself down at the feet of my friend Owsley Stanley, who is chasing facts and things out of 'em that possibly they don't know that Stanley already knows.
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beautiful poems l ever read. The whole | cannot give here. It is poem somewhat like Goldsmith's Deserted Village. The reader will not a re- semblance to the "Rubiayat' in the lines l give. It is a poem of memory and reflection, and one hears, ringing mournfully throughout, Tennyson's lines, The days that are no more" No messy record of those once-loved Points out the mansion to the enquir-
 ing eye; No tottering wall, in echoing sounds
 repeats Our mournful questions and our burst
 ing sighs. Yet mid those ruined heaps, that naked
 plain, Can faithful memory former scenes re-
 store; Recall the busy throng, the jocund
 traln And picture all that charmed us there
 before. Ne'er shall my heart the fatal morn
 forget That bore the fair ones from these
 seats so dear; see. see the crowding filters yet. And yet the tent poles rattle in mine
 ear. I sec the maids with timid steps
 ascend: The streamers wave in all their painted
 pride: The floating curtains every fold ex-
 tend. And yainly strive the charms within
 to hide. What graceful forms those envious
 folds enclose What melting glances through those
 curtains play, Sure Weira's antelopes, or Tudah
 roes Through wonder veils their sportive
 young survey.
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them to encroach hairs breadth upon the liberties of England"
 We have an unfettered press that told the exact truth about the Lorimer case. From that story the people formed their opinion, and hence the order to the senate to reopen and retry the case. Public opinion said it was a case of whiteWash and public opinion was not quite assured that 1t was not even worse than whitewash. That is why the Lorimer case Is reopened. Nor is that all. There Is to be no more white wash. There is to be a probing to the very bottom. No judge of a Chicago court will be allowed to stop the pro- ceedIng. Every fact and every circum- stance will be laid bare.
 The people intend to have a thorough look into all their public affairs. Hence this fever for investigation. Look at the testimony the first day before the Stanley committee that Is investigatin g the steel trust. It Is startling, though not precisely new. MT. Andrew Carne-
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NoUNe man-be careful how you
 waste your hours of sleep, be- \ cause
 You weaken your powers and lessen your chances of success in life by try ing to cheat nature of her due.
 "Pshaw.' say you. Tt doesn't hurt me. I oan stay up all night" But it does hurt you.
 If you have certain sum of money in the bank and you keep spending it and put less in than you take out it is a ques- ton of time when your account will be fin red.''
 Just so with your vitality. You have 50 much in stock. If you carefully use it, depositing to your credit by nature's s method, you will live long in the land. If you spend it in prodigality you hamper your usefulness and shorten your life. ' Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of
 care,
 The death of each days life, sore labor S
 bath
 Balm of hurt minds, great Natures sec
 ond course,
 Chief nourisher of life's feast
 What Macbeth said of it is every whit literally true.
 You can go without food a long time. but not without sleep. Nowadays the fast cure' is popular. Men and women easily go without food for 30 days and more.
 How long can you go without sleep? Not thirty days, nor fifteen days nor eight days.
 Moreover the medical books tell us the food we eat is transformed into tis- sue while we sleep That Is the way
 Stxl. ,saf rse sel,< of life's feast" changing the food into flesh and blood and nerve and muscle When you lose sleep there is "malas- srr,tlatton"--th food is not changed. 'How about Napoleon?"
 You have seen statements that he slept but four hours out of twentyfour? Per haps. But 1t Is true that he was pun ished. Deprived of necessary sleep, in some of his battles-Austerlitz was one he dozed during the fighting.
 One of the weak, indecisive figures of history is this same Napoleon fleeing in sheer panic from Moscow or feeling fee bly, for his stirrups on the evening of Waterloo.
 Nature will have her due even from the Napoleons and the Alexanders.
 Get plenty of sleep.
 If you must lose some, make 1t up Fortify yourself for the future days of strain that must come to you. Lay up in store a stock of manly vigor
 I am just as young as I ever was. haven't grown old a bit, and l don't intend to grow old. Those who trust the Lord shall preserve their strength and trust the Lord.
 The brave. words were uttered by a woman who is 92 years old, or, better S2 years young--Fanny Crosby, the well known writer of Christian hymns.
 a New York the other day. she turned upon the people eyes that have been sight less from the time she was five years old. Since she was a child this blind s singer has composed hymns If you were to strike from the church hym- nologY the productions of Fany Cro,- by you would leave the collections poor
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, be content with a reasonable and mod crate profit.
 I admit that there can be no competi- tion unless somebody Is selling things at too high a price; but monopoly Is such a monster of greed that as soon as it has destroyed competition with cheapness it sets about establishing g high prices to make breed of Carne- gies. That is your problem-Iow to
 make a good trustl
 It will some day be solved, that prob lem, but not soon. The socialist con tends that only the government can accomplish it. That party is young and lusty and few of us know how rapidly it is growing even in the rural districts. One thing Is certain, and that Is, that as lcng as we grow such men as Carnegie there will be discontent-polieical f1uancial and social.
 The power of the individual to tax the masses must cease. The first move and the last Is to eliminate every par ticle of protection out of the American tariff.
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1 The hand moved onto trace their
 steps I strove:
 l saw them urge the came's hasten-
 ing flight;
 Till the white vapor, like a rising snatched them forever from my Nor since that morn have I Nawara
 seen,
 The bands are burst which held us once
 so fast: Memory but tells me that such things
 have been. And sad reflection adds. that they are
 past"
 By the way, I am reminded of some other poems by this very ancient one from which have quoted the above lines The hand moved on," placed where it is, re- minds me of the Rubaiyat, ''The moving finger writes, and having
 writ,
 Moves on: nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure 1t back to cancel half line Nor all your tears wash out word of it."
 The line
 Memory but tells that such things have l been.'
 bears striking likeness to Macdufs bit ter exclamation,
 T cannot but remember that such things l were 1 But I am permitting myself to be led astray, and it is time to close this essay. l shall do so. with the remark that every body should read the Arabian Nights. Not only because they are good literature. but for their pure fancy. When other things pail upon us, when we are tired of the modern novel, which we are apt to be in very short while, turn to the Arabian Nights. and he a child again, R. happy child. who believed the stories of The Forty Thieves. of Sinbad the Sailor. and the others.
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CORRUPTION AND MONOPOLY-By Savoyaro

one of the solemn, ponderous and dam phool preachments of the Hon. Joseph Weldon Bailey, of Texas. There is a lai ge, huge, a monstrous volume of the testimony, and shall it be said these contain the law and the testament that only the elect shall interpret? Not SO. Some 9a,000,000 Americans have passed on the Lorimer case. They have found him guilty, and they are resolved to see that their verdict shall be made a judg- ment and that the senate shall carry that Judgment into execution.
 The newspapers told the public all ail there was of the Lorimer case. as they tell the public all there is of all the other cases. It was Richard Brins- ley Sheridan, match for Burke, or Fox, or Pitt. In the Athenian age of English parliamentary government, who exclaimed, Give them corrupt house of Lords, give them venal house of commons, give them a tyrannical prince, give them a trucking court, and let me have an unfettered press, I will defy