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make both ends of the household meet. She does it. There is no envy of those who live in big houses and go in auto mobiles. Father is getting on in the wori. The children have good appe- tites Why shouldn't she be happy?
 Love Is the greatest thing in the worll, and contentment is the next grea' test, And there are both love and cortentment in her home.
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 Put it this way: In service is com pensetion. There's joy in doing for these you love.
 If herself, perforce. must wrinkle her brow over a household problem, studying how to cut the corners. why, measure for measure-sure as the law of gravity. certain as the law of chem ical alfinity-herself is paid hundred fold.
 An, little woman, how rich,
 Gntoy while you may. Who knows? Your children may grow up to honor your gray hairs, or--the fates forfendi one of them may almost break your heart. .uSa
 Or some day you may live in big house where things are but gilded and where arms are empty and. life is hol- low.
 Enioy yourself and himself and tho other two,
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was enormous, like the classical busts of Jupiter. It was covered with a shock of long and thick hair, which fell over his forehead so as often to obscure his eyes. His features under nea tn a brow of immense breadth were small and refined-a finely curved nose, sagacious eyes, with a smile of great sweetness and benevolence, and most movable and expressive lips. When one had got to know it, and trace it's working in thought and in expression, 1t was a most noble and spiritual coun- tenance'
 Ii is also written of him that in his strdent days the cries of a poor High land woman under Liston's knife In the Edinburgh Lnfirmary so pained him that he rushed from the theater and was almost ready to seek employment rather in a lawyers office; but he brought back his crying heart to face and fight the pain.
 Al first mesmerism seemed to offer q method of mitigating pain. and in 1896 Simpson was experimenting herewith, many leaders of his profession visiting his hospital to watch the results. Then cane, In 1846 tests of sulphuric ether in labor pains, the original tests of the drug having been apparently in Boston hosoital, by Drs. Morton and Warner CO., operating in the painless excision of
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The man from Mars would find that for murder In anger one must give Up his life. but that in the name of the two gods, Industry and Efficiency, a commer- cial slave-owner is not executed for shutting out the light of day and the breath of the fields from his boys and girls.
 The delegation would be told-for 1t is really worth telling-that with the annual return of the seasons. plenteous harvests of wheat and cotton are harvested- enough to feed and clothe all who lacked. (And a well-clothed, prosperous commit- tee in charge of these folk from the sky would be ample warrant of the state ment's truth.
 A critical sky-man might wonder at the existence of the word Patriotism in our ! Birmingham-or Alabama-or United States Blue Book. Shall we love our mother less because we separated from her?' might be asked by Mar tian. Were you not mothered by Cets, Teutons, Scandinavians? Why do you love them less, or their lands less?" A statement at this point by one of our l committee that earth nations still warred
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been playing at this game, but, wate till
 cum to bat and if I ain't the Ty Cobb
 of this congressional leegue, they can get my goat.
 J. Thomas being a verry handsum man--the handsumest in congress-his wife affurms and he admits it-he rises up in his sect in the SW. corner of
 the House and yells in Tones of Thun-
 der: "Mistur Speeker-I say and l can prove 1t, that Option is King" Evvery-
 boddy looked at J. Thomas and behold he is thing of buty and a joy for
 evver, for he is dressed in Cotton frum
 he'd to foot cotton shoes: cotton hose cotton pants; cotton shirt; cotton tie,
 cotton hat and cotton evvery things. When J. Thomus starts a job he goes
 all the way. he learned that early in life, so he maid a hit rite off the bat with Hobby of cotton, and he deserves it. Back thru the laundering ages of
 the past they tell us that the history of all the countries of the world will
 not disclose single Thomus thatsw evver King, or Emperor, or Zarr oI
 Caesar Not one. So Thomus knew thai president had his hooked, he could no, be King, but he could crown a King anI he crowned Cotton King and ther crowned himself with the King that ht | had cf wned.
 | So J. Thomus' hobby is Cotton, ant we submit that his hobby is wurthS | of him, and that he Is wurthy of hi.
 hobby, and that the 5th district anc Cotton air to be congratulated menny times in having so grRe a Champyo on
 J. Thomas besides believing Cotton i. | King has sum verry fixed idears upor | uther vitel subjects. One of his idear: | in which we fully agree with him, is ] that this is White mans country. J | Thomus believes that the 14th and tn, | 18th amindmint are "Frosts" so do we | J. Thomus does not dislike the Coon but, he believes that he has no rite oi
 not the same rite to vote as the White man, and he does not beleeve that he | has the same rites on the street cars
 and we fully agree with him. He is a | man aftur our own hart. May menny moor of his kind go to Washington to the utter confusion of such old fossils and back numbers as Heyburnr and uthers we could mention.
 May the 5th district hang onto J Thomas. he is wurthy of there conti- depce. Yours trooly. BILL VINES.
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quered anguish-is magnifving the fame of Professor Simpson, In the Famous Scots Series is a notable little biograph by his daughter, of which critic writes: Artistic, sympathetic, complete and sat- isfying" But the bust in Westminster Abbey tells it's story of human gratitude and reverence, and from time 10 time the story of the great discovery shall be told again. and thanksgiving swell upwards from the Holy of Holies. where mother hood offers its perennial sacrifice and bows over the twin mysteries of Pain and Life. There long ago ministered Mary Jervey, Scottish peasant woman, and there as an aeolyte ministered her won derfu son. IL is fitting that here and everywhere this story should again be told, after a hundred years. and the mothers of the race rise up Co call Mary Jervey blessed among women.
 For civilized womanhood in its new sensitiveness, shrinks from pain and the responsibilities of maternity. Is it a. slight thing therefore that one has pre- ceded our day and robbed birth of it's
 sting? May we not give a broader mean
 ing to the inscription he placed on his little daughters grave-a vital race con fession; Nevertheless I live? AS though in spite of civilization and sensi- tiveness and anguish, mankind shall still go on!
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LOOM OF MANNERS-By A. B. Bea11e

with each other would justify. to my mind, the existence of this word in our vocabulary. But you might quote Nal thus on over-population, and all the other theories that justify murder, till doom's day, and Marian might still not understand.
 Along with unimportant data like the above, our visitors would learn just how thoroughly respectable men and women clothed themselves for afternoon and evening functions. He would be taught that any marked variance from the pre- scribed uniform would mean social death for the transgressor. He might even wonder that garments were worn at all. From the Martian viewpoint, clothes of any sort may be immodest.
 At the start of this paper I had in mind a contrast of ourselves of yester- day and ourselves of today. but I have got far afield from the path I set out on. For there's a certain thraldom of gossip. too, that gets me fast in Its grip at times. How securely we are held in the bond age of opinion, habits, customs tradi- tionsl From infancy on through ado lescence, into ripe manhood and woman hood-you can't escape it's tyranny. And
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great for us. And against our passing to its mysteries we peer about us quar- rel with each other, fight and fete each other, praise little heroes and starve the great ones. o, but we are so mighty and mean at once!
 Along with our great wisdom of the worlds, OUT mapping of the heavens and charting of the seas-really the work of gods-we have found time to fashion a code of quite foolish manners, for the most part, and seem to he extremely proud of It. But if tomorrow the people of Birmingham were to entertain a Jele- gation from the planet Mars, l would appear before the commissioners and plead that our Blue Book of Manners be pigeon-hoed in the remotest corner or Exhibit 2; that is, if these sky-n,en real ly wanted to get some inkling of what we had accomplished since the glacial period. I say Exhibit would be good place for this Blue Book, for I think the Martians would grow weary of the in- spection long before they would reach Exhibit 2. Candidly, I am ashamed of it-most of it. Or if I lived in little New York, or Paris, or St. Petersburg, my
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were rugged men who had gained fame and rank at the canons month. They were in animated converse, some talking of Sambre at Mouse, others of the Rhine, some relating anecodte of Italy, and others of Egypt. There were the evari- cious Messina. the fierce Davoust, Lar mess, who grew from pigmy to giant; Murat, ''the brilliant ass," as his master named him; Noy. the man of o'clock courage:" Macdonald. Victor, Oudinot and others.
 Suddenly the door unfolded and little man came in more plainly garbed than any of them-these each of whom might have disputed with all the others for title the bravest of the brave"-and every head bowed. every tongue stilled, for each one knew that his master was con.s
 It was not quite that in the case of Quay, but something somewhat sugges- tive of it. But six months later all of
 em found that Ben Harrison was Pres
 dent, and he utterly ignored Quay and Platt and subsequently, quarreled with Blaine.
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X XISTUR EDITOR: The 5th. Ala. NH district is represented in congress
 " J by the Honerabu J. Thomas lief
 ling The 5th district is verry proud of it's representative and not without reesun, and its representative is also proud of the 5th district (ditto) consequintly at this ritng they air both tickled to death. When J. Thomus first took a nosion to | go to Washingtun he first consulted the members of his own famerly end having obtained there consent 1t was cinch' 1 for the Heffing famerly is d verry larso part of the 9th district, while on the ], uther hand the 5th district is only verry 1 small part of the Hefling, lamerly. J. | Thonus. as weer about 75 or 30 of his | bruthers was brought up by hand by his lfathur Doctor Hefling most estimabul gentleman who believed in ,he old tas- sion way of hooking enny wanduring or wayward sun who mite be ca'lplng orr | the reservation. back into the strait and narrer with club, or enny tuner oio thing that cum to hand, and conaequlntiy l J. Thomus was brought up just rite' ana | if he don't make good 1t won't De ehhy | falt of the start he had
 J. Thomus being brite and astute yung persun. immedyately aftur all the Heflings had voted down in the 9th, and | the. returns showed that J. Thomus was the choise of the famerly for congress, The began to look around him for brite and perticuler Hobby in order that he
 mite ride same to fame and iis.incksion' He soon saw that the Hobby bizness was being worked for all there was to il ! Hobsun was working the Navy hobby | to fare-you-well and had a sign or | 1t mile high to keep off the grass
 and Hobsun being also spesially ambisious
 seemed to be trying to make a corner or | Hobbies for he was also making 'akint
 of spesialty of the Weller Perril'' racke
 in connection with his Navy stunt-and when both of these got little stale he't
 bob up secreenly with few remarks or 1 Ticks and there relasion to the Republi
 con Party" Then there was Burnett III
 in the 7th. John l.. Sumthing Else Bur
 nett if you pleese-who had lost 14 pound
 in wait and wore off inches of his leg.
 in trying to beet Howerd, and then got ii only by a swollen eyebrow John wa.
 using the emmigrasion hobby, and he ha.
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-Bv E

body has said that God made mothers because he himself could not be around all the time.
 "Henry L. Smith. Heaven
 That was the peculiar manner in which a deaf and dumb man registered at one of the police stations in Chicago.
 Crazy?
 Or did the man really believe as the book says, Your citizenship is in heaven?"
 Smith was neatly dressed, evidently well educated and showed a cheerful spirit. The desk sergeant says he was very courteous in demeanor.
 He stayed at the station several nights hunting for work, which he failed to find He was glad to perform any service, how ever menal, for the sergeant. One day he brought some flowers from the country, where he had gone to find employment, and wrote on his tablet a fine tribute to the flowers and fields
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ed rather to obstetrics, and in 1S40, being 29 years old. the town council elected him to succeed Professor Ham ilton in that chair in his famaus univer- sity.
 His nephew, Sir Alexander Simpson, wro is also an Emeritus Professor, an M. D. and LL D., splendid successor of the more famous uncle, says of him at this period: "He kept toiling at whatever task was set him with such eager interest and fruitful activity that he seemed to do the work of ten. Head, heart and hand were constantly on the stretch. It was wonderful head strikingly massive. and having features that made you at once wish to know him The heart was tenderly sympa- thetic with all the sorrows of his fellow men, and took delight in all pure pleas ures The hand did things that no hand had done before, though many learned to do them after him."
 The Duke of Argyle, whose wife was once put under Sir James Simpsons care, pays a great tribute to him, say ing among other things: His spirit seemed to be always quivering in the her immense suggestiveness, and trem- bling lest he should miss even the slightest of her hints. . His head
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a duke,'' said the great preacher, Dr. Guthrie; but the new baronet's coat of arms was prouder than that of any duke in the realm. with the legend, "Victo Dolore"-"because pain is con quered." In the same year Oxford Uni versity conferred on him the title D. c. L.
 Some have held that Simpson was the original discoverer of the Roentgen rays. Whatever may be thought of this, when in his last illness the visit
 ing minister, the Rev John Morgan. asked him what he considered the greatest of his discoveries, he replied my Savior" This discovery came com paratively late in his life, probably about the year 1862. He said about it Strange how 1t puzzles you to see Gods way of saving through the work of q Substitute till He shows it. You've all the data before you, and good will to see the way and yet 1t defies you to you can't see it otherwise. It is some thing like those pictures of the shade of Napoleon at St Helena. no describ . ing of the picture will make you see more than two trees. though the man is plain before you, yet afterwards you can see nothing but the man.
 Gilfillan nobly said of Sir James Young Simpson: Silence, the best applause the silence of suppressed groans and con
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The man was not deaf to the real har- monies of life nor dumb in proclaiming his allegiance to the better country. He was deaf to earth's discords, dumb to speak i'll of any.
 The sergeant says he was "a kind of smiling angel In clothes"
 And then one day he started to walk across the railroad tracks and was struck by train and instantly killed. We'll
 The human torches in Nero's gardens, Paul's headless body on the road to Ostia. Savonarola by way of the stake, Henry l.. Smith on railway track! You see. there is more than one way by which homesicll mortals go aome.
 For surely Henry l.. Smith will be lat home" in heaven.
 Here he grew tired of hunting for work {; there he shall work for an age at sit ting and never grow tired at all" Crank? He may have been.
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just as good as any of them and far better than many of them.
 Quay was a vicious character. He had profound contempt for human nature. It
 is possible that he held some women to be chaste; 1t is certain that he believed no man to be honest. He speculated in the public. funds, was indicted upon charge that reached to the dignity of a felony. and stood his trial without shame and without insolence. He, too, was a man of very great ability and much culture. In his library were thousands of volumes treating of the individuality and the ca reer of Napoleon Bonaparte and it is pos sible that Quay was better versed in the history and the character of the Corsican demi-god than any other American of his or any other day. And in fact he practiced in politics Napoeonic tactics as no other American ever did, and 1t is to be hoped, as no other American ever will.
 Ben Harrison was nominated for Pres ident in 1888 with the assent, if not the approval, of Quay He was elected be- cause Quay managed the campaign and had at command unlimited poodle, fat
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fried out of the protected interests. With Napoleonic genius Quay saw that the election was to be decided by the votes of men who lived within a radius of five miles of the New York city hall. He di- rected that the poodle be poured into Brooklyn. and he carried the election right there on Long Island.
 Harrison had been defeated for gov- ernor of Indiana in 1876 by "Bluejeans" Williams, but in 1881 he got Joseph E. Mo- Donalds seat in the United States Senate. The day he went into that body James G. Blaine went out of it. and those two men were practically strangers when Harrison appointed Blaine Secretary of State in March, 1889. Neither did Quay nor Tom Platt know Harrison. Had they and Blaine known him as well the sum- mer of 1888 as they did the summer of 1889, Ben Harrison would not have been nominated for President In 1888, or if nominated, he would not have been elect ed. Blaine expected to run the show as he had run Garfield Platt expected to be Secretary of the Treasury. Quay ex- pected to control the patronage, especial ly the Pennsylvania end of it.
 But they reckoned without that duck
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it going nite and day-now and then he mite give it the verry breefest breathing spell while he'd bark a few about Misap- propryasions for the Coosa River-and Capt. Lays Allymentery Canal
 And there was Bankhed, who was plumb nutty ovver Good roads," There is only one truble with the Senator and that is the first part of his name Is not spelled rite. But he has the Good roads move- mint cinched and he would not yeeld an inch to enny frend on the subject-he has found sumthng that is absolutely safe to talk about-he feels that he can go as far as he likes, and he's pushing it along so he dreems good roads, and has Mite Mars, one rite aftur the uther. all trot- ting down good roads. and that's all you can get out of him-tweedle-de tweedle- dum-good roads and a vote for Lorri- mer.
 And there was Senator Johnsing; he had his hobby-his spesial hobby was be- ing a stateman, and a wise old owl when it cums to delving into the profound in- tracasies and technicalitiess and deviouss- ness of the law. "Lorrimer is not guilty gentlemen-because hyperthetically d 
 his muther-in-law did not see the Jack | Pott, and besides that and so on. A remarkabul and a just verdict-it could not have been otherwise. And then there | was Underwood--Unde was chair
 man. of the Ways and Meens committed and his hobby was reserprosity and har- | booming the Trusts in spots where it was
 most Paynefull and Underwood and Champy Clark were both engaged in
 sitting on the democratic lid trying to
 hatch out seesuned candidate to get 1 Taft's tag in 1912. And then there was l Richerds-no--thats not it-Richerdsun
 Maybe he has hobby-but I don't re | member what is-maybe its drawing hi.
 pay, that's about all I've heard of hi,
 pulling off. So J. Thomus is looking ovei l the current stock of hobbies didn't SC, | enny that was not working, and fully
 reealizing that a hobby was necessar, l adiunlst to congressman, he went ritt to work to get him a brand new hobb, of his verry own. J. Thomus is not tn, I man to set idolly round and because thu
 supply of hobbies air limited do withou so he seys to hisself, I'll get one tha | there is sum class to and I'll show thes' felIers what the reel thing is. They hav'
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A times greatly fear we are oe-
 A coming a race of intelligent au- 4 \ tomatons. In fact, we are So hedged about by the social yeas and navs-bv the infnitesimal niceties of ..sood form,,-that to find copious natural behavior one must mix with powerful, uneducated persons. This may sound par adoxicaI. seeing that culture and power and approved behavior have been held as synomous. And yet belief in the oneness of this trinity has destroyed many thoroughly good men and women persons of broad and liberal tendencies at the start, I have seen prostituted on the altar of good form-ther splendid orig inal natures emasculated. What we call good form makes for sort of uniform behavior, and therein lies the hurtfulness of it; a uniform behavior not only dis courages free natural conduct. but is so much lost motion in developing the mas terself-the individual erect-the I--what- ever we choose to call personality-the God part of us.
 It is needless to elaborate You know what vast gulf yawns between that self
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TT IS a hundred years since the sev-
 enth son of a West Lothian cot 4 tager was born at Bathgate, with little or no pain to his mother, and at a cost of two and half dollars to his father for doctors fee. Among the notable things of human progress is the , incident that one who came so natur- ally and inexpensively into the world should have been destined to abolish the agony of myriads of mothers. But s it Is more than an incident that the mother of such son should have been the priestess of her children's souls, nourishing her own on the Psalms of David, in the good Scottish manner 1t is much more than incidental that in such a poor, strengthened, necessitous cottage home there was this holy Of holies,' and woman's fragrant heart uplifted constantly with the incense of the twentieth psalm, thereafter known to her sons as mothers psalm:' Now know I that the Lord saveth his
 annointed:
 He will answer him from His holy hea-
 ven with the saving strength of His
 right hand.
 Soae trust in chariots and some in
 horses;