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gallery consumption England gravely tian soil, but she vii take her time to do the evacuation trick. Portugal kept the severe doctrine of neutrals well before her eyes during the Boer war: nevertheless English supplies went overland from her East African colony and the port of Lourenco Marques. So at least it Is gen. erally believed.
 A treaty may be described as a prom ise which the contracting nations will keep, If convenient. It used to be said that the treaty of Paris was waste paper within year of it's signature. though to secure 1t England and France and Turkey Russia, to modify it, had used every replaced by the rumble of talk, and the talk died away into desuetude.
 Now there seems to be a fear lest these arbitration agreements signed by three great nations will be nothing more than a pleasant but intellectual striving after wind. The United States Senate has once more proved it's undoubted skill at liv- ing down to the level of its own reputa- tion and allowing peanut politics and silly vanity to loom larger than statesmanship and the service of mankind. How pro- found Is the national contempt for the national House of Spoiled Eggs may be measured by the newspaper gossip. This was to the effect that it was distribu- ted quotation from MT. Bryce's famous book, in which he points out the inAu- ence of politics on treaty ratification that
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changing his veews to suit the crowd, he can spot Thurman the Crate the 15 ball and beet him to frazzle He has certainly been an apt pupil of sum bodies in polytical ledgerdemane. Lis ten to this: The time of the Chinese wall of duties exceeding the differences between the cost of productsion here and the cost of productsion abroad, has passed and we of the Republican party air under an obligasion as soon as opportunity cums to advocate and carry thru a Nrevision of the tariff which shall meet the present popular demand, and to which we air reely pledged" When he sed that we can almost see him wink at Old Lodge, who was standing rite out in frunt; and don't you forget it be had to wink at Lodge. for Lodge don't like that kind of talk evven as a joke. The republican party, including the present encum- bint of the White House. was pledged to revission of tariff in 1908, and they have redeemed there pledge. but not in exactly the mannur that the peepul approve of. They redeemed it like a crawfish steels second base-back- wards. Mir. Taft sed he was there to tell them the truth as neer as he could tell it." If he did his best, all we can say for him is. that he's mighty poor shot. Yours trooly,
 BILL VINES.
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K I R. TAFT was happy man. highly
 MI favored among Presidents, when \ the British and French foreign offices so heartily welcomed his sugges- ton of an all embracing international ar bitraton pact. 1t was a grateful task for men like Sir Edward Grey, Ambassador Bryce and the French peace enthusiasts to make that haphazard hint the basis And now Germany, one foot still at Aga dir and one hand on a diplomatic six shooter, desires to 'come in on the ground little more happy, more universal and more platitudinous. MT. Asquith and MT. Lloyd George, also with hand on the na- tional hip pocket as they face Germany give wonderful point to their zeal for an arbitration method which should include matters wherein national honor and vel fare are at stake!
 It has been said that the history of na- tions is the story of broken, disregarded treaties. With solemn seriousness and at vast expense a Portsmouth agreement Is matched by strenuous incubator meth ods, the chick thrust into a "brooder," managed by diplomatic specialists, it's down scratched off, popinjary feathers stuck here and there upon it, beak and incipient little tail trimmed to suit the fancies, a crow forced from its little throat amid general rejoicing of man. kind and then it is flung on the top luin her shelf by both high contracting par ties. For treaties are made chiefly for
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N, AND so FORTH-By A. B. Bea11e

time-the hangers on at the polls l mean. Do you think any grand prizes for big ness of mind and soul are clamoring to be pinned to their coats lapels?
 l will grant, if you please, that woman lacks broad mindedness, and, for that matter, broad mindedness in the world Is "scant as hair in leprosy."
 "Scant as hair In leprosy.'
 board mindedness, my friend, meaning in part the power to see two sides of a question. Candidly, l have not ye; met any broad minded persons, and am not hungry for their acquaintance If they do exist I suspect they are the most uninteresting folk under the sky Are the broad minded ones the analysts? But who wants analysts in this world when fresh minds can be found to conqketely hound out the new things and the true things that have bearing on human living? If we were broad minded we would get nothing done in this world. l grant the absence of broad mindedness-gran that 1t is especially lacking in woman If by broad mindedness you mean that since time began she has been uniformly dis allowed worldly experiences that have served to "broaden" you. Except as she has been instructed by us, and by the newspapers we print, and by the books we write (books that are kept from her, and which she must get by
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when up starts the winnowed assembly of Americas wisest men. who shake their diplomatic fists at the couriers. yell to the sappers to get off the grass, and all because a mistake has been made, they, say, in supposing that any one else can be wiser than they. or half so wise as the founders of this nation expected them to be.
 "Peace?" they cry with acrid anger, 'FWho says Peace Promises to reason out and adjust our differences with our brethren across the sea? Avaunt, foul anarchyl This is no less than 1ese majeste' since it assumes that any diff ference. can ever be adjusted until our finger has been in the pie! Talk of a high commission of referees! Where do we come in? Boy! pick up these two great ambassadors and one Sec these hallowed doors. We are the only wise, the only last authority, the con stituted essence of patriotic trustw mess, among whom are seated King Guggenheim, King Lorimer, King Aid rich, King Bailey and many more"
 Of course, all this would lead to something more than a full cup of the peoples wrath, to be some day quaffed by the pseudo statesmen at Washing ton, If 1t could be supposed that what they say will make any effective inn pression on the couriers of the Prince of Peace. The destiny of modern civil ization cannot, however. be so insecure as to be intrusted to such an accident as that particular group of Aetero-
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OF BUDDHA-BILLIKEN,

vote, not that they need the ballot so much as we need their votes to get things somewhat forwarded. So far we have awkwardly bungled things. We seem to have utterly failed in creating sane laws to forward the perfect society. Our results have been as ridiculous as were the results of a lad in Tusca- loosa to whom I once gave large piece of lime rock with the request that he carve for me a perfect human face. Aft CT a week had elapsed he produced a something, half Billiken. half Buddha- shapeless, grotesque thing. After our thousand years of carving out a stately ideaEof working out our social salvation --the result is a sort of Budda-Billiken concept-a half wise, half foolish perform ance.
 We have got passed many laws fol the formation of armies and navfes- cunning death machines for the destruc ton of earth's sons-sons whom women have borne, yet for whom these women may raise no voice to keep alive.
 In the protection of those women whom men have found it desirable to mangle and destroy-both the women of the mar ket and their own wfves-woman has had no voice at law. And the managing and destruction will continue so long as current opinion, fashioned by men, 1ustifies the dual code of morals.
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is too nearly akin 10 a platitude to greatly impress the unrire imagins- tion even of that sage aggregation have assembled a Washington. They paper, mere diplomatic hapdoodle, so they may be forgiven the more easily for gathering around 1t, like small lob-worm, and trying to enunciate the word. "Impossible"
 As a British statesman has been trying to make his people believe. the facts of national ambition remain, though treaties be signed. indorsed, ratified a thousand times. Stern facts like the birthrate in Germany. Ger man commerce, the German colonial ambition, the French pride, the Brit ish empire, the hegemony of these states in the western hemisphere are not going to waived aside by paper agreement Some sort of force must be found to overcome these when they become hostile to the worlds peace, lest worlds War should engulf man- kind. Platftude will not avail. Na- tons must be willing rather to dis than to wrong one another Mutual respect. concession, recognition of equal rights upon the earth, must com pei the growth of an international "savoir faire." Peoples all must cease to pride themselves upon the latent buccaneer in their blood and welcome the gentleman. the Christ. But tho mystic meaning of Tn Hoe Signo Ninces' is hard to learn.
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THOS U. SESSION OF MISSISSIPPI-By Savoyard

get into politics. And so he did. He was returned to the state Senate. and in 1900, when he was 31, he was cleo tor for the state at large on the demo- cratic ticket Then he was district at torney for the Fifth judicial circuit and in 1907 at the age of 3S, lie made a splendid race in the democratic primary for governor of the state and was beaten by slender margin. The next year he was elected n member of the Sixty first Congress, and in 1910 was reelected.
 Though one of the most genial men socially, and universally popular, there is much of the bull dog in Tom Sisson' s mental composition. He is not a doc trinaire. He don't care a fig whether the hair is parted on the south or the southeast side. He goes In for facts Young as he was. may be sure that he was delighted with Grover cleve- lands sententions declaration, Tt is a condition and not a theory that con fronts us.'f Though by no means of the school of Charles Dickens Grad grind, yet Sisson demands facts. facts, facts. and I doubt if he is willing to
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Nigger than a Demmocrat, he simply has grater ability in conseeling it, that is one of the gratest assets of the party making folks beleeve what Is. Ant. and what Ant. Is. The Brunetts air all Re publicons prinsipey because in the hole outfit there is not enuff branes if it weer powder to load a toy pistol All in the world they get out of 1t is, about once a yeer five or six of them get to to set with a lot of white men In a hot hall and make the atmostpheer tired, and occasionally say "Astur Chairman I secund de mosion." There is no way of mistaking the Brunett type of Republican enny where you run across him day or nite. he has an air about him distinkly his own, that forses itself upon you, and will not be de nied
 MT. Taft has got to get all these now dissatifyed and warning factions to- gethur. It's up to this grate Prize Package to explane a few things on his western trip. He vetoed the wool bill tying a string to it by saying he wanted to heer frum the tariff com mission. He'll have a jolly time put ting that ovver in sum communities where there ant enny sheep. He'll have to tell them few things about that Winona speech; he'll have to ex- plane to the stand-pats why he went
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Where the virgins are soft and the roses
 they twine,
 And all save the spirit of man is divine?
 The prairie region of East Mississippi, part of which is in the Fourth Congress- ional district, is such land, such gun, such a sky, and such an atmosphere
 eThomas U. Sisson is of the younger set in Congress, having been born in 1869, when the despot's heel was on Mississippi's shore and the G. o. P. at Washington was pulling off its grand stunt of making treason odious.' It was the day of grandeur of the carpet bagger and the scalawag. when the bot tom rail was on top, and the only pos sible way to be prosperous was to be infamous But when this chap, Tom Sisson, had exactly fulfilled his first lustrum, the white folks rig and in contempt of bayonets seized and held on their state government and have held 1t ever since
 l reckon he is Scotch Irish, for he was educated at the Southwestern Pres byterian university, Clarksville, Tenn. whence he was graduated at the age of 20. Then he turned pedagogue and
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men who under no consideration could be induced within stones throw of the baloting place One of these was Greek scholar who. upon being directed to the polls on election day, eagerly asked if there were more than two of them, and if the ascent could be made quite safely and if the polls were surmounted by sort of slot machine, eh? where one may file ones view of the political situation, don't you know" I assured the Greek that the only attempts I mad seen at climbing were on the part of politicians who wanted to get raised: that at the polls were many oafing policemen to see that no one got hurt and that what one saw there chiefly were from three to B groups of men talking wise- ly, earnestly, fooishly. of things they had read in newspapers and of what they had been told by friends and cam paign speakers-of things they only half understood 70, by Jove I wouldn't give a bally penny to see that, old chap"
 Barring dancing I suspect the prelim- mary thought given to exercising ones franchise today is the most non-intellect- ual employment one can engage in. It has been so blindly done in the past, and first class results have so seldom accrued after the votes were counted, that l am strong for letting the women
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lie library that certain volumes of Pater and Lagerlof were not to be had. I was surprised to learn that a popular young society woman had got the Pater book and that Selma Lagerlofs book was in possession of a young lady typist Presently the high school girls will be clamoring for Spencers First Princi- ples,' and 1t may presently be difficult to procure a copy of Mankind in the Making" because of it's popularity among the young ladies of the Allen school.
 Believe me, friend, l have read the writing on the wall; I foresee an end to our vauntng. It may be that you have married a wife, and from that wife you proceeded to shut out vista and growth You perhaps did. as most hus- bands do. You did this from a stand point of utility, perhaps; you thought per haps the waffles might suffer, eh2 or the household would go to the devil if she got interested in eugenics. or political economy, or universal suffrage? Don't be blinded. old chapi Where your good woman is glad and content with the primitive scheme of things, a hundred others are restless against the time they shall remould the Buddha- Billiken in lovelier, less ludicrous shape. For all know your patient woman may have mastered Olive Schreiner's new book, Woman and Labor
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stealth if she wishes to improve her mind) what has been her chance to stand fact to face with the lordly ones? Really I am not puffed up with pride over any stupendous successes we have made with our law making and world moulding.
 And the fact Is, we have ourselves In a sense created this engine, in the form of woman suffrage, which shall present. ly lay low our towering egotlsm. In thls fashion 1t was partly accomplished:
 The running talk between the average man or woman of today is ordinarily small, approved talk-talk to get the time past-whle there Is so much of real worth the least of us can exchange with the other Women especially are hungry for news of the big outside. hungry for sense of the movement and stir You have not given her these and she has been courageous enough to study alone the haping of the Buddha- Billilxen that we have moulded and made bad job of Where this hunger is not evidenced. do not think for that reason she has been utterly starved. Back of the small talk of bridge and eucher, cotillons and car buretors, 'The Man on the Box and 'Graustark, naturally there has been some starving. But there is more secret feeding of this hunger than you know.
 This last week I was told at the pub
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TESTER EDDITUR: Willyum How MI erd Taft the hope of the Repub-
 VI ucon party aft,lr making the

X TESTER EDDITUR: Willyum How MI erd Taft the hope of the Repub- ! X licon party aftur making the polytical issue between the parties per- fectIy plane by vetoing the tariff sked- ules passed by the House, will now pro
 seed to make a presumably conducted tour of the Country and Hry to amalaga- mate and harmunze the steen diferiht varyeties of Republicans, and convinse them that the only hope for the Com munwealth is to put him back on the job, Willyum Howerd has undertaken a big contract. Willyum has muddled things up a bit during his administra- sion, and if he can recunsile sum of the things he has sed with sum of the things he has dun, we earnestly rec cummend that our own Willyum in duses him to teech a mite school so he can attend. Newer was the Republi- con party so divided by differint opin- ions. There air now moor varyeties of Republicans than there air Demmocrats, The rank and file of the party air Re publicons because they honestly think that the prinsiples of the party air sound and they firmly beleeve that grater prosperity will attend the coun- try under Republican rule. Being par tysan and byased they fail to see that the control of the party has drifted into
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is the richest and most tuneful, embracing names like these: Tishomingo, Itawamba, Pontotoc. Panola, Coahoma, Tallahatchie, Yalabusha, Chickasaw, Oktibbeha, Choc- taw, Attala, Noxubee Neshoba, Yazoo, Issaqueena, Copiah and hundred of oth- CTS just as musical. And in the effulgent spring time, when efflorescence makes the landscape dazzling in It's splendor and sum- sky and air conspire to perfect that Arcadia, he is grave indeed who failed to revert to the lines to the east Know ye the land of the cedar and vine, Where the flowers ever blossom, the
 beams ever shine; Where the light wings of zephyr, oppres-
 sed with perfume, Wax faint OCT the gardens of Gul in
 her bloom, Where the citron and olive are fairest of
 fruit.
 And the voice of the nightingale never is
 mute
 Where the tints of the earth and the
 hues of the sky In color though varied in beauty may
 vie,
 And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye,
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l should like you to read this story. II may brace you up.
 It is told by the Rev c. H. Parkhurst. and have condensed the tale into the 800 word limit of this talk The boy was born in the West Indies of mixed Indians, negro and Caucasian percentage. As a child he lived in a hut with matched roof, whose front door was a piece of sacking Plantain coarse cas- sava bread and salt fish were the daily fare
 At school the boy often went into the woods to eat his lunch, ashamed of I,s scanty bit.
 But
 Somehow-it seems almost a mirac cle-- the boy got the idea that he would ,,e physician. He determined to go to New York city and study medicine
 Hiding as a stowaway in the hold of vessel, he turned up at Panama, wh ere he was jailed as a vagranr Which was inauspicious. On his release from jail he secured a job on a barge. washing clothes for his board. He transferred from the barge 10 Ia Pacific liner, which took him to San Francisco. Here he went aboard tramp steamer, supposing it would take nim to New York. sas 9as
 Instead. it carried him around the world and back. to Panama
 He had money enough to pay his fare to Colon and there found chance to work his passage to New York, where hs arrived with II cents in his pocket.
 Eleven cents-plus grit.
 After many hardships he went to work at 8 per week. increased in few months to $i. He attended night school, where. at the close of the term he won a prize, which made friends for him.
 Working his way. assisted by his friends. he graduated at a preparatory school and entered medical college. He gradually won his way up from student to laboratory assistant and soon will be an M. D.
 Young man. do you believe you have no chance to get on in the world? You must concede you have better chance than this boy.
 You can do what he did-use the Lest that Is in you. The persistence and self denial of the West Indian youth will lift any young man to comfort and influence.
 Show yourself worthy and you will also find friends. But
 While friends may boost you. remember you must do your own climbing.
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Ed1uin A. Wye

place of 300 incurables she is the 'iost cheerful. She reads much. takes great in- terest in current events and is very sweet in her disposition. When not tortured by pain she is always smiling.
 Think of it.
 She, cannot even sit up in bed. When she is strapped to a brace she can recline in an invalid's chair and be wheeled about. But that necessitates special nurse, and the helpless girl cannot often afford the expense Her people are poor
 Once in the IA years she was taken away-to the Manhattan hospital for a proposed operations. But alas. the spinal cord was so twisted about the broken place that the surgeons did not dare to operate.
 It must have been a great disappolnt- ment to Miss Adams, but she does not speak of it. Instead she is radiant over the kind treatment she received.
 Speaking of the doctors and nurses at
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DE ALABAMA-ABNER S. LIPSCOMB-By

cultivation of his literary tastes, and to his stock of legal lore was added vast fund of miscellaneous knowledge, the re- suit of painstaking research In the fields of literature. This enabled him to bring to his service on the bench Backston- ian diction, clear and chaste, while 1t lent flavor to his choice powers of conversa- tion. There was smoothness and clear ness in his ordinary diction which was expressed without the least effort or af
 fectation. The fragrance of the choicest classics abode in his daily speech. Among his other powers was that of a remarkable memory That which he read was fast glued to his memory, and not only the choicest expressions of the masters of literature were retained, but the events of history in their chronological order stood before the eye of his memory like objects of vision. Events whether of war or politics in the worlds history. or of literature responded to his bidding, and his ability to quote from so many sources
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,given, but consequences are eternal | The extract Is from a recent novel. The heroine of the story in a moment of resentment and pique breaks with the man she loves and marries one for whom lshe cares nothing. The awakening was fearful one. She discovers that sin and its conse- quence grow on the same stem. However
 That which amazes her most of all is that "a crozy moment should ruin whole |life.p
 'It was as if a pebble should defect a river from it's course and make it turn and overflow a landscape
 And then
 Suddenly it seems to her that her whole life had been just sunny dope down to the edge of a gulf. It Is not the pebble that turns the current 1t is the easy slope that invites it. All her life Elizabeth had been inviting this mo-