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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-19
THE OTHER BOY is a story by James
L MONTGOMERY Fla9g. who dOcSn write

so well as he draws pictures. But he does
write far better than many people who make
profession of it and can't draw pictures at ALL
His writing has the same directneSs. the same
sincerity, and much of the power as we'll as
the humor, of his drawings. The Other Boy
is simple little story; but il has ideas in it
and feeling that will make YOU glad YOU read it.
Mr.. Flagg determined to be an artist when
he was a little boy, his distressed parents
taking some of his youthful drawings TO the
editor of st. Nicholas in the hope that he
would urge them to discourage Young lanes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-19
THE RETURN OF
L STEPTOE is a prize

= , i OE IS q prize
competitor by E1more
Elliott Peake. a tale of
the Kentucky mountain
GERS, and it is different. It
does not turn on moon
shine nor on a feud. which
are the principal products
OF those people. if we are to
believe all the fiction we
read about them. 1t is a
natural. simple, direct tale
whose people are real. and
it is the kind OF story that
gets somewhere while keep
ing up Your keen interest
all the time.
Mr.. Peake has lived
most OF his life with real
people. He was born in
Ohio-and that is consid-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-19

III dtLlllOli " DclliS cli-
tertained by the confessions
OF M. J. Jordan.-and
he is a prideful villain
you can extract a great
deal of solid nourishment
from them, if you care to
do a little thinking. But
of course You understand it
isn't compulsory.
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withstanding their armies were over thrown, notwithstanding their lands were devastated and their homes in ruins, not withstanding alien vultures gnawed ana tore at the very vitals of the south, not wthstanding hostile and threatening bay onets were at every crossroad, notWltn- standing hundreds of thousands or the souths best young blood emigrated to the north and to the west, notwithstanding hate ruled the council at Washington and oppression perched on the flag wherever it f1uttered to the southern breeZe-not- withstanding this and these and all, the invincible Anglo-Saxon of the south rose in his majesty that had made the Con federacy and drove the vandal horde from place and power. When some Gib- bon or Hume, some Robertson or Macau- lay, in glowing periods, shall fittingly tell that glorious story, 1t will be the grand est political picture ever disclosed to the human memory and the human imagina- tion, and it will thrill the heart and nerve the arm of the freeman, wherever his lines be cast, of countless generations yet 10 be.
 And the south could have rid her peo- ple and the northern people as well of the expressions of .he tariff had her sons been true. Carpetbaggery and all the in- numerable knaveries and numberless ig- nominies that were in it's train would yet be in the green tree, triumphant and
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and fetched and carried for monopoly henever monopoly could not dispense with his services. Now that is history known of all men.
 MT. Champ Clark is the speaker of the SixtySecond Congress, a position, the President being a republican, which makes him the titular leader of the democratic party. The action of the Senate minoSty in electing Martin captain of a crusade against the tariff Is not only a revolt against the decree of the country last November, but it is a challenge of the organization of the democratic House of Representatives. And whether they shall seize the op- portunity, or kiss the rod, will reveal whether Champ Clark is fit to be a candidate for President and whether Oscar Underwood Is fit to conduct a campaign against monopoly.
 Never was audacity more needed in democratic leader and it is not only the duty Of Clark and Underwood to accept this defiance, but the occasion is freighted with all the fortunes of the democratic party. Let Clark and Un- derwood hurl fast and furious their ''pop-gun bills la Springer. In poli- nos the great man propels himself through difficulties like a cannon ball, while the pigmy glides through them like a pestilence. The wine is drawn let the democratic House drink it. I know that on the democratic side there
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independent and the most prosperous farmer in the world. The old south, God bless her, knew 1t. The new south is trying to forget it.
 Talk about raw materials. The manu- facturer is not consumer of them. He merely uses them to fit them for the con- sumer, who pays the tax, and consequent iy MT. Bailey's proposal to tax the manu- facturer on his raw materials does not attain to the dignity of a cunning sub terfuge. It is an insult to the intelli- gence of the cotton grower, who pays the tax on the raw materials the manufac- tUrer licks into shape for him.
 out west in February. They had grand banquet, $25 the cover, all paid for by the poor devils who sleep under blankets taxed at more than 100 per cent. Tho wool spinners from New England were on hand, and the boss spoke to the million aire shepherds, and here Is what he said: Never, never, never consent to taking the tax off wool" And yet Bailey says these spinning gentry pay the tax. If there is a man in Texas fool enough not to know that the manufacturer would favor free wool if he paid the tax on it. it is the duty of the authorities to ap- prehend him. It Is not safe for him to be at large, for he hasn't sense enough to keep out of the fire.
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more, or shall require something beyond heredity to make 1t hold.
 Now it is not surprising that all this radicalism has provoked what I call in the title of this paper, a renaissance of tctemism. Most blatant and confident at tempts are being made to prove that thero resides a singular lack of sense in the Common people, and that they therefore need the quasi-superior noble man to guide and govern them.
 Here Is the administration of the edu- cational system of England, by way of example. An excellent Baptist minister has been sent to jail for two weeks be- cause his conscience objected to the pay ment of two shillings and seven pence, that part, to-wit, of the local taxes which hc estimated as the charge for the schools which are under under obnoxious ecclo- sastical influence. Two shillings and seven pence is about 65 cents. The pastor is a scholar, a gentleman, and a Chris tian. Granted that his conscience has a sharp edge. May it not be fact that such a conscience is precisely the most neces- sary thing in such world as this, where ir consciences are so easily adjusted to wrong? As to his scholarship, he has completed an English university course one pesky thing is that. though he is a gentleman in a sense it is not the blue blood sensel Were he blue-booded, ap- parently no such conscience as his would trouble him. He would pay his taxes
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And yet!
 Years afterward he dreamed again, and again the shadowess light fingered on his face as he slept. And the watchers by his bedside saw the boyish smile. And they wondered why.
 But when the man awoke he sobbed as if his heart would break and said
 My dream. I want my dream!''
 What was the dream? Was it of the castles fair and the passing pageants and the plaudits and the victories of a day? No.
 It was the dream of purling brook and the song of a meadow kirkland of a trundle bed under the caves and over 1t bending sweet a mothers face.
 Down state, in the town where she graduated at the high school, she was rated as a talented girl.
 She longed for a wider opportunity.
 When her widowed mother died and all the debts were paid she had left of money.
 She went to the city.
 Having studied music for years, 1t was her plan to select quiet board ing house, teach piano to a few pupils and meantime employ her literary tal- ents.
 Result?
 At the end of year of city life this girl tried to commit suicide.
 She had no relatives to whom she could appeal. The poor girl discovered that to secure private pupils in a great city, with its music schools and cele- brated teachers, requires influential friends
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day, MT. Asquith, has cold Scottish com fort for the weeping, wailing, angry moo which is all that is left of the conser- vative party. Like the council which tried St. Paul, "there arose a great dissen- sion among them,' and Mr. Balfour parts Cecil. How to save the house of lords ? That is the funny mans problem, all over England. Back of it is the deepening shadow of doom proving that no power on earth can save the house of lords. Five hundred new peers may be appoint ed from among decent and well-to-do English and Scotch and Welsh men, whose business 1t shall be to go and vote In the house of lords that the hour is fulfilled, and that it's time shall be no more. Just as likely the present house may accept the counsels of prudence and, without such outside stimulus, vote to the same effect. Relentless as Fate, MT. Asquith goes forward, and the dear earls and dukes and marauisses and other hon. orable Oddments who have come down from the ark, tremble to open the daily paper or else ramp and rage with ndig- nant protests or despairing subterfuges. Three things are inevitable:
 l. That the power to block progressive legislation indefinitely shall at once cease.
 2 That the power to modify schemes of taxation shall reside wholly in the house of commons.
 g. That the hereditary right to make laws, or to change laws, or to hinder the making or the changing, shall be no
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with a yawn and vote them bore. or more likely he would have a business man to do those little things for him. tIst conscience, being taxed 6 cents for teaching children religious opinions which he believes to be erroneous, goes to jail for two weeks. Less than cents per day for his sufferings and indignities. Now why? Because the magistrates are get ting venomous and asserting the totem istic principle, in so far as they are of the totem-possessing class.
 The same impulse makes certain othe. incidents of these days, An inquiry was made of the minister for education re- gently in the house of commons, con- cerning a certain circular which had been issued by the educational authority The contents of that circular were, in brief, to discourage and offend all teachers and would-be inspectors of schools who had not been through Oxford or Cam bridge university. The circular referre l ability of the 'lower classes" implying ton would be thrown away. The inter- pelated minister, MT. McKenna, could only deplore the fact that the circular was sent out without his knowledge. showing that the permanent officers O. the educational bureau are totemisfs, devotees of the cult whose creed it is that the higher classes are superior per- sons; and that even under radical regime they cling to the totem poles.
 Even in sos good an American paper
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greater Frankenstein to Lady. A bicycle a block distant set her a-quiver. I, there fore, always talked to her when a bicycle was approaching, and was careful to keep her out of the roads most frequented by men on wheels. On a certain unhappy day Lady saw a bicycle coming straight towards her. I controlled her; but the wheel was coming so rapidly that the brakes could not stop it, and 1t ran into her side. She became frenzied. and plunged. I still held her. but, fearing that I might run over the boy on the wheel, I drove into a telegraph pole. There the buggy lodged, but parts of it broke, and, with mighty lunge. Lady left the buggy behind her. and I shot through the air. do not know how long I was unconscious, but in few minutes Lady was at my side.
 When I came out from the doctors care I tried Lady on the streets agair. The bicycle was more dreaded than ever. She was constantly looking for one. She was scared half to death all the time. I drove her to quiet part of the oity, and at a street corner I saw a number of boys with bicycles and borrowed one My servant remained in the buggy while did the experimenting. I bought some
 
 bicycle tire. I poured sugar upon it. Then held the wheel up to her lips. She snorted at first. I talked to her kindly, for she was not to blame for her extreme fear. After awhile she tasted the sugar on the tire and licked it. then rolled the wheel all around her, and finally pointed it straight at her breast and moved 1t forward She remained calm. I did this number of times until I was satisfied that she understood I would not let the horrid thing hurt her. Day after day I drove her past bicycles, even through groups of them. She was doing nicely, when an accident to a bicycle spoilt all that had achieved. Two boys were riding their wheels towards me. One of them had stack of huge bonnet or hat boxes on his wheel. Lady was afraid of 1t. Besides the boy was unable to control his wheel thus burdened, and 1t wobbled from side to side of the street car track Finally it was caught in the track and the wheel went one way. the boy another and the bonnets and boxes simply scattered over the street. was still suffering from my former cxperi- cnce, and, therefore, felt unable to ex- pertinent further with Lady. I had to part with her; but still believe that could have taught her ultimately to dis regard the bicycle. O. what a beauty she was! creature of great power. one of the finest roadsters I ever drove, and dI cam under the saddle. She was how ever. the vainest thing in the world. She seemed to know that she was handsome, and loved to show off by prancing in the air. I had Lady for short while only. She did not know me well, but her confidence in me was growing. I'm sure that in a little while had my friends per- mitted me to keep her Lady and would have become close friends.
 Lady was the successor of Frank Greene. This animal was one of the
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fla agitious, had there been at the south as many traitors then as there are pro- tectionists now. If we labor under the expressions of Aldrichism it is because it's miserable garbage is very enticing to cer- tain southern palates. The south will rid itself and the country of monopoly taxes as soon as, and not before, the south rids herself of her protectionists in the two houses of Congress.
 It is preached that as long as the stealing is going on the south must have her share. That is precisely what Penn sylvania says, exactly what New England says, except that Pennsylvania and New England do not play the hypocrite over 1t. They say to the south: Here is the stealing going on; come and get your share. The stealing is unconfined, and 1t will ruin us the day 1t Is made sectional"
 Now the south is cotton planter, and Aldrich and Bailey, Dalzell and Martin may lay their heads together "till they are blue, black and mulatto,' as Bill Arp puts it. and they can purvey none of their stealing for the man growing cotton, who is a taxpayer, and not tax eater. He Is the Csie whose property Is stolen to make somebody else rich. Give him abso- lute free trade and require the wealth of the country to support the government. and your cotton planter will be the most
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D. Smith I mean that snobbery Is oniy the obverse of the medal whose reverse, as I suppose. is the superstition of su periority, the pride of race and blood.
 Wherein Is the difference between this European aristocratic pride and the to- tem-worship of the Indians? That excel lent authority, Prof Edward w. Hop kins, finds the origin of the word totem in the Algonquin words Int otem," mean ing my family token" He shows that the mystical red-skin imputed to himself the inherited traits of those beasts which his family had chosen, or which he him self might choose, for his token. If he called himself Great Bear" or Red Cloud or Gray Wolf" the virtues and powers of these things would be in tho fraternity of his soul. and he could lay claim to racial superiority on that ac way to a most satisfactory aristocratic theory, for man may choose his own totem on occasion, to modify the owls and cats and bears which grace his fam fly tree. Thus he can, so to speak, cross breed his spiritual ancestry and fulfil Dr. Holmes famous advice about choosing his grandfather carefully.
 Observant readers will conclude with some justice that my philosophy allows small room for totems. inherited charac ter, inherited superiority. Rather the truth seems to be that superiority Is largely a matter of training, of surround irgs, of faith in the indweling spirit. of obedience to the laws of the spiritual universe.
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years he was sold to one of my neigh bors in the country, where he was sub jected to only very light work and kind- ly cared for. Some years after the horse had been removed from professional life" a circus visited the neighborhood Old Dandy was grazing in a large field, but upon hearing the music of the cir GUS band in the approaching procession he quickly raised his head to it's fullest height and briskly trotted to the road fence. His eyes fairly danced with de- light as he saw the parade with its ban ners, it's caparisoned steeds, its ambling camels and it's colored wagons. He was transported to the old days. Like Polly; of the Circus,' he once more saw the lights of the circus tent he saw the great crowds; he heard the applause; he 'foit the sawdust of tn ring and the odor of the gasoline; he heard the mu- sic of tho Grand March, and saw him self in velvet trappngs proudly pranc- ing around the ring. The old days came back like a flood. Then he began to straighten himself up. He threw his head from side to side, then started to circle the field Round and round he trotted with proud delight as if he were say ing, q hope some of my old friends arc in the parade and are looking at me-" He continued his gamesomeness un- til the music died away in the distance. Then he slunll back into the form of an old horse and stood still for a long time. The exercise was too much for him. He was exhausted. He couldn't come back" With his head lowered, and for long time motionless. he seemed to be drow silly dreaming of the days of the long ago when he pranced In parades and in. the circus ring.
 >1. Gy-4 v1rxtv hNr. hot IT knew in Richmond at a backsmith's shop, near the engine house, being shod. The gong in the engine house rang. Old Jerry knew when that gong sounded it was his duty to spring to the engine to be hitched up. Therefore. he broke away from the blacksmith, fled down the street, and in almost less time than l. have taken to tell of it he was ready for the fire.
 The horse is a very dependent creature. He relies upon his master to protect him from harm. Every moving object which comes into the horses life for the first time, he is afraid of. If he has been born born and bred in city he soon becomes accustomed to noises, automobiles, en- zines and the like, but having been brought to a city from the country he Is like country people in town, everything looks as if 1t might run into them. Whip ping him will only make him worse. The best way is to talk to him, and to drive little out of the way of what he thinks is danger. Do not urge him unduly, at first. Let him take his time to inspect the object; sometimes slowly drive him up to 1t, but talk to him kindly all the time. Thus will be acquired confidence in you and feel sure that you'll not permit him to be hurt. This is the greatest fear of a horse, namely, that he's going to get hurt.
 l had horse that was afraid of bicy- cles. A steam stone-crusher was no
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What cause he may have had, if any, for the application to the courts is not revealed
 He was poverty stricken; that is all we know. And it may be that the wolves of want had clomored about his elbow until he had argued with his soul whether 1t cared any longer to "fardels bear"
 Anyway
 Before the case came on for trial two things happened which changed MT. Norton's point of view
 relative died and left him some money that was available, and at the same time he received bad news from his wife in England. She had become blind It was then that a great revulsion of feeling concerning his wife came to him. love and sacrifice on the part of the wife which now that she was helpless and blind pleaded strongly for her.
 He did this
 Ordering the divorce stricken from the docket, he took his inheritance and started at once to rescue the poor blind wife across the sea.
 Pity opened his eyes.
 He now could see that he himself had been blind-blind to the real things of his life
 And ve-all of us?
 Most of us are blind in the same unsee- ing way Always do we take and fail to give.
 Blnd Blind! Blind.
 Blind to the toll and tenderness, blind to the service and sacrifice of those who love and serve us.
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YNQUESTIONABLY blood is thick
 CT than water. It has to accom- modate itself to an arrangement of corpuscles which actually thicken it. When below certain density the blood Is said to be anaemic, and, incontinently oozes out of life, the situation being in all respects, too thin, too watery.
 It may be hel dthat thickness Is not of so much significance as color. Cor puscles seem to be important in propor- tion to their redness. But in that case ''blue blood,'' about which the lofty boast, may be said to be venous rather than arterial-blood that has been in circula- ton a long time and Is on It's revolution ary way back to the heart-fountain and the lung-furnace, there to be rid of its impurities. This is a cheering view to take, for instance of the house of 1ods and English ancient families gen eraly. They have gathered various for eigf ingredients to make their blood so ''bl,h." and they are fast returning to their .ource in the national common folk. Ito be id of their too much density and 10 recover color, healthily red.
 E But in he meantime they are strenu- 4busly objecins to the revolutionary pro- less of return. They would fain readjust yhe laws 0, nature, stern, implacable, and have themselves regarded as an eternal
 nstitutiol of Providence. essential to khe natbns life and well-being That keen Sc,ttish lawyer who is at the head
 Gre,t Britains imperial destiny to-
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2 OF TOTEMISM-By George Eaves, D. D.

Certainly there are wide differences of present condition and apparent destiny. But the most fruitless thing on earth is barren pride on the part of the for tunate few, contempt towards the un- fortunate many. The curse of totemism is that It Is a religion of selfishness. which scorns the adherents of other classes. Patronage turks side by sids with it's boastfulness; and the scalping knife and the tomahawk are never far to seek. But the law of the jungle and the forest is not the law of the mod ern state: and totemism is hopelessy discredited therefore. Lord de Smith Ia an anachronism. Let him cut out the de, as well as the title of Chief Boss. His superiority has to be proved. anl that not by scalping knife or war-danca, The horns and the hump of the Law is good for. this aristocrat? This multi piled millionaire, what is he good for? Just to make millions? Just to be an aristocrat? Just to boast of his totem and the glories of his ancestral ghosts? Good heavens Is It not written in the Book of Destiny. This night they re- qure of thee thy soul?'
 Theories of inherited dignity and of imputed righteousness will still be de- bated The quite undebatable thing is the good a man Is. the use he renders fv mankind, the function he discharges in that great Loom of God, human fellow ship