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any truth in that adage, desire to afford the senator from North Dakota (Mr. Me Cumber) and the senator from Kansas CMr Curtis) all the wretched rapture re- sulting from the companionship of mis- cry"
 What g pity 1t is that Proctor Knott and Feb Vance were not there to rolliclS in that delightful satire. "Wretched rap ture"-it is an inspiration, one of the finest touches the human intellect can fancy.
 And then he closed with this, about as good
 MT. President, when ruin comes again upon the people of this country, Shared by our neighbors to the northward. 1t will not be through poisoning the air that they breathe Sir, it will be through a removal of the tax upon the bread that they eat a removal of the tax upon the wheat and cattle which they import rom the Dominion of Canada: and our neigh 'bors will suffer a similar catastorphe from the removal of the tax on the wheat and on the cattle which they im- port from the United States. l repeat, sir not from too little breath, but from too much bread.
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dividuals of the tribe To put this in an- other way: Friendship is the measure of nations life
 On the level of physical welfare we are working out a. keener national conscience concerning friendship, as we are realizing the fractional values of the individual more adequately.
 A philosophy of education might easily work itself out along these evolutionary lines. The aim of education would be, from this point of view the adaptation of the fraction to inter-relation with all other fractions for the service of the fam fly, the tribe, the nation. These human atoms, with mysterious individual prop critics, express themselves and fulfill them selves by a sort of chemical affinity, link ing themselves with other atoms in pairs and groups to make the nation the so cial, human, universe. But inasmuch as in human atoms the affinity may no longer work bindly, but with responsibil- ity and the social welfare in view educa- tion takes charge of the atomic human fraction and fits it into the scheme of common welfare, enables the spiritual hy- drogen and oxygen to combine to form the water of the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate, for all Bethlehem to drink, shep- herd boy, soldier king.
 Our physical Representatives., with all it's confession of insufficiency, is but most inadequate confession of our moral, spiritual, psychical
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And in our world of men today n rumor is bandied about that ''the world will bu st through presently-not that the physical world will be cut up by innumerable fs- sures. by subterranean fires. earthquakes, etcetera-but that nothing of mans men, tai and spiritual creation will be secure against the madness and badness of the times. These gossippers predict a very certain havoc of all human institutions. There must be tearing down, a rubbing out. busting through, and a beginning all over again. Among these critiques of humanity we find the habitual grouch, the scandal-monger, and iast-the only one to be seriously reckoned with-the sane criminalogist. Between the lies of the former, and the hideous truths of the aav- ter, it behooves us to take stock, don't you think?
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makes creation. It is the interaetion ofl frasmentary souls that makes society, nls-I tory, destiny. All the essence of treaeh-
 cry is that which appropriates for the fraction that which belongs to the whole
 number. All the essence of tyranny is that which forces the fractions to be less
 than 1t is by its own inner law Friendship Is the equal interplay of thel fractions the self-compelling polarity of
 souls, the capillary forces, all attraction and repulslon, whereby selective necessity is laid on each to yield itself to other, the. vast and splendid resistlessness of spirit
 ual gravtation, competing into groups | the willing units whose glory 1t ls to pel | fragments of the cancellations. | There Is essentially a feminine depend-l ence, an abysmal solltariness, an orphaned|
 aloofness in every soul But with the ccn-l | tripetal hunger of its being for other beings1
 out of whose abundance it may be nour-1 l ished, there is also a centrifugal impulse, of diffusion. a determined self-expression.| an opulent self-communication, which for-
 bids the soul to be a mere recipient. lt| has two hands, one to give with as welH
 as one to receive with. When we reachI
 the country of Utopia, as reach 1t we
 must or die. every vital fraction of hu-
 manity will thus have found it's ordained
 task and will be putting the whole uni-
 verse in debt to it's beauty, it's wisdom. it's courage. it's fidelity, in a word to it's isacrfcal friendship.
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1T wish to print this speech, so that when these two lands, now fair. fruitful and prosperous, shall become welterins waste; when the traveller of the future. impelled by curiosity, shall wander through this land, now prosperous, then desolate. he shall find deposited in the cornerstone of that mausoleum in which our hopes. our prosperity and our des- tiny are entombed the speech of the sen- ator from North Dakota, accompanied by the speech of Mir sexsmith of the Cana r dian parliament, accounting for the catas- trophe which overwhelmed this matchless republic and that splendid dominion toward the Northern Star"
 McCumber and Curtis are standpat re- publicans. and of course they oppose the expansion of our foreign trade, which they hold to be positive evil. But Bailey, Simmons and Clarke are alleged demo- crats, who ought to hold that legitimate trade is beneficial to both parties to it and therefore a positive blessing.
 MT. Gore is a credit to Oklahoma, and he is of the class of statesmen who made the United States Senate illustrous.
 Washington, August '.
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IN dream last night heard a voice
 say, Pardon me, old chap, but the \ world will bust through in about ten minutes. If there are any messages you wish to leave, you must be In O hurry l recall earnest expostulation. The world didn't deserve treatment like that, l thought I remembered that somewhere In Tuscaloosa I owned a hangar. and pleaded for time. thinking to reach there and get out my bipane, presented to me by Orville Wright. I knew that Wright would appreciate it, and knew that in my machine I could defy any "bu'sting'' through of the world.
 Just ten minutes, by the twelve gods!" the voice said uncomfortably, half vexed, as if it's owner had been sitting Ter minal station bench. For ten centuries ran helter-skelter-and then a long silence and then I heard laughter and voice saying, You are cowardly ass! None but topsy-turvey minds even dream the world will bust through"
 The evening before I had re-read some of Whitcomb Rileys hoosier verse, in one . of which little boy laments:
 Where's boy a-goin',
 And what's he goin' to do,
 And how's he goin' to do it
 When the world busts through?
 Ma, she says she can't tell
 What we're comin' toi'
 An Pop says he list skeered
 Clean-plum -throughr'
 The poem is about tiny lad, tormented by belief that some day "the world will bust through" He has no doubt of it; some tomorrow, nobody knows just when,
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Apart from the nasty disclosures of him who shouts out the vulgar and the un- clean, we have 1t from no less an author ity than Caesar Lombroso that crime is increasing faster than population. In his exhaustive treatment of ''The Female or fender" CD. Appleton & Co.,, New York, Professor Lombroso gives some data on the increase of crime that is well nigh staggering. He quotes General Brinker- hoff, president of the National Prison Congress. as to the conditions of affairs in the United States: 'Other questions which agitate the public and divide par ties are doubtless important. But the country~can live and prosper under free trade or protection, under bmetalism or monometalism, under democracy or re- publicanism. but it cannot survive de- moralized people with crime in the ascen- dant. That crime is on the increase our of proportion to the population is Indicated In many ways. but for the country as whole, the United States census is a re- liable guide. Let us look at it by de- cadeS:
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reigionists call going to the devil" 1sN he not worth while-worth Gods whilefz
 From corruption, from base immorality.N you are safe-about as secure and. immune4 from the ravages of disease and crime as the bene1cent corpusces in the blood are immune to the onslaughts of the malig-4 nant corpuscles for the beneficent cnes7 are safe so long as they keep segregatcd1 from the maevolent ones. And lid it take some millions of years to produce thatX ideal of safety in your mind? If we knowU the lofty lving-if the gutter and tha reeking cesspool are as if they did not ex- ist-shal we have no thought of cur neighbor who houndered in the mire? Is itI not our part insofar as we can to hinderM and thwart the breed of crime-for unlike the malignant corpuscle. criminal man, i'd is my sincere belief, may be more often{ than not refashioned for useful service- out of degeneracy, generacy; out of mad- ness, sanity--if right influences are
 brought to bear
 | We must know that every deed has
 certain worth in this world. I believe fhat upon our conduct in tn aggregate depends | Justification of the appearance of man
 upon the globe-however that came to pass. I believe that as sweetness and | light are disseminated, crime will disap- pear-and only as crime disappears-onlyD as the sting of poverty is felt no more shall we be certain that mans iappear- ance is justified
 And I believe that the time. is not far distant when the data furnished us by aliensts and crminalogists will show that mankind is growing better and wiscr; that no revolution of crime will shatter
 it's large endeavors; that we shall nave no more fear that anything will 'bu'sc through"
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and experience he will be classed among the great debaters as well as the great orators. Mir. Gore is democrat. with all the word and the principle implies. He Is middle -of-the-road" democrat, who hates inequality and feels injustice on whomso.ver visited as a personal injury and resents and denounces it accordingly. He made about the best epigram of the decade when he declared that the office of protection is to enable one man to get without earning what another man earns without getting, or words like those. There is but one better definition of protection, and that is plain robbery" But Gore can maintain in argument whatever he asserts in rhetoric.
 If you will visit the playgrounds of a primary school, in town or country, and watch the boys in sport, you will find that a leader is developed. He takes the place by Divine Right and because he is fitted for it by the decree of destiny. Su- periority cannot be hidden. it cannot be suppressed. Had that been possible the party of Great Moral Ideas" would have succeeded in it's infamous and horrible attempts to make the whites of the south the slaves of the blacks. At log-rollings,
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TN arms, in art, in letters, in statecratt'
 in trade, even-in every branch or x human adventure, in short-to be in- teresting Is most auspiicous circum- stance in the career of any man or wom- an. Thomas F. Gore is an interesting fig- ire in public life, partly due to the fact that he early lost the sight of his eyes, but mainly because of the brilliancy of his mind and the beauty of his eloquence. Though new to that theatre. the senator from Oklahoma is among the leaders of the United States Senate, and he has at tained to that rank by sheer force of genius for parliamentary career. His is a sound mind, absolutely sane; his is a lofty character, absolutely spotiess; bis is a pure patriotism. absolutely unselfish.
 MT. Gore is 40 years old, native of Mississippi. He is a lawyer, graduated from that famous institution, Cumberland university. located at Lebanon, Tenn. He practiced his profession in Texas and In Oklahoma, and entered public life as a senator in the territorial legislature be- fore the new state was created a full sis ter of the American union. When Okla homa came in after long years of in-
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at corn-s -shuckings, at shooting matches, in old Kentucky. when was a boy leader was every time developed.
 And so In the United States Senate Tom Martin is the tltular leader of the minor ity. and I never contemplate his Header ship" without reverting to the fact in an- cent history when old Thomas sought to teach Hannibal the art of war. Now the minority of the United States has got leader. real leader, fashioned for the station by the inexorable and invincible fiat of intellectual and moral superiority John Sharp Williams. The Senate rec ognizes him as Allan McAulay in Darnin- varach Castle discovered Montrose. "As meets a rock thousand waves, so
 Inisfail met Lochlin.'
 And that is the way John Sharp Will Hams meets an adversary in forensic dis pute.
 We'll Williams has no stouter lieutenant than Gore, whose speech in favor of Canadian reciprocity is one of the ablest made on that question. Three 'demo- crats"- Bailey, Simmons and Clarke of Arkansas-held that there Is blessing to
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BILL VINES ON SKY

loyalty moor pronounced than his jeelusy; if his grattytude had been moor in evvi- dense than his greed he could have ren-' dered the party valuabul assstence in
 electing a president. but, as 1t is he has destroyed his usefulness. and has seen fit
 to Nook evvery man of prominence in the
 party that has by his deeds drifted Into.
 the lime-llte.
 His vissous and uncalled for attact cn
 Underwood will fall short. Underwood
 has proven himself a leader, wurthy of
 the name. He has united the party and
 drowned out what discord there was, and
 or not, he has maid it not only possibul
 for Demercrat to land the job, but it
 looks highly probabul. There is phase
 for Rockers like Willyum, and that is on
 the outside looking in, and that's exactly
 where he ought to be so far as the Dem-
 mercratic party Is conserned
 There is no way in the world for Willy
 um to becum president. if there had been he'd have tryed 1t. He has advercatcd evvery blooming possibul issue frum Guvvermint ownership of evvery thing to Votes for Wimmin''; he has shatau- qued all ovver the country and managed to keep himself in the lite in sum fasshion, and now he is trying to raise himself by abusing peepul, the last des- perit chanse of down and outer It winds him up. and the Party is to be con graduated for the final suppression of this grate polytica feenomina. who had moor crazzy scheems of guvverment than Sol omon had wives. and that was going sum. My predictsion is that the Nasional Demmercratic conversion will politely out firmly hand Wilyum the ice-pitcher; it's cumming to him, if they do and If by enry possibul chanse it makes him so mad he votes the Republican ticket. we'll win in a walk. Yours trooly,
 Bill VineS
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gain a little money by mean maneuvers and lost his own soul?
 Young man
 To say nothing whatever of morals or of righteousness, to put the whole matter on selfish footing
 It pays to be decent,
 Are you tired reading stories about successful men and boys?
 Here is one about a successful girl. Her home is in Aiken, S. C., and her name is Marie s. Cramer.
 You have heard about the boys corn clubs of the south-how the governmene,, through the medium of the clubs. offer ing prizes. has opened new era in corn culture in the southern states and given a great stimulus to the back to the farm movement.
 We'll
 Observing all this bright Miss CramerI said to herself: Why not girls clubs also? And if the boys have a prior claim on corn why not that fine vegetable, snel tomato, for the girls?"
 But the prizes?
 Her idea was to offer scholarships in, Winthrop college. and she tried to inter- est Rockefeller first and then Carnegie.. Being refused. she decided to offer ,hel prizes herself,
 | Then she began organizing the Sirlss' tomato clubs, each girl cultivating one-| tenth of an acre. She studied and taught. and lectured on scientific tomato culture. The sequel?
 A great success And when the sropI was ripe each of the clubs had a canning' picnic One club canned 60OO cans cf' tomatoes and sold the product at 10 cents per can-s600
 One girl. a prize winner, got 24s cans, from one-tenth acre.
 Now. that was what Miss Cramer lid. She interested the farmers girls of South Carolina In tomato raising and proved tol them the possibilities of healthfnl, profitable enterprise.
 And she?
 Why, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson at Washington heard about Miss Cramers work She was the sort of a girl he was looking for. He hired her instanter to go on organizing girls clubs in various lines of agriculture.
 She had initiative.
 Initiative is the quality of thinking out, things in advance and doing them before other people think of them.
 The world needs girls with initiative -s girls who think of something besides] dress and parties and boys-girls who areI able to contribute something toward theI betterment or the world in a special way. There are voids in the worlds industry fairly aching to be filled by such girls.
 Hats off to the Miss Cramers!
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Ed1u;n A. Wye

ready to start up the hill the driver spoke
 in low, encouraging tone: Come, Billy! Now, Tom" You should have seen those horses pull! Twice the driver stopped on the hillside,
 'chucking' the hind wheel of the wagon
 with a piece of wood. Once he gave each
 animal a friendly pat, and they looked at him out of their kindly, gentle eyes as at 8 friend That driver understood his horses and they him. He had only to suggest and they responded with every ounce of force they could command A Kentucky owner of 'big string of thoroughbreds permits no unkind word to be spoken to any Of them. A harsh utter ance by any employe is followed by in- stant discharge.
 The driver who yells at his horse as if
 the latter were deaf confesses thereby his
 lack of horsemanship. The man who curses his horses is a tyrant, and the man who beats them Is brute. Do you know what I sometimes wish?
 When l see a violent and cruel owner
 or driver of one Of Gods noblest gifts wish the theory of transmigration of souls were true-that the inhuman driver might be changed into 8 horse, compell..d to wear an iron bit in his mouth, his delicate ears assaied by a vile torrent of abuse. feel the strain of the load behind him. upon his back know the sting of the cruel lash.
 Treat your horse as you, were vol n horse, would want to be treated, Some time ago made visit to a town where 40 years ago lived as lad for three years--three happy years. Almost I could wish had not made the trip.
 I wanted to see the river where I had gone swimming in summer and skated in
 winter, a wonderfully big river, so wide that only Tom Smith of all the gang was able to swim across 1t.
 A dwindled stream, thing of pools and
 shadows and stretches of sand-that was once the Wabash! Driving upstream to see the "big grove" that was "just around the bend" I found only cornfield. Below the town only a
 few stumps remained of what was "the old mill''
 I could have cried.
 Even the big schoolhouse on the hill
 which, with its ambitious cupola, was the pride of the town, had been razed and a modern structure was going up. And on the lot where we played town ball'' and "bull pen" and "hat ball" stood the new interurban depot.
 I began to inquire about some of the boys and girls had known .'Dead" ' - Moved to Nebraska wears ago"'s Lives somewhere in California" = "On a farm eight miles east of here" Met Q man who broke her heart" Dead" I~ Somewhere in Chicago So ran the answers. I inquired if any one remembered the son of a certain itinerant preacher. One old man said this one was a mischievous
 lad and he opined had turned ous Dad"
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had not the heart to tell him I was the lad.
 felt like one who had looked at a fair mirage which had lifted in midair and disappeared Dsilusioned and strangely saddened, took the first train out
 remembered what Conan Doyle told his friend.
 Doyle advised his friend never to Ego back to Heidelberg" He himself had gone back to the old town where he had studied and dreamed and loved, only to find the grand old buildings shrunixen in size and the old streets that had been SO picturesque and full of romance dirty and commonplace. . sweet memory was spoiled.
 It must be so.
 Change and decay are written upon all things, and the picture of memory is not the picture of present reality.
 Besides
 We ourselves have changed. We have outgrown ourselves. We have lost the
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angle from which we once looked. It re- quires so much now to make us happy!
 We vainly dream of the places where once we were 'so happy and so free"
 Onions"
 Thus exclaimed Mrs. Edward C. Dodd, widow, when she looked across a waste of chaparral in Texas. It had belonged to her husband and was her only posses sion.
 There were just 225 acres of this wild, cactus producing land. But
 Mrs. Dodd had the genius which "reates things. She saw vision of long rows of growing stuff In her dream the brown stretch of chaparral changed into
 "Onions!"
 But how make her dream come true? She had no money. She had what was better than money-faith.
 Somehow she communicated this faith to man who agreed to clear and cultf-
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Three times the party has honured the gentleman frum Nebrasky. For fifteen years he has only had to raise his fngur and the leaders in the Demmercratic ranks fell on there forelocks in submis- sion to his ordurs. Does he own us? Has he acquired title by statut of limmyta- sion? No. He is nuthing in the world but a successfully defeeted Cannydate. He has no moor rite to hold himself ID as Alum Parkur who was satsfyed with get ting licked once and immediately went out of the Moses bizness. He is simply d private in the ranks; he seys so himself, in words, but he assoms a far differint at ttude
 The truble with Wilyum is, he is sore. He is losing his power. The uther day when Osker got up in the halls of con- gress and handed Willyum hisn there was not a man stood up and defended him. There is no one that keeps his ger so close to the ground as a congressman, and no one can beet him guessing how the Vox Populy air feeling on enny cub- ject. a congressman has to keep posted on these grave questions if he expects to keep his meel ticket wurking, and you can bet your coller button that if there was enny grate sentimint in the country favuring Willyum, that champyon would have opened his fase on the floor of the house in behalf of the Fearless one. And the fact that they didn't is the ,lost cheerful indicasion of the fact that Will lyum is Has Been'' that has cum to pass. Willyum is an ovver ripe oni on and the future eruptions of the Nebrasky faults alarm will count about as much lin Demmercratic counsells as a drop of watur in the irrigasion of the Saharer dessert. If his branes had been gratur than his selfishness; if his patryotism moor developed than his egotism; if his