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to raise the question whether Carlyle himself, with his fierce and fulginous contempt of parliaments and legisla tive acts and the "incessant stream of talk" did not develop anarchlstic ten dencies. Was he too, like Tolstoy, foe of ''civilization" after all, a red Indian phetic belt and with critical scalping tools. lurking vengefuly on the edges of our clearing?
 Perish the thought! Let us rather sit at his campfire and listen as he puffs the pipe of peace between whites and waxes enigmatically eloquent. Let us forget that these words were penned nearly 70 years ago, directed against his fellow. Britishers, and see whether perchance they have any applicability to our own Alabama, our own America:
 "The great soul of the world is just. O, brother, can 1t be needful now, at ths late epoch of experience, after IS cen turtles of Christian preaching for one thing, to remind thee of such a fact; which all manner of Mahometans, old Pagan Romans, Jews, Seythians and heather Greeks, and indeede more or less all men that God made, have managed at one time to see into; nay, which thou myself, till red tape stamped the inner life of thee hadst once some inkling of; that there Is justice here below; and even, at bottom, that there is nothing else but justice? Forget that, thou hast forgotten all Success will never more attend thee. How can it now? Thou hast the whole universe against thee. No more success; mere sham success for day and days; rising ever higher, toward its Tarpeian rock. :"
 And again:
 What is justice? The clothed, em- bodied justice that sits in Westminster Hail, with penalties, Nparchmcnts, tip- slaves, is very visible. But the unem- bodied justice whereof that other is either an emblem or else is a fearful inde- scribability. is not so visible! For the unembodied justice is of heaven; a spirit and divinity of heaven, invisible to all but the noble and pure of soul The
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against the baby in the cradle and the corpse In the coffin to make Warren multi-millionaire along with the men who can spin and weave his wool.
 Nobody will dispute that the four grea test democrats who ever held the office of Secretary of the Treasury vera Albert Galatin, Robert J. Walker, James Guthrie and John c. Carlisle-all fa- vorable to free raw material. It is true that Walker did not put it in the tariff of 1s4s, but he, the greatest doctor of political economy the democratic party ever produced, lived to say that his bill would have been better had raw ma terial been untaxed.
 Morrison and Mills. William L. Will son and James B. Beck, Grover Cleve- land and William J. Bryan, Champ Clark and Judson Harmon-these all favored free raw material, as did the great democratic Secretaries of the treasury I mentioned. On the other hand. Pig Iron Kelly and Nelson Ding ley, Nelson W. Aldrich and Joseph q. Cannon. John Dalzell and Serene E. Payne, the steel trust. the wool trust, the lumber trust the coal trust, and other monopolists oppose free raw ma terial. The beef trust. the egg trust, the butter trust, the sugar trust are still for taxed foods.
 Men of the south choose your com- pany. When the demon of protection hoists the signal of distress, will you terials. and go to the rescue.
 We shall see. That was what you did when the Payne-Aldrich monster was matching.
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t# A PLAIN, positive, irrepressiby, in- EA exorable issue is presented to the A democratic party, and it may be |called Ben Tillmanism and expressed
 thus "As long as any stealing is going Ton I want to get South Carolna's share. - |ppposed to that Is Champ Clarkism, and Ifit may be stated this way: If there Is any stealing going on. want no share of | it for Missouri That is the kettle of
 lfsh set before the democratic party. Car fied to it's inevitable conclusion. the idea
 Of Tillman would banlsh every honest nan from Congress. Followed to its un- 1Foidable sequence the idea of Clark you'd cleanse Congress of its every .fafter. There Is no half way ground. The party must be one or the other-for l enest tariff or for knavish tariff.
 (l What would you think of a church that lN N ould grant each member indulgence to h,lrbor pet sin? Heaven would register ,,nathema against it, and hell would csuckle over 1t. One ''worshiper'' would claim the exercise of the sin of covetous- |ness; another would practice the sin of |blasphemy; another would abolish the Sabbath day; another would harbor mal- kbear false witness, and so on and so on All of them would be regular saints ex- cept in one pet particular. And so also with some of our democratic friends-all sound on the tariff, except that each one has a pet industry to take care of. It Is such a harmless, innocent, poor little thing, generally in the raw material line. The foregoing reflections are drawn
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ing blast from his grOat OK horn and we're off, the dogs leading. On we ride toward the usual haunts of the fox, now cantering, then trotting, and presently galloping. When about five miles from Eastwood in the lowlands. Dido's shrill. quick note shoots through the air and Is followed by the voices of the whole pack The horse~ start afresh. regardless of bit and bridle. The air is full of music It is the mingled yelping of nearly 30 hounds, borne away on the crisp. frosty air among the hills and meadows of old Virginia.
 I can hear tonight, ringing over the hills and dales of happy memory. the music of the hounds of long ago. There was the deep bass of old Popmey. Hts voice was like the clear pedal note of a great organ, vibrant and prolonged. Pedro was a baritone, whose notes every fox hunter in the country knew. for he was borrowed often. Jetsum was a Caruso. and when his high notes came with stac- cato movement. beyond all doubt. the trail was ''hot' Dido was the lyric soprano of the pack. She was as graceful as a gazelle, and her long ears were softer than velvet. Her body was black her legs tan, and on her breast there was a snowy star. the inherited badge of her tribe. Her nose was as true as her voice, and she never sounded a false note. Re--e had a peculiar timbre that distinguished her voice. Her full name was Miserere, which was given her from the closing scene of "Il Trovatore' that represents Leonora's great sorrow. There was pathos, an anxiety in the voice of Re-re xt-- of them all, however, was Music, and she seemed to try to live up to her name
 She had wonderful voice. It's register ranged from deep nlezzo to a lofty. clear soprano, which she sustained for long periods. She was large black and brown hound, somewhat stately when quiet
 but 1.-the and supple when she got busy.
 have mentioned these dogs In partic- ular, because they were the leaders of the pack. All were musical, and when hot on the trail, their wild voices blended into a marvellous harmony most exciting.
 How horses enjoyed it! Claybank was usually a very quiet horse. but at the music of the hounds he would raise his beautiful head high in the air, his nostrils would swell. his eyes flash. and had taken. with wild zest. Philips had a fine horse for the chase. but as he wanted to use him the next day he had left him shut up in the stable. Never theless, the horse kicked himself out of the stable as we rode through the Philips plantation and joined us without bridle or
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TRUTH IN THE INWARD PARTS"-By George Eaves D. D..

is an old story that the less man has the more he is relatively taxed. and mo- body pretends that the present methods of assessing and collecting taxes are real lv eouable or just But on the other hand, in many states the usage has grown up of solemnly swearing to false values on property. I am informed on excellent authority that the usage is uni- versal among us here in Alabama. No man will put his property in at the as- sessor's office for the price he demands of a prospective purchaser. No man would sell at the price he solenmly swears to the assessor is the true value of the property. To do so would be to play the fool, since every one else cuts out considerable slice of taxable val ues.
 Well, since every one does it, where's the harm? A specious argument indeed! But is not a lie still lie, though re- peated by a million, hundred million throats? Should all go to killing one an- other, would that still be murder, or would 1t be less murder because there was more of 1t? Why not be fair. open, frank and aboveboard? What are we afraid of? Ethics, we observe, is clearly a very social matter, and no mans pure ly private business. We must be saved together.
 Or again, consider the murder of ne- groes. the murder of white men, the pis- tol-carrying, more or less legalized, that puts murder at premium and decency at discount every day of our lives, right here in Birmingham Are We all gone daft? Or are we all knaves?
 It would be easy enough to put a thousand dollar tax on pistols, or (. thousand dollar bond on every man H. censed to wear those dangerous and semi apparent decorations. Why, in deed, is a pistol more necessary in Birmingham than In Boston, or in either CT town more thap In London? Be- cause of the crirY negro? Bosh. The only explanat the cowardly white man! A coward boy picks up A rock, throws it and runs. The same
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but myself and I was often uncertain of the safety of my throat The cook, who took Sams food to the kennel, would creep within the chains length or little farther from it and push the plate with in his reach with stick or broom. He would spring up at her, try to break the show his ferocity This he would do to- ward any one. No one in the house ven tLred within the radius of his chains s reach except myself. At times could not trust him. at other times I could pat him and even play with him, but the chain was on him always.
 His love of blood was something hideous. He broke away twice. The first time he attacked a COW, the second time he caught hog, and in few minutes the poor creature was covered with blood, while Sam, snarling like dog with hydrophobia, was biting and tearing the flesh. I broke a croquet mallet on him, and then using the pieces as a lever, I prised his vice-like jaws open. I led the ferocious brute back to his chain, where he fell to licking the blood from his dripping chops. I was forced. as the servants said, ito git shed of Sam l tnlnk no WdS SnOl Nii<ib Ci- feet did the gunpowder have on Sam? I never supposed that it had any effect. Gunpowder is composed of niter charcoal and sulphur, and is innocent enough when not exploded. The servants, however, believed that it was the gunpowder, dat done made dat dawg jis' as turble as de debble hisself.''
 There was time in my life when l had moro leisure than now have, and in those days I gave much time and att tention to the instruction of my dogs. I taught them all sorts of tricks, and what I did any one can do. One often hears the remark, You can teach dog any thing1 Of course, this saying must be limited somewhat; but 1t is astonishing to know the number and variety of things that a dog may learn. There are several things, however. that are essential to the teacher. First, he must be kind. Never give the dog reason to believe that you are punishing him. Secondly, the teacher must be patient. The dog may be slow to comprehend. and if the teach CT lose control of himself he is likely to confuse the dog, or hurt him. Be patient with the pupil. If he makes any sort of effort to do what you are teaching, give him bit of cake, talk to him and pat him. Thirdly be firm. If you tell the dog to do thing show him what you mean; let him understand it, and then Insist upon his making some sort of trial at it.
 Do not let the lesson be too long nor too frequent One lesson of half hour s
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THE VIRTUE OF ADVERTISING-By Jerome K Stearn

was not a matter of actual performance, would be criminally liable as viola tor of the law. If misrepresentation were criminal in the United States Q great many advertisers would be robbed of advertising material. But when ad- vertising is robbed of truth 1t stands as a distorted vulgar repulsive thing Frankenstein that will eventually crush out the life of Its creator. Ad- vertising that is not founded on facts Is builded on quick lime. Advertisers do not realize that a misstatement or an exaggeration in their advertising is an act that reflects against the ad- vertising of every competitors business as well as his own. It incurs the dis gust of disappointed customer, who is not only riled over the thought of the advertising deceit, but becomes at once prejudiced against all advertising as "a humbug."
 How can one so cast blot upon the virtue of advertising?
 Have you ever walked into retail establishment and asked for 2 well
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known article, and have the sales man turn and within easy reach, from the lower shelves. hand you your cake of Sapolio? Then again. have you ever been a salesman, and initiated into the secret of the top shelf. The top shelf that houses the Undiscovered. unstable things, that were never advertised.
 Every city, every store. every insti- tuition. every office. every business. ev- cry profession. that does not advertise Is full of crowded top shelves.
 Advertising does not begin nor end with newspaper publicity.
 The methods. good or bad, of an in- stitution, do as much to advertise it as mans habits advertise his per sonality.
 When all the goodness of a store policy Is talk, which any newspaper will print for the cost of the space. and the store service and the store courtesy does not come true as ad- vertised--that is one kind of advertis- ing that does not pay.
 But when, every transaction in n
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boy, grown up. snatches his automatic or other gun, shoots and would run if he could? Under the moments excite ment of a glaring tragedy we talk awhile about this pistol-carrying and then subside. till next tragedy But we do not see that we are making our selves notorious as liars and hypo- critics. without truth in the inward parts! If pistols were necessary, the ministers ought to go armed and we ought to devise an appropriate saluta- ton when. for instance, Baptist pas- tor meets Catholic priest. to demon- strate that neither intends to shoot after the old humane method. But that is believed necessary by no one at all; and the Lords prophets need no side arms or target practice! It Is the lay men rather who need to quit lying, pre- tending to be civilized Christians when murder turks in so many hip pockets. It is the utterly anarchistic habit of the city hall to issue unauthorized per- mits to any man to carry a gun. which needs to be unhesitatingly abolished.
 A great social repentance indeed awaits us. Till then we lie under the rebuke of every prophet from Elijah the Tshbite to Carlyle the Scot A thousand instances crowd for mention, all proving the ldCk ol tTulH III our social inwards. Notorious wrongs abound Many an official cares more for his income than for his duty. more for his reputation than for the protec- tion of those to whose protection he was sworn. The legislator rebukes the sheriff and he of the baton and the rope filings the lie in the teeth of Solon; but the spectacle is not edifying
 Are all men liars? I submit an easy test: Make an appointment with q half dozen of your friends at a deff- mite day and hour and place; then count how many are on hand promptly. Then ask yourself this question: Are broken promises lies? Is the stealing of your time robbery? Who, indeed, ought not to hike to the confessional and then face about? "It Is for coward to lie," said old George Herbert, and the dio- tum stands
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business Is so clean and so satisfying, and every customer Is a pleased GUS toner. then that is advertising that cannot be discounted by any other kind of publicity
 Advertising is making known fact through publicity. whether that pub licity be through the medium of a news paper, or signboard or a personal deed.
 Advertising today is a science, and. like medicine. can only be proved through practice.
 Advertising" to quote one scribe, "has made more regulations than It, erature." Scott's Emulsion is better known tha Scotts Marmion. the grim pill of Dr. Munyon takes the palm from the Pilgrim of John Bunyan; Douglas. the three-dollar shoe man. won fame. fortune and a governorship, while Stephen A Douglass. the foe of Abe Lincoln. is almost forgotten. The name. Cooks Imperial Wine" will oqtlive the history of Dr. Cooks imperial visits. Such are the virtues Of advertis- ing. .
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x you sir-you don't believe that ad-
 vertising ever made you buy a
 X thing you didn't want. But did advertising ever make you want anything you didn't buy? Maybe not today but long afterwards you bought 1t. Yes, sir, when you first read an advertisement of Gillette razors 1t did two things, 1t created interest and 1t planted the seed of desire. which is all that any adver- Using Is expected to do.
 Not as one man says ito advertise means to advert eyes, 1t must do more than that. It must advert your attention, your thoughts, your point of view if necessary. For advertising Is salesmanship; but remember if 1t brings customer into your store or office. you must not expect 1t to make the sale--give the change and wrap the package.
 4 good advertisement is the trump
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card In the hand of any salesman, but the salesman must play his card to win. |f+fa s-
 Advertising has no virtue without persistency. The advertising failures are usually of the Init and miss vari- ety. They believe that 1t Is only neces- sary to advertise on certain days of the week and certain weeks of the month and certain months of the year. They believe that demand created from six months of advertising will continue for ever. And then when the business com mences to slack there Is another spas modic effort. But it's the old principle of the drop after drop after drop after drop of water on the stone that wears the hole that the whole Niagara falls could not have created in a single splash
 He that plaints failure cannot reap sue cess even if he uses advertising as a fertilizer. Down in Old Mexico misrepresenta- tion Is federal offense. A circus that would picture an act on . poster that
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|0ARLYLiE Is still prophet. though
 . dead. voice crying in the wilder 0 ness. Prepare ye the way of
 the Lord; make His paths straight" Browsing again in the pages of that Gcotch-Hebraic master, with an occa- sional plunge into Ruskin's limpid mes eages, you may still take glad vaca- ton from the clacking of lying lips and the gtrding of greedy inaternalism. am strongly inclined to advocate a change, indeed, in the constitution of every state. to House or Senate who cannot pass a satisfactory examination in the books of Drophets of the nineteenth century. Of these Carlyle must be reckoned chief. with his living word, one might almost say, his eternal word. The next two let me leave unnamed. But who will in trcduce my amendment? These be great days for apprentices in the business of 1egislation! Who will try his hand? My amendment has surely more sense to the cubic inch that some rather thicls-skulled propositions we have heard tell of. Whether Missouri Georgia, or Texas car ries the palm. takes the cake, or other wise wins the prize for legislative genius. or whether our own fair Alabama may be in the running, 1t is certain that in no case would that legislative genius be impaired, had every representative or senator a clear remembrance of the mes sage of Carlyle. And not remembrance onlyl Unhappily man may read the Bible without learning it; he may learn 1t by brain and not by heart; he may learn 1t by heart, and yet not take it for the lamp of his feet or the man of his counsel. So also with Carlyle. You may more naturally enjoy. his tremendous out tursts against all falsities and chicaner- ies than you may your own self get quite absolutely free of all traffic in shams. all fellowship with the Belial brood, all ia sities. all chicaneries in your own soul.
 And so while we are about it, why not make the amendment more drastic. since these are drastic days and provide that no man who can be convicted of having told 0 lie, broken a promise misrepresented a fact, or otherwise misled, his fellowman,
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length in the morning, and another late in the afternoon of the same length of time, will answer until he becomes ex- pert Be sure that all the lessons be imparted in the same place and with the same surroundings. The law of associa- ton will help the pupil to remember for mer lessons, while new surroundings will distract his mind.
 Dogs are much like people in many things. Some are quick, others slow to learn. The dogs that will try your patience least in teaching are Airedales, Spaniels and Fox Terriers. Do not throw away your time on Plugs, they are tho most obtuse of dogs, except in rare in stances, and Grayhounds are not much more clever. You will get the best re- suits from the Terrier family
 I owned an Italian terrier that was wonderfully clever. even brilliant. His eyes were full of light and disclosed the alertness of his mind. It was no trou- ble to teach him. Indeed, so few lessons did give him that wondered at his &C., complishments. He would play drunk" fall to the floor, and lie there until I'd exclaim 'Policeman,' when he'd spring to his feet. At other times he'd be a de- serter from the army, and for his crime I'd sentence him to death. He'd stand erect on his hind legs, with his little fore paws uplifted ns if suing for mercy. But there was no mercy for a deserter, so he'd stand in his pitiful attitude until I'd exclaim, Bang" then he'd drop.
 Victor was a seal brown Spaniel, whose body was covered witt. .wavy silken hair. His ears, which nearly 7feached the floor, had the appearance of downy unspun floss. He had great mind. I taught him almost entirely by language and his ready comprehension was some thing mar velous He learned number. of games that children play, and entered into them with the greatest delight. In playing tag and 'hide-and-seek' his eyes would fairly sparkle with fun. All sorts of tricks were mastered with ease by Vic tor. He was my companion in my study, and my playmate in moments of recre- ation.
 However the most intelligent of all dogs that I've known is the Airedale. Almost unconsciously to myself I taught Grizzell her winsome tricks. She could talk whisper, sneeze, laugh, cry like lost child, and understand like person.
 I have known number of hunting dogs, settlers, pointers and members of the more distinct hound family that have excited my highest admiration by their uncommon intelligence and the marvel ous achievements of their keen instinct. It may not be generally known that set