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of justice Is a Christian in this high and splendid sense, nor that every pulpit Is charged with the passion for social equity and welfare. All that we can say in this direction is that the pastor who evades care for the souls that are stranglng and struggling In the body amid worldly needs and sordld or shame ful expressions just simply misses the functions of shepherd of souls On the other hand, the city functionary, or la bor leader, or political standard bearer, who cares less for the souls of men than for a cheap triumph of party or of plan, surely misses the opportunity to serve men. What are we to be- shallow oppor- tunites. looking for little personal em- oument. or earnest servants of the Spirit of the Race? That is question for commissioners, committees, councils, con ventions. everywhere. It is fundamentally the only question for every man in every department of life.
 Many are the evidences that already n vast conflict is going on, in which all sorts of things will be shaken and dis appear But amid the threatening forces of the time this becomes evident: that men are feeling with unheard of intensi- ty the unity of all men, the brotherhood of the world. the identity everywhere of the human soul Certainly we shall not surpass the vision of the Master, but the ideal Is actualized in some and visuaized for all, "till we all attain unto-the meas ure of perfect manhood" That vision l understand to signify not merely a null titude of perfected souls wonder, but
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of royal parentage, was of such remark able beauty that people crowded from all parts to feast their eyes upon her charms. Altars were erected to her, and she was worshipped as a second Venus. The queen of love. incensed at seeing her own altars neglected. and her worshippers diminishing in number summoned her son Cupid and ordered him to inspire Psyche with love for some abject, vile creature, from which mandate comes tho adage: There's no accounting for womans taste" Psyche came at last to detest her beauty through which she became estranged from society, for. al- though it brought her hosts of admirers. 1t brought her no. suitors, and her less favored sisters were all married. All fancy-sick becoming, and of pale cheer, with signs of love Ca love she never told), and pining away. her father con suited an oracle, and was directed to abandon her upon desolate rock where she would be wooed by god. The oracle being obeyed and Psyche left 10 herself upon a lofty. lonely crag. Zephyrus, the swiftest pD the winds according to
 Homer. bore her away to a charming val ley; this secrecy and speed being charac- teristc of women who form the deepest resolutions in secrecy, but being resolved, act quickly, and resolutely. facing all dangers. quite fearless of consequence. Psyche beholds in the valley fair grove with fountain in the midst, and near by stately palace of the most splendid proportions Venturing to enter the pal- ace, she goes over 1t lost in admiration of it's magrlficence. Tn the very atmos- phere there dwet mystic perfume, and the airs that famed her cheeks made music with the enameled stones. giving a gentle kiss to every flower. The place had a beauty beyond the boasted beauty
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of men unless you get them to cooper ate for saving the soul, and eke the body of the race. In order to win heaven we have to do lot better on the earth and for the earth. Here Is a current, forceful and significant, mingling with some others. in the river of time.
 In fact, religious revival has never been the most active force in modifying the political and social world. That world has been changed more powerfully by in- terests and ambitions and the need of getting things done, by the considera- tions of food and clothing for today than On the other hand 1t has become mani fest that the message of the pulpit meant more food, better clothing, more health, better homes, and the duty of the we'll to-do not to neglect these needs of the impoverished. The pulpit certainly never gave to England liberty or righteous ness. Rather t expressed with divine authority what the people instinctively felt and believed already. It fixed them because already they were nflammable. hospitable to the truth, yearning to be ablaze. But the wonderful aptitude of the pulpit and it's message for this social mission Is the most satisfying and en- couraging fact in the modern world. 1t means that all the noble aspirations of the race all its longings for justice and equity, all it's resentments against rob- bery and wrong are divine voices of the soul which are. at the very heart, Chris tanity.
 It does not follow that every advocate
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1, soul. And Christ. as always. is there be- fore us. We stumble after Him. We aspire and struggle to where He stands serene, erect, untoling after His earthly agony. until we all attain" What is that which denies and post pones this new unity of mankind? Alas. 1t Is our failure to treat the weakest or the meanest as we would that men should treat us. Every sort of thing Is an ex- cuse to be inhuman, which is to say un- sympathetic. ungracious. unioving. Bus mess Is business: politics is war; and that man hath will he give for his life" and "self-preservation is the first law of nature" Certainly. And so these ghouls that are haunting the path of mankind are busy drawing a shroud over the face of man while they fit on to his Prome- thean shoulders the head of the pig and the ape and the tiger. Alas, too. even on the shoulders of his wife and daugh- tersl
 Until we attain, all together. unto ths measure of the stature of full-grown man"
 It is long, long cry. To make life true to nature, to get each soul to realize and express itself, to make life artistic in the highest sense. That is civilization indeed. utilizing the last word of science And I have the haunting vision of per- feet knowledge and an ideal educatioa resulting In the merging of all souls in the common soul of the race. the sacri- fee of every individual to the destiny set before us in those high words: Until we attain
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first assigned to Longstreet's corps but later was transferred to that of A. P. Hill
 Colonel Herbert led his regiment into the battles of fredericksburg, Salem Heights Antietam and Gettysburg. In the battle last named the Eighth Ala bama was directly opposed by a fed eral regiment commanded by Colonel Maginess, who. in after years, sat si<e by side with Colonel Herbert in Con- gross.
 The retirement of Colonel Herbert from the army was due to serious wound received in the Wilderness. The wound was inflicted on the left arm, portion of the bone of which was car ried away, and that practically nerve less limb still hangs at his side as a memorial of his gallant services. On receiving his wound, he was borne from the field in a critical condition.
 Up to that time, though commanding the regiment for long period, Her bert was only lieutenant colonel, the colonel having been long disabled. and unfit for duty, was not with the regi- ment, though his name still appeared on
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was sought to be made appear that 1t was an undertaking which the south could not lightly esteem. The enginery of the scheme was far reaching in It's operation for the state legislatures were urged to take such action as would force the cooperation of their congressional delegations in it's suc- cess. The Alabama legislature instruct ed its senators to vote for it and re- uuested its representatives to do so.
 Knowing the source and purpose of the mammoth scheme. Colonel Her bert declined to support it. Every pos sible pressure was brought to bear. but Herbert was immovable. His maid en speech in Congress was in oppo- sition to Scotts plan. His argument changed the current of his life. The speech was printed and sent through out his district and though he pro- tested against his renominatlon he was returned to Congress. Colonel Scott made another desperate effort to force the cooperation of Colonel Herbert
 even employing learned local counsel In Montgomery to induce the legisla- ture to give imperative instruction to
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whole house to find that lost coin; and they have commiserated with him in his distresses born of the unantiquarian, un- archaeological. unpoetical, pitiless analy- sis of the inscription made by the matter of fact Mir Blotton, and have Joined the Pickwickians in their righteous indigna- tion. justifying the expulsion of MT. Blot ton, he having cold-bloodedly. and with malice prepense and aforethought march ed down to Gotham, where the inscrip- ton was discovered, and there drawn out of the laborer that although the stone it. self was of the greatest antiquity, un- doubtedly, the inscription was quite re- cent, and was of no other or greater sig nifcance than "Bill Stumps, His Mark. !" MT. Stumps having phonetically spelled his first name with one "L," but out of which spelling it Is most respectfully submitted no other sound can be gotten except Bill" Now the learned have so loaded down this story of Cupid and Psyche with interpretations involving the human soul as personif1ed in Psyche; of is divine origin; its trials and tribula- tions in this prison house of clay during
 it's sojourn upon this sublunary orb. it's errors and indiscretions; It's purgings and notifications, through all of which 1t be- comes capable of a higher view of things, and of truer. holier and loftier desires; of the two loves it encounters the one, earthly, drawing it down to earthly things; the other. heavenly, directing its view to the divine. and which latter gaining the victory over it's rival leads the soul off it's bride, expressive of no more than:
 Work in well-doing is the souls re- frain
 Which this sad motley echoes. but in vain"
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

One must live like his neighbors.
 They saw much of 1ife-Jean did.
 Also will prospered. But the ex- pense--Jean must buy lot of clothes. And there was the cost of entertain ing. They were making more money, but whre did 1t go?
 Will consulted Jean, but she did not know And Will began lying awake of nights figuring how to make both ends meet And Jean worried
 She knew Will was troubled and he was working to the limit. She was getting most out of the new life. But what did she get? A hurried harried existence, dates with dressmakers, late hours, wrinkles! She worried about Will and the ways of the maid and the expense and their future. Despite prosperity they were running behind.
 You can see their finish? | No, they did not go to smash-quite. 1 One day Will said he could sell the business, pay the debts and have enough to buy back his old store. The little cottage and the little bank ac- count had been devoured. | Jean cried.
 | She did not want to leave the city, though she knew they had not been as happy as in the old town. But sh- knew 1t was best. So they returned | to the village, where they were warm lily welcomed It was likt changing a tight shoe for an old, easy one. And the moral?
 l Change one word of the proverb
 Better is a dinner of herbs where contentment Is than stalled OK and hatred thewith."
 To write something that will live and
 be sung by little children long after | you are dead
 Gus Fischer did that | You never heard of Gus Fischer-Wi | liam C.. Fischer of Philadelphia? l Well, no matter. He died the othei
 day. and l want to say. though the dis
 patches gave as his obituary just three ! lines, I should rather have written hi
 one successful song than to be the author of the best seller of the season. l You may be world weary or blase. yol
 may have been out of Sunday school thes' many years. but S
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that the average mind Is quite unable to grasp the ponderous philosophy of the fable.
 Now the setting of the story, as told by Apuleius. is convincing of the error, and, like MT. Blotton, we will go to the scene of the recital thereof and draw our interpretation from the narrator.
 Apuleius puts the story in the mouth of an old, ugly. beldame, who kept house in cave for band of robbers who had captured a young girl in her teens, whom the brigands held for ransom. and whom they committed to the care of the hag. The old scarecrow related to the young woman the story in an attempt 10 divert her thoughts from her distressing state of captivity; to minister to the dis eased mind of the captive: to rage out the written troubles of her brain, hoping that the story would act as an antidote to cleanse her stuffed bosom of the stuff that weighed upon her heart.
 Now, who looking in upon such scene could attribute to such an old "heck-cat" story teller the ability to grasp an under standing of soul conflicts:
 '' in this vessel of clay. In charge of a helmsman who knows not
 the way.
 On the ebbs and the floods of the tides
 of the day,
 To guide with precision this vessel of
 clay"
 Or who would indulge the thought that young girl in such distress could be diverted by story out of the very depths of profundity. Simply another case of Bill Stumps, his mark" but this set ting of the story is suggestive of a practi- cal interpretation.
 The story relates that Psyche, who was
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Latady

his wings staying upon a cypress tree hard by long enough to upbraid her for her suspicious. her credulity. and her curl oslty,.
 Psyche Is dsconsoate, and roams through the earth seeking Cupid, but in vain.
 She wDds him over, in spirit, however. and their union in spirit is perpetual.
 The philosophy of the fable is practical. The suspicious of women and their cred uity and curiosity, which are easily preyed upon, bring them to the greatest distresses. Their first love is a god, as it were and long as they are deaf to the envious suggestions of others, that love may be retained in their hearts in the deepest affection and most perfect security and confidence. But no man Is perfect and above reproach, and If wives will permit others to poison their minds as to the foibes, failing, or vices. if you please, of their husbands, and they arc foolish enough to institute a strict in- quiry, and as 1t were, shine the light upon their inner selves, they arc certain to ascertain either that they are. alas. what suspicion has suggested. or, being discovered in their suspicious by their husbands, they lose cast with them for ever. for there was never anything truer than the proverb: "Sospetto licentia fide. !" Suspicion is the passport to faith. for a suspicious person will believe anything. If their suspicious are verified. they de- stroy themselves; if they are discovered in their suspicious, they destroy their husbands.
 Love that hath eyes. is like bird of night,
 Outspying that which would be hid from sight"
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as he guides his goats. In 15 minutes after he was sworn in he organized a cleanup crusade
 After two terms as mayor he says he will go to a university complete his education and permanently enter poli- tics.
 Look out for Joe Sullivan,
 Why?
 Because, with all his spectacular meth ods, he is right inside. Here is his creed;
 Faith, prayer and perseverance will never fail you if you are right, and you are already a failure if you are wrong" "
 It is not mere moralizing to say that boy of 20 whose creed thus senses the dynamic power of rightness will go far in life.
 One of the prettiest pictures have seen is that of Mrs Anne Sques and her hap py family of seven children, the oldest only 10.
 The newspaper picture shows jolly. hearty Mrs. Sques at the head or her table cutting generous slices of bread for the healthy young kids. And there Is something besides bread on the table.
 The husband was killed in an accident, and Mrs. Sques receives a mothers pen sion of s7 per month for each child.
 Who pays it? The people of Cook county, III.
 Under the new Illinois law the county does not break up such family, sending the children to some institution. but pays the mother to keep the family to- gether.
 Every state should copy that law.
 Under the old system families like that of Mrs. Saues are ruined and the children are sent to county or state institutions where the children are stamped with ar influence that deprives them of self re- spect, character, enterprise and loyalty 10 the family Kno wing no home and nc family, they can have no love for them.
 The four young men recently hanged ir Chicago were raised in charitable insti' tutions The homeless child usually passes on to the reformatory-and the jail
 And the mother?
 Say the husband is killed by one ol those accidents so frequent in our in' duarial life or deserts his family. The mother works herself nearly to deatf trying to keep her brood of children. Ont
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has found service to perform in call ing which up to thls point has made the hest shift it could with ''gab' alone. 1t is an epoch making find, I think. Masses of men under the influence of 'gab' do many foolish things, but times there are when all the very maddest medley Of "gab," horn blowings and brass music cannot prevent the appearance of brain indeed, the success of brain. when heart goes along with it.
 This is the real reason, I suppose. that Wilson is democracy's candidate today. Nearly exhausted with horseplay-fairly winded with narrow bickerings-the con- venton suddenly found it's second wind and ran the New Jersey mans total up to nine hundred and some odd dele gates. Just what prompted a convention
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post he entered the hall of Congress and was moved quietly toward the dem ocratic cloak room Mir Outhwaite of Ohio was speaking as Colonel Herbert was moving along the outer aisle. when a member spied him and broke forth with Herbert, Herbert" He paused when Mir. Outhwaite generous ly said, T will yield five minutes of my time to the gentleman from Ala bama" There was no escape and Col onel Herbert had to speak. He pro- nounced with deep emotion his high appreciation of the honor and tribute. and 1t Is said that this was the first instance known where he was unable to restrain his emotions in public He was wholly unable to disguise his pro- found emotions at demonstration 30 great.
 To Colonel Herbert the entire coun- try is indebted for the efficiency of its national navy. Behind the guns of Dewey at Manila and those of Schley at Santiago was the efficiency of Hilary A. Herbert. Though advanced In age hs is still prosecuting his practice in the national capital
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Though deaf, 1t can hear all the har- monies of the universe
 What do you want to do that is good
 If you really want to do it. and try you
 will. As with Helen Keller, it may take
 infinite patience and striving, but
 The time will come when you shall
 open the door of your prison house and
 break from your cell. Because
 You are prisoner of hope
 Joe F. Sullivan of Imboden, Ark, is the
 youngest mayor in the world. He is not
 yet 21 years of age.
 He was elected by the joint effort of
 F young girls, two goats-and Joe him
 self.
 At the age of four the boy was stricken with paralysis, which lost him the use of his lower limbs. When he began go- ing to school he was drawn there in a little wagon, which he made, by two An
 gora goats he had trained. The goats also helped Joe sell papers, by which he supported his invalid mother and himself When his father died Joe quit school and made a business of de- l livering papers
 After being out of school for some time the boy, unable to walk step and weigh ing but 95 pounds, started in again. Al though behind the others, he not only | caught up. put WOil ScfSidi oNitOioi SifPe
 and a gold medal for making the highest grades.
 When he was through the town school Joe decided to run for mayor. | There were two other candidates, ex. perienced politicians, and the people took the young mans candidacy as a joke. With Joe it was no joke. He drove his goats to his speaking ap pointments and told the voters what h' Wc1Ild dn urh bo polp an advocate of equal suffrage. he ap pointed a dozen of his school girl friend, as his campaign committee. A stroke of genius. The girls canvassed the voters and made a strong plea for Joe. They told ths young men they would never speak tt them again if they did not vote fol Sullivan.
 He got more votes than both of tn, other candidates. Joe took over the reins of government and bids fair to guide 1t as Successfull,
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the roster as the commander of the regiment Personally disabled as were both the colonel and the lieutenant col onel, they stood in the way of the pro- motion of those who were still in ac- tive service on the field. Tn recogni- ton of this condition, Colonel Herbert wrote at once to the brigade com mander expressing the wish to be re- tired. Major l. P. Emerich, who was now in command, with great mag nanimity, protested against such ac- tion, insisting that Herbert had won distinction as a leader of his troops, and insisted that fairness demanded that he be promoted before he be suf- fered. to retire. Major Emerich was joined by other officers of the com mand in the protest. which resulted in Fthe retirement of Colonel Herbert with the full rank of colonel. The action was alike creditable to Colonel Her bert and Major Emerich The latter still lives an honored citizen of Mo bile.
 After equalization of the Confederate armies, Colonel Herbert located at Greenville in the resumption of the law
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From our first glimpse of him there at Seagirt, when a wild man came running with a bit of yellow paper that an- nounced him the choice of the con- vention at Baltimore, to this October day when we see him going strong like a seasoned athlete. giving and taking hard knocks, the transformation of the man seems well-nigh marvellous. Just now a quiet thinker wrapped in his stu- dies, we see him now changed in a trice to giant on the political platform. Just now we were shown a pencil picture of him reading Euripides' tragedies in that radiant home circle. now we see him
 talking quietly and earnestly, calling no man a liar, of things that matter terribly ttragedies still, but of Americas trage-
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dies now and not the GreeksD in the homes of these states.
 This man has a certain personality that heartens me. Both gods and devils have Personality. I suppose, yet his is one that carries a sort of beneficence that is reassuring and wholesome. His Is of a sort which. while I have not looked into his face nor felt his handclasp, still reaches to my desk here and gives me hope for America. It is something to have the scholar in politics. and it is great thing to find that scholar popular
 That wall of scholasticism which the grumblers feared would shut him out from applause of the toiling thousands. is seen now to have been an imaginary wall It is the last argument the profes- sional politician, forced to his last ditch,
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the state delegation to support the measure, and while this learned at torney alluded before the legislature to Colonel Herbert as misrepresenting the interests of the state, the assembly de- clined to instruct the members as de- sired and the whole scheme was killed Colonel Herbert now came to be rec ognzed as one of the safest custodians of the interests of the state. While not demonstrative gentleman, his merits came to be recognized in Congress as was shown by his appointment on the ways and means committee on which committee were such men as Reed Mckinley and Morrison. His district kept him in Congress as long as he would serve.
 In 1885 he was appointed chairman of the committee on naval affairs at the request of President Cleveland. In 1898 MT. Cleveland appointed him Sec retary of the Navy. So popular was Colonel Herbert in Congress that re- publlcans vied with democrats in dem- onstrations of qualification at his pro- motion to the presidential cabinet. Just after his appointment to this honored