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cess. Throughout his long life from the
time he entered the service of Prussia as
a member of the diet until the rising sun
of Emperor William II. dimmed his own
glory. he served his country, and served
| 1t we'll
| To each of us in his own sphere comes
the time. when we must acknowledge that
one or more of our ideas are wrong, that
| the nations we have formed are ill con-
| ceived.
When that time comes let us do as
| Bismarck did. Let us revise our former
| ideas Immediately. Let us not cling with
| the stubbornness of the little to false
| notions.
| If he could give in, we can.
Not even the great general can afford
| to cucumber his army with a mass of
useless. dragging baggage. The great
| man as well as the little must know what
/ to leave behind. Dead weight that he
carried uselessly wears down the bearer
more than live weight which may be
needed.
! So it is with ideas. Each of us marches
| to the battle with q certain amount of
mental baggage. Live luggage, ammuni-
tion for the fight, we do not feed, for we
know that 1t is precious stuff. But we
| must not fill our mental knapsacks with
the rubbish We have picked UP along the
| road. 1t will be in our way.
| Follow Bismarcks plan. When new
knowledge forces on you the conviction
that the old idea is wrong, let 1t take the
place of the old. Drop the outworn stuff
and forget 1t.
| We are not all Bismarcks, of course.
| But every one of us can learn from him
| In the hot weather in the city, when the
| houses cast no refreshing shadows such
as lie under the trees and along the fence
| rows in the country there are two mel
ancholy sights.
| One of them is to be seen in the slums.
There men and women and little. children
sweat and pant and live their lives among
sights and sounds and odors which defile
the air and make it pestilential.
| The other lies uptown where the
wealthy folks live-when they are in
town. Now they are summering by sea-
shore or lakeside or in the cool, breezy
mountains. Their houses stand tenane-
less, with doors and windows boarded up.
You may walk along row after row of
houses of the Wealthy without finding
one open.
In the slums the cutters swarm In the
| rich districts you may walk squares with
out seeing any one save an occasional
watchman or caretaker. The quarters of
| the wealthy are almost as deserted as
the ruins of Babylon. At night one might
almsot hear in fancy the hooting of the
owl and the yelping of the jackal that
make the silence more pronounced in the
wreck that was Nineveh.
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mere fact or mere dogma gets translated
into emotion. beauty, rhythm. and the
factual content is modified, as may be
necessary. to suit the form. It is all very
well for the orthodox to point to Mrs.
Eddy as the supreme example of feminis-
tic domination in modern religion. What
religion, modern or ancient. ever got IT.
self into any shape without feminism2
Logic. mathematical measurement, and
scientific exactness cannot express the
simplest canon of religion. which puts the
mystical and romantic touch upon its
creeds as well as upon its rituals. 1t Is
intuition. not reason, that keeps faith
alive.
3. Feminism In politics expresses itse1G
in social service, where 1t links religion
with state governments in q new and
more wholesome suboriination. Because
the new definition OF government is scien-
tific service, the women are no more to
be kept out of politics than they can be
kept out of the family. The welfare OF
the group, the protection of the weak.
the supply of food to the human house,.
hold, is one mode of the activity OF the
feministic quality in men. 1t is not un-
manly for the soldier to become poet or
artist or novelist. Neither is 1t unwom-
AMY for the mother or daughter to be-
come head of the chldrens bureau that
is or the head of the housing bureau
that is to be. The worst that can be
said of politics is that 1t is sordid be-
cause 1t has lost irs romance Feminisn
is actually bringing us romance for polit-
ical economy and will set our laws to
music.
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erford repaired southwark on a mission
of utter determination Every day of
the march sharpened his zest for the
fray, as well as that of his fierce fol-
lowers on the war path. He slid into
the south as stealthily as possible, and
on reaching the scene of impending hos
tility found that the whites had betak-
en- themselves into a strong steekade,
which had been built about the resi-
dence of one of the settlers named Minis
which name was given to the fort To
gether with his picked warriors, he
stealthily inspected the fort unobserved,
studied it's weakness and its strength
and repaired into the deep forest to await
the time to attack
He saw that to undertake to storm
the strong barricade meant disaster tc
his army, and with genuine genious OF
generalship de decided to await the IA
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"HERE is no more sick babies to be
There are no more weary mothers
to be relieved.
In the houses of the poor little children
no longer lift their thin hands for food
The factories hold no more child toilers,
with backs wearied by constant bending
and hands cramped with work and eyes
blinded with flying dust and minds stunt
ed by lack of opportunity.
There are no more poor boys to be
taught
Through the dark night streets of the
city and along the miscalled great white
ways walk no young girls. doomed to
lives of indeseribable sadness.
There is no more misery!
Throughout the world all is lightness
and gayety and happiness.
So a woman of Massachusetts, has built
a house for her IL Pomeranian dogs!
Listen to the description of the house.
Is it not finer than the kennels of many
of our poor?
Twelve Pomeranians. each with q
whole room to himself, in q house which
they have to themselves, take the prize
for dog luxury. The dogs have valet,
electric lights, individual beds, bath
twice a day, a back yard to play in,
leather chairs and soft rugs to try their
teeth on
No, you need not rub your eyes and
read again. 1t is not a description of a
sanitarium for sick babies, for heat worn
children and their wearied mothers. 1t
is not place of rest for poor girls over
come in the battle with the world.
1t is a palace for dogs. And a woman
built it.
In the city in which this woman lives
there are great factories of various kinds.
There are slums. There are sordid homes
of working people, The dog lover need
travel only very short distance from
her own luxurious home to find distress
and poverty.
There is love in her heart But 1t is
misdirected love.
The valet who washes these dogs might
be employed in taking out sick children
no doubt, he would prefer to do so, for
the wage worker there is sympathy for
the poor.
Perahps his mistress would shrink from
the thought. What her own servant
come In close contact with the poor!
Surely she may read in her Bible how
the gentle Savior washed the feet of His
apostles.
When the woman of our story enters
her dogs house no doubt she is greeted
by a chorus of barks that tell her of
their appreciation of her care of them.
But outside the children of the poor
wait.
Wbap tho uor1d Wapts fo avpraSu ffa
appreciation of patience under trials and
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check his warriors. but he would daily
persuade them that the pear was not
yet ripe. and that when the set time
should come the victory would be the
easier. Weatherford fully understood
that when the dogs Of war were turned
loose he would have to rely entirely on
the force of their frenzy and excitement
for success, while he quite understood
the colleetable qualities of the whites,
who even when surprised, rally and re-
rally with a growing coolness for the
struggle.
Thus the days became monotonous alike
to the inmates of the fort and the war;
riors hid away in the woods, but the
effect on each was diametrically different.
This was just as Weatherford wished It,
and while he found it not easy to hold
in check his warriors thirsting for Hood.
he was enabled to do 50 till the fatal
day arrived.
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honored grave. The flair face and blue
eyes of the long ago are. forgotten; and
other Juliets appear before the footlights
and are applauded, and other audiences
sit, where, in the old days, men and
women were dazzIed by the splendor of
the beauty. and the acting, of Georgiana
Bellamy. But who stops to think of the
tragedy of a lost woman once brilliant
and lovedl Never did Ovid say a truer
thing than when he wrote,
"Sero respicitur tellus, ubi fune souto
currit in immensum panda carina salum."
SHAKESPEARE WOMAN"
1t was thus that Charles Lamb de-
scribed the remarkable actress known as
Dora Jordan-"S "Shakespeares woman. -
She made her first appearance on the
stage as Phebe, in f'As You Like It." in
1777, when she was only IA years old. Ten
years later she scored a perfect success
as Rosalind, in the same play, and for 80
years she held the sway of her wonderful
witchery over her audiences in London,
and Ireland.
All the old annalists write with rapture
of Dora Jordans voice. Lamb said, Her
voice sank, with her steady melting eye,
into the heart" The essayist Hazlitt
says of her. "She was the child of ma
ture, whose voice was a cordial to the
heart because it came from It, rich, full.
like the luscious juice of the rich grape
to hear whose laugh was to drink nectar;
she talked far above singing and her
singing was like the twang of Cupid 5
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vorable moment to strike the fatal blow.
He hid his warriors in the deep woods.
at a point sufficiently remote from the
fort not to be detected. allowed no camp
fires to blaze during the night, and no
demonstration that would occasion alarm
at the fort, while he would daily recon-
noitre the situation and watch how life
went inside the stoclSade.
Day after day passed in silence, silence
into inactivity, then into indifference, and
this in turn, into negligence. The growth
of this spirit within the fort was matter
of announcement to Weatherford on the
outside. several miles away, and this he
was persuaded would continue to grow.
When 1t should have become a spirit of
lassitude, toward which 1t was tending,
then would Weatherford strike. Loung-
ing within the walls of the stockade in
duced exceeding restlessness, and by de-
grees the inmates of the fort would sally
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evil report. amidst privations and injus-
tice.
For nearly 20 centuries the Christian
church has had preachers. men who have
expounded with beauty the word of God
There has been only one Chrysostom.
His golden tongue still breaches
Besides preaching and inveighins
against the teachings of evil, Chrysostom
wrote much. One of the best known OF
his writings has for its text,
mo one can harm the man who does
not injure himself
1t was true in the time of Chrysostom
10 centuries ago, 1t was true before his
day, and it holds good now.
Others may malign you, may seek tc
besmirch your name before men. They
may injure your reputation perhaps.
But your character they cannot touch.
In the business of life, which is the
making of life rather than the making
of living, an important part Is the
keeping of ones own self respect and
good opinion. The world may misjudge
mans motives, may set obstacles in his
path, may defraud him of his rights. Fol
a time 1t may hinder his progress toward
the goal which he knows to be worthy
In the end the righteous cause triumphs
but too late sometimes for the earthly
Justification of the man who upheld it.
But real. true, lasting injury can come
only to a man through his own misdeeds
Others may seek to harm him, but
mo one can harm the man who does
not injure himself
I have always striven to learn some
thing new, and when found myself
compelled thereby to revise NY former
ideas 1 have done so Immediately and
have prided myself on my action, for / al
ways place my country above myself
Bismarck.
Thus spoke the maker OF modern Ger
many" first chancellor of the mighty
German empire He was a man great in
warfare and statecraft, who converted
Germany from collection of small, Jar
ripg kingdoms and principalities into one
of the greatest powers of modern times
He ruled emperors-greater than that, he
ruled himself. The extract from his
writings printed above proves that
he was 100 great man to cherish a
mistaken idea. When he found that one
of his ideas were wrong he discarded it,
a 8 good workman throws away worm
out tool.
One of the most imperious of men, an
cient or modern-ask any middle aged or
old German who knows the history of his
country. for instance-he was not too
proud to acknowledge himself in the
wrong.
Why?
Because he slways placed his country
above himself
Read there the secret of the mans sue
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family. slaves and stock seized by the
Indians, and held under close guard
against his return. Not only so. but
they laid hold on him also, and notified
him that they would kill him and his
If he did not join them and lead them
against the whites 1t was now death,
or submission to their demand. the lat
ter of which was, after all, not difficult
for Weatherford, for the denunciation
heard by him on every hand, revived the
old fire In his heart, and copplete as
the change was, as result of his visit
to his brothers, he now cordially ac-
quiesced in their demands and announced
himself ready to lead them to the field.
Under these compulsory conditions
Weatherford fed afresh his hatred for
the white race, recalling that which his
uncle had instilled, and with all his be-
ing he threw himself into the cause of
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Literary Treasures

Hidden away in national museums
and Libraries, and zealously guarded
are number of priceless manuscrips
and books which, but for a fortunate
chance, might have been lost to the
world. The chief treasure of a museum,
at st. Petersburg is the Oldest known
Greek manuscript OF the New Testa-
| ment. which was about to be burnt by
the monks of Syrian monastery. when
by lucky chance, one of tho priests.
struck with the antiquity of the man
uscript, interfered in time to save
what had been thought to be valueless.
says Tit-Bits.
The incident reminds one that the
Magma charta, which is carefully
guarded In a glass case in the British
Museum, was saved from destruction
by Sir Robert Cotton, who. so the story
goes, one day had entered his tailor's
shop precisely at the moment whei,
the knight of the scissors was about
TO cut up for patterns the ancient
looking document with its many impos-
ing seals attached. Although Sir Rob-
ert did not at first recognize the value
or the document, he judged 1t was
something of historic interest. and pur-
chased 1t from the tailor for a few shil-
lings. After passing through the hands
OF various generations of his family
IL at last found resting place in the
British Museum.
An interesting story, too, is attached
TO valuable Greek manuscript which
came to the Bishop of Uganto in a star
thng way. IL was wrapped round a fish
and brought into the bishops pres
ence. BY the merest chance he ex-
amined 1t, and found 1t to be Fart of a
treatise thought for many centuries 10
be lost The worthy bishop hastened to
the stall OF the salesman in the marker
where the fish had been bought Just in
time to save the remaining pages of
this literary treasure.
one of the most highly priced manu-
scripts of recent times. that of an
Memoriam." was rescued just IN time
from cupboard In house where Ten
nyson had lived for some time as A
bachelor. AS a matter of fact, il was
to the poet hnself that the book
wherein he had Transcribed the original
draft had been hastily thrown into the
cupboard where he had been accus-
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THE tumult Of passion raised by Te-
eumseh. and the full knowledge of
the proposal which he had made
TO Weatherford, as well as the we'll
known fact of his kinship with certain
influential families In lower Monroe of
their attitude to the Indians, and last of
all, the hesitation of Weatherford to as
sumo command, and his strange visit. to
his brothers-all of these things awoke
suspicion and placed the Indians on their
guard. Here was a reversal of human
sentiment as sudden and as powerful as
possible. Weatherford had been idolized
till suspicion was aroused, when his pre-
sumed treachery was watched with much
eagerness. On his return from the visit
to his brothers. Weatherford was cha
grined and doubly disappointed to find
that his premises had been invaded, his
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to America from a heather" country
was askd what his people did to pro-
tect the children.
Protect the children" he echoed, In
amazement. I'm my county children need
no protection. Everyone is good To
them"
How about here?
1t is only in highly civilized, advanced
nations that child labor laws are need
ed. In the others the children are the
universal care.
True. in many of the savage countries
'ne men do not work. but cast the bur-
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toned to keep pickles and Jams. When
the friends sent by the poet to recover
the manuscript arrived on the scene
the contents Of the cupboard had been
removed by the landlady. who was lust
then engaged in her task of house,
cleaning, and who tartly advised her
visitors that they had come none too
soon. in so much as she would That day
have burnt all the trash" she had
found.
Among other valuable manuscrips
discovered by chance might De men,
TONED the famous journal of his italian
travels written by Montaigne now
looked upon as one of the greatest
OF treneh literary treasures: while
Millions Commonplace Book. wherein
We're entered the rough notes and plans
OF his poems. which for over 200 years
was lost finally turned up in the gar-
ret of neglected house in London.
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den Of providing food and clothing ON
the women of the families But that Is
another question.
In the ancient days, the good book tells
us, all sorts of dire penalties were threat
ened against nations which sacrificed
their children to Moloch and made them
pass through the fire.
In compelling children Of and 10 years
or even yosnger to work for their lve-
lihoods. taking away from them the child
hood which is In many respects the most
prescious portion Of our lives, are We
Americans not making children pass
through the flre?'
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When the world wants to express its
appreciation of patience under trials and
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-28
OREGON SCHOOLS FOSTER
HOME WORK FOR PUPILS.
BY Now Plan They Get Credit For
Daily Industrial Efforts.

How teachers In Oregon bring school
and home closer together by giving
school credit for industrial work at
home Is told with compelling interest
by Hon. L. r. Alderman, state super
intendent of public instruction in Ore
gon, in a pamphlet which the United
States bureau Of education is sending
free at the request of teachers.
Building fires, milking a cow, clean
Ing the barn, splitting and carrying in
wood, turning cream separator, clean
ing house, gathering eggs, feeding
farm animals, churning butter, prepar-
ing breakfast sweeping and scrubbing
floors, busting furniture, making beds,
sewing, washing and ironing the
child's own clothes, bathing, arriving
at school with clean hands and face
and with hair combed, practicing mu-
sic lesson, going to bed by 8 o'clock
every night, bathing and dressing the
baby, sleeping with window boards in
bedroom-these are q few of the du-
ties for which the teacher at Spring
Valley, Ore, allows credit in connec-
ton with regular school work.
The work is definitely measured and
allowed for. The child desiring credit
for home tasks brings to school slip
signed by the parent testifying to
what has been done. Ten per cent is
added to the final examination results
of all pupils Except eighth graders)
who enter and continue in the volun-
tary contest TO see which can obtain
the most of such credits. A certain
number of accumulated credits entities
the pupil to a holiday at the discretion
of the teacher, and in this one school,
at least, cash rewards are given to pu-
pills making the best record in accredit-
ed home tasks.
The experiment was so successful in
Spring Valley that it attracted the at
tention of the county superintendent
of the state, who this year made a spe-
cial trip in a body to observe the re-
suits of the home credit plan in this
school and then advocated the idea
everywhere. Already schools in other
localities have tried the plan with sue
cess. modifying the details in accord
ance with local needs, but always re-
tanning the central principle of home
and school cooperation.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-28
DOCTOR DEFENDS PIE EATING
DR.. Woods Hutchinson Also Urges
Midnight Suppers as Good Habit.

DR.. Woods Hutchinson, the medical
hard boiled eggs as articles of diet re-
Gently. He asserted that the simple
diet was not the correct thing and
that an after the theater supper was
not injurious. His theory is-eat when
and where and what one wants. A
few of his tips on dieting follow:
"Pie.-Almost a necessity to life. Hot
mince, cold mince. lemon with or
without the meringue), pumpkin, apple,
raiSin or almost any kind of fruit pie
is good. Take one slice after the mid
day meal and a big slice after the
evening meal.
"EggS.-The harder they come the
better if you know how to eat them.
A hard boiled egg is generally better
than soft boiled egg, because you in
stinctively chew a hard boiled one,
while you just gulp the soft ones. If
you know how to eat the soft ones, they
are just as good as ones cooked hard.
"Steaks-Every one should have his
steak served frequently. If you like it
ldlC, lluNC II AuiNs puI OIISL' IL JON
like steak well done, have it well done.
One is as good as the other. There is
no real choice except in matter of
taste.
"The only kind Of pie that isn't good
is the kind mother used to make.
Maybe you remember that soggy, sub
stantlal undercrust that melted, and
yet did not melt, in your mouth. 1t
was a crust whose sickness mother
had absolutely waterproofed against
the attacks of the digestive juices. But
the modern pie, with its crisp, starchy
crust, is entirely different"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-28

the Cincinnati West; John Wonder
ly of the Chicago and Erie; Alexan-
der Larkin, Mahoning division; P.
Nixon of the N. Y. s. and w. r. R.,
and William r. Martin of the Allie
gheny.
Not one of these men has ever
varied once from the pinnacle of per
fection since he was given his name
on his cab. The pride it inspires alb
solutely battles description. Many
of these men are known in every
city they pass through. Passengers
frequently delay their trips till it is
possible to travel with them. The
engines they drive are fairly re-
splendent. These precious locomo-
tives, named instead of numbered,
are nurtuerd like children, and woe
be to the flippant bystander who tries
to mar their cleaning sides.
1t is not possible to make any ap-
plication for the named engine, and
no engineer knows when it will come
to him. 1t may be conferred after
prosaic years of fine service or after
some sensational act of signal gal
lantry. For example, All -ander
Larkin was instructed to Sc, &
engine into the roundhouse Il
pairs and general cleaning, and n
it came back to him, 10, there
his own name in place of the nu :
ber. So unexpected was the dis
tinction that the old engineer broke
into sobs at the sight of it.
1t is to this system of personal re-
wards and personal responsibilities
that the Erie Railroad attributes the
most remarkable fact in it's history
That it has carried 225, 100000 of
people in the past eight years and
has had only one fatality.