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becomes the vulgar determination to COM
pei admiration. Lacking normal and
wholesome fellowship in things of rea-
son, these children naturally substitute
for that an irrational intimacy that is
first mawkish and then runous. The
church, the school, the home-what are
they doing to avert the gathering storm,
the ripening tragedy? They have the
clue to the situation. Some wholesome
Instruction in sex hygiene is within their
REACH, though the task is difficult in
deed. If a girl would be known as a
lady, must she not move secure in a re-
gion where the very suggestion of sex
tragedy does not come? Instinctively she
will so reverence the souls of her boy
friends as she reverences her own soul
The sacred fact of personality, it's in
Violable dignities, will be more to her
than all the meretricious glories of "con-
quests And the boy who would attain
to the reputation of gentleman will
ignore any accidental shocks to his sense
OF propriety and convention, because he
will assume that his girl friends are
sweet and innocently pure and incapable
of playing tricks upon his imagination
To produce such girls and none other,
such boys and none added of heart and
brain, is the business of home, school
and church
But can anyone guess where the diff
ference is between such an attitude and
that of boys and girls in a savage COM
munity, where the virtue of chastity is
accepted as a supreme law of social life
though raiment may be almost lacking T?
1t is not the raiment that makes the
delicacy, nor is it the delicacy that makes
the raiment; but it is long centuries of
custom that have shaped all these.
Ruskin's seven lamps of architecture
have their counterpart in the seven canons
of clothing But who shall name these
seven? Certainly the first must be called
Reverence. The essential vulgarity Of
much that we call dress is that it lacks
self reverence and reverence for the rights
of others. Talk of 'Lotzean self-feelingr'
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Did you ever realize that you are a
bundle of appetites, of desires. of affec-
tions, of forces that you cannot measure
and of tendencies you cannot fathom?
Did you ever realize that you in your
heredity and in your soul, whose origin
you do not know, nave inherited the wis
dom and experiences, the essence and
| results of innumerable lives?
This is no mean kingdom over which
you are called to exercise control There
is in you something of your father and
fathers father, of your mother and moth
er's mother, of remote generations whose
names you never heard.
There are also in you "reminiscences
of yourself, memories that elude you and
yet very potent in shaping your
| life.
Just as you are the heir of the past,
SO you are the creator of the future.
Your children ard chldren's children.
through the generations OF the future
Will be better or worse because of what
you do. what you think, what you are.
Have you measured these things? Fave
you contemplated " hat your rulership of
self may mean?
failure you are shipping, but the happi-
ness or misery the strength or weat-
ness. the health or disease of those un-
born.
Not in one single moment of our lives
do we live unto ourselves alone We ar,
helping or hurting others all the while
For kngship means responsibility and
in rulership over self is involved obliga-
ton unto others.
Whatever your station i'm life, you are
king or queen in your own right
Rule yourself
Follow the royal road of success. not
only for your own sake, but for those
you love and for those who will come
after you.
| The world called him Impractical a
| dreamer. Yet may 1t not be possible
that 1t has been the world that did the
dreaming likewise that its dreams have
been nightmares of error, of false self
consciousness, Of shadows. of passions
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There were wolds on worlds, sys-
TENS on systems, till the mind was be-
wildered at their contemplation. The
infinite spaces We're populous with orbs.
There were.stars SO distant that the light
and disappeared trilions of miles short
of them. Around these suns were innu-
merable other planets. peopled by other
races, on which were enacted other trag-
edes.
On through the infinite silence swung
the worlds, the suns and the systems.
in perfect order and harmony. Outward
to the limits of vision and still outward
through unthinkable distances marched
the glittering companies, regiments and
armies of worlds. And SO perfect were
the plans of the Commanding General
that there were no false steps, no clashes,
no faltering ranks. Every commanding
sun was in his place. as were the planets
and moons the celestial privates, and all
moved with the precision of perfect
machine
Before this sublime spectacle the wor-
ries of the world dwindled it's fevers
grew cool and the complaints of the hu-
man fell silent. The questioning of God
became the babble of child who does
not understand. The talk of chaos was
the dscordant squeak of mouse among
the swelling harmony of the spheres.
The newspaper man had caught a
glimpse of the real. Henceforth he de-
cded that in some sort he would attempt
to give the vision voice. He knew no
better avenue than through his accus-
toned work, for the modern newspaper
is supposed to stand, above all else, for
real things.
Why not be a king in your own world,
not a king over others, but king over
yourself?
If YOU fail TO exercise self sovereignty
Won are like a ruler who abdicates, who
confesses himself 100 weak to sit upon his
throne.
Such a ruler is Il gutter. Don't yon be
gutter.
Did You ever realize that your body Is
made up of many lives, that it is full
of organisms and that your own will Is
the ruler Of this pcpulous realm?
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Y-M GLLlVRAYS CHCANERY-By B. F. Riley

grievances. Col. Marinus Willett was
chosen by the President for this delicate
and difficult function.
Taking a ship at New York. Colonel
Willett was Just II weeks reaching
Charleston, from which point he I'M
mediately set out along the Indian
trails on horseback for the region OF
the Chattahoochee. He was served by
faithful Indian guides and through
many days of hard riding he proceeded
to his destination where he had ar
ranged meeting with McGillivray and
all the great chiefs Conditions were
now favoring McGillivray. for he well
knew that he had produced fright at
the national capital and was abund-
antly prepared for the result which lie
was now nursing. According to pre-
arrangement, Colonel Willett and Col
onel McGillivray met at the town OF
Ocfuske, ON the Tallapoosa river. Me-
Giuivray found his match in Colonel
Willett, who was as skilled in the art
of diplomacy as was McGillivray, but
without his unscrupulousness
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self. You may make him far less de-
cent; you may flood him with sala-
cious sentiments of which he has al
ways been innocent. Yet in London and
New York and Birmingham there are
numberless persons who measure social
safety, as the first New Workers did.
by the number of garments society
dons. What we must learn is that the
more sex emphasis and the more mys-
terry, so much the more allurement there
is in complex society. 1t is in this
region that boys and men, yes, and
girls and women, too, become degen-
crate by diseased imagination. Here
is the psychological danger of clothes.
Protection will be found in giving
children a frank and wholesome fell
lowship, surrounded by the sanctities of
home. Boys and girls must be guard
ed from the dangers of conventional
mystery, while reverence is still pre-
served. Without such wholesome and
frank fellowship in the home, what
chance has civilized boy to be an in
telligent and clean gentleman?
So long as mystery abides, so long
the defiance of convention has its own
perils. Every breach of custom, every
change of fashion, even the occasional
donning of gala dress or evening at
tire. is charged with danger, lets loose
currents of psychic voltage which can
burn human souls. Such lightnings play
around every social organism! Such
tragedies are carried in coats and pet
ticoats
Its difference is the tragedy and
the beauty and the flashing peril of
dress. Festive raiment has from time
immemorial held a singular lure. In fes-
tivals do men and women exchange
habiliments and strut in a Gallo mas
qDerade. We all know how sadly the
Anglo-Saxons and the Germans per-
form this ceremony, but the Latin ma
tions do it naturally and we try to
initiate them. The coryphee. garbed as
quaint masculine creature, does not
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jected to by the commissioners of Geor-
gia on the one hand and by the In
dams on the other. Conditions were
growing worse instead of better, much to
the delight of Alexander McGillivray who
would produce such a iuncture as would
eventuate in his final enrichment. With
out the knowledge of either of the other
parties, he was pulling the wires with the
hand of an adept sehemer. After all the
negotiation, therefore. the whole affair
proved a fiasco.
Still something must be done. Condi-
tions could not remain as they were. and
border warfare was continually mmi-
nent. The government was prostrated
by the revolution, and a general war
with the Indians might invite an inter-
ference on the part of both England and
Spain. President Washington was much
worried and perplexed, and summoned to
his aid the ablest councillors. The sit
uation was exceedingly grave, and a sim
gle misstep might plunge the country into
the most disastrous of wars.
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CONCERNING CLOTHES II-By George Eaves D. D.

existence; but on every hand we have
proofs that convenience is constantly
sacrificed to display, or to some moro
or less obscure motive of fashion, es-
sentially decorative.
In western lands man has chosen tho
line of convenience, since life has be-
come more strenuous and he has
yielded to woman his former almost
complete monopoly of dress as orna-
ment. Woman has therefore cultivated
the art of fine raiment and has made
it a means of arresting attention and
even of awakening desire. For it is
acknowledged that sins against chas-
tity actually increase in direct ratio
TO the "civilization" or dressing of So
ciety. Such sins are most common, not
among naked savages, but where fash
ion rules most imperiously and where
most attention is given to the art of
sumptuous clothing. That is where
libidinous passion makes its grand as
sault on womanhood and creates a
white slave traffic. And the women
have themselves largely to blame be-
cause they affect styles of costume
that appeal to the abnormal psychol-
ogy of their masculine contemporaries.
rendered abnormal by all this mystery
and the elaborateness and this sex en-
phasis through many generations.
1t would be impossible, for instance,
In the south seas, or among the Af-
rican tribes who go nude. to find a
group of lads gaping around an eS-
hlbition of native girls in tights" 1t
would be equally impossible for a lady
member of the arstocracy of New
Guinea to earn vast sums by bare
legged dancing as it is said a member
of the British aristocracy is now do
ing in New York. Why? The question
needs no answer. To those people there
is no indecency, because there is no
mystery. And here is a point for mis-
sionaries: You do not increase chas-
tlty or decency by compelling your ma
tive FiJian or Papuan to clothe HIM
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order to extort from interested mer-
chants tribute to quell the disturbance.
He would threaten Spain with America.
and America with Spain. thereby pro-
dueing alarming conditions in the COM
mercial world. and from nations and
merchants alike he reaped booty.
Exasperated to a pitch almost un-
controllable, Washington at one time
thought of a war of determination. but
this would involve the lives and prop
erty of the people of the whole-south,
involve the country seriously with
England and Spain. and leave stain
on the American government and the
idea was abandoned. Resourceful as he
was. Washington had practically
reached the limit of suggestiveness
when it occurred to him To appoint a
secret agent charged with the mis-
sion of inviting a big council of the
Indian chiefs to repair on horseback
all the way from Alabama and Georgia
to New York, then the seat of national
government, in order to confer with
him in person in the adjustment of all
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By James A. Edgeron

catechism or a creed. He said, Low
est thou me?'
When asked as to the command
ments he gave two. and love is the
burden of both-love thy God and love
thy neighbor
| There is but one royal road to sue
cess. That is the street called Straight.
The man who follows any other road
is headed toward trouble, and sooner
or later he will get what is coming
| to him.
| A straight line is the shortest dis
tance between two given points. A
strainght man is the quickest to arrive
at the point toward which he aims
| This, of course, is on the theory that
the straight man moves All the eth
ical standards in the world will hardly
make a sluggard arrive
| Let no young man make the mistake
of thinking that he can hoodwink and
outwit the universal law of things
| The moral law is most important
| part of this universal law
Let no man, young or old, imagine
that he can long delude even his fell
low men. Day by day the intelligence
VI tue race luCTedSeS day Dy DAY there
! is a growing insisteince that every one
| play fair
| The man who said that might makes
| right" was a literary crook. Lincoln
stated the real law when he reversed
the formula and made it read, Fright
makes might
He proved his words by his works.
1t was because he was right that placed
Abraham Lincoln among the gigantic
figures Of modern times.
The consciousness of being right
| gives man nerve, backbone and con-
! fidence in himself. He knows he has
| solid backing.
| The business of the world is being
| done more and more on the basis Of
confidence. The i;ioral defective is inn
| possible in this now field of commerce.
The merchant who has an established
| reputation for honesty has a capital
that cannot be deposited in banks. The
late J. r. Morgan testified that his
loans were made to men of character
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great mystery beyond. I shall write with
care and only in general way. l was
mere child when Booth was killed; but
as the years came and went, many OF
those who had been the young actor S
friends became my acquaintances some
of them were my kinsmen. I came to
know theatrical people who were on the
stage the night Mr.. Lincoln was assassi-
mated, when Laura Keen's company
played "Our American Cousin;" and
remember quite well the old theatre, now
destroyed, I believe. stood at the bed
side, only a few years ago, of an aged
man who was dying. He had been Booth 5
friend, and told me~-and yet shall not
write what he told me. 1t will do no
good.
In the same room with Laura Ida Booth
the day she sat in my study, there was
a manuscript copy of several entries that
Booth had made in his journal: 1t will
be remembered that Mr.. Lincoln's assas-
sin expected to cross from the Maryland
side of the Potomac river to King George
county, in Virginia, within few hours
after shooting the President. But he,
and Harold, who was with him, had to
hide for several days on the Maryland
side of the river, because of the United
States ghp boats which were on the look
out for blockade runners on the Potomac.
While in hiding Booth continued his GUS
tom of writing in his journal. When his
body was dragged out of the Garret barn.
he having been shot and the barn being
in flames, upon searching his body they
found his personal journal. I give few
lines therefrom: After being hunted like
a dog through swamps and woods, and
last night chased by gun boats till |
was forced to return wet, cold, and starry
ing, with every mans hand against me,
| am here in despair. And why? For
doing what Brutus did and was honored
for doing, and what made William Tell
a hero Then the diary proceeds to ex-
press the tortures of conscience; he fears
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and more marvellous still It has survived
the barnacles who fastened themselves
upon 1t for selfish or class ends And 1t
is carrying forward its gospel of regen-
eration Of health and of social brother
J hood until it shall conquer the world
Many are deferred from seeking religion
because there are hypocrites who profess
! IL. Would these people cease trying tn
make money because there are counterfeit
coins in circulation?
! A thing must never be condemned be-
cause it has limitations Rather are these
unintentonal testimonials to its worth
For were it without merit no one would
care to initiate it.
The fact that there are wolves iVsheep's
clothing is no reflection on the sheep
/ That there are imitation diamonds does
not detract from the value of the real
stone. That anyone assumes a virtue he
does not possess is an unconscious tribute
| to that virtue.
| There only be an imitation where
there is a real article to be Initiated
| Otherwise there would be no medel Nor
would there be an incentive. Men only
| counterfeit those things which people es-
| spurious. So the existence of the spu-
rious always proves that somewhere is
the genuine.
The fact that there are imitation relig-
ionists is very sincere fiattery to the true
religionists. That there are hypocrites Is
all the more reason that everyone else
should seek to be really good. All are
not false. There Is truth somewhere
After ALI much of the hypocracy We
think we see In others may come from
onr MISUNDERSTANDING of them. We are
never qualified to judge another until we
| can put ourselves in his place. SEQ through
1 his eyes and feel with his consciousness
| After that we shall not desire TO Judge
| him. Our main concern is to get right
ourselves. Then we shall be surprised
to see how nearly others are right.
| Ii you would realize how beautiful the
world is get beautiful in your own spirit
It is wonderful what a transformation
it works. Try 1t.
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ent with a proposal to the national COM
missioner. which proposal was astound-
ing and startling. Surrounded by large
number of chiefs, McGillivray submitted
his unreasonable proposal This occurred
in April. 1857.
The proposal in brief was that the
general government make large and
unreasonable grants with the alterna-
tive of a prompt acceptance or that of
a declaration of war on the first of the
following August, just four months
hence McGillivray knew that the pro-
posed conditions would not be accept
ed. and he also knew the consequence
of a war to the young nation. Mat
ters were not growing better fast.
Here was a juncture for the skill of
the ripest statesmanship. The general
government and the state of Georgia
were as much out of accord as were
both with the Indians. 1t was an op-
portunity which the keen MeGilliyray
could not suffer to remain unused. 1t
was matter of bargain and trade with
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A MAD ACTORS LAST TRAGEDY-By Dr. W. E. Evans

papers, photographs, and wood cuts. AS
they were handed to me [ laid them care
fully on my desk and. inspected them.
There was a picture of Booth which had
been cut out of a magazine or newspaper.
| was quite familiar with the original
photograph, and have seen it, from time
to time, for many years. Then L held up
another picture and asked, "Who is this?'
That is my father--can you not see that
this man and the other are one?'' could
not see quite so well as that, but L could
see likeness.
Then | read letter after letter that had
been written her by former officials in
Washington and elsewhere. They were
generally encouraging to the woman seek
ing knowledge of her paternity. The
writer's said they found much in her story
to interest them, hoped she would prose-
cute her search, there might be more i'll
it than one supposed at first blush, and
SO forth and so on!
1 went through the mass of alleged
proofs. and as / was obliged to be honest
with her, turned my revolving chair un-
til | could look her square in the face,
and said, MY dear Madam | cannot
QtOtiNV you III a itdtttT illdl you ldke 81
seriously. I must be frank with you.
You have nothing in that batch of letters
and pictures to justify your claim to be
the daughter of John Wilkes Booth. /
ssve some articles in my desk that will
forever establish the fact that Booth was
killed in Caroline county Virginia, 1t
the Garret farm. He never escaped to
Tennessee"
Thereupon, reached to one of the desk
drawers. and drew out several officia |
envelopes. whose contents | read to my
visitor who listened with profound atten-
tion. I shall here disclose to the reader
the remarkable evidences that possessed
of the statement ] had made with such
emphasis. l shall not say how / came
by what l now have and hold. / shall
reveal no secrets that may involve the
Of tlGsn l,.la 10
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rather than to those with collateral
alone.
Collateral may be stolen or may de-
preciate in value, but character is thief
proof and is not subject to bull and
bear raids.
The temple of success is situated on
the street called Straight
In the early morning, after the death
of President Mckinley had been flashed
around the world, newspaper man,
weary with the labor of the night.
took his way homeward. Since even
ing the bulletins had indicated the
certain end. An entire nation was
shocked and stunned. and in every
capital of the world were expressions
of sympathy and grief Each click of
the telegraph instruments was articu-
lated with sorrow, while underneath
this note was one of indignation at the
dastardly agent of murder who had
conceived the deed. Here was a new
force that was portent, and men
looked at the future with foreboding.
one reporter had remarked. "If there
is God he has left this world to he
ruled by chance and chaos"
Out Of this turmoil the newspaper man
went into the night. The hour was an
preaching the dawn. and there was ST.
lence over the city. The only sounds
heard We're the occasional shrill crow OF
a cock, the distant bark of a dog and a
soitary hoof beat echoing from some
neighboring street. Men might be torn
by grief and frenzy, but nature was nm
moved. The ruler of a populous nation
had fallen. but through all the excitement
and change here were stability and peace.
Inc great blocks of brick and mortar
loomed the same as on yesterday. The
distant mountains stood as they had
stood for centuries.
overhead the stars shone with an nm
Wohted pr1shtness. Low TO the west was
Orion, to the north lay the polar star
anu the bear. to the east was a brilliant
planet yellowing in the dawn. and arch
ing across the zenith was the Milky way,
sueWh IKE dust with the suns. All the
numberless consultations stood exactlv
as they had stood at the birth Of the first
man.
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The next step led to the appointment
OF DR.. James White as the superintend-
ent of the Creek Indians. DIR. White was
cool and cautious. a skilled diplomat,
and was familiar with Indian treachery,
while he had the advantage of enjoying
to degree their confidence. lie was not
without sense of self-relianee in the
undertaking, and if he could not succeed
in the ratification of a treaty, he would
SO probe into the situation as to CLEAN
facts which would enable the government
the better to pursue its policies He
knew McGillivray WELL and was not averse
to tilt in diplomacy with this arch
plotter and schemer. He at once wrote
to McGillvray from Cusseta, setting forth
his mission and that which he proposed
to accomplish. The reply was one of
equivocal phraseology, lengthy shrewd
evasve. 1t might mean anything or
nothing. and was susceptible to a va
riety of interpretations. The upshot of
the correspondence was a meeting at
Cusseta. This time McGillivray was pres