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PERUVIAN DIRT is
RICHER THAN GOLD
GuanO Beds on Small Island Brings
Billion Dollars to South Ameri-
can Republic
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
| 1t is said that Humboldt added the
| greatest wealth to the reports of his
discoveries when he called the serious
attention of Europe to the guano beds
| of Peru. Near midway of the equator
and the Tropic of Capricorn on the Pc
! ruvian coast are the Chincha Islands
whose guano deposits have been worth
and silver of the worlds best mines.
For this fertilizer, the greatest of land
reviewers which is guano of these
islands is, s1,OoO,0o0,OO0 had been paid
up to the time that exports were pro-
hibited by Peru itself. Pan American
union contributor has reckoned that to
transport the weight of gold that this
product has been worth $1,000 pack
mules or a train of 80 miles in length
would be required.
These islands are small, high and
rocky, barren and uninviting to the
last degree; yet it is said there Is no
other spot of equal size on the earth's
surface from which SO much wealth has
been taken.
depth of 16O to 1S0 feet. The deposit Is
calculated to be thousands of years
old
Nowhere else in the world are ma
rlne birds found in so great quantities
as along this coast. Their presence in
such immense numbers Is due to the
quantities of fish found there upon
which the birds feed. Cormorants, peli-
cans, seagulls and marine crows, in
! clouds numbering hundreds of thous-
ands, may be seen flying low to or
from the islands. But the birds alone
could not have produced the Peruvian
guano. 1t was necessary to have the
rainless climate of these islands in or
| der to accomplish the result.
| Rain so seldom falls that aged men
| can count on the fingers of one hand"
| says one commentator, 1.-The time in
their lives when they have seen this
marvellous thing-water falling from
| the skies"
| Three constituents are needed for
plant life, nitrates, phosphates and pot
ash. These constituents are found in a
natural state In all good soils. although
generally not well balanced. nor are
/ the two latter found always in an
| available form. The constituent most
often wanting Is the nitrogenous. and
this is the one most easily lost and
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McGLLWRAY-B B. F. Rle

his aid forces the most opposite and con-
flieting into each of which he could in.
fuse the ardor of enthusiasm. The dan
ger embodied in McGillivray was not that
he was only bad, but that he was so ably
and atroeiously wicked.
In the veins of McGillivray ran the
blood of three races-Indian. Scotch and
French. His grandfather. Captain Mar
chand, was a French officer; his father a
scotchman. and his mother half-breed
Indian, and Alexander inherited the
strongest traits of each race. He had the
quick but seductive perception of the
French, the cool calculation and dogge<
persistency of the Scotch. and the sub
tie shrewdness and deep treachery of the
Indian. Embodying these traits pre-emi-
nently, he added to them the most fin
ished education of the times, being scho-
lastically trained in a school of high re-
pute in Charleston. He was a martinez
In conventional politeness, and as smooth
as Tallerand in ambiguous speech. He
spoke with elaboration. and his declara-
tlons were such as to mean almost any
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ings Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics,
now in course of publication, written by
Alfred Ernest Crawley, NJ. A., Fellow of
the Royal Anthropoligical institute and
of the Sociological society To this art
icle l acknowledge obligation for its
voluminous references to illustrative facts.
He starts by discarding reference to
animal analogies because animals have a
natural covering which is not of the in
dividuars choice, but his Inheritance,
and which rapidly adjusts itself to
changed climatic conditions.
Our authority as promptly rejects the
idea that man invented clothes to protect
himself from cold, since in the ages be-
fore dress was invented a certain natural
adaptation enabled primitive man, even
without clothing. to adjust himself to
varying degrees of cold or heat. Mr..
Crawley admits. however, that there is a
great advantage in clothing for extreme
climates since it enables man to move
freely in all sorts of weather when ami
mails are compelled to .seek shelter
Dress increases the static resisting pow
er of the surface of the body, just as
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There are many ways to play a crooked
game. A corporation that obtains spe-
cial privileges resorts to the same mean
advantage as the gambler who stacks
| the cards.
The merchant who misrepresents his
goods is morally on a par with the con-
fidence man who sells a gold brick.
A cheat on a large scale is just as
contemplate as a cheat on a small scale,
and he is more of a criminal because he
| Injuries more innocent people.
! Yet men who would not think of cheat
ing at cards, golf or baseball do cheat in
! this larger and more injurious way.
| 1t is time that we placed the code of
ethics in the business world on at least
as high a plane as it is in sports.
| Nothing is exactly like anything that
has been before. Life progresses by I'M
foldment, development, evolution, Thus
all things are forever new. They include
the old, yet are more than the old. There
Is infinite variety. Each moment has its
own revelation. Each presents in turn
something new and strange. some novel
beauty, some phase of truth never seen
before All of this slept in the germ OF
! the past, ready to unfold into life and
| manifestation under the brcodings of
progress
There is no loss Form and function
change, but being goes on The past is
ever included in the present. All Of its
results are here. All of the record Is
kept in the book of life. Not blade of
bofr of
the head is numbered. There Is an eter-
nal conservation of all the things that
are. Appearances come and go like the
clouds of the sky, but the sun shines on
forever. Nothing that is can ever cease
to be. It's shells or manifestations may
change, but the essence is immortal. No
experience can ever really be forgotten
The universe knows no such thing as
loss.
Life is continuous. 1t is unity In
that unity is never exhausted variety
Day by day presents some new phase of
the one life. All things that are hold
| relation to all things that ever have been,
to all things that ever will be. The loom
Of life goes on weaving, and the cloth of
gold 1t produces is continuous and seam
less. In it are an infinite number of
threads No one thread is like another
all in all. Each is distinct from the
others, and yet all go to make up the
one texture. Each thread may be COM
| pared to an individual life On they go,
now over, now under. this moment WIS.,
| ible from the upper side. the next mo-
ment from that beneath. But no thread
ever ceases. New colors are constantly
appearing, new combinations are ever
made. but It is ever the same cloth, made
| up from the same individual lives Sc
! the warp and woof of time go on to
eternity
We can never be bound to the old. The
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was such that in the requisite details
of execution he could fit and adjust
conditions with a skill SO marvellous
and precision so exact as to accom-
plish all to which he set his hand.
His mind was fertile and comprehen-
sive, his judgment unerring. his skill
adroit, his cunning the most foxy, his
resourcefulness without limit and his
absence of principle as void as space.
His plans were often a network of
tangled schemes so wrought into each
other that extrication would be impos-
sible to most men, but under the man.
ipulation of this master of craft and
intrigue they would be brought to a
elimination invested with SO much
plausibility as to divest them of any
open show of wrong. He was always
cool and collected, suave and smiling,
and could make so fair a show of mock
innocence backed by a cogency of as
sertion as to make the false wear the
mask of right.
The times In which McGillivray
throve were extremely favorable to the
development of the character which was
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his. That which he did would have
been unnatural with an ordinary man,
but to Alexander McGillivray and to
the period In which he lived, nothing
seemed more natural. The times were
out of Joint. his native gifts were ex-
traordinary. the period afforded just
the orbit for their exercise and his
boldness and cunning were pre-emi-
nent. There was an admirable fitness
of the times to the man and to his
peculiar gifts.
The close of the Revolution left the
country in deplorable condition. The
decentralization which follows In the wake
of war was one of unusual seriousness in
the young American states because of
the governmental transition from that of
colonial conditions to that of full-orbed
unity of free government. History has
failed to emphasize the moral and social
conditions incident to the Revolution,
which conditions imposed an unusual task
on the primitive craftsmanship of that
period. AT best, the undertaking of a
free government in these American wilds,
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thing or nothing. Apparently the fairest
and most loyal of men, he possessed a
depth of iniquity inconceivable, save to
one of his colossal proportions.
His father when a lad of only 16 had
run away from mis- home in Scotland,
sailed to America, and reached Charles
ton about 40 years before the outbreak
of the revolution. Penniless and friend
less, he engaged to drive pack horses,
loaded with pelfry from Charleston along
the Indian trails to the region of the
Chattahoochee. For his service on the
first trip he was given a large jack
knife. This was the germ of a subse,
quent fortune. Nothing was a rarer
possession at that time than a jack
knife. Before returning to Charleston,
the lad swapped his knife for a number
of deer skins which commanded an ex-
orbitant price in the Charleston market.
Realizing a snug sum from their sale,
Lachlan McGillivray invested In the most
marketable commodities, and in each
shift of his capital he reaped large gains,
so that by the time he had become a
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THE FORTUNE OF THIS AWFUL DAY'-By Dr.. W.

ing to the death the fairest flowers that
bloom in the human heart.
Sir Walter Scott, in Rokeby, says of
one:
His soul, like bark with rudder lost,
On passions changeful tide was tost;
Nor vice nor virtue had the power
Beyond the impression of an hour;
And, o, when passion rules, how rare
The hours that fall to virtues share"
Thus is 1t with the man whose soul
has become subject to excessive anger.
He is tossed upon the sea of passion to
his own undolng and to the distress of
those who witness his utter weakness and
consummate helplessness. The most pitt
able result OF the habit of anger is seen
in those who are controlled by its vio-
lence. Said one who for years had given
reins to the senseless passion of anger,
MY life is at the mercy of any scroun-
drel who chooses to put me in passion. =
The Emperor Nerva died of violent fit
of rage. Valentinian, the first of that
NAME while angrily reproaching the depu-
ties of the QUAD, a people of Germany,
became so furious in his wrath that he
burst a blood vessel and fell to the floor
dead. Charles VI, of France. carried the
effects of his anger and malice against
the duke of Britain into lunacy and to his
grave. In one of the greatest tragedies
of Sophocles we read of despair and
anger ending the life of the greater Ajax.
In 1.-The Mill on The Floss, Mr. Tulli-
vers angry passion was followed i'm
meoiately by his death, and the author
cpeDopd n
consequence of his violent passion
In Burtons Anatomy of Melancholy,
one learns the process of anger leading
to melancholy and to madness. IRA
furor brevis est" anger Is temporary
madness. Lucian says anger works this
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frenzy was for striking me with his
feet, had not the queen, my sisters, and
the rest ran between and prevented
him. They put me in a chair in the
embrasure of window threw water
on my face to bring me to life, which
care I lamentably reproached them
with, death being a thousand times
better in the pass things had come to.
The kings face was so disfigured with
rage 1t was frightful to look upon"
When / first read the story of this
domestic horror. l was reminded at once
of another instance of royal anger;
this one being in the palace of the Czar
of Russia. Ivan the Terrible was given
to fits of rage, and his hand fell with
merciless cruelty upon anyone that ex-
cited his anger or approached him while
the spell was upon him. In a moment
of fury he smote his son. The young
man reeled and fell. In falling his head
struck upon the sharp corner of a piece
of furniture.
He died from the shock and the
wound. The unhappy father lived three
years thereafter and then died from the
haunting memory of his cruel deed
But it was done and all the sorrow
that his soul felt could not undo the
fatal deed. My reader may remem ber
the portrayal of this hard and relent-
less czar by Richard Mansfield in Ivan
the Terrible.
There Is many a ather today in the
world who has just as certainly struck
the death blow to flial love and to
home happiness as Ivan the Terrible
struck the blow that ended the life of
his child There is many a boy out in
the world tonight homeless, penniless
and friendless who prefers his pitiable
condition to his home. For in his home
angry words and angry looks ever greet
his ears and eyes. There's many
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CONCERNING CLOTHES-No by George Eaves, D. D.

sumes that the only motive of fig leaf
apron and skin coat alike was what we
call the instinct of modesty. 1t may be
that quite other motives have always
played large part in the process which
ends today In the publication of fashion
plates.
Hence the philosophers have even gone
behind the human creature to the birds
and beasts to get some hint of the nat
ural history of clothing. They have noted
how adornment of plumage has an i'm
mense influence on the choice of mates,
and how such adornment has relation to
music, being commonly interchangeable
with the power of song among the birds,
as that the bird with song lacks color,
while he of the gaudy coat lacks the
quality of song. They have especially
directed attention to the fact that it is
the male, not the female, who adorns
himself with brilliant plumage and spread
ing tail. They have found many an
analogy to this particular in the history
of dress among mankind.
A most interesting and exhaustive
study of dress is given in the great Hast
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society, 1t is sure that the unclothed
races have as keen a sense of modesty
as their most elaborately gowned sis
ters, their most carefully matured and
civilized brothers. ''Modesty," says Have
lock Ellis, "is in it's origin independent
of clothing"
But no sooner does dress begin to evolve
than woman begins to cease to be free.
1t is the married woman who secures the
robes and they are the insignia of her
belonging to one man, her husband. In
many lands children run unclothed till
they are of marriageable age.
Mr. Crowley holds that dress began
with a string around the waist or shoul-
der to which was hung the weapon or
tool which otherwise encumbered the
hands. II this was so, 1t originated with
the hunting male was probably trans
ferred also to the laboring female for
her field work, then made the insignia
Of bondage or conservation to her hus-
band, because until married she was Vir-
ginally free and unencumbered with
household cares.
An interesting feature of the economic
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Guinea such ornaments are peculiarly
the monopoly of the male, but in neither
case does the dress serve any other pur-
pose. THE natural man," says Ratzel in
his History of Mankind will undergo
any trouble, any discomfort, in order to
beautify himself to the best of his power
Readers will still note the masculine pro-
noun
Brazil and central Australia produce
races in which dress hardly appears at
all, the string around the waist. with a
dependant tassel or leaf, coming as near
ly as may be to the description of Gene
sis, over which the funny writers make
sad laughter, whether these simple ad-
justments are for a screen or for adorn-
ment does not appear. Ratzel holds that
dress was instituted for married women
In order to make them unattractive. they
being the chattels of their jealous lords.
Passing to another phase of this inter-
esting phenomenon of dress we are con-
stantly hearing 1t assumed that dress
Is necessary as a preservative of mod
esty. Whatever may be true in civilized
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against the people of Croyland by
manning and mutilating their floclxs
and herds; he would often MAIN the
feet and break the legs of their beasts
of burden. In the Students France
there Is an account of one of the French
monarchs who was SO embittered
against his own son that he condemned
him to be burned alive and demanded
that his sons wife and daughters suf-
fer the same fate. This same king,
when the Queen of Austrial fell into
his power, reproached her with tor
rent of abuses, treated her to incon-
ceiveable indignities, and then had her
tied to the tail of horse as angry as
himself; the poor Queens body was
dragged, torn and trampled into frag-
ments-the heartlessly cruel deed of an
angry man.
In Carlyle's Frederick the Great, we
have domestic scene described in
which the entire royal family felt the
brutality of an angry king and father
Carlyle quotes the Princes Wilhemina;
We learned from some attendant that
at least my brother was not dead. The
king now came back. We all ran to
kiss his hands; bue me he no sooner
noticed than rage and fury took poses
sion of him. He became black in the
face, his eyes sparkled fire and his
mouth foaming. Infamous canaille
he said, 'darest thou show thyself be-
fore me? Go, keep thy scoundrel of
brother company And, so saying, he
seized me with one hand, slapping me
on the face with the other several
blows, one of which struck me on the
temple, so that | fell back and should
nave split my head on the corner of
the wainscot had not Madam de Sons
feld caught me by the headdress and
broken the fall. I lay on the floor
without consciousness The king in
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Evans

woman who sobs herself into troubled
sleep because of the angry word that
pierced her heart like a thorn, a word
uttered by him who once sought out
the tenderest words with which to ad-
dress her. There's many a little child
whose merriment is suppressed, whose
toys are laid away and who seeks the
refuge of the mothers caresses because
the father has come home with his
smileless face and his usual sharp, ir-
ritated and irritating words, which. II
not words of anger, bear closely there
on Says Henry Vaughan in Rules and
Lessons: Some syllables are swords"
and used by anger how they cutl All,
If we could only recall certain words
that our anger prompted But we can
not.
Come In, doctor. and let me show
you the little girl before the coffin is
closed upon her forever" entered the
front room. The air was heavy with
the fragrance of sweet flowers In the
center of the room there was a little
coffin covered with white flowers
roses, candytuft, lilies, all white. Be
meath this mass of beautiful flowers
lay the body OF lovely child. Upon
her cold forehead a tiny lock of golden
hair had curled. Her face was not dis
figured by the results of fever, nor
was 1t emaciated by long illness. 1t was
perfect In Its physical beauty and a
gentle smile seemed to play about the
lips. | know not how the angels APP
pear but cannot think of one of them
as exceeding this waxen face in the per-
fectlon of 1oveliness. | looked upon her
h. 4
member that the Master had said: "Suf-
fer little children to come unto me, for
of such Is the kingdom of heaven" In
a few minutes the father and / were
alone, waiting. He said: 1T IS an
.wful sorrow to lose ones child, but
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struggle between the sexes now appears.
II dress was first for use, then for or
nament, and then in married women a
badge of servitude, later years have GER
tainly given woman the victory. Five
hundred years ago men forbade to all
women but the evil ones luxury in dress.
But woman has emerged triumphant from
that embargo. She has siezed mems right
to splendid apparel and used 1t, as he
once used 1t, for attraction, though he
originated 1t in her case for precisely the
opposite purpose. And now dress has
become kind of index of woman's emer-
gence from economic servitude. not In
proportion to its attractiveness, but rather
in proportion to its imitation of the less
attractive garb of the masculine. This Is
a vast field, Salmost wholly within the
actual observation of modern men. Wom-
an is insurgent and no wonder. 1t Is in
terestlng to observe how her insurgency
has at last become a general revolt
against the tyranny of conventional cos
tune. But this deserves at least an
other chapter, which threatens to In
vove a third.
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effect especially In old men and old
women. anger and ealumny trouble
them at first. and after a while break
fury In women, especially If they love
or hate overmuch, or envy, or be much
grieved or angry; little by little these
things lead them on to this malady."
man controlled by the passion of
extreme anger, will act and look pre-
cisely like the man. whose mind is
hopelessly unhinged. His face goes
to an extreme of redness or to the pale
ness of death, while his eyes flash
will become pale yellow, his nostrils
become swollen and his lips will trem-
BILE as IL beyond control. In excessive
anger there is every sign of mental
madness.
Anger has no though for the feelings
of others. 1t places no estimate upon
the most sacred things of life, and in
a moment will shatter the bonds of
years of friendship and trample the
love of a lifetime contemptously in the
dust of oblivion. Its utterances are as
daggers that stab and bring blood, and
all the years that may come cannot
undo the harm that anger has wrought
in a single moment of frenzy. 1t is a
form of madness. Whole nations have
suffered from its control of monarchs.
Gibbon illustrates this fact by refer
ring to number of Roman rulers.
Caracalla, to instance, whom Gibbon
calls the common enemy of mankind
when crossed in any whim, gave reins
to his anger in depressing his people,
in exorbitant fines. in Imprisonment. in
confiscation of their property, and in
sentencing certain ones to death
knight, in his History of England,
tells of Ivo Taillebois, the Norman,
who would crafty his angry passion
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1t Is maddening to think that perhaps
she remembers in eternity a harsh,
angry sentence that fell from my lips
one day when she displeased me. |
would give the world to recall what I
said to her The dear little thing
flinched and her eyes filled with tears
when l spoke and then she ran to her
mother o, God, If / could only blot
1t out forever, or know that she Will
never remember it." Soon the white
hearse. with the white coffin, covered
with white flowers, was ready to stait
to the City of Silence. As | rode along
| pondered. ! thought OF other homes
with beautiful children to whom faith
ers and, possibly was about to say
mothers; but l cannot, for mothers are
so patient and tender in their love,
that l cannot say of them what / start
ted to say--so l recur to the sentence
and say, to whom fathers had spoken
angrily and whose little hearts had
wrlthed with wounded sensibility; then
[ thought IL men only realized that
these little ones might be taken away
at any moment, their little song forever
hushed, and their football no longer
heard, would not they patiently endure
much that now annoys and instead of
angry utterances would they not use
loves kindly vocabulary in their gui-
dance and training of the children? But
we do not think. God pity u.s. we do not
think! What If the little ones do make
a noise; what If their table manners
are not perfect: what If they do or say
many things that we dislike, can we
not be tender and loving? and for loves
sake cannot We Danish the frown from
the face and anger from the heart and
speak gently? God bless the little ones,
They will grow and learn If love leads
the way. Have no fear for them!