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What is the cure for all this? Moth
ing less than the discipline of the emo
items. 1t is an LEdisciplined age AMI
emotion runs riot. The feminine" or
nerve susceptibility in us must be domi-
mated by the masculine, or thought power,
in us. This is feebly prefigured In ar
chaic usages which made the man Sit
preme. or which, III China for instance
took the female of the species" as the
symbol aof all that is weak and ignoble
and unworthy. What these anclents were
trying to get at was the subordination Of
the animal brain to the human, the pneu-
mo-gastric nerve TO the restraints of
the intelligent AMI the majestic will. II
is not, as some old gentlemen still think,
because women have too much to say
and have been too much educated, that
we have modern romantic extravaganza;
but because both men and women have
failed on every hand to bring every
thought and impulse before the Judgment
seat of Wisdom. the true Being, balanced
and supreme Head of the race. Triune Of
Love, Truth and Freedom.
On the other hand. why play to the
gallery" every lapse into sensatonalism
and the emotional hysteria and scream.
is a surrender of the majesty and dis
| nifty of life, a surrender OF love and truth
| themselves the substitution of what Is
right and fair and honorable by what is
smugly self satisfying
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TIME Asastics possess the haunting
sense of a primitive philosophy
= which was dualism in the sense
that it attributed all cosmic processes
to the interaction of a profound and uni
versal sexuality. Much in modern scien-.
tific discovery consists in restatement
and verification of that philosophy. We
have learned that all plant life, except
the lowest. is possessed of the sex ele-
ment. and that without the interchange
of spores from the blossoms there will
be a defeated plant, a fruitless tree.
Hidden somewhere in the secret places
of the most minute CELL. there is some-
where the sex principle, and perhaps we
must say that The very diseases that
afflict us are armies of minute beings
who love and hate and marry and bring
forth their hordes of descendants with
a rapidity that is inconceivable. Here
j indulge in imaginative guesswork. The
facts at the bottom are indisputable No
sooner does the creation become large
and noble enough to consider than two
forces appear, individuality and sex. And
so the old Asiatic philosophy, and perhaps
the primitive philosophy and religion of
the whole world, get their Endorsement
from modern naturalists with micro
scope and trained intellect.
The old Greeks thought of the human
soul as feminine personality. Even
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/, generations of the grateful children OF
| America will make their pilgrimage to il
as to a chrine. and when it shall fall, II
fall it must, the memory and the name of
Washington shall shed an eternal glory
upon the spot
But let a land have no grateful memo
ries, no memorials of gratitude in bronze,
or stone, nor in song and story, thus
cherishing the names and deeds of its
valorous sons. and patriotism will be
chilled. to its heart. For a land without
grateful memory is hardly a land worth
fighting for. The reader may recall here
Father Ryan's exquisite poem on this
subject.
"A land without memories is land with
out history"
The splendid organization of which l
write, by its official recommendation. by
its patriotic suggestions, and by its finan-
cal offerings, has contributed splendidly
to the establishment of many monumen-
tai expressions of national gratitude
which adorn our land today, and certainly
not the least of these is the spendid Con-
tinental Hall, one of the most magniti-
cent buildings in our national capital.
which stands as a monument to the prin-
ciples that actuated our fathers in
the brave days of old.
But such memorials as these of which
have written have another mission,
which the Daughters of the American
Revolution have recognized They are in
spirational. With tongueless eloquence
the monuments erected to a nations de-
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activities of the armament The green
king" symbolizes the EARTH and repre-
serts all the susceptible, the reactive, the
fruitless, and the prolific activities of
this fecund planet. This King is a
Queenl
And so In the everyday literature OF
the far east "the mercies of heaven and
earth have from time immemorial been
extolled; of them preachers and prophets
and poets have spoken and sung,s and
under their beneficent shadow innumer-
able generations of farmers have culti-
waited their fields, and spent their labori-
GUS summers, their sociable and CHEEKY
winters. innumerahle merchants have
grown rich or poor
BY the mercy of heaven and earthp'
That means, by the gracious interaction
of the vast creative forces.of the universe
and of the vast susceptible earth, with It's
inhabitants. But the Asatic and his
the sex distinction into the very consti-
tuition of things, and made queer jun-
bic in language for the last ages TO
confuse themselves In studying. How
many high school graduates, for instance,
can tell what Latin words are masculine,
what feminine, or imagine why?
What we know in our own day is the
distinction between the rational brain and
the instructive or emotional brain.
l find very funny, book on my
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II OTWITHSTANDING the annual
III scrap of the society of the Daugh-
l ters of the American Revolution in
washington city, when it's members come
together to elect officers, it is an organi-
zation whose work commends it to the
highest esteem of the American public.
II the society did nothing more than ex-
landmarks associated with our early po-
litical history, its endeavors should be
commended But it has done very much
more than this 1t has excited taste for
the reading of patriotic literature, and
has begotten a sentiment of patriotism
for the whole country which was un-
known for many years after the war be-
tween the states. There was pretty
general patriotism in the north for that
section of our country lying beyond the
Mason and Dixon line. and there was an
ardent order of patriotism in the south
for those states that had once been desig
mated as Confederate. But for the coun-
try, the whole country. represented by
the stars and stripes, there was but scant
love and a feeble patriotic pride. sup
pose that better feeling exists now than
since the days of the debates In the
United States Senate. when Webster and
Calhoun crossed lances. That was as
long ago as 1888. From that time until
1860 sectional fires were burning in sub
terranean channels, and that which was
inevitable came to pass when the fires
burst forth in a volcanic shock that shook
the world. This is merely saying that for
q long period before the war the two sec
tions had NO love for each other. The
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into disuse with the changes which have
come over us since the war between the
states. John Randolph of Roanoke,
Charles Carroll of Carrolltou. Thomas II.
Watts of Montgomery are familiar in
stances, but these ilustrious southerners
were very tenacious of the patrial, and its
use is quite common in history, in many
instances quite absorbing the family
name. Not every one will recognize Nu-
nez as the discoverer of the Pacific ocean,
so familiar has become the Balboa un-
der which the discoyerer is designated but
Washington Irving adheres to the name of
Nunez, referring to him as Nasco. or
Nunez, or Vasco Nunez, and he is equally
tenacious of Juan Ponce, the searcher
after Eel Dorado, and Fountain of Youth.
who discovered and gave the name to
Florida, although a great many know
him only by the patrial De Leon
The great Bonaparte suppressed the
family name, Buonaparte. substituting
therefor the Napoleon, even as we have
done with Nunez and Ponce. and in Eng
land the patrial was frequently the only
family name. John of Gaunt the son Of
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subject of the record appeared to be sim
ply Napoleon Bonaparte, 1t was so cer-
titled and the applicant was admitted
under a certificate from the baptsmal
record of his brother Joseph, from which
the name Joseph had been erased. as is
confirmed by the testimony of the wit
nesses called to France, all of whom tes-
titled that it was Joseph who was born at
Ajaccio on August Is. 1889, the feast of the
assumption. This pious little imposture
would have been OF easy detection, how
ever, were the record of Corte left un-
changed. so the Christian name OF the
child born at Corte was erased, and the
name Joseph substituted therefor, which
change, it would appear, was made after
Corsica had fallen under French domin-
ion, as the French form was used and not
the Italian, giuseppe and Joseph Napo-
leon Bonaparte passes down in chronology
as having been born at Corte on January
Z, 1868. The certificate passed muster at
Brienne and hereunder there was admit
ted one who would thereafter preach his
mission to the world through cannon
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nothing else did, in classifying the sus-
ceptible nervous system, centering III
the pneumo gastric nerve, as the fem
mime BRAIN by which we do not mean
that it is the possession of women
rather than of rnen. but that it is
primal. foundation of the mother-qual-
ity, the feminine element in our COM
posite human nature.
In other words. this that the Asiatics
and the Greeks and Romans recognized
is fact illustrated in all human be-
ings. THE Two Kings" are not only
the armament and the green earth, but
are also the intellect as masculine, and
the soul as feminine; further they
are facts as masculine and creative oy
their impact, and the whole being OF
sensitive man as feminine receivin g
the impress and responding with fears
and hopes, which, in turn the mascu-
line brain accepts as reasons for crea-
tive planning, building. mastering the
rough material Of the world to make
| a shelter and a headquarters for itself
| and it's soul-mother
| To come down out of what may to
\ some seem very vague dfeamland
and cloudland, let me point to the type
! of modern newspaper represented bs
the Hearst interests Is it masculine Oh
feminine? Or is the music CD poured
out by an electrically played piano
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style of furniture might adorn the home.
The truth is, as a people, for the most
part, we have not cared for old things,
be they houses, trees, furniture, or tradi-
tions. Yet, a change has set in. The old
is coming to its own. And the altered
condition of popular thought that is now
SO general is due to the influence of the
Daughters of tine American Revolution
more than to any other agency in the
world. While this society is not commit
ted to the disparagement of the present
it has peculiar pleasure in the glorifica-
ton of the past, when giants trod this
soil.
Furthermore, the work of this society is
educative in another direction 1t builds
monuments to commemorate the names
of heroes. to perpetuate the glory of
their achievements. This is a national
manner of expressing the principle of
gratitude. The heroes are gone.
"They sleep their last sleep,
They have fought their last battle;
No sound shall awake them to glory
again.
But gratitude will not let their names
perish off the scroll of time. A nations S
gratitude to its heroic dead is most sa-
Edward Everett referred in his memoir
able Grafton on the character of Washing
ton. When he spoke of Mount Vernon he
said, mo gilded dome swells from the
lowly roof to catch the morning even
ing beam, but the love and gratitude of
united America settle upon 1t in one eter-
nal sunshine. While it stands the latest
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Corsica not having fallen under French
dominion until a few months before the
usually accepted date of the birth of the
Emperor of the French; and further. that
the baptismal record at Ajaccio was of a
child bearing the Christian name Napo-
leon only, the significance of this Napo-
leon is suggestive.
The patrial was of very ancient usage
among the Latins, to distinguish fam
lilies of the same name, although by usage
later. it became rather to perform the
functions of designation. There were
Bonapartes in Umbria, Caabria, Lisuria
Emelia and other parts of Italy, as well
as in Naples; but by patrial, these
various families were distinguished each
from the other, and the Eme1ianos We're
never confused with the Ligurianos, nor
the Napolitanos with any of the others,
the abbreviated form of the Neapolitan
patrial. Napoleon, savoring of the Greek,
Atheneon being an approved form of the
patrial for the Athenian, and this Nea-
politan patrial has been subjected to easy
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parted heroes speaks to the men Of sue
ceeding generations, saying, under like
conditions you, too, are to
Strike for your affairs and your fires,
Strike for the green graves of your sires,
God and your native land.
This is the chief mission of memorials.
As Napoleon, pointing to the pyramids In
Egypt said to his army, Three thou
those heights" so, this nation may say to
its youth, from monumental heights, from
sculptured forms, from memorial slabs,
the spot where sleeping valor lies voices
speak to you and urge to devotion to
your country, from the monument of
Jackson at New orleans to tr massive
shaft at Bunker Hill. Every stone con
secrated by patriotism to the memory of
the men whose tread shook mighty em-
pires across the seas although they
fought for their own land, is eloquent
with tales of war and deeds Of heroic
daring that are not surpassed in interest
and fire by the chronicles of any nation;
and they proudly point to Illustrations OF
self abnegation that might give lustre to
the annals of any country that floats a
flag.
Should an alien ask the Daughters of
the American Revolution to give the
grounds of their enthusiasm. not knowing
the history of our eountry's past. Ii
would be sufficiently Illuminating and
convincing to answer. Find the reason at
Mecklenburg, at Lexington. at the Cow
pens. at Valley Forge, at Trenton. and
at Yorktown.
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the wide path leading toward the river
the hoofs of the horses of the pursued
and the pursuers Numbered. There was
no hope of escape for Weatherford. but to
reach the river in advance and swim
across. Hemmed in on eevry side. lie
was forced to a summit overlooking the
stream at the height of almost 100 feet OF
perpndicular bluff ON the precipice the
bold leader halted for a moment, like a
monument against the distant Sky. Splen-
didly he sat his horse. as his pursuers
Numbered toward him. and with taunting
shouts called to him that he was caught
at last. He coolly raised his rifle to his
eye and brought down the foremost horse
man, then slowly turning down a deep
defile which no one would dare to tread.
he slid his horse down the stony surface
which broke abruptly off about 30 feet
above the river. Putting spurs to the
flanks of the beautiful animal, 1t 1eaped
with its brave rider on it's back into the
seething current below. Just before the
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throat, and thunder tones that shook
the world and that note opposite his
name: A Corsican by birth and by nature
who will likely accomplish something.
was prophetic of his career. At the time
of his marriage with the Empress Jose
phine, no necessity existed for misstating
the date of his birth, and the correct date
was given in the marriage contract The
true date of his birth is, at this late day,
of but small consequence, but this pa
trial. develops into a star of most inter-
estng magnitude The propriety of the
bestowal of the patrial upon the men,
bers of the Bonaparte family is appar-
ent, as it distinguished them from all
others Were it too far cry to suggest
that the Christian name of the Little
Corporal was Charles, the Christian name
of the father of the illustrious general. as
the Oldest son of the family, born some
years before, sister intervening. had
died quite young?
There was "a time when the people of
the south We're much given to the use Of
the patrial. but the custom has fallen
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WHAT'S IN A NAME?-By A. Latady

pellings-Napoleone; Napoion. Neapo-
leone, etc, and on the Vendom column
1t appears "Naop1o I'm August" the
sculptor chiselling better than he knew.
perhaps.
Although by the Tuscans the immediate
family of the great Bonaparte was traced
to Tuscany. and 1t is usually ascribed to
that province. yet as the Irishman said
very wittily: IF cat has kittens In an,
oven, it does not make them loaves of
bread" and this patrial indicates that
the search was not pursued far enough.
The great Bonaparte laid small store by
this genealogy with which the Tuscans
affected to honor him, he claiming the
battle of Wentenotte as the date of his
ennoblement.
AS the rules of the military school at
Brienne required that applicants should
not be over 10 years of age the Little Cor
poral being, in fact and in truth, over that
age, II became necessary to furnish rec
ords justifying his admission, and the
baptismal record of Ajaccio having been
so tampered with that the name of the
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York. no matter. They were the Fathers
OF the Revolution and these are the
Daughters of the Fathers. One sentiment
of national pride animates them--the glo-
rious heroism of the men who fought
from Concord to the bluffs of Yorktown.
The coming together of women from
the rforth and from the south, with this
priceless treasure of a common national
pride, can but be productive of the WIDEN
ing of the principle of patriotic devotion
to the common country. even among those
who cannot trace their ancestry back
to men who fought as ragged continentals
If in ancient times men were stirred by
the story of
How well Horatius kept the bridge,
In the brave days of DID,,
likewise, as men hear anew the story of
the dauntless heroism of the Fathers of
the Revolution, will they love the land for
which heroic blood was shed, even though
no sires of theirs were in the midst of shot
and she'll The organization of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution may not
rehearse in stately prose, or in rhythmic
verse, or in minstrels song what their
fathers wrought and suffered to lay the
foundation of this Union of States" but
the very existence of the society is an
appeal to the sentiment of patriotism
towards
zone flag, one land. one heart, one hand,
One nation evermore''
The Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion. as an organization, has been active
in patriotically preserving many build
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water was reached. Weatherford leaped
from its back The horse went down to
rise no more. while Weatherford, still
holding his rifle aloft, with one haue.
swan to the opposite side and thus es-
capped with deeper vengeance against the
white man than ever before. He was
yet to lead his troops in other battles.
and to fight while there was hope of
success.
The world instinctvely honors a brave
man. This valorous chief had withstood
overpowering numbers during the day.
had saved his women and children. and
now as a December night came down on
that sad day of defeat. he stood ON the
north bank of the Alabama drenehed and
gold. but nerved by a spirit as heroic as
ever had place in the bosom of man.
Though an Indian. Weatherford was an
ideal hero. Fear he knew not, and while
the most daring of fighters. he was never
reckless. His power of collection was
simply marvellous.
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Charles N Lure

the teacher or his fellow pupils or on
others to do his thinking for him?
Learning lessons is not all or even the
major part of getting an education. The
best part is the training of the mind to
think, to observe to draw conclusions.
Better one fact utilized than hum
dred merely learned.
Some men waste their time in dissi-
patton and idleness. others in useless
work. ;
In defense of the former nothing is
to be said. When their accounts are
closed their frivolity and uselessness
Will be found cast up against them.
But what of the latter class? Should
they not also meet with condemnation
OF such are the men who spend years
in painting landscapes on grains of
corn, carving cathedrals from cherry
stones. building miniature ships in two
ounce bottles. engraving the Lords
Prayer on the heads of pins. copying
entire books of the Bible ON the backs
OF postage stamps.
They are Industrious. OF course, but
their industry is waste of time.
OF what avail are such workers OF
art" and patience?
They serve no useful purpose and
teach no lesson save that the time spent
on them should be more usefully en-
ployed. Given the patience that is
needed for their execution. the will to
accomplish them might be directed
into channels that would serve the
world well. Bent on other ends 1T
might bring the possessor to tame or
fortune.
There are In the world-and in busy
Industrious America most of all many
men and women who spend their days
In trivial tasks OF no Importance or
value. Such are pursued with zeal and
earnestness that are sometimes pathetic
and sometimes irritable One feels like
saying to the wasters of time and ef-
| fort:
/ Drop It! Get at something useful!'
Women spend hours and days in
painting china pieces that are daubs
when finished. or they embroidsr pieces
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Edward I'll of England. simply happened
to be born at Ghent, and Salisbury, Lon
don, Chichester, Winchester, Whitaker
twhte acre. Ford. uaderhill, Underwood.
Higley (high les). are familiar instances.
having the same Significance as the Latin
patrial being used by them rather to des-
ignate, however. rather than to distin-
guish
Some have thought and contended that
NAPOLEON affected this suppression OF his
family name in order that-he might by
some show of authority, lay claim to being
a Frenchman, his native island having
come under the dominion of the French
a few months before the date of his birth
as given in his certificate at Brienne;
some that his claim alone qualified him
for admission at Brienne; others that it
would have tendency to temper the es-
timation in which he must needs be held
at Brienne, for at the time lie entered he
could barely speak French, but the truth
OF the matter is the deep affection in
which he held the. memory of his father.
whose pious fraud he would keep secret
with all the loyalty and tenacity Of
Corsiean by "birth and by nature
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MA. FSTORY-A LEAP FOR LIFE-By B F. Riley D. D.

was inflated by the adulatien of his fol-
lowers, he knew the feebleness of his
numbers and the scantiness of his re-
sources Because of these conditions. and
because he was hailed chief. lie appre-
ciated what it meant IN its application
to him in his difficult condstion. For the
first time, he was to lead his unframed
warriors against drilled troops. 1t was
native valor against courage and skill,
native strategy against scientific tactics,
the war of the savage against that or
the civilized white mn.
Within month";. four battles were
fought-Tallahatche Talladega. IIillabee
and Autossee-all fought in November,
1913, 100 years ago. At Echanachaca or
Holy Ground, We're concentrated his sup
plies, and the women and children of his
tribe. This point was located on the south
bank of the Alabama, between Pintalla
and Big Swamp creek in the present re-
gion of Lowndes county To the Indian
the Holy Ground was that which Jerusa-
lem was to the ancient tribes of Israel.