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ting or breaking into Society? How do you
know that you are 1t when you get thereo
Are you labeled or tagged, or do you wear
wedding garments of particular cut? Is
it really place, a fools paradise, or is it
like some of the recent definitions of Heaven,
a state of mind? And when you get in how
can you stay ino'
Perhaps | have quoted this before; but
it is Ruskin who classes this ambition as
destination, and a writer OF our own times,
Maurice Low, has said that it is the ever
insistent desire for something better. "No
man, any more than any body of men, adj
vances if he is content with what he is; il
his desires are simple and he is satisfied with
what he has.
We are all Alexanders, with the thirst for
conquest of other worlds. Perhaps we who
have made social distinction our aim in life
do not wear liveries, nor do we find ourselves,
when we feel that we have arrived, on new
plane of existence.
But we do know that we are consorting
with the best, the pick and flower of civiiza-
ton according to our idea of that which
approaches perfection. Otherwise, people
are just as commonplace and as tiresome
and as disagreeable in one grade as in an
other. 1t is all comparative. But we want
it. For the rest, this is only human docu-
ment. Take it as you will.
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Imrid Sheik, and some fifty of his followers
awaited them in dignifed leisure.
The mule drivers who had accompanied
Van Buren, had made these people aware of
certain facts concerning the partnership of
Doyle Sahib and the Dutchman. Sheranlad
Khan had prepared duplicate of Kahn
Sheik's message, and they watched curiously
as it was produced. When Doyle spread out
the turban cloth, and placed upon it the
grains and the salt and the knife in the order
that Kahn Sheik had directed, they greeted
him with such a thunderous roar OF welcome
that he was at loss to understand.
Imrid Sheik said, "God in His wisdom
hath sent thee" He added very seriously a
few words of regret that the Sahib's long
journey had been wasted. They could spare
no horses from their droves.
God in His wisdom will send me where
| can buy at the price | may give, answered
Doyle with equal seriousness. He under
stood that trading had begun.
They showed him where to pitch his tent,
and presently there came gifts from the
chief, of fresh mutton, grain, and fruit.
Sheramad Khan began to cook his masters
dinner, and the children came and pressed
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around and shouted remarks and questions
1t was more than little like homecoming
Imrid Sheik did all the bargaining for the
tribe, and it took three days before he dis
covered that he had eighty horses to spare,
and two more days before price was agreed
upon that Doyle estimated would leave him
royal profit, even after allotting to Shera-
mad Khan such share that he vowed he
would spend the rest of his life at ease.
Next came an arrangement for drivers, and
six stalwart Pathans agreed to accompany
the horses to civilization.
During the whole five days of argument
Doyle had vainly sought for news of Van
Buren, but Kahn Sheik's people one and
all denied knowledge of any Dutchman seek
ing to buy horses. The mules, they said,
had been brought there by natives of India
who had long since returned.
Van Buren, was seen no more in Calcutta.
Perhaps Sheramad Khan knew why; for,
in the message of symbols that Van Buren,
had presented to Imrid Sheik, the edge of
the knife had been turned toward the bearer,
and the corners of the turban cloth had been
knotted-to indicate that there must be no
escape!
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and cheap things, but that all he did was
well done.
You have no doubt heard or read of his
final triumph and apotheosls.
We took six months abroad We were at
kiel with the yacht, and were specially hon
ored by the Kaiser. We had little of the
London season, where an American friend,
Lady Qakhurst, was most useful. 1t was
Smiths advice that enabled her the follow
ing wear in New York to clear a neat little
profit in a stock deal. We were at AK after
ward, and the late King George of Greece
included Benson in his intimate circle of
Americans. Subsequently we went to Lu-
>cerne, where he also became chummy on the
golf links with that charming royal exile, the
Due d'Orleans.
All these episodes were duly chronicled in
the newspapers, and also week at Cowes,
preceded (this was the second summer) by a
presentation at the levee at St. .James's and
the taking of moor in Scotland, in the
autumn.
New York was then child's play, and
Newport cinch.
RUT why go through this catalogue?
- have no doubt many will think that this
is most absurd bit of business. 1t may seem
petty and trivial and beneath contempt.
You may ask, after all, what is this get
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he found that he was something of a person
age His Newport misadventure if such
slight slip can deserve so hard a name-had
already been forgotten.
knew that in two years he would go back
there and snap his fingers at the men who
tried to queer him.
For awhile he went into serious matters,
and when he returned with his photographs
of his hunting experiences was sometime
before the days of motion pictures had
him exhibit a lot of colored slides of them
for two worthy charities under fashionable
patronage.
He went in for the Museum of Natural
History, for the Metropolitan, and he took
interest in the Botanical Garden, and SUBJ
scribed to funds for different popular move
ments. When he could be spared from Wall
Street we went down to Palm Beach He
did well there at dull time, and followed it
up at the Hot Springs of Virginia. | GER
tainly put in good and hard work for him,
and earned every cent that | realized out of
the transaction.
In another year | saw him firmly estab-
lished in several clubs in the suburbs. He
also made good at Tuxedo one spring.
Whenever his social stock fell few points
we went back to his reputation as money
maker | saw that when he entertained he
did not make the mistake of doing bizarre
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THE EDGE OF THE KNIFE

could see that their sympathies were with
DOYLE, therefore he promised to leave three
mules and some provisions, and in the morn
ing announced his intention to Sheramad
Khan with the air of one whose generosity
has placed him above criticism. Doyle was
in much the same condition as he had been
for days past. He was desperately i'll; yet
the life in him was very loath to leave It's
house so early in the years.
lust before he went away Van Buren, re-
membered to ask for the message of symbols
that Kahn Sheik had given to Doyle for a
passport to the favor of his kinsmen in the
hills. 1t seemed improbable that Doyle
would ever require that favor now.
Sheramad Khan looked into the Dutch
mans coarse face and saw no pity there, nor
regret: only greed, and the desire to be gone
from the company of misfortune and death.
His heart hardened as he looked. Yet he
gave what he was asked for.
He showed how the grains were to be
placed in three rows of seven each-to tell
that the holder of the message was to be fed
like ruler entitled to a salute of twenty-one
guns; then the salt on both sides, to insure
that from the time he came to the time he
departed he was to be as a brother who had
eaten bread and salt with brother. Also
there was the knife, betokening that by arms
Lastly there was the rag of turban, as a token
that its owner had made submission to the
bearer of it. As an afterthought, Sheramad
Khan knotted this at the four cornerS-aS
Kahn Sheik had not done.
And so the little expedition went away,
leaving the camp of two in the midst OF utter
desolation to continue the CHASTITY struggle
between life and death. Yet, as he watched
Van Buren's burly form climb out of sight,
Sheramad Khan seemed well content.
CEVEN weeks later two men with some
- light-laden mules halted on the summit
of giant mountain, up Peshin way, and
looked deep down into a green, lush valley
through which stream flckered like silver
ribbon. One was Hutin Doyle, thin and
weary of limb, but glad faced and hopeful
as of old. The other was Sheramad Khan
Dotted like mushrooms upon an English
field were thousands of fat-tailed sheep, and
with them roamed numbers of sleek and
shapely horses. Higher up was village
of mud forts, square walled, and with en-
frances ten feet above ground level. Close
about it were titled fields, now golden with
ripening grain. Cluttered about their
homes, the village women sat pounding
grain. No men were visible except two or
three sentries posted on vantage rocks, who,
rifle in hand, guarded the focks and droves.
"Hello!' Doyle took a small telescope
from his pocket and adjusted it. "Look!
Those two beasts are uncommonly like our
mules. Has anything happened to Van
Buren, Sahib, | wonder?'
Sheramad Khan looked upward to great
eagle poised in the dazzling blue of the sky.
There was peace in his eyes and in his heart.
He remained silent
As they crossed the valley the call of the
sentries summoned the tribcsmen from their
rest or from their outlying pursuits, and
before the last ascent was climbed the chief,
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Romance and Business


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Cn0c]uaio1 of 40 Extraordinarily
Ah,D Pap by George Packard OF
he Oh!cago Bu IN Tue survey for
Feh,n y I. 1913
Toe NrAiO ( O. as u whole, is can
able Of 8 fDo and us, ful place in
our CT ~ t. UP Us that enjoyed by
shy other alien clement. His sunny
Da&ure, his ex raordinsIy initiative
powers, tbst sre a. capable Of q good
dire ciiCD SIS OF q haG, bis adapte Jii
ity, tis cUur &c his physical streno tn
are AL Arac,erlsiics that must be
welded into our civilization
How, heD, are we 10 90 abDu, the
err dtcat,op Of The prejudic7
II - mottr primarily Of individ =.
oni fl r., O. tie "XcIc,he Of mnrnl
force. The iogrc { NE situation
roue' be trough home TO sacn and
all. We mus give TIC Negro whetN
er VIZ ike h,m Or n"r, s.Squsre deal.
~ & touet bryg 10 bear be li2h, OF
g1aeog into the darkness Of the self
3 u.t!6catjon that engujts our atli
~ &c.
] bold 30 brief FOR The Negro 90 an
unwortDy Individual. Msuy If The
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race are di,cased, degraded, lazy,
ignorant, BRITISH. many are in.elli-
gent, able, refined and eclf respecting
people, who have adopted our wsys
and customs with far greater per-
lection ard facility than many other
races who are received by Us with
open arne. These individual differ
erces are Of course true Of all races,
EVEN our own.
For two hundred aud fifty years
the colored race has been eyste uIat
ically teUiod it's rights as men aud
citizens. If We reform our social
only way on carlh,-and eliminates
tue curse Of race prejudice, we can
look TO the Negro 10 take care Of
himself
1t ia, then, ns rensoosble beings
take this fist sep, by Influence, ex-
amp pie, common sense aud ceaselee 9
agita'iou, 20 rid our country of this
social aud political disgrace. The
cause possesses moral bsss Of
transcenGent import, and is bound
on that account to triumph in the
cod. The integrity Of cur irstitu-
tions, the welfare of our politicsI
etate, the trampled rights OF q
wronged people cry ont for justice.
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w 0en those ~ nuIaOiIly are in
tumHn taauan to ride over others
;oug hthO0, oDgpt 10 remem Der that
the fiaes' proJuci Of civilization is "a
man who * he.t'hg IN body, clear in
Iu;1!ec}, cad VAIN and pure in his
aff C cas- All OF these trsi,e of
c0arac,er s5r attributes of the Negro
rsce.
u bac.I7 absurd 20 allege that
NfGIoeu ere so unhealthy that tbey
are sny more subjec'ed to smallpox
shan .bc "hi 20, and it is brutal TO
arrest ana beat shem because they
ore no, vaccns!ed and prefer their
OVID dnc'oIn 20 do il.
SeRrag"'ei md forced 70 live in
too woreE places ia mos. of he towns
il 'he7 we're 10; naturally healthy
'1"g. '"onid have died off long ego
A. 'oi;sra Inl3 country haze and never
vii haye b>l!sr, and TO impose on
taam, IL so"iog shss which in .urn
10 Gods ovn time mo whi.ee must
reap IL eorrop, for Lincoln said pun.
iehUtnI VIII follow sin.
The " nites Of zoe South are Of
hlc'ed WHO the "hookworm," the
Ne2rueS are not. Outing The Span
jsil American war end hundreds of
whi;e eo'd.ers were dying with vel.
low fever. Negroes were immune 10
it, end 30. only uursed them, bu,
agreed 40 undergo u test to euow the
world 'bat 1hsy would not take tina.
diaeRee. Not only did they aleep in
dirty beds, bns on those that " bite
so!dlero had died 90, for weeks and
took Rot their disease. Housed az
they are az y msas; crowded in balls
ard UhufChts wi,boat q proper
koowieog" Of Ventilation, poorly fed
snd cisd, toe wonder is that they are
no. 81 diseoged, bu. they are no.,
sLu ceb DO more hard work and
eiDod nofe herdships than any Other
cieas Of Iaborers.
l. face Ct the above fsc!o wbe.
wOoIe re hGlr condition were tbeg
t'fa d fn'r,y. end encouraged "a
ave "hertV@r hey could buy end
bn'.n 9nd ii, frors we're made 10
'e>@> jn"m hua b53t in cleaulln ees
80 liz?
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THE BEAUTY OF PRAYED.

st. Petersburg, Florida, March s, 1913
Editor Pioneer Press:
Dear Sir: l notice in the Press for
March lat. an article entitled "Baptism
N OF Essential With the greater part
OF the article l am in hearty accord.
Tho whole teaching of our Lord Jesus
Christ and His Apostles, as it has come
down to US, is strongly against putting
any stress on ritual forms: No folm is
essential to a christian life, for we have
all known many members Of the Socie-
ty Of Friends, "Quakers' we call them,
who having been very excellent txem.
pars OF the Christian life. and II ey do
not believe in water baptism or any
other religious T tie. And nobody
but very narrow mirded bigot would
deny them place and I, ve!y high
place in the real "Kinedom uf God"
But when the editor remarks, eff our
idea of man be correct it is useless to
| pray to God at all. From the fact we
ought to be and can be our own Gods,
L must take issue with him. The
greatest source Of strength, joy and de-
velopment Of my christian life Of more
than half century has come f;om
prayer. The old hymn is perfectly true.
| "Restralning prayer we cease to fight:
| prayer keeps the Christians armor
| bright" In all soberness and deliber.
| ateteSs l declare that | would sooner
lay down my life than agree to discon-
tlnue the constant practise Of PRAYER
But quite aside from my testimony,
| which IS In harmony with that of thou
SANDS of the greatest and best men of
ell the ages since the beginning of the
| Christian era, and, indeed long before
| mat time, we have the direct ieachi no
and example Of Him whom even all de-
cent Inhdels admit to have been The
best man and greatest religious teacher
| Of all the ages. Jesus of Nazareth. No
religious biography that L have ever
read represents its subject as being
more ed to the constant practise
OF the habit OF prayer than ne. He is
frequently represented as "Going up
! INTO "a mountain apart TO pray. " 1t
! is recorded of Him in at leas, one i'm.
J stance that "He was there all nieht
III prayer 10 God" Chen the crisis
came, and the Cross COmed tn bafore
Him slough fIe might EASILY have
| escaped by withdrawing from Jerusa.
lem, He spert the night in PRAYER to
HIS Father for strength to meet the
issue. Ills prayer was heard aud fully
| answered, and " Angels came and min
lStered unto Him. If the supremacy
gifted divine Son Of God needed to
pray, how much more we,
BESIDES he and His Apostles directly
enJoinsd the practise Of prayer. When
ITS disciples came to Him with the
request Lord teach US how TO pray!D
He Did not discourage them. He ey-
identity did not believe with the editor
OF the Press, but taught them the
Simplest AID plaIne5t, and vet the
! sublImtst and most comprehensive
form OF prayer ever uttered by the lirs
, OF man. The meu whom He instructed
Taught All those or whom they made
/, disciples, both by precept and EXAMPLE
that all christiats, and all men shoIld
be Christians, should "Bp Instant, in
prayer" should Pay without ceas-
ing L am sure that if The editor
bad had my experience lie would agree
with me tn at
Long as they live should Christians
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pray,
They learn to pray when first they
live"
That is,that prayer is essential to the
Christian life.
j. o. Thompson.
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MR.. THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S
RIGHTEOUSNESS COMES
A LII TTLE LATE.


Verboei;y finer than the staple Of his
argument
ia bis last effort, Bro. Jackson
stated by implication thai he was too
brave to run, but We ,biok it would
be the part Of wisdom for him to
take the stand Of the old colored
man, who concluded tba. q living
coward was ipfiuitely b2tter off thau
q dead hero.
Among the many reasons Why he
is againas the Republican party,
Bro. Jackson states that it has prac-
tically deeerted the faithful Negro in
all things that work for his political
advancement.
TO very great extent we ecqui-
eace in this Indie ment, but when be
advocates Theodore Roosevelt; as a
panncea for the sins of omission on
the part of the Republican party We
call halt.
We would remind the celebrated
Bull Moose OF Frostburg, that Mr..
Roosevelt was prominent in the
counsel of the Republican party for
twenty five years; ths. six times he
took sacred oath to upheld and
support the Constitution of the Uui-
ted States; that for more than seven
years he was President, having both
branches Of Congress and "the big
stick" which he welded With snffic-
lent force to drive such man as
Jos. B. Forsker into private life be-
cause he would not t..bow the knee to
Ball.
If under these circumstances, Mr..
Roost welt did not come to the rescue
Of the Negro what right have we to
believe that be will be Of service 10
us in the future?
Mr.. Roosevelt has had a greater
opportunity to correct the evils Of
which Bro. Jackson complains than
any other Republican since Grant,
and is therefore more responsible for
,beir existence than any one man in
the United States.
We have DO patience with q man
wh" ndvocates policies inconsistent
With bis public record, and less wish
one who promises TO do what be has
bad an opportunity 10 do and failed
10 make az effort.
! Bro jackson places great stress
upou the fact the people were With
MIR. Roosevelt
"h'le the people are supposed to
rule under our system Of govern
ment it bss been demonstrated that
they do not always take wise stand.
For Instance, at the time when
President Washington signed jays
rres'v the American feeling against
England stood at a high tension.
The terms Of the sresty,u the minds
81 the people, were such, that they
beca me indignant aud Washiaetop
:as rendered very unpopular.
The Treaty WAS not wha. Prcsi-
dent W shing,ou waused:he accented
it as the best that could be Accom-
piiahed et that time.
Again in the latter part OF 1863
The people Of the North become dis
gusted with Mr.. LDcoln's method
OF conducting tbe Civil War end
much OF the opposition to bis rencm
nation in 1864 was because of tbis
feeling.
IL ia now held by some Of the
strongest minds that bad the recall
teen IN operation at the time of the
occupancy above mentioned. both
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We wish TO remind Bro. Jackson
tha. Mr.. Roosevelt was too ls.e in
arriving at this conclusion to render
this action worthy Of the considera
ton OF thinking mind.
10 1900 whsn be was nominated
for Vice President be gladly received
TIE votes Of the Southern Negroes
whom be has low denounced as o
disgrace to ths rsce.
IL 1904 whan be waa minated
for Preeidens be received them and
inttrposcd no objection; in 1908 be
used ,hem to nominate MIR. Taft, the
candidate OF his choice, and at the
ssue time be used his army OF cttice
holders to defeat a resolution offered
fer The purpose Of placing reprtsent-
c,ioo in National Conventions upon
the btss Of the vote cast for the
Republican ticket.
The 0dop.ion of this resolution
would have eliminated tue Southern
Nero from National Conven lions
bu, it was evident from the time it
was read that the Roosevelt ad min
istration was oppoeed 10 it aud for
that reason it was defeated.
1! will also be remembered that
many of the contests brought before
the Republican Convention were
over tbeseI Southern delegates and
hat Mr. Roosevelt lsfL the Republi.
cars because, Gas he says,) they
we're stolen from him.
The question that would present
ltael' to the thoughtful mind is, what
brought about this change Of heart
on tbe Southern Negro question.
There arc two reasons.
First. Mr.. Roosevelt was willing
for them to sit In tie counsel Of The
party 80 long as they could bs used
to further his selfsh purposes and
crafty his ambition, but when his
Circus met at Chicago, in which he
was the Clown, the Band Wagon nnd
the Ring Master, he did not need
them.
Second. MIR. Roosevelt. knew that
the Northern Negroes, who have
votes, have been protesting against
the recognition given the Southern
Negroes for many years, and 20 gain
the pIaudits and support of the
Negroes North Of Mason and DIX
oD's line he ca,ers.to tubs sentiment.
Simply. playing politics. That's
all
Bro. Jackson says there is nothing
wrong about camp aign contributions
so lopg nsSthere are no strings to
them, but when he grows as old as
We are, be will have learned tina,
large campaign contributions always
baVe strings to them, and while the
congressional investigation may not
bavs shown that there was anything
wrong about the Roosevelt fund Of
1904, it did show that he received it
from the people that Bro. Jackson
says he is opposed to-the special
interests.
SO far as We are concerned, Bro
jackson msy regard this as the clos
lag chapter Of cur controversy.
we wilIsemulate the example OF
the f,tber who went bunting.
Taking his little son With him they
had not goue very far before the lit
tic fellow.saw on English. sparrow.
Oh! pspa, says The boy, e,here's a
bird, shoot hiu. On no SOB, | cant
sboot him, Gays the father. Why
psps? Simply because be ia not
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SAT- RUA (, MARCH Is, 1918

We yield our ed.torial space o
give Thompson uud Jackson l.ir
play.