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severely in the eye from the east wall.
over in the corner is Henry {. Payne
Roosevelt's second appointee in the posi-
ton sad and weary-eyed. as If he had
been through the same sort Of trouble
that Mr. Burleson Is having.
William J.. Wilson, upon whom tarln
bill was wished that got him and his
marty i'm bad. and who then left Congress
for the department, hangs on the north
wall with a severe eye on the Postmaster
Generals door.
Each countenance has square of
heavy gilt frame about it, with a name
plate below. 4 popular game among
those waiting to get in is to stand on,
without looking at the plate, and guess
who is who and when he served. Guess
ers unless they cheat. mostly lose.
As a fact, about the only easy face to
pick out in the lot is that of George
Bruce Cortelyou fourth of the five Post
masters General Roosevelt appointed
There was never anything in public life
like the Cortelyou pompadour.
Under these portraits the congressman
visitors gather in groups and spend much
time waiting their turn in the inner
room. This is because the POSTMASTER
General is a patient man. He wants 10
The day is never quite long enough Tor
the task. When he first went into off1ce
Mr.. BurleSon cut the word luncheon from
his lexicon. What time has a Postmaster
General to eat when the politically nun
CRY crowd crowds the outer room! he
gets there at Q o'clock in the morning
and he sticks until $50 in the evening.
Consider that there is usually fac
precate something of what the Post
master and that this factional row must
be considered in all its aspects before an
appointment is made, and you Will APP
preciate something of what the Post
master General has to go through If he
can remember it all he will have store
of political information before the years
end that will be wonderful
But patronage isn't all that the Post
master General has on his hands. There
are some big problems to be worked out
in the Post Office OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
affecting the service. And he is tacklinS
them whole heartedly.
Fortunately. in view of the demands
the job makes on the physical man, he
is rugged sort of an individual So
were his progenitors. Burleson has been
a pretty good name in Texas ever since
there was a Texas. There was. for
starter Edward Burleson, grandfather of
the Postmaster General Edward com
manded the volunteers in the Texan army
at the battle of San Jacinto. April 81
1886 when they put Santa Ana and his
Mexicans to rout Sam Houston was in
chief command. but Burleson's volunteers
were his mainstay. When the republic
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- ECRETARY WILLIAM B. WILL
a SON of the Department of Labor
~ plans to address the Sunday
school rally of the Cohocksink Prespy-
terrain Church of Philadelphia. to be held
in the church Sunday, September y, at
. 30 O'Clock.
Rev. Zed H. Copp. formerly chief pro-
bation officer of the District Juvenile
Court. and now pastor of the Cohocksini
Church. which has fiourishing conSre-
cation in a downtown section of Phlla-
delphia. where many laboring men re-
side. came to town yesterday for chat
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Tropical Imports From Philippines

From the Engineering Magazine.
Of making the Philippines source of
revenue through n more or less benefi-
cent exploitation, as the Spaniards at
tempted to DO in their time as a coloniz-
ing nation, and as the Dutch are doing
today in Java and their other East In
dian possessions. there is not the re.
hottest desire on the part of any real
American. notwithstanding the fact that
the great natural resources of the islands
would render them susceptible to such
exploitation should the rigor of1Sule that
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0Milson to Annress labor Repre=
sentatibes in philadelphia Goiftre
Reb. zeo q. Copp Seizures Dis afceptance
to @peak at Big meeting in Gobotk=
sink presbpteriam Cburcb.

with Secretary Wilson. and after his visit
TO the Department of Labor ANNOUNCED
that Mr.. Wilson said he would be glad
to attend the rally
The evening of the same day Rev. Mr.
Copp has arranged for a rally of labor
ing men in the Cohocksink Church at
7:45 o'clock, when Secretary Wilson will
deliver his second address of the day.
The church. which is a large one, will
seat AGO persons and the pastor stated
yesterday afternoon that from the assur-
ances he has received from many labor
union representatives in the city of
Brotherly Love. that the house Will be
filled with a capacity audience to hear
the Secretary of Labor.
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Our Wives.

llS TICK 10 your wives. boys. Stick 10
- your wives Nobody will stand up
for you as a wife will
The speaker was Jerome 5. McWade
the Duluth millionaire. Mr.. McWade.
on the Cunard pier, was giving a word Of
parting advice to group of reporters.
He now added impressively:
When a man doesn't know enough 10
make a living, and he's trying 10 borrow
right and left. and all the world is run
ming him down, what does his wife say?
George his wife says, proudly. Is
far too honest TO succeed in a worldly
way
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Independence.

S1nIG BILL" HAYWOOD. in one OF HIS
y Haledon speeches to the Paterson
strikers. said:
Il want the woman strikers to have the
independent spirit of lady | used 10
know. This lady had a neighhor who had
prospered. The neighbor. a very spiteful
sort. for all her prosperity, said TO my
friend one day:
II see you're still your own washer
woman. Kate
Yes Kate answered. cheerfully. hut
thank goodness. | haven't yet been re-
duced to playing maid to a poodle dog
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BY E. FRED EASTMAN,

Secretary Matinecocx Neighborhood Associa ton,
Locust Valley. y. y
This article is hy-product Of Mr.. Eastman, $
fifteen months OF survey work under the aus
pieces OF the Presbyterian Department of Church
and Country Life.
LEARNER SMITH needs help He
" needs it here and now. He is try
~ ing to keep his family supplied
with food and clothes He is struggling
to give his children an education and
at the same time to pay off the mort
gage on the farm and to save enough
TO keep his wife and himself from want
in their old age. All around him are
those who are waging the same battle,
but they give him little help. Each one
fights alone, as his father did before
him.
Twelve years ago Farmer Smith had a
tive-thousand-dollar farm. 1t yielded him
an income of about $500 That was re-
turn of 10 per cent. Today, because of the
general rise in land values. that farm is
worth $4,000. 1t yields him about 500. II
Is now only I per cent investment. His
profits have decreased Moreover, his
land is poorer than it was twelve years
ago. Smith never learned how to farm
hilSHSisciS. Tie KNOWS only tHe Ciuue
methods used by his father in the days
Of virgin soil The years ahead give
him no promise that he will be able
to make even as much from his farm
as he is making now
The economic pinch has left its marks
upon his social life. Many of his old
neighbors have sold their farms and
moved away Some have left their farms
in the hands of tenants, who are robbing
the land of its fertility. Community
spirit has vanished. The old forms of
recreation have lapsed with the passing
of the settled population No new forms
have taken their place except in the
towns. and these are usually of a char
acter that would not be tolerated in the
country. Smiths boy is waiting his first
opportunity TO get off the farm. His
has been a HE of all work and no play.
and while II has not exactly made him
dull boy. II has made him hate farm
ing. Smiths wife is leading the life of a
drudge, and she swears her daughters
are not going to live on the farm If she
can help IL. With the stagnation in So
cial life has come stagnation in moral
and religious life, for morals do no,
flourish in stagnant community
Smith Needs knowledge.
Yes Smith needs helm He needs r.
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IF Texas was erected Edward was a
candidate for the presidency, but lost out
by go votes.
Second Of the line was Can't. Ed"
Burleson, father Of Albert Sidney Burle-
son He spent his early life leading a
band of rangers over the state extermi-
mating hostile Indians. Later in the
civil war, he and his rough riders did
many unpleasant things to Federal cav
airy.
Right while the war was on-June 4,
1863. 10 be exact-Capt. Ed and his
wife received a little stranger in their
home at San Marcos. OF course, the lit
tie one had to be named Albert Sidney,
that name being heroic one IN the
south in those days. The little one IS
little no longer but a strapping big fig
ure of man, with breath OF outdoors
about him.
Pink of cheek with keen blue eyes. just
whisper Of white whiskers below his
ears. his white hair falling in a lock over
his temple. his face is like a picture out
Of the past All he needs is a high
stock frilled shirt. blue dress coat
with brass buttons and pair of tight
breeches TO look like a senator of the 3ns
or As
Mr. Burleson got his educa ton in his
native state. studying at the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Texas. Baylor
University of Waco and the University
of Texas. Twenty-Five years ago he was
admitted to the bar. The following year
-1SS.rhe was made assistant city attor-
ney of Austin. in which position he served
nearly six years. Then. III 1891 the gov
ernor appointed him attorney of the
twenty-sixth judicial district. Biennially
for the next six years he was elected to
the position and acquired a reputation S
a vigorous prosecutor.
: k
In 1895 he acquired the congressional
habit, being elected to the F'ifty-sixth
Congress- Six times he was reelected.
each time without opposition in his own
party 1t is interesting to note that of
the eight counties in his district one of
them is Burleson county.
In Congress he rose TO position among
the leaders Active keen and aggressive.
he was a man to be reckoned with. In
the Sixty-second Congress he had the
second place on the important committee
on appropriations and was chairman OF
the caucus During the national cam
paign of last year he was in charge OF
the speakers bureau at the chicago
headquarters.
Mr.. Burleson married early in life
and his cultured wife has long been
figure in Washington society. She has
written several plays. one OF which,
THE Congressman's Secretary, was
produced in Washington last year.
Their eldest daughter. Mrs. Richard
but two younger daughters, Misses
Lucy and Sidney, are students at the
Sweetbriar Academy for Girls in the
valley of Virginia. and are frequent
visitors in Washington.
The new postmaster general, when
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this greatest be secured
portan sense have to buy the truth
There thing getting something for nothing II
thing others have paid for We
which did labor but others have abored tor
Everything great value bought and there
is nothing OF greater value than truth.
We must buyt be willing give anything
everything else 1t cheap price Whatever II
be the bargain
No specific price is tit be dear.
Money alone will not buy but expended tor education
the gaining OF knowledge by which truth bought
All pains endured searching after truth all losses
refusal neglect the truth
purchase of the pearl OF such great
should be willing sell all that he has order
10 And having obtained it, he must not sell it
The divine prohibition is, sell it not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03
Reporting Chinese Debates.
ON the London Chronicle

7 TON Tue London ChronIcIe.
Reporting debates in China IS evidently
not an easy task. One of the earliest
acts of the republican government was
to found an institution to train men TO
report parliamentary proceedings. A
special system of shorthand was evolved
to overcome the perversities of Chinese
script, and altogether $4,000 was spent
on the establishment.
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gle with each other in literary. athletic
and social activities? Should the church
forget about itself and its creedal ana
polenic differences? Should the church
forget all about itself in it's effort to save
Smith? Should it lose itself in his serv-
ice. even if some churches have to die In
the attempt. as long ago their Master
iied?
Should it? Z
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the nominating OF postmasters IN ones
own district; provided, of course, that
your party was in power. and
If, on the sudden accession to suprem-
acy of your party you were named as
Postmaster General; and
If you found that you were the man TO
whom the congressman had TO apply to
set their men landed in the Jobs; and
III there were some IS 900 postmaster
ships that Your old friends in Congress
were clamoring for; and
II these old friends all descended upon
you, giving the grand hailing sign of the
brotherhood of congressman and con-
fdently looking to YOU TO crafty their
wants
What would you do?
Probably what Albert Sidney Burleson
Postmaster General, is doing. which Is
the best he can.
ST am not a spokesman firmly declares
the Postmaster General
"Sure you're not" grin the congress
men in response: not at all. That's I'M
derstood perfectly. But. now about that
post Office at Jim Greek in My district
and so on.
During the last Congress Mr. Burleson
was chairman of the democratic caucus
The appearance of his outer office would
indicate that he still retains the position
At any rate. nearly d quorum can be
found there every day.
That big red room might we'll be the
Cloakroom of the House. it always con-
tainS so many congressman. Fortunately
the chairs and settees are soft and lux
urious. the view-looking east-the vista
closed by the dome of the Capitol, Is at
tractive: the company always congenial.
save on those awkward occasions when
opposing factions arrive al the same time:
and the pictures on the wall at least. in
teresting, if not edifying.
There. on the north wall, for example,
are the spreading white whiskers of
James A. Gary. Mckinley's first Post
master General One doesn't see such
whiskers nowadays. They are cut like
pair of balloon skysails of cup defender.
John Wanamaker. who, in his picture,
looks more like Josephus Daniels than the
pictures of Josephus Daniels do looks you
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lI.
that may be offered.
1t is significant fact that the truth cannot
be bought from those who have it for sale. The
mercenary preacher teacher public speaker
who suppresses the truth by utterlng smooth
things to please men, selling the truth Tor the
supposed gain OF popularity but we do not OBJ
tain the truth from them.
There is a mart Of truth God IS truth, and
from Him alone in the revelations He has made
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SUNDAY Morning Talk.
Ube probibiten Sale.
Bp Darbep s.. grmilr.

"Buy the truth and sell it not" Prov 1923.
~ commodity which is the most important to purchase Is
W truth and it all others that should be
sold obtained however much called upon to
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F you had been in
Congress for the
last fourteen years;
and
If during all that
time you had been
a stickler for the
ri 6 h I s. privileges
and dignities of a
con gresham. and
IL among those
ri 9 h I s. privileges
and dignities was
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Secretary Matinecoca Neighborhood Associa tion.
Locust Valley. ~ y.
This article is n by product Of Mr.. Eastman 5
fifteen months OF survey work under the aus
pces OF the Presbyterian Department of ChWch
and Country Life.
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Yes, svith needs help. He needs to
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-28
Was He Sacked?

Though benevolent old gentleman and kind en-
ployer decided that far his office boy.
Alexander BALDWIN, concerned. the limit of his
patience had been reached.
The boy must be sacked.
arrived q quarter of hour late yesterday ton
before. and thls mornng-Mr. Jones
glanced office cock-the lad already twenty
minutes overdue
Precisely nine minutes later he entered the office in
quiet unobtrusivs manner of prepared for trouble
A horrid silence ensued. Then:
And have you got this morning." de-
manded in the hercest voice that he could
muster.
'The-er--ice the pavements SIR stammered
Master. Alexander 'Tt-er-every step I-er-took
slipped back two"
Mr. glared at the lad
Indeed he remarked with calm elaboration The
pray, o did you here allT'
Never thought should SIR" replied the incorrigble
one suddenly and happily inspired"that u.s. till decided
to back homer'
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THE FAMILY CUPBOARD za &c. zss Z 5vs5 E2

| the boys muffled sobs sounded loud to
| the point of agony.
Anger died--and horror and shame
were born
The boys reason shook TO its founda-
| ton. But there would be another test
for Kenneth Nelson's sanity to bear
There was still more bitter fruit for
him TO pluck from the Tree of Life
MY father! MY FATHERr
The words were wrenched from his
lips. His whole being was in stormy
revolt. And the blood of his father
| throbbed and pulsed in his molten veins.
1t was man to man now-and Kitty
was forgotten.
! But Kitty meant to speak for her
self. She had prepared this scene,
though its tragedy had gone far be
| yond the depths of her shallow mind
But this was her moment-her hour
| her revenge. She would not be forgot
| ten while blood called to blood, while
Nature had her way with a man and
his frst-born son. Kitty May made
her little plea for recognition as a suf-
ferer in the tragedy-not as the cause
thereof. Her voice was plaintive and
sweet-she took a martyr tone. In
jured innocence was still her cue in this
trayesty she had prepared.
You love HMM spite OF what he
did. I know. l loved him in spite of
what he did-to mel"
So Kitty strove with the tale of her
own wrongs to counterfeit the wrong
of that blow from son to father.
Don't! Don't"' moaned Kenneth.
With strength that can endure
blow-with the strength that has
learned through its own weakness to
understand all weakness, Charles Mel
son spoke to the boy whose blow had
just marked his face. But the supreme
quality in his voice was the loving pa
thence strong man must feel for A
child who suffers through mistakes he
could not meet unguided.
Kenneth, do you care to come with
mep"
The boy lifted his miserable. shamed
head.
mol can't. But lin sorry did
that"
The boy raised his burning eyes, then
he CROPPED upward with one hand.
Charles Nelson took that hand stretch
Ing toward him half in fear. half In
sorrow He clasped it firmly-so that
some of his strength and understanding
leaped from his strong, warm palm to
the boys clammy hand. The mark of
the blow was passing-but the mans
face looked lined and old; the blow
from son TO father had scared its way
to his soul-and told him how deep the
suffering caused by his own mistake of
the years gone by
Still holding the kneeling boys hand.
he spoke 10 his son.
The day will come when both YOU
and | Will be brave enough to be GLAD
you did-that. That blow is going 10
give me back my son II is going to
open your eyes and make you give M
this life and this woman"
To Be Continued To. norrow.
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YESv"

"Yes-YESY
She spoke slowly. The words sound
| ed like some grim pendulum ticking out
a sentence on the Clock of Doom.
Kenneth Nelson raised his arm and
struck his father a hard blow across
the face with his open handl
Kitty WINGED and covered back
crouching as if she had felt the brute
pain of that blow.
There was the stiffness of death in
the room.
1t was as II wild tornado had swept
by-devastating everything - leaving
emptiness, void. desolation and de-
struction in its wake. And a tornado
OF human passionate most devastat-
ing force in life-had passed over the
room.
mistaken, Charles Nelson stood there
The blow fell-a crimson welt marked
his oSeek-a look of age swept its gray
mask over his features. He did NOT
move. He stood staring at the stark
fury in kenneth's eyes Still, mistaken.
outWardly unmoved, he stood face to
face with the man who was his son
No muscle quivered. His nerves must
have winced-his blood must have
pounded in agony at the impact of his
sons hand on his flesh. but he stood
still. There was some Of the martyred
dignity Of the prophets Of old in his
Arm pose. He appeared as granite fast
locked in the soil.
He looked at Kenneth a moment The
boy stared back-murderous hatred in
his eyes.
minute licked by in muffled heart
beats.
Slowly before his fathers unwaverif,s
gaze, the anger died from Kenneth's
eyes. Shame was born. Then came alb
solute horror of what he had done-a
geam Of understanding OF what this
other man had suffered through love
film came over his eyes He looked
dszed. He turned his eyes from hi,
fathers face to his own right hand. He
saw guilt-almost blood outlines there
Suddenly covering his tortured young
face with shaken arms. Kenneth Mel
son fell on his knees at his fathers feet
In the absolute stiffness Of the room
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/ A colder voice interrupted him: Take
Alice home, Tom
Charles Nelson stood in the doorway
Laughing recklessly, now that her
| hour had struck, Kitty May started for
ward. Suddenly change came over her
she sank in huddled little heap on
| the couch--waiting- waiting
Tom led Alice away-a puzzled, fright
ened, wondering Alice. The boy stood
| looking at his father with still dislike
! Charles Nelson had controlled the quick
| tremor of surprise that had shaken him
at sight of the woman to whom his
son was trying to introduce his daugh-
| ter. In a stern, controlled fury he
| turned on Kenneth
| How dare you introduce your sister
to a woman like this?"
! What right have you TO insult this
LADY," asked Kenneth, starting toward
| her
Kitty had risen-the smile on her lips
was steely now-her eyes had turned
from gentian blue to the gray of a re-
morseless storm. She was ready for the
victory. She spoke softly-in a still
voice that held both men.
He has the best right in the world!
The very, very best"
Slowly, slowly she spoke her words
distilling them like liquid poison. Slow
~ slowly she would take her moments
of revenge proonging them to atone
for her moment of weakness-the mo-
ment when she had been so near re
lenting. But now she was ready to de-
mand her pay.
Nelson famed her fury from smolder-
ing little flames TO walls OF fire. but he
ignored her with the stony oblivion OF
Indifference.
Il must have a talk with you, Ken
meth. WIN YOU come to me to- night"
The boy reflected that he had got on
without his precious family for a whole
month. He had been left to his own de.
vices-and now, night-they all want
ed to talk to him.
mo! Not tonight! Now! II you talk
to me at all II must be here, before the
lady who is to be my wife"
He went toward Kitty protectingly, as
n to take her in his arms-and so defy
the world, II that need be,
Your wife," Nelson just breathed
the words
There was no sound. Ken stood as
II frozen to cold sculpture in the move
ment he had started to make. Kitty
stood still. -waiting-waiting Be
tween the boy and the woman stood
Kenneths father.
There was a horrible pause-a pause
fraught with all the shame and horror
Of sin and retribution.
Then Charles Nelson turned to Kitty
and spoke hoarsely,
you SAID YOU'D GET ME- AND
THINK YOU HAVE"
you know herr" asked Kenneth. in
slow wonder.
Does he know met"
Kitty faced father and son. But II
was at the older man she looked with
implscable hatred--with unswervtng
purpose in her eyes. And always on
her lips that little smlle-that was half
sheer, half cruel mirth. Lucrezia Bor-
gia wore a smile like that when life
had taught her an her bitter lesson OF
poison lore.
Fratl, dainty little Kitty May, Smn-
ing like Mona Lisa. or the Sphinx.
smiling with poison distnling In the
harbed arrows of Der words. she stood