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home and small farm Having oeea-
sion to send Jesse on an errand to the
shores of the Chesapeake the stalwarti
youth of Is. muscular. large. active and
bright. was seized by some slave traders.
and forcibly taken on board small YES
sci, and carried to Richmond. where IN
the slave market he was sold on the
block He protested that he was free, and
was foreibly brought hither, but no at
tention was given to his defense. From
Virginia he was brought to Montgomery,
and bought by the Goldthwaites, in which
family he had been for more than 80
years. On being sold at Montgomery he
again protested. but was answered by
the statement that he had been bought
in good faith, and the fault was not that
of his present owners. This, he said, de-
stroyed all hope. and he knew that he
was doomed to a life of slavery. from
which condition there was no possible
appeal. This made him desperate, and he
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| the economy of the wise human being
| When the former Is permitted to rule
without control the feelings shrivel UP
and perish. When the latter is the con-
trolling partner in the firm there are mis-
directed energies and waste OF force.
1t Is a question:
Are we indebted for examples of sue
cess and for inspiration in life more to
the weak than to the strong?
The former teach us by their patient
endurance, the latter by their vigor
In a sense. the weak who display tho
valuable qualities OF patience and en-
durance are not weak. They are strong
souls in weak bodies. In the matter OF
value to the world they rank with the
mighty.
How often do we hear of great won
derful accomplishments by those who are
weak in body and win through to the uti-
mate goal by means of the powerful "will
to succeed"
They teach us how bodily. mental and
moral feebleness may be overcome IL the
desire to accomplish something be strong
enough to rule.
Here, for example, is the story OF the
life of the late Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
Wormely Latimer, well known among
literary folk:
she was a truly wonderful woman,
not only because of her literary achieve
ments in many fields, but because of her
splendidly brave spirit. She had had
financial reverses, and it was necessary
for her to write for publication and to
have classes In literature.
did the fact that she was so near
sighted that she could see only two or
three inches of a line at a time dismay
her? Not in the leastl She worked In
defatigably, by day and by night. NOV
Ing a book back and forth before her
eyes, always within a couple of inches
of her face. She was an encyclopedia of
knowledge, keenly alive to and interested
in wide variety of subjects.
'She left a daughter who Is eminent in
a medical way and. a son who is an
artist"
Is IL not an appealing picture-the
Englishwoman In middle age, moving
her book painfully and slowly from side
to side. that she might add to the knowl-
edge whereby she lived? She might have
folded her hands and rested on the fact
of her impoverished eyesight, leaving t.
others the task of supporting her.
The picture ranks In a way with that
of blind Milton. debating Paradise Lost
English poets was man strong and
mighty of soul and vigorous of body save
for his one affliction. He ruled his house,
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When we read in the Bible. in riddle,
that ''out of the eater came forth meat
! and out of the strong came forth sweet
ness" we think probably only of the lit
eral significance of the words.
But they may be taken metaphorically
For instance
There is Henry Ford, wealthy manu-
facturer, whose announced determination
to share sl0000.0Oo profits with his en-
ployes has stirred the world.
Certainly Ford is a practical man. as
is attested by his success in the world,
and he should be a very Gradgrind for
facts and figures But instead we find
him explaining the details of his plan,
giving forth meat for reflection and
sweetness of belief in humanity.
When all else Is gained or lost says
Mr.. Ford good will is the only thing left.
1t is the only thing that counts after
ALL
Is this not sweetness out of the strong ?
For no one denies Mr.. Fords strength,
and of the sweetness of his words there
can be no doubt.
Higher than his fame, his success his
wealth, he places the good will of his
employees, the men and women with whom
he comes into daily contact. He joys
in the lighting of the eye which is kindled
when he inspects the great works in
which he gives employment 10 $1,000 per-
sons. He wants to be known as the friend
and fellow worker rather than as the
"boss."
! An interesting side light on his success
much of 1t to his wife. He is man of
great mechanical ingenuity and worked
out while he was employed otherwise
the details of the invention which made
| him rich. He and his wife had saved
some money for the purchase of a home,
and it was her dearest wish to own a
place of their own.
But when he went to her with the an
nouncement that he had perfected his in
vention he needed the few saved hun
dreds or thousands for its development
and let her choose whether she would
use the money in that way or persist In
| the plan of buying home with it. Mrs.
! Ford had faith In her husbands ability.
| Without hesitation she gave her consent
| to the diversion Of the money. Financial
success came and she has now a far
| finer and grander house than she dreamed
of in those days
| His success is due, it seems, to her will
| ingness to give up the dream of years
for the sake of her husband for she could
! not have known in advance that his In
vention would be successful
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gracing vice, the sin of those who also
to quote Tennyson's famous lines, make
divine Philosophy
Procuress to the Lords of Hell.
But in it's present guise the sin is
far more obvious, more primitive. more
commonplace.
1. 1t is a familiar truism that this
sin begins today with the daily paper.
and particularly with the Sunday edi-
ton of the daily paper in America.
To catalog the forms of this sin would
involve an interminable list, and the
result might seem grossly unfair to
many intelligent and high minded
Journalists and propretors. ! make all
necessary EXCEPTIONS; l acknowledge
the perils that belong to the syndt-
cation of matter, problemf that only
professional journalists are competent
to discuss Furthermore. we must cor
daily recognize the heart searchings
and distress suffered by a vast host of
gentlemen whose own papers, neverthe-
less, bear the marks of The Spenserian
she -dra gon, marks which they confess
themselves eager but unable to erase.
Yet these facts cannot avail to obscure
the sordid and glaring vulgarity, nay
even indecency, which so often mars
the Sunday paper For much of this
there is no excuse soever. Perhaps in
the fullest light of the sanest judgment
1t Will appear that what we call inde-
eeney is no worse than the vulgar in
sincerity, the shallow inaccuracy, the
blatant futility, the meretricious art,
which desecrate so huge a number of
homes each Lords Day morning.
There is no need of this. Even the
ignorant and the rude and the stupid
and the vicious do not really need a
journalism and an art on level with
those of the Police Gazette. All men
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cure for the seN-eonscious dance. Is
the dance also phase of literature? ?
In sense. yes; II is writing in
the sand, ideographs only too deeiph-
cradle, only too permanent. Part Of
the pagan revival. it takes its place
with the erotic novel and novelette,, the
vulgar picture, the sensational STORY
in the Sunday paper about a Parisian
adenturess or an Illicit passion
But behind all these things is some
thing far more subtle because so much
nearer the snrfacel I mean the modern
cult of the obvious. These sensual
passions evoked or soothed by erotil
story, picture, seN-dance, are primitive
primae1al. They are of the cave man
the gorilla. the chimpanzee. the horse
the dog, 1t is their obviousness that
charms our age just as il is the OBJ
vious, the trite the commonplace,
dressed in himsy and gay costume,
that appeals from the pages OF shock
ing drama, magazine. journal And the
more we dwell IN the obvious the less
brain have we wherewith to transcend
the obvious Even sermons come too
often under this condemnation. Peo-
pie plead with their preachers not to
be made to think. Half the audience
at a Maeterlinck play is bored to
death" Why? Because they have
been discouraged In the use of the
brain pan, but too greatly nourishod
with three heavy meals elsewhere. On
with the dancel
The way of escape? Behold 1t In
the study of the Psyche Come. OBJ
serve how the soul itself is her own
Queen and there is no god but self;
and Psyche is the prophecies of SELF
Can you but catch the quick flash of
her gossamer wings, then you shall be
emaneipated from sin, sickness. sor-
row. and some other thingsl Ah, yes
And once again, ahl Full of grea;
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~ ENERALLY speaking, the world
= recognizes the superiority of
~ Shakespeare as student and
expounder of human nature. But when he
wrote the lines about whats in a
name?' in Romeo and Juliet" he said
something with which not everyone
agrees.
There is much in a name
For example, there's a young woman
in America today who has reason to be-
lieve that there is much in a name. She
was accused not long ago of robbing an
other woman of her husband and eloping
with him.
And her given name is Delah
1t is hard to comprehend the state of
mind which will induce mother or a
father, or both, to handicap a girl baby
with a name like that for life Is it pos
sible that anyone in this age of COM
pulsory education should not know the
sinister history of the name Delilah and
the frightful associations which center
around it?
Delilah, the woman who enticed the
strong man Samson and for silver encom-
passed his destruction by his enemies,
the Philistines, in spite of his profess
sions of love for her.
1t is a name with which no good, honor
able woman should be burdened. Why
select 1t from the women's names in the
Bible when Mary or Ruth or Naomi or
Esther or Hannah or any other of the
rich store, fragrant with the memory of
gracious lives and good deeds. may be
chosen?
AS well call a girl child after one of the
terrible women denounced by the pro-
phets.
inappropriate and incongruous names
there are a-plenty. Host of us know
Blanches who are brunettes and Lilys
who are short and stumpy No blame at
taches to the parents in such cases In all
likelihood, for they cannot tell how a
son or daughter is to develop physically,
and custom ordains that name be
chosen when the child is very young.
Years ago a suggestion was made that
a tentative, temporary name be given to
Z child for purposes of identification and
that when he reached years of discretion
he might have the option of retaining the
name or selecting another which suited
him better.
1t is believed there were legal reasons
why this course could not be followed.
But most of all of the states permit a
person to change a name by a simple
legal process when the old one does rOs
suit provided that the name is not ais
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Charles N

| tered for the purpose of defrauding ones
fellow citizens.
Perhaps the name Delilah led the poor
girl into devious ways. Who knows?
We have all heard Nothing succeeds
like success"
Now We are told by an Englishmar
who has made financial success of his
life that nothing is 80 infectious, SC
catching" as success or failure.
Says this Briton:
Il have one rule in life. regard it as
a duty to succeed, so | persistently sought
the company of those who had succeeded
If man was failure I avoided him.
not out of any snobbishness, but because
/ could not afford to run the risk OF
catching the infection of failure from
him.
The commentator on this wrote:
His was a most curious idea, that
success and failure are infections and
that one can catch them just as he can
catch fever and colds. In his mind 1t
worked out this way: Make companions
of weak people and one becomes weak.
Make companions of strong people and
one becomes strong"
He might have said that one must have
at least some of the elements of strength
to remain in the company of the strong,
for they will not long tolerate the COM
panionship of weakness
There's much pith in the idea.
As a man makes his companionship,
SO is he. The old, homely proverb, SHOW
me yesir friends and 1 will know what
you are is an oblique expression of the
same thing.
Now
1t is true not only of a mans friends
but of the things which he makes his
own. The books he reads, the pictures
ne enjoys, the music. he listens to,~tht
SHOWS and amusements which he at
tends-ali' these are indices to character.
II success is catching cultivate the
society OF the successful. II failure Ii
INFECTIOUS shun its presence.
rms need not preclude the exercise OF
charity. 1t need not dry up the springs
OF Well doing for fear of acquiring the
habits and manners and other character.
istics of those with who none associates
himself The very act of philanthropy
proves that one is superior to the field ir
which he labors.
But
1t must always be borne in mind thai
success and failure are of various kinds
Many failure, judged by worldly stan.
dards. is a glorious success when viewed
with the eyes of true love OF ones fellow
men and women.
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of fine achievement He has done some
good work in a desultory, haphazard, in-
different way. He could go to the top
rapidly If he would only rid himself of
the "rll begin tomorrow habit. But it
is a question whether he will ever shake
it off strengthened as 1t is by many years
of indulgence
Ask yourself, 'How do | think?' and
the reply will come Immediately, why,
with the mind. of course"
There is another sort of thinking. 1t is
done with the heart. II is the infusion of
sympathy with intellect.
King Solomon. wisest of men, knew
this when he prayed:
'Give thy servant an understanding
heart to judge thy people,"
With intellect alone one may hope to
attain purely material results, but an
understanding heart" is needed for the
attainment of the highest submits of hui
man achievement. Whitney had 1t when
he invented the cotton gin. for he thought
of the tightening of the labors of others.
Elias Howe felt acutely the sorrows of
the poor seamstresses when be devised
the first sewing machine. Edison knew
that his light would cast its beams into
the darkest places when he brought forth
the incandescent lamp which has been
called 'the greatest civilizer of the age"
Whenever great book Is written or a
great picture painted or marvellous piece
of music written the understanding heart
joins forces with the working intellect to-
bring 1t forth.
1t is this fact which induces the world
to give it's warmest praise and highest
fame not to the man who amasses the
greatest amount of wealth or kills the
largest number of his fellow men in bat
tie, but to the man or woman who does
the most for not to, all others.
Who holds the higher place in Amer
ican esteem-the shrewd woman who Is
called the greatest financier of her sex, ="
or the wealthy woman who spends her
time and money in doing good? Who
Is the more to be envied?
Pray for an understanding heart, as
did King Solomon. 1t is precious boon.
Note that the prayer is not for a soft
heart warm heart, feeling heart,
1t is for an understanding" heart.
Such Is a heart that can intelligently
feel for others. It is one that is not sub
ject to humane movements by fits and
starts. actuated by misdirected and un-
worthy appeals. 1t is one that can weigh
and Judge considerably. fairly and justly.
1t is one that can work with the head,
not govern 1t entirely.
Heart and head are equal partners In
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nY way of marking the completion
N of the fourth consecutive year, but
- actually the 2ioth weekly number
since / began these contributions to The
Age-IIerald, I am inclined to start today
with a quotation from Edmund Spenser.
Alas and alacll, when turn to the "Faery
Queen l find, to the shame of these my
bookshelves, that the volume is no longer
here. With trepidation 1 quote from
memory the passage where the Gentle
Knight attacked the she-gobln, and
she, in defense.
''Spewed cut of filthy nav
A flood of poison horrible and black
Full of great Jumps of flesh and gobbets
raw,
That stunk so vilely it did force him slack
His grasping hold, and from her turn
him back.
Her vomit full of books and papers was,
With loathly frogs and toads which eyes
did lack"
No one can say that this is a delicate
bit of Spenser; on the other hand none
can deny in him either the pungently
virile, or the vividly picturesque, or the
intensely dramatic quality. Even music
is clearly heard in these blunt syllables,
so grotesque and grim.
But what did Spenser mean ?NWho was
his dreadful she-dragon? Those who
have attempted a logical exposition of
Sponsors imagery have had to give up the
task: but in this instance we shall not
be far wrong If We say that the poet
was plainly describing popular ignorance,
superstition. bigotry, and these evil forces
which use "books and papers not for the
comfort and consolation of men, but fur
ther to gull and cajole and delude them.
Spenser, indeed, in his own way was por-
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ROMANCE OF ALABAMA HIS

~ EV. DIR. l, T. TICHENoR. who
tx was for many years the pastor of
the First Baptist church of Mont
gomery. later the president of the Poly
technie institute at Auburn, and still
later the corresponding secretary of the
Home mission of the Southern Baptist
convention, relates the following story
of cruelty as connected with his pastor
ate at Montgomery 1t was the habit of
DR.. Tichenor to preach to the slaves of
Montgomery every Sunday afternoon dur
ing his long pastorate in that city
Among the many hundred slaves who
came to the service was a large mus
cular, yellow slave. well advanced in
Years. whose infirmity was supported by
a large hickory stick, the peculiar thump
of which always signalized the coming
of this old man into the church. The
pastor was sympathetically attracted to
the old man because of his devotion.
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hold az did patriarch OF old. whereas
Mrs. Letimer governed hers by love.
1t is among these so called weak
persons that the world CLEANS its Shin
ing examples They do not seek to shine
But tho goodness and strength and beauty
of their lives so shine before men tbas
they cast their radiance on the paths Of
rs others and make them easier.
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Placed
From Judge.

T IUIII JUuEt.
Teacher-Now, James, do you UNDER
stand the meaning of the word "ex-
tinct2"
James-Yes'm
Teacher-Then name one bird that il
now extinct.
James-Chpper
Teacher-Chipper? What kind of bird
Is that?
James-My pet pigeon. The cat caught
him this morning.
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the economy of the wise human being.
When the former Is permitted to rule
without control the feelings shrivel up
and perish. When the latter is the con-
trolling partner in the firm there are mis-
directed energies and waste of force
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| gracing sice, the sin of those who also,
to quote Tennyson's famous lines, make
| divine Philosophy
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artistic merit, but they more than
make up for any such defects by
their daring choice OF subject and its
extremely realistic treatment.
OELU0E OF LETTERS BEGAN
TWO WEEKS AGO.
The 'delugs Of letters began a few
weeks ago. Tho first recipients
thought It moro dignined to pay no
attention to the insulting missives.
but a. nearly every young woman In
town was soQp included In the list
OF victims II was not long before the
comparing OF notes began.
Then cane appeals to fathers and
brothers. and complaints began to
pour In on Postmaster John Dare. A
the letters continued the machinery
Of the Post Office Depa rtnent was put
In motion. and some OF the missives
taken for examination. The result led
to the pointing OF suspicion toward
two persons. both well known In
Patchogue society, though neither Is
now a resident.
The man OF the supposedly guilty
couple was long IA wcll-to-do merpb6f
OF Patchogue's society, and In con
sequence personally acquainted with
most OF the young women who have
received Objectionable communion
tons. He left town, however, about n
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Frills, Ribbons, CorsagS Bou-
quets and Everything
but Tunic.

When one OF the SINNER girls arrays
herself I'm one OF tho summer, 1914,
bathing suits the question will he ito
battle or not to bathe?'-for what
shame II will be to wet that style
ishness!
As fetching as any tango frock, as
frlly as any ea-drinking gown and
with a dash that seems to have ar
rived on the latest steamer from
Paris come the new bathing suits, and
YOU wonder where all the plain ones
have gone.
Everything that il in style at this
moment Is in style In bathing suits!
The peplum and the pannier in their
multiplicity OF phases and muchness
of puffiness. the TERED effect, which
means ruffles Gil the way up and
down, will disport themselves on the
sea sands this summer.
In French bathing suits there are
regulation trousers just like Il little
boys. not Knockers or boomers,
which come below the knees,
trimmed with buttons and balancing
In their longness the extreme short
ness OF the trifie OF n puff or skirt
above.
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year ago. almost ut tho Same time an
the young woman. his supposed ac-
Complice.
Tie young woman also was at one
time an acquaintance OF most OF the
victims OF the letters. II liz believed,
on Internal evidence. that she In
spired. II she did not actually write.
the worst OF the letters. From the
general style Of the milder eplstles, II
is thought tho man In their author
The question Of responsibility for the
pictures Is still a subject OF debate.
Neither of the suspected persons,
when In Patchogue. bore any reputa-
ton rs an artist.
The fact that only young women
Of unimpcachabie character. excellent
family and universal popularity have
been chosen for attack has added to
the Indignation. In many caSes
sneertng sentences have been written
on the outside OF the envelopes.
For example. Miss Essie Muller Of
No. ia Maple avenue about n week
ago received q letter bearing In 1e
corner, below the address. the SEN
tence: "Patchogue's fiossy kid. but
she's not wise one" Tho letter de-
tailed various insulting charges
against Miss Muller.
Miss Isabella Terrill received a let
ter addressed TO Miss Isabella Ter
rill. the tcrribul KID" hut the misslve
was only a meaningless hodge podge
| OF words. Others who have received
letters are Miss Adelaide Ryder. Miss
Jeanne Welch and Miss Matte
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a|IsU[1sMNOTES,
/ MAILED TO GIRLS,
!. STIR PATCHOGUE
Typewriter and Unsigned Mis-
sives CAN for Action of
Postal Officials.
SENT FROM NEW YORK.
Suspicion Points to Man and
II Woman Who Lived in the
SENT FROM NEW YORK.

1haA usually calm ana peaceful
bonss. PAaoAogus, L. l., 10 to-day .
,nessAing oaidron OF indignation.
Z Two psrsons Of whose identities
ba2Shoguiars have more than . sus-
01sopn, are responsible for tho starting
- ne population Of the town on the
warpath. They havs done II with a
0eod Of typewritten anonymous let
Nh. ell mailed from New York and
-o0Gressed to young women at Patch
$500 The letters vary greatly In
0AAraStar. Some consist merely Of
Aafnisss attempts at cheap wit at the
Rpsnss OF the recipients. The really
harmful letters are written in q style
ut would mako Boccaccio blush 4
80 crimson and Rabeiais cough be-
M hi hand.
4 - The latter class Of episties there
- occasionally inciosed pictures
wnee would make Anthony Comstock
np ave feet in the air and turn
Ases somersauits before aiighting.
- pictuFss ara not remarkable for