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hands or feet or hearts or lungs. There fore any sort of mental habitation will answer for the most precious portion of ourselves, that which most of us believe will survive when the body is moldered away.
 The Rev. pr. Frank Gibson Ward, dean of the Chicago theological seminary, says:
 Tt is not an uncommon thing to think of the soul as having a house of it's own in which it lives. This home of the soul is really made up of our habits of thought, of things that are uppermost in our minds, of the groups of ideas to which we constantly turn.
 Now, the larger the number of things which we think about in the right way the bigger will be the house in which we live It is too bad when people are con tent to live in little houses when they really can have large ones"
 Perhaps you can't afford to house your body in large house.
 But your soul
 For that you may have a mansion as spacious and beautiful as you will. You may adorn it with thoughts of noble life that will react on you to your lasting good, as the physical environment reacts on the bodily structure
 It is an alluring prospect that of hous- ing your soul in It's mental habitation as you will without regard to your ma terial circumstances.
 Said the poet Holmes:
 Build thee more stately mansions, o my
 Soul.
 As the swift seasons roll!
 Leave thy low vaulted past. Let each new temple, nobler than the
 last,
 Shut thee from heaven with dome more Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by lifes
 unresting sea! It is perhaps trite to suggest that there is not and never was a child training problem. If parents were educated prop erly there would be no need of train ing children. And, of course, such prob lens as ito spank or not to spank" would disappear, in spite of Solomons advice about ''sparing the rod and spelling the chi,G'.
 1he theme is suggested by the con certed efforts of the women of small Pennsylvania town to find out what is the matter with their system of child rearing. These women. unusually intel llgent mothers, band ed in a league or club for common betterment decided that something was wrong with the discipline l in their homes. The results were bad. Children were disobedient and fretful and i did not pro gress in health and wisdom as they should If permitted to develop normally,
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The absurd idea of royalty is Imaginable to the American mind. One cannot enter the presence of George V unless he is
 properly sponsored Then he has to be
 dressed a certain way. And he has to
 bow and fawn. and nunkey about in a
 manner as ridiculous as it is destructive to ones self respect. It's the King, you know
 Then, there's the little sawed-off Welsh man. Lloyd-George. He came from the
 gutter, and is trying to pull the gutter up with him. No barbed wire of con- vention and ceremony surrounds him. His friends are privileged to slap him on the
 back and call him Dave" He has queer ideas-that is, queer to the nobility
 about men being equal and all that bally
 rot. He is lacking in birth, and how
 could a person have breeding when his best friend and monitor was an old man
 who cobbled shoes for a living. In the eyes of snobdom, Lloyd-George is not fit 1 to associate with the nobility" But he | is England's greatest citizen, for all that
 He is trying to make the lot of the wretched easier and to bring light into
 lives that are dark. Is he not more to
 be admired than the lickspittle brood that sneers at him?
 1 famous Frenchman once said that I England resembles a barrel of its own l beer; froth at the top, dregs at the bot | tom, but thoroughly sound and wholesome in the middle. The English are all right. 1 If we fail to get their viewpoint, it is our fault. not theirs The average Amer | ican dislikes the idea of snooping about
 and slobbering over another specimen of the human race. We have no just quar-
 rel with the Englishman because he takes
 pleasure in doing so. And he shouldn t
 blame us if we laugh little laugh over the performance.
 | A table of British dukes comprises 31
 names. The holders of four of the titles
 are descendants of the illegitmate off springs of Charles IT: Puccleuch and Queensberry, descended iron, the Duke
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principles learned first by instinct, and for methods which needed only the ap- plication of reason to enable the heavi- est trains with their cargoes to be transported across the Great Divide.
 It was to the original engineer a study as to how the wild brue had so exactly found the way of overcoming the difficulty both of ascent and of descent. The paths travelled by these big brutes were equally adjusted to climbing and to descending, and in the investigation of the uneven topography 1t was found the way long before chosen could not be improved on by modern science either for raising great bodies along the heights, or for en- abling them to descend with the great est ease.
 To this awkward bull of the plains
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Charles N Lurie

its duty to fulfill. But outside forces
 intervene, and much good is lost Out in the desert in western state is little collection of shacks, lying at the side of the railroad track. The
 people living there are poor for the
 nearby mineral lands have ''petered out" and there is no farming. The peo- pie of the settlement have put up a
 big sign where 1t may be read by the passengers on the transcontinental line. It says. Please throw us your pa pers"
 What is trash or rubbish to the per- sons travelling in luxury in the Pull
 mans is treasure to them. It is per- haps their only means of keeping in touch with the outside world. Like all
 of us nowadays. they want to know the news. No matter If it is days old when it reaches them, 1t is news to them.
 So If you pass that way throw them your papers as the train passes their shaclSs. If you can add a magazine or two or even a book 1t will be ap- preciated.
 Your train of life passes other "shacks." literally or figuratively. For instance, suppose you are a
 farmer. You grow. very likely, as
 many farmers do more produce than You can sell or consume at home. The
 fruit rots on the ground in your orr
 chard or the vegetables in your fields.
 Is there not some poor family near you who would like to get some without
 paying for it from their scanty funds !? Throw 1t out to them, not forgetting few kindly words as you do so. Perhaps you are a suburbanite and your garden blooms beautiful It
 wouldn't be very much trouble, would it, to get out little earlier in the
 morning with big bunch of flowers
 and distribute them among the poor city children whom you pass every day
 on your way to your desk or factory! | You have no farm or garden perhaps you live in the city flat? We'll, how
 about the hospital near your home
 which would be very glad to get your
 old magazines for it's patients? l These are little" things no doubt, gate they might make up a mighty mass of kindness and consideration. l When thou wilt cheer and comfort thy
 self, call to mind the several gifts and virtues of them whom thou dost daily converse with, as. for example, the in- dustry of the one, the modesty of an other, the liberality of third, of another some other thing, for onthing can so much rejoice thee as the resemblances and parallels of several virtues, visible and l eminent in the dispositions of those who 1.-Two with thee, especially when all .,
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LNAME renown, reputation. honor
 Ah who can tell how hard it -& is to climb
 The steep where Fame's proud temple
 z shines afar?'
 All things are relative, however and some men gain reputation by words or deeds seemingly of little conse- quence. For instance, there Is a con- ductor on the West End electric line who has gained fame-although, of course, its limits are somewhat cir umscribed-merely from the fact that, in calling the stations along his route, he says "Elmwood" instead of 'Ellum- wood," 1t is pronounced by his col leagues Another step upon this line is at Elyton cemetery. Fresh from the country, one conductor called this sta tion "Elyton graveyard" and because of this was becoming well known to the patrons Of his car, but. probably because of a tip from some more ex- perienced butler of the bell cord, he did not persist in his designation, and as consequence ruined most excel lent foundations for reputation.
 One murder makes Villain,
 Millions a hero"
 The names of Hannibal, Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon and others are pretty we'll fixed in history, due in great part to the blood they spilled with such abandon. But Harry Thaw killed only one man, and he is better known to the school children of the present day than all the important personages who fill the histories. Nor does one mur- der necessarily make a man a villain in this day and generation. If a mur- derer is able to corrup a few witnesses or employ counsel sufficiently ingen- icus to save his neck by some silly loophole in the law, the murderer need not feel himself parish If the lime light is of proper strength and the
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rived from studying the methods and means pursued by the buffalo. in going from one side to the other of the rocky range For ages this giant brute had been scaling these heights, and had of ten gone from side to side of the Rocky mountains as the demands for herbage or for water would change. Naturally the buffalo had at first found the ways of least resistance through the stony passes of the mountains, winding and zigzagging here and there. and once the best route was found by the ancient ancestors of the buffalo herds it had been followed for ages.
 The first care of the early railway en- gineers, therefore. was to ascertain the routes of these animals. in order to be able to follow their beaten paths in the surveys made for the projected railways
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as heroically for France as did his noble colleague
 One writer remarks that had Shake speare not lived, Massinger might have stood at the head of British dramatsts; had Alfieri kept silent host Of writers. now almost unknown, would have oc- eupied the Italian stage Had 1t not beea for Caesar, Brntus might have ruled the world. and were 1t not for Bonaparte, many French general would occupy a separate place in that history of which they are now only transient figures.
 Lewis Carroll" in most laudable but not particularly ambitious endeavor-to amuse some children--wrote a master- piece that has fixed his fame probably for all time.
 Ravaillac murdered Henry of Navarro. and he will not be forgotten
 Count Julian betrayed Spain to the Sa- racens and his name will live forever.
 "Freedom shrieked when Kosciusko fell"
 George Washington only did his duty as he saw it and his is historys noblest figure.
 And so, ad infinitum. The moral of 1t all2 Let each man fashion one to suit him. self.
 Herostratus will be remembered as long as Nathan Hale. The paths to fame arc both crooked and straight; broad and mar row, hard and easy. Robert Walpole was one of Britain's greatest prime ministers. He made no secret of his bribery of members of Par liament. William Pitt was one of Brit aims greatest prime ministers. He re- fused indignantly to give bribes or take them. Napoleon despised money except as t might be used to accelerate his prog Churchill. one of the greatest soldiers of all times-who never planned cam paign that was not a success, besieged city he didn't take or fight battle he didn't wln-was so rapacious, mean and sordid that he robbed his own soldiers. Just figure it our for yourself
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then. is civilization indebted for fur suggestions of overcoming the difficulties of passing the Rockies. The buffalo becomes our first engineer in linking together the eastern and west ern sides of the continental divide. Those who have crossed the Rocky mountains have been impressed by the of wild and awful seen cry amidst eraggy heights. and along plateaus or mountain shelves. where huge powders and vast broken col umns lie in tumhled confusion. like the ruins of great city. or skimming along the rim of a sorge, the depths of. which are filled with dense dark
 ness. or else climbing the face of a
 great mountainous slant little know ing that for this particular route the
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original surveyors were indebted to the bulky bull of many generations. lie was the hamburger of civilization, and served his purpose well.
 There is a tinge of sadness In the fact that this ponderous forerunner of civilization has paid the penalty of the valuable service rendered. by furnish ing thus the means of his own extinc- ton Till he had opened the way sug- positively to civilization he was safe. For ages he was the undisputed sov- ereign of the plains and mountains But when civilized man found him by means of the ways provided by him. self, he was swept from the face of the world. When with daring stride the engineer found the winding ways of the buffalo among the difficult heights the plains were flecked with
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once. as near as may be, they represent themselves unto tlfee. And therefore thou must have them always in a reac-ness.-
 "Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius. In today English The way to be happy is to think of
 the goodness of those by whom one Is | surrounded.
 Luckily very few of us lack some one to show us a bright side Wife or hus-
 band or child or kinfolks or friends | to every one some one else is dear, and that some one is seen through the eyes of love and friendship. Such are they of whom the poet wrote: Be to his faults a little blind; Be to his virtues very kind.
 need not shut our eyes to the bad that is in others if we know that the good outbalances 1t. In our loved ones the good traits overwheigh the poor. do they l, not? And it rejoices us to see 1t and | recognize it and acknowledge 1t, as wise old Marcus Aurelius counsels us. It Is when one thinks of this inherent goodness of human nature and its striv- ing toward the higher planes that the scofflings of the pessimist are contra dicted. Human nature has still long
 road to travel before it attains perfec- | ton. but it's feet are set on the way,
 we honestly believe. | Surely
 | If each of us were to search among
 his acquaintance and "size up'' each member and decide that in each case | the bad overcame the good the world would be an intolerable place for human habitation.
 It is just because the soul has an in- stinctive groping toward the good, the right and the true that men and wom-
 en are able to live together in civilized
 communities. All life depends on the un-
 derstarding, explicit or understood, that
 the rights of all shall be recognized by
 each and that such recognition places | the limits on individual action
 That is an outgrowth of the spirit that
 sees and rewards the good traits in others.
 l We build for our bodies homes as com
 fortable as we can Porch and entrance
 and hall. living room. kitchen. sleeping apartments-all are designed to afford east
 to the occupants. The best architect is
 he who can plan house with the great.
 est number of conveniences. It is so important to house the body
 properly.
 | But for the soul
 Oh, any old home will do for that! Wt
 cannot sense it's presence as we dc that of our bodies. It Is not an inherent
 fndivisibls part of ourselves. like oul
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1t was found that there was a great
 variety of opinion on the propriety of itflicting corporal punishment. Some spanked methodically and systematically; others yielded to the impulse of the mo ment, awakened by some especially out rageous misdeeds of the children.
 All wrong, ladiesl
 All corporal punishment is medieval, outworn. It never made a better boy or girl It has ruined many.
 It is not disputed that means must be found to make children obey, for in their ignorance they transgress the laws which protect them. The parent Is the interpreter and executor of those laws.
 But
 To fulfill the duties of parenthood prop erly it is not necessary to beat a child with whip or rattan or paddle or slipper. The little body is not intrusted to the care of the parent that it may be beaten if the child disobeys, when, in fact, the disobedience of the child is the fault of the parent and is directly traceable to flaws ia the system of rearing a child.
 Here is the secret of happy, healthy, obedient childhood;
 Tie time 10 begin training a child is when 1t is q week old Ask any physi- clan or other person learned in the ways of children and he will tell you that even a very young child may be made to mind"
 If you wait to begin training your child
 until he IS year or two old it may be too late. By that time wrong habits may be formed.
 Every now and then we are shocked by reading of the meagre salaries paid tc l men who preach the gospel. Denomina- tion after denomination is indicted ir general convention on account of under paying it's ministers. It Is shown repeat. edly that the pay of some clergymen is
 less than that of the poorest paid clerks and laborers.
 It is that America attaches too little importance to the spreading of the ligh of morality and right thnging? Or is il | true that the majority of preachers are not worth more than the meagre salaries they receive?
 1 When the minister is underpaid his wife | and children suffer from lack of tho necessaries of life.
 One of tho latest cases Is that of a ] minister in a small town of New York He said:
 l We were reduced to the extremity
 where we had practically nothing in ths house to eat In two days we the pas tor. his wife, two daughters and ons son) lad but three meals, and they con | sisted solely of tomatoes and macaroni
 It was agreed that should be supplied | with filewood. 1 went to member O.
 the church who had 4 or O cords o
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HOSPITALS AN DCoMMERcE
Features That Would Make Them
 Hospitable Are Lacking in Many

Just what does the word "hospital
 mean, nowadays Apparently. it is applied to a great variety of institutions, where Journal, 1t should be restricted to insti- tutions hospitable alike to rich or poor
 And 90 the writer inquires:
 Need hospital be hospitable in the strict and etymological sense of that word? Or. should 1t be something of a hotel, more or less commercial, with a select class of patrons under the care of
 fashionable physicians and surgeons.
 whose fees correspond with those of the
 paid nurses. cooks, stewards and others
 who comprise it's staff of servants who come to their daily tale of work in 0
 hard. mechanical spirit? There are hospi- tals of both classes; those which are truly hospitable to all sufferers, rich and poor alike, and those whose hospitality Is pure ly mercenary, and measured by the purse. and not by the need of the patient. In the truly hospitable hospitals. physicians
 and surgeons freely give services that are invaluable. In the mercantile hotels for the sick the question of fees is too often a dominant factor, and the success of the institution is recorded in the ledger not fin the case reports.
 'But the true success in medicine is not
 measured by the bank accounts. His tory shows that the most considerable
 men in medicine were abstemious in mon ey getting. Sydenham, Stokes. Laennec and Virchow had more time for science because they took Jess time for the com sderation of fees. This cannot be mere fortuitous coincidence; beyond doubt over lind1I1papra fla lat mi A pd tors art becomes corrupt. The abuses possible in calling in one of the hospita- ble set of doctors may be made evident | by few examples.
 For instance. it is alien from the prop
 CT function of hospital to make a pa ! tient pay in advance for his room. He
 may be too ill to transact business. or
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wood in his woodpile and told him was out of wood. Did he draw me any wood? l guess he didn't"
 And this minister says further:
 Although l endured many hardships whie l was a missionary in Africa. give me kongo in preference to New York state with conditions as they are now. In Africa was at least able to keep warm, and this I could not do during last win ter. I have a trade--that of painter-and I will move my family to some other house, resume my trade and supply a pulpit in this section whenever there may be demand for my services
 Surely there was something seriously
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K TORE than 60 years ago in the city MI of New York there lived two men M associated in business as mer- chants It was time of great polti- cal excitement, and men were less toll erant of the views of opponents than they are now.
 These two men incurred the enmity of some of their neighbors because they would not join in an issue that was then popular. There was talk of boycotting their store So they issued mani festo" which became famous. It reads; "A Card-The public are informed that we are silk merchants and keep an ex- tensive and well assorted stock of goods, which we offer to responsible buyers on reasonable terms
 'As individuals we entertain our own views on the various religious, moral and political questions of the day. which we are neither afraid nor ashamed to declare on all proper occasions. But we wish it distinctly understood that our goods and not principles are on the market. The attempt to punish for the exercise of our liberty as citizens we leave to the judgment of the com munity."
 There's more sound honest, outstanding Americanism in that than in many a Fourth of July oration or speech in Congress
 .'Our goods and not our principles are on the market said these merchants, and they continued to do business in silk, not in opinions.
 When you want to do business with a .,au do not ask whether he is a republi- san or a democrat or progressive, whether he is Roman Catholic or Pres byterian or an infdel or whether he has theories like your own about the origin of the solar system, unless these things are directly and unavoidaby connected with the matter in hand.
 It is your business simply to know whether he can and will deliver to you the goods for which you have contracted. Let him maintain whatever private and personal opinions he will so long as they do not interfere with his honestly fulfill ing his obligations to you.
 If he bends his opinions to yours in order to gain your trade or your good will be is not an honest man.
 That is the essence of Americanism.
 It is that which has prevented in our great country the miserable dissensions and fearful persect tions which have marked the histories Of other nations. It will be an evil day for America when principles and not goods are paced on the market That will be the beginning of the end of freedom
 Strictly speaking
 Tbera are no s'littIe" fhinps E.uorv
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should he be able to leave the hospital in few days the question of refunding some of the money may be a source of trouble. In addition. the patient must pay the fees of his physician. who Is sell dom exigent and the fees of the attend- ing hospital doctor, who is seldom any thing else.
 - "Pretentiousness of mind must be ex- peeted from a man brought up in a self conscious poslron; it must be some time before he works clear of the conditions imposed upon him by commercial osten- tation. To this insldious power must he attributed the prices that patients have to pay in some hospitals. where rooms cost $S5, $50, and even S125 week. An affair of domes and vast central wells. with its hotel charges and tips. is as alien to q true hospital as Is it's reproduction or the hotel air of service and hustle
 The mercantile hotel for the sick with It's high fees, it's tips. and it's hotel ser vice, anouid De given some other anS dt.. tinctive name, for it is not in the etriot and chronological sense of the woro u hospital"