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The Law
Copyright, 1915 Star Company.
By IXLA WIIKFXKR WI1XT.
Your path may be clouded, uncertain your goal:
More on, for the orbit is fld for your eoul.
And though It may lead Into darkneea of night,
The torch of the Builder shall give it new light.
You were, and you will b, know this while you are;
Your spirit has traveled both Ion and afar.
It came from the Source, to the Source it returns;
The spark that was lighted eternally burns.
Prom body to body your spirit speeds on.
It seeks a sew form when the old one is cone,
And the form that it finds is the fabric you wrought
On the loom of the mind, with the fiber of thought.
Somewhere on some planet, sometime and somehow,
Your life will reflect all the thoughts of your now.
The law is unerring: no blood can atone;
The structure you rear you must lire In alone.
You are your own devil, yon are your own god;
You fashioned the path that your footsteps have trod.
And no one can save you from error or sin
Until yon shall hark to the spirit within.
Winter Fiction
Drawn for The Bee
by Hal Coffman
Real Religion Found
in Hindu Poet's Works
ny ELLA WHF.ELEU WILCOX.
(Copyright, 1916, by Mar Co.)
Alfred rtcrnhard Nobl. a Bwedlsh
chemist and physicist, was born In Ftock
holm In ts3 and died in Italy In 1KTM.
Nobel l ft his fortuno of r'.WOO to
found e. prise fund, the annual Interest
of which was to be divided Into five
equal pert (each mounting to about
Ufl.OOO. the mi m available) to be distri
buted every year to the persona who.
during the year, had done beet In (1
physical science; (2) chemistry; (Z) phy
siology of medicine; 4) Idealistic litera
ture, and (6) the advancement of unl-.
vcrsal peace; In 1906. the prise was
awarded ITesldent Roosevelt for hla In
itiative In the peace between Russia and
Japan.
In 1S1J the prlite was awarded to Rab
indrnnlh Tagore, the Bengali poet, whoee
work both In proae and verae. rank
among the great classics. Tagore wrote
hla pot-ma In Bengali and translated them
Into English. The father of the poet was
one of India' great splritusl leaders and
was decorated by the people with the
title of Maharshl (great sage),
Rablndranth waa the youngest son and
began writing poetry at 11 yeara ot
. . Hi. Wlvtl-HA
aire, lie uvea nm mm w m
youth of romantic temperament,
until
suddenly the -Divine Beloved" revealed
Himself to the young man. In hla own
worda be says: "A veil wra suddenly
drawn and evrythlng I saw became lu
minous. The whole scene was oneper
nmin itnt marvelous rhythm."
It brought to the poet the fullness of
nr. in ii- hrut and perfection which
lie had endeavored to give to the world
v.i. ivrio. Aa a cart of Indian na
tionalism. It Is believed that his national
. h.va made such an Indelible mara
.... ih Ufa of the nation that their In
fluence will be felt aa long aa the name
r.f inriln endures
Tagore devoted his noble prise money
... ilnvelooment of a model school
t Uolour. Here Is an exquisite little
,..:,.r,t from one ot Tagore'a poems:
Infinite wealth Is not y"irs. " patient
You toll to fill the mouths of your chll
The gift of gladness that you have for
us is never wri-v- ...
The toys that you make for your chll
v,j nmml entlafy ail our hungry hones.
but should I desert you lor tnair
Ymur smile wiucn is nuu
; . i - - t i A mv evea.
Your lv which knows not fulfilment
iaa rf
From" your brwa-t you haye fed us with
- II. but not Immortallly. that la
why vour eyea are ever wakeful.
For yu are working with eolor
and song, yet your heaven la not
built, but only lis sad suggestion.
Over your creations of beauty there IS
the, mist of tears.
I will pour my sours Into your mute
heart, and my love Into your love.
J will worship you with labor.
I have aeeu your tender face, end I love
your mournful duet. Mother Earth."
which I know anything, could produce
such a man," ssld Mr. Horn.
"It wss announced that Billy Sunday
will romo to Minneapolis."
The Messenger, Thaoaophic.al msga
sine, says:
"Hinduism has produced lta Tsgvre.
Christianity lta "Billy" Sunday-a ease
of reuse and effect which sneaks for
Itself."
It Is well-night Incredible that In this
enlightened age and progressive hour of
thought so medieval a state of mind can
exist aa In the rase of the rtev. K. c.
Horn.
Christianity Is not helped by such
utterances. The Methodist church is not
helped. God save the world If such great
soula aa Tagore are all to be "converted"
and merged Into "the little end of the
Horn" of Methodism.
Henry Mroth privately printed and
published In ll a very Interesting book
with the Interesting title "Tolerance In
Religion." which can be recommended
to the Rev. Mr. Horn. Its foreword says:
"An elevation of the whole race to a
higher social conditions can only be
attained by religious toleration."
Again It says: 'There are people whri
from mere Ignorant of the ancient
religions ot ' mankind have adopted a
doctrine more un-Chrlstt.n than any that
oouio be found In the page of religious
hooka of antlquity-namely. that all the
nations of the earth before the rise of
ahrlstlanlty were mere outcasts, for
saken and forgotten of their Father In
neaven, without a knowledge of God or
a hope of salvation. Bigotry and lta hor
rible descendant, fanaticism, have long
powa-a mis beautiful earth. It has
filled It with violence, drench It ih
human blood, destroyed civilisation and
nt whole nattons to despair."
If there la ever to be a universal re.
Hglon. It must be one which will be in.
(finite, like ; the Ood It will preach, whose
sun shines upon the followers of Christian
or inrist aim; which will not bo Breh- 1
mm or Buddhist, Christian or Moham
medan. but the sum total of all these,
and still have Infinite place for devsiop-
...eni. ii win pe a religion that will have
no place for persecution or Intolerance In
Its polity, which will recognise a divin
ity In every man or woman, and whose
whole force will be centered In aiding
humanity to Its divine nature.
vlth
The Girl Who
Flirts
Our Animals as Early Explorers Saw Them
And here are two more:
"In the world's aud'ence hall, the simple
l.lnrle of (traiw siia on the same
carpet with the sunbeam and the
el nr. of midnight.
Thus my songs aliare their seats In the
hcni-t of th world with the music
of the clouda and foresta.
But. you man of rt he. your wealth has
no pari in me pinitw i
the sun's glad gold and the mellow
gleam of the rieing nxin.
The bit-wing of the all-embracing sky
la not Mhed upon It.
And h.-n death appears. It pales and
withers and crumbles Into duat.
At midnight the woud-be ascrllo an
rwiineed: This la the time to give up my borne and
aee'k for Ood. Ah, who has held
lite so long In delualnn hereT
God whispered. "I." l't the curl of the
man were stopped.
With a baby aleep at her breast lay his
wife, peace fully sleeping on one
rltja of the bed.
The men saiJ. "Who are ye that hsva
fooled me eo longT"
The voice, said again. "They are God."
but he heard It not.
The baby cried out tn Its dream, nest-
Una- close to rs mother.
God commanded, "Hlop. fool, leava not
tl v home." but still he heard not.
God aluhed and complained, "Why does
my aervaiit wander to seeking me,
forsaking met
a e e e
Now, In view of all this interesting
I 'rtory and work of a great man so
recognized by the whole world, the fol
lowing press clipping fmm a Minnesota
riper requlree but little eemnent:
"I'rayers by all Cbriatendom for the
conversion of Rablndrauth Tagore. the
Hindu poet and winner of the Nobel
prise for literature, were urged here by
lie v. E. C. Horn of Trinity Metbodiat
i huich, at the Methodist ministers
i-kly nutting today at the Young
Winner's t'luUtlao association. This
M ;u followed a talk by l'rof. Leroy
Am, lil rf llainline university upon tha
l -yiy .f the Hindu poet's e'orka.
it ! a marvel tht the Hindu
Hi ' ion. t! worst of all rclltflona of
you
This Gayly- Caparisoned Oeatare '
U Meant by Aldrovandl (1637) to
Ilepreaent the . Nine-Handed Anna- -
dlllo, .
Ky GAURETT P. RERVISS.
The pictures made by primitive men on
their -cavern walla to represent the ani
mals of their time are often as good like
nesses as are the more elaborate draw
ings and engravings produced la Europe
in the sixteenth century of the animals
of America. In both cases the Imagina
tion haa necessarily played a large part. ,
Mr. Charles R. Eastman haa collected
In the Journal of the American Museum
f Natural History a conalderable num
ber of such pictures to Illustrate what he
calls the "beginnings of American nat
ural history," and aome of them are re
produced on this page.
It Is very Interesting to know that Co
lumbus .waa a 'careful observer of the
strange animals and plants of the new
world he had discovered, and that, with
I hie ews pea. he described the alligator.
: the Iguana. the manatee, the West In-
dian dog.' together with many species of
She cut. herself off from knowing fin. Hrrt'' tr Fin ." 7T
men. sine. .hv i.i than 100 yeara air vu.un.oua oisoov.ry
ashamed to hav. .. a friend . .,-4 "T. I that the ertleta and engravers In Europe
By IIFU THICK FAIRFAX.
Uncesl Don't encourage what you take
....... r,,oo on the part of people
happen to pass on the street! Don t ,
.iranga men to talk to you. or
"hol.t0 ,m1n th4t they m'ht ,f thy
The girl who flirts lava v.---1
unriT ' ? ,ehr-- That she 1.
undignified and lacking modesty Is
tru. .ugh. But she may sacrifice dlg
n ty and modesty becaua, ,h. 0 '
ately lonely and has no better way of
" '" - "-.n.anoea nut there oould
be no worse way of making acouaim.
and it means thst hardly ever will the
iiienus.
The giri who flirts gives the man i.w
whom she flirts what he ronalders a right
s on oeing rres and easy with her
Since that Is how he be ran to knn. ...'
Bhe class, herself n with woman of no
- wvwu moral standard. hi..
fairly brings upon herself unpleoaaat
famlllarltle. which the man she has so
lightly met either Imagines she will wel-
l" or uses to test her.
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How Tuberculosis
Cost New York City
$10,000,000 a Year
(Trepared by the Bureau of Public
Health Education, of the Department
of Health. City of New York.)
In order again to remind the publlo of
the fact that tuberculosis Is still the
most pressing health problem of the day,
health authorities throughout the Vnlted
States, aided by the various antl-tuber-culosls
societies, are now observing
"Tuberculosis Week."
That such a reminder needed Is not
open to question, for it Is generally rec
ognised that a period of apathy has fol
lowed on the trrmendiiog enthusiasm
evoked by the antHuberculoBls cam
paign conducted some eluht or ten years
ago. Despite the strenuous work of these
ten years, and the annual expenditure
of hundreds of thousands of dollars, one-
seventh of all persons who die, die be
cause of a tuberculosis Infection.
in the city of . New Tork the deaths
from all forms of tuberculosis have
varied but little frcin 10,000 a year.
Dee tha
from
Year. All Deaths. TuherculoelS
isms 73.71 9.ST
7 23 10.1W
1"7 "9 2S 10,2:(
19W 73 072 10.147
VMO Tf.ins 9.910
1110 T'i.742 10.074
1911 75,423 - 10.26X
191 i 73 AOS 9,91
191.1 7;!.9' 10,031
1914 74,803 1V.0
Thoughtful students have long reaJiied
that more must be done to strike at the
underlying causes of tuberculosis. In
this city, pertlcularly, we must continue
to work for Improving housing conditions.
Our transit problem has a very definite
relation to tuberculosis, and we will be
measurably nearer our goal If we can
provide decent suburban housing condi
tions accessible to the business centers.
We ere still far behind European cities
In Intelligent city planning. The condi
tions under which many of our people
labor add greatly to the difficulties in
the way of a solution of the tuberculosis
problem. The Increasing cost of food
also deserves serious consideration.
On the basis of over 35,000 recognized
cases of tuberculosis on register with the
health authorities in New York City,
and assuming that every GOO cases mean
a loss of half a million dollars to the
community, we have, the appalling total
of ISJ.OOO.OOO lost to New York City be
cause of tuberculosis. Inasmuch as most
authorities agTee on from three to four
years as the average duration of the
disease, this means an annual loss to
the city of at least $10,000,000.
So far as the consumptive himself ts
concerned, we need above all to provide
employment under conditions which will
not only conserve his health and strength.
but will protect his fellow-workmen.
Moreover, a method must be devised by
which remuneration in such employment
must be proportionate to the patient's
needs and not merely to hla earning ca
pacity. A few experiments have been
made in this direction, but no compre
hensive plan has yet been Inaugurated.
Here Is a splendid opportunity for one
of our fnr-sighted millionaires!
other men can snesringly claim they met
mrougn nii-tatlou.
If because you like a man's looks you
let htm talk to you. and he turns out to
be an unspeakable person' whom you
should never have known, you hav
placed yoursalf In the way of two dan
gers. The "unspeakable person" can
boaat that be knows you and knows you
because oi wers waak enough to per
mit him to sneak Into your life by way
of a cheap flirtation.
In flirting a girl sacrifice, reputation
and the right t demand dignified treat
ment, for tha one chsnre In a million
began to plcturo too American anlmala In
books and on the borders of maps.
Then. too. Ion and somewhat fanciful
dear rip t ions of the strange beasts of the
new world began to appear, and were
read with much wonder,
The animal that excited tha roost aston
ishment seems to have been th "ttu." a
name which. It now appears, was applied
to the opossum. The description of the
Bu, given la an old book, is highly amus
ing. "It Is of a very deformed ahape, snJ
monstrous presence, a great revener and
untamable wild beast. When the huritre
that tha man who meet, tier lightly and! that desire her skin set upon her. rNa
l1ly and to gratify tbs fancy of a moj fleth very swift, carrying her young
rnvnt l going to be worth knowing, urlonc. upon her tack, and covering them
jlo U-.ieve that .he la worth knowing. I llh her btoad tali. Now, for o much
The S?ali Somewhat Cotivr ut Ion allied by Van Ilrussel, and rassing
I'nder the Guise of "Sfa-Uon" (1700).
ag no dog or man dareth to approach near
unto her (because such Is ths wrath
thereof that In the pursuit she klllelh all
that cometh near her), the hunters dig
several pits or great holes In the earth,
which they cover with boughs, sticks snd
esrth, so weakly that It the beast chance
at any time to come upon It ahe and her
young ones fall down Into the pit and are
taken."
Compare this with a modern description
of the opossum from the American Ency
clopedia: "The opossums are arboreal,
omnivorous animals, ranging In slse from
that of a rat to that of a mouse. The
young are numerous, and remain with the
mother until well grown, clinging to her
fur and being carried about as shs scram
bles among the branches, with their tails
tightly wound about hers, or about her
limbs or neck.
"On the ground ths movements of the
opoMUm are slow snd awkwsrd."
To this add that they counterfeit death
when threatened with danger, and you
will see how the old writer, fust quoted,
got fact and fancy thoroughly mixed.
Hut the samcr thing happened with al
most all the dVscrtpttons and pictures
of Amerlcau anlmuja that were put forth
in Kjrupe wittitn two or thr hundred
yeara after the diaoverwa ot Columbus
.,..1 l i. . i. Th.iv w . . .! ...-
a substantial basis of truth, proving that
an effort had been made to ascertain and
record I he facts, but exaggeration and
falsification Inevitably crept In.
The tendency to see a monster In every
thing that departs from th forms that
the eye is accustomed to is unlverssl.
Kven In the time of Blr Walter Raleigh
people in England, and on the continent
of IMrope, spoke with bated breath of
tha terrible animals believed to Inhabit
the wilds of America.
It was though that ths old world had
nothing to match them, but It required
centuries to bring to light the real fact
that America Is relatively lacking In
beasts of prey of the first rank. It haa
no lions, no tigers and no giants like the
elephant.
Its glixly bears, which might contend
successfully In battle with the fiercest
of Asia's or Africa's carnivore, are not
hunters and sla)ers of big game, and re
mained unknown until a late period. But
if they had born encountered by the early
expolorers, who oan Imagine the fearful
descriptions and drawings that they
would have given rise toT
Yet there were some among; the new
animals thst America, Introduced to the
world's attention which were so extra
ordinary. In appearance that It waa prac
tically almost Impossible to exaggerate
their locks. For instance, the toucaa.
Opossum ' and Family on the
March. This Slender-Waisted Crea
ture Is Called by Tlievet and Others
the "Bu," and Characterised aa a
Ferocious and Ravenous Reast.
(From Thevet's "KlnOllarltea,,,
1558).
with its absurdly big bill, was fairly well
drawn, as one of the pictures assembled
by Mr. Eastman shows. Some of the
details are wrong, but the general aspect
of the bird is reproduced so well that
one recognises it at a glance.
So the prehistoric ravtrn artists, when
ever they had animals to draw that pos
sessed some striking pecularity, like the
curved tueks of the mammoth, made
their reproaentnttone so true that we can
uao them to reconstruct the scenes of the
world amid which man lived before his
tory began to be recorded.
In-Shoots
C Advice to Lovelorn
BT gUTalOI raOJaX
Be Strong;.
Dear Miss Fairfax: In social life and
at business I have been made to suffer
because of my disinclination to flirt and
be "a good fellow." Invitations to go out
with married men aeem far from re.
electable to me. Also the ailly methou.
of some worldly girl, in calling up on
the phone this type of man and "jolly-
intr tnem tor a nair nour.
Uoth my brother and young man friend
tell me to be broad, and very unfeelingly
tell me I think my morals better than
those of others.
I sm a sociable girl naturally, but all
this has changed me sadly. They say I
am a dead-head and not a real girl!
& O. E.
Don't let any would-be clever people
who think lax moral standards distin
guished Influence you. Your own Ideals
are well worth preserving, and all really
fine men and women will care far mere
for you because of these very good quali
ties which you now think are keeping
your life from "being sociable." A girl
who naturally has high standards and
who willfully lowers them Is sure to suf
fer torments of reproach from her own
conscience as well as from ths knowl
edge that worth-while people despise or
pity her for her weakness. Take a firm
stand for your principles and when you
meet fine men you will find that they
respect and like you. If your stand is
strong enough you may have ths Joy of
influencing the very people who now
sneer at you.
Bo Firm.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 22. with an
Income of flGO a month. May 7 ot thla
year I had a serious operation. Tha sur
geon told me not to work for at least two
years, as 1 am not able to stand any
kind of a strain. 1 am In love with a
girl four years younger than I, and ahe
told me If I did not go to work In a
few days she will not marry me. I havn
explained to lier. but she says she will
break our engagement it I do not work.
J. V. de r.
By all means do as your doctor bids
you and do not risk your life for a girl
whose attitude seems to be wickedly
stubborn and unyielding. Tou must take
a firm stand in the matter, and unless
she shows heart and feeling enough to
consider your health rather than her own
wishes you had better break with her at
once.
IRE
At the age of IS years a bos l mnrjk
decrepit than a man of 80.
Wrhen harmony exists In a political
party there are no offices in sight.
As a rule a man never forgets the spot
where his hatchet has been burled.
Most of us would make a poor show
ing In the boots of the peopls we criticise.
The dog who wears an expensive collar
Is generally the most unfaithful of all.
The handshake that seems liks warm
friendship is often but the preliminary
cf a "touch."
Love In a cottage should not be eon
founded with existence In a shack during
courtship dsys.
Ths boy who seems wiser than his pa
never exhibits a disposition to get out
and hustle tor himself.
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