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Extracts Prom W.
A BLOODTHIRSTY PRESIDENT
President Roosevelt in his recent ex
temporaneous speech at West Point
gave expression to a sentiment which
suggests nn Inherent barbarism that
will havo to bo taken Into account In
weighing his purposes and predicting
his futuro course. IIIsnddresson"8lrcn
uoub Life," delivered somo three years
ago showed that ho gavo to virtue
tho ancient rather than the modern
definition and placed physical courago
nbovo mental greatness and moral
worth. But when In his West Point
speech ho laid aside all restraint and
in nfit of animal enthusiasm said. "A
good soldier must not only bo willing
to fight; ho must bo anxious to light.
I do not want to havo anything to do
with him if ho Is not" when ho said
this ho turned a light on his inner solf
and revealed a moral deformity which
must shock such of his friends as aro
not wholly carried away with tho
bloody and brutal gospol of imperial
ism. If a "good soldier" must 1Aj "an
xious to light," then It naturally fol
lows that an administration which de
slrcB to dovelop good soldlcrB should
surround cadets with Influences calcu
lated to infuse Into them a fighting
spirit nn eagerness for blood-letting.
If tho president really means what ho
says wo may expect that his second
term If ho has one will bo mado for
over illustrious by tho inauguration of
a now reglmo at tho military academy
and in tho army. Tho ton command
ments and tho sermon on tho Mount
will be discarded and tho yellow-back
novel substituted for them for "Thou
shalt not Kill" nnd "messed aro tho
peacc-makera" could have no proper
place in a school designated to train
men to bo "anxloiiB to fight"
Tho president entirely overlooks tho
distinction between tho cxcrclso of
forco in defenco of a right and the uso
of forco for tho creation of a right.
AH tho forco employed for government,
under tho American theory of govern
ment, 1b employed in tho defenso of
rights previously ascertained. A small
army Is necessary to enable tho gov
ernment to protect tho inallenablo
rights of its citizens and tho academy
at West Point is tho training school
of officers. It teaches thoso things
which aro considered necessary In
war, namely, caro of men In camp and
on tho march, and tactics. TheBe ca
dets aro not selected because they aro
by nature ferocious, they aro not kept
chained llko Bavage dogs and let looso
occasionally to gratify their passion
for mischief; thoy aro, on tho contrary,
men who are educated as a precaution
ary measure and kept in readiness for
a posslblo contingency. It Ib no reflec
tion upon the courago, tho ofllclency
or tho patriotism of an officer in the
regular army to say that ho hopes that
tho army will never bo called upon to
kill or even wound a single human
being, any more than It would bo a
reflection on a fireman to Bay that ho
hopes that there will bo no conflagra
tion in his city.
It Is unfortunate for tho country that
tho president should have held before
its embryo soldiers tho lowest rather
than tho highest Ideals of military
life. Thero havo been many great
soldiers during tho last nineteen hun
dred years great christian soldiers
who havo loved peace, and yet who
havo In an hour of peril won glory
for their country and themselves. TIicbo
Bhould bo eulogized and emulated ;.ovll
and only evil can como from idealizing
tho bloodthirsty soldier.
DON'T PEED HUMAN BEINGS
Tho Chicago Tribune, a republican
paper, in its issue of Tuesday, July
29, printed tho following dispatch:
Charleston, W. Va., July 28.
(Special.) Further blows were struck
at the striking miners today by of
ficials of tho federal court. Fetleral
District Attorney Atkinson secured
warrants of arrest for about fifteen
persons, charging them with contempt
of court in violating tho Injunction
issued by Judgo Keller covering tho
Flat Top coal field, along tho Norfolk
& Western railroad. The clerk declined
to glvo the names.
Federal Judgo Keller issued another
injunction against O. W. Purcell, o
member of the national executive com
mittee of the United Mine Workers;
W. B. Wilson, national secretary;
Chris Evans, national statistician;
"Mother" Jones, and five others, at the
suit of tho Gaulcy Mountain Coal com
pany. It is In tho form as those here
tofore issued.
It was charged that Purcell, Evans,
Wilson, and tho others wore purchas
ing and distributing supplies to feed
tho strikers in this district.
It was thought that when Federal
Judgo Jackson Imposed jail sentences
upon a number of labor organizers be
causo of their public speeches, tho In
junction proceedings had been carried
to ttwafetremc in the Interests of tho
IsvbiK'; but now we aro told that
rged that certain persons
t'wero puijsing and distributing sup-
jieavto fetlwe strikers," and on the
prcsentatlonHthis terrible accusation
this federal 'JVIe issued an injunc
tion! '
It is Indeed a ;St offense against
tho peace and dlgvlfcof the land for
men to purchase amfflktrlbute food to
human beings, v
There was a time inVK. history of
thtB country when BUchQBkJnjunctlon
would have agitated thq k people,
but it is significant that tfidwniarka-
, ble proceeding does ncfBee'mV have
'disturbed the general public. i""HBcan-
' In view of tho Philippine bill.
'descendants of tho revolutions
; fathers Bhould off er humble apologies;
to the descendants of tho English gen
tlemen who insisted on. enforcing poli
cies similar to those contained iu the
Philippine measure.
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ANir being KOiBolemnly assured that
there was no brutality or anls-
, demeanors on the part of the army in
the Philippines, it is rather discon
certing toplck up the papers and reacj
every dayfpf noma army officer being
-.'reprimanded for those very .things.
Comment.
J. Bryan's Paper.
not bo that any considerable numbct
of people would uphold such an order.
It Is raoro reasonable to believe that
tho peoplo have becomo bo thoroughly
accustomed to tho nbuso of the Injunc
tion writ that they aro prepared for
tho most radical proceeding on this
line.
Representatives of tho trust system
havo had much complaint to mako on
tho score that democratic leaders havo
nought to stir up discontent among the
masses and to array class against class.
But theso representatives seem to be
totally ignorant of tho fact that the
abuso of tho Injunction writ, as it Is
now being nbtiBed in tho Interests of
tho coal barons, can havo but one re
sult, and that Is tho creation of a
chasm between tho oppressor and tho
oppressed which all the ingenuity of
American statesmanship will find it
difficult to bridge.
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION.
Tho democratic party aroused tho
opposition of tho corporations by de
claring against government by injunc
tion both at Chicago and at Kansas
City. Tho leadera of tho party saw
tho dangers that lurk in that ex
traordinary process when invoked by
corporations against their employes.
Somo of tho laboring men recognized
tho fidelity of tho democratic party to
tho rights of tho peoplo and supported
our ticket, but many of them, blind to
their Intorcsts, were misled by repub
lican prombes, while others yielded to
tho coercion practiced by employers.
Thero ia an old proverb which sayB
that tho wise man foreseeth the evil
and hidcth himself whllo tho foolish
pass on and aro punished. This
proverb in its condensed form reads:
Tho wlso man gota tho idea into IiIb
head, tho foolish man gets it in tho
neck. Judgo Jackson of West Virginia
is now diligently engaged In punish
ing those who a few years ago wore
too indifferent to consider their own
best interests or to safeguard their
own rlghtB. Ho seoms inclined to de
cree whatever tho coal companies want,
but in doing bo ho 1b moro lawlesB
thnn tho mon against whom ho directs
his stump speeches. A Judgo has no
legal right to convort into a crlmo that
which beforo his decreo was lawful,
and oven if he had tho power to legis
late ho would havo no authority to
suspend tho constitutional right of tho
accused to a trial by jury. But Judgo
Jackson usurps the power (not tho
right) to mako laws and to fix penal
ties, not according to tho constitution,
hut according to his own warped and
biased Judgment. A lawless Judgo la
a greater menaco to freo government
than nil tho potty criminals who como
beforo him in a lifetime Impeach
mont proceedings havo been suggested
and it is to be hoped that tho matter
will bo brought beforo congress that
tho peoplo may see whether the repub
lican party will stand by tho people and
their constitutional rlghtB or by tho
corporations. Tho strike Ib a clumsy
and lnofflclent remedy, hurtful to om-
uloyo and to the public as well as to
the employer, but until arbitration
omes and makes tho striuo unneces
sary It is tho laborers' only means of
defenso and whllo it is employed tho
judgo must be impartial and ready to
protect tho rights or ootu siuea.
DEMOCRACY IN NEW ENGLAND
There Is an earnestness about tho
New England democracy which bodeB
well for tho futuro. Most of the gold
democrats have roturned to tho party
without demanding concessions or ex
acting promises. Thoy reallzo that tho
Kansas City platform democrats saw
farther than thoy did and they aro an
xious to assist in protecting tho
country from tho commercial Bplrit
which is responsible for imperialism
and tho trusts as well as from tho
Fowler bill and tho arroganco of the
financiers. Nowhere havo democrats
fought more valiantly or agalnBt great
er odds than in Now England and no
whero is tho party making greater
gains. Tho Maine democrats Indorsed
tho Kansns City platform, put up
strong stato and congressional tickets
and aro going to mako an excellent
showing next month.
The presidential nominee of tho dem
ocratic party In 1904 will bo tho choice
of the democratic national convention,
and tho democratic national conven
tion will bo made up of democrats, not
of republicans who wear tho cloak of
democracy In order to benefit the
trusts, corporations, exploiters and
land-grabbers.
The Chicago platform plank concern
ing government by Injunction Is worth
reading again nnd thinking about in
view of Judgo Keller's recent injunc
tions. How do American worklngmon
like tho idea of being enjoined from
giving food Bupplles to fellow working
men? Every time a reorganize makes a
speech It la featured In tho republican
organs as the right sort of wisdom for
democracy to pattern after. Tho
amount of sympathy republican organs
havo In tho success of tho reorganlzers
continues to bo one of tho interesting
features of political life.
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If, a3 President Roosevelt says, a
good soldier must not only bo "will
ing" but "anxious" to light, must a
good physician be anxious to seo peo
plo sick and a good undertaker anxious
to havo people die?
Administration organs that like to
emark that tho capital of the United
ates is now at Oyster Bay should
r In mind that Mr, Morgan Is still
iiMhirope. Whcio Mr. Morgan is thro
capital.
Mrffcpsovelt hit tho "bull's eye"
flvo tlmlllth a revolver so tho dis
patches "ik-but his aim is not ho
Rood wherishoots at tho beef trust
v
Tho newspa
that are loin' est in
denouncing tho"J
er of tho Anl-Im-
neriallst League t
csident Roosevelt
are also prlating'
eports of roprl-
FIIEE TEADE IN MEN
HOW D0E8 THI8 POLICY BENEFIT
THE LABORER?
immigrants in Hundreds of Thousands
Brought to Our Shores and Used to
Forco Down Wages Conditions In
"Protected" Pennsylvania.
In 1872 tho Hon. William D. Kolley
)f Pennsylvania, a protectionist leader
in Congress, said:
"Yes, men arc on tho frco list. Thoy
:ost not oven freight. . . . Wo pro
aioto frco trade in men, and it is the
inly kind of freo trade I am prepared
;o promote."
This has always been tho policy of
;ho protectionists that is of tho Re
oubllcan party, which has over been
tho dome of ytho protected manufac
turers and tho enemy of tho laborer
and farmor. Observe now how beauti
fully their system 13 working! J. P.
Morgan and his coal, steel, railroad
and steaniBhlp pals, encourage groat
strikes, when tholr steamships aro
dumping thousands of Immigrants on
our shores every week, willing to work
for considerably less than tho coal and
other strikers havo been getting.
For tho year ondlng Juno 30, 1902,
648,743 Immigrants reached our
shores. Four hundred and fifty-seven
thousand, soven hundred and cloven
woro from Italy, Austria-Hungary and
Russia. Thoy wero driven out of theso
countries partly by a succession of
poor crops, but mord especially by tho
very high tariff and internal taxes
which prevent tho peoplo from obtain
ing foreign goods except at prices al
most prohibitive. Thus the lowest
prlco for refined sugar is 11 cents in
Itfcly, and 7& cents per pound in Rus
sia and Austria-Hungary, although tho
samo sugar is sold in England for 2
cents por pound.
Undoubtedly, also, many immigrants
camo over after reading tho glowing
promises of high wages in America
mado in tho advertising pamphlets of
Morgan's railroad and steamship lines.
Certain it is that hundreds of thou
sands of thorn aro hero to flood the
labor market and keep wages down
and to increase consumption of goods
and thus enablo tho trusts to glvo
prices another lift. It is a beautiful
system for the protected manufactur
ers, mlno operators and railroads. As
Senator John F. Miller of California
said, in 1882:
"Tho average manufacturer is in
terested generally in two things
namely, tho highest protective tariff
and tho cheapest labor. . . . The
admission of servile laborers into this
country without limit . . . means
high prices for tho products of manu
facture and low prices for tho labor
that produces them."
Is it any wonder that tho coal opera
tors refused to arbitrate and that they
aro but little worried about the out-
como of tho strike? They aro in no
great hurry to begin to operate tho
mines becauso they are getting from
$7 to $10 per ton for the surplus coal
which they had stored up In anticipa
tion of tho strike.
Unquestionably, the mine owners
(railroads) could, even In ordinary
times, sell anthraclto coal at present
prices. But they aro afraid of tho
public. They need an excuso furnished
by a strike and a pretended shortago
of coal. Tho longer the mines aro left
Idle, tho better tho public will becomo
accustomed to high prices of coal and
tho less reduction in prices will havo
to bo made when mining is resumed.
Protected Pennsylvania is tho state
of great Btrlke3, great riots, low wages,
sorvllo laborers, protected mills, tariff
made millionaires and political bosses
of tho most obnoxious type. It Is a
great mill, into tho hoppor of which
are poured ignorant foreigners and out
of which runs a stream of tramps. A
now and largo crop of tramps will bo
supplied by tho unfortunates in tho
present strike, already doomed to fail
ure. Should times get hotter in Europe
and immigration from there stop, tho
protocted manufacturers and mine op
erators could draw on China's horde
of cheap laborers. Tho new Chineso
exclusion act, passed at tho urgent re
quest of all the labor organizations in
the country, to take tho placo of tho
expiring Geary law, was punctured so
full of holes In the Sonato that, in tho
opinion of able lawyers nnd the Amer
ican Fedcratlonist, it offers no opposi
tion to the Importation of Chinese la
borers through our colonics. Tho lob
bies of the steamship companies
headed by Mr. Schwerin of the Pacific
Mail Co., wero on hand in the Senato
and spent thousands of dollars to
make this bill look liko tho hoop in the
circus after tho acrobat had jumped
through it, and the Republicans per
formed tho feat, and disregarded tho
requests of millions of worklngmon.
Byron W. Holt.
BABCOCK'S INSTRUCTIONS.
Tells Republican Orators to Be All
Things to All Men.
Tho extraordinary division In tho
ranks of the Republicans in congress
on Cuban reciprocity and other politi
cal questions Is to be carried into tho
campaign for tho election of congress
men. That rellablo organ of the adminis
tration, the Washington Star, in its
issue of July 21 quotes an Interview
with Mr. Babcock, tho chairman of
tho Republican congressional commlt
teo on tho plan of campaign which ho
is about to inaugurate, in which, after
saying tho literary feature would bo
subordinated to tho speechmaklng,
ho says:
"The party has new doctrines and
now policies. Of course, tho people
know what they are. They have been
reading about them. But what thoy
havo read for tho most was tho news
paper reports of our doings in con
gross and President Roosevelt's ut
terances. Whllo thoso reports wero
accurato, newspaper spice Ib bo limit
ed thoy could not explain many ques
tions as intelligent speakers can ex
plain them. . . ."
Commenting on this, tho Star, with
partizan zoal, waxes enthusiastic on
tho opportunity this plan offers to fool
tho voters, for it says.
"Ono advantage recognized in this
plan of campaign is tho latitude which
will bo allowed orators In discussing
tho IsBueB best suited to particular
communities. For example, in tho
cast, Chairman Payne and Rcpresen
tatlvo Dalzell of tho ways and mean
committee will Bhout for no tariff:
changes and will whoop It up along
that lino for nil thero is In it, with
tho serene Indorsement of the cam
paign committee. Out west the re
visionist orators will demand reduc
tion of somo of tho higher tariff
schedules, such as Bteol, iron, glass,
tin, etc. still with the sereno Indorse
ment of tho committee. In Minnesota
Mr. Tcwncy will berate Cuban reci
procity, while south of him in Kan
sas ljls colleague on tho ways and
means committee, Mr. Long, will de
fend that policy.
"Thero will bo labor orators for
Now Jersey and Pennsylvania, deplet
ing tho benefits accruing to labor un
der Republican policies; thero will bo
antt-trust orators for agricultural dis
tricts who will mako tho welkin ring
with denunciation of tho octopll and
threats of their extermination. Thero
will bo Gorman orators, and Scandi
navian orators and Italian orators,
each appealing after his own fashion
to people to whom he talks in tho in
terests of tho Republican party and
for tho election of a Republican houso
of representatives."
Hero wo havo tho homo organ of
tho administration taking evident de
light in this attempt to mystify the
peoplo of the United States, and de
liberately, through the irresponsible
mouths of a lot of trust-paid spell
binders, mako the Republicans of tho
country believe their political aspira
tions aro to be adopted by tho men
they aro invited to elect to represent
them. Such an audacious plan has
been in part attempted before, but
never openly advocated by tho news
paper organs of the party "with tho
sereno indorsement of tho campaign
committee."
With what delight will tho Intelli
gent Republican voter who Is fortun
ato enough to be apprised of this de
llberato attempt to deceive them, hang
on tho words of tho orators who as
sure them that black is white. How
enthusiastic ho will bo for tho con
gressional candidate, who has pledged
himself to a platform that is being
openly ridiculed and derided Just over
the border in tho adjoining congres
sional district What will be tho
feelings of this Intelligent voter when
ho reads tho speech of President
Roosevolt and hears the next evening
the candidate of his party or tho trust
paid spellbinder openly contradicting
tho president and promising an entire
ly different policy. Tho ultra partizan
may close his eyes to the conse
quences and voto tho straight ticket,
thero aro others who may be disgusted
with tho evident insincerity of his
party and stay at homo. What a
picnic it will be for tho Democrats.
They will Jlbo and jeer at their un
fortunate Republican brethren and
ask them, "Whero they are at?"
If Mr. Hanna should venture out
side of tho confines of Ohio, into tho
wilds of Wisconsin, ' for instance,
where several Republican congression
al conventions have declared for tar
iff revision, will he talk in unison with
tho platform or with that of his own
stato and congressional district?
How will the cabinet officers faro
under llko conditions? For it is
stated tho president has requested
them to take tho stump llko himself.
All doubtless, "with tho sereno in
dorsement of the compaign commit
tee," will follow tho injunction of be
ing all things to all men.
How It Is Done.
Tho
whllo
tariff ties the consumer's hands
tho trusts pick his pocket.
Attorney General Knox is to tako
the stump with tho rest of the cab
inet officers at the request of tho pres
ident. Whether Knox will talk for tho
trusts or against them Is not stated;
w'hether he will bo for leaving well
enough alone or for revising tho tariff
will probably depend on tho section of
the country ho visits.
Major Glenn has been found guilty
of administering tho "water euro" to
Filipinos and was sentenced to one
month's suspension from duty and
fined 50. Torturing Filipinos is a
cheap amusement in the Philippines.
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Philosophical Observations
O Br BYRON WILLIAMS O JjA
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T was tho colored brother who
world do move!" Turning the
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clined to agree with the gentleman of Afro-American tendencies. The
3Vog
world do "sutcnly" move. Proof of this may bo Been in comparing
tho rulers of countries to-day and aKes atro. In tho olden days men
may have believed as Shakespearo says in "Measure for Measure:" "It Is
excellent to have a giant's strength, but tyrannous to uso it like a giant"
With bucIi men as McKlnley, for Instance, this axiom was accepted as a senti
ment which should not alone be recognized but lived. From tho nation's
capital, the ganglion of tho republic, presidents hayo ruled with honor and.
credit to tho constituents who exalted them. Their suns havo set in love
despite tho bark that boro them over the river, their records clear, their names
illustrious and their dcedB crltcrions for Young America to emulate
Not so tho lives, deaths and memories of rulers of olden times. History
la repleto with stories of sin and shameful deeds committed by, tho heads of
tho peoplo. In the reign of Tiberius, ChriBt, condemned by PonttuB Pilate,
tho procuration of Judea, was crucified. Whero is tho ruler of to-day who
would crucify Christ? Nero applied the torch to Rome and whllo tho Bhrleks
and cries of tho tortured swept the air, ho sang verses accompanied by tho
music of his lyre. Later, that his gluttonous eyes might see a chariot race,
he Bmeared tho bodies of Christians wUh pitch and nailed them to poles in his
garden, their burning flesh a torch to light tho course. In all tho civilized
world whore iB there another Nero?
Albion, the Lombard, moved from central Germany and fell upon the
Teutons on tho north bank of the Danube. Tho king was slain and Albion
marrying tho king's daughter, made her publicly drink from tho skull of her
father, for which Bhe afterward killed htm. Imagine if possible, such an act by
a civilized ruler of to-day. Tho mind cannot conjure with ono lota of likeness
such a comparison.
Treachery rather than lovo ruled tho older rulers. Inca, captured in the
conquest of Peru by PIzzarro of Spain, offered to fill his cell with gold for
his ransom. Tho offer was accepted and when ho had complied ho was
choked to death. Fancy America, when the Sultan had paid that debt, grasping:
the old gentleman about his epiglottis' and squeezing tho breath of lifo out
of him.
Compare ancient rulers with Lincoln, of whom it was said, "Ho was a
great man, scaling his life with a great cause." Tamerlane of Turkey, a
demon and a savage, whenever ho took a city, raised a trophy of hla success
in tho form of a pyramid of bleeding hearts. Mahomet II caused his infant
brother to bo drowned while tho baby's mother was congratulating him on his
accession. The history of Germany teliB how Frederic, during the war with
tho protestants, butchered and ordered men to be tied back to back and thrown
into tho sea. Louis XV, the shameful ruler of France, died in 1774, and dying:
said, "After mo tho deluge."
William McKlnley, a typical representative of the nations nt this day in
history, dying Bald, "It 1b God's way; His will, not ours, bo done." Contrast
the signs of tho times.
Tho student of history can recall many moro unworthy acts of a character
which by comparison lnclino them to tho belief that tho world moves, and
that civilization and brotherhod increases abovo and beyond such ignoble
leadership. But all men of tho days of long ago were not tyrants, Polycarp, bishop of
Smyrna, prosecuted and told to defile his belief by cursing God, said, "Eighty
six years have I served Him and He has done mo nothing but good, and how
could I curse Him now, my Lord, and Savior?" Before the flames rose around
him ho cried aloud thanking God for judging him worthy to drink the cup of
Christ
In Franco a young man of Autun, was beheaded because ho refused to
worship the car of an Idol. Before his death and aB ho was about to bo
struck, his mother said to him, "My son, my son, bo steadfast; look up to
Him who dwells in heaven. To-day thy life iB not taken from thee, but raised
to a better,"
It is by such faith and teaching that tho generations havo broadened into
an Intellectual and a nobler life, ono which, when its history is written, shall
bo devoid of such incidents and characters as the first few related here. Look
ing backward and then at tho present, who can say that the world has failed
to move? ,
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,t iT nv.f1 A.-m cfriwiA nrpvtmilriirnl
JW- I cream, declares corn Ib king,
uiimiui. uit: jiuiuiu l'iuji ia u tiuujvci jutu, ui buuiu uiuur uiuu ui u
royal fellow, and so on, dubbing rude, pastoral products and live stock
in royal terms the whole show.
Patterning after the agricultural editor wo dcslro to remark that Just now
tho cow is queen, not tho dry cow, but tho Holstein heifer that saunters .homo
in the dusk, comes up the lane laden with so much lacteal fluid hor bag aches
and her teats leak. This Is our queen.
The reason our kind of a cow is termed a queen is because tho scientists
and foodologists declare that milk as
is unsurpassed. For the babies it does
pounder. It puts glow in the infantile
tho muscles and makes the boy romping, that joyous condition in which all
new born children are supposed to be
the fat adult It cleanses his overloaded stomach, wipes out tho overladen
tissues, blots up tho cock-tallB and makes him young again. It regulates his
bowels and makes a man of him instead of allowing him to scrub along with
a wry face and dyspeptic stomach.
This Ib not all tommy-rot by any means. The majority of peoplo eat too
much, too hurriedly and with too much of an idea of getting even with tho
hashery. It is paid for at eo much a feast, why not eat all that tastes good?
Tho old admonition that "enough is as good as a feast" is forgotten and the
landlord wonders whero all the mammoth appetites come from. To show
that these people aro all wrong and that man can subsist on a sweet smllo and
a slice of evanescent nothingness eaten Just before retiring and at sun-up,
several scientifically inclined individuals havo almost starved themselves to
death. Had they sought the middle-way, rather than the extreme, they would
havo been happy ever afterward. Milk is that middle way. A colony of
invalids on Thlmbio Island, off Bradford, Connecticut, who have been par
taking of nothing but pure milk and thriving on It, aro sincere in their
praises of tho food. Ono of them was a sufferer for years with nervous dis
eases. In a month ho had been practically cured. Ho drank ten quarts a
day at intervals of half an hour and aside from the inconvenienco of carrying
a bottle of milk about with him when he went to seo a man and expected to
bo delayed, ho is doing well. In fact ho sayB ho will never eat solid food
again. Ho hus that "up-and-coming" feeling about him that men try to
arouse with stimulants. Ho feels like fighting his mother-in-law all tho time.
Milk has a therapeutic value that has long been recognized by physicians.
Nervous people should Join tho milk advocates In naming the cow queen.
PASTOR recently preached a sormon on the subject, "The Anarchy
That Is in Us All," or words to that effect. The shooting of William
McKlnley gavo rise to much speculation on the cause of anarchy and
taught us to think In what breaches we are found lacking for the
maintenance of correct government freo of anarchy and treason.
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Strange to say the ideas advanced along this line by many of us are very old.
So ancient that Aristotle, tho Greek philosopher, said:
"Particular caro ought to bo taken that nothing bo done contrary to law;
and thiB snould be chiefly looked to In matters of Email moment For small
violations of law advance by stealthy steps in the same way as in a domestic
establishment trifling expenses, if often repeated, consume a man's wholo
estate."
Wiso old Aristotle has tho key to tho situation. Carelessness in small
matters of law breed great errors. Tho man who permits his horses to run
loose, who calmly sees his chickens scratching in his neighbor's garden, who
throws a banana peeling on the sidewalk, who goes hunting on Sunday, who
rides his bicycle on tho sidewalk, who dumps his ashes In tho street, who
allows his alley to remain dirty, who avoids paying his taxes each error
minute in itself Is a disregarder of law a breeder of large errors, is a man
pot wholly purged from anarchy. "FFor small violations of law advance by
stealthy steps," says Aristotle, the wisest philosopher of hlB age of thought
Aro you an anarchist?
' An officer of a big life-insurance corporation that has an important Phila
delphia branch tells of a middle-aged German who called to ask tho price of
having his health Insured. Ho was told that thero were various rates accord
ing to circumstances, but that a very popular rate waB $10 a year, with weekly
payments from the company during incapacitating Illness.
"Of course,'' the clerk explained, "it all depends on tho applicant's stato
of health."
"Well, take me for $10. I'm sick nearly all the time; and the doctor says
ho can do nothing."
"In that case," said the clerk, "we can't consider you. We prefer that
applicants be In excellent health."
"What!" roared the German, In amazed Indignation. "Do you fink P
pay you to insure my healf Jf I vos well? I'm not.a fool!"
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