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Bapticm for the Dead
Under the caption The Vitality of
Mormonism Ray Stannard Baker
writes in the June Century
Another device wnich holds the
people to the church is the curious
doctrine of baptism for the dead It
is believed that the living may by
being baptized save their relatives
who have gone before A man goes
to the temple and Is solemnly lm
mersed for his grandfather who died
out of the faith the grandfathers
name is duly entered in the book of
records the grandson contributes a
fee and comes the next day to be bap
tized for his grandmother anc so on
As the result of this faith the Mor
jnons have delved more deeply into
their genealogy perhaps than any
other class of Americans I know of
several cases in which Mormons have
gone to England on purpose to trace
out their genealogical tree bringing
back long lists of their ancestors in
some cases going back to the time of
William the Conqueror On their re
turn to Utah they begin the process
of baptism a dip for each ancestor
Everybodys Magazine July 1904
Tbe most sensational feature any
American magazine has captured in
years is Thomas W Lawsons Fren
zied Finance the Story of Amalgamat
ed Copper which begrns in the July
issue of Everybodys Magazine Mr
Lawson was one of the organizers of
that gigantic corporation and he
knows exactly what happened to the
millions that were lost through its
manipulation His rrst article is an
announcement of distinctly dramatic
interest and promises revelations of
the highest importance to every one
in the country He frankly states
that his purpose in telling the story
is to set himself right with the thou
sands of investors who through his
instrumentality put their money into
Amalgamated and have been plunder
ed
A Day with Hudson Maxim
Following the plan which St Nich
olas has carried out for several
months the July issue will have an
instructive article designed to pre
sent valuable facts in a way entertain
ing to both young and old A Day
with Hudson Maxim is the title of
Joseph H Adams sketch which will
tell many interesting details of the
great inventors life and work Hud
son Maxims residence is in Brooklyn
where a visitor finds him as much at
home among his high explosives as
his cook in her kitchen Mr Adams
tells among other things of being in
vited to lunch on Welsh rarebit cook
ed in a chaiing dish over a lamp till
ed with not alcohol but nitrogly
cerin
Is It Not Vcrth While
If you travel on business cr pleasure
Jo get the best service for the lowest
rates Ask the Erie Railroad Com
pany 5i Railway Exchange Chicago
for full information Booklets free de
scribing Summer Tours and the Beau
tiful Chautauqua Lake Region also
Cambridge Springs
The joys ot today and the griefs of
today will be hand in hand at the
setting of the sun
Expensive Agricultural Experience
Senator Stewart cf Nevada has also
learned that farming at least fancy
farming with the ovnc giving no
personal attention to tko business
does not pay and his large estate of
GOO acres in Virginia which cost him
i40CC0 has been sold to Judge Yec
mans of the interstate coini orce
commission for 30 000
Bv the time a man thoroughly un
derstands te ways of a woman he
is so old that he doesnt care anything
about them
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Experience has
taught you in advance
that picnics are a de
lusion and a snare so
you know what to ex
pect
If elections were
held on July 5 the par
ty that would promise
to raise the tariff on
firecrackers 100 per
cent would get all the
votes except those of
the wholesalers and
retailers of noise
It is generally ad
mitted that the Chi
nese might have teen
in better business
than they were when
inventing the fire
cracker
Tell the little chil
dren about how you
had only 5 cents to
spend on the Fourth
of July when you
were a boy They
have never heard
about it before
Cheer up The almanac-makers
declare
that it comes only
once a year
Save some of the
thumbs there will be
another Fourth next
July
Some foxy gentle
men go up in balloons
on the Fourth to es
cape the noise
To see some old
men holding their
ears and to listen to
the rumblings of their
grouch one would
think they never were
boys
Almost any reason
ing being if he had his
choice would rather be
an automobile than a
horse on the Fourth of
July
Still is it worth
such a fuss over a lit
tle thing like licking
the British
When the law
bumps up against the
firecracker the law
usually retires from
the scene with a few
burned fingers and a
bum eye
Yes
Doras you are a good
guesser This is
the Fourth of July
Modest shy
Timid shrinking
quiet tmassuming
etc
July 4th
The day we celebrate
Early and late
And in the middle
also around the
edges
With hammers tongs
and sledges
Anvils steam whis
tles boiler factories
and
A grand
Collision between a
ton of noise
And a wagonload of
sound
The boys
Sit around the house
all day
And play
With their thumbs
oh yes
I guess
Thats a poor joke
Great smoke
Its really funny
Ycu cant get them
near the houses ex
cept for money
They start in bright
And early a week be-
tore and keel it up
until midnight
Next day
The doctor holds
sway
The old men cet the
pace when they
were boys
The year of the big
noise
And you cant stop the
hubbub
With a club
Or a standing army
Whats the use
Of a glorious Fourth
if you cant turn
noise loose
If its to be
A quilting match or a
pink tea
Let the boys know
In advance of the
show
That tLey must shoot
No cracker toot
No horn
And they will not go
to the trouble of
being born
The doctor is a busy
man
His harvest time is
here
And he will mako
enough this week
T last him for a year
American
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O Mother of a mighty race
Yet lovely In thy youthful sracc
The elder dames thy haughty peers
Admire and hate thy blooming years
With words of shame
And taunt of scorn they join thy name
For on thy cheeks the glow Is spread
That tints thy morning hills with red
Thy step the wild deers rustling feet
Within thy woods are not more licet
Thy hopeful eye
Is bright as thine own sunny sky
Ay let them rail those haughty ones
While safe thou dwellest with they sons
They do not know how loved thou art
How many a fond and fearless heart
Would rise to throw
Its life between thee and tho foe
They know not in their hate and pride
What virtues with thy children bide
How true how good thy graceful maids
Make bright like flowers the valley
shades
What generous men
Spring like thine oaks by nlll and glen
What cordial welcomes greet the guest
By thy lone rivers of the west
How faith is kept and truth revered
And man is loved and God is feared
In woodland homes
And where the ocean border foams
Theres freedom at thy gates and rest
For earths down trodden and opprest
A shelter for the hunted head
For the starved laborer toil and bread
Power at thy bounds
Stops and calls back his baffled hounds
O fair young Mother on thy brow
Shall sit a nobler grace than now
Deep in the brightness of thy skies
The thronging years in glory rise
And as they fleet
Drop strength and riches at thy feet
Thine eye with every coming hour
Shall brighten and thy form shall tower
And when thy sisters elder born
Would brand thy name with words of
scorn
Before thine eye
Upon their lips the taunt shall die
William Cullen Bryant
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We all know the history of that
pivotal Fourth of July from which all
others have become conspicuous We
know how conflicting interests and
emotions had contended How Han
cock and Samuel Adams who had
burned the bridges behind them and
been proclaimed traitors by Great
Britain urged on their cautious breth
ren How sagacious Franklin long
headed John Adams and fiery hearted
Richard Henry Lee together worked
and planned coaxing persuading and
arguing with their conservative col
leagues day after day until they par
took of their dare all endure all spirit
How that patriotic Congress eventu
ally put aside every interest every
consideration save that of liberty and
love of the right How with bold
John Hancock in the chair the undy
ing fifty six on July 4 1776 signed
the Declaration of Independence We
know that the deadly seven years
struggle that followed that carried
that Declaration at the swords point
and made the world accept it as true
The liberty of America was born on
that July day at the state house in
Philadelphia That date shines aloft
a blazing star against a darkened
firmament Let the small boy shout
whistles blow bells ring and can
non roar Never too loudly can the
good story be told At Saratoga and
Stony Point Yorktown and Valley
Forge our fathers won tie right for
their childrens children to the last
generation to burn powder and make
uproarious din upon this national day
of days
John Adams the second president
first prophesied that the anniversary
of the signing of the Declaration of
Independence would become a festal
day Boston has the honor of holding
the first real Fourth of July celebra
tion The war was over The United
States were free and independent and
Boston proposed in 17S3 to celebrate
the event in great style So there
were marchings and parades and flut
tering of flags and shooting of mus
kets and cannon The Declaration
of Independence was read aloud and
Dr John Warren Professor of Anato
my in Harvard college made a strongly
patriotic speech The custom so
beautiful and appropriate was adopt
ed everywhere throughout the land
and the plan of these celebrations has
always been closely modeled after the
pattern first set
Exactly ten years after July 4 1793
John Quincy Adams was the orator of
the day at Boston He had not yet
reached his twenty sixth year but his
father was Massachusetts most
prominent son and his son was
counted as in a sense his representa
tive That day John Quincy Adams
showed that he was something more
than merely the son of his father His
address is yet considered a master
piece and from that day he was a
power in the land and eventually be
came president
The morning of the Jubilee Fourth
July 1826 the fiftieth anniversary of
the signing of the Declaration of In
dependence found four of the signers
yet alive The sunset found but two
On that day there passed away the
immortal spirits of Thomas Jefferson
and John Adams each of whom had
been president of the cation he had
helped to make
Tho morning of July 4 1S26 found
both the old comrades sick unto
death Jefferson sank first with the
words I resign my sou to God and
my daughter to my country Mean
while in his mansion John Adams lay
gasping his life away Ninety one
years had not dimmed his intellect or
weakened his courageous spirit He
heard the noise of the clays celebra
tion and asked what day it was
After he had been told he lay for a
while lost in thought his mind re
verting to those stirring times fifty
years before in the stato house fta
Philadelphia The touch o death was
on him then and he realized It Jef
ferson yet lives he ejaculated and
then a little later a sentiment sug
gested by the day crossed his lips
Independence forever he said and
never spoke again
Exactly five years after the deaths
of Adams and Jefferson James Mon
roe died the third president to die
upon Independence Day He was one
of the most American of American
presidents His death on July tlio
4th emphasized anew the fatality
that has pursued so many of our chief
magistrates upon this day
In 1795 Washington selected a plot
of ground within the city of Washing
ton as a suitable spot whereupon to
erect a monument to the American
Revolution This was never acted
upon but thirty four years after his
death it was decided instead to erect
there a monument to Washington
himself Slowly funds were collected
and on July 4th 1848 the cornerstone
was laid with imposing civic military
and Masonic honors The monument
was built so slowly however that not
until December 1884 was tho last
stone fitted into place and the beau
tiful Washington obelisk the tallest
structure in the New World com
pleted
Two years after the cornerstone
was laid tfte unfinished shaft had
reached the height of more than 150
feet Zachary Taylor the beloved
old Rough and Ready of the Mexi
can war had been president sixteen
months On the national holiday
July 4 1850 he visited the uncomplet
ed monument in which he took great
interest Once on the grounds he laid
aside the dignity of his high office
and stretched himself under the
grateful shade of the partly complet
ed shaft A peculiar lassitude seem
ed to come over him and he lay there
a long time Suddenly paroxysms of
internal pain- came on He had been
struck with death on Independence
day and that within the shadow of
the first presidents monument Again
the old fatality to a president upon
the Fourth of July He was carried
back to the White House where ho
lingered five days and died
The civil war that devastated our
land 1861 5 had progressed none too
favorably for the Union cause up to
the middle of 1S63 Grant was dog
gedly besieging Vicksburg which con
trolled all tho lower Mississippi As
stubbornly the Confederates resisted
Lee had determined to carry the war
into the North and had invaded Penn
sylvania with a great army The fate
of the nation swung in the balance
North and South the people trem
blingly awaited the issues of each
day July 1st found Vicksburg still
holding out after six weeks of ter
rific cannonading The same first
day of the same month brought the
clash between the invading army
of Lee and the defending expulsive
army of the Federals at Gettysburg
Pa It was American against Ameri
can and July 1st passed into July Pnd
and that into the third of July and
yet the dreadful battle raged Sixty
thousand men on those three days
were taken prisoners wounded oi
killed Lee was forced back In the
turning battle of the war fortune had
favored the Union forces
The dawn of the Fourth found the
heart of our people torn with contend
ing emotions The mother mourned
like Rachel over her son stark upon
the field of Gettysburg the father re
joiced over a crucial battle won the
South sank appalled at the blow tc
her pride her hope her ambition
the North was buoyant and elated
Then over the wires at night flashed
the news that Vicksburg had surren
dered that day and the Mississippi
was open to our gunboats Great and
wild long and loud was the rejoicing
of the one part of the nation Sorrow
ful and filled with despair was the
rest of the nation God grant that
never again may Independence Day
find one portion of our people rejoic
ing over the discomfiture of anothei
portion for we be brethren
The sad Fourth was in July 1881
Two days before President Garfield
had been shot by Guiteau the assas
sin and for the fifth time in our his
tory tho shadow of death hung over
an American President upon Indepen
dence Day The country Fourth-of-July
picnics were abandoned the cele
brations in the great cities were sus
pended Here and there a flag waved
mournfully as though anticipating its
early hanging at half mast It was a
quiet Fourth a sad Fourth a hard
Fourth All hearts were touched
From that awful day July 2 until the
dread day in September when the lasi
summons came to the poor worn suf
fering President there was nerer a
waking hour but that the thoughts ol
our people were with their stricken
chief fighting heroically for life
The Spanish American war was od
hand in 1898 On the third of thai
July the Spanish admiral Cervera
made a desperate attempt to escape
from Santiago harbor It quickly end
ed in a victory for tie Americans A
victory so complete that it annihilated
the entire fleot and the whole body o
Spnniards became prisoners of war
Virtually the war was ended then and
there It took a few hours tor the
news to get where it could be cabled
but all over the Union July 4th 1898
the wires sang busily The Spaniards
were not our flesh and blood as were
the southern soldiers that day thirty
five years before when the Fourth of
July wires flashed tho news of victory
There was no bitter to the joy nc j
pang to the victory
What the future has in store foi
this red letter day of time we know
not But come what will by greal
deeds done by battles won by days
of national joy and national sorrow
shared together Fourth of July will
ever be a sacred day to all true Ameri
cans
This Will Interest Mothers
Mother Grays Sweet Powders for Chil
dren used by Mother Gray a nurse in
Childrens Homo Now York Curo Fevnr
ishness Bad Stomach Teething Disorders
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FREE Address A S Olmsted LeRovN Y
What is past is past There is a
future left to all men who have the
virtue to repent and the energy to
atone
Defiance Starch
should bo in every household none so
good besides 4 oz more for 10 cents
than any other brand of cold water
etarch
Mustnt Flirt Any More
The Cunard company has issued an
order forbidding tho officers to prome
nade the decks with feminine passen
gers or to participate in any social
events on shipboard It seems that
numerous complainta were made that
the officers were neglecting their du
ties in order to play gallant and be
sides that the officers snubbed all but
the pretty girls bringing complaints
from the ladies not endowed with
beauty The fascinating wearers of
gold lace and brass buttons will here
after attend strictly to their duties
for steamship companies should take
as good care of their homely passen
gers as of their good looking ones
Rules for Politicians
There are said Thomas Taggart
the Democratic leader in Indiana
three rules of deportment which
nhould be the guiding stars of all poli
ticians First never take a drink for
fear of promoting intemperance sec
ond never refuse a drink for fear of
making bad friends third never wor
ry about what happens unless it hap
pens to you
The Preachers Evidence
Roland 111 June 27 Diabetes has
so long been looked upon as an in
curable form of kidney disease that
a sure cure for it must rank as one of
the most valuable medical discoveries
of the age And every day brings
forth fresh evidence that Dodds Kid
ney Pills will cure diabetes Im
portant evidence In their favor is giv
en by Rev Thos P Norman the well
known Baptist minister here Mr
Norman says
I had all the symptoms of a bad
case of diabetes and received so much
benefit from the use of Dodds Kid
ney Pills that I cheerfully recommend
them to anyone suffering from that
dread disease Dodds Kidney Pills
will cure the worst form of diabetes
Dodds Kidney Pills always cure
diabetes one of the final stages of
kidney disease All the earlier stages
from backache to rheumatism are
naturally much more easily cured by
the same remedy
The Fulton Centennial
Profiting by former experiences in
the matter of celebrations in not hav
ing tilings ready on time for in
stance the Columbus Dewey and oth
er affairs New York has already com
menced preparations toward the cele
bration of the centennial of the sail
ing of the first steamboat on the Hud
son This will be in 1907 and is to
be an auspicious event Steps have
been taken toward building a fac
simile of the Clermont at first sneer
ingly dubbed Fultons Folly but
which turned out to be Robert Ful
tons joy and pride when she success
fully paddled her way to Albany and
back in four days time Steamboat
development within the last century
has been so wonderful that it is fitting
to commemorate the inventions of Ful
ton and John Fitch in as big a blow
out as steam and money can devise
Why He Dislikes Republicans
After one of John Sharp Williams
pull-and-haul contests with Republic
ans in the house during the last ses
sion of congress Speaker Cannon said
to him John what makes you such
a bitter partisan Well Joe was
the reply coming from you that is
certainly very good Oh never mind
about me but tell me why you are
such a partisan TJhe Mississippian
answered gravely To tell you the
truth I never saw a Republican until
I was 21 years old and I cant get
used to them somehow
FOOD FACTG
What an M D Learned
A prominent physician of Rome
Georgia went through a food experi
ence which he makes public
It was my own experience that
first led me to advocate Grape Nuts
foodand I also know from having pre
scribed it to convalescents and other
weak patiente that the food is a won
derful rebuilder and restorer of nerve
and brain tissue as well as muscle
It improves the digestion and sick
patients always gain just as I did in
strength and weight very rapidly
I was in such a low state that I had
to give up my work entirely and go to
the mountains of this state but two
months there did not improve me in
fact I was not quite as well as when I
left home My food absolutely re
fused to sustain me and it became
plain that I must change then I began
to use Grape Nuts food and in two
weeks I could walk a mile without the
least fatigue and in five weeks re
turned to my heme and practice tak
ing up hard work again Snce that
time I have fclt as weil and strong as
I ever did in my life
As a physician who seeks to help
all sufferers I consider it a duty to
make these facts public Name giv
en by Pcstuin Co DaUle Creeh Mich
Trial 10 days on Grape Nuts r hen
the regular food dees not seem to sus
tain the body will work miracles
Theres a reason
Lcok in each pkg for the famous
little bsok The Road to Wellville
SrfSB
m ARRIVED
HOW JACK LUNuv
Hard fof
Struggled
Author
Popular
High Position He Hods
fascinating snort
Jack London the
brilliant war com
storj wHter and
spondent now at the
old Thre e y
twenty eight years
unheard of by the readm0
n o he was
rrld To day he is read
and the paes
is sought by publishers
of the magazines from The Century
down are open to him tt
The story
how he first
ctnnntnl5tnni
of how no urnu
set foot upon i
to success he
tells in Tho Editor the New
York magazine for literary workers
incidentally giving the latter class
some excellent advice Here aro a
few of his terse pregnant sentences-
Work Dont wait for some guou
Samaritan to tell you but dig it out
yourself
Fiction pays best of all
Dont write too much Dont dash
off a 6000 word story before breakfast
Avoid tho unhappy ending the
harsh the brutal the tragic the horri
ble if you care to see in print the
things you write
Keep a notebook Travel with it
eat with it sleep with it Slap into
It every stray thought that flutters
up into your brain
As soon as a fellow sells two or
three things to the magazines says
Jack London his friends all ask him
how he managed to do it and then
ho goes on in his own racy way to
tell how it happened to him
He had many liabilities and no as
sets no income and several mouths
to feed He lived in California far
from the great publishing centers
and did rot know what an editor
looked like But he sat down and
wrote Day by day his pile of manu
scripts mounted up Ho had vague
ideas obtained from a Sunday supple
ment that a siinimum rate of 10 a
thousand words was paid and figured
on earning 600 a month without
overstocking the market
One morning the postman brought
him instead of the usual long thick
manuscript envelope a short thin
one He couldnt open it right away
It seemed a sacred thing It con
tained the written words of an editor
of a big magazine When modest as
ever he had figured in his mind what
the offer for this 4000 word story
would be at the minimum rate 40
of course he opened the letter Five
dollars
Not having died right then and
there Mr London is convinced that
he may yet qualify as an oldest in
habitant Five dollars When The
editor did not state
But by and by in the course of its
wanderings one of his stories reached
an editor who could see the genius of
Jack London and had the patience to
penetrate beneath the husk of wordy
introduction and discover the golden
grain
Here is the incident that proved
the turning point in Jack Londons
literary career as he so graphically
tells it
Nothing remained but to get out
and shovel coal I had done it be
fore and earned more money at it
I resolved to do it again and I cer
tainly should have done it had it not
been for The Black Cat
Yes The Black Cat The post
man brought me an offer from it for
a 4000 word story which was more
lengthy than strengthy if I would
grant permission to cut it down half
Grant permission I told them they
could cut it down two halves if theyd
only send the money along which
they did by return mail As for the
5 previously mentioned I finally re
ceived it after publication and a great
deal of embarrassment and trouble
And the rate he received for his first
Black Cat story was nearly 20 times
what the fne dollar editor paid
Nor is Jack London the only writer
who has been lifted from obscurity to
prominence by the lucky Black Cat
which as the New York Press has
truly said has done more for short
story writers and short story readers
than any other publication
Each of its
famous prize
competi
tions has brought new writers to the
front In its most recent the 2100
prize was won by a young Texan who
had never before
written
a story and
the second 1300 went to a lawyers
wife in an obscure Missouri town
It has just inaugurated
another
con
test in which 10600 will be paid to
writers in sums of from 100 to 1500
This will no doubt add many new
names to the list of those who have
arrived through its recognition
The conditions are announced in tho
current issue of The Black Cat and
will also be mailed free to any one
by the Shortstory Publishing Com
pany Boston Mass Even those who
cannot write a winning
story them
selves may earn 10 by giving a time
ly Up to some friend who can
But all should boar in mind that it
will be entirely useless for any one
to send a story to Tho Black Cat
without nrst reading and complying
Jith all the published conSns
Piece is a chance for the reacer to nig
dollars out of his brain for what life
does not at least
contain one tale
worth telling
The June Century
Queer little
fellows
are the pocket
gophers and very important factor
in the prdouction
of
ie
vegetable
mold of the west C
according to
Ihompsoa Setoa The result ofTr
betons study of n0Cknfmni
IlLifnTiin A T
evuca
vJm Aev Mexico Co
oeo Idaho Montana Wyoming
Uakotas Manitoba and lintS the
tssHEti
iuuuwwm e presented
to reader
T 011 Ceatury un the title oi
lie Master Plowman
of the West
Mr betons
drawings
as always wm
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