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lost forever.and for neither of whom is
there any longer a future of innocence
or of much usefulness. By mutual
conent they have destroyed almost
everything worth living for, but they
ask Judge Holmes to release them
from their decent bonds that they
may be free to make some other man
and some other woman miserable,
who, if Judge Holmes refuses may
still pursue a peaceful life, unweight
ed by the society of another human
being whose life is a failure and who
has repudiated hiaduty towards
childhood the sin that cannot be
pardoned.
Perhaps for the first time since
they came of age silly women and
selfish men are obliged to listen and
heed a sermon on the rights of child
ren and their own trespasses on those
rights. After forty years there are
no more than twenty years of active
life and the Judge rightly concludes
that the child's future of fifty years
shall not be sacrificed to pleas of
incompatibility or unconfessed plans
of espousing some one else.
It is fortunate for the children
whose brutal, unworthy parents have
come to words, blows and hatred,
that their cause is tried before a
judge who remembers their imma
turity and their rights, who is dis
gusted by the spectacle, which he has
seen for vears, of vulgar, unregen
erate adults, ignoring the pleasures,
duties and opportunities of parents
for the gratification of spite, ambi
tion or sensuality. It is fortunate
for the children that the Judge car
ries ever in his heart the vision of
heaven which Is only in a child's un
troubled eyes. Not to disturb the
vision until the season of awakening,
Judge Holmes would sacrifice any
sleeves, but the Russians have the
virtue of frankness and their land is
big enough to afford it. The Boers
welcomed the English when they- first
came. It was only when the tremen
dous contrast between Anglo Saxon
enterprise,nergy and invention was
contrasted and side-by-side with
Dutch conservatism and phlegm that
the latter began to,-be afraidMhat "tbfe
EnglishTfashion of thoroughness and
promptness would creep into their
institutions-which-they clung to as
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could read minds as we read the print
ed page.
Since she was sixteen this woman
has been earning her living in this
way. She was married at that age
and her husband is her manager, in
the professional sense. She acknowl
edged that she was very sorry she had
to support the family. "Just let a
womVaJbegin," she said, "and she will
always have to." With a weary ex
pression, siie said she was not a good ,
guesser. If circumstances would let
of a glorious company at the first in
dication of the nation that was born
in another year. The asphalt com
pany can afford to wait till the elm
falls of old age. If it will not, there
is the city council of Cambridge,
which if it contains only half as good
Americaus as the council of this
small western city will protect the
noble tree. ,
being-the real old tiling 16 f D,utch. her she would prefer frankness to de- President
number of the blundering, spoiled -Mr. Dawes believes in their
men and women who cry to him for
release from the bonds whose snap
ping will hang a mill stone around
the neck of one of these little ones.
General Roberts' Advance.
The speedy end to the war in the
Transvaal is indicated, but. for that
matter, from the time the overwhelm
ing English forces arrived in Africa,
the end of the war was predicted.
The small numbers of the Boers,
brave and cunning as they are make
victory on their side impossible, or
since nothing is impossible,
Die.
Those Americans who are fond of
attitudes, poses and sentimental
phrases might exercise their eccen
tric imaginations and sympathies in
conceiving the state of the Boers
with the foreigners excluded, in case
of a Boer victory. There is no mid
die ground, the foreigners could not
endure the intensified tyranny which
would be established in the Trans
vaal, should the English be defeated.
Before the English came the Presi
dent of the Transvaal republic said
he would rather be a policeman under
a strong government than president
or a bankrupt government. When
the English came, developed the
mines, built railroads, and paid nine
tenths of the taxes the term of nat
uralization was immediately extend
ed, although they made the cun
ning, miserly, hypocritical Kruger, a
very rich man. The Boer republic is
an autocracy less lenient and flexible,
less representative than Russia,
which has a form of local self govern
ment, including a town meeting or
Mir very democratic indeed. But the
Czar is man enough to correctly des
ignate and classify the kind of gov
ernment in Russia. By calling it a
republic and without changing a
feature of the administrative sjstem,
be might gain the sympathy of the
numerous class who wear It on their
fifteenth century transportation, agri
culture and family customs. It is the
boast of the Dutch that they do not
take hints and are not influenced by
the progress of the world. This Is
why they have lib literature, little art
and few inventors.
Whatever importance the Trans
vaal has it has been developed there
by the English. Their withdrawal
would be a thousand times more dis
astrous now and eventually to the
Boers than their own defeat in this
war. The quicker the English tri
umph, the quicker will the country
go back to business and the sooner
will it be converted into a genuine
republic where all settlers who pay
taxes can have a vote. The settle
ment of the whole world has made it
impossible for one nation to live to
itself and keep every other out.
Trusts,
Comptroller Charles G. Dawes in
his speech before the state conven
tion of Illinois held at Peoria made a
distinction between trusts that op
press, and trusts that serve the peo
ple. While not advocating a whole
sale destruction of all combinations
control
be op-
so that they shall no longer
pressive:
Trusts have their origin in indus
trial conditions, for which neither
J political party are responsible. It is
ikewise true that the great masses of
both political parties believe that
some legislation is necessary in order
to protect the public from the evils
which must result from the monopo
listic control of the production and
distribution of some of the neces
saries and comforts of life. I believe
that people are willing to recognize
the benefits which may come in the
way of cheaper prices to a community
through a limited and proper com-
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Incredi-.hey are not opposed to any ..corpora
tion simply because it is large. But
when by combination competition is
suppressed and the saving, which
combination makes possfe, is not
only appropriated by the Erporation
but in addition an unffesonable
level of prices is maintained The peo
ple demand and shall secure govern
mental interference and regulation.
ception. Having been so important
a part of a sham for so long she is im
patient of the pretensions and af
fectations of other people. She has
had to take care of herself and of two
able-bodied men. In condemning the
deceit she practised on us, it is as
well to remember that we might not
have done any better, if fortune had
not selected us for favors and her for
buffets At any rate she has retained
a resoect for the genuine and a scorn
for her own ignoble part in life con
sumes her. To the people sue meets
privately she will not claim any spec
ial gift.
The committee of three well known
citizens who are invited to take the
stage at such performances, is more
mystified than the audience. Not
used to the foot lights, conscious of
awkwardness and of the critical gaze
of their fellow citizens they do not
seethe machinery and the trap doors
in the middle of the stage where
there is a rug and where the occult
sits. If the committee has suspicions
it is too embarrassed to investigate.
The stage manager counts upon the
dazed condition of the committee.
The audience feels that the commit
tee will not discover anything crook
ed and only the committee knows
how helpless and dazed it really is.
Bible Questions.
The Reverend Charles F. Thwine.
of the Western Reserve
Mind Reading.
When her husband placed the sheet
over Anna Eva Fay's slender shoul
ders lie explained the singular ar
rangement by saying that Miss Fay
needed all the magnetism she had and
the sheet kept it from being dissipat
ed among an audience who had no
mind reading to do and therefore did
not need it. Without a pause, as
soon as the sheet was adjusted Miss
Fay began to read minds although
the sheet being just draped about her
there was little time for the accumu
lation of electricity inside the sheet.
The unpaid member of the company,
who was left behind says that a speak
ing tube was pushed up through the
stage and the receiver was just at
Miss Fay's ear. The notes that were
written on carbon paper were put
through a crack in the stage and read
to Miss Fay through the tube. It
was all very cleverly and smoothly
done so much so that there were a
number of the incredulous convinced
that fie lady wlo looked like a tent,
The Washington Elm.
The professors of Harvard college
cannot be accused of a sentimental
patriotism. The Washington Elm,
so called, under which George Wash
ington, it is said, took command of
the first continental army is attacked
by Professor Chaining who says there
is no proof only tradition that Wash-
ington was sheltered by an elm tree
when he assumed command of the
first American army. Tradition is
not altogether trustworthy but until
disproved it is better than Justin
Winsor's history, a book so winnowed
of all human feeling, tradition, and of
everything but documents, it is dry
as dust. There is something unAmer
ican about the president and faculty
of Harvard college. The professors
advise the removal of the wooden
keepsakes that the American people
idolize and visit and reverence. They
have no respects at all for an elm that
cast its shadow on a real man who was
able to ride a horse without falling
off, a man that was six feet tall and
every inch an American.The de-Americanized
dons of Harvard get their in
spiration from some other nation.
They dispise our gods. Professor
Channing of Harvard does not like
the tree. He has to pass by it daily
on his route to and from his class.
He has instructed the undergraduates
that the tree is unsightly. The pro
fessor said: "Trees are a good thing
to attach sentiment to and I suppose
one tree is as good as another." enly
this tree stands of all those on Cam
bridge common of all.those that were
there when Washington took com
mand of the army on July 2nd, 1775.
The shadows of its quivering leaves
fell upon the little heroic army in
blue and yellow armed with flintlocks
and sabres. If Washington only
stood under one of its contemporaries,
still it deserves to live for being one
University, in the Century Magazine
for May, in an article entitled "Signif
icant Ignorance About the Bible,"
draws some startling conclusions in
regard to the ignorance concerning
the Bible.
Doctor Timing selected from Ten
nyson's poems a .nutuber of passages
containing staple biblical allusions"
These he asked' a freshman class of
thirty-four men at his university to
explain in an examination, and some
years later he asked the same ques
tions of a freshman class cf fifty-one
at a woman's college in the east. The
men came from northern Ohio, cen
tral New York, western Pennsylvania,
the women largely from New England
communities. Their fathers were
lawyers, doctors, preachers, business
men, farmers. The young men were
twenty years old on the average and
the women must have been of nearly
the same age. With one exception
they all had ecclesiastical affiliations
of some sort. Yet, though one young
woman answered every question cor
rectly while another made only one
mistake and a third but two mistakes,
the percentage of correct answers was
less than forty-three for the men and
a little more than forty-nine for the
women.
1. My sin was as a thorn
Among the thorns that girt Thy
brow.
2. As manua on my wilderness.
3. That God would move
And strike the hard, hard rock, and
thence
Sweet in their utmost bitterness,
Would issue tears of penitence.
4. Like that strange angel which ot
old,
Until the breaking of the light,
Wrestled with wandering Israel.
5. Like Hezekiah's backward runs
The shadow of my days.
6. Joshua's moon in Ajalon.
7. A heart as rough as Esau's hand,
8. Gash thyself, priest, and honour
thy brute Baal.
9. Ruth among the fields of corn.
10. Pharaoh's darkness.
11. A Jonah's gourd,
Up in one night and due to sudden
sun.
12. Stiff as Lot's wife.
13. Arimathxan Joseph.
14 a. For I have flung thee pearls
and find thy swine.
14 b. Not red like Iecariot's.
15. Perhaps, like him of Cana in
Holy Writ.
Our Arthur kept his best until the
last.
16 And marked me even as Cain
17. The Church on Peter's rock.
18. Let her eat it like the serpent,
and be driven out of her paradise.
19. A whole Peter's sheet.
20. The godless Jephtha vows his
child . . .
To one cast of the dice.
21. A Jacob's ladder falls.
22. Till you find the deathless angel
seated in the vacant tomb.
The east has a greater reputation
for learning than the west but, it has
never been verified. Doctor Thwing's
conclusion that if the east could not
explain these allusions no young peo
ple anywhere could answer them is
unsound. Of all the western people
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