Show I 1 ff frasl rl V F I 1 i 11 A 0 I 1 i KF P c c inta ar arrer vRR V ft i PE Er KT arit ta e C av f 4 ff ll 11 ID II 11 I 1 I 1 t I 1 I 1 i 41 11 1 i L 11 TI J t 3 I 1 I 1 4 4 ORALS MORAIS it I 1 it is a common complaint of critics it mid and morals moral a that the old ii r seriousness serio uness is 1 departing from roni I 1 a me life standards Itan dards are thought JAX games cames which were be more ai billed dupoin P by y good P a cencia ial ago S and only indulged As i forbidden ures clr are now mw common om roon homo home N arienti the sunday newspaper a d the sunday bicycle rids have un ned tho the sabbath keeping ot of j oscr creears years the churches themselves va v made many concessions to the tendency tolerating and commend lm indulgences ti that toron foron ian sinful even tha aly acre ere considered letlon ignation which greeted erected the tha I 1 dolent of 0 an inn at princeton under itebe patronage was only halt half echoed I 1 ml d that apparently as it a matter of 0 onn by the 1 I great body of presbyter I 1 though such an incident twenty I 1 arb is ago hould have bavo aroused tho the arch these thebo things tire are a source ot of to many who from then ibm I 1 ct it a decay of american morals it t such ch apprehension can only be duo due a failure to consider the improve stat tot in social habits that has boa pone cone we ng with these changes and wo we I 1 ink fill mure more than offsets them even ugh every one be regarded as 03 a 06 I 1 ango for ta the worse I 1 ake ke tho the matter of 0 clubs cluba for In aeo 0 that a club 1 is i not dot many years iraj air regarded ns as ui an evil resort by it a bl at many religious people imd and the club clubman mark carried with it it time safe ad ot of reproach now even in the mailer aur tonais tile club ti Is looked on oa as institute on it was classed almost t filth tho the rajoon non it Is now non put ili the llie public alb horary ary in the th irge ellla ties of it course the club eni eai ly enjoyed locial lei prestige pres but the transformation ken been marked elsewhere antl and it Is lie i not to louer moral standards in unities but to higher dj 1 both clubs and communities As labs bs hasa lincome more popular they toned more blore peo pea iv ve become higher bleher e may iny drink in them but fewer it drink heavily in this and in other necta they only deflect the growing and healthful hal thul tendencies of 0 amral eral society the there re la a no doubt that is a moral standard of oc the th american jes of 0 today Is higher lher li than it was URS acara ears ago aco in spite of all croak is college ent nt condemns evil today velch were mere regarded by many y then as proof that ono one u m as manly at d a good fellow tin game bame may be b said eald of 0 society out liila is a the college it Is no longer loneer consid 1 respectable actable to stagger away from 1 lio lanner ter party nor are so many mens feu as of tun fun confined to that TO harmful and even disreputable lilias is is largely due to tho the great reat increase 1 the variety of recreations men fen with ut nt intellectual resource reso urca a few years KO go had bad nothing to do on a holiday acy ey got rid ot of idle hours in a club care cafe r I 1 in A a saloon falcon largely because tn causs it was ot t the fashion to do anything else ow w they ride alc cles they play KOK golf bratch somebody body else play it 11 they a to lo a football game earne A whole world healthy activities Is open to them alch ich they never thought of then that mr yr of at these recreations recreation are indulged i to exec and to the neglect of old blonea duties may be conceded but ere mn can be no doubt that the health il I 1 sports that hae haae caused even the set thoughtful and conscientious of n 9 community to ID depart somewhat ma the old strictness ot of conduct have id in an uplifting influence inam no on vast num re ot of other people in ho he N w without them kulil id be led from idleness to mischief i tons tono of our life Is doubtless lighter B it used to be and lines of 0 right d strong rong ere are drawn less closely but a average of conduct Is better and fulgence lul dul gence in many things formerly on Is really less harmful than old for or the simple reason that the diligence iulg nce la Is taken with gelf respect il riot not v li ith the culpable sense of alo uon on of the church the family or the att ai code y Y tribune 0 RUSTLING OT OP THE leaves ir re Is IB something sort ort of cozy when the leav leaves 3 begin lo 10 0 rustle As 3 the toys loys go fro tra tramping ping through them in tho the hollova a of t the he street Rt rt holt hold down some playmate idle t a to it he be alve them ihm quito a tussle falle they coner film completely with arith puno dame agures blacet I 1 W n the ali hoi some flavor of the frost in nuts note antl and apples when boti I 1 lirar hear the dead anad leaves whisper thai hat their bummer r work la Is nono done 1 feel alio presence of the lea klar I 1 as his vi grol leg WI lui loe jn takes and rivers and very every one ona I 1 t picture c ur 0 t tho a hearth side bid b bright a and etc clau before me such mch a lea nt hoine bow like alko picture of a biting winter ni h a A in for my y boyhood chood warm and taul ustes a ocr er mo me or ir llie I 1 a lit Is far aarm noun kitchen and I 1 tho pine noor floor banded if bit bite bell leb tho the autumn leaves were falling and frobby no early IB wo imad to draw aw up closer to the hros cheor cheerful ful blazo blaze itch atch the flame at oll out I 1 the rn laiple ale with ih ah heart earl so eveln veined d and curly ad cd kit to by tho the stories grandpa told d ot at battle days dayal th chiy y all come back to cheer me fill lan dais that I 1 remember kuon 11 1 hear ear the th lm w es CB a rustling am aj the chool hoy boys scuffle by II 11 I 1 think theres X co cozy Y in the tha 9 of blenk bleak november er 0 or r I 1 the 6 hearth anro of my iny boyhood p pilaf I 1 it on th tho sky duckham in L I slit a weekly exclusiveness la 11 the matter of ct trade trad and passage trough much hla his country the ameer is 18 lire irre obdurate here again his bla in suspicious character cornea comes toy for no trade king or syndicate has att t been able ble to move a him in this mat w though he b must see quite plainly hat at the th opening up of 0 to ahe 0 benefits of 0 external trade would enrich the country and sinova m brove his hl own revenues with similar lousy louby and walt waat ot of trustfulness in the tha ltv tt of others he closes clones hla his country foreigner orely ncr travelers travel cra almost t as ILS As the h have T e r lazed theirs 1 11 only to special pec liLl in individual d h ld uee 3 of 0 rank ia importance that I 1 lie le will concede i of a pro protected acted passage t there is 13 comparatively L peaking atle a danger involved in tra gaitan gW eling ns in ItAn the writer riter wu was very re lly ty iri 14 nhat hat was i years oso ago one of 0 tho the M wt the uncivilized bazars la in the aoun counter count try rr afghans mere moat civil an I 1 efing am abdur ilchman ner ter ot in american w review ot reviews tor or decem nib P SERMON it aty I 1 late the tide alil of 0 hu that earlier in tho the iw evening even lne bad luid aai flawed through the streets ie groat city had wept swept onward 9 this strange and almont 1 appall I unas nee ot of detol atio n that comes cocci a the 8 ot of the town aro are fd this the electric lights narca liared und d on oa nie 1110 fordom corn cre the street cars care at farther wa 4 intervals now and light pa walker hurried by iy ay his ringing out loud laud arid and clear la ili anem otist I neM 90 in front naf chont hont ot fit a i hol how hole e w out cirii abrl lit lil and ruddy tho the 0 pavement stood a tramp 0 orn rn red dirty disgusting he N watched we ached with envious eyes y the ow men I 1 who pasted in and wit out through the th e swinging doors arid and then lip h turned his e ays eys toward two iwo young fellows in ev mini dress who were coming down the street toward him they had been drinking deeply and they stopped before the iho door and looked curiously at him film by jove said one think of 0 ha ing in a thirst nice like that anil and not the price of 0 an extinguisher in your pocket dents beats old tantalus all to pieces piece th eh liquor liquor everywhere here and not a drop to drink lie ho run ran his hand in his rocket pocket and proffered tile the tramp a dime but before it could be accepted the other young fellow interposed posed d say lie he said bald lets do the good samaritan and sit act hobo up to a good drink tiie is other hilariously consented and tho the tramp slouched into tho the saloon at the heels of 0 the two mo irold irl 1 d ed youths the b barkeeper ar keeper set et bea before re them glasses and liquor aad alth fill ILI ia land that shook the tramp iiii poured out a brimming glass class and raised it to his lips stop cried one of 0 the young men drunkenly drui kenly make us a speech it Is poor liquor that unloosen a man niana tongue ue the nastily hastily swallowed down tho the drink and as the rich liquor coursed through his blood h he straight ened himself and stood before them with it a grace and dignity that lit all hla his and dirt could not obscure gentlemen he bald 1 I look tonight at 3 you all and at myself find and 1 II 11 a benn benni ros i to rn inc I 1 look upon the picture of 0 my lost loft manhood this bloated face was once as 89 young and handsome as yours this shambling figure once walked ns as proudly as yours A a man in a world of men mem 1 I too ance tied had home and friends anti anil position M I 1 had a wife as beautiful ns its an artists dream dr enin anil and I 1 dropped the priceless pearl of her honor an and 4 respect in the wine cup and cleopatra ilke saw it dissolve and quaffed it down in the brimming draught I 1 had children as ag and lovely as the flowers blowers of at spring and I 1 81 saw them fade and die under the blighting curso curse of it drunkard drun kaid kald father I 1 had haa a home where love lit bt the name upon tho altar and before it and I 1 put out the holy lire fire find and darkness and desolation reigned in its stead I 1 had aspirations arid ambitions that soared roared as aa high as 03 the morn gnp star a and d I 1 broke and bruised their beautiful nl apa and at last sti strangled angled them that I 1 might bo be tortured with kith their cries no more today I 1 am ot a husband IN without a wife ire a father without A child a 11 tramp mah no jio home to call his hl own a man maji in NN whom hom every good impulse Is dead all fill all swallowed up in the maelstrom of drink tho the tramp ceased speaking tile tho glass class fell from his nerveless lingers finters and shivered into 0 a thousand fragments on the noor floor tho the swinging doors pushed open and shut to again ae aln and whon when the little group croup about the bar looked up the tramp waa cono new orleans picayune THE POETRY or OF the poetry of 0 earth Is never dead 11 wrote keak and though the statement sounds at first thought a dangerously gerou sly sweeping one there to Is no doubt that it he had been called upon to arue argue the point lie would havo have successfully cess fully maintained his thesis ile ilc carded subjectively the laa poetry of earth or in other cords the quality u which aich makes tor for poetry in external nature mature la 19 that power in nature which moves us by suggestion which abich excites in us emotion imagination or poignant arsow association which elal a upon the tha tenso tense string of our sympathies with the aln aers of memory or desire this power may reside not less lit in n a bleak pasture lot than in a laal close of bloom and ver verclus clum not loss less in a ro roadside adaldo thistle pitch patch than in a pak mak that sea soars into tho the sunset it works through sheer beauty or sheer sublimity but it 11 may work with equal effect through austerity or reticence or limitation imitation or change chance it may use the most meet common scenes tha most familiar facts and forms as tile the vehicle of its most pene trotting and moot illuminating message inesia ec it Is apt to make the drop ot of dew on a a arlisa alss biache as as tho the starred sphere of tho the sky 0 0 0 merely descriptive poetry Is not very far removed front from the work of the reporter and the photographer lacking tile the selective b qu quality a lity of creative art it Is in reality little 0 more than a presentation prea m of some of the raw m materiale mater abort iala als of poetry it leaves tile the reader unmoved because little emotion lies has gone t to 0 its making mr charles G U D roberts libber is la in the december forum THE INNOCENT little avo beor old helen wits vrr lopour ing her cousin an adelbert adalbert rr eshman on the evils of foolishness says the cleveland plain dealer why the she said a bl alff boy like you a hould nt be so aci foolish id fil be ashamed to have so eo much foolishness about me why do you call him foolish inquired her uncle just cause causa be h to Is said bald helen why it ho he keeps on hell be most halt half as a foolish as his father and the poor uncle AL a word to say HOW FT originated diggs I 1 wonder who first introduced tho the custom cub boin of eating fish on friday alagao crusoe I 1 believe diaga why how could that be biggs and hla man friday were a 0 game fame of old majd one day with the understanding that the tha loser was wa to supply a a mesa of 0 flab tor for dinner robinson won the earne came so the flah fish we were m on fr friday day chicago news A CURIOUS mench FRENCH LAW owing to the existence ot of pecullar peculiar law in france 1 kanoc chich exacts that any person named or referred to in fix auy any periodical publication shoal hall anva the right to reply in 1 the th next number in tho the same fame place and in the name type tile the reply does not extend to more than twice the length of 0 the offending endline aft article icle ono one of 0 the fortham for forthcoming them numbers of the revue des dea beux deux londes the most moat important arid and influential fluent ial monthly review in france will contain art an article of unusual length and couched in extravagant language which win will appear in its 10 pages in spite of the opposition 0 of tile the editor it will bear the signature cle nature or 0 a dramatic dra matlo author who infuriated by the nature of the criticism passed by the revue on ono one ot of hla his plays has haa invoked his bla rights under article m lacle 13 23 ot of the press rights which were in vain contested by tho the editor A forethought count meter ef nn in immensely wealthy and poy tul erful russian noble who lived in the early part ot of this century had bad among his bis serfs a matir named who had amassed an enormous c fortune lie had offered la as much as for hla his freedom but in ono one day ef gave 0 a dinner party and to his disgust there TC no oysters to begin the banquet with they were riot not to bo be hod had at any price replied the steward eward nt at that moment was ushered in among the guests and bechere melt bullied him as usual your freedom IM ili yelled you cannot havn bays it 11 it you offered million of 0 rubles A 1 million a few ew dozen oysters would be worth morr more than that to me in DA this moment do I 1 understand then my lord that you would grant brunt me ino my freedom it I 1 procured red them for or you yes was waa the answer had brought s barrel of g novt ts s having heard of the dinner alie e d deed ed of 0 freedom was ly signed took his place among the guests and his descendants art are not only the B bankers in russia but were ennobled about a quarter of 0 a 0 century ago london I 1 II 11 just abed news newa THE MOTTO EVADED what pretty illuminated cards exclaimed ono one woman that a one e with tho the motto ll honesty Is 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