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Two roses hung from the selfsame bush.Not a sound the silence stirred ;—

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In glory, to the lovely dead?—Is Paradise far aw ay?”

A wandering gleam of a bright sunbeam Paused for a tiny space,

To say, “ Down deep in the poet’s dream Your fragrance has found its place,

“ In what is wrought by the dream er’s thought, To flow from his golden pen,

To do what the poet knoweth not.Tn the hearts of other men.”

One rose asked the other white rose,“ Where goeth all things fa ir?”

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Im p u lse a n d C h a ra c te r.................................. 1066H o w to l iv e a S u c ce s s f u l L ife....................................................... ................... 1067T he H u m an S e a — A C o m p a r is o n........................................................... 1068A P ract ica l S c ie n c e................................................................................. ... 1068

C h a n g e s in R e lig io n are S i g n s of P r o g r e s s......... ......................................... 1070W ere Y ou B o rn in the Z o d ia c a l S i g n G em in i ? .................................................. 1072H o ro sc o p e of G e n 'I Geo. W a sh in g t o n.................................................................. IO TA

H o w C a n the P la n e ts In f lu e n ce E a rth and It s In h a b it a n t s ?............................. 1075The C h e m istry of G e m in i................................. ............................................. .. 1076A re Text B o o k s R e l i a b le ? . . ^................................................................................. 1077The O utlook for Ju ne................ 1079

M is c e l la n e o u s C o n tr ib u t io n s................................................................................. 1080P sy ch ic R e se a rch ................................................................................................. 1085

A rt ic le s N o t M a rke d , Ed ito r ia ls.

E d i t o r i a l D e p a r t m e n t

Impulse and Character.Speaking of th e im pulses of the

mind, it m ay seem tr ite to s ta te th a t they form an index to character, and y e t it is a profitable subject to call to th e a tten tio n of s tuden ts of psy­chology.

An im pulse often crystallizes, into one action, in an in s tan t of tim e, the keynote of the w hole character.

For example, a man of common ap ­pearance, undem onstra tive in m anner, of regu lar m ovem ents and im passive featu res, perhaps a daily plodder, un ­in te re stin g to his fellows because not. of a d istinctive type, suddenly faces a calam ity which im perils the life and property of some of h is fellows, and, like a m eteor flash, an im pulse dom­ina tes the quiet mind and plodding figure and he becom es a saver of hu­man life.

The keynote of h is ch a rac te r w as s tru ck w ithout a m om ent’s w arning and the la ten t heroism which had been developing through all of his ex­istence crystallized into action. That m an, we say, was m ade of “ the stuff of which heroes a re m ade."

W here had he accum ulated that substance, we a sk ? In th a t plodding daily routine? In the env ironm ent of com m onality te rm ed u n in teresting and uninspiring? D uring h is prenatal life in response to a m o ther’s a sp ira ­tion th a t s tren g th and love should be liis heritage? At his m other's b reast through v ib ra tions of loving sacrifice o r a t h e r knee from the arom a of ta les of heroic deeds?

Som ew here in th e m ysterious econ­omy of life the m an of u n in teresting appearance a ttra c te d to h is being the spark which Hashed forth into rad ian t beauty in tim e of need.

Note the im pulses of the mind as it

con tac ts varied experiences of social and business life. Are they im pulses to aid o th ers or to g a ther fo r self o r self-aggrandizem ent? Do they rush forth in condem nation and suspicion, or do they pour the ano in tin g oil of pity and the balm of ju s tice upon the lives of associates?

T here are very few in te llig en t peo­ple who would no t choose to be dom­inated. alw ays, by the im pulses th a t construct, heal, she lte r, su s ta in ; th e im pulses th a t a re above jealousy, envy, suspicion, a re pure, noble and heroic.

I t is en tirely possible to cu ltiva te a ch a rac te r th a t shall harbo r only the desirab le tra its . I t is to b e reg re tted th a t th is possibility h as so long been deemed a herculean task, involving much suffering of both body and mind: in 'a vague bu t dreadful sense.

This is m isconception not trace­able to any tru th of n a tu re , but to the crude and b ru tal ideas of unde­veloped m inds th a t have dom inated religious thought for cen tu ries.

Religion is a science, not, how ever, alone of the soul and its fu tu re en­vironm ent, but of bodily h ealth and w elfare. T hrough sim ple, scientific m ethods the body and soul m ay de­velop in unison, c rea tin g n a tu ra lly , as th inking, eating , w alking, an au ra th a t will re ta in only pu rity of desire and noble purpose.

T he inevitable resu lt of th e science, sincerely and r igh tly applied, is im ­proved health , happ ier and m ore suc­cessful conditions.

To have experienced, even for a fleeting m om ent, th e g re a te r life ; to have briefly cu t ad rift from our m oor­ings in the world of sen sa tio n ; to have gazed or a ttem pted to gaze on th e ineffable m ystery of o n e’s own

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n a tu re ; to be so n ea r th e door of know ledge th a t life itse lf is a suffi­cient p rep ara tio n for en tran ce ; th is belongs to th e pow erful organism s th a t a re capab le of enjoying the h igh­e s t and m ost in tense p leasure, but these, too, a re they whom pain visits and perform s its m ysterious service. They suffer m ost as they enjoy the most. P a in and suffering in a m ea­su re specify th e ir consciousness, and at la s t com pel th e ir n a tu res to a s se r t th e ir inn er v ita lity and pass over the d ividing lin e into a plane of peace.— S c ie n c e a n d K e y o f L i fe .

How to Live a Successful Life.C ease a ll fre ttin g and fea r about

th e fu ture. Compose your m ind to a calm d esire to live a successful life. Reflect upon w hat th a t m eans. It m eans H ealth , W ealth , W isdom, and Love. T ry to realize m entally each of these a ttr ib u te s , and then open your being to th e ir m anifestation w ith in you. B reathe deep several tim es before falling asleep at. night, and m enta lly say, “I open my being to th e m an ifesta tio n of Godlike H ealth , W isdom and A bundance.” B reathe deep inhala tions before p ar­tak ing of food, for it will build your body to th e purpose of your life— success.

W hen you are confronted with days of indecision as to w hich course to pursue, re lax all care and anxiety about the m atter, tak e som e deep b rea th s and say. “ Holy sp irit, m yste­rious, a ll-pervading and m ighty, guide m e a rig h t.” T hen calm ly go about your daily duties and you will be guided to m ake the b e tte r choice ju s t a s su re ly as the tides rise and the ra in falls o r the h arv ests ripen. This is an o ccu lt law tau g h t by ancien t ad ep ts and then by Je su s of N azareth, the g re a t m ystic who said, “Do all th ings to th e glory of your F a th e r in heaven .” T h is holy man] was no t only a relig ious teacher bu t a ‘p ractical sc ien tis t. He dem onstra ted law ju s t as has th e physicu ltu rist, the e lec tri­

cian o r th e m echanical engineer.A law ex ists—a m ajes tic occult law

as m ighty a s the su rg in g tide of life i ts e lf ; as powerful a s the law of grav­ita tion w hich holds the c rea tu res of the ea rth upon its su rface, and i t is th is:

A s a m a n t h i n k e t h in h is h e a r t so is he .

D edicate your m ind and soul to tru e success, tru s tin g im plicitly th a t you will achieve your purpose. In­hale deep m any tim es each day of H ealth , W isdom and A bundance, and they will m anifest them selves in your life as n a tu ra lly as the rose unfolds to beau ty and frag rance , as surely as vapor a r ise s from w a te r w hen it reaches the boiling point; for we are all c rea tu res of law, the rose, the w ater, the hum an being, and through e te rn a l law s a re all re su lts achieved.

Dr. Clark’s Tribute to Stead.U nder the title , “An A ppreciation.”

Rev. F rancis E. C lark, D.D., fa th er of the C hristian E ndeavor m ovem ent, pays the follow ing tr ib u te to W illiam T. S tead, one of the T itan ic ’s dead:

“T he one hero of th e T itan ic whom l knew som ew hat in tim ately was W illiam T. Stead, th e em inen t Eng­lish au th o r and jo u rn a lis t, and am ong them all th e re was no one who b e tte r deserved the laurel crown of the vic­tor. Mr. S tead w as one of the b rav­es t m en I ever knew.

“ He did not w ait for the suprem e te s t of th e T itan ic to prove h is cour­age. It ha/1 been tes ted a hundred tim es. He had faced the angry mobs and proclaim ed to them unpopular and unpalatab le tru th s . He had stood fast for w hat he believed to be the tru th w hen it involved obloquy and scorn and derision. He had suffered im prisonm ent, and gloried in it. when striv ing to aw aken G reat B rit­ain to the enorm ity of the ‘w hite slave’ traffic.

“H e ta lked as h e w rote, and th a t w as alw ays clearly , en tertain ing ly ,

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convincingly. No one in the lite ra ry world whom 1 knew could w rite such forcible, trenchan t English. He touched no subject which he did uot adorn, and there were few sub jects he did not touch .”— B o s to n T r a n s c r ip t , M a y '/t h .

The Human Sea.A C o m p a r is o n .

On the coasts of Scotland and Nor­way the sea tow ers into g iant b reak­e rs; th e ir powerful v ib rations resound fa r inland, causing the very founda­tions of the earlh to trem ble.

In gulfs and on the shores of m ilder clim es the sam e sea peacefully laps its shores gently singing the hours away.

It is the one com posite body obey­ing the law s under which it moves and has its being. At the sound of the storm trum pet o r the roar of the north wind each drop perform s its part in the mighty activity.

So is hum an existence a vast slum ­bering, heaving, dash ing sea, answ er­ing the grand call of na tu re , the law of evolution.

T here are m ovem ents am ong all na tions and ages of m ankind which a re the g ian t human b reakers whose v ibrations resound far along the shores of eternity.

They cleanse the sands of tim e of musty accum ulations of ignorance: they wash away vu ltu re nes ts of crim e: they overwhelm prow ling pi­ra te cra fts of evil intent, and purify the m ental and m oral a tm osphere, b ringing b e tte r conditions, as do quiet seas of prosperity come a fte r the sto rm s of w ar or the conflicts of re­construction.

T h e A sp ira tion o f th e S ea .

The broader service rendered the ea rth by its w aters is gitfen through its vapors th a t ascend to the sk ies and then descend in luscious life- giving m oisture. This m ovem ent is the asp ira tion of the sea. The soul

of the w ater reaches upward and then falls in beneficence upon the ea rth which it loves. W hat would the ea rth becom e w ithout its dews, i ts show ers, and long periods of m oisture from th e clouds?

Not one-half the mission of the sea is perform ed w ithin its rock and sand bound shores. More fa r reaching and beneficial are its aspirations, although it pa tien tly obeys the law of its lim­itations. bearing burdens, nourishing and she lte rin g th e life in its charge.

T he asp ira tions of the hum an mind ascend to the purer a tm osphere of sp iritual vision, g a thering wisdom and love, w hich then desceuds upon the th irs ty soil of growing hum anity.

Like the sea, while patiently , cheer­fully, actively obeying the physical laws of its Mfe, the mind should reach upward, outw ard, all-where, absorb ing wisdom and power for g rea ter useful­ness. Shall not th e human sea learn a lesson of sa lien t im port from her sis ters, the w aters of the ea rth ?

A Practical Science.T he science of chem istry, also of

m edicine, of * agricu ltu re , of govern­m ent. are universally conceded to be practical sciences, because to the av­erage in telligence they bear directly upon the problem s of hum an ex is t­ence.

A stronom y may be deemed to be a science devoted to a subject rem ote from the requ irem ents of physical life.

It t re a ts of the m agnitude, weight, d istances, com position, motions, etc., of the heavenly bodies, based upon observations m ade with elaborately constructed instrum ents.

A stronom y is a purely objective sci­ence, associated only w ith the form s or bodies.

T here is, how ever, a science so com prehensive and practical th a t it em braces all phases of life and bears d irectly upon Its every detail of ex-

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pression ; a science so accu ra te and abso lu te in its m athem atica l calcu la­tions that it points, as does a hand on the dial of a clock, to each indi­vidual adaptation , to each m ental and physical ch aracteristic , to changes, to dangers, accidents, m arriages, b irth of children, sickness, health and suc­cess.

It indicates, w ith precision, the ris­ing of the tide w hich will bear the individual to success and when to launch his barque upon it, o r of fu­tile a ttem pts a t unpropitious tim es. J u s t as th e re a re p roper tim es for seed-sowing, th a t a h arv est may be reaped, and experience prom pts ac­tion in harm ony with them , so is it prac tica l for hum anity to sow its seeds of endeavor under helpful in­fluences instead of in the u n respon­sive season which tends to failure.

Is it not the p a r t of rational con­

sidera tion to determ ine th e safest, m ost d irec t route by which to take a contem plated journey?

To avoid accidents, discom forts, di­g ressions and delays?

So is it reasonable to determ ine these essen tia ls , so fa r a s it is possi­ble to do, in the more im portan t voy­age o f life.

The science of p lanetary influence affords accu ra te inform ation upon these im portan t subjects. M isdirect­ed energy, is not necessary , for the s ta rs ind icate with unfailing accuracy what a re the lines of best adaptation T endencies to physical d isab ilties are pointed out to be fortified against, and so on through all of life’s prob­lem s th is g rea t science will guide m an’s m ovem ents in to pa th s of the least resis tan ce and into v ibrations th a t tend to uplift and enrich h is ex­istence.

H um anity, crouched questioningly fo r ages before th e Sphinx of its des­tiny, is ge tting its answ er a t last. T h a t daun tless hum an brain, once hav ing defied the awful m ystery so long believed to be th e inviolable se­c re ts of the gods, lias w rested w is­dom s on w isdom s from th e forbidden lore. The w onders of the s ta rs , the secre ts of th e ea rth , the deeps of the se a and th e vau lts of heaven’s own blue— all have been dared and taken. T he ev erlasting puzzle of death, the ev erlasting m ystery of life, both have again and again been assailed , and each has yielded up to m en, t i th e by tith e , new know ledge of th e ir ways.

B ut w hat m an is, w h a t m an should be, have rem ained still the tw o m ute lip s of the Sphinx, although v as t li­b ra rie s are filled w ith f ru its of m an’s bold excursions into th e boundless realm of th e unknow n.

A fter long research , u n rem itting an ­

alysis, wide and varied investigation of the charac te ris tics of num berless fam ilies—fam ous, infam ous and com­m onplace—m odern science is forcing the silen t lips to speak w ords of guidance for the m aking of th e race of th e fu tu re from th e lim itless but hidden lore of th e past.

H eredity , in its re la tion to the in­born, inheritab le tendencies and ca­pacities conferred on child ren—the im portance of w hat has been called “blood” in th e m ingling of fam ily s tra in s— is th e key to th e ir revela­tions. W ith in lim its of reason and fair observation it has become pos­sible for p aren ts to fo recast the color of th e h a ir and eyes, the height and the w eight, th e tem peram ent and ta l­e n ts of th e ir offspring.

And the tim e may no t be so far r e ­moved when paren ts will, choose each o th e r w ith the deliberate design of c rea tin g ch ild ren who shall inherit

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J t f 'the best am ong a ttrib u tes which the hum an race possesses.

W ondering, guessing rightly and guessing wrongly, the world has dim ­ly surm ised, throughout the long, ig­noran t ages, some of the causes for its geniuses, its crim inals, its m usic­ians, its heroes, its a r tis ts , its w eak­lings. It has done its powerful best to mold them all to its w ishes and its needs, and has reproached them often, and itse lf som etim es, because o f 'th e failu res and disappointm ents.

But th a t the effect of the physical,' m ental and m oral qualities in progen­itors, women and men. upon any na­tion—upon th is American nation es­pecially—is incalculable both in ex­te n t and im portance, the re can be no possible doubt. The colonial m others had th e ir powerful influence on the people who a re their descendan ts now; the im m igrant women of th is new cen tu ry are destined to have the ir a ttr ib u te s show in th e race we shall be a hundred years hence.

Is there , then, no germ of genius; is th e re only the germ of m ediocrity? Are we all geniuses, crippled in every th ing except o.ir own vain but correct estim ate of our pow ers by som e m align force which crushes us into the dust of the common highway? Does hum anity need, not tile recipe for genius, but ra th er the cure for dullness, to soar a t once as near to the divine om niscience and om nipo­tence as it is possible for m ortal clay to go? Are we all Adams and Eves, still endowed with the clear-visioned intelligence which wrought its m ar­vels of perception and o rder when Eden was newly made for our delight, but groping blindly under the prim e­val curse of labor, as som ething blinding and- prisoning us w here all wisdom, stren g th and freedom should be ou rs? And shall th e priceless panacea for our inborn ills be found through the religion w hich preserved the ancien t tale, or through the sci­ence which now, for the first tim e, d a re s the dazzling vision of its ex­planation? ^

T he answ er is for the fu tu re; but

none need doubt that, even as th e first p a ren ts braved the curse of the tree of knowledge, as P rom etheus stole the heavenly fires, w hatever the cu rse o r the vulture th a t may im ­pend, m odern science will fight on to the u ltim ate answ er of th a t new, tre ­m endous riddle of its sphinx.—C n- kn o w n .

Changes in Religion Are Signsof Progress.

Rev. Lee McCom.kstkr.Changes in education and medicine

are not signs of failure, but of suc­cess and progress; so the changes in religion a re signs of success and progress.

I urge the w orld’s need of the lib­eral in religion, a s th a t word is used in its la rg er sense, because the lib­eral has been one of God’s goods. The liberal is alw ays the heretic of h is party . L iberals have been called fanatics, here tics, a th e is ts ; a t old Antioch. C h ristians; a t W ittenberg, L u the ran s; a t Cambridge, Puritans; in New England, U niversalists.

C hristian ity s ta rte d w ith a Jew ish liberal, Je su s of N azareth, and w hat a glorious line of libera ls has fol­lowed: Paul, A ugustine, Savnnorolla,L uther, Calvin, Wycliff, Wesley, Mur­ray. Balleau, Channing, Parker, Beecher, Brooks, Hale, Swing and the rest! And. s tran g es t of all s trange things, each has gone pas t the place w here he who went before said 'Stop! ’

Liberals Lead.G reat souls voice the people's un­

re s t; they proclaim the best ideals of the best th inkers. T he work of the liberals has been to lead new m ovem ents.

In the th ird place, I urge the need of the world for the organization of the liberal forces.

Prophets of liberalism have alw ays begun by stand ing alone, though som etim es they w ere driven to stand together for self-protection. Personal danger is now m inimized, bu t the de-

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s ire for efficiency is suprem e. L iber­a ls have beer and alw ays will he com­para tive ly few in num bers because the g rea t danger and w eakness of lib­era ls is th e ir indiv idualism ; their tendency to be men of ju s t one idea. Devotion to a creed m akes the m ass believe in the divinity of the church, but devotion to an idea m akes indi­viduals believe one featu re , how ever good, to be the whole.

H um anity is no t healed, educated, saved by the m asses cam ping in blind credulty around ancien t dog­mas. nor by a few running too far ahead of th e people in a personal de­sire to satisfy som e ex trem e fad. The pow er of vision given to the liberals is given th a t the m any may profit.

Of the many reasons for the o rgan­ization of the religious liberals I would m ention th ree :

“B ecause L iberal C h ristian ity to ­day s ta n d s for a definite philosophy of faith which is com ing to be the philosophy of orthodoxy. Orthodoxy In the m ain still p re sen ts an absen tee Cod, a fallen m an, a v icarious a tone­m ent, a m iraculous conversion. I t is doubtful about th e d iv in ity of all souls and If it does not preach an

everlastin g hell it does not preach an e te rn a l p rogress for all souls.

T he second reason Is a double one. Modern religion needs the d ra in man and the prophet. The church is out­w ardly fair, bu t it has cellars from which come the sulphurous sm ells of decaying dogm as which need to be cas t out and buried far away. But w ith the drain man m ust also be the prophet. To underdra in th e swamp is good—but to know the soil and su it to it the seed is needful to the harvest.

And last, the reason for organ iza­tion is the increase of efficiency both for itse lf and Its power w ith the world. Some ask, “Why does not the liberal church spread faste r; it has the doctrines?" T he reason is th a t it h as not been th e genius of the lib­era l to organize. In trade it is not the inven tor who m akes money, but the m an with the genius to m arket the Invention. Thus it has been with libera ls: they have seen the tru th ,se t it in its re la tions to life and have allow ed all who could to enjoy it. T h is has been a splendid service— and the w ork of the liberal has made religion better.

The Human Grail.V. D. Rowell

I followed rap t am id the m aze of creeds,

I w andered in philosophy's wide realm s.

Nor understood the lu re th a t led me on.

F o r alw ays was my quest unsatisfied,And in strange w onder did I ponder

why.

I had not dream ed pure, w hite souled T ru th to find

In one m ore than the o ther, ye t pur­sued

My search , uncoriscious of th e g rail I sought.

And one day dawned on me the s tran g e new thought,

T h a t creeds and wisdoms a re but foolish things.

T hat h ide the w arm rea lities of soul.'T is n o t philosophy but hum an life,T h a t m a tte rs all. and yet no t hum an

lifeAs one ab s trac t, bu t many th robbing

lives.

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And so I knew th a t I had followed creeds.

• Thought-system s. reason 's ordered paths,

Not that I held them as th ings in them selves.

Nay 1 had followed though I knew it not.

In quest of hum an personalities.T hat I m ight love, and understand,

and loveH earts of my heart, souls of my soul,

ideals w roughtIn the desire of what. I too would be—Hum an ideals, y e t e’en one com rade

heart,B right in perfection th a t I too would

claim ,Whom I m ight worship with a depth

of love

Born of sheer loneliness th a t p ines ap a rt

From common th ings and little ta sk sof life\

W hat of my faith? Religion is to me A th ing of nam e, and so ex ists from

being named.Some" day my longing and desire will

c a l l -Som c day, or near or far, not m ine to

say—Into the paths of my environm ent,A soul m ade perfec t to my soul’s de­

sireT h e pent up w orship of my h e a r t’s

pure faith,To god or goddess of my life’s one

quest,W ill then o ’erflow and rap tu re all be

mine,In having found Divinity a t length.

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Were You Born in the Zodiacal Sign Gemini?

If you w ere born betw een the 20tli of May and the 21st of June , the sun w as in the zodiacal sign Gemini, and you will recognize som e of the fol­lowing dom inating ch arac te ris tics as your own, although the sign rising and the influences of p lanets in your ch a rt would modify them som ew hat.

T he sun in Gemini, o r T hird house, stren g th en s the in te llec t and inclines the native to the pu rsu it of lite ra tu re , science or a r t and to follow some occupation connected w ith these. It favors educational, secre ta ria l and clerical work, w ritings, docum ents, le tte rs, lite ra ry work of a sh o rt o r ephem eral kind, such as in m aga­

zines, new spapers, m eans of tran sit, th e postoflice, etc.

Gemini is a fairly strong sign, giv­ing length of form and ac tive body. They a re restless and unsettled , ever on the move, often w ith two th ings in hand a t the sam e tim e; hence they becom e bothered and w orried and b ring upon them selves nervous dis­eases and troub les arising from dis­ordered blood.

They are dual, and th e ir true na­tu re a s se rts itself, causing them to suffer in mind and body a t th e sam e tim e. They a re fre tfu l and peevish a t tim es and tak e on th e troub les of o th ers quite unconsciously.

T heir m edicine is re s t and less ac­tivity . They should striv e to become m ore concen trated and avoid upset-

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tin g the body in try in g to be in two places a t the sam e time.

The mind is versa tile and fond of change, but positive and strong. The native, som ew hat am bitions and a s­piring, may tu rn to public w ork con­nected w ith education, local politics o r public speak ing and lecturing.

He is fond of m oving about, of w alking and of sho rt journeys, p rin ­cipally by land. He finds friends am ong lite ra ry people and o thers sig­nified by Gemini, and may join some se c re t society o r association , the ac­tiv itie s of w hich are those of Gemini.

He may be the most clever or best educated of his fam ily. It gives sev­era l b ro thers and s is te rs . This posi­tion also signifies the b ir th of tw ins and a double m arriage, as Gemini is a double sign.

It is the personality of k indness and benevolence; capable in 'e le g a n t ges­tu re and graceful activ ities. Perhaps no o th er activ ity has as wide a range of choice of activ ity as th is sign. T h is m enta lity is the m entality of elegance of habit, ju s t as P isces is the m entality of elegance of ta s te in appointm ent.

The Gemini n a tu re is generally for­tu n a te in its m arriage choice, its Chord being A ries o r its response Li­bra—in o th e r words, a harm onious m arriage of the Gemini person would be. w ith one born from March 21st to April 19th, o r betw een Sep tem ber 23d and O ctober 22d.

Gemini is an a iry sign, and those born under a iry signs, e ith er by the rising sign or by hav ing th e m ajority of the p lanets in airy signs, requ ire abundance of fresh a ir and a rtis tic surroundings, as they a re essen tially refined in natu re. T he h igher the tone of th e ir m ental conditions, the b e tte r will th e ir health be. They should associa te them selves w ith cheerfu lness, b righ tness and hope.

It is quite essen tia l for them to change the m ental v ib ra tions when d ep ressed or before becom ing w ear­ied or depressed . W ith them the a r ­tis tic and beau tifu l will alw ays act

as a tonic, and before tak ing drugs into the system , they should take care to have the mind in order.

L iving as they do in th e ir m ental o r mind-body, they should m ake re­finem ent and harm onious surround­ings th e ir first care.

We suggest to our read ers th a t they take a range of th e ir friends and acquain tances born betw een the 20th of May and the 21st of June and see if the above does no t describe th e ir ch a rac te ris tic s in the main.

Suns of Night.C h a r l e s N kvers H o l m e s .

Like diam onds spark ling c lea r and b righ t

Amid som e ebon Dome,At tw iligh t wake the Suns of N ight

And shine w here’er we roam ; W here’e r we roam, w here’e r we be On foreign strand or foreign sea.

Some spark le with a g rea te r light.Some tw ink le with dim rays,

Some beam like beacons clear and white,

Or burn with ruddy blaze;But all seem like unsleeping eyes Of d ivers so rts and divers size.

And all are k ings am id the n ight.Yet each king re igns alone

O’e r silence, space and sa tellite .Upon his flaming th rone;

O’e r silence, space and sa te llite Until K ing Sol re tu rn s to sight.

The Happy Way.O r ia n a .

T he way is bright, the way is sw eet, The way is p leasan t to our feet,If we bu t drop our need less load And ever choose the sunny road.

To seek th e tru th —th is is the way To e n te r life 's e ternal day.To seek th e good in every form. Brings the rose w ithou t the thorn.

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Horoscope of Genera] George Washington.

G eneral George W ashington came into m orta l existence on the twenty- second day of F ebruary , 1732, in V ir­ginia, a t 10 a.:n.

A t th is time w e find the twenty- fourth degree and thirty-fifth m inute of T auru s was on th e ascen d an t: th e n ineteen th deg ree of Gemini on the second c u b p ; the eleven th degree of C ancer on the 3rd cusp: , th e th ird degree of Aries on the ^twelfth cusp; the tw enty-sixth degree of Aquarius on th e eleventh cusp and about seven m inu tes of Aquarius on the ten th cusp.

W e find P isces in tercep ted in the eleven th house and th e degrees of th e opposite signs on the opposite cusps. T he sun was in th ree degrees and tw elve m inutes of P isces in the eleventh house; th e moon w as in the

fou rteen th degree and th irtee n th m in­u te of C apricorn in the n in th house; Venus was in the tw enty-ninth degree and th irtee n th m inute of P isces; S aturn w as in th e th ird degree and firs t m inute of A ries In th e tw elfth house; U ran ia w as in th e te n th de­gree and fourth m inu te of S ag itta riu s in th e seven th house: M ars w as intile sixth house, n e a r the cusp of th e seven th house in th e tw enty-third de­gree and eleven th m inute of Scorpio. This position is quite significant. Ju ­p ite r is in the e ig h t degree and sev­enth m inu te of L ib ra in th e s ix th house. W e find the Bull's N orth H orn, of th e n a tu re of M ars, n ea r th e sec­ond cusp; S irius, of the n a tu re of Ju p ite r n ea r the th ird cusp; Ana- ta res, of th e n a tu re of M ercury and M ars to g e th er n ea r U rania in the seven th house. T hese are th e p rinci­pal fixed s ta rs th a t w ere posited prom ­inently.

In analyzing th e na ta l figure of Geo.

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W ashington, we find M ercury domi­nan t in this c h a rt in the ten th house, in trin e to Ju p ite r and in sextile to S aturn and U rania. T his would sig­nify literary , m athem atical, linguistic and orato rical ability .

M ercury sex tile to S atu rn gives p re­cision, caution, and w ariness; and M ercury 3ex tile to U ranus, added o rig ina lity of thought and im pres­sions; also an ingenious mind.

The conjunction of Venus and S a t­u rn gave im agination, sensuousness, finesse, and diplom acy; while Venus tr in e to Mars would produce am bi­tion, and love of public approbation.

The sun and Venus placed in the eleven th house p o rtray m any pow er­ful friends. Much good fo rtune and m any fine qualities would be produced from M ercury tr in e to Jup iter, m ak­ing him m ethodical, quick to tak e ad­vantage. A strong love of ju stice is also signified by th is aspect.

U ran ia in the seventh, and M ars n ea r the cusp, ind icated m any oppo­nen ts , tho Venus, the ru le r w ith the sun in the house of friends, proves m ore potent. He would not be par­ticu larly successful in his dealings w ith the opposite sex.

V enus in conjunction w ith S atu rn show s many se c re t foes and d isagree­able rum ors. It is noticeable th a t the sun, tho within orbs of a q u artile as­pect to Mars in th e Zodiac, is in m un­dane trin e to Mars.

M ars is strong ly posited in the house of w ar in Scorpio, h is own sign, tho it is significent th a t he has ju s t sunk below the m eridian. I t is co incident th a t the native, while gain­ing m uch honor in battle* rea lly lost m ore b attles th an he gained. By not­ing the m ovem ents of th e p lan e ts we find th a t when the sun progressed to th e square of U ran ia in the Radix in 1743, h is father passed from th e m or­tal. T he sun ru les th e fourth , the house of the fa ther, and w hen the sun had progressed to th e tr in e of M ars radical place, a t the age df n ineteen , he firs t cam e in to public honors, the lum anaries also being sex­

tile to the moon. When the sun had progressed on to Venus place a t the age of 27, 1759, he m arried a widow. T h is is signified by V enus with S at­urn.

He left the m ortal D ecem ber 14th, 1799, U rania opposing the suns rad i­cal place, and sun in opposition to M ars in T aurus ruling the throat.

H ow Can the Planets Influence E arth and Its Inhabitants?

Dr. George W. Carey, P rofessor of Biochemistry.

No person of sufficient intelligence and education to he called a sc ien tis t will for a m om ent question the fact th a t p lanets ac t and in te ra c t upon each other. T he trouble seem s to be w ith the critic of p lanetary influences th a t he alw ays leaves E a rth ou t of h is ’S orry Schem e of T hings.” The superficial th in k er is apparen tly un­aw are of the fact th a t E a rth is one of the "H eavenly P lanets” and th a t it is up in the heavens, m oving in its appointed orbit, the sam e as o th er orbs th a t sw ing across th e g re a t Dial of Cosmic Expression. E a rth is not "Down h e re ”— it is up there.

If p lan e ts in any m anner affect each o ther, E a rth feels th e ir influence ju s t as they feel E arth 's influence, for E arth is one of the cogs in th e Cos­mic Machine.

Phys ica l Law th e Basis .How do p lanets influence one an­

o ther? On exactly the sam e p rinci­ple th a t the different w heels or sha fts in a m achine affect each o ther, nam e­ly; by the belts or o th e r m ateria l connection betw een them .

Man nev er invented any th ing ; he only b rings in to physical m anifesta­tion p roto types and se ts in operation, by h is sk ill and cunning, forces th a t a re e te rn a l and therefore uncreated . Man d irec ts force.

E m erson’s "H itch your wagon ,to a s ta r ,’' and the slang p h rase "catch on” a re alike scientific. T hey also

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indicate com ing events, for sc ien tis ts everyw here ag ree th a t noth ing can be created, noth ing destroyed.

Things can be form ed from self- ex isting substance, energy, sp irit or essence, and these th ings can again be reduced to th e ir original consist­ency, and th is is th e end of the m at­ter. W ho will d ispu te th a t Sun and Moon affect E a rth life? All celestial or te rre s tia l phenom ena a re caused by the m ovem ent of heavenly bodies, and E arth is one of these p lanets.

M an’s body is a bundle of e lectrical cu rre n ts focused a t a cen ter. A N u­cleus of m ineral sa lts ; some carbon and o th er v ib rations called m olecules, atom s, electrons, etc., form th e P etra o r foundation upon which certa in ra tes of m otion chisel forms, even as a scu lp tor carves the s ta tu e from m ar­ble-.

T h e Chemistry of Gemini— M ay 20th to June 21st.

By Dr. George W. Carey.One of the chief charac te ris tics of

th e Gemini N ative is expression. T he cell-salt kali m uriaticum (potassium chloride) is the m ineral w orker of blood th a t form s fibrine and properly diffuses it th roughout the tissues of the body.

This sa lt m ust not be confused w ith the chlorate of potash, a poi­son (chem ical formula* K C I 0 3 ) .

The fo rm ula of the chloride of potassium (kali m ur.) is K Cl.

Kali mur. m olecules a re th e p rin ­cipal agen ts used in the chem istry of life to build fibrine in to the hu­m an organism . The skin th a t covers the face contains the lines and an ­gles th a t give expression and thus differentiate one person from an ­o th er; therefo re the m aker of fibrine has been designated as the b irth salt of the Gemini native.

In venous blood fibrine am ounts to th ree in one thousand p a rts when th e m olecules of kali mur. fall below th e stan d ard —th e blood fibrin© th ick ­ens, causing w hat is known as pleu­

risy, pneum onia, ca ta rrh , d iphtheria , etc. W hen the circulation fails to throw out the th ickened fibrine via th e glands o r m ucus m em brane it may. stop the action of the heart. Em bolus is a L atin word m eaning little lump, or balls; therefore, to die of em bolus, or ‘‘h e a rt fa ilu re ,” gen­erally m eans th a t the h e a rt 's action was stopped by little lum ps of fibrine clogging the auricles and ven tric les of the heart.

W hen th e blood con tains the p roper am ount of kali mur. fibrine is functional and the sym ptom s re fe r­red to above do not m anifest.

Gemini m eans tw ins. T h is sign was rising when the D eclaration of Independence w as being signed. The a s tra l colors of Gemini a re red, white and blue, while those who m ade our first flag and chose the colors, per­sonally knew noth ing of astrology. Yet the Cosmic law worked its will to give A m erica the “red, w hite and blue.”

M ercury is the governing p lanet of Gemini. T he gem s are beryl, aqua­m arine and dark blue stones. In bible alchem y Gemini rep resen ts Issachar, the n in th Son of Jacob (the word Jacob is from a H ebrew word m eaning circle; so it would appear th a t the sons of Jacob a re the 12 zodiacal signs, o r suns), and m eans price, rew ard or recom pense. In New T estam en t sym bolism Ju d a s is the Gemini disciple. Jud as m eans serv ice or necessity . T he perverted ideas of an ignoran t and g rafting priesthood covered Ju d a s w ith . in ­famy, but in th e now daw ning A quar­ian Age th e beautiful sym bol will be understood and Judas will be loved as the “ch iefest am ong ten thousand and a lto g e th er lovely.”

To stop sh o rt in any research th a t bids fair to w iden the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of dif­ficulty or adverse critic ism , is to bring reproach on science.—S ir W il l ­ia m C ro o k e s . a

Are Text Books Reliable?STU A R T ARMOUR

PA PER 3.

Before proceeding fu rth e r I w ant to m ake a few rem ark s on the horo­scope of M axim ilian’s widow, the ex- E m press C harlo tte of Mexico, who has spen t years in confinem ent a hopeless lunatic, a s it offers an ex­cellen t exam ple from an astrological s tan d p o in t of m ental derangem ent and incarceration .

T he cusps and p lanetary positions a re as follow s: M. C. 1° C apricorn; 11th house 20° C apricorn; Aset. 2° 32' A ries: 2nd house 19° T au ru s; 3rd house 13° Gem ini; N eptune 14° 40' A quarius; U ranus 20° 1G' P isces; S atu rn 18° 37'R S ag itta riu s ; Ju p ite r 10° 9'R Scorpio; M ars 8° T Gemini; Sun 10° 15' Gem ini; Venus 3° 7' Gem ini; M ercury 11° 30' Gemini;Moon 1G° 5' Virgo; a t the tim e of h e r birth- 1 a. m.. June 7th, 1840, B russels.

On se ttin g up th is m ap the severe afflictions of the m ental ru le rs will a t once be noticed, Moon opposition U ranus, Moon opposition Saturn , Moon square M ercury, Moon square Mars. Moon square Sun, M ercury opposi­tion S atu rn and conjunction Mars. All of these afflictions from com­mon signs sufficiently account for the m ental breakdow n a n d xU ranus in th e 12th so badly afflicted with Nep­tune alm ost exactly on cusp of 12 th house, show s the bodily r e s tra in t she has been under fo r years.

In the case of Leopold. I rem arked on th e fac t of h is trouble w ith his child ren ow ing to th e affliction of his 5th and 11th houses, and th is theory is fu rth e r supported by the fac t th a t F rancis Joseph, E m peror of A ustria, has U ranus on the cusp of h is 5th house and S aturn , Moon and Sun in conjunction in the 1 1 th house, indi­

ca ting the loss of his only son under very unsual and trag ic circum stances. This is the prince who m arried Ste­phanie, dau g h te r of Leopold.

On January 30th, 1889, “the world w as s ta rtled by the sudden death of A rchduke Rudolph of H apsburg, the heir-apparen t to the th rone of Aus­tria . T he first public news of the even t cam e in a despatch published in the offleial gazette of V ienna on Ja n u a ry 31: His Royal and Im perialH ighness, Crown P rince A rchduke Rudolph, died y esterday a t h is hu n t­ing lodge of M ayerling. n ea r Baden, from th e ru p tu re of an aneurism of the h ea rt.’ Foreign correspondents made a rush for M ayerling. Through th e ir en te rp rise it was soon learned th a t the A rchduke's m istress, B aron­ess M arie V etsera , w as im plicated in the death of the A rchduke. H er body was found to g e th er w ith th a t of the Crown Prince. To the p resen t day the m ystery su rrounding R udolph’s death has no t been quite c leared up. A note w hich he sen t to h is friend, the Duke of Braganza, clearly sug­gested suicide. I t w as scraw led on a sc rap of paper, evidently in a g rea t h u rry : 'D ear F riend—I m ust die. In honor I can do nothing else. Good- by, the blessing of God be w ith you. R udolph.’ For the sake of ob tain ing a C hristian burial for the dead prince, the house of H apsburg em phatically repudiated the theory of suicide. Yet a special d ispensation had to be ob­tained from H is H oliness th e Pope.

T he re la tives of B aroness V etsera w ere not equally fo rtunate . From the condition in which P rince Rudolph’s body w as found, it appeared on the o th er hand th a t he had been beaten to death before he w as shot. Suspi­cion was aroused against Baroness

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V etsera’s cousin.” (A H istory of the N ineteenth Century.)

T he A ustrian em peror has M ars in the 7th house, sta tionary , which pre­signifies very powerful rivals and en­em ies, and the tragic fate of h is em­press, E lizabeth, who was a ssassin ­ated a t Genoa on Septem ber 10th. 1S98, by Lucchesi. It has also been rum ored th a t the royal pa ir did not ge t along over well together. The presen t Zadkiel (Pearce) has th is to say of the em peror: "Although thenativ ity is not a fo rtunate one, and A ustria was tw ice defeated in w ar— in 1859 and -1S6G—losing a g re a t p art of her te rrito ry in the early years of the reign of F rancis Joseph, the m id­dle and la tte r p a rts of his reign have been m ore advantageous, as presig­nified by the presence of the benefic V enus in the 10th and the g rea te r benefic Ju p ite r in the 4th house of the royal nativity . He ascended the th rone a t the early age of 18, in th a t storm y revolutionary year 1848; and, despite th e unparalleled se ries of m isfortunes experienced in the loss of a large portion of Italy in 1859, and the loss of the lordship of the German S tates, which had been the heirloom of the house of H apsburg for centuries, in 18045. the em peror has enjoyed the affection and confi­dence of h is subjects. S taunch in m oral and physical courage, he has shown no revengeful spirit and has never attem pted the reconquest of his lost te rrito ry , and has displaved such sagacity and so profound a love of peace th a t he com m ands the re ­spect and confidence of the whole of Europe.” ' The recen t annexation of Bosnia and H erzegovina in 1908 to the A ustrian ru le show ! the influence of Ju p ite r in the 4th becoming stro n g er in old age under good d irec­tions. P a r t of the praise ju s t quoted is due, no doubt, to the fact that he m u st be a m an of good judgm ent, as he has M ercury trin e to Jup iter, and one instance of th a t was when he tried to d issuade Maximilian from the Mexican en terprise . However, since

he broke the Berlin trea ty , it may be noticed th a t th e English astro logers clo not sound his p ra ises quite so loudly!

T h excusps and p lanetary positions for F rancis Joseph a re as follows: M. O. 1° 47' C ancer: 11th house 7°Leo; 12th house 7° Virgo; Aset. 1° 25' ^Aries; 2nd house 2G° L ibra; 3rd house 2G° Scorpio; N eptune 20° 43'R C apricorn; U ranus 7° 48'R A quarius; S atu rn 22° 8' Leo: Ju p ite r 8° 25'R C apricorn: M ars 2° 2' S tat. A ries; Sun 24" 47' Leo; Venus 23° 50' Can­cer; M ercury 7° 44' V irgo: Moon 22° 29' Leo. W hile the positions for Ru­dolph a re : M. C. 1° 23' A quarius; 11th house 2G° A quarius; 12th house 5° A ries; Aset. 0° 8' Gem ini; 2nd house 24° Gem ini: 3rd house 14° C ancer: N eptune 24° 13' P isces; U ranus 3° 23' G em ini; S aturn 5° 28' Leo; Jup i­te r 17" 52' Gem ini; M ars 4° 29' Sag­itta riu s ; Sun 28° 27' Leo; Venus 10° 41' L ibra; M ercury 25° 32' Virgo; Moon 27° 42' C apricorn. Both these men were born a t Vienna, the fa th er August 18th, 1830, a t 8:23 a. m., and the son August 21, 1858, a t 10:15 p. m. N eptune was nearly sta tio n ary on the A scendant by tra n s it in th e ch a rt of Rudolph a t the tim e of the tragedy.

W hen we come to exam ine the ’chart of the Crown Prince we find th a t though he had no p lanet in the 8th house, still he had the aspect of M ercury in opposition to Neptune, both nearly exactly square to the cusp of the 8th , probably indicating the m ysterious and scandalous n atu re of th e event. However, he had U ra ­nus ju st rising in Gemini in opposi­tion to M ars in his 7th, and h is m ar­riage w ith S tephan ie w as notoriously unhappy, and as these p lanets both af­flicted th e Sun, they offer an ex­p lanation of the suicide or m urder, w hichever it was. H is disgraceful end fu rth er su b s tan tia te s Dr. Gar­n e tt’s ru le in regard to opposition of S aturn to M. C., for he had Moon in opposition to Saturn , w ith la tte r close to cusp of 4th house. H is afflicted Sun in Leo in 5th house would

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probably presignify h is am ours, espe­c ia lly -a s M ercury was in sam e house in opposition to N eptune in 11th and perhaps the square of M ercury to th e 8th from the 5th, and the p res­en ce of the afflicted Sun th ere would ind ica te the kind of place he m et his end—the hunting lodge—a place of recreation , com ing u nder the dom in­ion of the 5th house.

It is w ith reg re t th a t I now take leave of the House of H apsburg, for it offers many fine exam ples of the tru th of astrology, and from a sc ien­tific stan d p o in t the m any traged ies

of th is fam ily m ake it one of the m o3t in te restin g studies. So fa r as we have gone we have two strong ex­am ples—Maximilian and Rudolph— th a t S aturn close to cusp of 4th is a very unfortunate position, especially if Moon and M ercury a re also afflict­ed, even if S aturn is fairly well as- pected in o ther respects. In subse­quent papers 1 will follow up the ex­am ination of th e 4th house, as well as the Stli and 12th houses, and such o th e r poin ts as m ay be deem ed s tr ik ­ing in any horoscope under exam ina­tion.

T he Outlook for June, 1912.By F rederick W hite, Sec. of the

N ational A strological A ssociation, E d ito r of T he Adept, C rys­

tal Bay, Minn.T he m onth com es in under the full

of the Moon which is form ed on the 3oth of May at 5:20 p. m., Chicago S tandard tim e. T he New Moon oc­cu rs on the 15th of Ju n e at 12:23 a. m., S tandard tim e. A t the tim e of the Full of the Moon, the Sun is in opposition to Ju p ite r, a s tro n g aspect, but Ju p ite r being re tro g rad e is not a t its bes t; however, S aturn is com­ing to a very good aspect of U ranus and Venus applying to a sextile of Mars, and M ars app ly ing to a good a sp ec t of Ju p ite r. T h is se ries of good aspects favors business in gen­e ra l, and is a good indication o f in­creased ac tiv ity for th is tim e of the year. I shall expect considerable confidence am ong th e business classes, considerab le new invest­m ent of money, and an inclination to bo ex trav ag an t and care less of ex­pense. T h ere will be m ore ac tiv ity th an usual to th e stock and cereal m arkets, considerab le s tren g th off a n d on, although sub jec t to th e usual reverses from day to day. Those who specu la te should tak e th e long

side on all declines in p reference to the . sh o rt side on advances a s the m arkets will be seek ing a h igher level, especially the cereal m arkets. The crops will be fair, but sm all acreage.

T he w eather should be slightly m ore windy than usual w ith consid­erab le north wind, m aking the tem ­p era tu re below norm al for th is tim e of th e year, a lthough th e m onth as a whole will be th e usual June w eather.

T he general asp ec ts betw een the m any p lanets favors a little b e tte r health th an usual;, good aspects gen­erally cause a harm onious condition and harm ony conduces to good health . The m onth is not an espe­cially good one for m aking invest­m ents, o r for s ta r tin g new lines of business for the average person.

T he political outlook is quite un­certa in . At the tim e of the N ational Convention, the Sun will no t be closely aspected except to M ars and th is by a sem i-square, a sligh tly un­favorable aspect. M ars is close to the rad ical Moon of P residen t Taft, and M ars strongly aspected to Ex- P rp sid en t’s Sun and M ercury, an un­fo rtu n a te and u np leasan t aspect. If Theodore gets th e nom ination he will not receive as large a ro te fo» p residen t as in th e past.

Miscellaneous Contributions

T he M an W ho W as Saved.Madel G jitoiu) Sh in e .

Jona than Dix feared that he had an im m ortal soul. Fifty years he had spent in heaping: up gold. In all th a t tim e he had not troubled him self about h is soul. He w as too busy; so rem ote a m atte r could be attended to later. Oti his fiftieth b irthday it still seem ed to him a rem ote m atter. A man in good health was likely to live a hundred years.

He knew just w hat to do when the tim e cam e. He had already joined the church. Every m an of sense knows th a t joining the church is the first, im portant step, in the estab lish ­ing of a business. And the las t step is being converted, and repen ting of all one's sins. T h a t is the passport th a t ca rrie s a man from th is world into the next. Rut he had his m is­givings; would th is passport be hon­ored in th a t next world? It w as all r igh t for th is world, and beside that, he could leave a memorial window, and be fo rever after lauded and hon­ored. T he m in ister would assure him th a t he was saved—but would he be?

So the m atte r stood until one fa te­ful m orning when he slipped on the way to h is office, and was laid up with a sprained ankle. Even then the m atte r he had kept in the background for so many years seem ed too far away to consider. He triSd to have every m inute of each day filled with some diversion, so th a t there would be no tim e for obtrusive thoughts. Rut there w ere the n ights, when he had to try to sleep and failed. And he was afra id of drugs. If he had not been, he could have resorted to d rugs to keep him asleep. He knew th a t d rugs destroyed the body, and he was for health .

H e'-saw business men all around him going down. He took note of them : w orry and abuses. T h a t was w hat he saw. He would have none of them ; he w anted to live, not ex is t in torm ent. And he abjured w orry; i t was too deadly to be en terta ined . He had provided well for h im self as far as th is world was concerned, bu t now in the silent n igh t w atches it w as borne in upon him th a t none of these th ings would count when he had crossed the th resho ld of the next.

T here was a ce rta in tim e in th e h istory of certa in questions in h is life, V h en he consented to consider them ; th a t tim e was when they re­fused to be downed. So th is ghost of the n ight haun ted him until he gave heed to it, and se t h is mind to work­ing on it. To be rig h t w ith man is no w arra n t th a t you a re r ig h t w ith God. ’It's no use,” he m uttered , "I m ust begin to live righ t as well as to appear to live r ig h t.”

H aving reached th is stage, b usiness was a t an end; th ere w as no plea­sure in it with th e fight and diplo­macy taken o u t of it. If he could not take advantage, if he could not overreach, if he could not out-run and over-top h is com petitors, w hat was the use? B usiness m inus these firew orks w as flat and s ta le ; dead.

H aving accum ulated much m ore than ho could use, he w as in it for the game. He had played it so long he had fo rgo tten every other. Now, he began to look about him and try to recall som ething of o th e r games. He had about m ade tip his mind to close h is office and to travel, when he saw, one day, s tand ing on h is thresho ld , a ce rta in young m an whom he had tu rned ou t m ore than once. “I said I would nev er come here again to beg for a chance ,” h e

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began, ’ but som eth ing urged me b e re as I was passing by. I am su re you will not be less happy when you get to the nex t w orld for having given one poor devil a chance in th is.”

Jo n a th an Dix gave a s ta rtled glance a t the young m an, h is rem ark w as so pat. His adven t was like th e ap­pearing of h is em bodied conscience.

‘‘It is the psychological m om ent.” he replied, “come in.”

O utw ardly calm , but inw ardly as­tounded, the young m an en tered the office and took th e se a t pointed out to him ; the coveted sea t he had w aited for so long.

"I am going to give you a chance .” said Jon a th an Dix. “I told you tha t I had to m ake my own chances and every o th e r young man could do the same. Well, you have been m aking your chance ever since. You have stuck to your job, and you have stuck to th e business of g e ttin g a b e tte r one. I know a fellow who neglected h is Job and got kicked out. and has been loafing six m onths. H e's been here ; he th inks I ought to give him a chance. No, no thanks. I—”

He had been about to tell the young man th a t it was no t on ac­cou n t of any in te re s t in him th a t he had adm itted him in to his office, but he thought b e tte r of it. H is shrew d b rain alw ays w arned him ag a in s t a t­tem pted indiscretions. He kep t on from th a t day, doing righ t for th e sa lvation of h is soul, and he thought h is w hole duty w as done.

S itting by h is fire one evening, w atching th e flam es m ount upw ard, ce rta in w ords cam e floating into his m ind: "W hat though I give all mysubstance, and give my body to be burned and have not love— ” Itavaile th m e nothing.

He was s ta rtled ; d isconcerted ; ju s t as h e had succeeded In m aking him self thoroughly com fortable, and had laid th a t uneasy gho st—he had supposed, fo r all tim e—back it com es ag a in w ith th a t sam e old leer. ‘‘Your

soul is not saved,” it seem s to say to him.

Long he mused, g rea tly disquieted. An old friend dropped in. “Nixon,” he said. ” 1 w ouldn’t harm any living being, I have helped many to get on in the world, but I h av en 't a spark of in te re s t n them ; beyond my im­m ediate relatives and friends I haven’t an iota of love for any hum an being. Now how is it to be w ith a man like th a t when he gets to th e next world? W e are com m anded to love one another, and it is w ritten , All is vain w ithou t love.' ”

For a m om ent consternation par­alyzed the friend’s tongue, then he hurried ly searched h is mind for a com forting reply. ‘T here are various k inds of love; the re is the personal love fo r re la tives and friends, and the love of doing good to o thers. I should say :h a t a m an who had such a genuinely prac tica l love as you dem onstrate, w as in the best possible condition for in troducing h im self to a h igher world.”

“ You do not quite get my m eaning,” said Jona than . “I do not do any of these things, I do no t help anyone because I lo v e to : I do not love to:I do it because I th in k it is necessary for my soul’s good.”

A fter ano ther perplexing silence, Nixon jum ped up. “Come on hom e w ith m e; my wife has a s is te r th a t will fix you up all right. She will tell you how to m anufacture love in any quan tities you may w ant."

Jona than Dix sharp ly regarded his friend, and he saw th a t he w as n o t Joking. W hen they had tran sfe rred them selves from Dix’s parlo r to N ixon’s, the in troduc tions had been made, and Jo n a th an had presented h is case, the lady said sm ilingly: “It is very sim ple; ju s t drop ou t of your th ink ing program w hat you a re n o t. and concen trate on w hat you w ish to be.”

“Do you m ean to say th a t I can develop love for hum anity in . th a t w ay?”

“C ertainly. It seem s too easy?

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W ell, it is a fact, which is being proved every day by thousands of men and women, th a t concen tration of thought will c rea te any quality you choose. The explanation is, th a t thought c rea tes ; ac tually c rea tes by th is m eans. T his is the backbone of the new Science th a t is covering the earth , and converting the w orld.”

“A g rea t problem is solved,” said Jona th an ; ‘‘I believe I am saved. I see th a t to save yourself d irectly is to lose yourself, and to save o thers is to save yourself.”

Jona than retu rned to h is home, and began th e practice of concentration . For h is firs t sub ject he chose the I^ady. The Lady, in o rder to prove h er theory, was bound to be respon­sive.

But he did not stop there . His first g rea t success fired him w ith am ­bitions laudable, and singly, sever­ally and e n m a ss e , he essayed to en­velop hum anity in the m antle of h is love, un til a t la s t he becam e known as "F a th e r Dix.”

And he owes it all to th e— Lady. No, no t all, ha lf to the Lady, and half to the Effort. Still no; one- th ird to the U rge , one-third to the L a d y . and the o th er th ird to the E f ­fo r t .

A Barrel of Flowers.B y H . F . G r in s te a d .

T he little red section-house had no t so much a s a yard fence around it o r a shrub or flower-bed, bu t the m atron who presided there evidently bad a ta s te for flowers and w as de­term ined t© have them .

A barre l w as filled w ith rich soil and big auger-holes bored in th e b ar­rel a t in tervals of six inches from top to bottom . T he soil on top was sow n to seed of annual flowering p lants, and when the tiny p lan ts were large enough, som e of them were tran sp lan ted to th e holes in the sides of the barre l w here the roots w ere nourished by the soil. Some of these w ere creepers and dw arf clim bers, as

n as tu rtiu m and ivy. The tall-grow ing p lan ts w ere left to grow on top of the barrel. It looked like a huge bouquet w ith its clinging vines and w ealth of bloom. The soil in th e barre l was kep t m oist by the w aste-w ater from the house. W ater w as scarce in th a t fo rsaken spot, but no one e v e r w ashed w ithou t em ptying the basin on the lit­tle flower-garden.

I t is no t necessary to be forced th rough necessity to have your flower garden in a barre l, in o rder to m ake the m ost of it; these barre l gardens a re a th in g of beauty to place in fron t of the window, though you may have beds** of beautifu l flow ers .— F a r m a n d F ir e s id e .

Little Savings.M. ,\r.

For a year o r two we lived n ear som e people th a t w ere In very stra ig h ten ed c ircum stances. W e could nqt help w ondering why they w ere so. for they w ere usually ab le to work, and for years they had all the w ork they could do. Y et when well ad­vanced in life, and th e ir ch ild ren nearly all grown and gone, th ey had no home, and as the saying is, had to live from hand to m outh. T heir pros­pect fo r old age is a sorry one. Should sickness o r acciden t p reven t w orking, even for a sh o rt tim e, th ey would be u tte rly dependen t on the k indness of friends o r neighbors or have to apply to th e county.

K now ing every efTect has a cause, we determ ined to discover if possible, w hy m any w ere in ju s t th a t condi­tion. A fter w atch ing for g re a t ex trav­agances we failed to find them , bu t still fe lt su re th e re w as som e reason for the poverty and did n o t give up the search . W hen m ore in tim ate ly ac­quainted w ith them we d iscovered it was in the little th ings th a t w ent to waste. Scraps of bread w ent, in th e slops, and they had not even a p ig o r chick to feed them to. T he fa t le f t In th e sk ille t a f te r fry ing w as carelessly

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throw n ou t; th e liquor w here m eat w as boiled was w asted Instead of be­ing m ade in to soup o r se t aw ay to r the g rease to com e to the top and then using it for fry ing o r fo r sho rt­ening. Cold m ea ts w ere th row n out th a t could have been m ade in to cro­quettes, stew s or o th e r d ishes for which they could be utilized.

B utter w as left w here the heat spoiled it to save a trip down cellar; cream and m ilk le ft fo r odors to con­tam inate. V egetables w ere left to de­cay instead of being properly cared

for. I.ights burned unnecessarily . F ires w ere prolonged or s ta rted too soon. Soap was left in the w a te r to w aste. Pies, cakes and doughnuts ea ten two or th re e tim es a day and given to the younger child ren any tim e, when plainer, less expensive food would have been m ore whole­some. Brooms w ere jam m ed down into a corner. T hese are all little th ings, ye t a t the end of a y ear th e loss am ounted to hundreds of dollars, and for the w ant of those dollars, no iiome .— W o r d a n d W orts.

A bdul Bahah, Bahaism and Universal Religion.

J . C. F. G kumui.s k .Abdul Bahah is an advocate of uni­

versa l peace and brotherhood, as im ­p o rtan t and card inal doctrines of U niversal Religion. His follow ing are B ahaists, because they believe in his teachings.

Of course, we know th a t belief and profession are one th in g and practice quite ano ther.

The B ahaists d isclaim a unique o r new religion, but, a t the sam e time, they affirm a revela tion su b s tan tia tin g the essen tia ls of all e thn ic religions, so fa r as fundam ental doctrines are concerned.

T he w ords Bahai, B ahaism and Ba­h a is t sound strangely on these shores. T he E nglish-speaking nations will nev er perm it these w ords to be sub ­s titu ted for th e plain term , “U niversal R eligion.” Such w ords a re un- E nglish, un-A m erican and exotics in w estern coun tries and civilizations. W hatever Abdul B aha and the Baha­is ts claim for th e ir nam e, th e ir foun­der and th e ir religion, they m ust drop th e word Bahai, if they w ish th e ir religion to m ake d isc ip les and acquire num bers. T he word has no t th e rig h t sound in th is country, how ever tru e it m ay be in transla tion .

Again, Bahaism is adm itted ly no

M essianic d ispensation , but a p ro test ag a in s t abuses of religion a s well as an em phatic insp iration tow ard the sp iritu a l life and ideal. T here is good in all religions, in all denom ina­tions of all ethnic religions, but how tru e it is th a t th e le tte r kille th while th e sp irit g iveth life. A m ericans have com e to the conclusion th a t th e re is no th ing in relig ion g rea te r o r m ore v ital than conscience and the golden ru le; bu t A m ericans, as all o th er n a ­tions, a re up ag a in s t system s of gov­ernm ent, business and social in stinc ts , h ab its and custom s, w hich se t th e golden ru le a t naught and scorn con­science.

A certa in feature, w hich is no t un­duly em phasized by the P ersian edu­cational society, is the need of P ersia , a t th is very tim e, of our com m ercial and financial assistance . T h a t so­ciety, overshadow ed Abdul B aha’s in­fluence and sp ir it in W ashington, D. C. And w hile Abdul Bahah felt the inev itab le d rift of b e tte r diplom atic re la tionsh ip betw een the two nations, duo to the excellent work done by a recen t Am erican in Persia, and is g ra tefu l for the funds which th is na­tion con tribu tes tow ard the education of P ersian youth, still h is d istinc tive purpose along brotherhood lines is no t so narrow and insu lated as som e m ight suppose. To help a w eaker na tion is as much a te s t of the spir-

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itual life as religious ecstacy. To only ta lk glibly about one’s devotion to Bahaism or a U niversal Religion on th e s tre e t or a t pink teas, m ay be com pared to the fig tree which grew up and flourished but bore no figs.

T here is only a rem ote connection betw een the purchase of a Persian rug under such com m ercial im pulse and practic ing the golden rule. But in any U niversal Religion we m ust acknow ledge the fact th a t m ankind is a brotherhood and th a t we live for all and not for a few or ourselves.

A word, too, to the sp iritua lly n ea r­sigh ted or fanatics who prefer relig­ion to come with the stam p or brand of P ersia or som e o th e r O riental coun­try. T here are m illious right here in A m erica and in the B ritish posses­sions, as well as in all countries of the world, who are living the sp irtua l life and possibly can even sit on the

righ t or left side of Abdul Bahah and shine w ith equal glory and radiance. He adm its this. Do his follow ers do the sam e? T here a re thousands who have come into the wisdom and understand ing of tru th rig h t here in our m idst and from a scientific, philo­sophical and sp iritual standpoin t are in advance of th e B ahaists as- an in­tellectual and illum ined class. Ba­h a is ts have not alw ays kept pace with the ir leaders, nor have they followed the sp irit of Science. In fact, as far a s Dean judge of th e Bahai m ovem ent in th is country, it will no t gain many recru its , while its p ropaganda will not seriously d istu rb ex isting civil and religious in stitu tions. However, as a h in t of w hat is a s t ir in the East, it is a s a ray of the sam e sun w hich is unfolding the life of the W est. W e welcome it in sp irit and in tru th .

Psychic Research

H ow to Develop Mediumship.T h e fo l lo u m ig a r t ic le 9>appeared in

th e M a y is s u e o f th e Stki.i.ar R ay e r ­r o n e o u s ly c r e d i te d to a fo r e ig n e x ­c h a n g e . J t s h o u ld h a v e b ee n E dito r­ia l.

T o th o s e w h o m a y be in t e r e s te d in th e d e v e lo p m e n t o f t h e la t e n t fa c u l t i e s o f m in d a n d c o n s c io u s n e s s th e s e p a r ­a g r a p h s w i l l b ea r r e p e t i t io n a n d t h o u g h t fu l , c a r e fu l r e a d in g s h o u ld p r o v e to be m o s t h e lp fu l to s in c e r e a n d a s p ir in g m in d s .

The faculties of m edium ship are simply sp iritual faculties, and since every individual is a sp irit, it follows th a t every individual possesses facul­ties of medium ship.

To be clairvoyant is to have the sp iritual vision sufficiently developed

to render it availab le to m ortal vis­ion; to be c la iraud ien t is to have the sense of hearing developed so th a t the individual will h ea r in the m ortal as he will hear when he en te rs the sp ir it world; to be im pressionable is to be capable of understand ing thought language, w hich is th e lan­guage of the sp irit. E ach of these faculties is an essen tia l facto r in the o rganization of all individuals, and fu rtherm ore is absolu tely essen tia l to sp iritual grow th. In those individuals who may be pronounced as possessing no m edium istic qualities, they a re sim ply la ten t, and only . tw 'aiting proper conditions to m atu re : b u t they a re there, and m ay be developed to som e degree by in te lligen t education.

Im petuosity , eagerness, im patience and insincerity invariab ly lead to dis-

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appointm ent, as they c rea te m ental and em otional ag ita tion w hich se ri­ously re ta rd s the tru e understand ing of m edium ship. T he proper requi­sites to a successful developm ent are sincerity of purpose w hich constitu tes a sure passport to the in struction of those learned in telligences who are ev er ready to aid e a rn e s t searchers for divine tru th , and tranq u ility of thought w ith concen tra tion of mind upon the object sought. This, in the m ajority of cases, is the m ost difficult lesson the individual has to learn, for the reason th a t in his effort to focus th e thoughts upon the desired object, he unconsciously oversteps the essen tia l point and induces a s ta te of positiveness w hich re ta rd s the efforts of the sp ir it friends o r guides.

In o rd er to develop a negative or recep tive s ta te of being the mind m ust be relaxed and passive, ju s t as before sleep; every m ateria l in te re s t m ust be banished and the thought a l­lowed to rest, dw elling passively on the sub jec t sought. I t m ay requ ire long and p a tien t application in o rder

to render the facu lties of m edium ship responsive, o r on the o th er hand, the grow th m ay be rapid. The resu lt de­pends largely upon the inheren t na­tu re of the individual a s well a s tho env ironm ent in which he pursues th is a tta inm ent.

T he nex t requisite, and m ost im­p o rtan t to keep in mind is, th a t as­piration has m uch to do w ith the na­tu re of th e developm ent. Lofty am ­bitions .are incentives to h igher sp ir­itual unfoldm ent, and a t tra c t superio r in telligences from the sp ir it side of life who will a c t as guides. M erce­nary m otives a ttr a c t selfish sp irits ; vanity o r curiosity a t tra c t frivolous in telligences who will find am usem ent in p laying upon the ignorance and credu lty of the individual. It is im­possible to a tta in to a h igher and m ore perfec t developm ent and become a w orthy in stru m en t through which th e sp ir it world can find expression w ithout rev e ren t sincerity , and the success will be in proportion to the p erseverance and determ ination of the individual.

Nature Works in a Wonderful Way.

.1. C. F. Grumbine.

W hile a t Butte, M ontana, and also In th e Yellow stone Park, ray a tte n ­tion was d raw n to one o r two con­spicuous illu stra tio n s o t w hat in chem istry is des ignated “d isplace­m ent.” C ertain persons in B utte discovered th a t tin cans, horseshoes and any sc rap iron, a f te r lay ing in the copperous w ate r draw n from the copper m ines, turned into a very tine copper, a copper, th e m arket value of w hich proved m ore valuable th an the e igh ty per cen t o re found in the m ines. T he tin and iron w ere com­pletely displaced by th e copper.

I t seem ed to the ig n o ran t a m ira­cle of transm uta tion . In th e Yellow-

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stone P ark a re petrified trees, the age of w hich canno t be com puted, and yet th ese trees once breathed through green leaves, now crysta lised by the slow accretion of the w ater d isp lac ing th e n itrogeneous m atter. N ature w orks in a w onderful way. H er laws, even a s applied to chem i­cal d isp lacem ents, a re h in ts of equally im p o rtan t phenom ena in the sphere of th e soul. T ake away phys­ical o rgan as the ea r o r eye. Bom­bard or pound th e tym panium of the ea r w ith deafening noises and the ea r ceases to reg is te r the finest and m ost sub tle v ibrations, while th e eye forced to look ou t upon darkness, as m ules th a t live and w ork in mines, lose th e ir sight. B ut th is loss is a dead loss un less th e o rgan is dis­placed by an o th e r o r superio r fac­ulty. The sense of s igh t is im paired

108 6 T H E S T E L L A R R A Y .

or useless, if the eye is lost. So It is with the sense of hearing , if the e a r is dead.

But should there be a tran sfo rm a­tion by displacem ent, should the eye and ear be displaced by clairvoyance and clairaudience, then, while physi­cal seeing and hearing th rough phys­ical organs are im possible, see ing and hearing from a h igher p lane can be realized, even as excarn a te sp irits see and hear, though shorn of physi­cal organs and bodies. T h is is the v ita l and deeper significance of the sp iritu a l life. The sp iritu a l life is the m oral and occult life plus! It d isp laces the m aterial by tran sfo rm ­ing gross m atte r, o rgan and faculty into its image. A new and h igher set of facu lties displace the old and lower. L im itations, once so insuper­able, vanish, and the soul is free to see and hear in th e e th e rea l as well as in a m aterial world. W hat a change! And yet it is a ll done by concen tra tion of the will in a sp ir it­ual life w hich displaces th e old pro­cess of norm al use of pow er by the new process of supernorm al and sp ir­itual use. So th e re is a profound m eaning in the sayings of Jesus, ’’You cannot serve two m aste rs ,” and “ No one puts new wine in to old bot­tle s .”

Tribute to M r. W . T . Stead.B y M iss E d i th K . H a rp e r .

T h e fo llowing t r i b u t e s t o th e g re a t jo u rn a l i s t , Mr. W. T. S te a d , a re ex­c e r p t s f rom "L igh t ," a n e w sp a p e r pub l ished in London, E n g lan d , and th e y voice th e love a n d ' ’e s t e e m of his own people fo r th i s p ro p h e t did not lack hon o r in his own co u n t ry , n o r in an y p a r t of th e civilized w or ld .— Edi­to r.

"As a k n igh t-e rran t he w as great, as he "rode abroad red re ssin g hum an w rongs,” w ith absolutely no thought of him self, excep t th a t h is life was given to him to use for o th e rs ; as a c lear-sighted politician, far above

party littlen ess ; as a b rillian t w riter, pouring forth a m arvelous flow of thoughts and ideas, like sp a rks from an anvil,^he was head and shoulders above his contem poraries. As a “prac­tical id e a lis t;” as a faithfu l friend, h chivalrous and generous opponent; as the. apostle of the w orld’s peace; as the fearle ss cham pion of the weak and helpless; as the wide-minded, patient, infinitely in te rested investi­gato r of all th a t touched the "world invisib le"— which he alw ays called “the world of rea litie s”—in all these th ings he stood out as a constan t ex­am ple to the world he loved to serve. O thers have w ritten of hiffi> in all these aspects, and w hatever is w rit­ten can but fall sho rt of w hat all who cam e w ithin the m agnetism of h is personality , and the g rea t public who w ere in touch with him through his w ritings, a re aw are. Of all these th ere is no need again to speak here.

But to some, the g rea test and moat lovable quality in h is wonderfully lovable natu re, was his indescribably beautiful and touching subm ission to the will of th e Heavenly F ather, to W hom all h is life and actions were constan tly referred . Like a tru stin g child he lifted h is lum inous eyes and sought to read, as in the face of a loving paren t, w hat it was for "the h ighest best," Ood’s best, th a t he should do, or w hither go, o r w hat en­dure. God w as All-Wise, All-Loving; He had ordained, and He knew best. All for us to do w as to place our h e a r ts in hum ble and adoring recep­tiv ity to any m anifestation , and re- vealm ent, of His Will. And if by our own w ilfulness or blindness we m issed His "signposts,” then to try humbly and patien tly to read them afresh and aright. T h is may sound like m uch th a t we have heard of o thers—heroes, sa in ts , m arty rs , who have illum ined th e m issal o f the earth-life w ith th e ir sh in ing records. B ut to have seen it constan tly be­fore one, to have lived in the daily benediction of its divine influence, as did those who had the joy of serv ing

T H E S T E L L A R R A Y . 1 0 8 7

him, is a m arvelous lesson, no t a ra­diant. m em ory only, but the unspeaka­ble living consecration of a life tim e."

Darkness and Dawn.V e r n e D e w it t R o w e ll .

Like c rea tu res who have ever lived in night

And know not there is such a thing as light,

Deep in the n igh t of innocence a s tray

We grope, and dream not of the com ing day.

W hile Just beyond T im e’s dim hori­zon drear,

T here w aits e te rn a l freedom , yet so near.

Ah. little do we know the h e a r t of things,

Or u nderstand the joy or pain lifebrings!

H ere prisoned In L ife's narrow earthy cell,

W e w ait im potent in th e depth of hell.

We dare no t glim pse th e h igher life th a t w aits.

Though sw iftly borne to it by winged fates.

T here m ust be h igher th ings than we suppose;

T he h eigh ts of Being only Heaven know s;

The sa in t and sinner, children of one God,

Alike a re destined to eclipse the clod.

The petty evil and the narrow good,M ere hum an a ttr ib u te s , unw rought

and crude,Are lost in no th ingness when God

aboveSheds th e rich sp lendor of h is Cos­

m ic Love.

Dear com rade-heart, wait, w ait with me, hand in hand.

And one day. you and 1 shall under­stand

The inn er m eaning and the h e a rt of Life,

That now s tra n g e m edley seem s of Love an d Strife.

W e a re encom passed about by th e forces th a t m ake fo r righ teousness. All power we possess com es from our accord w ith th ese forces. T h e re is no las ting force, excep t the pow er of God.— D a v id S ta r r J o r d a n .

E arth Is H eaven’s Door.R eceived F rom Theespis.

By E llen Snow.Bewail no m ore the s ting iness of fate.E ach m an w ith in him self his fate

doth build.H aste then, blind arch itec t, the hour

is la te ;Your dallian ce keeps fo rtune unful­

filled.In bu t one way can you deliverance

find.D eliver o thers. M ake them happy,

good.Rise from pollution. E levate your

mind.Live fo r th e H ighest. Crush despond­

en t mood.C ontrol your own fate. Be th e fa te

of allW ho m eet you, In as fa r as hope and

loveCan cheer each onw ard to the heav­

enly callFrom sp ir it inw ardness, from rea lm s

above—T he call to live on ea rth , as should

a soulBefore whom doth e te rn ity unroll.

A p resum ptuous skepticism th a t re jec ts fac ts w ithout exam ination of the tru th is, in some respects, m ore in ju rious th an unquestioning credulity .

—Humbol d t ,

1088 T H E S T E L L A R R A Y . I

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Scal loped C lam s.—Scald the clam s, rem ove the hard p art and chop the rest. Make a soup of the liquor, with enough w ater added to m ake it fresh enough. Thicken it and m ake i t su f­ficiently rich w ith butter. B u tte r a scalloped dish, strew the bottom with bread or c racker crum bs, m oisten them w ith the soup, then spread a layer of clam s seasoned with pepper, and continue in a ltern a tio n till the dish is full, the la s t layer being crum bs m oistened w ith soup. Bake ha lf an hour.

Fish S au ce on T o a s t .—Shred fine w hite codfish in pieces. Put in cold w ate r on the back of the stove to freshen, while you m ake a sauce. Thicken nearly a p in t of m ilk with flour, add a hard boiled egg chopped fine, and the fish a f te r d rain ing it. Make a nice toast, well buttered , and pour the fish sauce over it. Serve very hot. This m akes a very de­lightful dish.

P a s t ry S a n d w ic h es .—Make a good paste, roll out thin, put half of it on a baking tin, and spread equally over it the jam or any preserve th a t may be preferred . Lay over th is p reserve ano ther thin paste and m ake m arks on surface to show w here to cut when baked. Bake about th irty m in­utes, then tak e ou t of oven, brush over w ith w hite of an egg, s ift over powdered sugar and put back in oven to color. W hen cold cut in strip s and serve.

W elsh R a r e b i t .—G rate th ree ounces of cheese and mix it with the yolks of th ree eggs. T ake four ounces of grated bread and th ree ounces of butter. Beat the whole together in a m orta r w ith a spoonful of m ustard, little sa lt and pepper. T oast some slices of bread, cu t it in shapes, and spread paste th ick upon them. Put them in oven, let them become hot and slightly brown, and serve hot.

A . A . A .

Armour’s Astrological Annualnn«l

The Reasonableness of AstrologyB y S tu art A rm our.

T h ese w o rk s are now in m an u scr ip t and w ill be p ub lish ed by th e au th o r if su ffic ien t sup p ort is in d ica ted by the a s tr o lo g ic a l re a d in g public.

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WAR OR PEACEIk th e t i t l e o f u 5 0 -p n g e b o o k le t by L. H«lw*rd Joh n d ro . It co n ta in * a m a th e ­m atica l an a lyn l* o f th e a s tr o lo g ic a l ev id en ce* o f w a r b e tw een th e U n ited S ta ten and Jap an p rev lou * to th e co m ­p le tio n o f th e P an am a can a l.

It con ta in * , no far a* th e a u th o r k now *, th e o n ly e x a c t h oro*copc* o f PrcNldcnt T a ft, C o lon el R oon evelt, and MutNii I l lto , th e M ikado, e v e r p u h - IlHbed.

It contalnN a tru e ex p o * ltlo u o f th e p rin cip le* o f antrO logy a* ap p lied to th e p r in cip le* o f w ar— d efen n e, o ffen se , and ron q urnt; and g iven an e x c e lle n t o p p o r tu n ity to th e a tu d e n t to te * t fo r h lm *elf th e a u th o r ’* o r ig in a l p rob lem * on M undane A * tro lo g y .

It a l*o co n ta in * th e ch art* o f \V u*h- In g to n . M exico , San F rn n cl*eo , H o n o ­lu lu . G uam , M anila , an d T o k lo , and g e o g r a p h ic * k etch m ap* o f M exico and ou r P ac ific Coa.*t p lo tted w ith a n ta g o n ­is t ic lin e* w h ich sh o w th e /.one* o f th rea ten ed con flic t In th e e v e n t o f w ar.

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