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THE ADVOCATE AND NEWS. 1391. enough to buy more suits occasionally. Louis XV decorated the statue -with the Order of the Holy Ghost, possibly at a moment when another set of spirit had possession of htm; and It Is the owner of nine handsome costumes be longing to different periods. On fete days the boy Is gorgeously cld; some times In old French costumes, some times in the uniform of the Garde Civique. All this is funny enough, but not as curious as the rest. It Is the fashion for wealthy maiden ladies to fall in love with the statue, and remember it handsomely in their wills. Through . one such bequest this petted boy is pro vided with a valet at a salary of $40; and a short time ago another unwedded admirer left $200 for the completion and maintenance of his wardrobe. A Lie is Forever. A little girl whom the Prairie Farmer Knows came In her night clothes very early to her mother one morning, say ing: "Which is the worse, to tell a lie or steal ?"- The mother, taken by stirprlHe, replied that both were so bad she couldn't tell which was the worse. "Well," said the little one, "I've been thinking a good deal about it, and I've concluded its worse to lie than steal. If you steal a thing you can take It back, less you've eaten it, and If you've oaten it you can pay for it. But" and there was a look of awe In the little face "a lie Is forever." The Eight Kind of an Officer. Mr. Breldenthal is a Kansas Populist who is so proud of his State's prosper Ity that he i3 compelled to lay aside partisanship and talk about it. In other words, Mr. Breldenthal Is too good a Kansan to be a good Populist. Kansas City Journal. Mr. Breldenthal has had charge of the Bank Commissioner's office more t'n an four years and now has it in op eration under a law of his own framing and hence has a right to be proud of the business condition of Kansas as seen from his standpoint. By the way, there has never been a more competent and efficient. State official in Kansas than John W. Breidenthal. He has ren dered most satisfactory service to the people of Kansas in general and also to his party. If the Republican papers and politicians had never found any better reason for howling about Populist officials and their conduct than in the Bank Commissioner's department the People's party would not have been voted out of office, nor would there now be any uneasiness in that direction. We like Breidenthal's politics and also his political conduct and his official integrity. Eureka Union. Unparalleled Corruption. Without doubt the recent city elec tion at Augusta. Ga.. was the moat openly corrupt one yet reported In this country. In four wards the Walsh ne groes took possession of the polling places before daylight and when the voting began each negro was given a sup wnicn upon presentation to the Walsh treasurer was taken up and an envelope containing a crisp $5 bill was given out. These negroes gleefully re ceived the money and went about wav ing the money over their heads and cheering, for Walsh. This, together with the delay in getting to the polls, crazed the opposition negroes and they tore off their badges and showed up with Walsh badges. The dispatches state that regular schedules of prices were quoted and that the negro vote was bought like cattle. When the farce was over ex-United States Senator Patrick Walsh had a majority of the votes which reached the ballot box. The election was a disgrace to Augusta, the State of Georgia and the nation. Such frauds, if continued, will destroy popular government. CO-OPERATIVE READINQ CLUBS, One of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets would start the poisonous matter in the way It should go. If there's a good deal of it, better take two that's a mildly cathartic dose. "Among the Ozarks." "The Land of Big Red Apples" 1b an attractive and Interesting book, hand somely Illustrated with, views of south Missouri scenery, including the famous Olden fruit farm of 3,000 acres in Howell county. It pertains to fruit raising In that great fruit belt of America, the southern slope of the Ozarka, and will prove of great, value, not only to fruit growers, but to every farmer and home seeker looking for a farm and a home. Mailed free. Address J. E. Lockwood, Kansas City, Mo. AMERICAN LITKRATl'RK COl'RSK. Outline of the Early Period. LESSON II. Part First. Short Bi ographies of Early Writers. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Born in Boston, but without the fortune of many notables, Franklin was not a graduate of Harvard College. At the age of 9 years he was taken from school and put to work in his father's soap factory. Soap-bolllng was not an at tractive business, and after three years he became an "apprentice" in the print ing house of his brother James. It is said that "The art of putting things into written words" was first in troduced by Franklin to American read ers. This "art" eventually caused a rup ture between the brothers, as Benjamin had been secretly wilding articles to the Courant. his brother's paper. Instead of commending his brother Benjamin for these readable articles, James criticised him. The result was that Benjamin Franklin started for Philadelphia, pen niless and friendless, a strange entrance into a city in which he afterward be came famous. The hardships he en dured were many, yot he despaired not. It is not of those struggles that we are to speak, but of Franklin as a writer. "Franklin was a great man," says Mr. Henry Beer, "but hardly a great writer, though as a writer, too, he had many admirable and some great quali ties. Among these were crystal clear ness and simplicity of style. 'Poor Richard's Almanac' and his 'Autobiog' raphy' were the most popular of his writings. The former was filled with proverbial sayings In prose and verse, inculcating the virtues of industry, hon esty, and frugality. The following is a bit of philosophy taken from his "Autobiography:" "Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune, that seldom happen, as by little advau tages that occur every day; thus, if you teach a poor young man to shave himself and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of hl3 life than in giving him a thousand guineas." As a foreign minister, as a powerful factor of the press, and the manner in which 'he transacted all business at home and abroad during that great struggle for Independence, Franklin stands with out peer. FRANKLIN'S UNIVERSAL CREED. (From "Richardson's American Litera ture." Vol. I.) There is one God, who made all things. He governs the world by his providence. He ought to be worshipped by adoration, prayer and thanksgiving. The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man. The soul is immortal. God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice either here or hereafter. Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) was a native of Connecticut and a graduate of Yale. He was for more than twenty years a minister for the church In Northampton. His writings belong rather to theology than literature and he ranks as the subtlest metaphysician of his age from the excellence of his celebrated treatise, "Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will," published in 1754, Even as a school boy he made deep guesses in physics, and it might be said that he anticipated Berkeley in denying the existence of matter. His training at Yale was in the train of philosophical studies which prepared him for his life work. His famous book against the free dom of the will, upon which Edwards lavished all his Intellectual faculties, was to show that sound philosophical and theological conclusions were iden tical, as regards the action of the mind and will of man. Cotton Mather (1663-1728), a graduate of Harvard, was a man who, says Rich ardson, "sampled all the knowledge ac cessible in New England." He ordered his dally life and conversation by a sys tem of minute observations. His pub lished works number 380. "He wrote in a stylo ponderous with learning and stiff with allusions, digressions, conceits, an ecdotes and quotations from Greek and the Latin," says Mr. Beers, in his "Initial Studies." Previous to this he says, in regard to Cotton Mather, "The hook which best sums up the life and thought of this old New England of the seven teenth century is Cotton Mather's 'Mag nalia Christ! Americana,' " to which our modern authors have reverted as sub jects for poems, etc. Whlttier took from thence the subject of his poem, "The Garrison at Cape Ann," and Hawthorne embodied in his "Gradfather's Chair" the biography of Sir William Phlpps. "Let It be plainly understood," says Richardson, "that whatever the credit due to Mather as minister, compiler, scholar and force, little belongs to him as a man of letters." Samuel Sewall was one of the first writer against African slavery, In his brief tract, "The Selling of Joseph," printed in 1700. 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