tauqua dates, he sent the letters to a friend and asked him to take them home and have his wife, who is interested in this line of work, go over them and select the winner of the book. Here is a portion of the friend's letter to Capt. Jack:

"Dear Captain Jack:

I have never felt so unprepared to do a task in my life as I now feel about writing you concerning these letters. Mrs. Robinson read aloud to us a half dozen of these letters, when I begged her not to read any more, for I was completely overcome.

The following night she read some more, having in the meantime read them all, between four and five hundred, and was so stirred by the situation that I had to use a great deal of effort to keep her from taking them and starting for New York with a determination that she was going to find someone who would finance you in a way to enable you to spend the rest of your energy in work of this kind. We are all a unit in feeling that if there was a chosen messenger to any particular class, that you are the one in such work as you did at Rahway, and certainly there never was in the history of the world, a man whose record and personality combined, can compare with you in reaching this class. I took the letters to her to select the prize winner, but she absolutely refuses to consider the letters from that view-point. She feels, and we all feel that the future. of a number of these boys has been largely placed in your keeping, and that something must be done to enable you to give these boys further consideration by letter or otherwise. C. W. R."

"Hallelujuh!” said Capt. Jack to a news reporter. "Supt. Frank Moore has named my boys The Boy Heroes. I will add of the World, and I shall, as soon as I return to New York, go out to Rahway and start the greatest boy

organization ever heard of. Boy Heroes they will be in reality, for they will pledge themselves against intoxicants, cigareets and yellow literature, and the boy who is true to these pledges will be a real hero indeed. Some boy organizations have been afraid of me because I insist on telling my temperance story on all occasions when I am talking to boys, and if I can get four hundred out of five hundred boys-most of whom are looked upon as criminals to make such a pledge, it is my business and God's business that I keep on, and so I shall as long as I live."

I shall also have Boy Heroes organized on the outside, who will pledge themselves to the same and more. They will be pledged to take these boys by the hand as they come out of the Reformatory and prisons and help them to keep their pledges, to secure for them employment, and not be ashamed to associate with them. And while I live and have a say in this boy organization, there will be no selfish grafters connected with it, and absolutely no salaries outside of those who work as employees. In the mean-time, I want the opportuuniuty to earn sufficient money to keep my family pot boiling while I am helping the boys, and everyone who contributes any sum of money for my work among the boys, will be given an accounting of every date filled to his or her credit, and in this way I see the realization of my happiest and oldest dream. For

wonder if I can help somebody's mother across a dangerous crossing, find a lost child and take it to its mother, slap some little newsboy on the back who may be stuck with his papers and who is helping to support an aged mother, report to the humane society or the police, some brute who is abusing some more intelligent animal?"

Wear a smile that's worth the while,
Keep sweet, be on the level,
Obey and pray, and that's the way
To win, and beat the devil.

Now these are the first duties of a real "Boy Scout" and the criticisms of the movement on the ground of its being too military are made by people who are opposed to this great movement, or who do not take the trouble to investigate, nor does it stand for war, and men who prepare men or boys for war, are men like Grant who said "Let us have peace." Mr. Carnegie is only assisting us, the real warriors as peacemakers. And if war should come in spite of us, and Mr. Carnegie and The Hague and arbitration, it is we, the old fighters and the "Boy Scouts" who will be prepared for war, and ready, as were our warrior daddies since the Revolution, to go out and die for our country if need be, while the great majority of the Peace Congressmen would stay at home, as they did during the war, amassing fortunes and clipping coupons.

Strict discipline and obedience to orders are essential in all boy organizations, but there is no drilling except for the development of mind and muscle and the practical use of fire-arms: Every boy and girl should be trained in the use of fire-arms. My two daughters could shoot almost as accurately as I could before they were ten years of age and one day my daughter Eva, who rode six miles alone every day when fifteen to school, was held up on her way home by a tramp, and while he held her horse by the bit demanded her

pocket-book, for she had got a check cashed in town that day for $50. She said cooly, "All right," reached on the right side of her saddle, pulled her six shooter out of the holster, levelled it at the fellow's head and fired. He let go the bridle and ran, leaving his hat on the road, while Eva put her spurs to Dandy, her horse, and galloped to the Fort. I was away on a scout, for Victoria was on the war path then, but my Mexican man, Jose Baca, rode back three miles, found the hat and took it to San Marciel and the deputy sheriff soon located the tramp and arrested him; but when Eva came into court and heard the fellow's story and read a letter from his wife, who was sick and hungry, she refused to prosecute. However, this is an illustration that it is best to be prepared for war on tramps who want to rob you. God bless the "Boy Scouts" and the "Boy Heroes" of the world, and in closing I don't think that anything I could say will so appropriately illustrate my sentiments than the following verses written on the fly leaf of a book I sent to a very dear friend who wrote me saying that if I had less poetry, and more business horse sense, I would be better off in "this world's goods," and he is an editor, too.

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TRUE policy of war, from the Confederacy side, being reduced to the saving of armies which embraced well-nigh all its material for war, it so happened that with the opening of the first campaign, after these changes in the personnel of the War Office had taken effect, that great disasters in the field began, traceable to the intereference of the War Office with great commander in the field; and in something over a twelve-month of the duration of this interference, three great Confederate armies were practically removed from service, leaving the field to the enemy. (1) Johnston, attempting in the summer of 1863, to save his army of forty thousand superb troops in Mississippi, as Washington had saved his army after its defeat on Long Island, was countermanded from the War Office, and, as General Lincoln had lost his army at Charleston, General Pemberton was empowered to lose the garrisons of Vicksburg and Port Hudson and tens of thousands of brave lives in useless battle, by the interference of the civil authorities. (2) In May, 1864, General Richard Taylor having, by skillful retreat, drawn Gereral Banks and a fleet of gunboats into favorable position, attacked Banks at Mansfield, drove him from the field in full retreat, and continuing the pursuit -the only example of Confederate pur

suit after a great victory-would inevitably have captured the invading army and the gunboats supporting it, when he was instantly superseded by order of the war office, the pursuit checked and the imminent military success, which must have restored New Orleans and the entire lower valley of the Mississippi and the western rivers to the Confederacy, was changed into useless sacrifice, and the retirement of the entire trans-Mississippi forces from active service for the remainder of the war. (3) In July, 1864, Johnston was removed from command, against earnest protests of his army, rank and file, and the people, with absolute unanimityat a time when discontent throughout the Northwest seemed only waiting on Sherman's fate to ripen into revolt against the Government at Washington -the result being the speedy annihilation of his army, under command of another, following the interference of the civil government.

Against each of these three citations. of destructiveness, issuing from the civil authorities, stand the generalship and valor of Confederate armies upon the page of history; the one marking the source of the catastrophe in which the Confederate cause finally dissolved; the other indicating the reasonableness of its inception.

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R. TAFT is paid a larger salary than any President of the United States ever received. He is the most expensive tenant we have ever had in the White House. Nevertheless, he spends more time on his personal pleasures and personal interests than any other President has ever done. He is almost never hard at work; he is almost always playing golf, cruising on one of our naval vessels, or traveling about the country on a luxuriously appointed special train. After several months of vacation and pastime in New England, Mr. Taft is now (Sept. 18th) entering upon several weeks of campaigning for a renomination. When voting the President $25,000 a year for traveling expenses, Congress certainly had no intention of taking money out of the people's treasury to defray the cost of a candidate's electioneering tour.

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What would Mr. Taft have done to Dr. Wiley, the Pure Food Expert, had the case come up at the time Ballinger's did? Would the Doctor have met the swift dismissal of Glavis and Pinchot? Would some Lawler have been deputized to write out the Presidential opinion? When our crooked Secretary of Agriculture, and his crooked underling, Solicitor McCabe, perused Mr. Taft's exoneration of Dr. Wiley, who, according to Attorney-General Wickersham, deserved "condign punishment," they must have sighed heavily

and cursed the fate that postponed their case until the campaign of 1912 was al. ready on.

While the evidence taken by the Congressional Committee made it clear that the Department of Agriculture had done all in its power to nullify the Pure Food Law, this fact was not more clearly proven than was Ballinger's guilty connections with the Cunningham claims. While it was shown, beyond all question, that Secretary Wilson and Solicitor McCabe furnished Government witnesses at the Government's expense, to testify in behalf of the manufacturers who use injurious substances in the preparation of canned food, this fact was not more surprising or scandalous than the proof which showed how Ballinger dismissed the experienced, capable lawyer wha had charge of the Government's sid of the Cunningham case, giving it to a mere boy (Sheridan) who never had tried a single lawsuit and who promptly butchered the Government's case, as Ballinger meant he should.

While it is likewise true that Solicitor McCabe was shown to have garbled a decision of the courts, condemning the use of certain chemicals, and to have entered that decision in such a way as to leave the manufacturers free to continue to use benzoate of soda, that fact was not more amazing, than was the discovery that the President himself