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:: Charles Bradlaugh ::
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
I T was 33 years ago that the
. famous battle between < ’harles
Bradlaugh and the British
Parliament began.
In 1880 Bradlaugh was elected,
to Parliament by the Northamp
ton constituency, and. being an
atheist, he asked that he be al
lowed to “affirm.” instead of tak
ing the oath in the usual form.
The privilege was denied him. Of
fering. then, to take the oath, he
was declared to be disqualified,
was ordered to leave the House,
and upon refusing to dp so was
placed in custody His seat was
declared vacant by the courts.
In ISM his constituency re
turned him. I'poll his again pre
senting himself h'e w denied the
privilege of taking the oath, was
again ordered from the House,
and upon his refusal to leave was
forcibly ejected. ^
Hi> Northampton constituency
stood faithfully by him and re
turned him ip 1882 and 1883.
whereupon th< same scenes oc
curred in the Parliament. In the
meant n* • • brought suit against
the serg* ' '-at-arms for unlaw-
,ul ' 1,1 ■ ind won; but later
' '' ,,x 1 '' of bis title to a
‘ * -l ‘ ’ Ho11>i■ u ;is reaffirmed
In !XS*> w „ lc .
(gain returned
to I at ..am- 1U when the swme old
tactics were resorted to. with the
same result, but Upon his being
returned in 18SH he was permit
ted to take the oath and occupy
his seat. The man of the iron will
and unconquerable spirit had
worn them out.
By and by both the House and
the country learned that Brad
laugh was as honest as he was
courageous, as grand a man as* he
was a fighter, and before he died,
’ in .January. 1891, the House voted
to expunge from its journal all the
ugly resolutions that had been
passed against him. It was a
double victory, a victory for
Bradlaugh. and a victory for the
members of the House of Com
mons. for when that vote to ex
punge the resolutions prevailed,
their good sen.«e and finer human
sentiment triumphed over their
inherited ignorance and bigotr\
Bradlaugh was born in London
in 1833. of the poorest of parents
and at the age of 10 began life hs
an errand boy. His education,
such as it was. was self-acquired
He was a natural-born orator and
ruler of men; a man of rugged,
but powerful mentality; big-
hearted. and rough in hi<* wavs
but honest to the core and a great
lover of everything but oppressors
and oppression, hypocrites and
hypocrisy.
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What Kind of a (lame Do
You Play?
Is Y our Mind on the Real Game or On a Dozen Outside Ones?
Ail from, the Same Glass
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
I F, in the middle of a hot sum
mer night, a chill breeze sud
denly enters a bedrom win
dow. the sleepers awaken, with a
shiver, and pull up a sheet to re
store their comfort by restraining
the escape of bodily heat.
The earth, according to the re
sult.- of re< cut investigations,
sometimes does practically the
same thing, but in a reverse way.
using ITS blanket to promote in
stead of to prevent the escape of
heat.
And, most Remarkable thing of
all. the eartlv obtains its cooling
blanket from* volcanoes! Jt is as
if the globe* were a gigantic
gnome who," finding himself un
comfortably warm, opens a magic
bottle, out of which iesues a re
frigerating clpud.
Most readers will remember the
great eruption of the Katmai vol
cano in Alaska early last year. It
was one of the grandest displays
of volcanic forces on record. The
top of the mountain was blown
off. as a • cork is phot out of a
champagne'bottle; volcanic smoke
and dust were burled many miles
high in the atmosphere, thousands
of square miles of the surround
ing land and >ea were buried uri-
d*a whii,e ashes, and w herever the
mighty c'oud passed overhead im
penetrable night prevailed.
/ool Summer Followed.
The dust that reached an ele
vation above the level of the sea
at which rain and snow clouds
are formed was borne swiftly
round the earth, and within a few
months its presence was detected
all over the northern hemisphere
•by its restraining effect upon the
light and heat rays of the sun. A
fall of temperature resulted and a
cooi summer followed.
If this experience were an iso
lated or unprecedented one, the
conclusions that have been drawn
from it would be less convinc
ing than they now appear to be.
Hilt the same thing has happened
at least three times within tire
memory of the present generation.
In 1883 occurred the t remen-
dous ( explosion of the volcano
Krakatoa in the East Indies, in
which not only a mountain, but an
entire island, was demolished!. The
sounds of that explosion were ac
tually heard, like the booming of
distant artillery, THREE THOU
SAND MILES AWAY, and it sent
sea waves completely across the
Pacific Ocean! It blew millions
of tons of dust into the upper at
mosphere. and this dust, circling
rapidly round the earth, produced
for several years afterward the
most magnificent sunsets that
have ever been know n.
But this was not all. During
1884. 18S5 and 1886 careful ther
mometric observations showed
everywhere a lowering of the
1 general temperature, amounting
to several degrees below the av
erage. This is now r-cribed to
the screening effect of the vol
canic dust in the air.
In 1902 the slumbering volcano
of Mont Pelee, in Martinique, was
uncorked, with the most terrible
consequences to the inhabitants
of that beautiful island, 30,000 of
whom perished, almost in an in
stant. from the blast of withering
fire that swept the city of St.
Pierre out of existence. Pelee also
blew its vast dust clouds into the
upper au.
Screened Off Solar Light.
And during the following year
they produced the customary ef
fects by screening off the solar
light-and heat and causing a no
table lowering of the temperature
of the earth.
Now, to return to the eruption
of Katmai. which, being the most
recent occurrence of this mag
nitude. has been the most careful
ly studied. Professor ('. G. Ab
bot. of the Smithsonian Institu
tion. reports that, being in Al
geria last year, he found the skv
obscured to such a degree by
volcanic haze, which he does not,
doubt proceeded from Katmai,
that the mean temperature was
lowered several degrees, and he
calculates that over the whole
northern temperate zone the
available solar heat was dimin
ished 1ft per cent from this cause.
Professor W. J. Humphreys ex
plains the action pf the volcanic-
dust blankets in this way: The
line dust scatters the short waves
of light and heat proceeding from
the sun. but has little, if anyf ef
fect upon the longer thermal
waves radiated from the earth,
which pass through the dust,'and
escape into outer space without
obstruction. The consequence is
that the earth's radiation of heat
gets out more easily than the
sun’s radiation can get in. and
thus the equilibrium of tempera
ture at the earth's surface is upset
and the earth grows colder.
Our Intellectual Duty.
He even suggests that the mys
terious glacial epochs of past
time, when ice covered what are
now some of the richest lands of
the Northern Hemisphere, may
have been induced by volcaniq
dust blankets more extensive and
more impenetrable than any that
have been throw n round the glob*
within historic times.
Are these studies and specyla*
tions worth while? Most surely
they are. Perhaps we shall neve*,
be able to interfere with such trew
mendous exhibitions of nature's
.powers, but, even so. it is our IN
TELLECTUAL DUTY to under
stand them. Our physical exist
ence is the least of the gifts be
stowed upon us.
We have talked on this subject of concentration to young
men before. We shall talk about it again. YOU CANNOT
SUCCEED IN THE BIG THING IF YOU LET THE LITTLE
THINGS TAKE UP YOUR MIND AND YOUR TIME
If your best thought goes to the selection of a straw hat,
I and your second best thought to the selection of your clothes,
and your third best though! to seme profound speculation on the
rao>s or the result of the baseball competition, V/HAT KIND
. Vf THOUGHT IS LEFT FOR THE REAL WORK?
And what in the world can help you or give you any kind
of success, except steady grinding at the real work?
When you wake up in the morning say to yourself, "I am
going to keep at my work and think of nothing else to day."
Don't think with how little work you can get through to-day,
I but. on the contrary, HOW MUCH work n get into it.
Whatever you have undertaken to do, do it better than the next
man, and not. only better than the next man. BUT AS WELL AS
CT IS POSSIELE FOR YOU TO DO IT.
We do not share the comfortable theory that ANY man can
achieve anything that he desires if he will work hard enough.
That is not true. Edison could not possibly have painted as well
as Sargent, and Sarger could not possibly have developed Edi
son's inventive geniu?
But neither Edison nor Sargent, nor any other man that
you hear about, would have been a success if he hadn't KEPT
ONE THING IN HIS MIND ALL THE TIME.
Your mind is the tool that you have got to work with. Hand
and feet are the small tools, the servant- of the working brain,
the real too). Keep the brain clear, clean and concentrated
Don't load it up with unnecessary br.rdei ■. unnecessary inter-
ostf. Toward life's frivolities and useless discussions—except
ing those that really improve the mind—let your mental atti
Hide be "I don t know and I don't car- 7 - plavmc .1 c - no
against time and against life. • have got to win Jt and I c.,:
let other things iiitviftie *uu it.
Waste or Penury Equally Sinful
How Volcanoes Pro
duce Refrigerat-
ingBIanketsScien-
tifically Explained
*
Eruption of Katmai in
Alaska Last Year
Lowered Earth Sur
face Tern perature
Ten Per Cent—Simi'at
Occurrences Before.
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Copyright. 1913, by Star Publishing Co.
I T IS A great thing for the re
former and the altruist to use
common sense and logic with
his ideals Next ty faith, they are
the most valuable qualities for
any human being to possess. Ex
travagance and wastefulness tire
sins; so are stinginess and p;u*si-
mony. The woman who wears ex
pensive gowns only once, and de
votes her whole energies to the
purchase of new costumes, sins
against her best self and good
taste. The woman who wears old
and i le ap clothing When sin- on:
afford to procure new garments
sins against good taste and good
sense.
Much Need for Right.
There was a man of fortune
who was so economical that he
trundled his invalid wife about in
u whee
lb;
ti row
t«» sa
vc the ev
peijse Ol
l a
ca rria
gc \vb
en the phy-
si« ian r<
mu
mini ended a
daily drive.
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pages
were wick
cd ex in
iga nee
s. He
1 committed
a great'
er
sin tb
an til
e man who
spurts
till
*ee tu<
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ars. if the
money
w
liic h
parch
used them
cam© hi
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\stly a
ml be
■ uses them
for the
b
eneftt
a nd
pleasure of
others **
k well as
; himself.
There
much
that i
leeds right-
the world to-day, niuo
being righted, and grey
are Imminent. N \.
maiiN intelligent and cap
This is an editorial which might be headed KEEP YOUR
MIND ON THE ONE IMPORTANT THING. " It is an editorial
about concentration, about putting your REAL thought on your
real WORK.
You don t need the editorial and ought not to waste time
reading it if you are quite sure that the best that is in you is be
ing used every hour, and used to give you the best chance pos
sible.
Among a million men there may be one or two that really
play the game of life as a good player plays the game of chess.
The one or two men in a million do not need to talk, or think
about the importance of concentration—but all the rest of us do
need to realize what intense concentration might mean for us.
There isn't a man who doesn't WANT something that he
hasn't got. There isn’t one that isn’t planning in a more or less
aimless way to do something, to get something, to BE some
thing. And there really is not one that could not succeed fairly
well, at least, IF HE COULD ONLY KEEP HIS MIND ON
REAL THINGS AND OFF OF OTHER THINGS.
Have you ever seen two men play chess, a good player and
a bad player? The bad player begins apologizing .for himself ,
before the tiling starts, apologizes all the way through, and loses
at the end, even though the queen or other pieces be given him
in advance.
The good player sits down, looks good-naturedly at his op
ponent, watches his first move, plans the thing out, wins smil
ingly and easily. BUT HIS MIND HAS BEEN ON THE GAME,
Life is a game. Every one of us must play it whether he
wants to or not. Aud every one plays the game with the same
old partner—TIME.
At life's table, opposite you, sits Time with his scythe, and
at his elbow the stakes—SUCCESS.
Anything that takes your mind off the game gives Time the
advantage. That is to say, anything that does not at the same >
time add TO YOUR POWER of work and thought.
Time plays against us all, and he nearly always wins. Mil
lions of men and women in the world are saying every day, "If
I were YOUNGER I would do this" or "I would do that." |
Every man thinks of what he would do if he had to live over ,
again the hours during which he let Time win while he lost.
There is no use going back over the moves that have been
made foolishly. The game is still op, and it is never too late to
win it if you will MAKE UP your mind, concentrate your mind
and brush aside interruptions.
Time is a good-natured old man; he plays fairly and len
iently. He is relentless in his steady onward pace; he never
gives you back the day that you have given him for nothing.
That is one day OFF THE BOARD But you can win and beat
him in the days that remain, if you will.
Lectures on concentration are needed by YOUNG men es- .
pecially. For their temptations are the most numerous. Much
intelligence is used up trying to get their minds away from the
real work.
Foolish fashion makes them waste on their clothes, their |
hat6, THEIR LOOKS, when those looks amount to nothing The
man of brains should simply make up hi^ mind TO LOOK
CLEAN. TO SHOW SELF RESPECT , nothing else matters.
The hard thing for young men and others to remember is
that THEIR WORK is their real occupation. Take the average
young man playing a game of cards, of baseball, or any other
MERE AMUSEMENT If you should try at THAT time to in
terest him in some outside thing, some new kind of a hat band,
some new color for the cravat, lie would say to you, "Don t
bother me, I am bii o ~ NOW. you will make me lose the game.
How many know enough to say the same thing when they
are playing lLe's REAL game, which is the game of work?
Many young men act like a man who has forgotten the
road, or like a drunken man staggering to the right and to the
left, falling down, getting up and finally .landing in jail instead
of landing at home.
The road before every man is perfectly clear, and there is
only just ONE way of getting over that road, which is TO
WALK STRAIGHT AHEAD TO THE END OF IT
Suppose a man were locked up in jail and had to make his
way out. What would you think of him if one day he started
to bore a hole in ONE spot and next day started a hole in an
other spot, and kept on all his life starting little holes in differ
ent spots and never going on with any one of them? You would
think him a lunatic. Yet that is exactly what ninety-nine men
out of a hundred do in this life. We are all of us locked up
here, all of us imprisoned by conditions through which we must
bore a hole if we want to get out and amount to anything. We
♦ry this way and try that wav and try the other, and do not!)
ing. WHEREAS BY TRYING ONE WAY AND KEEPING AT
THAT WAY WE COULD GET OUT IN THE END.
shall find its own. These worlds
exist.
But while we live in this body
let us try to look on the sane side
of every question, on ftjl ^side's,
and avoid becoming warped in
judgment, or fanatical or incapa
ble of holding a just and fair
opinion on any subject of the day.
Many peopel who are clamoring
for the Simple Life, and who are
condemning every phase of luxu
ry. fail to realize that all luxury is
comparative, and that to the na
tive Indians of America the sim
plest house and clothing would
seem luxuries, and a bath tub and
a swimming tank inexcusable ex
travagances.
Back to Mature is a popular
phrase, but there is a dividing line
In each mind between the possible
•
ney backward.
j Opinions Differ.
<>ne man may insist that the
proper boundary lies iunsleeping
''■<>- Afii*; her on an oat -
or balcony, and still anotljer^may
b. quite satisfied with a good
sir. ping room well ventilated. Yet
the Indian would consider all of
these conditions far from Nature.
Only by rolling himself in his
blanket on the earth could he feel
ao was hack to Nature.
< Uu woman may feel she is
dressing simply if she wears* a
j shirtwaist and plain, skirt, aijd
stipi' in her attire if she Kvoars
want to rejoice that you live in
this age and not in any other past
era. Never since the spiritual
man tojok on material form and
began to evolve back to the spir
itual has there been such hope
for struggling souls as now. Bad
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
as the worst conditions of the la
borer are. they are better than
were many of the best conditions
for thousands of years.
| Back to Nature.
t onsclousness of its own divine
pov/er to chauge and alter .my
j system which is oppressive. Give
Since Nature adorns its animals
and birds and fish and infects in.
such beautiful attire, and in'such
splendid colors, it would seem
that man was not presumptuous
or vain if he believed he had the
to provide himself with at
tractive apparel.
Man has been iflvon the mental
power to obtain whatever he
wishes. He was horn naked, but
even the most fanatical reformer
can not say that he believes he
was intended In Nature, or Na
ture’s God, to remain naked.
Powers of Achievement.
And if he is to be clothed, sure
ly it is his privilege to decide
upon the style and coloring of his
garments.
And it should be his pleasure
and aim to make himself as
agreeable to the eye as God has
made the lesser animals.
Th*t world in which we fiv< is
»
opulent.
There are trillions of precious
gems in our rocks-and seas; our
fields are f- vti e; our industries
are unlimited; and better still,
and men important. MAN’S
Pt>W ERS OF A(’H iE VEMENT
ARE UNLIMITED. HE CAN Do
AND HAVE A NO BE, WHAT
EVER HE WISHES. IF HE
WILL RLCOGN1ZE HIS OWN
POSSIBILITIES.
§ '
ti< * r .Me ipolies can stop him
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There is a Talmud parable which says that Satan came one day to drink with Noah and slew 'a Iamb,
i liuii. a pi,a and an ape to teach Noah that man. before drink is in him. is a Iamb; when he drinks
moderately lie is a lion; when like a sot he is a swine, but after that any further excess makes him an
ape, which senselessly chatters and .jabbers.