and whom
preachers and moralists are most ready to condemn have a clearer
perception of preachers, church organizations and reformers and their
relative importance in the multitudinous life of the world than the
preachers, church congregations and reformers have of those in the cafe
or the world outside to which they belong.

"This is why, in my humble judgment, the Church and those associated
with its aims make no more progress than they do. While they are
consciously eager to better the world, they are so wrapped up in
themselves and their theories, so hampered by their arbitrary and
limited conceptions of good and evil, that the great majority of men
move about them unseen, except in a far-away and superficial manner. Men
are not influenced at arm's length. It would be interesting to know if
some day a preacher or judge, who, offended by Mr. Culhane's profanity
and brutality, will be able to reach the gladiator and convert him to
his views as readily as the gladiator is able to rid him of his
ailment."

In justice to the preachers, moralists, et cetera, I should now like to
add that it is probably not any of the virtues or perfections
represented by a man like Culhane with which they are quarreling, but
the vices of many who are in no wise like him and do not stand for the
things he stands for. At the same time, the so-called "sports" might
well reply that it is not with any of the really admirable qualities of
the "unco guid" that they quarrel, but their too narrow interpretations
of virtue and duty and their groundless generalization as to types and
classes.

Be it so.

Here is meat for a thousand controversies.

_A True Patriarch_

In the streets of a certain moderate-sized county seat in Missouri not
many years ago might have been seen a true patriarch. Tall,
white-haired, stout in body and mind, he roamed among his neighbors,
dispensing sympathy and a curiously genial human interest through the
leisure of his day. One might have taken him to be Walt Whitman, of whom
he was the living counterpart; or, in the clear eye, high forehead and
thick, appealing white hair, have seen a marked similarity to Bryant as
he appeared in his later years. Already at this time he had seen man's
allotted term on earth, and yet he was still strong in the councils of
his people and rich in the accumulated interests of a lifetime.

At the particular time in question he was most interesting for the
eccentricities whic