The Philistine A Periodical of Protest. _I have peppered two of them: two I’m sure I have paid, two rogues in buckram._—KING HENRY IV. [Illustration: No. Four.] Printed Every Little While for The Society of The Philistines and Published by Them Monthly. Subscription, One Dollar Yearly Single Copies, 10 Cents. September, 1895. The Philistine. Edited by H. P. Taber. CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1895. The Birth of the Flower. John Northern Hilliard A Notable Work. Elbert Hubbard The Manners Tart. Clara Cahill Park A Matter of Background. William McIntosh In Slippery Places. W. A Lantern Song. Stephen Crane The Rubaiyat of O’Mara Khayvan. W. M. Notes. THE PHILISTINE is published monthly at $1 a year, 10 cents a single copy. Subscriptions may be left with newsdealers or sent direct to the publishers. Business communications should be addressed to THE PHILISTINE, East Aurora, New York. Matter intended for publication may be sent to the same address or to Box 6, Cambridge, Massachusetts. _Entered at the Postoffice at East Aurora, New York, for transmission as mail matter of the second class._ _COPYRIGHT, 1895, by H. P. Taber._ THE PHILISTINE. NO. 4. September, 1895. VOL. 1. THE BIRTH OF THE FLOWER. In the Beginning, God, the Great Workman, Fashioned a seed; Cunningly wrought it from waste-stuff left over In building the stars; Then, in the dust and the grime of His Workshop, He rested and pondered— Then, with a smile, flung the animate atom Far into space. As the seed fell through the blue of the heavens Down to the world, Wind, the Great Gardener, seized it in triumph And bore it away; Then, at a sign of the Master, who made it, He planted the seed:— Thus into life sprang the first of the flowers On earth. —JOHN NORTHERN HILLIARD. A NOTABLE WORK. In Mr. Cudahy’s remarkable book entitled _The Pawns of Chance_ there are Sixteen Women who Did. Its sure success is prophesied on this account, for of the five novels that have made ten-strikes during the past year each has contained at least One Woman who Did, and in two instances Several. And right here, before referring further to Mr. Cudahy’s book, I wish to place on file a modest word of protest concerning the modern sex novel.