WIND OF THE WEST. The wind tonight is cool and free, The wind tonight is Westerly; Sweeping in from the plains afar, Sweet and faint—yet wild as are All scents and odors blent In the Occident. My thoughts tonight are far and free, My thoughts tonight are Westerly; Sweeping out to the plains afar, Where roses grow and grasses are Carpets that spread so cool and sweet For my naked feet. My heart tonight is wild and free, My heart tonight is Westerly; But I’m living again those old, glad days, Roaming at pleasure the grassy ways,— Only a herder riding the swales Of the prairie trails. JOHN NORTHERN HILLIARD. PAUL KNEW. An article in a late number of THE PHILISTINE names Organized Charity as _The Kind that Paul Forgot_. Such an aspersion on a saint’s memory is itself uncharitable. If Paul knew his Bible he did not forget the injunction of the Old Testament: “I was a Father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;” and Paul said himself to the Thessalonians: “If any man will not work neither shall he eat.” These precepts state two root principles of charity organization—information before reformation, and a flat denial of alms to the indolent. To deny their truth would imply a “Philistinism” of the obnoxious kind that Matthew Arnold had in mind when he said: “Philistine gives the notion of something particularly stiff-necked and perverse in its resistance to light.” Even Paul, by the way, was once such a Philistine, but we read that as he journeyed towards Damascus a great light shone around him and he became a new man.