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rs A SECOND MOODY.
pr. Torrey, of Chicago, Hailed a.
kose Famous Evangelist.
Has Just Returned from . Tour Of the
World, in the Course of Which
He Converted Thousands Of
Unbeuevers. .-.

With the return of Rev. DR.. r. A.
Torrey to Chicago, after memorable
tour of the world occupying one year
Eve months and % days. he may find
suggestiveness anew in the old prov
erb: "a prophet is not without honor
save in his own country" For when
DR.. Torrey left Chicago it was as one
of the leading workers connected with
the Moody Bible institute, good or
ganizer of Sunday schools, and an
evangelist of more than local notori-
ETY.. Returning, however, to the
church in which Moody rose to fame,
DR.. Torrey brings with him record
of revivals in foreign lands which have
marked him as the leading evangelist
of his time. I
"Gray, rotund, impressive and al
most austere," is descriptive bit Of
English employed BY one of his hear
ers who wrote of him in London, and
any one of his acquaintance in Chi
cago will testify to the faithfulness Of
the observation from the point of view
of the stranger. On the platform,
however, filed with earnestness and
speaking in the full, powerful tones of
the orator, he becomes commanding
figure with a magnetic presence.
Eyes, you might say that he has the
Moody method" said a Chicago
friend, speaking of him to Tribune
reporter. "When you discovered what
the Moody method was you found it
to be something which was appeal
ing to you in person without regard
to any other of a thousand persons
who might be sitting around you.
And this is the Torrey method; he
speaks to you in person and you feel
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(Kentucky Colt Which Just Won Over
$4,000 for Its Owners.)
people which witnessed the sixteenth
running of the event saw contest
that was decided when the field turned
into the stretch. In front of strug-
Cling field The Picket ran SO easily
and truly as to leave no doubt where he
would finish. The roar of cheers which
greeted the successful horse began
when The Picket was more than an
eighth of mile from the wire.
The Derby was a recordbreaking
turf event in more than the fast time
that was made. Nineteen horses went
to the post, the largest previous field
being IS. The largest crowd that ever
gathered on western race track COW
cred the Washington Park grounds.
The race was worth S32 ,275 gross valr~e,
the richest in the history of the rae.,
with one exception. Betting on the -.
suit began in March and continued ur.
til the horses went to the post. More
money, it is asserted, was wagered cu
the Derby than on any other race ev. +
run in America.
Jockey Arthur Helgesen, who rode
The Picket to victory, was II years old
last September. He was born at Man
istee, Mich, in 1885, but most of his
life has been spent in Chicago. His
father lives at IFS North Humboldt
street, Chicago.
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p>,i~ Of the War of 1912,

A relic of historic interest was dug
up in Detroit recently by workman
excavating upon the site of old Fort
Shelby on Shelby street. A pocket
knife of gigantic proportions, with
handle of horn, brass mountings, heavy
brass rivets, all hand wrought, bearing
m one side in boldly carved letters
the name of Gen. Hull, who commanded
the forces at Detroit during the war of
1912. wildly recalls those stirring days.
Although it has been buried for nearly
, hundred years, it is in a fine state
Of preservation. And while this for
midable looking knife may not be a
thing of beauty, yet, for strength and
durability and general usefulness the
latter day physical degenerates of
knives appear puny and weak by COM
n.rison. The unappreciative laborer
Who picked it up afterwards sold the
knife to Harry Hollands, who has
.dded it to his extensive collection of
o,,r;os and Indian relics.
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bersburg is situated, were Scotch
Irish.
Mr.. Bard received a common-school
education, and graduated at the
Chambersburg academy in 1858. Be-
fore completing his study of law he
engaged in railroading in Hagers-
town, Maryland, but he had a yearn-
ing for the Pacific coast, and in 1864
he located in California, and has
since resided in Ventura county, in
that state, where he has engaged in
wharving, warehousing, banking, Pc
troleum, mining, sheep grazing and
dealing in resi- estate, and from all
these various Industries he has &C.
cumulated abundant wealth and won
for himself a high position socially
and politically.
Mr.. Bard had the honor in the pres
idential election of 1892 of being the
only successful republican elector for
California. He took the oath of Of
fee as United States senator on
March 5, 1900. His term of Office will
expire on March 3, 1905.
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GLIMPSE OF WESLEY.
He Was q Religious Man in an r.
religious Age.
Time Was Rips for Enthusiastic
Christian Work and Founder Of
Methodist Church Made
Good Use Of It.

John Wesley, founder Of the Metho-
dist church, was born June %, 1903, in
the r,'ctory of the parish Of Epworth,
Lincolnshire, England. The two hum
dredth anniversary Of his birth has
just been celebrated by the church he
founded, and for this reason the fol-
lowing estimate of his character, con-
tanned in an article in the Century
Magazine, from the pen Of C.. T. Win
chester, is of more than ordinary in
terest to thoughtful observers of reli-
gious conditions and sectarian prog
ress.
John Wesley, says Mr.. Winchester,
was religious man in an irreligious
age. The religious man is the man
filed with a sense of the presence of
God and of the force of spiritual laws
here and now. That, and only that,
makes truly religious man in any age
and in any country. The form of the
experience may vary; indeed, it may
hardly be recognized as religious ex-
perience at all. Thomas Carlyle, for
example, was religious man; whether
he was exactly Christian or not may
be question. And when it is said that
the age of Wesley was irreligious, it
is not meant merely that intemper-
ance, lawlessness, blasphemy, political
corruption ran riot in society. That
is true; but these fragrant sins may be
found in any age, and the historian of
morals is perhaps prone to exaggerate
them. Certainly, all through the
eighteenth century there were a>score
of deaneries and hundreds of rectories
that were the abodes of q decent, sin
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y
the call of President Lincoln, April Is,
1861, for $4,000 volunteers was taken
from the wires the name of Charles
F. Rand was enrolled as soldier.
Among all the war records at Wash"
ington there is none of an earlier en-.
listment than that of DR.. Rand, and
the honor has therefore been given
him by common consent.
Not only was DR.. Rand the first vol.
unteer for the civil war, but he was
also the first soldier to win the con.
gressional medal of honor for distin.
guished gallantry in action. This
event occurred at Blackburn's Ford,
Va, in less than three months after his
enlistment. His command was ordered
TO retreat, and every man obeyed, save
young Rand, at the time but 1S yearz
ofage. The rest of his battalion, num-
bering 500 men, was swept in disorder
from the field, but Rand held his
ground, Notwithstanding the fact that
the field was plowed by shot and she'll
all about him. The enemy finally alb
solutely refused to fire at the boy
standing bravely alone and shooting
at them as coolly as if he had a thou
sand men at his back. Rand then crept
across a deep ravine and Joined the
command of Gen. A. H. Barnum.
DR.. Rand's patriotism and gallantry
have been recognized by two governors
of the state of New York and by three
presidents. He was twice personally
honored by President Lincoln. New
York remembered him with a gold
medal appropriately inscribed, and the
United States government has present
ed him with a plot in the most beauti-
full part of Arlington cemetery, where,
at the proper time, the state OF New
York will erect monument worthy
of the first man to offer his services as
volunteer during the great strife.
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NOAAlcO 0ldlcS 0cudSOE, AlAdAIuIOPASI ONO
Man Of Afairs.)
safety depends upon somebody having
the will to do right when it is in his
power and may seem to his interest to
do wrong.
"When the people were considering
the adoption of the constitution of tho
United States. one Of our wisest states.
men said that the real and only see
curity for republic is when the ruiz
ers have the same interest as the peo.
pie. If they have not, constitutional
restraints will break down somewhere,
except for the sense of duty of the
rulers.
Gail elections depend upon this
principle. You may multiply election
officers and returning boards, you may
provide for an appeal to court of first
resort or last resort. But in the end
you must somewhere come to point
where the sense of public duty il
stronger than party spirit, or your
election is but sort of fighting, or II
not that, sort of cheating.
"The same thing is true of the indi-
vidual voter, or of the legislator who Is
to elect the senator, or the governor,
who is to appoint the Judge, or tho
executive officer or the Judge who -
to interpret the constitution or tho
statute and decide the cause, or the
juror who is to find the fact. On these
men depend the safety and the perma-
nence of the republic. On these men
depend life, liberty and property.
Sand yet each of them has to mako
that choice. Each has to decide wheth.
er he will be influenced by ambition
or by party spirit or the desire for
popular favor or the fear of popular
disfavor or the love of/money, on the
one side, or by the sense Of duty on
the other.
"The great single purpose Of moral
education must be to induce the will to
adhere to it's general, permanent and
deliberately conceived purpose, in
spite of the motives which appeal to
it with special strength at the time of
the choice of action. In other words,
it is to give strength to resolution
which will overcome the strength Of
temptation.
"To teach this to the youth Of tho
republic is the great duty of the uni
versity. The final purpose of all schol-
arship. as of all Life, is character"
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TRIBUTE TO LAWTON,
Monument to His Memory Erected
in the Philippines.
1t Was Built by the Soldiers Of the
American Army in Honor Of .
Gallant Soldier and Friend
Of the Natives.

In lonely rice field in the Philip
pine islands a monument has been
erected to the memory of Maj. Gen.
Henry W. Lawton, whose widow is
now living at Pewee valley, near Louis
vile, Ky. 1t was built by the soldiers
OF the American army in the Philip
pines in honor of a soldier. 1t is sit
uated about Is miles from Manila,
near San Mateo, and is the only evil
dence to show that battle was ever
fought at that place. It was here that
Gen. Lawton was killed, on the morn
ing of December /, 1899, while in front
of his men, leading a charge against
the breastworks of the insurgents.
The monument was built by the en-
listed men of the Second United States
infantry, under the supervision of Maj.
II. L. Bailey. It is in the shape of a
pyramid, Is feet high, and mounted
upon the top is an old Spanish cannon
surrounded by four modern shells.
Adjt. Gen. Corbin has just received
from friend in Manila an account of
the unwilling of this memorial on Feb
ruary % last. The ceremonies were
simple, yet very impressive. \
That Gen. Lawton was loved and re-
spected by those who served under him
was attested by the presence at the
ceremonies of a large number of Amer
leans who had served with him in his
Indian campaigns in this country.
Conspicuous also among those present
were the Lawton post, No. 1, Veterans
of the Army of the Philippines, and a
number of native Filipinos.
When Maj. Gen. George w. Davis,
commanding the division of the Philip
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Andy Johnson's Tailor Shop.

The little shop in which President
Andrew johnson lived at Greenville,
Tenn, and followed his trade, is yet
in existence, and his old sign may
still be seen over the door: "a. John
son, Tailor" Some of the villagers
take pride in showing receipted bills
from the famous tailor for makin1 OF
repairing garments.
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BARD FOR SECOND PLACE.
California Senator IL Being Doomed
by Western Republicans for Vice
Presidential H0nors.

The vice presidential boom of Sen.
ator Thomas Robert Bard, of Cali.
fornia, is now well defined. He has
many friends in the west who will
push his claims for second place on
the republican ticket. Mr.. Bard is
the junior senator from the Golden
state. He was born in Chambers.
burg, Pa, December 8, 1s41.
His ancestors, who were among the
earliest settlers in that part of the
Cumberland valley in which Chain.
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PURPOSE or EDUCATION.
Senator noar Declares Charactss -
he the Grand Final PuFDoseo 9
All SCHOLARSHIPS.

A feature of the recent commence.
ment exercises of the University Of
Iowa was an address by United States
Senator George F. Hoar, Of Massachu-
sets, who said, in part:
"The fate Of the nation depends in
the last resort on individual charac.
ter. Everything in human govern
ment, like everything in individual
conduct, depends in the end upon the
sense Of duty. Whatever safeguards
may be established. however compile
Gated or well adjusted the mechanism,
you come to place somewhere where
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cere and comely Guardianship. But
the good men of this time, the sincere
men, were, not in the truest sense re-
ligious. Bishop Burnet, for example,
Addison, Swift, were good men, but not
in the sense religious men.
The orthodox Guardianship of
England when Wesley began his
preaching needed nothing so much as
that intimate personal sense of spirit
ual verities which it timidly branded
as enthusiasm. Its belief was an un-
certain balance of probabilities. Its
motives were at bottom prudential. 1t
could not speak with authority; it
could not touch the deeper springs of
action. Such religion might be dis
cussed, believed, even practiced; to
talk of Experiencing" it would be
meaningless. Moreover, religion
with so little of the contagious warmth
of certainty could make no converts,
could have no missionary impulse.
"What is your religion, my lord ?" some
one asked Lord Bolingbroke. "The re-
ligion of all sensible men," was the re-
ply. eyes, but what is that?" "Ah,
that is what no sensible man ever
tells" The anecdote may be apocryph-
al; but it illustrates well enough the
limited and individual character of the
convictions most men then held upon
the profoundest subjects. In fact, it
is evident that the religion of this time
had little influence even upon the lives
of most who made an outward profess
sion of it. No man could hold any civil
office without taking the sacrament
according to the forms of the church
of England; but it is said that not
more than four or five members of the
house of commons regularly attended
church. The universal prevalence of
political corruption during the min
istry of Walpole is proverbial. During
the reign of Anne, the urbane satire of
Steele and Addison had done some
thing to bring into fashion a decent
social morality and at least an out
ward respect for religion; but despite
these influences, what called itself
fashionable society grew steadily more
lax in morals and negligent in man.
ners. All the loud, ostentatious vices
that accompany rapid increase in
wealth had probably never been so
prevalent in English society as during
the reign of the second George.
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WHERE PENN LIES BURIED.
Unler This Stone Rest the Remains OF
the Famous Quaker)
though something should surely be
done to keep the grass grown mound
in better condition."
He also points out that "there are
few parts of England more Astounding
in a fine and exhilarating tradition
than this Quaker country, of which
Jordans was, as it were, the center,
for not only Penn, of the Holy Expert
ment,' but Milton, who wrote Para
disc Regained,' at Chalfont, and ELL
wood, whose History is also classic
in its way, are names forever to be as
ISOLATED with the place and with the
struggle for liberty of conscience that
went on there at very critical period
of our history"
A photograph was recently taken of
the tomb for the New York Herald, and
from it the accompanying picture was
copied.
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CHICAGO DERBY WINNER.
Kentucky Horse, Wins Fortune
for Its Owner. ~ Z

The Picket, q horse that never be-
fore flashed first past the post, won the
American Derby at Chicago on June
20. He set the pace every step Of the
distance, was never challenged and
won in gallop by six lengths. He ran
the Derby distance, one and half
miles, faster than it was ever run be-
fore in the race.
His time was 1888. Claude, the win
ner of three derbies, was second. Ber-
nays, the Cincinnati candidate, was
third. -,.,> ..~
It was race without the thrill of an
exciting finish. The crowd of 10000
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THE FIRST VOLUNTEER.
DR.. Charles F. Rand Enlisted Ten Mn.
utes After the Cali osRxes-
,y4 ldent Lincoln.

The first volun teer for the civil war
is still living. He is DR.. Charles F..
Rand, of Washington, D. c., retired
from active practice by reason of trou-
blesome wounds received nearly 20
years ago. ''-
~ certificate in the capitol of New
York state at Albany attests the pri-
ority of DR.. Rand's tender of his serv-
ices. The certificate is signed by the
mayor and two prominent citizens Of
Batavia, N. Y, also by the county clerk
and the sheriff of Genesee county, stat
ing that in less than ten minutes after
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THE LAYTON MONUMENT,
uocated in Lonely Rice Field in the
Philippine Islands)

Philippine Islands)
pines, with his staff, escorted by troop
B, of the Sixth cavalry, arrived on the
field where the ceremonies took place,
he was saluted by 10 guns from the
Fifteenth battery. Three troops of
cavalry, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
batteries of field artillery, two COM
panies of coast artillery, four compa-
MES of the Second infantry and two
companies of the Fifth infantry par
ticipated in the ceremonies.
The exercises were opened with a
prayer by Chaplain Silvers. When the
monument, which was draped in an
American flag, was unveiled, major
generals salute of 10 guns was fired.
Mai. Gen. Davis followed the chap
lain in forceful speech. ellis monu-
ment," said Gen. Davis, 'built, as it
is. of solid and enduring ma terials, will
in time crumblc into dust and disap-
pear. but the memory of Lawton will
endure for ages"
The commander of the Veteran
Army of the Philippines, Gen. Mccoy,
also spoke. He paid high tribute to
the dead general, declaring that the
Filipinos would one day "come to the
spot where Lawton fell, as to a SHRINE,
and shed their tears over it,"
Chaplain Silver, in a tribute to the
dead general, said, in part: "This
man. whose name we honor to-day. is
great, not because he died, but be-
cause he lived, and utilized in life
those endowments of our nature which
tend to better things. His memory
speaks, and is stimulus for action
and courage to all who contemplate
It. That a man should so rise from
an humble station to position of ma
tional Importance and honor bears wit
ness to the fact that he was giant in
moral character. He' was, loved by his
soldiers. He was the ideal soldier.
Fearless. courageous. cool headed. An
inspiration in battle!"
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WILLIAM PENN'S TOMB.
posted i'm a Quaint Old Eng
lish BuryinE Ground.

Under a simple tomb in the Quaker
burial ground at Jordans, near Chal-
font St. Giles, in Buckinghamshire,
England, is the dust of the famous Will
liam Penn. An English writer, who re-
Gently visited it, says: "At one time
this tomb was carefully watched, as it
was feared that the remains of the
great Quaker would be stolen and
transported to America. Americans
may well come to see this simple grave
in its very simpl;city-al-
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tit is the apotheosis of the speech:
Thou art the man."
Japan, China, Australia, India, Aus
tralasia, London, and England, Scot
land and Ireland>have been marked by
this triumphal march of religious
fervor. In churches, halls, theaters
and in workshops, and in the open air
he has labored in the cause of religion,
and his followers everywhere are
pleased to recognize the spiritual re-
suits as scarcely less miraculous than
the day of pentecost produced in the
time of Christ.
Reuben A. Torrey was born in Ho-
boken, N. j., in 1856. At the age of IS
he entered Yale, and he was graduated
from that school, in his senior year
proclaiming himself convert to Chris
tianity. Taking the theological course
at Yale seminary, he became Con-
gregational minister, and went to Ger
many for postgraduate study. Re-
turning, he took the pastorate of a
church at Minneapolis, and remained
there until called to Moody institute
in Chicago in 1889.
Speaking recently in London Of the
circumstance of his conversion while
in school he drew vivid picture. He
made up his mind to become lawyer,
when, one day rummaging among
books in his fathers library, it &C.
CURED to him that he might become
minister. The thought staid with him
just long enough for him to consider
~the things he would have to give up in
life, and he dismissed the idea of be-
coming even-a convert to Christianity.
sThen," he said, II went in for
good time. Did 1 find it? found dis
appointment, barrenness, wretched-
ness. So went in deeper to find a good
time. Did 1 find it? There came a
night of awful disappointment. was
a young man then, but as young man
my life was all burned out, and it
seemed too uncomfortable to bear. I
thought I would end the whole miser-
able business. In fact, started to Go
it that night.
"Then, as I stood by my washstand
in my room in the university, fumbling
around for the weapon that, as I i'm
agined, would end my misery, l
dropped on my knees and told God:
If you take the burden off, l will
preach the Gospel hoped to get rid
of some of my misery, but to my utter
amazement found a joy had never
found on the race course, nor in the
opera house, nor at the card table, nor
in the ballroom, nor anywhere else.
From that day to this that joy has
grown broader and broader every year,
with the exception of short time
when I fell under the spell Of agnosti-
cism. For the rest Of the time every
year has been better than the year
that wait before"
AID this is the man who, in leaving
Melbourne a few months ago, called
a meeting of Thanksgiving for all those
who had accepted Christ in the revival
there. Seven thousand of them came
and crowded the building and over
flowed it fsr yards around
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National LeaGue)
author who has sat in parliament for
the Scotland division of Liverpool
since 1885. Mr.. O'Connor, who is so
Familiarity and so affectionately
known as "Tay Pay" Is IS. At IS
he was q B. A. and senior scholar in
history and modern languages at
Queens college, Galway. MIR. O'Con-
nor went to London in 1870. He was
the first editor of the London Star,
the London Sun and the Leadon
Weekly Sum- ....
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Has Had Eleven Brides.

= Marriage is frequent occurrence
with Fritz hoffman, of Creglingen,
Germany. He has led eleven brides
to the altar. His first three wives
died young, the next two were
drowned, one committed suicide,
three died in succession. the tenth
was gored to death by bull, and he
has recently married the eleventh,
who had leg cut off by railway
train last year, so that the wedding
had to be postponed till now.