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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-27
NEWS OF THE LOCAL
NATIONAL :GUARDSMEN

| TO the government invitation, and two have
acknowledged receipt of the Invitation, but
have not indicated whether OF not they
would accept. The department is very de-
sireus to secure full anG complete re-
sponses in order TO permit az the perfection
Of. the plans for the combined camps.
Only one-ha-if of the candidates for posi-
tons on re Brigade Rife team, who have
been I4otihed of the contest to occur May
80 have signified their intention of shoot
ing on that occasion.
Most Of the members of the original cam
have been on the range during the past
week getting IN touch with their shooting
partners. 1t is expected that the majority
of them will take advantage of the holiday
the 18th Instant to get in practice.
Tie attendance At the range during the
pat week much larger than prior
We eks and with the exception of one COM
Z. ny. a gratifying Improvement in the NUM-
Der of qualifications was noted.
Capt. Robert Cook and Capt. Emil G
Shafer, quarternaster of the 1st and I'd
, Regiment, respectively, have renewed their
prizes OF $50 each Inducements to in
crease interest In rife shooting and thereby
secure higher standard of craftsmanship
fcf the briga lie.
The conditions governing these contests
will be promulgated in orders.
The I'd Regiment has responded to the in
yitation of the Natlonal Rifle Association OF
America to r:.tAe a contribution toward the
purchase Of a suitable trophy for the resi-
mental match at the Sea Girt meeting in
September
First Lieutenant l.. H Johnson has been
recommended for commission as captain OF
Company NJ, 1st Regiment.
Samuel w. Forsyth has been elected first
lieutenant of Company NJ, LIST Regiment.
Private J. E. Bean has been elected Sec
ond lieutenant of Company NJ, list Regi-
ment
Second Lieutenant Vim. b. Sullivan has
been elected first lieutenant of Company q,
LIST Regiment.
The commission of Michael J. Ryan as
captain of Company G, LIST Regiment mas
arrived at headquarters
REPORTS are to the effect that the increase
in the efficiency of the reorgantzed Navajo
Battalion is most gratifying. The drills,
both infantry and nautical, are all largely
attended and officers and men are display
ing unusual enthusiasm in their work.
The LIST Division, Naval Battalion, which
has a membership of more than sixty men,
will so into camp at the ride range the
evening OF June and indulge In ordered
practice the following day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-27
Quick Converts.

From the Baltimore American.
There has been great change in res.
ligious views out in San Francisco these
last few days"
In what ,way?'
well. there were all kinds of deroni-
nations there. but the great shock turned
everybody into Quakers."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-27
Society In Already.

From the Cleveland Leader.
Miss Echo is very punctilious young
person, said Daphne.
II always thought she talked back too
much" answered the Hamadryad.
THAT may be true. But whenever go
to see her, she returns my cali at once"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-27

\ ENCOURAGEMENT that Gen. Oliver.
u assistant secretary of war, had
decided TO accept the offer of Gen.
Harries. comma nding the District
of Columbia militia to send ttfe
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23

AZ Rome the adoption OF the Civil on
stitution aroused the greatest alarm. Car
diual Bernis, who was still the representa-
tive Of France near the Holy See, saw in the
Civil Constitution a subversion of the whole
discipline and system of the Roman Church.
and his strong remonstrance in a despatch
dated June 30, 1890 to the Foreign Minis
ter OF France made Louis XVI. exceedingly
reluctant to give his confirmation TO the
new organic law. Some three months
earlier Plus VI, in a secret c~onsistory,
had complained passionately OF the wrongs
inflicted upon the Church in France, n
had told the Cardinals hat he only held
his peace because he thought that the mo-
ment was not yet come to spea1. On July
10. 1890, however, he sen a letter 10 Louis
XVI. in which he warned the King against
leading a people into error or provoking
a schism-perhaps even a religious war
by confirming the -impious Constitution
and HI threatened to lift up his voice IA
Supreme Pastor in case his warning was
not taken. TIL threat made an impression
upon Louis, but in France the current OF
events rushed on. regardless of Popes and
Cardinals. When. at length. on October
II, 100. il had been settled in Rome that
Louis was TO be told that the new decree
must be altogether rejected the decree had
actually been put into execution. The
chapters were dissolved, and in the Depart.
ment OF Finistere the FIRST Bishop had
been chosen In accordance with the Consti-
tuition. In ordsr TO knit the priesthood
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23
VINTAGE OF 1909.
10 VIII surpass In Quaiity mo Famous one
Of 1870.

Lovers of good wine arc likely to ind Q
new record OF cxccllcnoe IN tho vintage OF
1909. Consul Covert. reporting from Lyons
IN France, says there can be no doubt ths,
the quality Of the wine Of 1905 VIII be superior
to any yield, even that OF the famous ytn-
tage Of 1870.
Large quantities were sold even befors
the grape were gathered at prices ranging
tr om rs to 80 per cent. higher than tbs
prevailing figures Of the last two decades
The yield Of wine will be smaller than for
many years, but this viii DO largely COM
pensaied for by a marked Improvement In
the quality.
The weather the last season has been
very warm and the hot sun ripeued the
grapes, giving them several degrees OF alco-
hol in excess OF former years. Vineyards
which yielded wine Of sever degrees In
ordinary years this year produce Q wine OF
twelve or fourteen degrees, but the guam
tity in many cases is 30 small that the farmer
will be subjected to great loss.
Of Bordeaux and Burgundy vii DO unsur-
passed. Dealers from all the great nations
OF Europe have had their agents there
buying up the entire crop OF several OF the
ANGUS vineyards.
As u was known the yield would be small
and the quality superior, much wine has
been bought On speculation and Will be hsd
several yeerE. adj.
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SOME n ROCKS.
the Coneorda, Between h e Pppacy and
France.

Well timed, in view of he present collision
bet weer Church and State in France, isthe
publication by T.. p. button aud Co. OF
an English translation of The History o.
he Pdpuey in the Nineteenth Century, blythe
Danish scholar DIR. FREDRIK NIELSEN.
Bishop Of Aarhus. and formerly professor
u ecclesiastical history in the University
OF Copenhagen. To indicate the point OF
view from which the narrative IL penned
we need only say that the author : one of
the leading spirits in he Danish Established
CLutherani Church. His position may he
compared to that Of a large minded and
statesmanlike High Chrrchman in England
II il also significant that he was on terms
at intimate friendship with DIR. DolllnGer
during the lifetime Of that great German
theologian. who, il will he remembered.
though a Catholic, denounced the dogma
of papal ~infallibility affirmed by the Vatican
Council. The period covered 10y this work
is not precisely indicated by i~tstitle. About
two hundred pages of the first volume are
devoted 10 an Introduction, ia which the
history of the Papacy is briefly sketched'
from the beginning Of nh" reign Of Louis
XIV. TO the election Of Pope PiE VII. in
the year 1900. Then again, the second
volume carries Us no further han the occu-
PATTON of Rome by the troops OF Victor
Emmanuel in the winter of ls70-7i. We are
told in a preface, however. that the author
hopes presently to- finish a third volume,
dealing with the pontiiicate of Leo MIL,
and thus 10 complete the record ofthe nine
teeDth century. The sections of the work
which are likely TO prove of special interest
TO American readers al the present time are
those that discuss the formation of the
Concordat between the Papacy and France
which has Just beer abolished, and which
treat OF the kulturkampf in Germany and
Italy which ma rked the closing years 1T the
pontifcate ~ Plus TX.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23
John Sherman.

The latest addition to the American
Statesmen" series, which has long been in
course Of publication by H~oughton, Mifiin
4 Co, Is a volume devoted to John Sherman
by THEODORE e. BURTON. Nobody will
challenge John Sherman's right to figure
in such a gallery. Here Is a man who for
upward OF forty years was an active par
tictipant in national public life, who was
thirty-two years a United States Senator.
who filed the great executive Offices Of
Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary
OF State, and who was three times a more
or less conspicuous candidate for the Presi-
dency. Moreover, his public life was
contemporaneous with many Of the most
momentous vents in the history Of the
republic, and his name is inseparably
linked with some remarkable measures.
Ohio has given five Presidents to the Union,
but John Sherman and salmon p. Chase
are the only natives Of that State who thus
far AVE been deemed worthy Of a place In
this list Of American Statesmen
70 John sAernann was born st Lancasssr.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23

Gospel allegiance 20 the republic, and In
all churches the following prayer is 20 DO
recitsd at each service: Domino, sGlUdm fac
ren1-pubIioGm. Domino. saIros fac eonsIIes.
20 Lord, keep the republic safe. o Lord,
keep the Consuls safe.l According TO the
Conoordat. the Bishops were to select the
parish priests. but their choice must fall
only upon men pleasing TO the Govern
ment. All the necessary churches were TO
be placed at tho disposal OF tho Bishops
but the Pope was 70 promise that neither
he nor his successors would In any way
inturs abe owners OF the church property
which had been oonfiscated. The Govern
ment would. on the other hand, grant to the
ministers Of the Church suitable seipends,
and French Catholics were to have per-
mission to make gifts to the Church. The
First Consul was to enjoy the same privileges
as the head Of the ancient Government, but
II any Of his SUCCESSORS were to leave the
Catholic Church a new arrangement would
have 60 be made.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23

Bnenne, in spite OF his personal unbelief y,
admonished the King that il was reserved
for him to give the death blow to Calvin
ism in France: and in 1859 the Able de Ia
Rochefoucauld spoke with contempt OF the
Protestants as the sect which. in the midst
Of it's ruins. had the enrontery to seek to
appropriate 10 falsehood those privileges
which belong only TO truth. Every con-
cession to the PrOtestants was met with
grudging resentment on the part OF the
priesthood. As regards the immunity OF
the Church from taxes, DIR. Nielsen points
out that in 1888, when the Notables wished
to extend taxation to land belonging to
the Church, the assembly OF the clergy
made vigorous protests against the pro-
pOsal as an overthrow of all laws, human
and divine. In the past the clergy had re-
peatedly shown that tho Church was willing
10 give great free will offerings for the good
Of the country; butt in 1883 Ehe prelates
declared that homo and conscience alike
forbade them 10 give their consent TO
turning a charitable contribution INTO o
forced tax. The most religious OF the
Bishops, as Talleyrand saysin his Memoirs,
opposed the new taxation, in order not to
touch the patrimony Of the poor; the
prelates of high birth hated every form
Of change; and the rest said that the Church,
in order to fulfil her great mission. and to
maintain her high social position, was
bound to retain the wealth with which
ancestral piety had endowed her.
Such resistance on the part Of the clergy
only caused irritation, and criticism fast
ened upon the large sums which went yearly
TO pay tho prelates. 1t was said that France
had too many Bishops, and that they were
too richly rewarded. The eleven Arch
bishops and 1913 Bishops had an aggregate
annual income Of nearly $500, 900 francs.
The incomes Of the Vicars-General and
canons exceeded IL, 900, 900 francs; 7i5
abbeys in commCnddm brought their hold
ers 1900 600 francs a year, and 703 pnors
received nearly l,S0O,O00 francs. While.
however. some Bishops and Abbots who
did nothing had LOG, 900 francs a year or
much more, there were ovCrworked priests
who received barely 700. Such contrasts
caused i'll feeling, and when the Revolution
broke out not only the immunity Of Church
property from taxation, but the Church
property itself was lost, religious unity
was destroyed, and the power OF the Church
over the schools was broken.
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n

We should now note that at the begin
ming OF the Revolution the French Church
possesssd three great privileges. In a
religious sense the whole country was one.
The Roman Church was not only the Church
Of the State. put also the dominant Church
to such a degree that the free exercise
OF other confessions and religions was not
permitted. In the second place, this ruling
Church had the schools entirely in her
power. and in the third place, her great
possessions were untaKed. Il was not her
control Of education that as yet was most
resented. Il was especially the intolerance
Of the p~relates and the immunity Of &C.
cIesisstical property from taxation that
everywhere aroused indignation. When
Lsuik Avn was anointeds Archbishop
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23

more closely to the Revolution IL was
decreed on November ~ Of the year just
named that all members Of the clergy
should take an oath in which they should
not only promise obedience 20 the secular
authorities and to the laws, but bind hem
selves to uphold the Civil Constitution TO
the best Of their power. The King delayed
giving his signature as long as he could.
but on December 20 he was obliged 10 put
his name to the decree, and tho oath was
At once demanded OF all the French Bishops
and priests.
The administration OF this oath divided
the French priesthood into two parts,
namely. the jurors Oes G~sssrmenfes Oonstfu-
~tionneIs) and the non-jurors Qes inserfnsntes
rsfrGctGirss). On December ~, 1890, in the
presence Of the National Assembly, the
Abb6 Gregoire swore fealty to the nation,
the law, the King and the Civil Constitution
in the belief that this organic law was a
matter which only concerned the outward
polity. not the doctrines, Of the Church, and
in the conviction that the Pope would have
accommodated the Bishop OF Finistere
elected by laymen in Octoberl, and would
have condemned the Civil Constitution II
it had been heresy to conform to 1t.
Betw cen thirty and forty thousand priests
took the oath in the period which imme-
distely followed; De Pradt, indeed, thinks
that the number was as high as sixty thou
sand; but many other priests, n by far
the greater part Of the Bishops, refused TO
do 80. In March and April, 1901, commune
cations at last arrived from Rome which
showed that the non-jurors had rightly
interpreted the silence Of Plus vi. The
Pope's intimation that he might take strong
measures, like those which his predecessors
had used on similar occasions. no doubt
strengthened the non-juring Bishops and
priests. and many laymen, in their resistance
10 the Civil Constitution. Thenoeforth,
in the eyes Of most Of the faithful laity,
the non-juring priests were the only true
pastors.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23
VI.

On the whole, when the National Con-
vention was succeeded by the Directory
In October, 1895, the Catholic religion found
ltself, s7tres better OF IN France than when
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altnOuRn ne naQ deem reluctant
TO favor 10 at an earlier date. His argu-
ments for sound money Inc for financial
honor and credit were most earnest when
the sentiment of his own State and Of large
sections of the country was manifested most
forcibly for imitation or depreciation Of the
monetary standard.
John Sherman was not a candidate for
the Presidency in 1915, the Ohio delegation
to the Republican national convention Of
that year having been pledged to Gov.
Hayes, at whose request Sherman subse-
uuentIy resigned his seat in the United States
Senate, and on March 4, 1877, assumed the
duties OF Secretary Of the Treasury. For
a time Sherman's chance OF obtaining the
nomination for the Presidency In 1880
seemed excellent, In the event Of q dead
lock between the supporters Of Grant and
Blaine. On the first ballot in the Chicago
convention OF the yea named he received
% votes, and at one time he mustered 100.
After thirty-ive Intellectual ballotings, how
ever, Garfield, who had made the speech
nominating Sherman for the Presidency.
received nearly all the votes previously
cast for Sherman and Blaine, as well as
those given to two or three minor candidates,
and became the nominee.
The present biographer admits that the
outcome OF this convention caused a great
deal Of disappointment and heartburning
10 Sherman, who often declared that he
would have Jared better had he made no
effort for the nomination, and regretted that
he did not maintain a waiting attitude. At
first he had absolutely declined to be a
candidate at Chicago in 1889, stating in re-
spouse to letters of numerous friends, In
1878 and 1879. that a sufficient demand for
him as q Presidential candidate had not
developed 20 justify his sntsring the eon-
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-10-24
BY HARRY 7. GREEN.
Uncle Sam After Politicians.

Gary H. Sellers of Jesup, Iowa, was
held to the federal grand jury at Du-
buque for the December term, under
bonds of $500, at the conclusion of the
preliminary hearing before United
States Commissioner. J. o. Stewart.
He is charged with intercepting a
letter and making public it's contents.
The case is an outgrowth of the politi-
cal contest in the third district,
prior to the republican state conven-
tion, also prior to the republican
county convention in Buchanan
county.
On the morning of the 23rd of last
June letter written by Howard Ted
ford and addressed to George Gallarno
was placed in Sellers box by mistake
of the assistant postmaster at Jesup.
He-opened it and found that it con-
tanned mention of money being used
in the campaign. The evidence showed
that he took the letter to r. l.. Bord-
ner, the mayor of Jesup. and that it
was afterwards taken to Independence
and photographed. 1t is claimed that
one of the negatives and prints made
was being forwarded to Des Moines to
be printed for the purpose of influence
ing the caucuses in Buchanan county !;
that a wreck on the Great Western de.
layed it and that, therefore, one Kut-
ford. of the state pharmacy commits
sion went into the office of the Water
loo Times Tribune and gave AL. Moore
the story, so that he could get action
on the voters before the caucuses were
held, and that afterwards the confer
ence of Cummins men concluded that
they might get into trouble with the
postoffice authorities and so the letter
was never printed.
Sellers friends say there is nothing
in this story, though they admit that
the letter was photographed. They
say that they were incensed when the
letter showed that money was being
used in the campaign for Perkins and
they had the letter photographed for
the purpose of being used as evidence
in the contemplated prosecution of
the men named in the letter.
The article from Mr. Moore's paper
was introduced in evidence and he
testified that he wrote the article at
the suggestion of Mr.. Kutford. He
also admitted that he gave his i'm
agination free rein in writing the
article.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-10-24
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Boy Of 9 Has Vision"

After being in trance for two
DAYS, from which it was impossible
to awaken him, the nine year-old son
of George Kehm of Fort Dodge, told a
story that has amazed all who have
heard it. The child says a gray-robed
figure came to his bedside and in
.stantly he seemed to sink into death.
He became spirit and was carried
away in the arms of the figure, who
brought him to great, brass bound
gates that lowered miles above his
head. These opened, and as in dream
he found himself within land filled
with peol lie. music and all the beauties
that the mind could conceive. He
was then taken to a place where he
could look down and see hundreds of
great iron furnaces where millions of
people were being tortured All were
crying and appeared to be in great
agony. The child is thought to be too
young to invent such story, and all
who have heard him relate it are of the
opinion that he had vision of both
heaven and hell.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-10-24
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