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BY SAVOYARD.

from their parents. The confidence and
 fellowship between these two are beaut;- ful and ideal. There was never divls- ion of their heritage, never a settlement of their accounts, If, indeed there were
 such. The property of one was the prop erty of the other What belonged to both belonged to each. Not only were their lands and chattels in common. but their bank accounts and private purses were in common. When the elder brother was manager the younger called on him for money or supplies when he was fin need, and always received the full of his re. quests, and when the elder entered poll tiles and was returned to Congress the younger took charge of the estate, and for fourteen years has been the pursc- holder. Both are happily married. and each is the father of seven children. Tho relations between them are simply le- lghtful 'It Is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard, even Aarons beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments. As the dew of Hermon. and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion
 John Sharp Williams was elected to the Fifty-third Congress. and has been a member of the House of Representative since March l. 1893. the day Grover Cleve- land was the second time naugurated President of the United States This young Mlssissippian. who sustains to the statesmanship of this generation of his state and his section the relation Robert J. Walker sustained to a former gen. eration, was enheralded upon his en- trance to the Capital City, and attracted small attention. He was an extensive, an intelligent, and a successful planter from q state whose agricultural interests were manyfold all its other interests. and in consequence it was but natural that he should be assigned to the committee of agriculture fin the organization of the House. He attended strictly to his Ju ties in that capacity. and lent to the de- Alterations of that council board vast amount of practical common sense. that was the result of his personal experience as a planter and husbandman.
 When he rose the first time to address the House at any considerable length he was accorded a respectful hearing. and that day he won his spurs. The speech was no fervid declamatio not an appeal 10 passion, not an oration. not an essay He Is a scholarly man, but has pre- tense to the graces of the orator. and ha Is not an Apollo in physical presence and not an Adonis in physical beauty. His Is not dulcet voice, but on this occasion there was a something in the speech and in the man that challenged attention and commanded respect. Congress pricked up its ears and before he had spoken q quarter of an hour 1t was the opinion If Congress that this little man would mako his mark. and he did. In argument he "A sound from his political standpoint. and his language is precise and ample-no lack of words and no superfuous words. He is an able and an accomplished de- batter. He is fluent and his self-posses- sion evidences the man of thought, the man of culture. and the man of mental moral and physical courage.
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set out to trail him by his blood to his place of concealment. Col James Blair of Georgia and Sam Dale following them. Over the scarcely dlscernable path they sped over on the alert in the darkness lest they lose their gruesome trail and their victim escape them.
 Al the same time they reached the barn where Doublehead was concealed. Ridge and Saunders came galloping Up, shout ing the war whoop. The four men ascended quickly into the loft where they found the wounded chief lying on the floor his jaw and arm terribly lacerated. He was breathing heavily and by the first rays of daylight, which were beginning to penetrate the cracks of the barn. the effects of loss of blood and the nights suffering were plainly discernable upon his countenance. He did not arouse from his lethargy until Ridge and Saunders were almost upon him. They each leveled their pistols and each missed fire, but with the click of the triggers a change as of magic came over the great chief. The terrible fire of his eye, which had palsied the army of many an enemy, his magnificent courage and strength which had gained and held for him pre-emlnence over his tribe for more than quarter of a century, returned, and for a moment his assailants quailed before him. With one bound he leaped upon Ridge. the fury of the onslaught almost bearing him to his knees. The two men then closed in a death graple, Doublehead with his back to the wall and keeping Ridge be- tween him and Saunders, who with pistol cooked was watching eagerly for an op- portunity to shoot him. Covered with blood from the wounds of the chief, which his exertions had caused to flow afresh. the two forms swayed and struggled in
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T HERE are still living in Flor
 ence few of the older inhab-
 1 itants who remember the noted Indian chief, Doublehead, who flourished in the latter part of the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth centuries. Doub1ehead be- longed to the Cherokee tribe whose ter and Kentucky, the southern border ex- tending down into Alabama. Chief among a race where honor and social position were gained only by great achievements. in war, he Is described as a fine specimen of manhood, light brown in color, surpassing most of his race in height and with a bearing of marked grace and dignity. Like all of his tribe, his head was shaved with the exception of a small patch of hair worn at the back of the head. On the war path in the council or in single com bat Doublehead was pre-eminent among his contemporaries and wielded such power by his oratorical abilities that he was often compared with his prede- cessor, the Little Turkey" the most famous and popular of all the Cherokee chiefs.
 Doublehead was the last of the hos tile chiefs to hold out in the Cherokee wars, but wh en peace was at last made he accepted its conditions and became one of the most progressive of the Cherokee leaders. Proud and arrogant. his restless spirit and love of conquest had kept him continually at war with his neighbors. the Creeks. Chickasaws and Choctaws, and many an act of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
BY F. I. MONKS.

shady trees acting as a fringe to the cricket ground. and the thousands of spectators quietly enjoying the game pre- sent picture of real enjoyment difficult to surpass. The result of the game is of very little concern to anyone except the actual players, and to them only from the point of the honor and glory of winning The visiting team always in- vites the local team to play a return match when the hospitality Is returned.
 When the mercenary spirit enters into any game the spirit of sport as rule goes out The gate receipts Is the prize. and how that prize Is won and held by professionals may be learned from ths ever varying results of contests between wrestlers. pugi,ists and athletes. In .he wake of these sport fakers follow triee of professional gamblers, and last of all in the procession come the shorn lambs. The Englishman Is not swept off his feet by every fad and craze that comes along. What is called his slowness Is really his moderation. a gait of progress that does not require legislation to check nor as- sistance to preserve. It Is the absence of that spirit of moderation in all his pursuits that makes the American citizen lose the genuine pleasure in life.
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has recently put the state of Virginia Into his pocket. and Is dividing out the offices 10 his henchmen according to hls own pleasure. l gave the Bostonian my views of the general. and wound up by saying: But he was a good soldier We'll replied the Bostonian, he might have been a good soldier, and yet not a good man Certainly l rejoined. The Duke of Alva was a good soldier yet a very bad man. Was he one of Mahone's lieutenants?' ?' said the Bostonian"
 At this point Hatcher's credulity re belled. and he said: "1iden, you have made up that story. I can't believe that any such ,a'ng occurred" I assured him upon tue honor 5f Baptist preacher that the incident lad occurred just as 1 had related it; and be then accepted my statement, and said: Now prove your theory that it never could have oc- curred.'
 We'll I replied, some three thousand years hence, some critic, seeing that story in print, will reason thus: That story does not bear telling. Everybody knows that Boston was especially noted fo' her intelligence and culture She was
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cruelty and treachery mars the record of this one of the bravest and most picturesque of the modern Indian chiefs.
 In 1793 Doublehead and John Watts, with several hundred braves, made an attack on Cavett's Station, near Knox vile, Tenn. The time was well oh osen for the attack, when all the men were away on an expedition, with the ex- ception of three, who had been left io guard the thirteen women and chil- dren. Aware of conditions within, the Indians descended upon the station like a whirlwind and the luckless band found themselves completely surround ed, with odds of a hundred to one against them and no hope that suceor could reach them in time. Knowing that resistance would be useless, they surrendered on the promise that their lives would be spared and Sat they sh hould be held for exchange. This promise was readily given by Double head, but no sooner had the Indians gained admission to the station than a massacre was ordered by Doublehead, and all the whites were put to death with the exception of one small boy, who was saved by John Watts.
 The encroachments of the white man which had become more and more ag- gressive from the earliest treaty of 17s5, when the Cherokees had been al lowed one deputy of their own selec- tion in congress. had steadily contract ed their territory, driving them further and further west, and when peace was restored at the end of the Cherokee wars they found themselves with scarcely vestige of their lands east of the Mississippi river. Resistance
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his country to spectators. For this act he was condemned to death in the Chero- kee council and Maj. John Ridge was selected as his executioner.
 Samuel Dale, the great Indian fighter, who with two companions attacked nine Indians In a boat and slew them in a hand to hand combat, gives the follow ing account of the death of Double-head, which he witnessed:
 q had gone with several pack horses. loaded with merchandise, to a great ball play on Hiwassee river, where more than a thousand Cherokees, the officers from Ft. Hiwassee and numerous traders had assembled The chief affected to receive me with severity, and said, Sam, you are a mighty liar
 T demanded why he had nsulted me in public. He smiled and said. You have never kept your promise to come and see me; you know you have lied
 He then produced a bottle of whisky, and invited the officers and myself to drink When we had emptied 1t l of fered to replenish 1t, but he refused, say ins. When I am in the white man s country I will drink your liquor, but here you must drink with Double-head.
 When the ball play ceased l was standing with Double-head when Bone polisher. a captain, approached and de- nounced him as a traitor for selling a portion of the country, a large and val uable tract near the shoals of the Ten nessee river, to a company of specula- tors. The great chief remained tranquil and silent. which only aggravated the Bone -polisher. who continued his abuse with menacing gestures. Double-head quietly remarked, Go away. You have said enough. Leave me or I shall kill you. Bone-polisher rushed at him with
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STILL A BOY.

Frank Bates Tanner. in The Reader f July.
 "Stlll a boy" we heard one say
 Ton another, half in jest. Then fun-wrinkles joined in play
 With laugh of merry zest. And the jolly frame of him
 Shocks with bursts of sheerest joy As he answered back with vim,
 Well, I'm glad I'm still a boy!' Still a boy-aye. true enough
 Glad. yet gentle pure and kind; Nodded sure of manly stuff
 Kind of boy it's hard to find, Kind of boy it's good to see
 Man. boy, wholesome; simple true Kind of boy you'd like to be
 If the choice were left to you. Still a bay-how many now
 Have forgot the solemn eye Have forgot the wrinkled brow
 Is the boys that once came by? Call him back-it is his due:
 Let him come with youth and joy Back into the heart of you,
 Laughingly, and still a boy. Still a boy--ah. well-a-day,
 Boys are scarce enough at best. With the rippling roundelay
 Let the boy still be your guest; Let him cleave unto your heart
 In boy-confidence and hold Still boy-the man apart.
 Long long after he Is old.
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BY J. C. HIDEN, D. D.

knew of English? And especially would 1 ask if any critic fin the world is as familiar with any two Hebrew styles as Ryland was with Broadus' and mine?
 Outside of the Bible and commen- taries upon the Bible, where Is your Hebrew literature? It Is almost non- existent. The materials for q critical and intelligent comparison of Hebrew styles are conspicuously lacking.
 Further: It Is perfectly well known to intelligent English readers that there are vast and ehasmal differences in the style of the same writer at different periods of his life. "The Caxtons." My Nover and perhaps two or three more of Bulwer's novels would do credit to any name in the fictitious literature of England: and yet from the same brain and pen came Pelham" which is about as worthless trash as I have ever seen In print How such a mind as Bulwer's ever managed to compose such stuff Is one of the insoluble mysteries of lit- erary history.
 A priori reasoning on the subject of style Is almost sure to lead the critic Into bogs which are worse than the Slough of Despond."
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resembles baseball The rival teams con- sist of eleven members each. and during the game they are known as the "ins' and the ''outs" The team winning the toss takes first innings. and remains at the bat until all It's members are put out. The game is played by bowling at a set of three wickets In front of which the batsman stands Two batsmen are on the field at the same time. and the distance from one set of wlekets to the other Is twenty-two yards. A run Is made by the batsmen exchanging ends after one of them has hit the ball. The style of bowling is called round arm," quite diff ferent from pitching. There are no foul lines. and the batsman can play the ball in any direction he likes. which gives rise to quite n variety of hits, all having their appropriate names.
 Summer is the cricket season. and no words can describe the beauty of q cricket field of June or July afternoon, when the fashionable ladies arrive h their carriages and promenade inside the enclosure or throng the seats on the grandstand. The mild afternoon sum- the blue sky, the fragrance of flowers and new mown hay, the fiuttering of flags from flag poles of the pavilion, the tall
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EXPERIENCES WITH THE ADVANCED CRITICS E

of Harvard university. The address was an immensely and intensely radical dis eussion of Biblical criticism. The able and learned speaker went so far as to say that when the Biblical critic found his principles clashing with the creed, 1t did not in the least disturb his equanimity; he simply said: 50, much the worse for the creed;" and proceeded to work out and to apply his imperturbable principles. with as little concern about a change of the creed as about change in the weather.
 On the morning after the delivery of this address, l. B. Lake, William E. Hatcher and myself were on a car, going out for a visit to Harvard, when I re- marked: ''I can take Lyons principles and prove that some things which I per sonally witnessed at the breakfast table this morning. not only did not occur, but could not have occurred" Let us hear what they were" said Hatcher. where upon I proceeded as follows: "A Bos- ton business man, who sat next to me at the table, asked me to give him my opinion of General William Malone, who
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a. stentorian voice, while ten thousand threats yield up an universal shout that makes the distant hills respond.
 Surely human courage has been demon- strated to the fullest degree, surely mortal hate should feel appeased; but To. Again the assault Is made, again the defense renewed. This time the ball flies unerringly towards the object; this time the club Is drawn back over the shoulder. With a sweeping stroke from the club the missile Is met and sent sky 5- wards almost beyond the range of vision Taking advantage of the temporary dis arament of his adversary he who welded the club so dexterously rushes to a point of safety provided with a cushion on w------ he lays his head just in time to save himself from further attack
 This is baseball as 1t appears to the uninitiated. The game is played and over in less than two hours, but in these two hours Is concentrated the excitement of twenty-four. That Is typical of the Amer ican condense and strengthen, but conden- sation of pleasure may. like the condensa- ton of perfume, reach point where the enc becomes pungent and the other pain ful
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his tomahawk, which the chief received on his left arm, and drawing a pistol shot him through the heart.
 "roreseelng trouble, I left immediately for Hiwassee ferry Sometime after night fall Double head came In, evidently un- der the influence of liquor One John Rog- CTS, an old white man who had long re- sided m the nation, was present and be- gan to revile the chief after the manner of Bone-polsher.
 Double head proudly replied, You live by sufferance among us l have never seen you fin the council nor on the war path. You have no place among the chiefs. Be silent and interfere no more with me-
 "The old man persisted and Double head attempted to shoot him, but his pistol missed fire; in fact 1t was not charged Ellick Saunders and Ridge, n chief were present. Ridge extinguished the light and one of them fired at Double head When the light was rekindled Ridge Saunders and Rogers had disap- peared and the chief lay motlonless on his face The ball had shattered his lower jaw and lodged in the nape of his neck His friends set out with him for tho garrison, but apprehensive of being over taken they turned aside and concealed him in the loft of one MT. Black schoolmaster."
 Meanwhile the report that he was des- perately wounded had spread rapidly among his enemies and they resolved to complete their work while the valorous chief was, as they supposed, incapable of offering them any resistance. Finding that he was no longer at the ferry, two warriors of the clan of Bonepolisher. who had been designated to avenge his death,
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the club indicates his purpose to receive the victim in his arms while the padding and armor plating, helmet and gauntlets show that his office Is attended with no little risk
 About thirty paces distant stands the antagonist of him with the club. He stamps and paws the ground like an Anduasian bull in the arena; he turns his head to the eright and to the left as if he feared attack from these quar- ters. The galleries are packed with spectators, keen-eyed and eager. The situation has wrought up an intensity of feeling almost amounting to hysteria Then he in whose hand the deadly missile Is lightly clinched sways his body side ways, nearly a semlcrcle. swings his arms violently over his head, sets his face with a scowl of indiscribable hatred and hurls the thunderbolt A man of undaunted nerve, he with the club. Calm and resolute he stands with uplifted weapon of defense and gazes without tremor on the approaching messenger of death The missile speeds past untouched and buries itself in the folds of the cushioned palm of him who peeps from behind the bars. Strike one" proclaims
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who have experienced the American plan of life and the English prefer the lat ter
 Cricket in England is the national game; 1t Is not played by professionals as baseball is in America. The matches are played between the various clubs, and each club has it's own grounds. Tine grounds of some clubs are as beautiful Is the lawns of the aristocracy. Matches are played by invitation, and during the game the members of the visiting team are the guests of the local team. As rule the public Is admitted free to the grounds during the playing of a match. but special provision Is made for those willing to pay small amount for ad mission to the private enclosure and grandstand. Play begins at 10 o'clock in the morning and lasts until Dor o'clock in the afternoon with an hour for lunch. from 1 to o'clock. A match between the big clubs may last three or four days, and always winds up with a ban quet. In that respect it does not differ from any meeting of English gentlemen in the world of sport; a banquet Is always considered the proper conclusion to gathering of kindred spirits.
 The game of cricket in many respects
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rNHE Senate is this mans place.
 There he will remind of Davis and
 A Walker, of Lamar and George and Walthall. He will occupy the void made by Carmacks absence. He will have no superior in the body. The United States Senate Is the great deliberative political council of the American people. Its his tory is the cream of American citizen- ship, and to it we must look for the splendor of American statesmanship. Though we have fallen on times when any jackleg can make a better constitu- ton than that our fathers builded, the work of the fathers proved wonderfully successful, and the United States Sen ate is their grandest production. Ii is the conservative element that was formed to shield the minority from the ungoverned license of the majority and that Is all the expression free govern ment" ever meant to the intelligent stu dent of politics. Ours is a mixed gov ernment, national and federal, the latter a check upon, and a balance against the former, as when the conservatism of the Senate saved Andrew Johnson from the radicalism of the House; as when the Senate threw out the Lodge force bill of 1890 The Senate is the theatre upon
 
 as great a part as the largest: there Del aware and New York are equal. Not only is the Senate federal in it's membership, but. under the constitution, it Is federal in it's composition-that Is, the state leg islatures, made up of the representatives from equal communities, choose the sen- ators. If you doubt that 1t has worked admirably, get the roll of the Senate for a century and be convinced. Senators are chosen by the legislatures. governors by the people. Who will dare say the governors of the states are superior to the senators from the states. He is d reckless man who will say they are equal to the senators.
 But that is to be changed at the de- mand of public clamor. The constitution of the fathers is already nullified in this practice of making senators by blanket primary If Jefferson Davis had lived and retained the splendid qualities of his prime there would have been no blanKet primary In Mississippi to bring Into con tempt section 3 of article of the con stitution of the United States. True, the primary does not nullify the letter, but 1t destroys the spirit. and in as far as possible the Senate is made a national body instead of a federal. It Is now proposed to put the Initiative and the ref erendum to it, which aboishes the Sen ate makes the government entirely na- tional. and turns all power over to the unbridIed license of the masses of the big states. I can see how that might be favored by New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois, but where would Mis- sissippi come in? She would surrender her equality in the Senate to have her small popular vote swallowed mp in the immense popular vote of Chicago or Philadelphia. where majorities are made to order. Better turn back and bear
 fTc fha fat a for us rather than fly to fads know not of
 If 1 live l shall look down from the