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REAL ESTATE.

FOR SALE $5500-2-story cor. res. So Highlands. $3000-Lovely big lot. Hickory St $7500-New SIR modern res. So. 11th St. S4OO0-Large Sycamore St. lot. $12, ,750-Cor. res. s. Higl'ds, large lot. s6500-Bargain, 2-story, s. Highlands res. $45O0-Nice cottage home near 12th St. loop $2O0O-Large Richmond Place cor. lot. $1500-5-room cottage, 32d St. Ave. F. $16O0-50x14O Ave. D, near 12, improved $3150-70x200 s. 18th St, near K. S3O Pr Ft-Choice R. R. frontage. S21, ,O00-100x140, 4th ave. cor, improved s16,500-New brick store, rent s130 month. $2250-Choice Norwood lot. 30 St. S10. BOO Handsome Norwood home. S3500-Excellent CIR res. W'Iawn, on car.
 FOR RENT. 10-room S. Highlands residence. New handsome brick store.
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WAREHOUSE FOR RENT.

.. tenant is wante for desirable ware house on Morris avenue. The building Is 5vxS2h, fou; stories. has railroad ..e- tracl, in rear; convenient for receiving and shipping. Now occupied by Wimberly & Thomas Hardware Go. Possession can b' given October l. Apply to
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ONE GENT A WORD

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Evening star., 1907-09-01
CHAPTER XIV.
No. 10 Downing Street

THREE days after the trial and sentence of
L Abraham Crampiron, Lord Domestic sat
alone in the great drawing room of No. 10
Downing Street. He felt that his situation
was excessively delicate; for too many persons
were affirming too loudly that his country
had had enough of him. Parliament was to
meet on the morrow, and he was by no means
certain of ma jority in either house. And
more immediate, he had summoned a special
Cabinet meeting for noon, and had not decided
precisely what course OF action he would sug-
geSt to his colleagues in the painful dilemma
in which he and they found themselves. Fur
ther, he had arranged certain interview with
a humble and yet very important individual
for eleven O'Clock, and was lust acknowledging
to himself that he could not even begin to
devise his campaign until that interview was
over.
At this iuncture footman entered and pre-
sented woman's visiting card on charger.
Lord Doncastle hesitated almost lmper-
Ceptlbly, then jumped up. Show her ln!
he commanded.
The instant the footmans back was turned
he whipped off his purple dressing gown, and,
How do you do, Miss Mcent?" he said,
advancing with an easy grace toward the door
"a 1t is very good of you to see me" Milicent
replied, taking his protfered hand She looked
superb in her simple mourning, and nothing
became her better than the grave, gently sad
and invincbly determined expression which
her pale face wore.
And Lady Mary-how is she?" asked Lord
Domestic.
Poor mother imagines herself to be worse
than she really is" said Micent calmly. 4
told her this morning that she must get up
and come down stairs and behave as though
she was perfectly well. We have to resume
our lives you know, Lord Doncastle."
You very sensible if | may say so,"
he concurred, with sudden admiration in his
mild and winning voice Wien l think of
all that you must have suffered during the
the
"Tnal?" Milicent suggested.
During the trial" Lord Domestic pro-
ceeded firmly, Il can't find words to express
the keenness of my sympathy with you all. :"
This episode in our existence is over,
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T HE S T A T u E
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tion on his white cheeks, there under the gas
rays. And all wondered what could have been
III the note which he had received. None
knew, none suspected; for Cramplron, since
the arrival of the note, had spoken word
until abruptly he took his case out of the
hands OF Lorlmer.
You had better explain the circumstances
to the jury said the Judge,, c-.
piled with ferocitv,-"if if anyone in this court
supposes that he will persuade me to explain
anything whatever, let him try-that's all !
Explain! Why in the name of God should
explain? l plead guilty. What else do you
WANT" His insolence was so overwhelming
that it ceased to be insoence.
Il must warn you against gross contempt
of court" said the Judge stiff1y.
Crampron laughed, in his tears. "You can't
hang me in three Sundays" he sneered. If
it amuses you to imprison me for contempt
while I'm waiting, do so. That would be the
crown of your reputation as humorist, My
Lord
After the brief formalities of spectacular
justice the jury returned verdict in accord
ance with the prisoners plea; then the Judge
put on the black cap and administered the
sentence. And may God haze mercy on
your soul" he concluded.
And then nothing heard in court but
the low Kissing of the gas jets, and one sigh
of relief. That sigh was MauriCe's. Hazard
had accomplished the justice which Maurice
had sworn to obtain. In accomplishing it,
however hazard had afforded to the criminal
an occasion to be heroic, and the criminal had
audaciously seized the occasion.
The next moment Crampiron had been hur-
ried down stairs by his keepers, to reappear
more in the sight of men. And as he took
the dim passage leading toward til, cells he
saw Norah, standing to await him. The i'm
perious and irresistible summons of instinct,
the appeal of her blood, had brought her
alone from her retirement in France to see her
father. She already knew the sentence; but
she did not know that few chance words of
Maurice to the effect that Norah was dead to
him, that for him she existed more, had
got twisted and magnifed they went from
one mouth to another, and had at last be-
tween the lips of person talking to enter
prising newspaper correspondent, become Crys-
taized into a definite untruth. She did not
know that Crampiron, in supreme moment,
had realized that he cared for only one thing
IN this world,-herself,- and that upon the
staggering news that she had quilted it he
had decided to end the fight.
He stopped, and forced his keepers to stop.
Father and daughter gazed at each other in
incommunicable despair
They said you were dead!" he muttered
She did not grasp his words. "l-l-came
to see you'' Her girlish voice was a whisper.
He had to decide what to do, what attitude
to take. what tone to adopt He threw up his
head. Too late!' he replied, with cold and
proud benevolence, and passed on.
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gust. 1864. and when 1t had returned from it's memorable expedition into middle Tennessee, Kelly, then Colonel Kelly, dis tinguished himself by an encounter with gunboats on the Tennessee. Forrest was covering Bufords rear as his division pro ceeded to Corinth. and scouts reported several detachments of the enemy at- tempting to cross the river between Wa terloo and Clifton, from the north side of the river So Colonel Kelly was dis patched with a force to Eastport to meet any attempt on the part of transports and gunboats to throw force of the enemy across the river at that point He had 300 men. and Walton. with a section of hls battery was with him.
 Just as Kelly arrived fleet of three federal transports loaded with infantry and artillery and conveyed by two gun boats came in sight. With the utmost secrecy Kelly's small force was at once dlsmounted and concealed behind the crest of a ridge some 800 yards from the river landing, while the guns of Walton were posted in some old fortihcations on a hill about 800 yards from and command ing the landing.
 Meanwhile the enemy were rapidly dis embarking over the staging blanks, and the gunboats stood ready to protect them near the opposite shore. About 1200 of the federals with three six-pound rife guns
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A few days ago the navy department called for bids from shipping companies to deliver coal at certain points along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in anticipation of the cruise to be made by the United States fleet to San Francisco The bids disclosed the fact that the freight rates on coal carried in American vessels and delivered at Mare Island, in San Francisco harbor, were S1ab0 a ton, while the freight on the same commodity. delivered in the same place, but carried in foreign bottoms Is only s6.63 It is urged that the difference is largely, if not altogether, due to the cost of building ships in the United States compared with the cost of ship building in foreign countries.
 But 1t Is not the question of freight rates alone that calls for attention, 1t is the fact that the United States is com pelled to go outside for help in so vital a matter. These foreign bottoms that are now offering to transport coal belong to a nation that is an ally of Japan, and 1t Is hardly likely they would be avail
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the word as occurring 885 times in the plays alone If the law-givers. prophets, psalmists and sages of Israel had used the Hebrew word our transators would have given us its English equivalent, for they evidently had no prejudice against it.
 The conception, then. which is expressed by our word nature" was evidently a comparatively modern one to the Heberw mind. Paul is the first Biblical author who uses the word and Paurs speeches and writings distinctly show that his general education was largely Greek. In divers of his writings. and in his dis course at Athens, he makes quotations from and allusions to certain Greek poets and philosophers. Evil communications corrut good manners (morals) is from a comedy of Menander, and strangely enough occurs in one of the most sublime ly solemn passages ever written by man. l. e., in First Corinthians, 18th chapter, 33rd verse, where the Apostle Is discuss ing the resurrection of the dead. ''For we are also his offspring" Acts +, 2s is from Aratus, a Greek astronomical poet of considerable celebrity. "The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle glut- tons," is quoted from Epimenides, a Greek philosopher, who lived in Crete sev- eral centuries before the Christian era
 The idea which we express by our word
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method" of exegess. To read some of the modern treatises on "Science and the Bi- ble" is enough to make one imagine that some of our "scientists" believe that the Bible was written in and for the twen- tleth century.
 1 am not quarreling with the scientific conception of mature" I blame no man for reverencing all real science, and all real science is, in an important sense, natural science. The laws of the mind are just as natural as are the laws Of the body. Psychology is as natural as Physl- ology A sound Political Economy Is as natural as Astronomy. It's laws may not be so accurately ascertained nor so clear ly demonstrated: but so far as they are established they rest upon ascertained facts and principles of human nature.
 But there is nowadays far too com mon tendency to defy nature-to clothe nature with the powers and attributes of God. And to this tendency l do most seriously object. If it were confined to atheists and agnostes. 1t would not be so dangerous, but good Christian men too often unconsoiously give aid and com- fort to the enemy" by using phrases which atheistlc "scientists" have brought Into vogue Nature does this; Nature does that" Nature intends tho other"
 A friend of mine was angling in deep. swift stream which carries down an im-
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SOME THOUGHTS ON NATURE

ham. The Lord promises that the patri- arch's decendants shall be us the stars of the heavens for multitude. And he brought him forth abroad and said: Look now toward heaven and tell (counD the stars if thou be able to number them, and he said unto him: "So shall thy seed be-.
 Now, the greatness of this promise was based upon Abraham's ignorance of as- tronomy. If Abraham had known what the modern school girl knows he would have thought that promise nothing like so magnificent in its proportions as it really appeared to his untutored mind. The number of stars, visible to the naked eye on clear night, does not much ex- ceed four thousand, and this would have been comparatively an insignificant num- ber to Abraham. To him the stars of the heavens were multitudinous host-a great multitude which no man could num- Der. And this accommodation of the rev elation of God to the ignorance of man iss the law of revelation generally.
 Able men of our own day are continu- ally going astray by interpreting into the Bible their own essentially modern con- captions of nature and of science, con captions of which no prophet or apostle ever dreamt and of which the Bible Is stril6ingly destitute. Such interpretations utterly set at naught tho historical
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FORESTS MEN FIGHT GUNBOATS

when Major D. c. Kelly was sent with a squadron to the banks of the Ohio to ln- tercept steam transport which was to pass on the following day. Soon after the major had reached the river. the steamer came in sight and easily become his prey-a welcome prize. as 1t contained sugar. coffee, blankets and other desra- ble supplies. But this was only a trans port. A real encounter with a gunboat, the first experience of the sort Kelly's men had, was to be felt the following day, after hurried march of s2 miles in eight hours. At Canton the federal gum boat Conestoga had appeared to seize Confederate supplies of clothing and the like, which were at that place. But be- fore the gunboat arrived news had been received at Princeton, and the remarka- ble ride of 32 miles in eight hours effect ed. The Confederates were there by the grace of a gentleman of Smithland, whose name should be known, for he rode s4 miles in 12 hours with but one change of horse. Here was Paul Revere. Scarce ly were the Confederates at the village and disposed before the novel battle with gunboats from the land by cavalry, than the boat, with its purpose of capturing goods, came up. From Princeton a small four-pounder gun had been brought, un- der the charge of Lieutenant Sullivan, and this had been so put in position ana masked as to be unobserved. The greater part of the men were also hidden. with the hope of decoying the enemy ashore. But the Conestoga came to the landing without dsembarking any one. then she backed from the landing some hundred yards and prepared for action. Scarcely was this done and her ports unclosed than the four-pounder above mentioned began it's work. Two fires were all 1t could fire before the superior guns of the boat; but the rif1emen delivered accurate shots through the gunboat's wide open ports, and the whole battalion joined in a rapid fire. This was like the minute men of Revolutionary fame. Each of the shots were dealt against the gunboat armed with nine guns that hurled both grape and canister. It was said at the time r men were killed or wounded by the small arms of the Confederates. After several hours of this combat the Cones- toga abandoned her purpose and made off. This was at the outstart of Forests com- mand and many of hls soldiers felt con fidence because of this success. But 1t was not the last of Forests encounters with gunboats. ,
 Again, after the reorganization of For
 rests cavalry at Grenada Miss. in Au-
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mature" Is a philosophical, scientific idea, and the Hebrews were a strangely unscl- entifio and unphilosophical people. Not until they came in contact with the civ ilization of Greece did they ever know much of philosophy or of science. The scientific and philosophical way of look
 ing at things was utterly foreign to tho prophetic spirit. The psalmist looks at the heavens and sings praises to the God who created them, but he has scarcely a word about astronomy. The prophetic writings are full of intensely practical conceptions of right and wrong; but they give scarcely & hint of what we call ethics" i. e., of right and wrong as scientifically ascertained and treated.
 Bishop Warburton ingeniously argued to prove that the absence of the doctrine of the future life from the Pentateuch was a strong reason for believing in "The Di- vine Legation of Moses" I do not be- leve that his reasoning is sound, though from the purely historical point of view there may be something in 1t. But what ever may be thought Warburton's view there are strong reasons for believing that the intensely practical and realistic conceptions which characterize the proph- etic writings-the utter absence or the philosophical, scientific and speculative spirit-tend to emphasize the belief in the Divine origin of those writings
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When man. without special Divine guid- ance, seriously contemplates either the physical or the moral universe, he finds himself confronted with problems which compel speculation. The book of Job Is clear proof of this. The discourses in that book are little more than one long series of speculations. This is not saying that the author of the book of Job was not inspired. It is simply saying that Job Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar and Elihu are represented as uttering their own purely human views of the works and ways of the Almighty And these views were full of errors, as Jehovah Himself points out when He comes to answer them. See Job SS 2. and A, !.
 The prophets, then. were not concerned with nature" They uniformly think and speak of the visible universe and its phenomena as the work of God. God made the universe; God owns it; God controls 1t. The rain and the snow, the harvest and the blight, the barns filled with plenty and the terrible famine, war; pestilence, sunshine and storm are all messengers from Jehovah, and are per fectly obedient to Him who worlleth all things according to the counsels Of His own will
 The very absence of scientific knowl edge Is used by Jehovah Himself in com municating His will and promise to Abra-
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may meet it in the Pacific. It would be Just as good for ships 10 go into action without ammunition as without coal. in fact it would be worse, for with well filed bunlters the ships could secure safety by flight. but without fuel neither flight nor movement Is possible.
 The great need of the United States to- day is a mercantile marine, and this neod could be remedied by government ownership of a mercantile marine. Gov ernment ownership of railroads has been recommended by men prominent in na- tional politics. and is we'll favored by some Of the best political economists. This fact Is merely mentioned to show that government ownership of transpor- tation facilities has found advocates among many thinking men, although the project seems to be beyond the bounds of possibility in this country; but there Is nothing to prevent the application of the principle to the mercantile marine. government that can and does build bat tleships costing millions of dollars might
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BY J. 0. HIDEN, D. D.

mense volume of water to the gulf. He caught a very large specimen of tho va- riety of fish commonly known as rcd horse" The fish struggled violently, and 1t was only after long playing" that the very skillful angler succeeded in worry ing 1t down. When landed 1t was found to weigh about twelve pounds. This fish," said the angler, was intended to run long way up this swift stream. and so Nature has given 1t a powerful frame that 1t might be able to resist the cur rent" Now my friend did not mean to be atheistic, and yet his language tended in the direction of atheism.
 l am not disposed to quarrel with that worship of nature" in which Words worth and Sir Walter Scott frequently lndulged though l suspect that even this may be carried too far. But I do very decidedly object to putting nature In the place of It's Author-in a word, to defy ing nature. Properly speaking, nature does nothing, designs nothing. intends nothing. Nature is simply the sum total of the ways in which. and the conditions under which. God does His work. To spell Nature with capital N, and to ascribe to 1t the powers, functions, de- signs and attributes of the Creator Is not only morally, but logically wrong. It is bad science and worse religion.
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able if the purpose of their services was to aid the American fleet against the Japanese England and Japan are parties to a treaty by which each is bound to support the other in the event of either going to war. Even if such a treaty did not exist and a war was to break out be- tween the United States and Japan. 1t is quite possible that some friendly diplo- mat would issue a circular note such as Hay presented to the powers, and by that means justify the refusal of the English ship owners to transport coal either in company with an American fleet or to an American coaling station.
 Public sentiment has shown itself op- posed to ship subsidy, and its merits or otherwise is not the subject of discussion here, but the fact remains that the United States is made dependent upon foreign nations to perform one of the most es- sential services in case of war This Is not as it should be and so long as it remains so just so long will the American fleet be an easy prey to any power that
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POEMS YOU OUGHT 70 READ
THE RIVER OF TIM
By William Cullen Bryant.

By William Cullen Bryant. There's a magical Isle up the
 time,
 Where the softest of airs are pl. There's cloudess sky and a trop
 cline. And song as sweet as a yesper chime. And the tunes with the roses are sta,
 ing. And the name of this is1e is the Long
 Ago,
 And we hurry our treasures there; There are brows of beauty and bosoms
 of snow They are heaps of dust, but we loved
 them sol There are trinkets and tresses of hair. There are fragments of song that no-
 body sings, And part of an infants prayer; There's a lute unswept, and a harp with
 out strings, There are broken vows, and pieces of And the garments that she used to
 wear. There are hands that are waved when
 the fairy shore By the mirage is lifted in air; And we sometimes hear, through the tur-
 bulent roar, Sweet voices we heard in the days gone
 before,
 When the wind down the river is fair.
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been for the concentration of the Japanese fleet in home waters the collier fleet would have been swept off the ocean and Rod jestvinsky never could have proceeded as far as he did; but Togo preferred taking the chances of battle at time and place chosen by himself rather than reduce his strength by sending his cruisers or tor pedo boatst to capture or sink the col Hers.
 All this has it's lesson for the United States, and espeeiaS~ is 1t borne home during these days when the very same problem that confronted Rodjesvinsky in his voyage round the Cape of Good Hope presents itself to the admiral who must pass around the American continent on his voyage to the Pacific. A great gen. eral once said that an army marches on it's stomach, and equally as truly may 1t be said that a great fleet sails on its bunkers. When these bunkers are of limited capacity provision must be made to keep up the supply necessary for daily consumption and always a reserve supply for emergencies.
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BY Fl. MONKS

by which bill of groceries was to be delivered, but that is the principle upon which this country hopes to build up a foreign trade in the east and In South America. With a 14.000,- bale cotton crop. of which about half will be exported, If It was a matter of depending upon American ships to take 1t the foreign market, tho accumulation would congest the wharves and wareh ouses. Much the same would be the condition as re- gards wheat, corn and provisions, all of which are transported in foreign bottoms.
 For every battleship built there should be an equal amount of money spent on a merchantile marine. Eng lands navy grows in about the same proportion as does her merchant ship ping, estimated by the amount expend- ed on each but what the English mer- chant does for English trade and com menrce the American government ought to do for It's trade and oom- merce. The American merchant is a railroad builder; not a ship builder.