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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14

Prophetic words. It was indeed ruin Tor some and disaster for most of the crew of the ship Hydaspia, a 20O0-ton register, full rigged ship, which sailed from Port land, Ore, on March 20, 1889, with a cargo of wheat bound for Falmouth for orders. It was now the middle of July, nearly four months since we crossed the bar at the mouth of the Columbia river and set out on our 15,00O mile voyage. At daylight on the morning of July Is we saw the shores of France and almost at the same time we saw a cloud of smoke on the horizon. was a tug boat from Havre which came towards us at full speed.
 A ships crew is made up of all na- tionalities, and among the sailors we had A French Canadian, who acted as inter- preter between our captain and the cap tain of the tug boat. It took consider able time to make terms, but eventually the word was given, Get the tow-rope out" and right quickly was 1t done. Ine tug boat was 8 powerful one, and simply walked away with us. The order was given to furl all sail, and while up aloft we saw the city of Havre in the distance, a magnificent sight.
 Hayre is situated at the mouth Of the Seine the river which flows through Paris and past the city of Rouen. The fortlfi- cations of the city are among its great est sights. AS our ship entered the mar bor we could see the sentries on the forts stop and look at us and we could not help thinking what would happen IT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14
ABOUT THE SLN OF COVETOUSNESS

nature that the poor youth who has been the slave of the cotton factory or the sweatshop, when he becomes of age and that powerful weapon, the ballot is thrust into his hands, is tempted to use it in an endeavor to right the wrongs that have made him and his the minions of the over-lord manufacturer? Is it strange that the common, God-fearing citizen, honestly inquisitive. frets more and moro that some, as he, the outcome of evolu- tlon in it's development of the mollusk into man, should sroan and sweat and wriethe inn effort to make bead for dear ones, while the persons Who be- grudgingly pay the daily wage riot in wealth?
 Is the footpad, sneaking from behind a telephone pole, assaulting the citizen and making off with the spells from his vic tim. greater criminal than he who bribes legislatures, debauches the con- sciences of commonwealths, and then pro- ceeds to pluck patiently from the popu- lace that which the footpad risked his liberty and his life to seure? The ques- ton is old and recurring.
 
 man pays $1 .25 for a pocket knife. Eliminate the tariff and the trust, per haps the knife would not have cost him more than $1.15 Who got the dime? The working man, whose labor made the cut lery? That is the answer you will be given. But did the working man get the difference? If he didn't, who did? Where
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BY HARRY J. BURNEY

ditures gives constant employment to mil- lions. His money is drawing interest, to be sure. But because of his willingness to take chance the children of the toiler do not lack bread. and their feet are shod in winter.
 The coal and the iron ore are as noth- ing value when compared to the steel rail or the harvesting machine. The money of the rich makes possible the conversion of the crude material into the finished product
 Should the rich go unrewarded? Ger tainly not. But here again is the sin of covetousness, argue many. The rich should have reward. but the division be- tween labor and capital. some say, par allels the case In the couplet: "Naughts naught, and figures a figure, "All for the white man, none for the
 nigger."
 With labor playing the role of the col ored brother
 If capitals covetousness Is wrong, why not that of labor? If one desires avaric iously that which is possessed by the other shall not the opposite of the matter be recognized?
 Both are in the wrong, perhaps The ideal would be a community of interests. But the millennium Is not at hand.
 
 The rich are growing richer, but the poor are not growing poorer. But is the lot of the lahorer bettered in proportion to the increased wealth of the multi-mil-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14
A NIGHT SCENE.

By George D. Prentice. Iris Q sweet scene. Mid shadows dlm
 The mighty river wanders by, And on it's calm, unruffled brim,
 So soft the bright star-shadows lie. 'Twould seem as if the night-wind's \
 plume
 Had swept through woods of tropic bloom, And shaken down their blossoms white To float upon the waves tonight And see, as scars the moon aloft,
 Her yellow beams come through the air So mild, so beautifully soft,
 That wave and wood seem stirred with
 prayer;
 And the pure spirit as it kneels At Natures holy altar, feels Religions self come stealing by In every beam that cleaves the sky. The living soul of beauty fills
 The air with glorious visions; bright They wander OCT the forest hills
 And finger in the pallid light; Off to the breathing heavens they go, Along the earth they live and glow, Shed on the stream their holy smiles And beckon to It's purple isles.
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civilization. as wc use the term, has at tained a degree nearer the ideal than has beeh known before What is the lesson in the life of John D. Rockefeller? Should we teach our children 10 emulate An drew Carnegie? Is there satisfaction nor ally in the contemplation of William A. Clarke Are the Gnggenheims paragons of success? Does civilization view with rapture the mighty Hartman?
 
 With boundless wealth, enough for the native sons and daughters and some to spare for the millions of Europes op- pressed, the United States is Q nation that has no peer in history. For all who devote few hours a day to labor there should be livelihood and in time a com petence for old age. Man should not labor always. Blessed is he who sings at his work Doubly blessed Is he who laughs in his leisure, And thrice biased is he who has leisure to laugh
 After each election surprise is expressed at the gains made by the socialists, the social democrats, the lahorites and simi- lar political parties of unrest The av- craze citizen wonders why, with the wealth of the nation and tn opportunity for the individual there should be de- mand for radical change in the adminis- tra ton of public affairs. And the more he ponders the less Is his surprise that all are not satisfied to east ballots for the nominees of one of the tw ogreat politl- cal parties.
 Undeniably there is unrest. Is 1t against
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14
First Woman Police Justice.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
 Many daughters have done worthlly, but thou excellest them ali.-Proverbs xxi, 29'
 Catharine Waugh McCulloch, Evan ston's successful candidate for police jus tice and the only woman ever elected to the office, yesterday received the above telegram from the Rev. Kate Hughes. pastor of the Unitarian church in Table Grove, H.. and an ardent suffragst.
 Mrs McCulloch has received congratula- tions from judges all over the state and a number of woman suffrage clubs. Will liam S Moore, her opponent in the cleo ton, sent her ten dozen American beauty roses. with the congratulations of him self and wife.
 She is certain that she will be allowed to assume office as soon as she sends her certificate of election to Springfield. She has not yet been officially notified of her election and cannot take formal action until she receives notification
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<<V SAY, boys,vee vas goin' to ruin.'
 ITO what?' "To ruin in France.
 X whats that Russian trying to +a,u aboutq 9" said old Charlie c'Happy Charlie" he called himself, no one eise did). What do you mean by gong 10 ruin in France? Light that lamp ana let's see what all this about. Say, Russ' light that lamp" This was last week, said the Russian, 'this lamp no light IL vas last week. Light the lamp, you chump. Never mind whether it is this week or last week. What do you want coming in here, and rousng up the watch like this?"
 While all this conversation was going or in the dark. some of the sailors had tumbled out of their hunks and proceeo- cd to investigate the cause Of une Rus sian,s alarm over the prospect of going to ruin in France When they returned we were told that the pilot boat had been alongside and delivered orders to the cap tain to take the ship to Rouen. By thls time we were all wide awake, although if uos only 2 o'clock in the morning and our watch below was not up until f. In attempting to light the lamp 1t was dis- covered that there was no WICK III It, which explained the Russians enigma or this vas last week."
 "yee was going to ruin in France
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torment of mankind. England (and there fore America) owes what civil liberty it possesses to Oliver Cromwell and his fanatical followers. Personally, Old Noll and his mongrel army of independents, anabaptists, fifth monarchy men and whatnot, were little to be admired. Charles Martel, at the battle of Tours, and saved Europe for the white man. But Charles Martel was not a mld-man- nered monarch. small matter of put ting to death a score or so of subjects did not worry him.
 The making of a living seems to be mans most important work. To most men the eating of bread in the sweat Of the brow is compulsory. But there are those who neither toll nor spin. Some one else is making a living for them. and they are kept in a state that would bent a king
 A general congratulations thorough shufhe and a new deal-is demanded in louder tones as the years roll on
 The man in the oyeralls by his labor pays for the private cars and the steam yachts of the rich. It is not beyond com prehension that there is a covetous tinge to the laborer's contemplation of this fact
 Is there progress? Have science in vention, made for man?
 In the United States of North America,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14

lionaire. the corporation and the syndi- cate?
 For a just solution of the problem there are signs favorable and unfavorable. The honesty of Theodore Roosevelt Is not 10 be questioned. His energy, his unfiag- glng endeavor to put upon the corporation it's proper responsibility, are every day apparent. That he sometimes hedges k true, but he concludes wisely there is TO sense in rejecting the half loaf because he cannot get the whole.
 The New York Life Insurance investi- gation, 1t is hoped, ultimately will result in the abolition of a system from which many abuses have arisen.
 Dryden has been defeated for senator in New Jersey. But Guggenheim sue- Is reelected in Texas It Is seldom that good is unmixed with evil.
 And the remedy for 1t all?
 An aroused public conscience Is all powerful But experience has shown that the public conscience objects to staying aroused The Durham ring was broken in Philadelphia. It quietly set itself about to piece itself together. Like the jointed snake, of which everyone has heard, and which none has seen, 1t SIC ceeded and again Is omnipotent in the city of brotherly love.
 Revolt serious in It's nature may be long delayed. But it's coming is inevft- able.
 Meanwhile, the forces of socialism grad ually gather strength.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14

ought to keep our tongues still and our pens dry. In his fine but wrong-headed essay on Lockart's life of Scott, he inti- mates that the distinguished biographer ought to have been paid for what he did not write.
 Now a man of this character and with such a creed can hardly be expected to ! achieve any great success as a moral re- former, and in this role Carlyle must be pronounced failure. "Chartism' and the
 Latter Day Pamphlets are efforts In the way of reform. and they come nearer to being worthless than does anything else he ever wrote. Indeed they sadly remind me of some of the speculations of the people who nowadays call themselves
 Christian Socialists" The only sem blance of meaning that these speculations have ever afforded me amounts to about this: There Is something wrong some where and we want 1t corrected Car lyle may be interpreted as going some what beyond this and saying: There IS vast deal that is wrong everywhere, and I wish to correct it.
 "The world is out of joint: cursed spite!
 That ever I was born to set 1t right" This world needs many things great deal more than 1t needs new moral theo-
 ries All the moral principles that are
 worth anything are old. When Christ gave what we now call 'the golden rule
 He distinctly dsclaimed originality Tor it and said. "rhis Is the law and the prophets" that Is, the Old Testament.
 The negative side of the golden rule.
 that is, You must not do to others what you would not want done to you" Is 10 be found in the writings of heather nor alists who lived before Christ, and who knew nothing of the Old Testament. Soc rates distinctly and insistently taught that '1t Is better to suffer wrong from your neighbor than to do your neighbor a wrong" II is not moral principles, but moral practice that we lack. The most
 worthless losfer In town can tell you how to make money. The wickedest man in town can give you an excellent code of morals, and even the rich man in hell knew what his brothers on earth must do in order to get to heaven.
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have those countless millions of dimes been going?
 Is covetousness wrong? Is it really so extraordinary that some persons should desire a change of the system by which the rich are growing richer in q ratio that is entirely out of proportion to the toll of the laborer for better wages, short CT hours, decent raiment for his wife. education for his children, and little money away that will enable him to end his sentence upon earth in peace and comfort?
 To me socialism is a remedy to be ap- piled only when the patient is in extremiS. But l can readily understand that covet- ousness Is worthy of the space used by the wise men in warning us against it.
 
 Turn the proposition around and look at 1t from the other side. The milion- aire the billionaire, the corporation and the syndicate have amassed wealth by methods multifarious. Methods Ma poleonic and Machiavellian have been employed. Occasionally, the career of Sir Henry Morgan has been studied to ad- vantage.
 Railroads have been constructed, coal, iron ore, copper, gold and other mines opened. Gigantic steel mills have been built. Cotton, shoe breakfast food and every other kind of factories are giving employment to labor.
 
 The rich man has developed America. His confidence in the results from expen-
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one of these big steel monsters were to belch a puff of smoke as we sailed py' Havre is the key to Paris, the heart of France; and well and visilantly is 1t guarded Viewed from the ship the mag nificent harbor stretches away in all di- rections and the city itself, although ap- parently delapidated in places, presents a very picturesque sight, The cathedral is one of the finest buildings in the city, but there are many other important buildings, the town hall, the arsenal and the museum.
 We had not much time to visit Havre as our orders were to proceed to Rouen, a distance of about 100 miles up the river. The same tug boat came alongside next morning at 6 O clock and we started on the last stage of what had been a long and tedious voyage.
 Never were sailors more disgusted with A ship and officers than we were with ours. For more than three weeks we had been living on short allowance of ra- tions; the bread was mouldy and mag goty, the beef and pork were putf1d; the water was red with rust from the tanks, for more than ten days not man mad tasted tobacco in any form, and added 10 all this, the captain was one Of the most contemptible of men. His one great oD- feet. next bringing his ship home, was to cut down expenses, and for that purpose he bought old provisions. starved ms crew and starved himself. Many time when the sailors were hauling on ropes
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vow tbe same word came to mean so many different things, IS a \ ! question which has long empioyeu and delighted the philologists. rake ioi examnle the Latin word lego coi'iiiion- ,,, +,.,nslated read" It originally meant ..to oather." or Ito pick out" Ancient ,ranuscript books were written III cap'e'' letters without divisions for the "o'us' and without punctuation marks.
 The first verse of the Gospel py 9onn was written after this fashion IN HE'D irn Ef.INNINGWASTH HEWoRDANDIhE" opDwA wAsWITHGODANDT EWoRDWA sGOD." Here you will be obliged 'o uo son,e opicking out" or gathering III order to read 'In the beginning was 'ne vvora and the Word was with God' ana the Word was God"
 Virgil uses the verb 'lego' Tn the se'ise of gather" when, in one or ms o,ia' '' ,ny Eclogues, he says that the p'aoN herries are gathered" In his Aeheio ns ,,..s the same word in the sehse oi ...u,r over" as 'legimus aequora "' skim over the waters
 Now as a matter of fact, some reaue's ..a,,,ar,, and others skim over what .,e, .aad Thomas H. Benton, in a sen- ,toria, debate, quoted standard pooh' Another senator undertook to corre'. him To settle the dispute Benton pauseu ;,, his speech, sent page to the Soh- su.ss;onal library for the book, opened 2. ,ra read the disputed passage, which ..ermed him in his quotation. His op- ,orent bowed and smiled his acquies- ..nca and said: "I stand corrected. ihe
 ,tor,s reading is more recent than -ivn "J haven't seen the passage in ,ortv years" roared Benton. when ne read he gathered.
 Yen cannot skim over Carlyle, or II you Ao YOU will gather nothing. You may like or dislike him. his views, ms s'yie' his matter; but if you get anything out of him. you must give him your a'teh- ton He did not write for gentlemen or o,eoant leisure, who read only for amuse- ,,,.rt. hut even in, his most indefensible woods. he is almost sure to say some thing that is suggestive and worth think Ing about No competent critic will at tempt to defend "Sartor Resartus' as a whole. and yet it contains some or the most eloquent. striking. brilliant and pro- found thoughts that any British author has ever penneo'
 carlyle's History of the French heVoiu- tion is almost worthless to any reader who does not already know the history. 1,be hook has been not very extravasant- ,,, called .'Chaos, with an occasional Hash of lightning" and yet the work could have been done by nobody but great A.nius, profoundly acquainted with the
 its. and in deep sympathy with the
 lcipal actors in the dreadful drama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14
FROM A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT

fiattery, to which add a dash of chest
 nuts about her being the most beautiful woman in the world. that you never loved before and could never love again and so on, you know the little song. Be sure to season with little time, and do not omit a bouquet of sweet herbs. Gar
 nish with theatre tickets and an occa- sional restaurant after the play, and serve with rich sauce of affection. This dish can be recommended as the piece de resistance of the family menu. The reason many men fail in cooking this dish is because they do not regulate the temperature sufficiently They start out with too much fire which they neglect and let go out after a while Then they season married life with bitter criticisms and serve the whole up with a dressing
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That his Oliver Cromwell is somewhat overdrawn must be frankly confessed, but, in spite of this fault it may De doubted if any other British writer has come so near to real comprehension of
 the character the conduct md the career of the man whom Macaulay called the greatest prince that ever ruled England' .
 The works already mentioned have given Carlyle high place in the repuo- lie of letters, and his great reputation has been sustained and extended by his essays some of which have never been excelled in any language with which l am acquainted.
 But when we turn from Carlyle the lit erary man to Carlyle the moral reformer,
 we find ourselves badly jolted by dis tinct fall will not here take up the space to comment upon his idolatrous
 worship of Goethe, which, from such a scource. was fearfully demoralizing. Nor will 1t be worth while to discuss the ex- tremely questionable proceeding of mak- ing or rather trying and failing to make a hero out of Frederick the Great-one of the most abominable of modern scoun- drels While these things are bad enough, they are not singular, nor start ling One of the finest bits of morality ever written by any heather is Saliust introduction to his history of Catilines conspiracy, and Sallust was one or the most notoriously immoral men of an un- clean age Sir Richard Steele was one or the finest moral essayists of his day, and he was at the same time combination of the prodigal, the swindler and the town-rake Some of the finest bits of Christian morality written since the New Testament are to be found in the writings of Lord Bacon, the corrupt judge ana bribe -taker.
 But Carlyle does not morally belong
 with such men as these. Upon his moral character and conduct, as looked upon
 by the world at large, we find no stain The microscopic and unrelenting scrutiny of Froude himself has left his character
 sound in the nobler parts" Allowing for the vagares due to what he himself characterized as his ''diabolical contriv- ance of stomach" it must be admitted that he was much better man than he could be fairly expected to be under the circumstances.
 He said that John Stuart NH seemed to have no trace of religion of almost any sort: and he was not far wrong in this estimate; but at the same time his own religion was thing of shreds and patches In his essay cn Voltaire he wonders that the heather Tacitus did not see into the significance of the crucfix- ion Of Christ. which event he tCarlyle) calls the greatest that ever occurred, or can ever occur. in all time. And yet when friend begged him to acknowledge the existence of personal God he fiatly refused.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14
BY, ]. C. HIDEN, D. D.

Adams gave the casting vote which put twenty-two measures, most of them of very great importance, upon the statute book Calhoun, while vice president, gave Senator Hayne of his state the points by which hs figured in that mem orable debate with Webster. which was the prelude to nuihcation. Van Buren's |. tact and urbanity in the second office aided powerfully in winning for him the first office. Breckinrldge, who held the second place on the Buchanan ticket. made such a popular official that the southern end of his party put him at the head of its ticket in the Douglas split of 1860. If Hamlln had been renominated for vice president In 1864. many republicans at that time believed he ought to have been, and as the whole country a year later wished he had been, the fight be- tween President and Congress in 1s65-6s when Lincolns death sent Andrew John son to the presidency. would have been averted and the country would have been spared a. humiliating scandal.
 By his service of eight years in that body as senator, MT Fairbanks be- came acquainted with nearly all it's mem bers. and got a very valuable knowledge of its atmosphere and its traditions. Thus he was particularly well equipped for the position of It's presiding officer. which he gained in the election of 1904 He is as skillful parliamentarian as was Colfax. who went to the second office in Grants first term. and he has won a popular ity among his associates and among the leaders of his party in and out of Con gress eaualing that which Hobart ac-
 -fA AH.IE E4.xI@ AE Fairbanks experience in the past two years shows the great possibilities for an able, tactful and ambitious statesman which the vice presidency offers. It is not remarkable that at two recent mo- table public demonstrations. one in Bal timore and the other In Chicago, MT. Fairbanks was acclaimed as the next President.