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lie is an indefatgable man, and works without ceasing. He went entirely arouhu the globe for material for a single speech that on the Philippines. In the wilder ness of language that oratlon Is made or fl Is possible to find a passage here and a sentence there that sounds like Ralph Waldo Emerson. Then you bump up against something that reminds of George Francis Train. The central idea is that the American union is as hot as TO- phet, and they would not get scorched would better give us room. It was de- llvered about the time our frled-meat statesmen first discovered that we were n world power thIng we were even before Major General Andy Jackson bull lied France over the spoiatlon clains' We had just licked poor old Spain Tor the sake of set of eontemptible scamps in Cuba and had acquired by mingled con quest and purchase the Philippine archi- pelago. The question MT. Beveridge was debating was the altruism of power. the duty of patriotism, and the wisdom or imperialism I confess that there was little of it that 1 understood. but there Is no doubt that 1t served the purpose of making Beveridge the fancy statesman of the day and lion In the salon or Mistress Leo Hunter. We know he was eloquent; we hoped that he was wise T.e speech was widely circulated. There was a Beveridge presidential boom. Young America came to Washington; not tho young America of stephen A. Douglas, that had nothing particular against slav- cry in Mississippi, but the young Amer lea of Mark Hanna, that cllnched slaV- cry in the Philippine islands For slaves they are and ruled by masters l2'OOO miles away.
 And now Beverldge was q leader of the Senate, and, next to Mark Hanna, the most pointed out man on tho floor. He was very busy man, solonizing al Wash ington and oratng before chautauquas all over the country. Words, words. words, oceans and oceans of language! Not one sclntillating thought, not one atom of humor Everything profound and the despair of all the normal school ca dets between the two oceans. who wres-' tied with it. and their name Is multitu- dinous
 When I was lad just emerging from childhood my father put in my hands "Tne Arabian Nights Entertainment and therein read cock and bull story of an Oriental monarch. who had three sons, all in love with the same girl, princess of those parts and beautiful as becomes a princess. The king was at loss to decide between them and ap- pealed to chance. He sent them out fin the world for year and q day and upon their return he that had fetched back the, most wonderful thing was to have the girl. When the time was up the three met and compared notes. one fellow had a rug that would transport one sitting on 1t to any part Of the earth's surface desired and do 1t in the twlnkling of an eye. Another had se- cured a magic crystal. which put to the eye would discover your friends any where in the world and reveal what they were then doing. The third had an ap- ple, which, put to the nose of any one
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plain here that the Semitic 'tongus are the word brain" It Is proper 10 ex- the tongues which are or were spoken by those races who are supposed 10 be the descendants of Shem. They include He brew, Chaldee Syriac, Arabic and the tongues of a number of tribes which are now called Mohammedan.
 2 Greek is one of the most philosoph- ically grammatical of languages, and yet 1t has nd word for grammar" The Greek word from which our word grammar is derived means literature
 The Romans, with ali their grievous faults, must at some early period of their history, nave been an uncommonly honest people. l do not derive this con clusion from any Roman history that 1 have ever read, nor yet from the works of any of the Latin poets. orators or phil- osophers. l infer 1t from certain forms of speech which are familiar to every Latin scholar Our word debt Is represent ed in Latin by phrase which means somebody else's money which is the same thing as saying that when you get possession of somebody else's money, 1t is not Yours but is still his. And this Is the straightforward honest view of the matter.
 Again "cannot' or "cant" in English means two very different things-lack of ability and lack of will. You say, "I can't jump over the moon;" and you say
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SAILORS LUCK.

By William Pitt. One night came on a hurricane,
 The sea was mountains rolling, When Barney Buntline slewd his quid, And said to Billy Bowline: "A strong nor-wester's blowing, Bill; Hark don't -ye hear 1t roar now Lord help 'em, how I pities them
 Unhappy folks on shore now! "Fool-hardy chaps as lives in towns, What danger they are all in, And now lie quaking in their beds,
 For fear the roof should fan In; Poor creatures, how they envy us,
 And wishes, I've notion, For our good luck, in such storm.
 To be upon the ocean. And as for them that's out all day
 On business from their houses. And late at night returning home,
 To cheer their babes anud spouses, While you and I. Bill, on the deck
 Are comfortably lying; My eyesi what tiles and chimney-pots About their heads arc flying! "Both you and I have oftimes heard
 How men are kilrd and undone, By overturns from carriages,
 By thieves and fires In London. We know what risks these landsmen run From noblemen to tailors; Then, Bill, let us thank Providence
 That you and l are sailors.
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was eloquent. He was profound-a Hoo sier Vivian Gray. It developed that the man had no sense of humor whatever,
 and yet he had an imagination of the too, too utterly utter sort. His eloquence, like the democratic party's present poll tics, was of the hollyhock kind. more gorgeous than splendid, house of cards, a garment of shoddy. The only speech that Fairbanks made that l now remem- Der was on that absurdity and hypocrasy -tne creation of a commission to cross the Atlantic ocean and convince Great Britain that IS to 1 was sound finance, and beg the Bank of England to go in for 1t. Up to that time l had oonfounded Fairbanks with a MT. F'ishback, real lawyer of Indianapolis, and l went to the Senate to hear real speech. It was
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1892, sent him into retirement. The fatl- ure of the south to stand by Cleveland during his second term and the absorp ton of the democratic party by the pop ulists made Indiana reliably q republic an state as Massachusetts, and Indiana Is far more reliable republican state today than Ohio. In 1894 after the dem ocratic party repudiated MT. Cleveland, Indiana sent solid republican delegation to Congress, a thing she had never done before. In 1897 glorious old Dan Voor- hees was succeeded in the Senate by Charles w. Fairbanks, and four years later Beveridge got the toga of that grim old democrat, David Turpie.
 In the Senate Beveridge was a much more conspicuous man than Fairbanks. He was young. He was interesting He
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Music and Literature.

From Llfe.
 Why is 1t that the severest music finds ready market in America, whereas literature has to wanton or it storyes?
 Well. for one thing. though every dog undoubtedly has his day, it is sell dom. if ever, that two dogs, of breeds so diverse, have their days simultane- ously. For another thing, severe lit erature hasn't learned the trick of be- slowing cheap distinction on its votar- les. Finally. literature is, by its in- herent limitations, excluded from the select company of things which may be made to supply the dressy with the occasion for dressing.
 The circumstance of music having charms to soothe the savage breast counts for less than some imagine. Savage breasts are not common. We have our narrow chests and our snowy bosoms. but the savage breast is negligible quantity ip oNy discussion of the status of the arts
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THE VOICES.

 By James Whitcomb Riley. Down in the night I hear them, The -unknown-unguessed, I ..at whisper and lisp and murmur, And will not let me rest. Voices that seem to question In unknown words of me, Of fabulous ventures, and hopes and
 dreams
 Of this and the world to be. Voices of mirth and music, As in sumptuous homes, and sounds Of mourning, as of gathering friends In country burial grounds. Cadence of maiden voices Their lovers blent with these; And of little children singing, As under orchard trees. And ofter. up from the chaos Of my deepest dreams, hear Sounds of phantom laughter Filing the atmosphere. But ever and ever the meaning Falters and fails and dies, And only the silence quivers With the sorrow of my signs And I answer: "Oh. voices ye may not Make me understand Till my own voice, mingled with you, Laughs in Shadowland'
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N URING my pastorate of the First
 Baptist church of Wilmington. 0 N. C.. I became well acquainted with the late John A. Mills, editor of the Biblical Recorder, which was then, and Is now, the organ of the Baptists of North Carolina. He was an able, thoughtful, well educated man. and was especially noted for his bright sharp criticisms
 On one occasion he criticised a musical performance which he attended in Raleigh. The musical director of the per formance was stung by some of the sharp points of the critique, which appeared editorially in the Biblical Recorder; and so he not very wisely replied to Mills in the columns of Mills own paper. In the course of his reply he said that whatever might be thought of his music, it was bet ter than any that MT Mills could produce. To this point Mills replied: True but irrelevant. All the grocers in Raleigh could not produce an egg; but there is not a grocer of them who is not a better judge of eggs than is any hen in Wake county"
 On commencement occasion at Wake Forest college I delivered the literary ad- dress, in the course of which I had occa-
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wills to be-" Note. 1t is not wishes but wills" Beveridge willed to acquire an education. He got 1t, though he was many a time supperless to bed ere ne was graduated. a He willed to be law yer. He came to the bar, though he many time slept on hard counter in- stead of a bed during his student days. lie willed to be a senator In congress, station to which he attaintd, though some of us do not understand what he is doing there.
 everidge was a student in the law office of that bully old democrat, Joseph E. McDonald Where he got his politics l have no idea In view of certain publicd- tions now fresh in the public mind touch ing railroad receiverships in Indiana, it is enough to dwell on the fact that Bev- eridge had a brief in a case in which the question involved was whether mortgage lien on a railroad is superior to the claims for wages of the operatives of the road. The first time the question was decided In this country it was before the court of last resort in Kentucky and that intellectual Ajax and democrat to the marrow, William Lindsay, later a senator in congress, decided that wages had the preference over interest on bonds. Beveridge, then a clerk and student Tn McDOndldS Olllctg Su6EGobCd tliAS N~N- sion and it was held good ip Indiana. They are putting some rather "Sarchlng questions to another Hoosier statesman of and concerning a receivership of that nature. A Mir Gardiner is interrogating Mir Fairbanks in that behalf.
 But 1t seems that the stump and not the bar was BcVeridge's first love. Every campaign he went up and down the state of Indiana in the role of that holy terror' "a boy orator." There ought to be law in this country that no man should make a stump speech before he is thirty, at the least. Ignorance and youth are twih. Take a young fellow with half-baked education, fill his mind with vanity ana his chest with lungs, and he can do d heap of harm on the stump. Above all men an orator ought to know something of what he is talking about Most or them, when under thirty, are densely and defantly ignorant not only of the prlnci- ples of American politics, but of its histo- ". Politics is made up of score Of things, mostly lies, and 1t takes wise man, even when past thirty. to separate the mountain of lies from the hillock of truths. I would give deal to- have heard one of Bexeridges bloody shirt sneeches in the campaign of 1880, would give a great deal more to hear E. W. Carmack answer Beveridge on that child labor bill.
 After Morton was gathered to his fathers Ben Harrison and Judge Gres- ham were left to contest for the primacy of gfhe republican party of Indiana, now become democratic and dominated by Hendricks Voorhees,, Mcdonald and Tu-- pie. Gresham moved over to Illinois ana Harrison got to be President which lat ter fact drove Gresham into the demo- cratic party Intellectually, Harrison was the greatest man Indiana ever pro- duced. but his defeat by Cleveland. in
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No you all remember the enthusi- ' astic admiration Miss Fanny N Squeers had for Mir. Nicholas Niclxleby's legs? That is the way many Of our callow politicians look upon the elo- ouence of Senator Albert J. Beyeridge, with this difference-everybody could see the symmetry of MT. Nickleby's legs nobody has sounded the profundties of MT. Beveridges eloquence. To make an adeuuate study of the Hon. Beveridge one should begin by reading Disraeli3s "Contarini Fleming and round up by reading some of the New England his tories-Henry Cabot Lodge, Henry Adams and that set that teach that America Is confined within the geographical lim- its of the commonwealth of Massachu- setls and that the great American re- public was forged in a conventicle of Puritan fanatics who abused Gods pa- tienco with impertinent prayer and made money out of the African slave trade.
 No other statesman ever came to this town so well heralded as MT. Beveridge. No other speech delivered by an Ameri- can Senator had such abundant and per sistent advance advertising as Beverdge on the Philippines. The Senate galleries and corridors were never before, or since, SC densely packed as during It's delivery | unfortunately 1t was not couched In the
 
 derstood what the man was driving at. gathered from casual reading of 1t that the senator meant to convey, In recondite speech, the idea Joe Pickett of Tennees- see, had when he made that figure or John c. Breckinridge and the Ameri- can eagle in his fervent appeal to the Irish of Nashville in the campaign of 1seO On both occasions the eagles wings rested on the Orient and the Occident and she rose and scared, and rose and scared and rose and scared. A misfor- tune overlook Joe's bird; but opine that the eagle Beveridge cast off his verbose aguntlet is now somewhere in the vicin- itv of Arcturus screaming Bunker Hill Appomatox and San Juan Hill. Let us hope she will not return from her wan derings.
 8everidge was born in Oho October G. 1862 and 1t Is supposed the family was frorl Virginia, though, with the possi- ble exception of Sereno E. Payne. l do not suppose there is another man in pub lie life who has 70 little sympathy for the southern section of this country as Albert J. Beverdge. The elder BeveridSe was a federal soldier. and after the war, went tc Indiana. The family met with financial reverses and were very poor Ere he was in his teens the future Sem etor was a day laborer. 'Thorns and rhistles shall 1t bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field" In the sweat of his face did young Beveridge eat b, cad Let us honor him for that if we carsnot admire him for his statesman ship.
 Not Lincoln nor Johnson nor Garfield ,ndurdd greater hardships in youth than did thiE man, nor did one of them discov- er moHe grim determination to, succeed \ In lifel There was much in Disraeli's r>cIaraiion: "A man can be what he
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POEWtS YOU OUGHT 70 READ

Then you had known her living face. Which TOW you cannot know; The frozen fountain would have leaped,
 The buds gone on to blow
 The warm south wind would have awaked To melt the snow.
 Is she fair now as she liesY
 Once she was fair;
 Meet queen for any hngly king With gold dust on her hair Now there are peoples In her JOCKS,
 White poppies she must wear; Must wear veil to shroud her face And the want graven there Or Is the hunger fed at length, Cast off the care? We never saw her with smio
 Or with a frown;
 Her bed seemed never soft to her.
 Though tossed of down;
 She little needed what she wore,
 Kirtle or wreath or gown; We think her white brows olten acheo
 Beneath her crown. Till sllvery hair showed in her JOCKS That used to be so brown. We never heard her speak In haste;
 Her tones were sweet
 And modulated just SO much As it were meet; Her heart sat silent through the noise There was no hurry in her hands, No hurry in her feet; There was no bliss drew nigh 10 her,
 That she might run to greet. You should have wept her yesterday,
 Wasting upon her bed
 R,t wbeTefore should you weep today, That sine Is dead? Lo. we who love weep not today, Rut crown her loyal head; at ba these poppies that we strew. Your roses are too red; Let be these poppies. not for you. (,,1t down and spread.
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But cloe is my real flame.

But Cloe Is my real flame.
 My softest verse, my darling Tyre Upon Euphelias toilet lay
 When Cloe noted her desire That I should sing, that l should play. My Tyre I tune, my voice I raise. But with my numbers mix my signs; And whilst I sing Euphelias praise fix my soul on Cloe's eyes. Fair Cloe blush'd Euphelia frown'd surg and gazed; I play'd, and trembled; And Venus to the Loves around Remarkd how i'll we all dissembled.
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TOO LATE.

Bv Christina Georgina Rossetti. Too late for love, too late for 1oy'
 Too late, too late! You loitered on the road too long,
 You triied at the gate. The enchanted dove upon her branch Died without mate; The enchanted princess In her power
 Slept, died, behind the grate Her heart was starving all this while You made 1t wait. Ten years ago, five years ago,
 One year ago, Even then you had arrived in time,
 Though somewhat slowi
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 Beveridge thinks the constitution of the United States can be trotted through all those stunts-carry you where you wish to be- show you what you wish to see. and do for you what you wish to do. Is a thing desirable? Put the constitution Co it and the thing Is done. In his philoso- phy, whatever fig expedient is constiti- can be confined within my ladys thimble, or stretched from pole to pole. from Ori- cnt to Occident.
 For example child labor in the states is an evil. Declare t commerce and send the constitution to eradicate 1t. That is absolutlsm. If the federal establishment is clothed with that power-the power to define production 10 be commerce-its power is unlimited and may be resorted to to turn water Into wine or perform any other miracle fl has the whim to at tempt. The heresy of the child-hbor bill is that it works destruction of the states; reduces them 10 the place the counties now occupy.
 The misery of t Is that the leader of the democratic party has endorsed the child-labor law, proposed by Beveridge. The curious thing is that the ablest argu- ment against 1t was made va republican senator from Pennsylvania.
 There is a victory for the democratic party in two Issues. if the party were r eefto choose-states' rights and honest tariff.
 Copyright 1907 by r. W. Newman)
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LOVES DISCUSSES.

By Matthew Prior.
 Tba merchant, to secure his treasure. conveyg it in borrowd name; Euphelia serves to grace my measure,
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BY SAVOYARD.

sick, would restore him to perfect health. 1t was suggested that they take a look at their. sweetheart which they did. and found that she was Just about to expire of some fell malady. Immediately they got aboard the carpet and were trans ported to the sick chamber. The apple was put to the girls nose and she bounced up rosy and buxom entirely re- covered
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ALBERT / BEVERZDGE

nol for year that found out my mis- taKe. I have heard 10000 speeches on tho silver question. I do not now recall poorer one than Fairbanks.
 Beveridge Is a ranscendentalist, with a little more patriotism than the law allows; but he is no hypocrite, though he belongs to a party that has practical monopoly of that depravity. The princess dowager. the mother of George ILL, was not more anxious that her son be King than Beverdge is determined to be state man, and George was a better King than Beveridge is a statesman. George very nearly ruined his realm by his Kingship; Beverdge would entirely ruin his coun- try by his statesmanship if he had swing as full as George was allowed to have.
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URING my pastorate of the First Baptist church of Wilmington,
 N. C., I became well acquainted
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-23
HOLLYWOOD ASSOCIATION
ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS

At the meeting of the Hollywood Me-
mortal Association on Monday the follow.
ing resolutions Were adopted:
Resolved. That the Hollywood Me-
mortal Association wishes to record
It's very cordial approval OF the cele-
braton of the one-hundredth birth
day of General Robert L. Lee. Jan
uary 10, 1907, a day held sacred each
year by this association. II also
wishes TO express its appreciation of
the high honor conferred upolp the as
ISOLATION in choosing tho president,
Mrs, j, Taylor Ellyson, to act for it,
with the presidents OF the SITTER me-
mortal organizations, in bearing the
memorial wreath. the gift OF Mrs,
Joseph Bryan. in tho procession and
placing 1t on the monument OF Gem
eral Lee, In the presence of the Con-
federate veterans. members of Cen
eral Lees family and tho military.
on the evening of January 49, 1907.
Resolved. That all of the members
of this association unite in express
Ing thanks to the honorary president,
Mrs. Joseph Bryan, TO whom we and
the whole country arc grateful for the
thought which inspired her TO plan
for the beautiful services which were
so admirably carried out by the Joint
committee in Richmond and SO wide
~ observed in other States, North and
South
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-23
GOVERNOR SWANSON
TO DELIVER ADDRESS
Accepts Invitation of Association
to Make Speech at
Jamestown.

Governor Swanson has accept
ed an invitation from the Society for
the Preservation of Virginia Antiqui-
ties to deliver an address. under the
auspices of that body, at Jamestown
Island on May 18th. in commemoration
of the three hundredth anniversary OF
the first English settlement on the soil
of the United States.
The members of the committee that
waited on the Governor at the exc
cutive department and urged him
to make the address were Lieuten-
ant-Governor ]. Taylor Ellyson, and
Messrs. Joseph Bryan and r. A. Ian
aster, Jr. This will be one of the most
important and interesting events of the
Jamestown Exposition, as 1t will be in
celebration of the birthday of the ma
ton
Mrs. Joseph Bryan is president of
the association, and Mrs. j. Taylor Ell
Tyson is first vice-president.
The committee is greatly pleased
that the Governor has accepted the
invitation. and the association will
spare no pains to make this one OF
the most brilliant and notable func-
tons OF the great show.
A great crowd will no doubt attend
and as the affair will be held in the
beautiful spring-ti time, a delightful en-
tertainment is in prospect.