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1 or anything like 1t; but he is more like | Grover Cleveland than any other public
 man now on the political carpet, If Cleveland had had the tact that McKin-
 ley had, or Taft has, the success of his
 last administration would have been | equal to It's merits In wise statesman | ship, in virle Americanism 1t was all that could be desired. In a party sense 1t fall- ed solely because MT. Cleveland did not
 know how to oonciliate. He forgot, or
 never learned, this truth: Many full sack come from crooked row, and he
 that will captain none but honest men
 will have small hire to pay" The Pres
 ident of tho United States ought to have
 the tact to make use of every instrument he can lay hands on. Taft is secret or
 Roosevelts success.
 Mir. Taft shows us how it is in tho
 case of a Mir Cox out wonder in Ohio Something over year ago, Mir Taft
 made a speech in MT. Dicks town of
 Akron, and roasted MT. Cox, like a her
 ring, but MT. Cox Is now become a pill lar of the Taft household in Ohio. The
 Akron speech was exceedingly Cleveland ish; tho enlistment of Cox is eminently McKinleyish. A man with the stern vir- tue of Cleveland and the gymnastio vir- tue of Mckinley ought to give the ootin- try a very satisfactory administration. The father of William H. Taft was an eminent ldWyeT Ol ln0 Clieihhht bthis fa '
 was of Now England stock and had served the republic as Attorney General
 and Secretary of War in General Grants
 cabinet. The son was born In Cincin- natl fifty years ago, where he attend ed the public schools in his early youth and mingled with the boys and girls | of that community, and thus he early I contracted that. democratic department | that makes him so immensely popular | with all sorts of people. At 1T he entered Yale college and there he was q marked 1 mcn-conspicuous for his grand pres | ence, manly character. splendid intellect | and sturdy manhood. He was graduated | in the class of 1878 and returned to Cin- ] cinnati to enter it's famoiis law school l After his admission to the bar he edited | a newspaper and later was made assist ant prosecuting attorney. President Arr | thur appointed him collector of Internal | revenue for the First Ohio district, one | of the heaviest taxpaylng divisions of the
 whole country. He resigned year later | to enter upon the general practice of his ! profession. Soon thereafter he was ap- | pointed to the state judicial bench by | Governor Foraker, and in 1890 President | Harrison made him Solicitor General of she United States. In 1892, he was appoint
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to Gen. Richard Montgomery. Half an hour later I reverently viewed the mag nifcent sarcophagus erected in Trinity churchyard by grateful fellow country men to the memory of Capt. James Law renee, who fell on June 1, 1913, in the Second British war, while commanding the frigate Chesapeake, and whose last and famous words were. Don't give ur the ship"
 Yet the remains of Major Lemuel P. Montgomery, who fell in this same war, and under strangely similar circum- stances, lie in the village of Dudleyville, some miles north of Dadeville, unhon- ored and unmarked by even mound of earth. To this point his remains were removed some years after the battle Of tho Horseshoe bend, quite possibly in the very year, ISIS, when the great city of New York so markedly honored the mem- ory of his kinsman. The graves of Lieu tenants Moulton and Somerville with thirty of their men, who fell in the gal lant assault upon the breastworks, are altogether unknown.
 My understanding Is that at this time Dudleyville was the principal trading post of the neighborhood now comprised in Tallapoosa county. And l am informed that there is now living in the town of Camp Hill, Ala. an elderly citizen who was present when Major Montgomery remains were removed to Dudloyville from tho battle field.
 There may be more money in New York than in Alabama, but there is nc more patriotic appreciation of men who gave their lives for their country. Gep Richard Montgomery, Capt. James Law renee and many another brave leader whose resting place is commemorated whether on northern soil or southern battlefield were no grander men than was Maj. Lemuel Purnell Montgomery
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used even in mathematics, the most logi- cal of all the sciences. A mathematician wishes to prove that two triangles are equal. He may first assume that the first is greater than the second, and req soning upon that assumption, he reaches an absurd conclusion. He then assumes and this assumption leads him to a con clusion which is equally absurd and, by this indirect method of reasoning, he proves that the two triangles must be . equal.
 Now, our preacher makes an admir- able use of this method of reasoning He takes up and discusses the objects which men commonly pursue in life wealth. luxury, honor, knowledge, power, and he shows that not one of these ob- jects, however fully attained, Is capable of supplying solid and permanent satis- faction to any rational soul that desires to make the most of his life; in other words, he proves that, regarded as the objects of life, they are vanity" and often "vexation of spirit"
 Let us glance for a moment at the career of a professional politician:
 Aaron Burr was one of the most ac- oomplished men that ever figured in American history. His native talents were splendid. He was well educated. He was one of the most uniformly sue cessful advocates that ever practiced at any bar During his long professional career he never lost a case before jury. As an orator he stood in the very front rank in an age which produced Fisher Ames and Patrick Henry. His eloquence was so oyerpowering as to melt his bit- terest enemies to tears, and make them forget where they were. He was, perhaps,
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of the great Horseshoe bend. The only safeguard they provided was a large number of canoes, which in case of pos- sible need, could be used by their fami- lies in escaping down the river.
 Without it's seeming to occur to them that the "pale-faces' could succeed in crossing the river around the bend, the Indians apparently devoted all of their attention to a strong and elaborate breastwork of logs and stones, built in curve, and extending across the neck of the bend, not far from the present road between the two ferries.
 General Jackson sent General Coffee with a large portion of his forces to de- ploy around the outside of the bend of the river. General Coffee was accom- panied by a number of friendly Chick asa Indians, several of whom he directed to secretly swim the river and cut loose the canoes, which they skilfuly guided down and across the river before being detected. By means of these canoes, General Coffee transported portion of his forces across the river, and sud- denly attacked the Indian tepes, then pushing forward to where the Indian war ,rfors were defending the breastworks, he vigorously attacked them in the rear, while Andrew Jackson was storming their front. Thus caught in a trap, the h. dians were overpowered, nearly six hum dred dead warriors being counted on the field. and the bodies of hundreds more were washed away by the swift current of the Tallapoosa.
 In storming the breastworks, the first man to mount them was Maj. Lemuel P. Montgomery, a gallant Virginian, rela- tive of Gen. Richard Montgomery, who fell in the attack upon Quebec in 1775. Just as Major Montgomery had climbed to the top of the breastworks, and as he waved his sword in triumph to ami mate those who were following him. he
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the most magnetic" man that has lived since Julius Caesar. When the officers of the law were hunting him from state to state. to arrest him on the charge of treason, the populations of large cities were turning out en masse to magnificent banquets and brilliant balls given in his honor. Even the popularity of Jefferson's administration was seriously imperilled by Burr's arrest. His arrest was accom- pllshed with great difficulty. His trial In Richmond was almost an ovation An drew Jackson, who had been summoned to Richmond as a witness for the prose- cution, is said to have made a public harangue on the capitol square, in his de- fense. That extraordinary lawyer, Luther Martin, federallst to the core as he was, volunteered to defend him without fee, and Aaron Burr's acqulttal was a tri- umph Even when he was under the frown of Jefferson, and when his hands were red with the blood of Hamilton, Burr was one of the most popular men in the United States. Barely missing the presidency, and easily first as vice presi- dent, he spent a large part of his life in blaze of glory, and has left to pos- terity a name which will be the synonym for infamy as long as American history is read or American politics discussed among men.
 Was not this vanity"
 'The preacher" however, certainly does not teach that there Is nothing worth liv- ing for. He says: T know that it shall be well with them that fear God" He teaches that the man whose manner of life is acceptable to God is the man who has a right to enjoy life. He holds that llberality in giving of our substance will pay in the long run,
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BY ]. C. HIDEN, D. D.

Ia the cause that the former dasss were better than theaeq for thou doat not h. aulre wisely concerning thls"
 It Is comfort to believe that, upon iha whole, the world Is improving, Tho meat humane of ancient commanders. jullha Caesar, captured town larger than Birmingham, sold out tho io.0o inhabitants as slaves. and In writing hla report nt tho transaction, says not n word Ia tho WAY of apology or defense, for hla conduct was all right. according to the lawa af war in that day. The nereesl of American warriors Andrew Jaetsen under Hfeal stress of circumstances. and dire nruvueh ton, executed two nhsenfe and Friend less foreigners, and the transaction NaH debated for six weeks by the hhleat tieil in Congress, and left n dark blot on tho splendid fame of the hero of New Or leans
 our Biblical critics of divers seheala have drawn more or less Important een- clusons from the fact that dlneteht dlNlhe names are used ln tho earlier chapters of Genesis, sometimes "uedi' sometimes Lord" (reallv Jehoyah), and then hnaiti "the Lord God" or Jehovah uod must confess that not few nf theae conclusions appear h mo to he tafs fetched Why an author should euhhha himself to the use Of one name, Whnh all the names were current. or why hn should use one name at ono time, and another name at another time are tues tfons which | suspect the authors thelhi selves would sometimes have heen nnsA zed Co answer H Ia a curious fntt however that "Godh ls the name unl4 formly used by the author of reeleslhHlea He never writes "t.urd. ." nor "hord Uadl Can any of the critics tell why7
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was instantly killed by rife in the hands of Q Creek marrior. When the battle was ended, General Jackson stood over his body and wept, eYclaiming, T have lost the flower of my army"
 Picketts History writes as follows re- garding the Indian chief, Manowa, whd escaped with his life from this battle:
 "Manowa, one of the bravest chiefs that ever lived was literally shot to pieces He fought as long as he could. He saved himself by jumping into the river, where the water was four feet deep. He held to a root and thus kept himself beneath the waves, breathing through the long joint of a cane, one end of which he held in his mouth, while the other end came above the surface of the water. When night set in, the brave Manowa rose from his ,watery bed, and made his way to the forest, bleeding from his wounds"
 On Wednesday, March 27, 1907 the writ CT, with several friends from Dadeville, spent the day In visiting the battle ground of the Horseshoe bend. By strange coincidence, the day was the exact an- niyersary of the battle, which occurred ninety three years before, in 1874. We found afterwards that there are several elderly citizens living in Tallapoosa coun- ty, who are familiar with the site of the famous battle, having visited it frequent ly in the years gone by. l was exceed ingly sorry that we had not arranged for the presence of several such gentle men, as they would have saved us val uable time in our endeavor to locate points of interest It is only couple of hours drive from Dadeville, over good roads.
 We walked over the greater part of the hundred acres well-nigh encircled by the river bend, readily detecting the loca- tion of the old breastwork, which in the long years has become quite little ridge
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are entirely absent In this passage down the Red Sea. It is with no small delight then that one morning you come on deck and see land ahead away in the distance. Tns Is Alden, and marks the end of the passage of the Red sea.
 Long before coming to anchor about three miles away from Steamer Point. the residence section for the European residents in Alden, the steamer begins to blow her whistles and a whole fiotilla of small boats comes out to the vessel. In the meantime D notice is posted which states that the voyage will be resumed in six or eight hours, during which time coal Is being taken Into the bunkers. Alden is a great coaling station for yes sells using the Suez canal, but otherwise the town has little or no importance.
 Very few ladies venture ashore at Alden, as there is no means of getting there except in the little canoes in which the natives are padding around the ves- sel. GO ashore, sahib? One shilling, go ashore" Why certainly we'll so ashore. says a party of young fellows, although the captain and officers tell them there's nothing to be seen ashore. of they go, each man in a canoe to him self, and are soon like speoks on the wa ter Meantime those who remained on board are enjoying a return of life and
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spirits brought about by the fresh breezes blowing in from the ocean.
 Just before the hour for sailing the canoes return with the passengers who went ashore that forenoon, but these passenEers are in quite a different frame O. mind from that of the morning They have nothing but maledietions for Alden and especially the native boatmen. The offer of "Go ashore. sahib9 One shilling, go ashore" was changed to One pound. sahib; one pound, go aboard" when tho time came to return to the ship. and as each boatman firmly refused to dip paddle in the water until he was paid in advance there was nothing to do but pay the money or lose ones passage.
 Out through the strait of Babel Mandeb and Into the Indian Ocean the course now lies. The refreshing effects of the northeast trade winds are soon felt and now preparations are made for the first really long sea, voyage. It generally takes seven or eight days from Alden to Colombo. the capital of the island of ceylon, where several passengers will leave and where more coal will be taken aboard. During ths part of the voyage the enjoyment of the trip reaches its highest point. Everybody knows every body else Deck games are played all day and dancing consumes half the night. Sometimes concerts are given in
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Cannot Hon. J. Thomas tieiln, mama Der of congress from the district that includes fallapoosa county introduce Into congress next winter, hll appfoprlallna at least another SboO0 to cooperate with an appropriation from the state7
 Should not We erect on the battlefield along the line of tie old bfeastwofkai monument to Maj, lemuel ?. Mont gomery, and to hla brave comrades whu fell there7
 For forty years, without over an ess pressed regret, Alabama, aa one of tho reunited states, has been helping Co pay for elaborate government parks and coal ly monuments Co brave leaders from tho north who erystallsed the constitution Into an interpretation based on might, rather than right That now has an been settled, and forever and doubtless II ls best so. But the battle Of the uofHe' shoe bend, nlnety-three long years aEo, ia one that Wa can all loln heartily in commemoratlng.
 The year 1914, now less than seven years distant ls the centennial Of the battle uf the Horseshoe bend. Why not eonmsna crate the centennial of tha famous and critical battle7 Why honor the centennial of other events of no more Importance, and leave unhonofed and unmarked tho battle of the Horseshoe bend, AiabeniA's most famous battle. the day marking Alabamas birth, the day rendering pos. sible the Alabama, tho Georgia, the Nils. slssippl of today
 should like that perhaps partly as a result of my visit to the famous battle ground A meeting of the citizens of 1Hl lapoosa county might be held at DadeVilie, in which movement could he initiated to carry out suggestions like the above II
 a..ta .4A 4 a4l. a meeting, and endeavor Co be of adi vantage
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~ ID alumni of the University of
 Virginia are aware that the pro O fessors in framing their written examinations, are accustomed to make one question cover a great deal of ground, and thus to save space and time. I can recall some of these wide-reaching prob lems with which I had to deal in some of my "1nal' examinations. Here Is one from James P. Holcombe, the famous professor of international law: Give an account of all the maritime controver- sies which have occurred between Great Britain and the United States, from the foundation of our government to the pres ent time, and state the principles of in- ternational law which should have ruled in the decision of each case"
 One of Professor Holmes problems in the final examination on "Literature' was Take the character of Shylock and trace It's development through the play of The Merchant of Venice
 Professor McGuffey covered the whole ground of one of Cousins books by ask ing for "A Discussion of the True, Beau tiful and Good"
 It is said that another professor of moral philosophy Tn order to cover the ground of what Is called 'The Pessimistic System" of Schopenhauer, summed 1t all up in the single question: "Is Life Worth Living7" and that the answer from a bright student was Mot if you have to bother your brains with German meta physics.'
 The philosophers of the world are some
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1 under false pretenses!
 To be sure the feminine creature has
 temporary advantage, for in her ear
 Hest youth she Is Miss and young lady in her own estimation, at least, from the time she doffs long skirts until that
 longed for days when she dons them
 again; while her small companion In
 knickerbockers suffers under the humiliat- ing and spirit -maddening Master"
 This transient superiority but aggra-
 yates the wound when the maid arrives at years of discretion-if she ever does to find herself labeled for life; and her
 mateless state, if she has so elected, the
 common knowledge of all who know her,
 even of them who knowing her not, sub scribe for the daily press wherein they
 who run may read, and they who read
 may run.
 It is truly lass and lack for lack ing a husband she can never be other
 than Miss" and lacking a Mrs. be she ever so gray of hair, dignihed of
 demeanor and full of years, she seems
 never to take the same place in the world 1 as the giddy young thing all high heels and marcelled waves who can scribble Mrs" half across hotel register l It is not the Anglo Saxon alone that marks his women folk; the French have their Monsieur for the men and Madame , and Madamoiselle for the two great d. 1 visions of the gentler kind.
 The German has his Herr for him, and l Fran and FraulIen for "her" the Span ish and Italian distinguish their unmar- ried women with the soft and many syla-
 bled senorita and signorita whose liquid beauty almost condones the discrlmina- ton. Other nations have similar habits. | It may be the survival of protecting | tenderness as we give to the smallest | and weakest of our family flock the en- | dearing cognomens Willie and Jimmie which are apt to cling until Willie and 1 Jimrnie are husky giants. heartily
 ashamed of the family taste In names.
 Bv the way. speaking of discrimination,
 did you ever go to a wedding in great | candle-lighted church. and. amid deep
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1 fronted a rebellion in Pennsylvania, and | thus the Grant crowd was reduced to l 306 In Livy you will read of the ex- | ploits of another 306-an army of that number, every member of the name Of Fabius, and all of the family of Fabili.
 In battle all were slain save one ca det, scare past his third lustrum, and he was an ancestor of Fabius Maximum, who saved Rome from the conquering arms of Hannibal It Is a striking coin cidence-3e6, representing the pagan com
 monwealth of old Rome and the Christian republic os new America.
 And now, more than a quarter of a century later. Washington is again en-
 gagged in the delightful work of personal political speculation. Will the next Pres ident be Taft, or Hughes, or Spooner or Knox. or Fairbanks, or Cannon, or Cum
 mins, or Shaw. or Foraker or La Fol lette, or cortelyou? Will Theodore Roose-
 welt get another term? Time alone will tell. A bad crop season would throw the thing Into an awful muddle. business depression would make the republican
 nomination thing of much smaller value.
 On the democratic side of the hedge
 there is a dictatorship William J. Bryan is every man himself. He will take the nomination if he shall think there Is a fair chance of election, and he will send
 another to the slaughter if he shall con
 clude that 1t is a helpless case. He Sill
 have year to make up his mind on that question, and that is ample time for a resourceful politician to try a dozen or more other fads on the dog. So 1t is not necessary to say anything of and concerning the democratic situation un- til Mir. Bryan gets ready to tell what his wishes are in the premises.
 With Roosevelt out of the calculation, Taft is the leading man for the repub- lican nomination, whether there shall be a fire in his rear in Ohio or not. They say the colored troops In that state are opposed to him. The professional negroes are against him. That is evident; but on the day of election Taft or Roosevelt or anybody else bearing the standard of the G. o. P. will poll more than 90 per cent of the negro vote of Ohio and of every other state. The professional negroes who are resoluting against Taft will swell his ranks with two white voters where they take from him one colored voter White human nature in Ohio is exactly what white human nature is In Mississippi and intends to run the poli- tics of Ohio
 Salmon P. Chase. Allen G. Thurman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
BY F. I. MONKS.

glorlousls beautiful. was nlAlnis Nlslhla. at 6i80 o'clock Il waH as datk AH mla night and nothing remained but tho fss membranee of what the Garden af rden must have been like. The days excite ment both on board and ashore has ek# hansted everyone and by o'clock tho chairs ars deserted, while the hnat eteN with hoses and hroemH are washns the decks clear of the debris which aeeumaH lated while In port
 Next morning the deck sames are fna sumed and next day tho captain tells toa that t will take about twelve days to fnn down the Indian ocean. and that he es pects Co reach Perth on Q certain day 1T you are fortunate enough te make thls part Of the voyage between netahsr ana May you will have the northeast trade winds almost down te the equator hut between the months of May and October Ia what ia known as the monsoon eeaeen and very heavy storms are experienced in the Indian ocean. The season of the passage being described was ln Novem Der and nothing could he more helHhi fui than that trip from Colombo tn Perth Western Australia.
 II Is during thls part nf the voyage that Neptune comes on board and the "Falr" Ia held, day for which great preparations have been made and whlth will be described later on.
 Cre be centnued1