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He fell at the battle of Chancellorsville, where Rodes so distinguished himself. Cadet F. M. Nelson now lives In New York. He enlisted as private In Ten nessee cavalry regiment. He was cap- tured on picket and while being conducted into the enemys lines captured his cap- tor, turned his face in the other direc- ton, and marched the blue coat to prison. Citizens of Birmingham will remember Cadet Yancey P. Newman. He served through the war. Dalton Huger Yanoey was cadet at La Grange when the war opened, a son of the orator. He became captain of a company in the Seventh Alabama cavalry. At Van Dorn's battle of Corinth a volunteer squad charged a battery of the enemy under the lead of a cadet from La Grange. All were left dead on the ground except the leader, and he was desperately wounded.
 Perhaps the most distinguished in after life of the matriculates of La Grange is pr. John Allan Wyeth, now living in New York, and known as one of the eminent surgeons of the world. He is a native of Marshall county. He rode with John II. Morgan, Wheeler and Forrest as private while yet in his minority. Ills life is spent in varied fields of usefulness and success. As an author his rank is high. The med ical profession profit by his voluminous works in their line. He has published a most valuable contribution to the history of the country in his "Life of General Forrest"
 It is one only among the contradictions of fact to the dscredlt of the south that our support of colleges among us has been. neglected under the slave regime The University of Virginia and the South Carolina college were unexcelled in the Union President Cooper of the latter in- situation. and Prof. Tilliman of New Eng land contemporaneonsly introduced the study of geology into American colleges Cooper first taught the science of political economy in an American college.
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of the Antilles used by the same speaker with reference to the Emerald Isle If American interference in. Irish affairs were to be for the purpose of bringing content. order and progress to that island is it not only natural expect that the Irish people would welcome such inter ence and gladly grasp the hand which offered such help? It was this possible interference and help which prompted MT. Gladstone to attempt to secure for Eng land the loyalty and gratitude of the most loyal and grateful of people, and to fortify the shores of an adjacent island by the hearts and hands of its popu- lation. Ireland is at England's door. Good policy, if nothing else, would prefer sentry at ones door to an enemy. but it may be that destiny reserves to the Irish the pleasure of striking the fatal blow which will give satisfaction for all past injuries.
 Instead of England asking the Irish
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our military institutions organized that they may furnish to our armies as they are needed trained military men. It is impossible to do this unless both teach CTS and cadets will periodically repress this passion for the field only and each work for the holy cause in his appointed sphere" The call of the Confederate government, however, for volunteers for the army fell upon most willing ears at LaGrange. A large proportion of the cadets resigned and entered the army. Later on the faculty refused to accept resignations and thereupon a number of the cadets, determined to go to the field, systematically so rebelled against the rules as to force an order of dismissal
 The enemy occupied all the countries in the Valley of the Tennessee after the battle of Shiloh, and the retreat of Beau regard to central Mississippi. By order or General Sherman, the destruction of prop erty and the oppression of the citizens was extreme. Two aged governors, Clay and Chapman, fell victims to this pe'se- cution. On April 2S, 1863, Col Florence M. Cornyn of the Missouri cavalry above mentioned, set fire to the college build ings and saw them in ashes as he rode away. Hon. William Richardson, rep.e- sentative of the district in Congress, has pending a bill to reimburse the trust ecs for this wanton destruction At the burn ing tine library of 4OO0 volumes, the chem ical apparatus, furniture, etc., belonging to the institutions, perished.
 It will not be unproftable to follow up the mention of the war records of the faculty of the college and the students to indicate the all peryading attachment of the people of the state to the fortunes of the Confederacy. The superintendent, Major Robertson, felt released from the urgent protest of Pines, saw him wounded and later had him promoted major, against his protest.
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college stood but a heap of brick Tn dis- order is seen here and there from the center of the spot where one of the great buildings stood a tall sycamore rises un- disturbed.
 A grateful lesson in the nearly history of Alabama is contained in tRis career of the college. In May, 1904. one of the later matriculates there, now the world famous surgeon and author, Dr. John A. Wyeth of Netw York, lead in arranging a reunion on the mountain of as many of the Surviving students and faculty as could be assembled. Dr. Wyeth pub lished a handsome little book copiously illustrated commemorative of the reunion and descriptive of the college from its birth to it's final removal to Florence.
 AS the state grew in population and wealth, with phenomenal rapidity, and solidarity as we'll facilities of access to other colleges carried away large DOT tion of the patronage which originally had been counted on for LaGrange. In 1855 @ well meaning attempt to move the Institution to Florence failed of effect. Two years later the fierce struggle at arms between the northern and southern civilizations initiated under the leader ship of John Brown of New England III the territory of Kansas. Foreboding or the wonderful tragedy to come permeated the air. LaGrange college lost its dis tinctly literary motive. In 1858 handsome barracks had been made ready, full corps of instructors in military science was appointed and in February the school re-opened under the name and style of "LaGrange College and Military Aca- demy."
 We shall recount from Dr. Wyeth's beautiful and timely memorial volume, some of the personal incidents which followed in the wake of>the reorganized
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themselves only to blame for the fail- ure and the sympathy of the world will be lost; but the essential features fin the attempt must be the entire absence of in- terference. unless 1t be to help and not to hinder. No man knows this better than Redmond and he has stated time and again that an unavoidable scheme of government would only serve to make the last condition worse than the first Let the people be asked and al- lowed to govern themselves according to their own views and Immediately order and content will be established. With these two clements co-existing the third. progress. Is assured. If the English newspapers, in their criticisms on Presl- dent Roosevelt's message, would recom- mend the adoption towards Ireland Of the American policy towards Cuba they would serve their King and country better than by caviling at his remarks about the army and navy.
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took a literary course fin one or more of the famous schools of his native city be- fore going up to Jerusalem to study the- ology under the renowned Dr. Gamallel.
 In the epistle to Titus. "The Cretlans are always liars, evil beasts, idle glut- tons" comes from Eplmenides. a Greek philosopher who lived before Christ. Paul calls him "one of themselves, even Il prophet of their own"-i. e., of the Gre tians; and Epimenides Is our Forgotten Prophet As Paul thought him worth quoting we may well think him worth knowing; and so with the aid of com mentary and classical dictionary, let Us look him up.
 He was born in Crete, but the ancient authorities are not agreed as to the place. Phaestus and Gnossus are both given. He seems to have been priest, poet, philosopher and seer among his people. The date of his birth, 659 B. C.. would make him a contemporary of the great law-giver Solon. About 596 B. C. he was invited to Athens by the people of that city, in order to prepare the way for the legislation of Solon by ceremonial priv flcations and sacrifices to the gods. His treatise on "Oracles and Responses. men toned by Jerome, is said to have been the work from which Paul makes the quota tion given above. The Cretlans evidently regarded him as a superior being, for They paid divine honors to him after his death. Plato calls him "a divine man." Legg 1, page 642 and Cicero, De Div. I:1g, couples him with the Erythrean Sibyl and with Bacis.
 The charge that the Cretians are al- ways liars" is repeated by Callinaehus, Hymn ad Jov., s. Many ancient authori-
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By Sir Walter Scott. With fruitiess labor, Clara bound. And strove to staunch the gushing wound; The monk. with unavailing cares, Exhausted all the church's prayers; Ever, he said, that. close and near, A ladys voice was in his ear. And that the priest he could not hear, For that she ever sung, "In the lost battle, borne down by the
 flying,
 Where mingles wars rattle with groans
 of the dyingl"
 So the notes rung; Avoid thee, fiend!-with cruel hand Shake not the dying sinners sand! !- Ohi look my son, upon yon sign
 Ohi think on faith and blissl- By many death-bed I have been, And many a sinners parting seen.
 But never aught like this."- The war. that for a space did fail, Now trebiy laundering swelled the gale.
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iral manuscript of Carlyles French Revolution;' puppy-or was it Kit ten?-destroyed an immense labor of Isaac Newton. Such was Niles of the Register.
 When Jefferson got to be President, Randolph was his most trusted counselor, and of all men Jefferson most distrusted Marshall, and it is a curious fact of fam fly tree that these three came from common ancestor. a. Randolph, not three generations remote. Robert E. Lee traced his line to the same source. When Jeffer- son was inaugurated there was not state that did not hold that its legislature was the judge of controversy between the state and the union, and that idea was especially rampant in Massachusetts. AS late as 1874 it possessed New England, as is observed in the proceedings of the Hartford convention.
 Not so was Marshalps view. He held that in a dispute between the republic and one of its members the republic was sovereign and the final arbiter. This was an assertion of "the judicial power" By this time Jefferson had a grip on execu- tive power and as President at Wasn- ington he had a heap more respect for, and a heap less jealousy of, power than he did as the Sage of Monticello.
 Randolph strove to increase the merl- bership of the supreme court until Mar
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LOVE AND DEATH.

By Lord Tennyson. What time the mighty moon was gath
 ering light, Love paced the thymy plots of Para
 disc, And all about him rolled his lustrous eyes. When, turning round cassia, full in
 view. Death. walking all alone beneath yew. And talking to himself. first met his
 sight: "You must begone" said Death, these
 walks are mine" Love wept and spread his sheeny vans
 for flight; Yet, ere he parted, said: This hour is
 thine: Thou art the shadow of life and as the
 tree Stands In the sun and shadows all be-
 meath, So in the light of great eternity Life eminent creates the shade of, death; The shadow pssseth when the tree shall But I shall reign for ever over all"
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Governor Moore under the change of circumstances, and went out to organize the Thirty-fifth regiment of Alabama infantry, Confederate army, and be- came it's colonel. The professor oc- cupying the chair of ancient languages, Goodwin, was lieutenant colonel under him. The young commaAdant of cadets, William Henry Hunt, a Georgian by birth became major of the regiment. Professor of mathematics, McGregor, enlisted under Roddey, served under Forrest and in the ranks rode with these great commanders to the end of the contest. Cadet Robert T. Boles became captain of a company in the Fourth Alabama infantry, so famous in the records of the war, and was wound ed in the battles of the Chic<ah ominy, in 1862 He Is now a farmer of Mar shall county. The smallest in stature of the cadets, the guidon bearer of the battalion, James M. Gotham. rode in Kentucky regiment, under the Confed- crate cross as a private the war through. Cadet Clarence Cullens be- came captain in the Forty first Mis- sissippi infantry and Is now a phy- sician in the far west. Cadet Thaddeus Felton fell at the bloody battle of Corinth, under Van Dorn, as captain. He was one of the only two who ever graduated at LaGrange Military acad- emy. John Napier was the oth CT. Cadet James II. Fraser served under Forrest and subsequently, became judge of pro- bate in an Arkansas county. Cadet John Goodwin became captain of the first company that marched from Tus- cumbia to the war. Cadet Augustus Gordon, brother of the illustrious Gen. John B. Gordan, went to war as ser geant in the "Racoon Roughs s." Sixth Alabama infantry.
 He was promoted captain. General Rodes witnessed his gallantry at Seven
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shall was in a hopeless minority. This counsel Jefferson rejected. It made the sectional question. It made the war of 1S61-65. It made the republic of Wash ington the empire of Roosevelt.
 John Marshall Harlan is of the school of Hamilton in politics, and the son of an eminent jurist, who, in Congress, was a devoted follower of Henry Clay. He was boy at college when the Whig party died At 21 he was not only captivating public speaker but a powerful advocate, at the bar or on the stump. In 1855 Kentucky had three brilliant young orators-Jonn M. Harlan, William c. P. Breckenridge and John Young Brown-all graduated from Center college. The last named two were democrats, who sep arated in 1860, Breckenridge supporting his cousin and Brown adhering to Doug las
 In 1856, Harlan canvassed the state for Fillmore. In 1860 he was for Bell and Everett. Prior to that he was the nominee of what they called the op- position" for Congress in the Ashland district.
 It was, and is, judged by its repre- sentation in the national House of Rep resentatives, measuring them by per sonal character, intellectual attain
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FROM 1.-THE GARDEN OF PRosER-

By Algernon Charles Swinburne. We are not sure of sorrow,
 And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow;
 Time stops to no mans lure; And love, grown faint and fretful Wth lips but half regretful Signs, and with eyes forgetful
 Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living,
 From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be, That no life lives forever: That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river
 Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken,
 Nor any change of light; Nor sounds of waters shaken,
 Nor any sound or sight; Nor wintry leaves nor vernal; Nor days nor things diurnai, Only the sleep eternal
 in an eternal night.
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from the Nnch and run for governor. It would have been suicide. John M Har- Ian, playing golf at Chevy Chase. is yet young John M. Harlan riding on horse back, forty miles day, and speaking two hours to none too select crowds, would not have lasted till first frost.
 It is said that Judge Harlan has made more dissenting opinions than any other man who ever sat on the supreme bench. He is a man of pronounced convictions, and he will not surrender 0 one of them.
 His grandfather went with Harrod to Kentucky and helped Daniel Boone, Har- rod, Logan, Kenton and the others lay deep and lasting the foundations of the old commonwealth.
 Long may he be spared to the ermine.
 Copyright, 1907, by E. w. Newman)
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SOME POEMS FOR SUNDAY READING.

Lives for the world he tries To help--he lives eternally. A good man never dies. Who lives to bravely take His shares of toll and stress, And for his weaker fellows sake, Makes every burden less He may, at last, seem worn Lie fallen--hands and eyes Folded-yet, though we mourn and
 mourn,
 A good man never dies
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A~UBA is at our doors.

H(NUBA is at our doors.
 . All that we ask of the Cuban
 O people is that they be prosper ous; that they govern themselves so as to bring content, order and progress to their island, the Queen of the Antilles; and our only interference has been and will to help them achieve these resules. This is a sentence taken from President Roosevelt's message to Congress and the same is respectfully presented to the at tenton of King Edward with the sugges- ton that fie substitute the word Ireland for the word Cuba" and include the sentence in the speech from the throne at the next meeting of parliament.
 Once and only once, during the nine teenth century were words such as these spoken by an English statesmen. w. K. Gladstone. and in response to them the Irish people agreed to forgive and for get the wrongs, the prosecutions, the op-
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office, and elected them, too. Kentucky was the "Confederit Crossroads" and as rebellious as a condition short of war could be,
 There were three partles-the democ- racy, the republicans and a third class, very select and very exclusive. These were too loyal to be democrats and too respectable to be republicans. They nominated ticket. George D. Prentice said they were the .calco" party. Old Frank Wolford called them the ''cow- colored" party. Harlan joined it. as did Bramlette; but the next year, 1868, Har-' Ian became a republican and Bramlette democrat.
 Harlan went to Louisville and was one of the first lawyers at the bar. In polit- ical campaigns he went on the stump and was pretty nearly unrivaled in that ca pacity. In 1871 he was nominated for gov ernor, and the things he did to old man Leslie, the democratic candidate, were cruelty and torture. Four years later he was the opposing candidate to McCreary, who, by sheer pluck, stood up to him, dis comfiting him at Munfordyile.
 And yet do believe the John M. Har- Ian of thirty years ago was the most pow erful man l ever heard on the stump. It was suggested last summer that he resign
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IN round numbers, without exact com
 putation of months and days, six in- \ dividuals have served on the United States supreme court more than 30 years each. Bushrod Washington of Virginia, appointed by John Adams in 179S, was on the bench 31 years. John Marshall of Virginia, also appointed by John Adams in 1901, served 34 years. Joseph Storey of Massachusetts, appointed by James Madison in 1911. remained In that station till 1s45 John Mclean of Ohio, appointed by John Quincy Adams in 1929, was on the bench as long afterward as 1861. James M. Wayne of Georgia, appointed by An drew Jackson in 1885, continued on the bench until 1s67 Stephen J. Field of Cali fornia, appointed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, did not retire until 1S97 His was the longest service, exceeding Marshalrs by a few weeks, Marshalrs exceeding Sto- rey's by a few months. William Johnson of South Carolina, appointed by Thomas Jefferson in 1894, served 30 years.
 John Marshall Harlan of Kentucky was appointed by R. B. Hayes in 1877, and IS yet on the bench, after more than 30 years in robust physical manhood at "A, and with a splendid mental yirility, net yet out of its prime. And it is not hazardous to prophecy that John M. Har- Ian, vigorous in mind and strong in body, will be dispensing justice from that tri- bunal, which he has so long graced. 10 years hence.
 Though the bar of Kentucky, for the first 100 years of the republic, ranked with the bar of any other state in char acter and learning, but three Kentuckians have been appointed to the supreme bench-Todd in 1897 and Trimble in 1926, preceding Harlan On the other hand, Ohio, a younger state, has supplied the supreme bench with six member, two of them chief justices.
 Section 1, article III, of the federal con- stitution confers on the supreme court s'the judicial power" The judiciary of no other people allow 1t to the extent our judiciary has assumed It. It Is vast and a dangerous power, and the wonder is that it has not wrecked this country. That 1t has not. tells volumes for the
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A GOOD MAN.

By James Whitcomb Riley. A good man never dies
 In worthy deed and prayer And helpful hands. and honest eyes,
 If smiles. or tears be there; Who lives for you and me-
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And-StanIey! was the cry;- A light on Marmion's visage spread,
 And fired his glazing eye; With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade,
 And shouted, "Vietoryl Charge, Chester, chargel On Stanley, oni's Were the last words of Marmton.
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THE DEATH OF HARMON.

A good man never dies.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-09-06
AFTER SLOT MACHINES
East Chicago Woman Takes
Initiative by Sueing Pro
prietor of Nuisance.

Because her husband had the slot
machine habit. and spent too many
nickels chasing the blue. red and green,
to the detriment of his home, Mrs. Su-
san Yant made affidavit before Judge
Mcmahon in the city court, this morn
ing. with the result that the latter is
sued a warrant for the arrest of Charles
Huwig. a saloonkeeper of East Chicago.
The man was arrested this morning by
Bailin Shine, charged with keeping
a gaming device. and a large nickel in
the slot roulette wheel was conffscated.
The man was held in 500 bonds for a
hearing September ..
1t is said that Mrs. Yant. whose hus-
band was employed in one OF the steel
mills, found that her huby was putting
q lot of his money into the machine
with the usual returns. Since the war
rant was procured it Is also stated that
the husband left his happy home and
went to another city to engage in man
ual labor as he did not care TO face the
accusation. 1t is one of the first steps
or the women OF Indiana Harbor and
East Chicago against the slot machines.
They are said to be on the verge OF a
Garry Nation raid amongst the saloons
where the slot machines are a promi-
nent fixture amongst the furniture.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-09-06
POSTAL KEYMAN QUITs
Manager of Local Office
Shuts Desk and Joins
Ranks of Strikers.

Lawrence Cunningham, manager OF
the local office of the Postal Telegraph
company, closed his key this afternoon
In order to join the ranks of the strik-
ing unibnfsts- Tt was rather reluctant
ly that Mr.. Cunningham took the step.
but the blacklist Of the unions all over
the county was staring him in the face
and sooner than incur their opposition
and on the principles that pervades
unionism, he sent in his resignation.
The probabilities are that Mr.. Cunning
ham will be replaced with a strike
breaker from Chicago. but men are so
scarce that it may be some time be-
fore the new man will arrive.
Though a member of the Chicago To-
cal, Mr.. Cunningham had not been ask
ed to walk out until today. The notice
today was imperative.