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spend some hours with him once a week :; that I had heard and seen in print some rumors connecting his name with the candidacy for the place of superinten- dent of schools; but that 1 had never questioned him on the subject, and had never mentioned 1t to him In any way whatever.
 If 1 had known that he was thinking of running for Congress, or for the office of governor of the state, or for the Legisla- ture, should have taken the earliest op- tunity of dissuading him from such a course. And why? Because l believe that all these positions are really political 9 and that a minister of the gospel. except under very extraordinary circumstances, puts himself at a serious disadvantage when he becomes an office-seeking pol itician.
 That A. J. Dickinson would make a capital school superintendent nobody who knows his character, ability, industry and culture is likely to deny. Now, in what sense can his candidacy for such an of flee be justly called going into politics I have never discussed partisan politics with him, but be he democrat republican, mugwump or monarchist, what connec-
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The life of the oh id Is pure.
 Not long ago I took a party of chill dren for an outing. The late summer evening was drawing to a close as we returned, and the little tots grew tired and sleepy. One little fellow curled up in my arms and was soon in the sweet dreamland of the child, where there are only the sweetest sparkling streams, and the softest caroling of, birds. In his face there was an innocence that was innocent, a purity that was pure, a peace that was peaceful. One was drawn nearer to all that is good by the very sight, and into the life there came, even though for a moment. only the thoughts that are holy. "A little child shall lead them," said the Master long ago. The same kind. gentle heart took the children up in His arms and blessed them with words that possess the beauty of brevity and the harmony of simplicity. "Of such is the kingdom of heaven.
 How dreary the retrospect of the man whose life is childless. The end draws near, and there's no one to care-he e's "unwept, unhonored and unsung," save by those bound by the ties of friend ship. weak indeed, when compared to the love of ones own blood and sinew.
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and >the same people" and that their sons and daughters who are exhorted to attend the church schools for rell- gious advantages, and urged to attend the State university because of superior equipment. since the schools are hun dred miles apart, must reject one to at tend, the other The question therefore arose, why not make them one hundred yards instead of one hundred miles apart" The plan formally agreed upon is expressed in the following:
 Memorandum: Of a conversation held between President Merrified of the University of North Dakota and Presi- dent Robertson of the Red River Valley University with reference to a tentative plan of cooperation between the state university and~ the educational institu- tion of the Methodist Church in North Dakota.
 Whereas, the State university is In theory the university of all the people of the State, and is supported by the taxes of the members of the several denomi- nations as well as by the other citizens of the State, it would seem to be ap- propriate and fitting that the churches of the several denominations in the State should avail themselves of the privileges which belong to their members as citizens of the State and should use, to whatever extent may seem desirable in the conduct of their educational work. the facilities afforded by the State university.
 It is recognized that the statae univer-
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work done in its own professional schools and to work done In other col leges of reputable standing: Likewise, Wesley College shall give credit for work done in the State university in similar manner as preparation for any degree or certificate it may offer.
 5. Each institution shall have full control of the discipline of students upon it's own grounds.
 G. It shall be deemed proper for stu dents to take degrees from both instltu- tions if they so desire.
 WEBSTER MERRIFIEBD.
 EDWARD P. ROBERTSON.
 University. N. Dak., Jan. s, 1905.
 ssThere is," they say, mo organic un- ion. The separation of church and State is preserved in the full authority to teach and administer funds. Only wasteful competition is eliminated. Tho church and State are made to ap- pear what they really are-not separate and antagonistic organisms, but simply two specialized forms of activity of one and the same p,ople." Methodists - of that State have consequently moved their college from Wahpeton to cam pus adjoining the State university. Of the working of the plan President Web ster Merrifeld in a personal letter says: This is the second year under which the plan has been in operation. 1 think all who are parties to it on either side agree that 1t has worked almost ideally. The Baptist chuI h of this State, dur
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As a basis of cooperation between the State university and the Methodist church of the State the following sug- gestions seem practicable:
 1. That the Methodist Church change the name of its institution from the Red River Valley University to Wesley Col lege.
 g. That a building or buildings be erected in near proximity to the State university but on a separate campus to include a Guild Hall, such recitation rooms as may be required for the work proposed, possibly dormitories for young women and young men, and presidents house.
 3. That the course of study may be-:
 (a) Bible and Church History. Eng fish Bible, New Testament Greek, He- brew. Theism, and such other subjects as the college may elect in pursuance of it's purpose
 (b) A brief course that may be desig- mated as a Bible Normal course, intend- ed especially to fit students to become ef- fcjent Sunday school teachers and lay workers. and upon the completing of which certificates of recognition may be granted.
 (c) Instruction in music and elocu- tion may be given if desired and appro- priate certificates granted.
 (d) Guild Hall lectures.
 4. That the State university grant for. work done in subjects included un- der (a) above, such credit toward the B. A. degree as 1t gives to technical
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sity is a civic institution and has for its mission the training of the youth of the State for efficient service as clt- izens It is recognized, also, that the distinctive object of the church in mann taining schools of its own IS to insure trained leadership in religion and de- nominational work. There Is. therefore logically, no conflict between their re- spective missions, for the same young people are to serve in both these capaci- ties. These two missions being in no sense antagonistic, but supplementary, 1t would seem the part of wise economy that these two educational agencies should avail themselves, as far as possi- ble. of the facilities and appliances or each other in the working out of their respective missions, keeping always Tn view the principle of the separation or the church and state in so far as regards the control and expenditure of the imam cial resources of each
 Accepting the foregoing principle as fundamentally sound, the University Of North Dakota cordially invites the peo- pie of the various denominations of the State to the consideration of plan un- der which the members of the several denominations while preserving their de- nominationa identity and maintaining separate institutions for such educational work as they may deem necessary, shall join, as citizens, in patronage Of the State university as the common agency for the higher education of the vouth of the State,
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OSTEOPATHY-By Percy H. Woodal, M. D.. D. D.

dies necessary for it's repair and growth How else can we explain the fact of the self-limitation of diseases or the power of nature to heal?
 Because 1t is manipulatiVe in character osteopathy has by many been mistaken for or thought similar to massage or Swedish movements. These bear the same relationship to osteopathy that they do to medicine; they are adjuncts only. The similarity ceases with the fact that the hands are used in these as well as in osteopathy. The osteopath is by educa- ton a physician Daily he is chosen by more people as their family physician, and daily his results proclaim the wisdom of their choice He practices complete and independent method of treatment. He diagnoses a case and treats it. He must know disease in all its phases and mani- festations. He must be a skilled anat- omist, an anatomical engineer. the body mechanic, and must know the relationship between the spinal centers and the or gans and tissues which they control Os- teopathy is the scientific adjustment of tissues and manipulation of nerves and nerve centers to produce specific and definite effects upon the organs and tis- sues of the body.
 Osteopathy recognizes the necessity of surgery in some cases, though it deplores
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any other way. They have determined the centers in the spinal cord and are able to get definite and desirable results by work upon them. Instead of depend ing upon the chemical effect of some in- ternal remedy, usually a violent poison, to affect an organ, osteopathy produces the desired effect by manipulation of the spinal center presiding over this organ This method is safe, more certain, and more direct and does not necessitate the administration of drug, which if it may affect one part favorably deranges others in doing so
 There has been for years a tendency to- ward the abandonment of drugs in the treatment of disease. In deference to this tendency the doctors of medicine them selves have ceased to give the massive and nauseating doses of a few years ago, and now frankly admit that in the treat ment of some diseases, notably typhoid fever and pneumonia, drugs are useless. Osteopathy takes step in advance of this and repudiates the internal adminis- tration of drugs, claiming that the human body Is an animated, self-regulating ma chine which when all of it's parts are in proper position, and it is supplied with the clements of nutrition. air, water and food, is capable of, and does elaborate within its own laboratories all the reme-
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natural forces of the body, osteopathic manipulation is also to increase or de- crease the activity of any tissue or organ through manipulation of it's governing center in the. spinal cord. That the im- portance of such effects is beginning to be appreciated by the doctors of medicine Is proven by the following extracts from an article by J. Madison Taylor, M. D., In a recent issue of the New York Medical Journal In explaining the effects of manual treatment he says: But all these things are as child's play to the powerful effects capable of being wrought if the centers in the cord, the subsidiary centers, the exposed points in nerves and ganglia are intelligently operated upon by an educated physician" Again he says that the results are obtained mot so much by direct squeezing (massage) as by reflex stimulation through the central vasomotor substations in the cord. So many desirable effects are attainable by such simple acts that it is strange that the profession has neglected to observe and make use of the vasomotor refiexes more constantly. The body is like piano or harp, to be played upon at will. All that is needed is to work out the prin- ciples on a practical physiologie basis" " The osteopaths have worked out this practical physologic basis, and upon this basis are obtaining results more satisfac- tory and certain than can be secured in
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HE TRAGEDY IN PORTUGAL-By Lady Henry Somerset

broke down. The three-volume novel was then in its glory. but George Meredith broke the bonds asunder, he suppressed all the wearing details which filled most of the pages.
 He burst into these brilliant flights of opetical imagination. and with an un- erring knowledge of psychology bis char acters walked and moved in a real world. instead of strutting upon stage. As is usually the case with all real genius, his novels were ignored. but he altered not neither did he swerve from his inten- tions, he just waited for his audience
 It is interesting to know that at the time when the appreciation of Meredith was still slow in this country. in America he was already being read with avidity. After some years Of constant disappont- inent he said, speaking of adverse crti- cism in England, My mind looks else where.'
 America has taught us to appreciate many good things in England, but in nothing has this been more conspicuously the case than in the literature of Mere dith.
 Probably on no question is his instinct more unerring than in his knowledge of women. What a woman thinks of wo- men is a test of her nature he once wrote, and over and over again we find the curious, almost startling expectations i of the subtle and delicate intricacies of a woman's nature; but it is the soundness :; and health of Meredith's writing on all 1 questions which is so refreshing. Well may his friends and admirers have said in the address which they presented l to him today ''We thank you for the ex- | ample you have set to the world of ele- vating ideals, embodied not only in books l but in life.''
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If Moses had kept out of politics we should now have no Pentateuch. If Ezra and Nehemiah had kept out of politics our canonical books. that now go by their names, could be no part of the Bible indeed, could not have been written.
 Coming down to New Testament times, we find that Paul was statesman enough to know and to vigorously Insist upon his constitutional rights as a Roman citi- zen. He scared Capt. Claudius Lysias by asking if any Roman official had the con- stitutional right to scourge a Roman without a legal trial. He frightened the Roman magistrates at Philippi almost out of their wits by saying: "They have beaten us openly, uneondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out prlvily? Nay, verify; but let them come themselves and fetch us out"
 Julius Caesar, the greatest statesman of Rome Aeld the highest religious office.
 In England, until the days of Queen Elizabeth, ministers of the church were the highest ministers of state. Beckett and Cardinal WoIsey are cases in point.
 So long as there Is an established church in England, so long will the ablest and most thoughtful dissenting preachers
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fiex and expressed in some remote part or organ. It Is of most serious inn port when occurring along the spine. because Arrangements of the vertebre or ribs affect very positively the nerve centers in the spinal cord, the fnedulla and the brain. These Arrangements also interfere with the transmission of nervous impulses between the central nervous system and the organs and tissues of the body. The ordinary ac- tivities of life afford ample opportun- ities for the production of these dis placements. Strains, falls, blows, mis- steps, drafts, atmospheric changes, un- usual muscular exertion and the many minor accidents which occur to every one either derange the position of the parts directly or cause contractures Of the muscles which not only press upon the blood and nerve paths, but In time cause malposition of the bones 70 which they are attached. Manipula- tions are given to adjust these malposi- tions and to restore the tissues to their proper position so that nature may re- sume it's normal activity In the re- moval of these hindrances, irritations and Instructions to the proper circula' = tion of the vital fluids and forces lies the secret of the success of osteopathy
 Besides the correction of misplacements of any of the tissues that may be inter fering with the free circulation or the
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country when Henry Ward Beecher prac- tically took the stump in some bitterly contested political campaigns. The feel ing upon the whole, is a healthy one; and l should be sorry to see it weakened so far as to make 1t easy for a working pastor to go into party campaign with out damaging himself in the estimation of sober-minded people. Still, the mere fact that preacher has sought, or even obtained "an office" does not of itself prove that he has mixed himself up in politics in any way that can fairly be called offensive"
 ou say "he was voted for Well, so was that fine man and admirable preach CT, Bishop Morrison, now, l am glad to say afesident of our city. Is he "a politi- elan" in the offensive sense? My brother, A J. Dickinson, was unanimously voted for to fill the office of president of the Pastors union" here. Was this politics? When the notion had never once entered my head the Baptist ministers confer ence here voted for my humble self as president of that body Was l ''in poli- tics?'
 Jesus Christ uttered profound thought when he said; Judge not according to appearance; but judge righteous judg- ment."
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of the aim of his life they are indeed significant.
 When he met his ministers of state, and made his formal speech he said. q am very young, and l have no eX- perience, and I beg of you to help me to do whatever may be right and best for my country" And so the boy lays aside the light-heatedness of youth, and takes the thorny crown or a reigning sovereign.
 Portugal is now but a small king dom. but it has inherited great tradl- tion, and the future of the Portuguese depends much upon the way whica they rally to their young monarch, not only for the benefit of the little king dom itself, but for the better ruling of such domains they possess in other lands where the grim shado Ns of slavery has been cast. and deeds as dark as those of the Congo have been perpetrated.
 As I look out across the long stretch of green fields to the blue hills which bound the horizon, I think today of George Meredith whose little cottage nes- ties there in the corner of Boxhili, t sunny slope in this lovely Surrey country.
 There today he celebrates his eightieth birthday for he and Mir. Swinburne are the last surviving authors of that great mid-victorian literature.
 I hear already that he is overwhelmed with congratulations. and with the ex- pressions of homage and respect paid to his great achievements, and his still more remarkable personality. It is difficult to remember what so years means In liter ature. Dickens and Thackeray were well OF their way to fame when he began to write and it ia still more difficult to re- member what was the conventional frame work of the action which George Meredith
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is license by the church and the peo- pie that the cloth may now enter the political arena with impunity, and still retain it's influence as teacher and preacher. The doctor admits the salary is very tempting and would help the finances of his church without infringing on his duties.
 Now. as we laymen would quote it, Doctor, Thou canst not serve God and Mammon," and when these political friends would carry you to. the top of those Birmingham skyscrapers and show you the great industrial center of Ala bama, and point out through the smoke and the blue sky southward the dome of the state capitol and command you to throw yourself down on that hard pave ment, you say to those friends Get thee behind me, Satan! Thou shalt not tempt as good and popular a preacher as 1 aml Thou fool! do you think because I aided in destroying the demon liquor that I can be dallied into the army of Beelzebub?
 He who dallies is a dastard;
 He who doubts is damnedr
 It is not my purpose in this article to defend my brother preacher. If any de- fense were needed, he is abundantly able to take care of himself. It may be prop CT for me to say here that l usually
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ing out with two ladies when King
 Carlos opened fire. He dared not re-
 turn the she'll but the ladies speedily
 rrotected their escort and a merry
 scene ensued.
 The freedom of England was to King
 Carlos the greatest joy. As he wandered
 through the streets with a cigar in
 his mouth he felt safe.
 The great strong man with a kind heart and genial face and a ready laugh, this was the man who in few brief moments was hurried rom his throne into the world beyond the grave. The actual story of the murder has been told again and again in the Jour- nals of every nation during the last two weeks Never has greater tragedy peen enacted the husband, the wife and the two boys, the woman endeaVorihg to protect her son, warding on death With a bouquet, the mournful visil or the two oueens through that dark night in the presence Of death which hao come "ith such terrible swiftness
 The King had a presentiment Of what would happen, for when he was pre- sented by Senor Franco with the docu- ment which caused such deep dissatis- faction. he said T am signing my death | sentence, it does not matter much: and then he affixed his name.
 The very morning he left to go to Lis , bon. his usually happy face was gloomy and sad Undoubtedly he had one of
 those strange forebodings which so often foreshadow disaster.
 The grief among our royal family In England has been deep and personal, and the presence of the King and Queen and Prince and Princess of Wales at the l requiem mass held at the church ir
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the largest sense for proper living. Then, in the name of the sunny-face1 boys and girls of your own household, with the same love that you bear to- ward them, go forth to care for anu protect the children of other men-the fatherless, motherless little fellows who need your help so badly. and those probably in as pathetic a plight, who. having fathers and mothers, are yet without guidance and protection.
 The cry of the children is to all men, even as it is the cry. of all children. The man with little fellows of his own is urged on by the cry of his blood. The call to the old man comes in tn name of those who once were children and gathered around his fireside Their memories urge him to do for others what he did or would have done for them To the man whose life has been childless there come the merry voices of the sons and daughters who. in the low firelight of fancy, gather upon his knee and shout around his chair.
 Never before have the children of the state cried out more strongly for help. Blessed is the man or woman whose ears are not stopped to this call If | the innocent.
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ton would his political opinions have with the proper and efficient discharge of the duties of superintendent? Integrity, talents. culture. business sense are need ed in such an office; and who will deny that he has them all?
 Probably the people who are most vio- Iently opposed to preachers "meddling' in politics are not aware how modern their notion is; and it is not at all likely that they are generally acquainted with it's origin and history. brief historical review of the matter may. therefore. be of some use
 The greatest of the Hebrew phophets, such as Isaiah and Jeremiah, were great statesmen, as well as great preachers. This was no accident. These men were ambassadors for Jehovah, and the gov ernment was a throcracy, i. e., it was framed and conducted by Jehovah Him self Under such circumstances, how could Isaiah keep out of politics?'' He was the accomplished courier, statesman and orator that the situation demanded, and he used his great political influence in helping and encouraging king and peo- rAla