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the way over into Hanover and voted against me-" Now, this irate statesman would have been insulted if anyone had questioned his honesty; and yet, such was the power of personal and partisan preju- dice that his representations were utterly untrustworthy in such case as this.
 In every Presidential campaign whole bales of grotesque lies are manufactured and sold, wholesale and retail. They are spoken, printed. published and peddled all over the land Many politicians, who in ordinary matters are men of character and integrity, and who are obliged to know that many of these stories are false, will use them on the stump, and in the press. and will treat them as if they were true Seldom, indeed, do we find stump speaker who has the candor and integrity to deny islander against the candidate on the other side. The result of all this is, that brazen impudence and the hide of a rhinoceros are coming to be requisites in the character of that strange mixture, "an available candi- date"
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I rejoined, T am no object of charity, and I am not willing to receive half-a- dollar from you as a gratuity If you will say that you have received half-a- dollars worth of benefit from my preach- ing, and that you are paying me this money I will take it; but not a cent of your money will I receive as gift Well. but, Brother Broaddus, you know | don't believe in paying preachers Very well, then, take your money back; for I won't have it. The brother was not willing to take it back; and at last said: Well, you keep it. and take it in any way that suits you
 That man became one of the most de- voted friends and admirers that William r. Broaddus ever had; and their name was legion, for they were many.
 When Barnett Grimsley began to come into notice as a preacher of parts and promise, this same brother once came to his Brother Broaddus and asked him; Are you studying as hard now as you used to do?" Broaddus replied: T can not say that l am; for I am teaching a school, and am riding many miles to
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existed; and this last proposition will to most minds, be as inconceivable as any that has been mentioned.
 That abis and scholarly metaphysoian. Sir William Hamilton has laid down the philosophical and perfectly logical prin- ciple, that of two contradictory oppo- sites," one or the other must be true. no matter how inconceivable both proposi- lions may be. To my mind, that Is cap able of logical reasoning, this principle of Sir William Hamilton's commends it. self as absolutely irresistible. What then, becomes of the very popular ob- section to certain Biblical statements and <loctrines-the objection often urged by skeptics-that they are ineonceivable7
 Daniel Webster was decidedly ortho- dox in his creed whatever he may have been in his life. When somebody asked him: "Do you believe in the doctrine of the Trinity" he promptly answered, Yes" But, MT. Webster. how can three persons be one God?" Maybe they don't go by your arithmetic in heaven,' was the statesman's reply.
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sketch of Clarke. Bates was probably born in Barren county in the first de- cade of the nineteenth century. He learned to read in cabin by the light of fagots on the hearth but the mere art of reading was a liberal education for such a man as James P. Bates. He was gifted with curiosity and had the skill to acquire knowledge from reading men as well as by reading books. In his early manhood he was admitted to the bar of Barren county, one of the ablest in a state whose bar was equal to any in the Union, and superior to all others in the Mississippi valley. As practitioner Bates was at his best and at cross-exam- ination, and advocating a desperate case before a jury he was unrivaled. No prince of the house of We're de We're could have hated meanness more, and when he took in his hand the spear of invec- tive he was terrible, indeed.
 Bates served in the Kentucky legisla- ture, in both houses, I believe. In 1855 he was nominated for congress by the democrats and badly beaten, owing to the lunatic wave of know-nothngism. In 1859 he was nominated for and elected to a high-sounding sinecure president of the board of internal improvements" The office was abolished a few weeks after he was sworn in. He was nomi- mated for his eloquence and accepted for the sake of the party, the salary being 5000 per annum.
 It was an episode of that campaign of 1859 that I now propose to try to relate. Barren county, Bates home, was In the "Pennyrile'; Mercer county Is In the Blue Grass" Election day was the first Monday in August and Bates was billed to speak at Harrodsburg, the county seat of Mercer, the second Monday in July, county court day. Tom Martin. a prosperous farmer, had moved from Barren county to Mercer, about 150 miles, some years before. He was a whig, but loyal to the "Pennyrile," and he knew the metal of which "Old Jim" Bates was made, so he told the people of Mer- cer that if they wanted to hear the greatest speech since the death of Henry Clay to go and hear Colonel Bates. He was insistent; emphatic, and dogmatic on this head, and had little difficulty in arousing public curiosity. So successful was he in this behalf that on county court day there was an unusually big crowd in town, and all was expectancy.
 It was a glorious midsummer day, very warm, very dry, and very dusty. Martin was sitting in front of the tavern i'm patiently awaiting the arrival of Bates, when, about Il o'clock, a tall, slender, ugly man came riding up on a fea-btten gray mare. His trousers were half way up to his knees, stovepipe hat was on his head, and very much dilapidated An old linen duster hid his coat of well-worn broadcloth, and his shoes had not met a blacling brush for at least week. It was Bates
 Refining in the old mare, that went the old side pace," a gait abominable in the blue grass Bates called out, "Is that you, Tom Martini" "Yes, colonel, 1t Is |.
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was nobody else in the world that she did care for. He was terribly dear All the next day the little incident stayed in her mind. She went backward and for ward in the pretty little apartment, with furnishings, rich rugs and mission chairs and fragile glass. Life with Leighton was a hundred times sweeter than she had ever dreamed 1t would be; yet there were times even now when she began to see that 1t might be different this clear pleas ure might be as easily cracked and flawed as the crystal vase that stood on the light wood mantel before her-a tall, exquisite ly graceful article, which gave her fresh joy every time she saw the sunlight through 1t. Leighton was very much of boy. though he was quite a little oldef than she was-yet he had certain unex- pectedly severe masculine streaks about him when one didn't expect 1t. This little matter of the laundry now-nothlng about his attire could ever seem of half the im- rortance that the affairs of her wardrobe her chiffons and beads and laces- seemed to her, but still
 She made a little vow to herself and when he came home that night he saw something loyelier than ever in her eyes, anu spohe UT IL, WltH HIS driH tightening around her.
 The next morning his casual tone tried to be free of any implied reproach-"Be sure and send that shirt for the laundry today, dear, will you?-the shirt I got in London, with the square cuffs-the one that didn't go this week. It's hanging on that hook in the closet. I telephoned to Lee Wong before breakfast, and he says can have 1t tonight-I want to wear It tomorrow-when I go to lunch with MT Crandale. You won't forget to send 1t over, will you, Alice?
 T will not forget" she answered promptly, starting off indeed the moment he had left the house to get 1t and tie it up in bundle for the janitor's boy to take over to Lee Wong's establishment On her way the telephone called her off, and for day of pleasure, indeed-a sum mons to the home of a lately returned
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A SONG OF SHIRT-By Mary Stewart Cutting

Mrs. Chanler, with a sudden qualm that seemed to be taking awful and in- creased possession of her. q sent everything you left out. of course, always do-except one shirt that you left on chair. I hung that up in the closet again, because I bought you might want it; it was quite clean, thought" She had been rummaging among the hooks as she spoke, lifting the garment in question from under a coat. 'Leighton" Her lips trembled as she met his gaze. Please don't look at me like thatl How could l know that this was the one you wanted? Can't you wear 1t as 1t is?"
 Wear it as 1t Is, with that? No, [ can't wear it as 1t is, Alice" MT. Chan- Ter conquered himself heroically. Tt makes no differences; I'll take another shirt. Only"- Mrs. Chanlers heart, which had expanded with quick sense of relief, contracted again; 1t wasn :. over yet-"only, Alice, I think you might take a little more pains about my laundry. The things never go as they should, or else when they come home they're put where nobody can find them. You know yourself last week we were late to the Stoners' din- ner Just because the wh ole bundle had been left in the sheet closet, where no one thought of looking for 1t. I don't want to be hard on you, Alice; but you have so little to think about, no house. keeping or anything, that It does seem as if I might get my laundry when want it. Don't you think so, dear?"
 By this time his wife's arms were around his neck. She knew it was practically "over." He was ready for that penitent customary assurance that it shouldn't happen again. Yet some- thing in his manner this time made her feel, conscience-s stricken, that 1t must not happen again.
 It wasn't just that he was inconven- ienced-he was really hurt, because she didn't care enough to remember-thougi she did care enough-it wasn't that There
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FRIED CHICKEN AND GREEN CORN

J. w. Foley, in New York Times. Down in the country just about
 This time the fields are moist and
 green,
 The woods are cool and all leaved out And brooks with fish In flow between Their grassy banks; the nights are prime. From eve to incense breathing morn, And they approach that happy time Of fried spring chicken and green corn. Down in the country there's a spell Of gladness, or by night or day, And in the fields there clings the smell, The odor of the new cut hay; The sound of many whistled tune Across the loamy field is borne, And that bright day is coming soon Of fried spring chicken and green corn. Down in the country there's the cluck And chatter of the Plymoth Rock, And gory heads will soon be struck From stretched necks at the chopping
 block;
 The half-grown rooster will be thrust Tn boiling water-plumage shorn; Then biscuit with a rich brown crust
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SOME KENTUCKIANS-By Savoyard

Light from your horse," and Martin went out and took the saddle-bags off and escorted the old fellow into the tavern. The folks outside simply roared in derl- sion, the democrats as well as the Wings, when Bates asked, ''Tom, can a man get dram In this d-d placer He was assured that he could, and he did
 Everybody guyed Martin, who, though somewhat chagrined, was confident, ani said: "Wait-go and hear him." They went, but to scorr. Martin had the colonePs shoes blacked, he dished out Il clean shirt and collar from the saddle bags, and had a barber come and shavo and trim the hair of the man from the "Pennyrlle." Then they had another dram" and splendid dinner, of which fried chicken and Kentucky cornpone were component parts.
 At l o'clock the courthouse bell called the people together, and Bates and Mar tin went arm in arm. He ascended the 1udge's stand, and, without any formal introduction, began with "Fellow-citi zens." What a voice 1t was; clear, mu. sical, distinct, commanding, insprlngl No longer was 1t an ungainly form, but as graceful as Apollo, he seemed trans figured. The homely face, redeemed by eyes that would have made him a For rest or Booth on the stage, was now almost handsome. For two hours he did WILL tldt duulenCS as Ht plcdStu, Sdpti- vated it as none had done since Tom Marshall The next day he repeated the thing at Versailles, where lived Tom Mar shall, and the town that produced Joe Blackburn.
 Beverly l.. Clarke was born in Virginia in 1909, but in early life went to Ken lucky. In 1S41 he was chosen to the state legislature, and eight years later he was conspicuous as one of the 100 men who 10 49-1D perhaps the very best constitution any state of the American sisterhood ever had. The debates of that convention ought to be text book in every college in the union. The Kentucky of 1890 was reasonable enough to plighted faith to violate the constitution of 1S4e-50 be- fore 1t could foist on the state the thing they now call the constitution of Ken lucky. l am proud that voted against it.
 Little more can be gained from printed Diatter of Clarke than Is to be had of Bates. He was elected member of the ThIrtieth Congress, in which body sat Charles S. Morehead, against whom he was pitted as the candidate for governor eight years later. But Clarke was the idol of the democratic party of that sec- tion at that time. He was the one demo- crat that constituency elected to Congress between the Twenty-first and the Thirty ninth Congresses-1S21-1865 a period of A years. The great Whig houses of Un- derwood, Tompl<ins, Grider and Brstow had absorbed all political power in the bloody old Third"
 Clarke was candidate for reelection to congress, but was defeated In one of the most rolhclSling campaigns even Ken lucky ever knew. His whlg competitor was a boy, Presley Ewing. It was the Lpalmy day of the convivial cup, and Clarke and Ewing were well matched in
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stretched an extraordinarily limp and woeful-looking shirt She was appar- ently having difficulty with her iron. Tor the shirt clung to it when she tried to lift it off; when 1t did come off he saw, as she did the black, scorching marks of it on that London- made bosom. The tired, frightened face that met his was so helplessly deari
 "I tried to wash 1t for you-I tried so hard. I'll never forget agalnn she whispered between her tears. with his arms around her, neither chums, nor man and wife, just lovers-"I wanted to. Leighton! I thought I'd bring 1t to YOU so beautiful and shining and stiff, and you'd say-and now I've spoiled IL orever. I've stayed away from you all this evening when l wanted to be with you so much-and you've thought youve thought-And it's ruined for everr
 "Oh, I don't mind that at all' he ayerred stoutly-he knew that he had to say it, though he felt pang when ever he thought of that shirt. T don't care how many things you forget'-he knew he had to say that, too, and was glad to. He realized, as he had never d one before, that a man must be very tender with his wife when she was like Alice-Alice, who clung to him now
 Oh, to her it was no matter how she was hurt, by her act or by his, so long as she had him to go to for refuge! He must always be her refuge, even a gainst himself. Though a thousand shirts walked in Tapping, fantastic procession through the future years. n ever never-she whispered it in sweet c comforted fierceness-never sh ould one escape her again.
 Yet perhaps 1t was not in the heart of mortal man to understand the sigh of relief that claimed her after her fresh compunction the next morning. when the garment that had been the pride of her Leightons heart disa1 peared forever, burned and blackened, with the janitor's boy. It was a sigh of relief at the disappearance of visi- b le source of evil After all, 1t was only the shirt that had been damaged
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T HE double decade, 1s4o-6o, the Third
 congressional district of Kentucky \ was celebrated for the great num- Der of exceptionally able and brilliant men 1t produced. Elijah Hise, the equal intellectually of any man who ever dwelt in the Mississippi valley, stood at the head. Unfortunately he lived in whig district of a whig state, or his name and his fame would be as national as Doug las, or Breckinridge, or Blaine. Joseph R. Underwood, his successful rival at the ballot box, was regarded as the head of the land law bar of Kentucky, a state the richest of all in the prefundity of the decisions touching land titles. Christo- pher Tompkins, another whig who beat Hise for congress, was a great jurist and a great debater. His son, "Young Chris" died at 25 but he lives in democratic as well as whig tradition as the most prom ising man Kentucky ever produced.
 Warner l.. Underwood, a brother of Joseph R., was twice elected to congress as a know-nothing. It was the home of the Bristows and the Griders. There lived John o. Rogers, James Johnson, John Ritter, Frank Gorin, Joseph H. Lewis, William Sampson. Preston H. Leslie. John A. Finn. Judge Loving and numerous others celebrated for splendid intellect and grand character.
 And there, too. lived James P. Bates in Barren county, and Beverly L. Clarke in Simpson. It was the palmy days of stump oratory, the 40's and the sos of the last century, when the stump was the academy where the electorate was taught politics. Each age builds accord ing to its necessities. There are stump orators today, but they no more com pare with Marshall and Menifee, Prem tiss and Yancey, Wise and Henry, than Clyde Fitch compares with Shakespeare in the work of dramatic poetry.
 It would be impossible to say whether Bates was a greater stump speaker than Clarke. He had more individuality Clarke more magnetism. He had a finer voice, Clarke a handsomer presence. h. tellectually they matched; at the bar they were equals; of acquired knowledge neither had much of an advantage in any branch. Both were noted for that quality Kentuckans of that day called game" and neither ever feared to look on the face of man no more than did John Knox. Both Clarke and Bates were democrats and both went down before the know-nothing craze of 1855 when Clarke was defeated for governor by Charles S. Morehead and Bates was beaten for Congress by Warner l.. Under wood.
 There is no sketch of James P. Bates in existence so far as I know. There are two bulky volumes in the Library of Congress that pretend to be Telegraph ical Encyclopedias of Kentucky" both utterly worthless publications, neither of which gives mention of Bates, and one of which gives frivolous and inaccurate
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SUMMER SENTIMENTS.

From the Atlanta Constitution. Some folks. they like the summertime When every furrow shines. And the wind Is lost and tangled
 In the honeysuckle vines; When the brown bees are a-braggin' Bout the honey what they made. But It's mighty hot for plowin'
 When it's ninety in the shade! I'm sorter ''out" with summer,
 Though peaches can't be beat, An l hankers after melons
 With the pink juice drippin' sweet! But l don't like heat that br'iles me,
 Though the mortgage must be paid, It's zig-zag road a-plowin'
 When it's ninety in the shadei
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When I climb into bed!

And when there's nothing more to do, With bed-clothes open wide, It makes me shiver through and through A-trying to decide Which foot shall go ahead, Cause I'm sure I'd tumble dead If something ever. grabbed my toes
 As I got into bed.
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POEMS FOR SUNDAY READING

And fried spring chicken and green
 corn. Down in the country-when I look Out of my window I can see The field, the meadow and the brook, The red barn and the apple tree; And to my nostrils as I gaze There comes the incense of the morn, To tell me of the coming days Of fried spring chicken and green corn.
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WHEN GET INTO BED.

From Harper's Magazine. I'm never frightened in the dark, Though I am very small; I never sit all scared, and hark For ogres in the hall But when my prayers are said have one awful dread, That something waits to grab my toes
 When I getsinto bed! try to think of pleasant things Each time I get undressed; And how each day no evil brings If children do their best. But the thought comes in my head, As I'm turning down the spread, That something's going to grab my toes
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M can remember the trials which A William r. Broaddus had in contending against the powerful "Ant- Mission spirit, which was rife among the Baptist church in his region of coun- try, and in the days of his early ministry. But not few yet survive who have heard him tell of some of those conflicts. Among the great variety of stories which he used to delight in telling was this:
 "A member of the church, who was well known for his pronounced and de- termined opposition to what he called a hireling ministry 1. e., to ministers who received a salary for their services, and who was utterly opposed to paying any Ralary to a preacher, once took me aside and quietly slipped a half-dollar into my hand. I asked him, What is this for?' He replied, It is for you. But said I, why do you hand it to me? You don't owe me anything, do you? Well, mo-, said he, but you preach for us you know, and I want to give you something But
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-06-11
THE LEGISLATURE.
Some Interesting Results Of the Pri'

Des Moines.-Some extremely in
teresting results in the primary with
respect to the nomination OF repub-
lican candidates for the legislature
were noted when the returns on 'eg-
islature came in.
For instance. John J. Jackson Of
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ALLIES DENY BOLT.
Declare Publication Was Entirely Too
Premature.

Chicago, June S.-Representatives
Of the "allies" recalled their state
ment that they will bolt the republi-
can national committee so far as the
presentation of evidence to support
the claims of anti-Taft delegations
from southern states is concerned.
There is evidence that the an
nouncement made upon the authority
of Representative James Francis
Burke, manager for Senator Knox
after he had been in conference with
Senator Hemenway and j. B. Healing
of Indiana and others identified with
with the campaign being made by the
allies, has created dissension. Some
of the other spokesman for the allies
declared the announcement to be i'll
advised and they busted themselves
to counteract it's effect. After nu-
merous conferences the following
which was headed Statement from
the allies" was issued:
Upon the authority of the repres-
entatives of all of the presidential
candidates other than Secretary of
War Taft, it was announced that
they would continue their side of the
contested delegates to the national
convention. The decision of the ma
tional convention will not be taken
as final by the candidates kown as the
allies, but an appeal will be taken in
cases where it is believed injustice
has been done, first to the committee
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vention itself.
"The determination of the rep
resentatives of the allies to continue
the presentation of their side of the
contests to the national committee,
is not to be taken as an indication
that they approved of the manner in
which these contests have been de-
cided. But in order to be in the posi-.
ton to present all of the cases in
proper form to the committee on ere
dentials laid down by the national
committee.
ut is the firm determination of tho
representatives of the allies to frs
give the national committee an oppor-
tunity to consider all the contests on
their merits"
1t is generally believed that the an
nouncement made was designed to
test public sentiment, and to in
fluence the Taft forces to compro-
mise proposition submitted to the
committee yesterday just prior to the
adjournment. That the effect was
not what the allies expected was adj
mitted by number of men who had
knowledge of the entire proceeding