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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

Y ONDON, July 1S.-Two remarkable
 demonstrations have been held AA this week, if demonstrations they can be called-one the claim for justice made by one-haf of the population, the other the stately and solemn expression of the life and force of the Anglican Church
 If numbers and enthusiasm mark a movement, neither has been wanting, either in the women's cause or in the great church congress. But one feature characterized both and that was the gi- gantc advance which Socialism has made in every movement that touches human life.
 Nothing has been so evident in the Pan Anglican gatherings. The expressions which were used at those great meetings of ecclesastics would. some years ago. not have been tolerated for a second.
 Indeed, they would have been looked upon as subversive to all religion But we have only got to examine for a few moments the subjects chosen for discus sion to find that, while the spread of Christianity in foreign lands was dealt with exhaustively and enthusiastically, the relation of Christianity to the great home problems was what, in the main occupied the time and attention of the best thought and the best brains of the assembly, The drink traffic, gambling and speculation, the rights and duties of the laity, woman's place in the Christian church, socialism and marriage the Church and capital. labor's demands, the community of monopolies, and the care
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N TIME-By J. C. Hiden, D. D.

Hymns that have a chorus are apt to come to the front.
 Jesus my all to heaven is gone," With the stirring chorus:
 q am going to join in the army of the
 Lord,
 I am going to join in the army which was sung at the first protracted meeting ] can remember. was sung at the meeting at Mill Swamp. and with fine ef- feet Strong voices made the chorus swell and ring out in the most stirring fashion, and not A few of the older mem bers of the church were made to recall the scenes of their childhood. Upon tho whole, the meeting was an exceedingly enjoyable one.
 Only some eight miles off, at Moore's Swamp church. Rev J. E. Hutson. the famous Virginia evangelist, was preach ing in a protracted meeting: and though both meetings were In progress at the same time, the congregations were full at both churches. MT. Hutson is deserv- edly popular throughout this region, where he has held many meetings. and has done much to strengthen the cause. He Is no sensationalist, but a vigorous, solid. instructive preacher Rev. J. B. Jeter, an excellent judge, pronounced hm the most natural speaker that he ever heard in any pulpit.
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posal was rejected. Now they are at Denver bidding so many votes for the privilege of murdering a scab and burn ing a factory.
 Why Is this condition of American politics? Simply because the office of President of the United States is be- come the seat of more political power than any other official station in the world. And men to attain it are willing to crawl on their bellies, lick the dust, and promise all things to all men. That Is what this republic will die of unless the malady, growing more virulent every day is purged from the body polite. That is why we have such insane propositions as government ownership and operation of railroads, the initiative and referen- dunn, federal child labor laws and all that rot of which the democratic party is dy- ing
 AS a democrat, and as southern as an okra pod, 1 have for the foundation stone and capstone of my politics jealousy of federal power, and I will vote for no man who will tolerate augmentation of that power. That is why I am a disfranchlsed man-there's nobody for me to vote for. and it would be a fine thing if the south
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VERY intelligent man who reads and ponders the constitution of the AA United States is bound to conclude that our fathers, who established this republic, intended to make a parliament tary government. But every thoughtful man, who contemplates the thing as it now exists, must discover that ours is an executive government It is made manifest to even the smallest and sim plest understanding every four years, when we come to elect a President, that the country is tossed in a blanket. Busi- ness is on the rack Invested capital IS sick of a fever Labor is precarious in it's job.
 What an opportunity for the dema- goguel For in country with executive government and universal suffrage your demagogue is Every man himself Ap- propriating the thought from somebody or other Abraham Lincoln molded the sentiment of a government of the people by the people and for the people What ever it was when the south-the old south, mark you, not this new south-controlled at this capital, certain 1t is that at this time this is become a government of the
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Apostles Creed, truly a wonderful sound as it rushed forth from all parts of the building While the Hymn of Praise was being sung, the Bishops in order presented to God the thank offerings that had been entrusted to them from their various dioceses.
 The Archbishop first laid his offering on ths altar, and then the Bishop of London followed, and so, in order, the Bishops of all the provinces of each country headed by their metropolitans, in turn mounted the steps and standing before the altar laid the parchment upon 1t con- tainine the amount of the offering and the list of the names of the places In which it had been collected. written upon a scroll.
 After this followed the Te Deum, sol emn and majestic. While this was being sung the Archbishop of Canterbury stood the topmost step of the altar, and on the second step were the Archbishops of York and Dublin, and the Primate of Scotland On the third were the Arch bishops of Ruperts Island and Toronto the presiding Bishop of the United States. the Archbishops of Brisbane. Mel bourne, Sydney and the West Indies and Calcutta Then, turning. the Archbishop of Canterbury gave the blessing, and the great service was ended.
 The coronation of King Edward and Queen Alexandra was wonderful sight, glorious in Its glittering pageant, but it pales before the impressive sol- emnity of this momentous service, prob ably the greatest that has been seen since the Reformation.
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l didn't come together nor git together. Bill | always looked sulky, and I wish you could
 s-saw Babe! When woman takes mo- ton to put you in the wrong by behavin her own self right, she kin come aggra- vatin'ly nigh bein' angel in her ways | And that gal had natural talent for the | part she played-never so much as flung her eyes on Bill Sometimes he'd prow round the aidge of her outer darkness
 like sick bulldog, but she'd know the
 minute his eyes rested on her, and thea
 she'd take on a hallowed look, as If she
 were fixin' to take the veil go as a foreign missionary I've seen a right smart fiirtin' in my day, but I've knowed jest
 that one woman which could do it thou.
 a word or look. It was what you moughr call an inspired pantomime of feminine fascination, and It about driv Bill crazy He'd git on his hoss and ride all pos sessed, but he never had the courage to light and come in. And it seemed that
 Babe aimed to make clean sweep of him, because she never so much as come 10 the winder when he'd go ra'rin by. whoopin' like a wild Injun. and actin like the coward he was before God and all women.
 "Everybody in the valley was grinnin' on the sly and waitin' to see what he d do next, when the Stallin's boys kicked up a romantic dust further down the road, and we all forgot Babe and Bills affair for the time watchin' the race between 1 them brothers for Sally Pendergrass, the | young woman we hired that year to teach | the summer school down thar in Brass l town.
 1 Both of 'em were too old to go to | school, but when they seen what a sweet slim, skeert-lookin' thing the teacher was | they resigned from the cornfield and went 1 The first day they went out behind the | house and drawed straws for her. Tom ! got the lucky one, and he were mighty | nigh tickled to death, thinkin how he'd | got ahead of Pete at the very start. Pete I didn't say nothn'. He never would strive i against Tom, but in the end he always ] come out ahead. Tom lit in to studyin l and courtn' like a house af1re Pete sat | down and waited. They were in the same l class and Tom stood head all the time. 1 He was so smart he was plumb aggravat- | in The teacher could tell him nothin | unless he had to up and show he knowed | 1t already.
 { Meanwhile Pete stuck to the foot as | if he'd been born thar. He couldn't spell | nor read, nor cipher. All he could do was to look at the little teacher with his . bie dull eyes and wait for her to help | him. She had to set by him all the time | he was workin' his sums, showin' him | how. He'd know his 'rithmetic If she did, l but If she didn't he couldn't draw the figger on the board. And, of course. she ! was proud of, bein' smarter than such a | big man. Tom lowed he was 'shamed for l her to know that Pete belonged to his | family. He wanted him to quit school so | he wouldn't be so mortified. But Pete's | cravin' for knowledge got worse-only, | instead of lookin' at his book, he jest | kept right on lookin at the teacher | while everybody was talkin' about her bein' engaged 10 rom. But I warn't ! fooled. After I seen the secret. onder-
 handed way Pete got religion, kept my
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through than ary one of the other con- yerts Pete was just the other way. While Tom was cavortin' around gittln his religion in the meetin' house, with everybody, to help him, Pete went on' got down by a stump in the old field ana prayed hisself through unbeknownst to the church or preacher. First we heard of it was when he come forwards and ast for baptism long with Tom and the other brands that had been snatched from the burnin'.
 well, sir, no sooner was the revival over than them three fellers went a-courtin,' and they courted accordin' 10 the same disposition they showed in seek in divine grace As I was tellin' you. Bill Meeks didn't git the witness of the Spirit to his conversion, and thar's whar he fell short in his love-makin'. He'd been holdin' Babe Sorrel for the apple Of his eye a right smart while, but he loved her afar off, so to speak, and after the meetin' he didn't have no more courage than he had before to bear witness to her of his love. Babe knowed what was goin' on inside of him, I reckon-women gen. orally do; but she warn't the kind to
 
 ed him in an onpersonal manner, which was killin' to the little spunk he did have. Mister, I wish you could have seen Babe Sorrel when she was young She warnt pretty; jest fair and strong as II she'd been put together to last a long time. She had a round, dinner-plate race, wide mouth fine, quiet eyes, and It, tie soft nose set down in the middle or her countenance like short-topped mon ~a ..1 tp6n see sech a nose. 1t warn't much for shape, nor it didn't give no hint of pride or smartness, but I be danged if it warn the most trustworthy feature l ever saw in a womans face. Mister, when you go to git a wife, be keerful about the style of her nose. I'd as soon buy horse With a blazed face and four white feet as to marry a woman with one of these high bred. razor backed noses. Ten to one she'll kick the dashboard off your af- factions afore you've lived through the honeymoon with her.
 "Well, sir Bill kept followin long after Babe, and because she didn't set down in the middle of the road like n tame fowl and wait for him to come and pick her up, the dern fool thought she didn't keep for him. Showed no more judgment about the heart of that woman than he'd showed in estfmatin the goodness of God. One day, not long after the revival, ' seen Babe down down the road piece, and not far behind was Bill Meeks ridin' in his top-buggy. Directly he come longside of her. and invited her to get in and ride a-ways. Then they come on slow, and I breathed prayer that Bill mouEht have the spunk to say what T man ought to say and do what man ought to do under them eircumsta nces. But before ary guardian angel In heaven could a-had time to git the an : swer ready. seen shim scotch his wheels and she flung out of the buggy like she didn't keer whar she went. Tn en he whipped up his hoss and come stavin' by here like he was headin Tor
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when she was little gal if she'd saw her face layin' against his breast like red rose, he kissed 1t as darin' as if he'd been the greatest scholar in the land.
 Pete always claimed that was the length of his courtship-from the mid dle of that foot-log to the bank. And thar's sound doctrine back of his con duct that day. I don't keer how ed- dicated or refined woman air, the best way to court her air the old way. accordin' to nature. They must be took against tn cir wills. That's the excuse they make to theirselves for bein took at all. Lord, sir! I could tell the au- thors in this country more about wom- en in minutes than ary one of 'ein ever have put in a book. l git out of patience when one of their heroes pokes along after the gal as if hs was tryin' to sneak up and fling salt on a birds tall. If he'd jest step up , in the third chapter. ketch a firm holt and kiss her tell she quit rarin', ths thing would be done. And she'd be ready for the weddin' ring. I hain't sayin mind you, that every woman kin be courted that way-some of 'em air mighty narrer minded about takin' what they really want-but I'm sayin' for choice every one of 'em would rather be courted that way. Because its the only perlite and. at the same time natural way to relieve her of the responsibility. Many woman would be glad to be took who wouldn't feel modest or decent about givin' her. self away to a man.
 (Conyright)
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eye on him, and I was the only person m the valley prepared for what happened.
 "At last Sally begun to feel the power of that long look which come outen the dark corner. whar he sat at his desk. Sometimes when a class of little boys ana gals were standin before her like a row of bachelor buttons, she'd turn red, sit flustered, and couldn't give out the word to spell, all because he was kiverin' her with his eyes like a shepherd dog watches a sheep before he gifts up and goes after 1t. Then again she'd git bilin' mad, fluff up like grass-sparrer in a rage. But he warn't no more oneasy than if he held her, wings and all, in the holler of his big red hand. She used to open school by repeatn' the Lords prayer. Tom would ghet his eyes same as the little chaps, but she looked so sweet when she walled up hers that Pete kept hisen open. So one day she felt his heather stare so clost in on her devotions that she got confused and mixed in some of Deacon Shows dinner blessin' Then she stopped, dropped one scortchin look on him, and busted out cryin'. The children squenched open their eyes some. and craned their necks sxeert-like to see what was the matter, but all they seen was little bobtail smile kickin' up on Pete's red face and the teacher sobbin' fit to die, with her head layin over on the desk as if she never intended to raise it again Pete lodged behind his book and stayer thar all day. She never come nigh to help him with his sums. and she passed him over In the class as if he hadn't been thar Sech treatment would a-driv Tom crazy. but Pete set under her scorn as peaceful as if she'd been spillin rain bow juice on his head.
 "The next day was Saturday, and the time set for the yearly picnic given by the Masons and their order of the East ern Star. Mighty nigh every man and woman in the valley belonged to one or the other, and they met on Prather's s island, a little green strip of land that lay in the middle of the Blood Mountain river This time I am tellin' you of the folks come from far and near. forded the river with their waggins, or crossed upon the foot log on the other side. There was 4 regular Milky Way of fat old women stars settin round the dinner baskets, and A mighty pretty constellation of young gal stars gigglin' together while they watched the young fellers put up swings and git ready generally for the days frolic Babe Sorrel and Sally Fender grass were thar; but, as usual. Babe couldn't see Bill Meeks, and Sally was so mad with Pete she give Tom so much attention that he up and skinned the cat before everybody jest to show how happy he was.
 "Well sir. Providence couldn't have picked out a better place to wind up all the love affairs In the neighborhood, but when the whole mornin' passed and we'd eat dinner and stlll nothin' happened, began to lose heart. Long towards even in the old lady Eastern Stars were off In the bushes somewhar dippin snuff. Most of the men were settin' together further uown smokin' and talkin politics, and l. was dozin behind one of the big trees whar they had swing when l heard somebody come up and set down in 1t. I
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could see the thing as it is-that there is absolutely left to that layout that calls itself the democratic party not an atom that Is really southern.
 There Is a remedy, yet a treatment heroic. I would strip the President of the United States of 99 per cent of his politi- cal power, and then I would elect him for liNe, or during good behavior. l would choose for the place a fellow, cross be- tween Lord. Chesterfield, Sir Roger de Coverley, and the elder Turveydrop-a man a judge of clothes, exemplar of department. If he could write his name SO as to give authority to an act of Con- sress, that would be all the education absolutely necessary.
 Then I would give this fellow cabinet chosen from the majority side of the House of Representatives, and his busi- ness would be to do everything and any thing that cabinet ordered him to do. He would be the one man in the union whom I would not allow to have single politi- cal opinion.
 When the national House of Repre- sentatives had a democratic majority tho administration would be democratic, and when the republicans were in the major :ty in that body the administration would
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be republican. Members chosen to the cabinet I would still require to hold their seats in the House If we had that sys- tenn the only real parliamentary govern ment, no man. or few men, at least, would swap a seat in the House for seat in the Senate As it Is, every man in the House is on his head to get to the Senate Had my plan here suggested been the system of our government, the people, the whole people, would not now be deprived of the genius of Edward w. Carmack.
 Let not Caesars servile minions
 Mock the lion thus laid low;
 Twas no foemans hand that slew him,
 Twas his own that dealt the blow.
 How I wish I could have made it as vivid on Carmack's mind as it is on mine-the course Thomas c. McCreery of Kentucky followed under circum- stances precisely identical with those Carmack had to deal with.
 But, as it Is, the President dominates congress. He Is master of the situa- tion. His policies" are accepted and he has the political power to force them on his party and even on the op- posing party. It is a lamentable fact that ours is the government of one
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far country. After while Babe come on, and wh en she seen me standin at the gate, she stopped as if she were jest mad with color, her mouth was drawed down till the corners looked like the sad ends of smile, and the tears were running from her eyes like rain.
 Honey sez l, what's the matter?'
 "'Pappy! sez she. Then her breast begun to heave, the tears to come fast CT. and her sweet face crumpled up like a rose in a storm.
 "'Pappyn sez she again-then busted out cryin' good fashion.
 "'Come in, set down, and tell me what happened sez I. leadin' her 10 the bench by the door. She laid her cad against the water-shelf and cried all the top off her feelin's the way women do when they air mad or hurt. Directly she lifted up her face, smoother the har outen her eyes, looked at me, and I be goldern if she didn't gin out the sweetest little sobbin laugh you ever heard. Then she puckered up her face and fixed to be- gin over again, but I sez
 "kDon't, Babe! You've shed more tears now than any sorrow you've got ought to come to. Jest tell me what happened. Haint Bill treated you rtght?'
 No, sez she. he hain'tP
 "'What'd he dor
 (" Ast me to marry him!'
 That warn't so bad sez I, very guarded because you never kin tell what the female pint of view air till the woman gives it to you.
 ." But, Pappy,' sez Babe, with a storm gatherin' in her quiet eyes, he hain'' never said a word of love to me. It's scandalous to ast a gal to marry him where he hadn't tried to make her love him. Either he don't keer whether she do or not, or he've got the impudence to think she do 'thout him courtin' her to it.. Lord, son, don't you believe that the dullest woman you ever saw haint gol more delicate primrose paths to her gar den of a mind than the wisest man thai ever lived. And we have to respect theil little poetry notions of life because they air finer than our'n, and they keeps us from turnin back to beasts.
 "'What answer dld you give him lioney? I ast her.
 T lowed to him that a man didn't git wife jest for the astin', but he had to win her against her will
 Whatd he say to that?'
 " Nothin'-jest set thar and looked al me like he didn't know what to do. Then told him to let me git outen the buggy which he done 'thout a word!-I could ee that sEe were madder with him fol lettin' her git out than anything else.
 Babe, sez I, fit to bust with laughter but keepin' a straight face, you done right. Bill air dad blasted fool. Bul don't worry; he'll learn the perliteness ol love after a while. And don't git the idea that he don't love you because he hain't the manners to say so.'
 "She was comforted by my advice wher she got up to go home. I could sec that Well, sir. the two were at every frolit In the settlement after that, but theJ