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captivated Congress year ago when he delivered that eloquent speech on the bat tie of Kings mountain that served num- erous newspaper writers theme for edi torlal. The bill passed both houses of Congress, and the monument to the he- roes of that brilliant victory is soon to De inaugurated on that historic field. It was an eloquent speech and all that could be desired in the composition. It was the flower of career that gave promise of the richest harvest in the fructifcation. When I was a boy my old friend and monitor, David Philpott used to remind me that every man was a - fool till he was 70. I think he would say that there Is an exception if he could come down from heaven and witness Edwin Yates Webb's career in the American Congress.
 The republican party was born of the negro. and when poetic justice gets whack at it the c. O. P. will die of the negro. For more than two score years this town, the capital of the republic, has been the city of refuge of. every vagabond negro in the land, and the negro race contributes one-third of the population and nine-tenths of the police court litigation. There is a constant reign of terror in the aristocratic north west section due to highway robberies and brutal assaults of unattended fe- males on the streets after dark. perpe- trated by ruffian negroes. Of course, such condition is the natural sequence of the preachments of those statesmen philanthropists who come down from New England with revelations for mankind if I may steal Ed Carmack's happiest sarcasm.
 MT. Webb is attempting to abate this
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and was absorbed in them when a fine looking chap of IS, with big, shapely head, honest, big. wide-open, dark gray eyes, and handsome, intelligent counte- nance came up for the book. I asked him if he was reading it. and he said yes. asked him if he had read '"The Three Musketeers," of which it is a continuance and he again said yes, and then he ex- pressed regret that he had first of all read "rhe Viscomte de Bragelonne,' that is the conclusion.
 I then found he had read Guizot's his tory and was familiar with Dumas en- tire series of Valois romances, extending as far back as Isabel of Bavaria and Forty-ive." He had also read English history and in it's light he had devoured the Waverley novels. He was a prodigy. I was delighted, and volunteered some poor hints. What pity he is not a Kentucky boy instead of an Ohio chap. If he lives this country will hear from that fellow either in politics or In let ters.
 We'll our friend Webb Is of the same kidney in another phase-he Is devouring all the books he can lay hands on that tell the story of American history and contain the teachings of American public men. That Is the way to make a states man. There never was ready-made statesman, unless the man was a pro- digious genius. like Richelieu, or Crom- well, or Bismarck, and even these were all the better for the knowledge they had got of books.
 If I were to make crop of United
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breakfast a white-faced, brilliant-eye1
 daughter. She herself was as fresh and
 serene as the morning. "Ye eat some O
 them berries thet wus left last night;
 they'll be kinder tasty"
 Maybe Ambrose will be down by the
 brook" .Saloam thought as she started
 for school. Though she be consumed
 by the fire in her brain, she would do
 her duty by Pond Meadow district and
 it's future Websters. The thought of
 Ambrose had been like a strong, cool
 wind all that burning night Somehow,
 he could mend the -c.a Of ner world; he always had. Then, in sudden
 despair she knew she could not tel
 Ambrose. Even from him she must
 protect her poor little mother. She
 must never see him again in the old
 happy, frinedly way; his eyes would
 read her secret.
 Steadily as an Indian, Saloam lived
 those miserable days, teaching and
 coming home to smiling mother,
 ready with fresh greens and berries
 She struggled never to talk to Am
 prose, she hid from him, lodged about
 him, fled before him. and then, after
 all, at the end of the fifth day, as
 she plodded home the long route
 through the woods she came upon him
 suddenly, seated on a rock by the
 path.
 "No, ye can't hide from me this time"
 he said, stepping in front of her.
 lowed ye'd come this way less ye went nome by Nineveh an that's 10 mile." Good afternoon, Ambrose" The mans face softened Honey, ye're sick!"
 No"
 "Then we're plagued bout somethin. Ye tel. me what. an I guess we kin fix
 things up so it'll be all right. Nothing"
 He took both her hands in his and
 drew her close to him. Her miserable eyes implored his help, but she would not speak.
 "Ye poor little girl! What is it?" Saloam trembled pitifully. He was so
 near, so comforting and strong Then grasses little old figure, her sinful, owing mother.
 She wrenched her hands away. She spoke with all the last shreds of her worn-out strength. You take great deal for granted Ambrose Treadway. never said I cared for you. don't! My fairs ain't yours. Let me by!' She ran stumbling along the path for fear he might follow her. But Ambrose did not stir. Glancing back as sne le1l tno woods she saw him still standing In the path, his eyes on the ground. That night the rain long prayed for by the farmers. fell in sheets. Saloam. dragging through the dreary, sleepless h ours, shivered as she heard 1t on her roof.
 The sun was shining on an earth, sweet and new washed, as Saloam started next morning for school At the gate she met Cap'n Wisdom Ricky- Samuel in baptism but rechristened by u neighb orh ood unappreciative of what l 1t called them chucks O wisdom graclously offered by the ancient ma riner.
 "Mornin'. Saloam mornin'. Cinthy. Ambrose Treadway he's asked me ter go long O him an his hired men over ter Bashan Centre. Ann she's got ter go over ter Pond Meader with her bur . | ter, an though Melissy's a-gettin' long constable smart. yit her legs don't sarve her much. So I come over ter zee eff ye'd go set with her spell, Cin- thy, till Ann gifts back "I'll be right long. tell Melissy.
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intolerable condition, and to that end has introduced vagrancy law that. if enacted, will put every worthless hobo to work on public works. or rid this town of his presence Of course, it will not pass. The G. o. P. will need negro troops in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Delaware next fall Pam- pered fin 40 years of wardship, the negro is become sensitive and fastidious. His vote is a luxury-at the north-and the republicans, just now. are not going to ruffle his plumage.
 As, for instance President Roosevet,s surrender in the Brownsville case. There is not negro in the United States from Booker Washington down, who does not know that those negro troops shot up Brownsville. There is not white man in the United States, who knows the least of the negro character who does not know that the negro troops shot up Brownsville If the garrison had been made up of white soldiers every white man and woman of the north would have applauded the executive order mastering them out of the army, if there had been shown a conspiracy to shield the culprit Congress would not have paid the slight est attention to it. Everybody would have said good riddance.
 But the negro is a ward in politics, and made of better than ordinary clay. Hence though the testimony as to the anthony in the bullets would be conclusive to hang any white man charged with mur- der, Foraker, to shield bis bloodthirsty lambs, must assume the absurd and the impossible to maintain their innocence.
 When will the sham end? A plague on all cant!
 Copyright 1908, by E. w. Newman)
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unreasonable crimes have been committed in thy name
 It is a curious fact that the word re ligion" itself is of heathen birth. The Romans had t in almost the identical form in which We now have it. Its for nation naturally suggests a suspicion of at least an unconscious recognition of the fallen nature Of man. Etymooglcally the word expresses the idea of binding back, checking. restraining, curbing. What need of binding back, checking. restrain ing a moral agent whose principles and motives are all right; and who can therefore, be trusted to go right of him self? The re-, a proposition used in combination with the verb ''ligo," is espe- cially suggestive. It is an inseparable proposition, i. e., one that Is never used alone, but always in combination with some other word. thus forming a single term. It means back or again. as in our word return" There seems 10 be lurking here a recognition of mans wan dering away from the correct standard of duty. He has gone astray-has dis position to go astray--and needs to be bound back.
 This view of the word religion will not seem fancifu to those who have care fully studied the religious rites of the
 
 significance of their numerous sacrifices.
 The etymology of the word pain is instructive, It Is doubtless the same word as the Latin 'poena the ransom money for a deed of blood-satlsfaction for crimo or wrong-and hence, punishment. He who suffers pain Is suffering punishment, the penalty of violated law. The law may have been violated by the progeni- tors of the sufferer and the pain may be vicarious punishment but still 1t is punishment. Some of our medical men might find a useful lesson here. What quantities of pills and powoers might be saved, if doctors were bold enough to say: "The best prescription can give you is, leave off your evil course of life" This will perhaps be done in that mil lenial day:
 When doctors give what they would
 take;
 or else when we shall adopt the rational plan of employ ying our doctors by the year to keep us well.
 The etymology of the word humility suggests a beautiful tribute to Chris tianity. The Latin "humi'-the ground
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great rising day many jewels shall shine as stars of immortal lustre in his crown of rejoicing.
 But it is not only to extended passages from the heather classics that we may look for natural evidences of the truths of revelation. The examination of single words in various languages. ancient and modern. is destined to bring forth rich ad- ditions to the wonderful mass of evidence which God has laid up in the great store house of nature To the devout thinker, physiology, animal and vegetable, as- tronomy. geology, psychology metaphy- sies, opties-in short, every department Of human learning is continually suggest ing fresh evidence of the truth of reve- lation. The testimony is everywhere It is dug out of the perpetual hills it Is hurled out of "the everlasting moun- tains;" 1t breathes in the signing of the wind and is echoed in the roar of the ocean; it flashes in the glare of the light ming and Is echoed in the volleys of the thunder.
 It is not without a profound significance that Jesus. the light of the world, when referred to as self-existent, is called by the most spiritual of the evangelists The Word"
 It Is my purpose III liiS paper lo rogate the still, small voice of a few sim pie words and see what testimony they will furnish to prove that truth is cath- ollie. and nature one"
 If nature speaks anywhere 1t is in the birth of words. Here the intellectual giant may strive as he will to control; but no despot can rule these realms. Here na- ture will out, and there is no repressing her. CT sovereignty here is secure She strangles in it's cradle the "yitiositas' OF Cicero. and quietly throttles the "esem- plastic" of Coleridge; while she nourishes in her bosom the mob of the vulgar rabhle, and carefully wafms into life the alligator of the illiterate adventurer Whatever testimony we can discover 'n the origin and history of words must therefore. be entitled to careful consid- eration; for such testimony Is the voice of nature. Conventional words, like con- ventonal great men, soon run their course, and then die out: and from such a death there is usually no resurrection.
 One of the most striking natural evil dences which the study of words gives to the truth of revealed religion bears upon the doctrine of the immortality
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is the root of the word. Christianity in- vented the virtue of humility. The heath en never thought of 1t as q virtue, and they had no such virtue. The very best of the Romans were sef-sufficient. arro- gant and dictatorial The egotism of Cl- eero and of Cato is. to our minds. dis gusting and insufferabls. Catos boasted philosophy had its very essense in self sufriciency. which he evidently regarded as a cardinal virtue. And yet he and Cicero were about the best Romans of their day.
 The adjective "humilis' English, hum ble-meant low mean, vile and to the Roman mind IL indicated anything but a virtue Men who were "humiles" were such as those for whom Hamlet expresses his supreme contempt when he calls them "the groundlngs." "O 1t offends me to the soul to see a robustous. periwig- pated fellow tear q passion 10 tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the ground lings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplieable dumb shows and noise" The humble man, among the Romans, was grounding And yet un- der the law of Christ. humility becomes q virtue without which no man can ex- pect to inherit the highest honors ever promised to created beings. Those who are converted and become as little ehil- dren-humble, doeile. willing to be guided by a wisdom beyond the reacha of man these shall be kings and priests unto God. and shall form a tribunal for judging angels!
 This paper might be indefinitely extend ed The field is vast and amazingly fruit full My object, however. has been fo suggest-not to discuss at length. F or this purpose l have written enough. In the hands of a writer of broad and sound scholarship. and of habits of accurate thinking. the subject might well expand into a valuable and instructive book My humble effort has been to show that the field exists and is well worth cultivating
 If language itself is so constructed that even wicked men cannot use the wonder ful instrument without sounding the praises and proclaiming the glories of the Creator, it becomes us, who profess to serve God, to weigh our words, not to use them lightly nor idly; but by a sober and reverent study, to reach something like just conception of the dignity of human speech. We cannot afford to forget that the only objectionable sin mentioned by our Lord was a sin of the tongue.
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States senators, I would take a set Of bright young fellows, with strong minds, patriotic instincts, without any disgust purposes and robust, healthy and pro- life imaginatlons. I would have them read Plutarch and Gibbon. assuming that they had read Livy and the Bible in earlier youth. I would then give them Hume and Guizot, Robertson and Motley and Prescott Then I would set them down to Walter Scott and the elder Dumas. Later I would finish them off on the po- ltical writings of Bolingbroke, Tom Paine Edmund Burke Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton. Samuel J. Tilden and Goodriche's British Eloquence." man who has mastered these is tolerably fit for senator; but there are hundreds of other authors he ought to know, es- pecially Shakespeare, Balzac and Victor Hugo He should devour a great news paper every morning and every evening another
 John Quincy Adams and stephen A. Douglas were great statesmen of their re- spective eras Oliver r. Morton was an- other, and these men appear to have read little that was not American. I doubt if Joseph G. Cannon ever read the story of Joseph Andrews as related by Henry Fielding, or the Sentimental Journey" as composed by Laurence Sterne, but if he were az familiar with all literature IS Cabot Lodge or David Turpin he would be even the better able to make the budget of a 5000, ,000,000 Congress.
 am glad that Ed Webb is reading American history and furnishing his li- brary with the best American books. He
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4 N ancient Greek tragedian, who
 "A knew nothing of Revelation, and 4 A who was full of the spirit of Greek mythology. has left on record a passage which furnishes food for serious reflection.
 Towards the close of one of his trag- edies, he finds it necessary to dispose of Helen; and this feat is performed with consummate art. An ordinary death would of course, be too commonplace an event, and would by no means com port with the dignity of character which the Greeks ascribed to the daughter of zeus, and the sister of the illustrious twins Castor and Pollux. The poet, there fore, draws upon his imagination; and the result is that Helen, to all appear ance, dies violent death, but in reality establishes her hereditary right to i'm mortality. She passes through a physical process which, had she been mortal, would have produced instant death; and then. leaving earth, she scars to the sky, takes her legitimate and glorious posi- tion among the starry orbs of heaven, joins her immortal brothers, the constella- tion of Castor and Pollux, and there she is destined to shine as star through everlasting ages.
 This artistic device of the poet is, in some respects. more valuable testimony to the existence of the instinct of im- mortality in the human soul than are those passages from the heather philoso- phers, so often appealed to as evidence on this subject The philosophers are pro- fessedly inquiring into the theory of the soul and tits relations, and hence we must regard their discussions as subtle, metaphysical speculations, and not as the natural outbursts of the inner being of the soul.
 The poet simply pours forth the feel Ing that is in him, never pausing to think upon theories, nor to indulge in specula- ton. Speculative poetry is almost a con tradiction in terms. The testimony of the philosophers is laboriously collected from subpoenaed witnesses; that of the poet the irrepressible outcry of the voice of nature. And yet how closely does the inspiration of genius here approach the genius of inspiration! The Word of God teaches us that some Christians are to shine as stars; and many self-deny- Ing herald of the cross has been cheered on his way by the hope that at the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-26
MASSACHUSETTS PASTOR
BELIEVES IN LICENSE
Maine Experience Prompted Him to
Fight Against Prohibition.
has REFUSED TO JOIN
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
Works IN che Shop and Earns Day Pay
to Do Away with "church Graft"

PIttsfleld, Mass. Oct. 1907.-The Rev.
Earl C. Davis. the working pastor OF Unity
church of Pittsfeld, created sensation In
che No-License league and Berkshire Min
listers club this week by announcing that he
Is in favor OF license.
~ believe In the licensed city from moral
standpoint" said he to a Herald reporter.
"I was born and brought up in Maine.
lived in Auburn and Lewiston. What saw
On Maine prompts me TO my action now. ana
that Is the ason have taken this stand.
From what observed in Maine be-
iieve that no license in Pittsfield would mean
the establishment OF innumerable kitchen
dives that would be followed or run in con-
nection with houses OF ill-repute. and NOR
ally the effect would be infinitely worse than
with the open saloon under supervision of
authorities.
Auburn and Lewiston In Maine arr sbout
the size OF Pittsfeld In Auburn alone there
are 100 kitchen barrooms, and as many more
IN Lewiston under a so-called prohibition
regime.
Some of the Pittsfield ministers asked
me to Join the Anti-Saioon league. but its
views and mine DO not coincide. and refused
70 become member. may have something
further to say about this later
OF all ministers In Berkshire county, the
Rev. Earl c. Davis Is the most picturesque.
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clare. further that beer is incapable OF making
any normal man drunk unless II Is strongly
mixed with whisky before or after being
PROHIBITION REDUCES WAGES.
The brewing Industry and Its allied manu-
featuring interests employ approximately
7J0,OOD workmen. whose average wages are
the highest drawn by American artisans.
The fund from which this great labor army
receives payment 10 derived direct from the
sale OF brewery products. Should the pro-
hibitionists gain supreme power and the
brewing Industry be legislatively destroyed
these workmen must be cast on the already
eongested labor piarkst to still further re-
duce wages and intensity commercial de-
DressIoSi. VIII union labor stand Cor fhief,
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.s~~syAsrun.
40. literary round table. 2

...e coeou,- 49, literary round table .
imbibed
be surprised TO find that the drunknrds are
not the men who exclusively use beer. but
rather those who fortify II with whisky.
rum. brandy. or other ardent spirits.
MADISON,
Fourth president OF the United States. loved
a giass OF good malt beer like ali the great
men OF his time.
The Encyclopedias Americana (yoi. - says:
g. In JTs0 Madison publicly expressed the
iioper that the Industry OF brewing would
Union"
Madison was q sanc and healthy men who
lett behind him tho memory OF o successful
and patriotic lifc./
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WILIIAM PENN,
A stout Champion OF Personal Liberty.
This celebrated Quaker leader OF the 18th
century. who founded the State OF Pennsyl-
vani. drank malt beer and caused Il to be
brewed in his own house at DuxburY Pa. He
introduced Cat q very early dat<) vine grow
ing and brewing into the new Quaker colony.
He became Quaker because OF. his hatred
to legislative tyranny and came to Amer
lea for the avow<d purpose OF establishing
A commonwealth OF Brothers with Personal
Liberty as its base and sure foundation
During his life he was repentedIyNimpr
oued for openly refusing to acknowledge
dcppotic and unreasonable laws which he
honestly, believed infringed upon his personal
rights and Individuality.
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AN IRISH PATRIOTS OPINION.
Henry Grattan, Whose Eloquence Stirred
che Last Irish Parliament In College
Green, Dublin.

Upon one famous occasion he aAid: "0en-
tiemen. the health OF Ireland and the pros
perity OF her brewesies consider intimately
connected I have looked 70 your trade as
the source Of hfe and a necessary means OF
subsistence. / have considered 1t as the nat
'ural nurse OF the people and eEfitlsd to every
1avor and exemption.
THE Irish Parliament will find IT Your
source and In its own country the means Of
health, with all her fiourtshing CONSCIOUSNESS.
and the cure o. intoxieation with all her mis-.
1900
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Six Thousand Men
AnheuSer-B Busch Plant
(THE HOME OF BUDWEISER)

Wholesome beer is their regular everyday drink, and
nowhere in the world can be found finer specimens of
healthy manhood
They love their homes they good, honest citizens,
temperate, patriotic and true.
10000 such men are the pay-roIs of Americas
breweres and their allied industries receiving good living
wages; directly dependent upon their pay envelopes
are less than 4, 900, 600 and children.
The Brewing Industry the sixth largest America
and pays annually least Two Hundred Millions of Dollars
for farm products and like sum for manufactured articles
This year 900 planted in barley alone, and
153,317OOO bushels harvested Over 100000 people
engaged farming required to produce these
Only the choicest materials used for Americas
favorite beverage by the
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srsffN eS n BE- g css: :sssss
struck by the Bavarian War Ministry. which
has issued 4. report showing that In inde-
pendent rife shooting soldiers become bet
ter mariesmen after imbibing q small guam
tity OF alcohol than before.
Throughout experiments involving the
discharge OF 10000 shots men who had been
served With liquor displayed more steadiness
and accuracy OF aim while firing singiy than
did those belonging to the squad which had
bean kent abstipsps- -.