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TIE EEL VERY SLIPPERY.
Minor Heirs Conqueror Takes Prize
From Hedgewood Bow.

COLUMBUS, Ohio. October 2.-The Eel.
victor over Minor Heir last week in a
stake race. came out yesterday afternoon
on the Columbus grand circuit track as a
free-for-al PAGER and disposed Of Hedge
wood Boy in straight heats. Wind both
cred the horses In the second and third
quarters of all their miles. The Eel was
favorite and did all the leading. Hedge
wood Boy finishing at his sulky wheel
the first heat in 2.0414. The latter made
a bad break in the second heat and put
himself out of it. In neither this mile
nor the final one was The Eel forced to
extend himself.
Czarevena reduced her own record and
the seasons mark for twoyear-old trot-
ters when she stepped the second and
deciding heat of the Horse Review Flu
turity in 215A. She did the last quarter
of this mile in 32A seconds. Fanny Law
son was not dangerous contender.
Uhlan. first choice of a dozen 200 trot-
ters was back fifth to Locust Jack in
the first heat. but he OUTRAGED the gray
gelding in the next two miles and won
with room to spare. The B. and B. $1O,-
900 stake for 2.12 trotters will be raced
today. Spanish Queen is the favorite.
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ALEXANDRIA COUNTY NEWS!

Frank L. Evans of Washington. d. c..
has purchased twenty-five acres of land
near Clarendon, part of the old Drain
tract. The property adjoins that of G. H.
Rucker.
Edward Thompson Of Roanoke, Va, is
the guest of Edward Thomson of Claren-
don.
Rev. ]. G. Council of Clarendon is Wis
iting his daughter, Mrs. ]. D. Riddick Of
Norfolk. Va.
z. F. Thompson has returned to Clar-
endon after visit to Hamilton to attend
thes reunion of Mosby's men.
Miss Blanche Ball of Leesburg is visit
ing Miss Leila Furr of Clarendon.
Thomas ]. Hea.ey has been appointe ted
postmaster of Clarendon.
Mrs. 7. Terry, jr.. OF Baileys Cross
Roads is visiting her mother. Mrs. j. s.
White Of BalIstOn.
II. w. Kendrick. who sold his home at
Ballston. has rented the new house of
Mrs. A. G. Thomas
Rev ]. L. KILLER Of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South at 'Chesterbrooke is
holding revival. Rev. II. A. Beach is
assisting the pastor.
E. G. Quackenbusfl will move to his
new home near Cherrydale in November.
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DISTRICT TENNIS.
Doyle Boys the Whole Show in Play
for Championship.

The Doyle brothers. II. E. and L. l.. are
matched to meet in the finals of the ten
mis- tournament for the championship o.
the District. the former having won the
semi-finals in the upper half and the lat
ter having captured the same honors in
the lower half yesterday afternoon. The
final sets will be played off this after
noon between the brothers. Conrad B.
Doyle. the present champion of the Dis
trict, and another brother. will defend
the title against the winner of today s
match.
Many look 10 H. E. Dovle to win tie
premier honors in the tournament, and
think that he will make his brother.
Conrad Doyle. hustle to beat him in the
championship sets. He had little diff
four games in four matches. Conrad
Doyle has been considered the best player
in this city for several years. but he has
not been in action for couple of months.
1t has been said that he is in splendid
shape to defend his title.
In the semifinals yesterday afternoon
on the courts of the Bachelors Lawn
Tennis Club in N street, Harold Doyle
had no difficulty beating Lincoln in
straight sets. In, fact, he allowed his
opponent only one game in the match.
Doyle showed himself deadly accurate
in his placing and clever at the net.
l.. l. Doyle had more trouble beating
Graves in his half of the tournament The
latter won the second set. playing ''get-
ting game. but l.. 1. Doyle rallied in the
third set and ran it out Go.
One other match was played yesterday
in the singles: Graves beat Shelter. G.,
G-3.
Considerable progress was made in the
doubles yesterday. Carlisle and Lincoln
won from Lerch and Williams. Ga 6-I
Stabler and Cooley beat Heath and w. r.
Doyle, the fourth brother of that name In
the tennis tournament, 0-6, "a. "a.
Doyle and Doyle beat Carlisle and Lin
coin. Go, Go
In the consolation round Dom beat To-
bolt, SO. 81, 6-1: Lerch beat Stabler,
60. 6-3; Leech beat Head. e.. g:
Wood beat Cobey, Ga, 81.
The finals in singles will be played off
this afternoon. and tomorrow afternoon
the championship round in singles will be
played at 2::I0 o'clock. The finals in
doubles will be run off Immediately after
this match
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BOYDS AND NEARBY.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

BOYDS. Md. October 2. 1908.
The Bryan, Kern and Lewis Club Or
ganized here will meet next Saturday
night. The officers are: E. B. Wood. pres
ident; James P. Colt. E. A. McAtee.
Frank Carln and Charles T. Kingsbury,
vice presidents; executive committee. j.
Frank Lewis. chairman; S. D. Byrd,
Joseph T. White, Thomas A. Burdette,
Henry Allnutt. William Waters, Roger
Darby, r. ]. Darby and James l.. Hig-
gins.
At Seneca the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company is erecting a dam of con-
crete 100 feet long and five feet deep by
about three feet wide, near the lock. 1t
is understood that an additional 100 feet
will be provided In order to make the
protection necessary for the lock.
Registration the first day in this sec
ton of Montgomery county showed a
material gain in each of the upper dis
trictS for the democrats.
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Sick Woman Escapes Bullet.

-HAGERSTOWN. Nd, October AT
the residence of Grover c. Hoch, West
street, -Hagerstown, a shot
was fired through a window in the bed
room in which Mrs. Hoch was lying seri-
ously i'll. The bullet was found imbedded
in the wall just over Mrs. Hoch's bed
The police We're notified. but failed to find
any clue to the person who fired the shot
Twice during the past week the Hoch
home has been, entered by a strange man.
evidently bent on robbery. but both times
- escanAl before the officers arrived.
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Reception to Y. NJ. C. A. Secretary.

Arrangements have been made for re-
ception to William X. Cooper. the re-
Gently appointed general secretary Of the
Young Mems Christian Association. in
gymnasium hall. 1876 G street this even
ing. The affair will be informal. For
an hour preceding the reception the asso-
citation ochestra will give a concert in the
lobby. A short program will follow, in
Guiding addresses by department chair
men and officers. There will also be
games and EHfxeSbmeptR
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FOOT BALL NOTES.

The foot ball schedule of the West
Point eleven this season contains but
nine games Cornell is cut out of the
West Point schedule this season, but
the Army eleven meets Yale and Prince
ton.
The Annapolis foot ball eleven has
thirteen games on its schedule, including
hard games with the Carlisle Indians and
Harvard. .
Chicago University this season has nine
of last years team in the foot ball squad,
and the coaches are looking forward TO
winning the championship of the west.
Capt. Burch of Yale is this season
thought to be a great man for. halfback,
and, If he is. Hams. the old Andover man.
will fill in on the end.
Cayou, the Carlisle Indian, is coaching
the Washington University team Of st.
Louis. He is looked upon as a capable
coach.
Up at Williams this season, while the
early prospects are not so bright. still it
is hoped that by the time the Williams
and Amherst games come around the
eleven will give good account of itself
Coach "Bosey' Reiter is hopeful
. The Bowdoin eleven this fall has the
advantage of the services of McClave of
Princeton as coach. The team is looking
forward TO the game with Harvard. this
season. Last year Harvard beat Bowdoin
5 to o.
Dartmouth has some giants this season
amCns its candidates for the foot ball
eleven. :Thayer, who played in the line
two years ago. is back, and weighs go
pounds. With this heavyweight is also
in college this year a man named Far
mum. who stands six feet four inches
and weighs 25O., He is said 10 be fast for
his size, too.
Although not engaged as regular coach,
Pierkarski. the old Quaker: lineman. has
been coaching the Washington and JEFF
ferson team, with which he was asso-
ciated for several seasons.
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It matters little what it Is that you
want-whether situation or a servant
want" ad in The Star will reach the
person who can fill your need.
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Base Ball, Racing
and Other Sports.
Continued from Eighteenth Page)

lenbach graduates Holenbach practiced
goal from placement and put two balls
squarely between the bars out of three
attempts from the fifty-yard line.
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les; Burr and Dunlap, guards: Nourse.
center; Cutler, quarterback; Smith and
Graydon. halfbaeks: Kennard and Gray.
fullbacks
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your third text was very short, but ohl teacher. it was very sweet: 'Quickened with Christ And that is all I know" How will that poor soul rise up in the judgment and condemn the gospel hardened sinners who complain that they cannot understand the Bible?
 It is quite noticeable. too, that not a few of those who urge this objection are men who profess to understand some of the most abstruse "seien tiic" treatises in the world Herbert Spencer is clear; but Paul is unintelli gible Darwin is perspieuous but God is "unknowable.'
 Now, I have taken the pains to work carefully through Darwins origin of Species" and I do not hesitate to pro- nounce it a more difficult book than Buffers Analogy" One of the most difficult theological treatises that I have ever read is Boyee's Abstract of Systematic Theology" but it is not harder than Herbert Spencer's Data of Ethics" Darwin'st Expression of the Emotions in Animals and in Man is as hard as McCosh on The Divine Government" By far the most intel ligible account that I have ever seen of the origin of the universe is that given in Genesis. In fact it is the only account that have ever seen out
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AN INTELLIGIBLE GOSPEL-By J. C.

of which a 10-year-old child, or even a plain man. can extract any meaning whatever.
 An old farmer of my acquaintance used to say: Religion is like agricul ture: give man hoe and a patch of land, and he can scratch a living out of the ground; and that is agricul- ture. But the ablest man in the world may devote his life to agricultural chemistry, and he will die confessing that there is yet much to be learned. So of religion. A man who can not spell his way through a single verse of the Bible may hear and learn enough of the gospel to save him; and the greatest minds may study theology for a lifetime, and yet leave many of it's problems funsolved." Did you ever hear a better illustration?
 The able and scholarly Sir William Hamilton said that no problem arises in theology. that did not first arise in philosophy. The difficulties of the ology belong to the limits of our thinking, rather than to the subje e- itself.
 Genuine humility is willing to learn from any source, however humble. Tie chancellor of the exchequer riding in his chariot of state, is not above inviting footman to seat with him..
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very plain" "The only objection to this book" said a dying infidel. with his hand on the Bible, lis a bad life
 Such an understanding of the gospel as is necessary to salvation does not in- volve, and does not require much theo- logical knowledge, nor even any large knowledge of the contents of the Bible itself. Saving faith is one thing; theolog- ical learning another; and it is quite pos sible for either of these to exist fin large measure, with no trace of the other.
 A foreign missionary was once called to visit a dying man. He went, expect ing to see that. sad and mournful sight a dying heathen: but upon conversing with the man he was joyfully surprised to find him trusting Christ for salvation and rejoicing in hope of the glory of God. How did you learn what you know about Christ? Have you been reading the Bible?" asked the preacher. No; ! have no Bible; and if I had one l could not read it.' Then how did you hear of the Saviour?' q heard you preach three times; and l remember your three texts. Your first text was: God so loved the world that he gave his only besotten son, that whosoeyer believth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Your second text was: Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christi and
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to us? The connection shows that the apostle means that it is intelligible; that man can understand it. A word here with the objector: Are you really in earnest when you say that you cannot under stand the gospel? Do you not know peo- pie who are much less intelligent than
 yourself, and who yet are in your judg- ment, earnest Christians? And if they, with intelligence and cultivation far in- ferior to yours do understand the gospel, then your difficulty must be not in your understanding, but elsewhere as it most certainly is. It is easy to misunder- stand directions which we do not mean to follow to be puzzled with duties which we do not mean to perform; to stumble over doctrines that we do not wish either 10 believe or to practice.
 The colonel of certain regiment in the British army-a goddess and licentious man-was plying his chaplain with "diffi- cuties'' There are so many mysteries in the Bible that I cannot understand it. can not solve the problem of predestina- tion. How can God be absolutely soV- ereign, and man morally free and respon- sible?" The chaplain saw through all this lodging; and so, looking with keen glance into the colonel's face, he replied: 'Yes, colonel, I find in the Bible some things that are not clear to me; but, colonel, the seventh commandment is
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if the footman can give him any in- struction.
 Charles Darwin was, perhaps, the great est observer that ever lived, and withal a great reasoneri and yet he confessed that he made himself sick by working on the problems involved in the spots on peacocl's taili The questions were: How came they there2' and What were they there for99 An average 7-vear-old child in the infant class of well conducted Sunday school would give answers that ought to be satisfaetory-"Go put them there to make the bird beautiful" No wonder Chat Jesus thanked His Father for hiding from the wise and prudent the things that are revealed unto babes.
 A child of some 8 years of age once manifested considerable interest about the salvation of his soul, and said that ne wanted to be a Christian. His mother said You are too young; wait till you are older" But. mother" said the little fellow, .I've been walking in the ceme- tery, and I've found some graves shorter than I am." There was logic in that childs head. If the history of modern Christianity has proved anything, it has proved that very young children can un- derstand the gospel well enough to regu- late their lives by it's teachings. This, after all, is the main end of the Christian religion-to regulate the life.
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way. The same property would change hands several times in a year, and when the day of settlement came, purchasers and indorsers would go down like ten pins before a well-direeted ball It can readily be seen that this paradise of fools'' would soon make a paradise for lawyers. In one county that had twen- ty-four hundred voters, twenty-five hum dred suits were brought at one term of the court, and there were counties where suits were brought at the rate of ten thousand a year.
 In the midst of this condition there glided silently and obscurely, on the End day of November, 1S27,. a youth of low stature, but broad-shouldered, deep chested and powerfully formed, reso- lute of countenance, bright and bold of eye, though of modest bearing and halting as he went one short and crippled limb. whose imperfect strength he aided with a cane;" one who became the most original, forceful and unique character of his day-Sergeant Smith Prentiss.
 MT. Prentss was born in Portland,
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Even the "Westminster Review" with all it's destructive criticism and bald in- fidelity, admitted that Charles H. Spur geon. euncritical" as he was, did persuade a great many people to live better lives. I presume that few of Mir. Spurgeon's hearers knew or cared anything about "advaneed erltieism;" but they knew enough of the Bible to make them feel the importance of attending to it's pre- cepts.
 It is remarkable that I have never known anybody to complain of the ob- scurity.of any one of the Ten Command ments. Some of the laws given in that code may be hard to obey but they are easy to underestimate and the same thing is true of Christian duties generally. Few men have any serious doubts as to how their Christian neighbors ought to behave in any proposed case. Well, go and do thou likewise.
 Most sound-minded people hold that per- sonal experience is the best practical test of any proposed scheme of life. Very well, apply that test to Christianity, and you must surely become a Christian. Some one asked Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "Can you give me in two words a satisfactory proof of the truth of Christianity" Yes" said the great poet and thinker, "try it."
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Maine, September o, 1908. He descended from the Puritans, and was reared un- der the regime of that period. His moth CT was a pious and devoted woman. He was much like other boys in that he did not like to work. It is said he was ut terly insensible to the dignity of labor But the one part farm work he hat ed' with perfect hatred was that of 'bunching onions." Tn the depart ment of mental activity no charge of indolence or indifference could be brought against him. The marvellous mind of the boy was necessarily and wildly ac- tive. He had the faculty of rapid ae- quirement and powerful retention of knowledge. By his sayings and actions he gave premonitions of his future char acter. As boy he possessed strong will, remarkable eloquence much wit. and keen sarcasm. On one occasion a boy in school played a trick on the teacher, and, being unable to find out which boy it was the teacher whipped a number of boys in order to punish the right one, whereupon young Prentiss wrote the following lines;
 Now MT. Blank, I must confess,
 You well have proved your foolishness,
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pastime They all drank and gambled. They had not heard of the seventh com mandment. They violated it. Every man carried a deadly weapon to protect him. self, as he wore his hat to protect his head. The darkest passions that ever stirred human souls "surged to and fro, unrestrained by any influence of custom, law, morality prudence or religion" It is said the governor and half dozen others of the state officials got dead drunk" The supreme court of the state, the high court of errors and appeals gambled all Saturday night, all day Sun day and all Sunday night, and on Mon day adjourned court for the express pur- pose of finishing the game, being the whole time heavily primed with liquor. The above is a faint glimpse of condf- tions. The imagination will have to be given play The picture cannot be painted.
 .The finishing touch to this saturnalia was given by the exaggerated credit sys- tenn which accompanied the land specula- tions of the day, a feature monstrous and
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even grotesque in it's absurd extrava- gance. Uuder this system money, or what produced the usual effects of mon- ey, might be had for scarcely more than the asking. So that the country was by a singular duality a pandemonium of all crimes and passions, and a fools para disc of wealth and indulgence"
 It was not necessary to have either money or credit to purchase property except that every man had unlimited credit. A. would buy plantation from B. for ten thousand dollars, for which he would give his note due in one year. He would walk into the nearest grog-shop, find C., who was a man of means, lay his note before him, and ask his indorse- ment. If c. refused, 1t was an insult to be wiped out by blood. There were no refusals. When several inducements had been obtained, the note was returned and recorded, and A. found himself a large landowner. Within few days he would sell to c. for fifteen thousand dollars, and his pay would be collec- ton of autographs secured in the same
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By whipping us poor fellows so, To find out what we didn't know. No doubt you very oft have read What God to Abraham once. said, That for the righteousness of ten He'd save two cities full of men. But you contrariwise have done, And logged a dozen to punish one.
 Reverses had come to the father, and he did not feel able to send the boy to college, but the boy determined to go, if he had to learn the money by mak- ing shoes" He entered Bowdoin Col lege a Junior at the age of fifteen, and easily mastered the course. Such was his mental grasp and logical method that he grasped and mastered Butchers Analogy with the speed and ease that most men read a novel, He read largely. It Is said he could read two lages at time. He had a few favorite books that he read and re-read often; the Bible and Pil- grim's Progress. Shakespeare, and the works of Irving and Cooper, of Byron and Scott.
 The Southwest had become to him a fairyland. He sat out upon his, at that time long and perious journey. reaching Cincinnati at the end of month or nara
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~ OCIAL conditions during the flush
 tmes'' in Mississippi, prior to 1881, 0> were most. extraordinary. They were quite similar to those produced in England a century earlier by the South sea bubble. Ambitious young men, from every section of the country fired with an inordinate desire to become rich, poured into this new and inviting section of the great southwest. They were mad dened by their desire for wealth. They had but the one object. It was said that Sunday had not gotten that far down the river.
 These fiery young men lived in taverns and groggeries. The pure-minded moth- CTS and sisters and wives had been left behind. There were no restraints over them, and they found a state of society to their liking. A great army of gam blers, blackegs and horse jockeys had preceded them. Besides there was the wild and restless population of 'river men," ready for any sort of diabolical conduct. They indulged in rows for