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or be damned was a new creed, and q startling one. The clan wondered whst had come over Wild Bill. He seemed never at ease and was restless and afraid: he of all men, The Buckleys looked at Long Jake in wonder as he sat day in and day out, with his chin sunk in thought.
 Winter passed and spring bloomed upon the hills. Like the flags of a conquerins army the trees shook out their greea ban ners, and the birds sang in the thcl.ets. Then summer came and the wild grapes rpened in their tangled coverts. In the little cabin on the central spur Posie's hour had come. She lay upon her rude pallet, her face stamped with an inde- finabe terror. The holy mystery of motherhood confronted her. Pete was there, silent, helpless. His ox-like strength could not help her. An old wom- an and a. little girl were in the room. The woman lived In a miserable hut at the base of the mountain, with her grand child. and sided with neither faction. Pete had prevailed upon her to come. With the rising of the moon boy was born The mother lay very still.
 Pete" she said. after long time.
 send fur 'en-your dad, my dad
 The man was dumb he could not leave her. He swept his eyes around helplessly. The ten-year-old girl understood, and came forward.
 'I'll go," she said. ito Long lakes fust, cause it's the closest. Then him an me c'n ride. I'm not 'feerd."
 She slipped out into the night.
 Long Jake listened to the story, jerked out in gasps. for the child had run most of the way He thought for a few min utes then went and saddled his horse, took the child up behind him and rode off. Half way to the Skidmores he stopped dismounted, spoke briefly to his compan- ion, then sat down on the roots of tree to wait, with his head in his hands. The elfin figure astrde the big horse sped on alone. Wild Bill binked and stared at the tale he heard.
 Hes waitin' fur ye at the ben in Pos sum Holler." the girl concluded. an he aint got nary weapon. N it's a boy!''
 Two men rode down a rocky gorge one summer night, stirrup to stirrup There were no signs of weapons upon either,
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systems, swinging for the first time into their orbits in the traclS1ess. fathomless depths above. Thus God peoples the heavens luminous worlds.
 1 have fancled that those daring bands of exiles, forgotten by one world and lost in the dark wiles of another. living and dying in ignorance of the mighty destiny of their childrens children. con- scious only that they were free-I have fancied that He, with whom a thousand years are a day or a watch in the night when it is passed" saw the un- born and pussant nation through all the mists of misery, persecution, and death through which succeeding generations passed first to independence, then to the mastery of the land and sea.
 In the vast womb of the wilderness the colonies took form and voice, varying in their orbits and splendor, but they diff fered only "as one st1r differs from other star in glory" In the hour of des- tiny each found it's own place about the great central power, in which. like the planets, they were eternally bound, yet forever separate. The fathers, I declare to you, heard the voice of God when they covered this continent with states. even as the heavens are bespangled with the stars.
 The same peril awaits the star and the state. The state discovered from her sis ters is lost even as a planet wrenched from it's moorings, comet-like, becomes the wandering vagrant of the skies.
 Either, drawn by the compelling gray ity of central force into its mighty vor- tex, is annihilated by the power which should have been the source of light and life.
 From the chaos of disunion and the wreck of centralization may He who or daned long preserve this constellation of states.
 Let no new Hamilton arise to disturb or destroy their exquisite balaNae-lSnr- monious, distinct, indissoluble, they shall remain eternal as the revolving stars.
 For years and years the dogmatism of Hamilton's eulogists has dominated Amer ican public thought. l only wish that Owsley Stanley would take time to eab- crate this splendid speech of his and offer it to some leading magazine. It would carry confusion into every Ham- ton camp. and shake the walls of Har- yard college themselves.
 Copyright 1908, by E. w. Newman.)
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saved themselves to life of usefulness, but with the possibilities of a lifetime be- fore them. It may be said that many of them are hard cases" That may be true but hard treatment has mate them so. Some of them perhaps have never heard kind word or felt the gentle stroke of a loving hand since the hand of the mother was stilled in death. Beneath their tattered garments within their lit- tie breasts beat hearts that would re- spond to kindness. if only the kindness were shown. I am glad of every effort that is made, and of every institution that is formed for the proper care and training of dependent children.
 The Masons are to be congratulated and commended in that their action 1t the last annual session of the grand lodge of Alabama will aod another insti- tuition to those already formed for the
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protection and training of dependent chill dren. While the widows of deceased Ma sons will be care for, which is eminently proper, the greatest outcome will be in what is done for the children.
 I do not know how far the vision of Almighgty God reaches. or what He be- holds in the mighty sweep of that vision. but I doubt if in the almost lmitless ex- panse of the universe He looks upon q work more pleasing to Him that that of caring for His little ones7
 I gave seven years of my life to the or phanage established by the Methodist church at Summerfeld, and I saw, as few men have seen, the great necessity for this work. Many bright, promising children were taken from surroundings that welnigh doomed them to a life of hardship and failure in the end; and aft CT having been trained and cared for in
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to have any, having expatriated himself at the age of 16 years. The patriotism that springs from the heart and fills the soul is not a plant that can be carried from cline to cline. The patriot is spring, gambols in the orchard, reclines in the shade of trees in happy boyhood. It is catching in the school room as it is mparted from urchin to urchin. and it is all over and around the play ground. Washington and Henry. Adams and Putnam, Rutledge and Marion, were patriots. So were old George Clinton and Philip Schuyler These were
 Native and to the manner born.
 But. Hamilton, an adventurer, was not, and could not be, moved by the senti- ments that were natural to these men.
 Hamilton made one great speech in the constitutional convention. and then he dis appears; but the romancers-one of whom makes him q compound of Aristides, Gin cinnatus and Scipio Africanus-say that Hamilton wrought more effectually for the constitution in the background. True, his writings secured the adoption of the con- stitution after Madison, Ellsworth, Sher man ana company nau made IL, put It was not that he believed in the con stitution, or loved it; but that he thought it better than the articles of confedera- tion because it lodged more power in the federal establishment.
 As Secretary of the Treasury in Wash ington's cabinet, he was at his greatest, He had the gift of organization and he brought order out of chaos; but he had too much mental integrity, or mental pride, to pretend that the protective sys- tenn was not hardship on the people. And Mr. Stanley quoted from him some language that sounds marvelously demo- cratic on the tariff question.
 MT. Dazell made this declaration:
 He certainly is a bold man who, in the face of history. contends today that the permanent policies which have entered into the statutes and character of our nation are not the policies dictated by Hamilton and his followers
 And to that MT. Stanley retorted:
 Here my temerlty may argue more than my judgment. but I deny it. There never was deduction more absolutely unfound- ed hurled defantly into the teeth of history.
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the orphanase, were either put into good Christian homes or kept there until they were capable of making their own way in the world. Leaving that position and go- ing to another, the duties of which re- quired me to travel over the state for number of years. I found these ehil- dren grown to womanhood and manhood. some of them in homes of their own and in business for themselves: others in good homes, contented and happy, and on an equal footing in life with other children; and when 1 contrasted their present sur- rounaings with those from which they had been taken. my heart was greatly re- joiced.
 There is no field of human effort where so much good may be accomplished IS in caring for children. Every eleemosy- nary institution is the result of religion, as an act of disinterested kindness is un-
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~ ONE three weeks ago the ag-
 ricultural appropriation bill was
 o under consideration in committee of the whole in the House of Representa- tives, and on March 20 MT. Stanley of Kentucky got the floor and proceeded to reply to a very able speech by MT. Dal- zell some time earlier, in which the ac- complished statesman from Pennsylvania undertook to contrast Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, much to the dis arrangement of the latter, and much to the credit of the former.
 MT. Dalzell got his history of the New England school-the Harvard set-Henry Adams, Henry Cabot Lodge. Theodore Roosevelt and so on, not to forget Will liam E. Curtis and Edward S. Ellis, and it made the sedate thinker from Pittsburg, ordinarily so wary and so accurate, a very credulous person. We see the some what similar effect when the brilliant mind of Gertrude Atherton contemplates Hamilton and Jefferson through the same historic specs.
 Owsley Stanley's reply to Dalzel was crushing and conclusive He painted the two, men, Hamilton and Jefferson, pre- cisely as they were, and placed them pre- cisely where authentic history will put them-the Virginian the wisest of polit- ical philosophers; the West Indian the most brilliant of political adventurers. Many of Stanley's political friends tried to dissuade him from the encounter. They did not know much about Hamilton and Jefferson, but they knew a deal of John Dalzell whose conclusions they had never embraced, but whose statements of facts they had never challenged
 Stanley did not dare to enter the lists without being armed capapie, and he spent a week of almost ceaseless inves- tigation night and day. He searched 30 volumes, and drew from manuscripts in the National library and the state de- pertinent. When fully prepared he could get but half an hour to deliver the speech, though he should have had at least two hours. When he began the dem ocrats were apprehensive and the repub- lcans confident A few minutes later the democrats were sanguine and the repub- lcans confused. Both were astonished. Never before in more than 100 years of history making had the American Con- gress seen the two great fathers of Amer ican politics as they were and as they
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among those who beg worthy cases. Any one in distress. it matters not what led to the distress, appeals to us and we should not be deaf to the appeal. but we should endeavor to render the best serv- ice The Society of United Charities makes investigation. The Salvation Army gives to and finds employment for men. That is real helpful service The only way to help a man is to help him 10 where he can help himself The bene- factor of his race is the man who es- tablishes industries and gives employment to men. It is better to help those organi- zations than to distribute your charity indiscriminately upon the streets.
 There is class for which I plead, and that is the dependent children who need protection and instruction. This is the class that promises the largest yield to the investment for they may not only be
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ARITY: THE BEST WAY-By s. F. West

known among the heathens. And yet If a man should not care for these considera- tons. putting it upon the low plane of dollars and cents, it pays to take care of children deprived of their natural guard ian and thrown out into the world on their own resources. They may become good citizens, add to the productiveness of the state and help bear the burden of government. Neglected. they too often become criminals and are a burden to the state. An illustration of this may be found in the "Jukes' family, noted case in New York city. A little waif and her three sisters, neglected on the streets of that city became the progenitors of distinct criminal line. and the esti- mated cost of the Jukes family to the state is as follows:
 Number of pauperized adults, 2S0 crin- inals and offenders, 390; lives sacrificed
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will be estimated by the future Gibbon or Hume
 Alexander Hamilton was born a subject of the British crown, in the insignificant island of Nevis, in the West Indies. His father was Scotchman and his mother a French woman. In his earliest youth he gave earnest of the splendid genius with which nature had endowed him. Ere he was 20 he was the first political con troversialist in the colony of New York, whether with tongue or pen. His motto might have been:
 Why, then, the worlds mine oyster,
 Which 1 with mind will open.
 As a political writer he was greater than Paine and little inferior to Burke. As an orator he was, perhaps, second to Henry only of all the Revolutionary generation. Had he gone to London he would have been capable of filling big ger place in English annals than the younger Pitt. Had ne gone to France and escaped the Terror he might have been second to Napoleon Bonaparte alone, an honest Talleyrand a more fortunate Massena.
 Instead, Hamilton came to America. and assumed the role of Hampden. He opposed Lord North, not for the tax he levied so much as for the principle it involved. It was a little bit of tax, a great piece of folly on the part of the ministry, though not oppressive; but, if allowed to be a precedent, it was in the power of the crown to make serfs of the colonists. Hamilton entered the army and became the secretary of the commander in chief, and in the field he was as daring as he was able in the forum. That arch-fiatterer and match less scoundrel, Talleyrand, declared that Hamilton was greater than Napoleon or Fox, which is all bosh; but Hamilton's eulogists are absurd enough to take what the interruptions French mscreant said for his real opinion. Well might the shade of Hamilton pray to be delivered from American history as she is writ.
 Hamilton is actually held up as the father of the constitution, when the one thing for which he had more contempt than for that instrument was the articles of confederation which 1t supplanted. As for patrotism-the real stuff, not the brand described by Walpole-Hamilton had none, and 1t was impossible for him
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is a question with many people who
 are really llind-hearted. and want to do good, and who desire to em- brace every opportunity for doing good, whether or not it is real charity to give to many persons who beg on the streets of our cities. One cannot know the habit of these people, and many of them may be the victim of such habits that even the small amount of money given is worse than wasted It may be encour- aging vice.
 It is also a question with a great many people as to whether or not this promis- cuous begging on the streets should be allowed, since places are provided where these people may be cared for. No per manent good can be done in this way. You may feed a man today and he is hungry again tomorrow There may be
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01
FEAR REIGN OF TERROR.
England Charged With cowardice ir
DEALING With ireland.

London, Jan. 31.-Heated charges Of
cowardice in turning blind eye to the
reign of terrorism in Ireland in or
der to keep the natiopalists in good
temper and assure a continuance of
their support in the commons, Were
launched against the government in
the house of lords today.
The marquis of Londonderry, who
was viceroy of ireland in 1SS6-'S9, led
in the attack. and 50 infectious were
his sentiments that even Lord Lang
ford, who has been a representative
peer Of Ireland since 1884, broke his si-
lence Of twenty-four years and devoted
his maiden speech to a recital of his
personal experience with cattle driving
outside his own gates
The marquis of Londonderry de-
clared that the present state Of Ire
land is worse than in the dark days OF
the early sos, when murder and out
rage were rampant, and he attributed
the conditions entirely to the coward
ice of the government. He said it was
reported that the constabulary had
been ordered not to come into actual
contact with the lawbreakers.
Lie Juu6ee' he 9s'iu' "Stc Peli s'iy |eN
in the sections subject to coercion by
the Irish league, and trial by jury was
a farce-out of 237 prisoners tried only
eight being convicted. Even the gov
ernment's own Irish attorney general
had declared that if the present condi-
tions continued anarchy would re-
suit.
Lord Beauchamp, replying in behalf
of the government, complained of the
exaggerated pessimism of the union
list peers and resented Lord Lans-
downe's comparison yesterday between
Ireland and Macedonia. He admitted
that cattle driving had increased dur
ing the last year, but said that this
was the sole sign of agrarian condi-
tions becoming worse.
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Iowa at Washinqton.

Washington, Feb complete rural
delivery service has been ordered IS
tablished in Mahaska county April l.
The total number of routes in the
county is twenty-six, of which the fol-
lowing route is new:
Oskaloosa, route No. l. Other routes
in the county will be as follows:
Barnes City, routes No. 1, 2; Beacon,
routes No. 1, 2 (No. 2 present route
No. 81; Cedar, routes No. l, 2; Fire.
mont, routes No. 1, 2; Given, route No.
1; Lacey, routes No. /, 2; Leighton,
routes No. 1, 2: New Sharon, routes
No /, 2, 3; Oskaloosa, routes No. 1, 2,
8, 5; Rosehill, routes No. 1. 2, 3; Tain
tor, routes No. 1, 2.
Milton Boglan of Bristow, has been
appointed to teach at Haw Indian
school, Oklahoma, and James P. Ma
han, Marristown, Ind, at the Sac and
Fox schools.
Patents have been granted to Iowans
as follows:
w. r. Beers of Judd, device for con-
verting windmill power
H. A, Brown of Lehigh, pneumatic
wheel and hub.
A. G. Colson of Des Moines, pig for
ceps.
A. c.. Decker of keolluk, bull ring.
G. p. Ebersole of Keokuk, controller
regulator.
J. P. Gilman of Riceville. moistener.
J. Jones of Ottumwa, animal shackle.
J. Knudson of Des Moines, inter
box.
r. Maitens of Davenport, mouthpiece
for wind instrument.
H. FL May of New Albin, trap.
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MRS. coRcoRAN SUES.
Wealthy Resident Of Popejoyl Made
Defendant in Divorce Suit.

Defendant in Divorce Suit.
Special to Times-Republlcan.
Hampton Feb. 1.-Among the new
cases filed in the district court only
one is attracting any considerable
amount Of attention. That is the di-
vorce case Of Mrs. J. H. Corcoran
against her husband, well known
resident of Popejoy. In her petition
she states that they were married in
October 1901, and that everything
went as merry as marriage bell for
several years, but during the past year
or so she claims that Mr. Corcoran
swore at her more times than she can
that he is abusive and
threatens her with violence and that
couple of weeks ago he did kick and
cuff her and drove her from the house
and threatened to kill her, and that
she has not returned to his home for
fear he would carry out his threats.
She states that he Is worth about forty
or fifty thousand dollars, and asks for
temporary and permanent alimony in
an amount that seems equitable to the
court. Mr.. Corcoran was arrested in
last week for assaulting his
wife and was fined $25 and costs by
Justice of the Peace j. w. Swift.
It is recalled that the plaintiff In
this case was a divorce at the time
she married Mr.. Corcoran.
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United States is Complainant
In Petition Filed at Salt
Lake City
HARTMAN, EFT AL, DEFENDANTS
Bill in Equity, in United States Circuit
Court, Charges Violation of the Act
of Congress Pertaining to Protection
of Trade and Commerce Against Un-
lawful Restraint.

Washington, Feb. 1.-United Sta1es
Attorney Hiram E. Booth. acting un-
der the direction of the attorney gen
cral today filed in the United States
circuit court at Salt Lake City. pc
iition or bill in equity in which the
United States is made complainant ana
oregon Railroad & Navigation, San
Pedro. Los Angeles & Salt Lake. San
Ia Fe. Southern Pacific, Northern Pa
cifc, and Great Northern railway
companies, the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company, Edward H. Hartman,
Jacob Il. Schiff, Otto II. Kahn, james
Stillman. Henry II. Rogers, Henry G.
Frick, and William A. Clark, are de-
PENDANTS.
The bill sets out in detail several
agreements, contracts, and operations
by which the several defendants. Har-
riman, ct al, at various times since
January 1, 1901, are alleged to have
secured for themselves and others the
management and control of the vari-
Gus defendant roads and their branches
and steamship lines, and to have ever
since operated them in restraint of
trade and commerce among states. and
with foreign nations, in violation of the
act of congress, entitled, An act to
protect trade and commerce against
unlawful restraint and monopolies.'
The bill alleges a combination and con-
spracy among defendants In deroga-
tion of the common rights of all the
people Of the United States, and asks
that the individual defendants named.
and their associate stockholders, ies
perpetually enjoined from doing any
and every act or anything in further
ance Of the combination or conspiracy
described in the bill of complaint.
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CAN'T COMPEL WORK
Pressmen's Union Wins Battle With
Typothetae in tho Courts-Agree.
ment Binding only on Those Who
Work

Cincinnati, Feb. Limited States
Judge Thompson today handed down
decision refusing to enjoin the Inter-
national Pressmen's Union from strik-
ing. The decision illustrates the efforts
of the United Typothetae OF America
to force the international Printing
Pressmen's Union to live up to it's
alleged agreement whereby an eight
hour work day would not be instituted
unsil after Jan. 1, 1909. The decision
held the agreement made by the Off
GERS of the union providing for a
nine hour day does not bind the rank
and file of the union to work nine
hours, hut only to work nine hours
IL they work at all.
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HUGHES is A CANDIDATE
New York Governor Admits the Charge
in an Address.

New York, Feb. 1.-Governor Chas.
E. Hughes broke his long silence last
night, and after acquiescing In the
movement to nominate him for presi-
dent, declared himself in no mistaken
terms upon the issues involved in the
presidential campaign. He indorsed
in warmest terms the administration
and policies of President Roosevelt and
then outlined his own views in the
cearest possible manner and in the
plainest possible speech. He declared
that he stood for tariff revision, for
regulation of corporations and rail-
roads, for legislation along the line of
the employers liability law, for the
punishment Of antitrust law violators
by Imprisonment rather than fines. and
for various other vigorous policies.
Governor Hughes address was to
the Republican club of New York city,
in response to the clubs resolutions
calling upon him to become candi-
date for the republican presidential
nomination. He was greeted by
large audience and he was greeted by
intense enthusiasm.