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NN Monday. December ' lsss' the
 Thirty-eighth Congress was con O vened at the national capital and there appeared gentleman from Iowa, William B. Allison, then a young man of 34, who took the oath as d member of the House of Rep resentatives. Schuyler Colfax was chosen speaker and though not the titular lead CT of the badly, Thaddeus Stevens was the actual leader. Other new members who appeared on that occasion and subse- uuently became distinguished political leaders, were William R. Morrison, James G. Blaine, James A. Garfield, and Samuel J. Randall
 But one of these men Is left among the living, and his congressional career ter minated with the Forty-ninth Congress in 1887, his seat in the House of Representa- tves having been purchased by the from masters of Pittsburg for old Jehu Baker. Afterward Morrison long served with credit to himself and advantage to the country, as member of the interstate commerce commission. He is now in hon. orable retirement, the most illustrious citizen of the great state of Illinois soldier, statesman patriot, gentleman
 Allison served four years in the House
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A Washington correspondent of the "A Chicago Standard signing himself \ Marcia" in running comment upon the supreme court of the United States, and especially upon the chief jus tices, has the following comment upon the eminent Chief Justice Roger B. Fancy:
 "A single decision has given him an unenviable notoriety. It is a twlce-told tale to those who are passing oft the act i've scenes of life, but new aud most in structive one to those whose young shoul- ders are assuming the load of responsi- bility their elders are laying aside. Dred Scott slave, on being taken to Missouri after a residence in a free state of suf- ficient length to enttle him to his free- dom brought suit to establish that fact 1t was appealed to the supreme court Of the United States and Taneys decision was that negroes were 'so far inferior they had no rights a white man was bound to respect" It is needless to say that this decision shocked the moral sense of the civilized world. It could have no other effect A storm of indig- nant sentiment was aroused throughout the north, which resulted in determina- ton to check the further growth of the slave power, and which resulted three years later in civil war. So violent was the feeling against Fancy his bust was for several years excluded from place among his predecessors on the wall of the court room."
 Now to 'Marcia's" statement of the decision of the supreme court, as de- livered by Chief Justice Fancy, there Is one other serious objection-it is not true. To be sure, it is much more than "a twice-told tale" Indeed, the false tale has been told so long and so often that
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A meeting of the Association of 4 \ July, resolutions were adopted to require IA units of work for admission to college, at the earliest prac- ticable moment. Close upon the meeting of college presidents we formed an Associ- ation of Alabama High Schools, an organi- ary education" This association ap- pointed divisions, whose mission should be to try to raise the standards in the teach ing of certain subjects The English di- vision made up of Miss Higgins, of Selma, chairman; Miss Luther of Troy, Miss Booth, of Montgomery, Prof. Rutland, of Auburn, Prof. Stickney, of the University and supt stripln, of Gadsden, has just issued leaflet making a plea for the better teaching and speaking of English.
 It is evident to one who Is at all observ
 ant that this appeal for better English should not be confined to the teachers of the state It should reach the people, the natrons of our schools. It is in the last analyss the man who pays that deter mines the quality of the product. Our schools would have raised their standards long ago had the sentiment of public opin- ion so demanded. As it is, the return of tbe large sums of money our state is now expendng on education will be adequate only as the public demands adequate re- turns. Hitherto our higher institutions have made practically no requirements or students entering their portals. Their plea has been that they were compelled to do preparatory work because the sec- ondary schools did not do 1t, and as a
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it by virtue of the accident of birth
 Canada is much to be congratulated on the fact that at moment when the drama of three centuries was to be un- folded a man with so strong a sense of the historic import of that special time should have stood upon the shore to well come in the name of Canada and of England the heir to the English crown.
 Count Tolstoys great indictment of the Czar's government has come almost as the parting shot from the hand of that veteran fighter. albeit the champion of peace Count Tolstoy's appeal to the Russian government is one of the most memorable of the many famous docu- ments which he has produced. His in- dictment of the government and of the Czar himself is solemn and weighty. You all. from the secretary of the court to the premier and the Czar, are indi- rect participators in the iniquities per- petrated every day" so runs the protest. but the pith of Count Tolstoy's argu- ment lies in the fact not that Russia Is worse than other nations but that Rus sia has become as bad as other states. Till quite recently. he tells us. capital punishment n Russia was not recognized by law 'T remember how proud I used to be of that, when talking to western
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distinct descriptions of people. The Eng fish came direct to the coast. The Scotch,
 Irish and others came across land from Virginia and Pennsylvania to settle the
 up-country of which Greenville may be
 considered the center. Following the ear
 ly English coast settlers came Barbadoes
 planters, a very enlightened class, and
 the Huguenots. The low country people
 brought many Africans from shpholds
 and greatly prospered. There was no cor
 responding commercial or social center in l all the state to Charleston. Vessels on 1 the voyage from Europe to Philadelphia
 and New York touched at Charleston.
 | The up country was prosperous and I populous, but African slaves were few in numbers there The father of John c. l Calhoun, to reach his seat in the 1egisla- | ture from one of the up country counties,
 rode his horse to Charleston, then the 1 capital, and on his return carried on the
 croup a negro boy he had purchased. | But the Calhouns, Hamptons, Earles, | Wardlaws, Dunhams, Perrys, who pos | sessed the land, were enterprising and , prosperous. By the opening of the nine 1 teenth century, an intense jealousy of po- 1 litical power had set in between thu 1 greater numbers of white men living in
 the up country and the greater tax pay l Ing wealth residing Tn the LOW country. ] There was d broad belt of pine and sand ] separating the two sections, where Co., 1 lumbia and Camden now stand The up country and the low country stood upon 1 the verge of armed conflict. William l Lowndes, young legislator from the low
 country, then unknown, wrote in his lodg-
 ngs an amendment to the constitution
 which was adopted. The effect was the 1 equalza ton of power in state govern ,f1ap Eaat thn n
 country and the greater tax payer, the l low country. To accomplish the object, l the House of Representatives was com l posed of 124 members. one-half appor- l toned to white populations and the other ] to taxation. The Senate was composed of
 one member from each district (county)
 except that the district of Charleston, being exceptionally populous and excep- Itionally wealthy had two senators. The
 matter of equalization of influence be- tween the geographical divisions of the | state in the legislature having been thus adjusted, on a permanent footing, the i government was almost entirely relegated ] to that body. The legislators elected the ! other two departments. the executive and ! the judiciary. The governor was chosen l by the legislators for two years and the l judges for life. The county officers were
 all chosen by the legislature. The leg l islature used it's discretion. under the fed
 eral constitution, and chose the electors 1 for President and Vice-President
 | But the pivotal, democratic features of
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plished and renowned Chancellor Wal worth of New York, concurring with these great editors said: Tt will be as brutal to send men to butcher our brethren in the south as 1t would be to massacre them in the north.' The evil dence is profuse and unimpeachable that if the peace was to be disturbed between the northern and southern confederacies, a leader of war must appear at the north. MT. Lincoln was in position and he alone. to employ the organized gov ernment at Washington to force armed conflict of the confederacies. He was by nature prepared for the mighty part He, above all men, depended on war to effect his exaltation in power and even to make him secure In his office.
 True a peace congress had been as- sembled on call of Senator Crittenden from Kentucky in Washington in the early winter, while Buchanan was yet President, and had accomplished noth- ing. There were two reasons for the failure. First, the cotton states, the es- sential factors In the situation, declined to participate and next the radicals at Washington from the north controlled the meeting.
 The reasons were obvious and decisive which impeled President Lincoln to war at the opening of his first term. The integrity of the fragment of the Union left to him was in immin ent peril with out war As MT. Lincoln entered upon his second term peace was his policy. He must have the aid of the conservative south in Congress to restrain the radical ism of his dominant party. He died, en- gagged in the self-preserving attempt to get the conquered south back into the halls of Congress No inferential honor higher than Lincoln sought to confer on the south after Appomattox, could be be- slowed on a beaten cause. We have the insistent attestation of the conqueror, that our support of him in peace was necessary to the safety of liberty.
 But to go back to the conclusions of Lincoln's mind upon the situation, be- tween November, 1860, and April, 1861. What of his party? It had been repudi- ated under Hamilton, in the foundations of the government; 1t had lost to Jef- ferson in his rivalry with John Adams it had lost to Jackson in his contest with Clay. MT Lincoln himself had gone to Congress as whig and protective tariff man, but he was not able to remain be- cause of his party. The party of Mr. Lincoln in 1S6O-61, had no prospects what ever except in the union composed of 15 southern states and IS northern states, the one section slavery and free trade and the other free soil and protective tariff.
 If MT. Lincoln remained in the presi- dency he must emasculate and extermi- nate, with gloves off. He must extin- guish the sentiment of Walworth, the sentiment of Everett, the daily teaching of Greedy and Bennett. He must com pell Stephen A. Douglas to discontinue negotiations in Montgomery to align the upper valley states with the Confederacy. His party would dissolve and perish if the Confectionery was allowed to flourish In peace.
 President Lincoln resolved to reorganize ! the republic and he succeeded War
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stuff: but there is not in Christendom a scholar who would not pronounce 1t to be a stupid and impudent forgery Leav- ing principle altogether out of the ques- tion, the Appletons ought to. have had more sense than to publish such trash with the show of believing that 1t IS history.
 "The Biblical World" is understood 10 be the organ of the advanced criticism taught in the celebrated Chicago uniyer- slty. It deals largely with matters of Hebrew scholarship. Indeed, not few of it's articles are ineligible only to readers who know Hebrew.
 In one of the numbers of this period!- cal an article appeared from the pen of Prof Edward L. Curtis of Yale. In the course of his discussion he had occasion to deal with matter of Hebrew syntaX, and made some statements which cannot be sustained by the facts of the Ian guage. In speaking of the genius or the Hebrew language he says: Tt IS in- capable of giving an address in It's sub stance except in the form of an appar- ent reproduction of the ipsissima verba, l. e., the very words. Hence. in the Old Testament historical books, whenever a writer wishes to report that one person made verbal communication to another he always sass: "So and So spoke to Sc and So. saving. The direct form is al ways used"
 Prof. Curtis statements are toe sweeping. The Hebrew does usually avoid indirect citation; but in I Chroni- cles, XIV 16 We read: David spake to the chief of the Levites to ap- point their brethren to be sinners" etc 1 In l Chronicles xvii 25: For thou. C my God hast told thy servant that | thou wilt build him an house." IT
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X IR. JEFFERSON DAVIS was en- NH gagged one afternoon in Febru- 1V1 ary, 1861, in the flower garden of his island home, "Briarfield, when messenger appeared bearing notice to him that he had been elected by the pro- visional congress at Montgomery. Presi- dent of the new republic, the Confederate States
 The news was not agreeable to him. He had not encouraged the movement which he was selected to lead in it's final form. On the contrary, Senator Davis went to President Buchanan, as soon as 1t became known at Washington that General Scott had ordered Maj. Robert Anderson to seize Fort Sumter secretly, to advise the President to order Ander- son out with his garrison The senator argued that the secession policy in the south would be arrested, with the action of South Carolina, if the fort was left, as it had been for long time unoccupied. The President-elect set out promptly along the then angular route by steam boat to Memphis, thence by rail to At lanta, with sharp turn southward to the capital. where he was awaited. All along the land route, through three states his coming was expected by the inhabitants and at every convenient sta- tion they gathered in throngs, of all ages and both sexes, to greet him with un- paralleled enthusiasm. As many saw then for the first time there was a gen. eral and most impressive surprise for them in the commanding appearance of the man and the dignity of his presence. When he spoke briefly, the eloquence of his words, the inspiration of his voice, the candor of his sentiments stirred all hearts afresh The President was 8 great man and every soul responded to the touch of his greatness At the end of the journey the mayor of Montgom- cry, with a large company, received him in welcome at the remote railroad sta- tion. At the Exchange hotel MT. Yancey received him, In the name of the Con- federacy, in a short. but most eloquent address, declaring ''The hour and the man have met"
 When MT. Abraham Lincoln was ready to set out for Washington to take up his office his friends prepared a disguise for him and led him a circultous way. in the night, to his capital. Arrived there. he was secretly taken to hotel and his presence denied for a time. In manifest apprehension of evil he took the oath of office. A grander spectacle never moved the hearts of men than the ceremonies attendant upon the induction into office of President Davis.
 Violence and dissension had attended the execution of the constitution and laws and the decrees of the high court Of the United States for many years, in 16 of the IS states who elected MT. Lin coin. A reasonable suspicion connected the first triumph of the republican par ty. in the election of it's President and Congress, with the revolutionary incl dents of it's entire short life. At the time of the election sympathy with John
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Brown was the controlling sentiment of the supporters of Lincoln in the cam paign and only the candidates adroitness in parrying interrogatories, stood be- tween his mind on that subject and the avowal of it in the open. Senator Will lam " Allen, from Nebraska, as late as 10 years ago. speaking from his seat, referred boastfully to his antecedents as a youth of IS years, operating the "un- derground railroad" in the middle west. It was not wonderful that young men listening to the impassioned appeals of great orators, loosened the bonds of con- science in their relations to law and or der. Senator Seward the known leader of the higher law doctrine, made spe- cial canvass of the middle west and In Ohio said:
 Your constitution and laws convert hospitality to the refugee from the most degrading oppression on earth into a crime. but all mankind but you esteem that hospitality a virtue. I say, extend a cordial welcome to the fugitive who lays his weary limbs at your door and defend him as you would your household gods"
 Mrs. Jefferson Davis relates that in the presence of her husband in her residence at Washington, she ventured to correct
 
 southern slavery, reminding that as he lived in Georgia planters family as tutor to his children, he was well aware that he spoke islander. 70 yes I know it. but my people do not" was the sang froid reply. Senator Davis from his sick bed cried out: 'T never do that! I never do thatp'
 The brief period of time between the election of Lincoln. November. 1860, and r-n -f ,~x,fI hoe never been justly considered by the his torians. and has been slurred over or omitted for the most part by the biogs raphers of Lincoln in it's transcendantly important features.
 Undoubtedly in that time MT. Lincoln, President-elect, was in great jeopardy of his claims upon his office. The seces- sion of South Carolina, late in December, followed by the same act of Georgia and the gulf states in January, was attended by a demonstration of unity of the peo- pie and enthusiastic consecration to their purpose unparalleled. Undoubtedly the controlling tone of public opinion at the north at that time was expressed by General Scott, commander of the army, when he exclaimed of the south: Way ward sisters, depart in peace" We have seen previously in this place that Sen ator Douglas of Illinois. the leader of | the powerful democracy of the west had an accredited agent in Montgomery to insist upon the admission of the upper Mississippi states to the Confederacy. We have seen that Edward Everett ad- dressing a mass meeting at Faneuil Hall, declared any thought of coercion of the seeding states was "preposterous We have seen that the New York Tribune, republican. Horace Greedy editor, and 1 the New York Herald, democrat, James Gordon Bennett editor. declared three 1 fifths of the people and three-fourths of the newspapers of the north were favor able to the Confederacy. The accom-
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Deuteronomy ix 25 we find: Because the Lord had said He would destroy you" In Daniel K we read: The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish 70 years in the desolations of Jerusa- lem" In II Samnue, vii II: The Lord teeleth thee that He will make the an house." In several of these passages the Hebrew word for say" is "amar." Ahis word has also the senses of receiver" announces" or declare or demand" or whisper" or "confide to-" In II Samuel vii II, the word 'haggid" is used in the sense of an nounce'
 In matters of history and of phflology l have learned to be skeptical of sweep ing statements; for they seldom sweep clean.
 In the Revised Encyclopae edia Brit tanica," for the use of American read CTS, volume 3. page 703 I find the statement: Philip baptized the Ethio- plan eunuch, as soon as he had de- clared his faith" But the declaration of the eunuchs faith Is found in Aacts vii 37, and nowhere else; and that 37th verse of Acts is unquestionably spurious. Our Encyclopedias was guilty of strange earelessness, or of inexcusab1e ignorance. In the article on Edmund Burke. volume 4, parga 1172, the same Encyclopaedia gives us to understand that Thomas Jefferson cid that "all men are born free and equal" MT. Jefferson never published, and never believed any such absurdity. He owned some hundreds of negro slaves; many of them were born on his plantation, and he never imagined that any one of them was born his equal.
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A meeting of the Association of "A Alabama College Presidents in 4 \ July, resolutions were adopted
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\ IR. JEFFERSON DAVIS was en- M gagged one afternoon in TeDru.
 V ! ary 1861, in the flower garden of
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-01-23
ALIAS SUMMONS.

In the Justice court of NorthEmmett precinct,
county OF Canyon. state OF Idaho.
Geo. Newman Plaintiff, VS.. Jesse Demasters
Defendant.
The state of Idaho sends greeting to Jesse
Demasters, defendant:
You are hereby summoned, to appear before
me, at my office in north Emmett precinct. in
the county Of Canyon, state of Idaho, en- the 20th
day OF March, 1905 at 10 O'Clock a, m. in an action
brought against you by said plaintiff. to ans
wer complaint OF the above named plaintiff.
Said action is brought against you TO recover
from you the of $50 90 and Al 20 interest, due
the plaintiff from YOU, on account stated and
agreed 10. and signed by you, on the 23rd day of
March, 1897 all Of which more fully appears in
the said complaint filed therein, copy OF which
is herewith served, hereby referred to and the
contents thereof are hereby particularly made
part OF this summons, or judgment will be taken
against you in the sum OF sSi-20, together with
costs of this suit If you fail to appear and ans
wer
To the Sheriff or any constable OF said county.
greeting: Make legal service and due return
hereof
Given under my hand this 4th day of jan
uary 1908.
w. F. SINCLAIR Justice of the Peace of North
Emmett Precinct OF said county.
u. l.. RHODES, Attorney for plaintiff, reSd-
ence Emmett, Idaho. -
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-01-23
A READERS PREDICTIONS.

An enthusiastic reader tells us
that he is beginning to take great
deal of stock in the theoryof some
astronomers that the planetary sys-
TEN is moving in tremendous
elipse around some vast central sun |;
that at one end of this elipse is a
red hot climate and at the other end
is a cold one that makes the tenn
perature about our north pole seem
like July weather by comparison
We are at present pulling out to-
ward the hot end of the elipse at
the rate of about 5 million miles per
day and that as consequence the
winters are gradually getting mild
er and will continue to get milder
until we will have tropical weather
all the wear In time it is mis-
opinion that all the ice about the
poles will be melted and Greenland
will become the most popular sum
mer resort in the world. In that time
anybody can sail to the north or
south pole without any trouble.
Finally he predicts that it will get
so blamed hot on this old earth that
the people cannot live here. There
will come a time when all vegeta-
ton will catch fire and of course all
the people and livestock of every
will perish. That in his
judgement will fulfill the prediction
Of the Scripture that the earth shall
melt with ferv,nt heat. Alter
everything has been destroyed the
world as a scorched and uninha-
oited planet will swing around on
The other side of the elipse toward |
he cold end. 1t will take it sever
al hundred thousand years to get
around to the cold end and in the
the world will be restock-
ID and reinhabited.