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nose and that classic nose on his fore head, and refuse the acquaintance. Like Nell Gwynne, he would ejaculate, What company am I got into!' What he would do to John Rhea would be plenty.
 At the north political joint discussion ceased sooner than 1t did at the south, though less than 20 years ago there was a joint debate In Faneuil Hall, between Henry Cabot Lodge and William E. Rus sell that served to make the latter dem ocratic governor of the republican com monwealth of Massachusetts. I know of no political joint debate at the north since. After the war Robert c. Schenck and Lewis D. Campbell, opposing candi- dates for Congress held joint discussions in the famous old Third Ohio district. Schenck. perhaps the most intellectual republican Ohio ever produced, had been a whig and so had Campbell, who had followed Schenck into the republican party; but Campbell sided with Andy Johnson in the era of reconstruction and was now democrat. Both Schenck and Campbell had made races for Congress against Clement L. Vallandigham in the Third district, and as I now remember, both had beaten him, and both had been beaten by him.
 Of course, the most famous joint dis cussion of politics at the north was that between Douglas and Lincoln in 1858. But for 1t Douglas would have been Presi- dent, and but for 1t Lincoln would not have been President. On the stump the two men were not in the same class; but
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Explaining the candIe.Power.

In Illuminating circles one hears a great deal about "candle-power,'' and nearly everyone, if asked, would instant ly reply that a candle power was the light given by a single candle. But can dies differ in luminosity as well as in- candescent lamps, and candle-power is not one thing but several according to the country where used.
 In Great Britain and the United States the standard light unit is the amount given by a "spermaceti candle burning up at the rate of 120 grains an hour with a flame 45 millimeters high" or 17e inches. In France the standard candle is made of stearine, and Germany's candle was, until a few years ago, paraffne. Now the latter country uses the so-called Hefner unit of light, the amount given by certain form of lamp burning acte- tate of amyl. Another lamp standard, called the cracel, was used In France. In this purified rape seed oil Is burned. Because of this unsatisfactory interna- tional chaos it Is now proposed that our national bureau of standards at Wash ington take steps to establish a standard International candle which would be ac- ceptable to at least nine countries.
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gathered about the windows and through the iron bars the voices of the preachers proclaimed the gospel, and today the coun- Some of the ablest and most eloquent Baptist preachers of Virginia were of this county. Here is brief sketch of one of them:
 Cumberland George, a noble, natural orator, with as grand a voice, as noble a presence and as warm a heart as ever inspired the gathered thousands at our open-air meetings in the district associa- tion was a Culpeper man. For many years he was the pastor at Culpeper Court House. and his eloquence was the delight of all classes of hearers, from the uni- versity graduate to the most illiterate negro slave. He was at his best in the open air When he was announced to preach at the stand at one of our dis trict associations in the county, vast throngs would gather to hear him, and his clear, deep-toned ringing voice would reach and thrill the uttermost man of the crowd. About the close of the late war he was called away to his reward, and was succeeded in the pastorate by Rev. James B. Taylor, a son of our late sec retary of the foreign mission board of the Southern Baptist convention"
 Another Is depicted thus:
 Barnett Grimsley, a contemporary of Cumberland George, and a true yoke fellow departed from us a few years ago As an orator he left a large and we'll earned reputation. With almost no early advanta ges. he studied at home, studied on the farm, studied on horseback as he travelled over hill, mountain and valley to
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in his every utterance, while the crowds were in delirlum of enthusiasm gener- ated from his splendid oratory.
 On their return to town on the eve of the election Bolts took Stanton for a walk and asked him how he was getting on. Bad enough" was the response. q believe he will beat me. You never heard such speeches as he makes-they are without beginning, or ending, or mid dle. You might take the dictionary and cut all the words out of it, put them in a bushel measure, shake them up, and pull the words out one by one and set them In line, and you would pretty nearly have Talbotts speech, and then the fellow turns to me every five minutes and yells, T want you to answer that; you lodged 1t yesterday. But that Is not the worst. Old Wings come to me and want to know Why the h. don't you answer him?' It is useless to explain that there is nothing to answer. Not even Socrates could answer him. don't know how 1t will end"
 Station was elected; but instead of 50o majority he got exactly six majority.
 The people are more intelligent than they were in those days, as when men free from debt and rich in this world s goods sought a progress through bank ruptcy because the bankrupt law was a Whig measure and proposed by Henry Clay. One newspaper that believes some thing, and with the capacity to discuss
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beef and mutton to these rich pastures A brief run, even on a fast train, through Loudoun and Farquier counties, will teach the traveller the meaning of that picturesque Bible phrase, "the castle upon a thousand hills'; and this may suggest to his mind the great antiquity of the opinion that a hill country is best for grazing.
 For more than a century the Baptists have had a strong foothold in this re- zion. During the colonial period they en- dured much persecution as "Dissenters.' When James Madison was a youth. just home from Princeton, he wrote letter to a college mate and in this letter he ex- pressed his great disgust at the persecu- tion which the dissenting preachers around him were then suffering. MT. Mad ison was then living at Montpelier country seat about four miles from Orange Court House. His letter shows that the state Of society around him was little to his taste. It may be read with profit by those pessimists who are for ever extolling "the good old times" Here is part of his letter, which has now become history:
 Poverty and luxury prevail among all sorts; pride, ignorance and knavery among the priesthood, and vice and wickedness among the laity This is bad enough, but it is not the worst I have to tell you. That diabolical, hell-conoeived principle of per- secution rages among some; and, to their eternal infamy, the clergy can furnish their quota of imps for such purposes There are at this time in the adjacent country not less than five or six we'll meaning men in close jail for publishing
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THE ELDER DAY-By Savoyard

Lincoln forced Douglas to repudiate the Dred Scott decision. It saved to Douglas the senatorship but lost to him the south him the presidency.
 It was my good fortune to have a rather intimate acquaintance with the late William H. Bolts of Glasgow, Ky. a man of infinite jest an orator of won- derful power, a lawyer of almost mag ical skill One day riding on the road on horseback he related to me the following anecdote of a joint discussion between in Jackson county, Tennessee. I have tried to tell 1t before, but a. story that Is not worth telling twice is not fit to tell once. Bolts was a native Tennessean, and of the soil. He was not only a great lawyer, but he was remarkable man in many phases A major in the Confederate army, and a rich man in 1861, he found himself bankrupt in 1S65 and moved across the line to Glasgow, Ky, a state that opened the door of tho mansion and the cabin, and the portal of the heart, and the soul to anybody who wore the gray. I have heard Bolts laugh meritorious cases out of court. I have known him to get verdicts by the employ ment of pathos that appealed to the heart though so callous that 1t was dwarfed to the very dry stump of a hu- man entity. He was no politician, and was densely ignorant of the commonest literature of politics, and thus 1t came
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SOME NOTES ON PIEDMONT WRGINIA-By J. C. F1iden, D. D.

have spell the name "Rapidan" as it is usually printed. but there is high author ity for Rapid Ann" During our earlier colonial period the people of this region were intensely loyal to the British throne. This is attested by the local names Orange county was doubtless named for William III, commonly called "the Prince of Orange" Queen Anne seems to have been especially popular, for we have "Fluvanna," "Rivanna' "Rapii Ann" .'Northanna," and "Southanna" as names of rivers, and Queen Anne is un- derstood 10 have been not fond of water, but to have preferred something stronger.
 This region of country Is especially not able for its eminent men. Four miles from Orange Court House James Madi- son lived and died. Near him lived Philip P Barbour, Justice of the supreme court of the United States and speaker of the House of Representatives. Near his home Zachary Taylor was born. A few miles off lived James Barbour, governor of ViT- ginia, United States senator. secretary of war and minister to England. A few miles from him lived William c. RiVes
 United States senator and minister to France. one of the most accomplished of American statesmen. Near him was An drew Stevenson. speaker of the House and minister to England. Near him lived Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe All these men lived within the range of about 30 miles. I once walked through that range In a day, leaving Charlottesville after a rather late breakfast, and reaching Orange Court House before supper. had been captured by General Sheridan, and made the trip through his lines.
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A WIDELY circulated newspaper Is A a great bureau of intelligence to A and from all quarters. What noble purpose it serves in helping us to become acquainted with one another. For
 instance. before the present scribe ever saw pr. J. B. Thomas of Newton Theo- logical institute, when did not know how he looked. still, thanks to a series of arti- cles from his pen, on Breaking the Mold of Doctrines" did know how he thought, and when we know mans thinking, we are. in q very important sense, acquaint- ed with the mans real self. 'As he think eth in his heart so is he"
 Now, as a large proportion of the read CTS of this paper have never seen. and probably never will see, the Piedmont region of Virginia, and as there are some points about 1t which are likely to be of interest to the general reader it may be worth while to give a brief account of some Of the more notable persons and places that have figured in the history of this region.
 "The Piedmont Is the name usually ap- piled to the tier of counties lying east of the Blue Ridge and extending eastward to tidewater-say as far as Richmond. The name, however, Is sometimes restricted to the comparatively limited region lying in sight of the Blue Ridge mountains. The country Is mostly hills, admirably supplied with streams of water and with noble springs. It is well adapted to the culture of the cereals and no small part of 1t produces a good quality of tobacco. Large portions are beautifully set in grass, and the Baltimore market. one of the finest in the world, owes much of its excellent
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that he was disastrously beaten in his only race for Congress.
 But to the story. About the year 1857, or 1858, Bolts, then a lawyer of large practice at Gainsboro, Tenn, had two young men living in his family and stu dents of law In his office. One. Stanton, was q young collegiate of brilliant parts and of great promise, who, ere he had entered his seventh lustrum, was killed in battle at the head of a Confederate regiment. The other, Talbott, was of ruder training, but endowed with a na- tive intellect capable of great achieve ment. Stanton was whig and Talbott a democrat; but the fellowship between them was an idyl of brotherly love. Stan ton had a taste for politics and kept him self we'll informed on all political ques- tions Talbott knew nothing of politics and cared nothing for 1t.
 In the web of fate these two were en- tangled and their respective parties made them candidates for the state legislature from Jackson county, then safely Whig by 500 majority.
 It was the custom in Tennessee in those days for candidates for the legislature to make two tours of the county in joint discussion, addressing the voters of each beat at least twice. They started out, and before the first week expired word came to town that Stanton was making a monkey of Talbott, to the delight of
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1 treatment of sewerage; on manufacture
 and adulteration of foods and drinks of all kinds.
 Since 1876 we have the establishment of bacteriology as a science and its great development. The true cause of typhoid ] fever Asiatic cholera, diphtheria tetanus or lockjaw, dysentery, tuberculosis, gland CTS, has been shown by demonstrating the germ causing each of these diseases From 1890 we have the discovery and demonstration of antitoxins as well as the treatment of disease by serums of ami mals
 Every one of these discoveries bears on public health, and the list is merely sug- gestive, and every one in the end looks towards the preservation of the individual or collective man.
 The larger number by far were en-
 compassed by the last 50 years. One writer states he Is accustomed to say to his classes each year: Save the accept
 ance of organic evolution. nothing has come out Of the 18th century so profoundly
 affecting the conduct of life as the change of attitude towards the nature, the cause and the prevention of disease-that Is towards public health science" In the practical application of this knowledge public health science necessa- rily invades other provinces, notably that of sociology.
 Let us take the white plague-tubercu- losis. Public health science has shown by inductive, carefully studied methods. that tuberculosis is infectious through the
 dissemination of the bacill or germs and that these bacili are expectorated in vast numbers by the victims of the disease. It has demonstrated that where people live
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\ OPTICAL joint discussions between candidates of opposing parties
 have long been out of fashion, but


N8 OPTICAL joint discussions between N candidates of opposing parties X have long been out of fashion, but that mischievous child of demagogy. the primary, will surely re-establish it in canvasses for party nominations. We see 1t in Tennessee at this blessed mo-
 ment. Tennessee is the state where the political joint debate fiourished in most vigor-Polk and Jones, Johnson and Gen. try, Johnson and Henry, Harris and Hat tan, are historic combats of the Titans.
 It is likely true that Kentucky has fur nished as many brilliant debates between champions of opposing parties as Ten nessee. "Old Ben" Hardin was famous for his triumphs on the stump-besides Kentucky produced Tom Humphreys and Ed Marshall. Hise was Kentuckian, perhaps the ablest debater the state ever produced, and Hector for stump dis cussion do wish every young limb of law and of politics would get thirteenth Ben Monroe of the Kentucky Reports and read the dissenting opinion of Elijah Hise in the Slack vs. Lexington and Maysville railroad. The first half of 1t is legal technique, but so clean and so logical that it appeals to the mind of every intelligent layman. The remainder is an elucidation of the principles of re- publican government, and the ablest com- position of that character that I ever ran across. If the old fellow could emerge from his grave and were introduced to this latitudinarian democracy, I can see him throw that long upper lip on his
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I the ideals evolved through this change. 1 The change does not come as result of
 any theory of government. It comes in l spite of theories. It comes as a result purely of natural evolution.
 ] This evolution of government has car
 ried us whether it accorded or not with our theories, to the point where we must
 see to it that pure water Is supplied our
 cities, that pure milk is supplied, that
 wholesome meat and vegetables are sold,
 that contagious diseases are not spread, that sewers be laid and connected with, the private premises be maintained so as
 not to menace the neighbors. To carry
 cut these various municipal activities
 means, for every city of any size, abund- 1 ant work, and it involves the expenditure of considerable municipal funds. l Greater Birmingham has to face this problem just as every other modern city | faces it and like every other city, must
 expend considerable public funds. The
 greater city will offer much greater in- ducements to prospective citizens, if it can be stated that the health department ! Is properly equipped with men to safe | guard health and life so far as the pres i ent advance of public health science will l permit
 /, It will offer greater inducement if 1t | can be stated that the citizens of Greater Birmingham, through their representa- 1 tives, so valued human life and health as to put these above mere property pro- l lection.
 1 Our state law gives the board of health | only advisory and supervisory powers. It l does not give it legislative power, nor | power to vote public funds. All this Is left to the administra tion at the city hall
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EARLY.
lston Post.

J. M. Lewis in Houston Post. I woke to feel fuzzy nose pressed tight
 against my own, Just reused enough for the request in a
 thin little tone. Preferred by just the littest sweet babe
 with yellow hair And sleepy eyes, Wake up now, dad, an
 kiss my Teddy bear, Wake up now. dad, an kiss my bear so
 him ton doe to fweep; Him kied to have you kiss him, dad, him
 loves you such heap. Prease kiss my Teddy bear now, dad, now
 daddy wake an do, Prease wake an kiss my Teddy bear an
 kiss your baby, too." And so I kissed the Teddy bear between
 a sigh and snore, And groping found my watch and found
 that 1t was only four, And then kissed the baby, too, and told
 her-"Holy smoke! What made you come and wake me up, do
 you think it's a joke? How dared you do 1t, don't you think I
 want to sleep at all?' At that her underlip poked out and she
 prepared to squall, But. as she always does before she puck
 CTS up and cries, Through the rainstorms that filled her
 eyes she looked into my eyes. She looked into my eyes and blinked and
 blinked. and blinked and binked. And gradually. as she winked and winked
 and winked and winked. The tears went back, and as they went
 a dimple bit her cheek, A smile came blossoming across her lips,
 and she cried, Peek! Yours baby saw you laughin', dad"-then
 disappeared the squall- Yours baby saw you laughin', dad, an
 you aln't mad at all! I'm frinks you ought to wake up. dad, as
 waky as can be, Sister dirl's afreep an no ones up to play
 wiv me-
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Y ONDON, June 30.-If the recumbent
 figure which lies on the superb A tomb erected to the Duke of We'll ington, in St. Paul's cathedral. could arise from its bronze bed and be endued with life. the sigh of French flags waving from every window in every street and Frencn colors on every masthead would astomsh the old veteran whose life was given to annihilate the power of that kingdom
 Truly, London has during the last rew days presented the appearance of Ro- man city about to celebrate a triumph, and President Fallieres has had a greet ing accorded to few in the history of na- tions.
 This welcome Is all the more interesting because it reminds us that the welfare of a nation itself is recognized in the person of its ruler rather than in the magnif- cence of the state which surrounds the court of the crowned head, and nothing has given one a wider hope for the peace of the world than the hand-clasp of na- tions who have in the past been often such bitter antagonists
 The fetes which have been organized to celebrate the visit of the republican pres ident and opening of the Entente Cordiale exhibition are memorable even in the rec ord of the magnificent receptions that
 
 past. The President, with his bushy gray hair, his face drawn with strong lines. and a gleaming French smile, was figure full of singular simplicity and dignity i'll the midst of the great pageants.
 It Is peculiar, trait, think, of French people, that they have an innate dignity, an innate belief in their right to any posi- tion and in their power to fill 1t, which gives calm self-confidence to men who might otherwise feel abashed by the fact that they had not been born to inherited splendor.
 President Falliere's charm of manner and perfect dignity won every heart. An English crowd is an interesting study. E A German guest once remarked that nothing impressed him more in London han the capacity of self-control. "A thou yand years of liberty said the friendly critic, 'shaa taught your people in great eathssinss the art Of sslf-managsmert b.
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and prisons, all due to the Investigations and inductions of John Howard. Scurvy, the scourge of sailors, next was investigated and the cause found by Captain Cook by 1776 The government of England, as a result of this discovery, regularly dispensed lime juice to its sail ors and marines since 1795, but it took 50 years to force a like protection for the sailors of privately owned vessels in Eng land.
 In 1796, pr. Edward Jenner. by induc- tive methods, proved that vaccination would protect from smallpox a disease that had been devastating Europe with recurring regularity for ages.
 It was in 1929 that the first filter for public water supply was installed by the Chelsea Water company of London. This reservoir occupied one acre. In 1S43 houses, for the first time, were connected with sewers in London and 1t was seven years later that they began to be so con- nected in Paris.
 In 1854 Dr. John Snow demonstrated for the first time that cholera can be conveyed in drinking water, and that 60 people had lost their lives through drinking cholera infected water from a well on Broad street in London.
 From 1860 discoveries came faster and faster. Pasteur began making his epoch making discoveries. He was followed by his pupil. Lister the English surgeon. Since 1860 Petenkofer and his disciples have given the. world the results of their studies on soils-the atmosphere-walls of buildings-heating and ventilation If buildings. Sanitary chemistry has given most valuable results in the investigation of water for city supply, for voyages,
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the truth, and the heart to speak the truth, is a much more effective political champion than 20 stump orators. even though each was a Ben Hardin, or Tom Marshall.
 And speaking of Tom Marshall, one night he addressed an immense audience on Corn Island in the Ohio river. aI Louisville. He was never so brilliant, his eloquence never so lofty. The scene would require the pen with which Poe wrote of Arnheims glorious summer, when radiant efforescence was magnify ing to exuberant fruition. The peroation was splendid, surpassing even Marshall himself. He pictured the flowers and river that divided itself on either shore. the soft moonlight to invite lovers story. After thrilling that audience like a Kean or Booth might have done, he closed in voice of lion, while turning to the man who was to answer him, with, But, o God, there's Pilcher!" It was the devil in Eden over again.
 Pilcher too was a wizard of the stump, the only man who returned Ben Hardin Roland for his every Oliver. and Har- din dubbed him "Everylasting' Pitcher, for the tenaclty with which he clung to point He was elected mayor of Louis ville and in tradition he lives more of a John Wilkes than any other public char acter of his day
 I sat down to write something about Beverly L. Clarke and James P. Bates. You see where 1 have landed.