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MT. Root was first brought into public notice as the counsel of William M. Tweed and little minds, as late as 1908. sought to prejudice the public against him for undertaking the defense of that to the federal constitution reads as fol- lows:
 In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him, to have compul- sorry process for obtaining witnesses .n his favor and to have the assistance of counel for his defense.
 Thus one charged with crime has the same constitutional right to have coun- sel to appear for him in court, that ne has to speedy trial, or to an impartial jury, or to knowledge of the nature and cause of the accusation, or to compulsory process to secure the attendance of wit nesses in his defense.
 Here was a man brought to bay. No doubt he was a great criminal; but the most odious malefactor in the land, un- der the American system, has the same right to be represented in courts of jus tice by counsel as the most innocent man falsely accused. Tweed appealed to Root and Root undertook his defense. Had he refused he would have been un- worthy the gown of lawyer. How far
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on science, not dreaming how scientists shook their heads at his speeches, and nobody told him.
 He spoke on art, but he did not know how people in art circles smiled and shrugged their shoulders.
 He spoke on politics but they had heard enough, he said, about that. The divine right of kings was in the present day manifestation of arrogance, of fantastic imagination and of a special personal re- lation to God closer than that enjoyed by mortas on lower plane.
 The unity which had been brought about in the German nation, he added, was the unity of indignation.
 A modern Raleigh has made himself fa nous in Belfast. On a wet day Madame Melba had fo traverse a soaking pave ment from her hotel to the carriage, but the youthful hero, who had bundle of newspapers slung upon his back, sprang to the front and covered the pave ment with the evening papers.
 Dear Boy, wrote Madame Melba to the young hero, "I am touched by your chivalrous thought for me in Belfast. and glad you are steady and industrious and comfort to your mother" check for five pounds was enclosed, ito buy a of his prompt action and the great sing CTS appreciation of his courtesy.
 Many contributions have been received and much enthusiasm aroused over this simple action and the Irish boy Is to have "a good education and to be apprenticed to trade.
 Who knows whether Mr. Carnegie may not be called upon to contribute to the Hero Fund7
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son; and Jackson wrote, in favor of the protective tariff. a plan which for eonl- prehenslveness has never been excelled. and for condensation never equaled by either Clay or Webster.
 No man who knows the history of par ties in this country can fail to see that our politics has often been nightly mixed. John Quincy Adams was bred a federalist "after the most straitest sect" but when the "Blue-Lights" arose he went over to Jefferson and throwing his federalism to the winds became one of the most powerful supporters of Jeffer- sons administration, and afterwards of Madison; and when his personal friend, Daniel Webster, said that he would not vote a dollar to the prosecution of the war, if the British were laundering at the gates of the capital, Adams replied: "The gentleman has only one more step to take; and that is to go over to the en- emy."
 The best American biography I ever read Is James Parton's Life of Andrew Jackson. It was published in 1861; and in
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K I state in the Union has been rep
 M resented in the United States A Senate by moro eminent states men that New York. and it would be exceedingly difficult to name a state that has sent to the Senate as many dis tinguished men as New York has &C., credited to that great legislative san- hedrim. Look on this list Rufus King, Aaron Burr, Gouverneur Nor ris, De Witt Clinton, Martin Van Buren. William L. Marcy, Silas Wright, Nathaniel P. Tallmadge Daniel s. Dick inson, William H. Seward, Hamilton Fish, Preston King Roscoe Conkling, None of these men had luster shed upon him because he was a senator in Congress-; every one of them helped to make the Senate illustrious by his ser vice in that body. One of them became President of the United States; many of tn em-et least seven-aspired to that great dignity and eagerly sought to attain 1t, and any one of them would have discharged the duties of chief magistrate of our great republic with honor to himself and profit to the na- tion-even the second on the roll. There were 20 years of his life that Will liam L. Marcy was the best equipped man for President in America
 Elihu Root Is as capable a man to fill the office of senator as any one of the foregoing list of illustrious senators from New York. As great lawyer as
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of people who regarded marriage seri- ously and fally intended to observe all the promises made, but have failed in the attempt. There is very little romance in married life; that's why all novels stop at that point but there's more than romance there's reality and the difference be- tween romance and reality Is about the same as that between gilt and gold. Mar riage Is the ripened fruit of which TO- nance was only the blossom, but the presence of the canker-worm will make ripeness rottenness.
 What is this canker-worm that causes the disappointment and its attendant con- sequences? It is ignorance. plain, simple, downright ignorance of the duties of mar ried life. Fiction does not portray dear CT or more lovable young girl than David Copperfeld's wife, Dora; but it took all David's love and philosophy to endure Dora s cooking and housekeeping. It was a happy thing for Dora that she died, or in all probability she would have driven David to assertion. As 1t Was his pa- tience was often sorely taxed, especially when he used to think of how different 1t might have been had he married Agnes which, by the way, he afterwards did Poor little Dora was a beautiful doll. She was one in million in England, but she is the million in America; hence the mill lion divorces She didn't know the duties imposed by marriage. She had never been taught. Without chart or compass, expe- rience or instruction, she launches her hower-decked boat on the tempestuous ocean of life, and the klnd-hearted Dick
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So that when Papa Greiner objected that Albert was entirely too ugly to be his son-in-law Martha replied by eloping with Albert to Chicago.
 Grener followed, and there was scene. The couple were arrested. Martha plead ed for Albert, and Greiner finally consent ed if they would all return home the wedding might proceed.
 Interviewed by a reporter, Martha said:
 q know he isn't handsome. Fathers objection is that Albert has red hair; but that is not his fault. He may not be good looking, but he has winning ways"
 Good for you, Martha!
 For such a woman one might well elope much farther than from Denver to Chi cago.
 Martha sees qualities in Albert tho world does not see She knows that, while beauty is only skin deep, goodness Is soul deep. She knows that Alberts winning ways come from warm heart. And when you are choosing one whom you are to live with all your life, soul qualities count.
 Abraham Lincoln's homely face was gloriied by the great soul that shone through the honest, rugged features. And so Martha can see a halo about the red head of Albert which her father cannot see
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federal district attorney for the Southern district of New York and in 1894 he was delegate to the state constitutional con- yention and chairman of the judiciary committee. That of itself is evidence of the eminent place he had gained at the bar of New York. For more than ten years he had been in the front rank of the elite not only of the New York bar, but of the American bar, and there Is no doubt that he could appear before any tribunal of Westminster and hold his own again the ablest counsel of Great Britain.
 In 1899 MT Root became Secretary of War in President McKinleys cabinet. Except the short administration of Scho- field in Andy Johnson's cabinet, and the four years of Daniel Lamont New York had not furnished the federal establish ment a Secretary of War in 50 years, not since William L. Marcey conducted that department with such signal success dur ing the Mexican war. MT. Root showed that If he was thinker in the court house he was an administrator in the he got authority from Congress to create the general staff of the army, thereby fashioning our military establishment on lines similar to the great military nations of Europe, leaving out compulsory service of course.
 Transferred to the state department, which he has administered since 1905, MT. Root has shown a capacity for the work required in that office unsurpassed
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ems allows her to die simply to save heH from worse disaster
 There are schools, high schools col- leges. universities, correspondence schools and polytechnics all working at full pres- sure cramming knowledge into the heads of young men and women to enable them to attain success in life. There is not one school in the whole length and breadth of the land where these same young people are taught how to attIin happiness in life. The strenuous activity of professional and commercial life has more excitement about 1t than the hum- drum round of domestic duties, and it Is hardly possible to confine a mind which has been trained to sigh for whirlwinds to blow the fire with a bellows, or a soul which longed for oceans to wash cups and saucers. Yet the bellows and clean cups and saucers are part of married life; but if the person to whose province these things belong says T can't; don't know how; I never did these things at home" some one is sure to be disappointed and dlsgusted.
 The remedy for divorce is in the educa- tion and training of youth especially girls, for the duties of married life. A mans main duty is to work and earn money to maintain In comfort both him. self and his wife; a woman's main duty Is to be wise and judicious in her expendl- ture and proficient In the art of house. keeping. When both discharge their re- spective duties properly and fully there will be no disappointment; but nobody can do anything fully or properly who says T can't; I was never taught. [ don't know how"
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F called upon to mention the names
 Of the two greatest literary critics that A wrote in English, I should nnresitat- ngly pronounce for Carlyle and Macau- lay. These two great writers were con- temporaries; and yet after carefully and repeatedly reading all of Carlyle's and all of Macaulay's essays, and of the other published works of both authors, can find no instance in which either of them ever mentions the other by name
 Carlyle, however in his powerfully written essay on Boswel1s Life of John son, acutely criticises the fashionable mo- tion that the man who wrote the greatest biography in the world was almost a fool and as Macaulay, in his review of Bos- wells work, had done much to bring that notion into fashion, we shall hardly go astray in the opinion that Carlyle was thinking of Macaulay and was intention ally hitting him hard.
 And then again: When Macaulay com ments upon the various styles, of writing English, and among these mentions the hair-German'' Jargon which was coming
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ONDON, December 5.-A movement is taking place in the French cham

Y ONDON, December 5.-A movement
 is taking place in the French cham - Der to suppress a clause in the French civil code of marriage. The article reads: The husband must protect his wife, and the wife must obey her kus- band" and in civil marriages the mayor reads out this article to the couples about to be married.
 The promoters of the bill assert that this is old-fashoned and out of date, and constitutes real injustice to women. The proposal to suppress the phrase is, of course, no new one and it is curious that in the religious service the word ito obey' came in with the reformation. It does not exist in the Roman Catholic form, but the position of woman was largely influenced at that time by the Puritan idea of woman's submission.
 It is sometimes said that indiscretion is the attribute of woman, and that one of the chief reasons why it is so necessary to keep women from public life is that they are likely to give the cause away by their volubility or want of reserve.
 The German Emperor is certainly an in- stance, that such qualities can be equally shared by men, and the indiscretions of his imperial majesty appear to have cre- ated very whirlpool in the heart of the German government.
 It is true that the Emperor has now ex- posed the fact that during the Boer war he did his best to encourage this country in the subjection of the Dutch republics and that attitude probably strengthened tho hands of those who perpetrated a war of which England can never be proud. but
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

warm meals a day that thrashers get.
 The farmers wives moil at the task oi feeding the thrasher man and his helpers | all the day long. And now at last, in one of the counties of middle western state the farmers wives have struck. They refuse to cook three big meals a day.
 Good!
 The thrasher men joining issues, have 1 boycotted the county. They declare for three full banquets a day, else the farm CTS wheat, they say, may rot. ] And there you are. ! The farmers wife, if she conforms to i, the old custom, must begin weeks ahead of time to plan for the feeds. The boun- teous menu must include all the sub- stantials and all the delicacies of cook cry. Perhaps a beef is killed. Dozens of chickens are slaughtered. There must be six kinds of pie and other things in pro- portion.
 over the hot range. excepting when she washes dishes.
 Anr because of these humble ministra- tons to lordly appetites sometimes tho wife is laid up in bed for a week or is well started on a spell of nervous pros tration.
 Through 1t all the man with the red machine is monarch of all he surveys.
 He tells the household what time it must arise in the morning. In the even ing no man dares knock off until he gives the signal. Let the cook wait and keep the supper piping hot.
 People and premises-farm, barn, house, help, cook. and even the dog-are subject slave to the masterful man with the ''sep- arator." And, 1t may be added, much authority has made him as dictatorial as much good feeding has made him crit ical of cuisine.
 Therefore the long meditated revolt of the independent women of the farm.
 And to them all hail!
 Let the presumptuous thrasher man modify his voracious demands or put up with a cold luncheon.
 What with her common tasks of cook ing, mending, washing, butter making and the other thousand and one errands of the farm wife. she has enough to do without asking her to boil her brains over a hot cook stove to feed a small army.
 They do 1t differently in the far west.
 There the thrasher gang carries a cook ing outfit and the squad cook prepares the meals. No extra demand is made of the ranchers wife. Instead of toling In her kitchen-listen!-the farmers wife is often a guest at the thrasher's table. It is quite picnic.
 Never was there juster grievance than that of these striking farm wives.
 The other day in Chicago a business man committed suicide. leaving a note behind him saying:
 'I am tired of carrying burdens"
 What a mistake
 All of us must carry burdens. We are built that way Some of us are weary and heavy laden. Tasks that are oner- ous bend the back and grave the wrinkles and whiten the hair
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into vogue, it is highly probably that Carlyle was in his mind
 However widely these two great men differed, they were at one in the view that history Is made up of innumerable biographies" From the very nature of the case it must be so for history is an account of what men have done, and of what they have been, upon this earth.
 Carlyle's History of the French Revo- lution is almost as biographical as is his Life of Sterling; and Macaulay's sketches of the notable characters that figure in his History of England are among the most interesting and most valuable parts of that splendid work.
 From one point of view, however his- tory suffers much from It's close and ln- evitable connection with biogra phy: for, as hero worship is natural to man. it is unfortunately true that parties will form themselves upon the men who figure con- spicuously in history; and where partisan ship comes in accuracy goes out.
 Is there in existence any English his- tory whose "events" are not more or less colored by the opinions which the sey- eral writers held about Cromwell, Charles
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Well, what of it? If the burdens be not of conscience-if they are the common burdens of life, of business, of family, of citizenship of labor for bread
 Happy we!
 Did you ever watch woman of the Orient bear a heavy jar of water bal anced on her head?
 How well poised she is With chin high in air and unstumbling feet she moves easily and rapidly on her way. What grace and strength How does she do 1t |?
 It Is the load Gravity does not hinder; it helps the woman
 And so of burdens. They keep our feet down and our heads up and our backs straight-if we know how to carry them
 When you carry your load you are careful of your footing. You hold up your head as becomes a burden bearer. Your eyes are in front, where they should be. You are too busy to look backward.
 Fancy what you would be without bur- dens-personal responsibility and labori What fantastic tricks your feet might play! What dangerous side paths might allure youi
 No, no burdens do not kill.
 The Chicago man was mistaken.
 Shakespeare says care killed a cat. It will kill man.
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his admirable preface the author writes thus: "To this hour the fame of General Jackson Is a capital item in the capital stock of a political party. How many of the last eight presidents would ever have taken up their residence in the White House if they had not been helped toward 1t through him? Not oner'
 Jackson's political career began under the administration of Washington; and 1t did not really end until his death, which occurred during the administration of Polk. During a large part of this long period he was one of the most prominent figures in our politics. His personality was dominant. For many years, to be "democrat' was to be a Jackson man." and that with little reference to the mer- It's or demerits of what he advocated.
 Democratic traditions, from Jefferson down, had been for states rights and strict construction; but nothing that All exander Hamilton or John Adams ever said or wrote was more pronounced for federalism than was Jackson's proclama- ton against nullihcaton; and yet lifelong states rights men all over the country
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and spoke to the peoples of all tho Latin republics, and in the history of diplomacy 1t is not too much to say never was elo- quence so effective and never was the promise of beneficent result so abundant. One of his speeches that I remember to have read was a classic-that wherein he showed that the Latin races are as su- perior to us in taste for the beautiful as we are to them in material achievement His dream is to engraft on the American the discernment of and the predilection for the elegant, the refined, and the beau tiful in nature and art with which the Spaniard, the Frenchman and the Ital- ian are endowed.
 But there are left to Italy the skies And purple sunsets of her prouder years.
 MT Root sowed seed below the equator, the harvest of which will be reaped by coming generations-Saxon and Latin alike.
 New York owes 1t to the country to make Elihu Root senator. He has ad- yanced some ideas as to the force and effect of treaties and the scope and effect of delegated powers and the reserved rights of the states that 1t would be for the public veal to have threshed out in a great debate in the Senate.
 In Joseph w. Bailey he would find an adversary worthy even his steel, and 1t would be the greatest constitutional de- bate since Calhoun and Webster.
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ate crow, without a gulp or a aualm, while the old federallsts were bowling with delight
 Jaoksons conduct so disgusted Calhoun that he abandoned the democracy and for a while went over to the whigs.
 President Tyler has, even yet, 8 rather mixed reputation as a politician. He was elected Vice President by the whigs; but but Henry A. Wise. in his very interest ing book, Seven Decades of the Union," proves that Tyler was one of the most persistent and consistent state-rights men that have figured in our political history; and President Lyon Tyler of William and Mary college. in his admirable book. Letters and Times of the Tylers," dls- tinctly confirms this conclusion.
 To illustrate the thesis that partisan ship for and against prominent historical characters often confuses what we call history" let us return to Parton's Life of Andrew Jackson. The author, in giv- ing an account of the difficulties of his task, says: For many months I was reading endless newspapers, pam phlets, books, without arriving at any
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l. Charles II. James II. and William of Orange? The last named prince was Ma caulay's hero; and Macauley's history has been dubbed "a whig pamphlet"
 The King held a ticklish position; for the tories, who so favored "prerogative," were opposed to his title while the whigs who gave him his title to the trone were decidedly against "prerogative." For some time he tried to steer an even course between the two parties; but even his great abilities were unequal to such a task, for he soon came to see that the whigs as a body, were for him, and that the tories, as a body, were against him. The party test was the question, Are you for William, or are you against him?"
 You may be fond of emphasizing the maxim, "Principles-not men" but bawl it until you are hoarse, and you will not make 1t prevalent in practical" poli- tics.
 The traditions of democracy from Thomas Jefferson to Grover Cleveland, have been against a protective tariff. The democratic party was founded by Jeffer- son; but it was fixed by Andrew Jack