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dog he ever saw when get through with Fluff"
 So he went over and got his shotgun, just to give Fluff his first lesson. The first thing duck dog must learn is not to be afraid of a gun, and Brownlee said that if a dog first learned about guns right at his home he was not so apt to be afraid of them. He said that if dog heard a gun for the first time when he was away from home and in strange sur- roundings he was quite right to be sur prised and startled, but if he heard it in the bosom of his family, with all his friends calmly seated about, he would think 1t was natural thing and accept it as such.
 So Brownlee put a shell in his gun and Massett and Murchison sat on the porch steps and pretended to be uninterested and normal, and Brownlee stood up and aimed the gun In the air. Fluff was eat ing a bone, but Brownlee spoke to him and he looked up, and Brownlee pulled the trigger. It seemed about five minutes before Fluff struck the ground, he jumped so high when the gun was fired, and then he started north by northeast at about sixty miles an hour. He came back all right three weeks later, but his tail was still between his legs.
 Brown lee didn't feel the least discour- aged He said he saw now that the whole principle of what he had done was wrong; that no dog with any brains whatever could be anything but frightened to hear gun shot off right in the bosom of his family That was no place to fire a gun. He said Fluff evidently thought the whole lot of us were crazy and ran in fear of his life, thinking we were insane and might shoot him next. He said the thing to do was to take the shotgun into its natural surroundings and let Fluff learn to love it there. He pictured Fluff enjoy ing the sound of the gun when he heard it at the edge of the lake.
 Murchison never hunted ducks, but as Fluff was his dog he went with Brownlee, and of course Massett went. Massett wanted to see the failure. He said he
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Who, then, to frail mortality shall trust, But limns on water, or but writes in dust. Yet whilst with sorrow here we live op- pressed, What life is best? Courts are but superficial schools To dandle fools; | The rural parts are returned into den Of savage men, And where's city from foul vice so free But may be termed the worst of all the three?
 Domestic cares afflict the husbands bed,
 Or pains his head; Those that live single take it for a curse, Or do things worse, Some would have children; those that have them moan Or wish them gone What is it, then, to have or have no wife,
 But single thraldom, or a double strife?
 Our own affection still at home to please Is disease;
 To cross the seas to any foreign soil, Peril and toll; Wars with their noise alright us; when they cease We are worse in peace. What, then, remains, but that we still should cry For being born, or being born to die?
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thought which the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews has put nega- lively. The pure in heart shall see God" the unholy shall not "see the Lord"
 Now, 1t is as easy as it is dangerous for us to so emphasize the doctrine of saliva ton by grace as to do away with the necessity of personal holiness.
 The danger is no new one. Paul fore saw it when he stated the doctrine in it's most emphatic form He says that "the law entered that the offence might abound But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound; that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord" And then, seeing how easy it was to pervert wrong. James says, You profess to looseness of life he at once anticipates and sweeps away this erroneous view with inexorable logic: What shall we
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THAT PUP OF MURCHISONS-By Ellis Parker Butler

that gas got in his lungs, but this was not true. Murchison learned afterward that it was only gasoline lamppost and a wooden one.
 If there were only some stags around this part of the country said Massett, "the staghound strain in that dog would be mighty valuable. You could rent him out to everybody who wanted to go stag hunting, and you'd have regular monop- oly, because he's the only staghound in this part of the country. And stag hunt ing would be popular, too, out here, be- cause there are no game laws that in- There is no closed season. People could hunt stags all the year round, and you'd have that dog busy every day of the year"
 'Yesl" sneered Brownlee, 'tonly there are no stags. And he hasn't any stag hound blood in him. Pity there are no dashs in this state, too, isn't 1t? Then Murchison could here his dog at night, too They hunt dachs at night, don t they, Massett? Only there is no dachs- hund blood in him either. If there was ana II there were a IeW QaSnS--
 Massett was mad.
 "Yesn' he cried. And you, with your Cuban bloodhound strain I suppose if it was the open season for Cubans you'd go out with the dog and tree a few! Or put on snow shoes and follow the Kamtchat to his icy lair"
 Brownlee doesn't go mad easily
 "Murchson," he said leaving out Mas sett's dreary nonsense about staghounds I can tell you that dog would make the finest duck dog in the state. He's got all the points for good duck dog, and I ought to know, for I have two of the best duck dogs that ever lived. All he needs is training. If you will train him right you'll have a mighty valuable dog"
 ''But I don't hunt ducks said Murchi- son, "and I don't know how to train even lap dog'
 You let me attend to his education, " said Brownlee "I just want to show Massett here that l know a dog when l see one. I'll show Massett the finest duck
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But" says one. "if I am already saved. why trouble myself about my manner of life? Of what use are good works. if they will not save me?" Let me illustrate: Wonder is vessel about to leave New York for Liverpool. Tie captain is pacing the deck, and glancing at an instrument which he holds in his hand. You ask: Captain, will that instrument cause the wind to blow more favorably?" And he says, mo-" will it make your ship move faster?" Not at all" "Win 1t decrease the violence of the waves?" No" Then, what do you want with it?" We'll" says the sturdy seaman, "I would not dare to sail my ship out of sight of land without this instrument. It is my compass, and it shows me which way I am going" Reader, holi- ness of life is your compass, and you must consult it, and ask, "whither bound?"
 I was reared in an Episcopal Sunday
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and pleading for personal holiness on the part of believers. The great apostle of Justification by faith, without the deeds of the law, was one of the most earnest preachers of the necessity of holy living.
 Nor is there any real conflict between Paul and James on this point. Paul was showing how an ungodly man could become reeonciled to God, or, in other words how sinner could be saved. James was showing the neces- sity of good works as a proof that we are in a saved state. Paul was point ing out how the disease could be cured; James was pointing out the way to prove that the disease was cured Paul says, If you really believe God He will count your faith to you as righteousness. and you will be right eous; for Gods reck oning cannot be this doctrine into a broad license to believe God, and yet your unrighteous life gives the lie to your profession.
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wished stags were as plentiful as ducks and he would show Brownlee.
 Fluff was a strong .dog-he seemed to have strain of OK in him, so far as strength went-and as long as he saw the gun he insisted that he would stay at home, but when Brownlee wrapped the gun in brown paper so it looked like big parcel from the meat shop the horse that they had hitched to the blackboard was able to drag Fluff along without straining itself. Fluff was fastened to the rear axle with a chain.
 When they reached Duck Lake, Brown le united Fluff and patted him, and then unwrapped the gun. Fluff gave one pain ed glance and made the six-mile run home in seven minutes without stopping. He was home before Brownlee could think of anything to say, and he went so far into his kennel thnt Murchison had to take off the boards at the back to find him that night.
 That's nothing" was what Brownlee said when he did speak; young dogs are often that way. Gun fright. They have to be gun broken. You come out tomor-
 
 row, and I'll show you how man who really knows how to handle dog does the trick"
 The next day when Fluff saw the buck board he went into his kennel and they couldn't pry him out with hoe-handle. He connected buckboards and guns in his mind, so Brownlec borrowed the butchers delivery wagon and they drove to Wild Lake. It was seven miles, but Fluff seemed more willing to go in that direc- ton than toward Duck Lake He did not seem to care to go to Duck Lake at all,
 Now, then, said Brownlee, "I'll show you the intelligent way to handle a dog. I'll prove to him that he has nothing to fear, that I am his comrade and friend. And at the same time" he said. I'll not have him running off home and spelling our days sport"
 So he took the chain and fastened it around his waist, and then he sat down and talked to Fluff like an old friend, and got him in a playful mood. Then
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say, then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore, we are buried with Him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life"
 The same power that raised up Christ from the dead also raised you up, new man, to a life of holiness. It follows from this that the baptized man who con- tinues to live an unholy life makes his baptism a lie. That baptism declared him to be a new man. created unto holiness and unless his life Is in accordance with this solemn declaration, then his baptism proclaimed a falsehood.
 No New Testament speaker or writer is more strenuous than is Paul in arguing
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THE RIVER OF TIME.

By Matthew Arnold. And we say that repose has fled Forever the course of the river of time; That cities will crowd to it's edge In blaclzer, incessanter line; That the din will be more on its banks, Denser the trade on It's stream, Platter the plain where it flows. Tfercer the sun overhead, That never will those on its breast See an absorbing sight, Drink of the feeling of quiet again. But what was before us we knew not, And we know not what shall succeed. TIaply, the river of time, AS it grows, as the towns on It's range Fling their wavering lights On a wider, stateler stream, May acquire, if not the calm Of it's early mountainous shore, Yet solemn peace of it. own. And the width of the waters the hush Of the gray expense where he floats, Freshening it's current and spotted with
 foam
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school and said my catechism every Sunday to an elect lady" a devout Episcopalian; and have never forgot ten those beautiful words the "out- ward and visible sign of an inward
 and spiritual grace" To whatever communion you may belong, these words are well worthy of your most serious consideration. If the inward and spiritual grace" be in your soul; and if 1t breathes into your life the aroma of obedience to God, and charity to your fellow men. then the "out- ward and visible sign" sets forth q great and precious truth. But if You live loosely, give free rein to yo"r lusts, and show no relish of personal holiness in your conduct. and then say boastfully. ''Who shall lay anything to the charge of Gods elect?" then you are mocking at your Maker; and "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh" the Almighty will have you in derision.
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THE SONG OF THE JOKE.

From the Cleveland Leader.
 (Begging Tom Hoods Pardon) With fingers inky and black Alone in the haunts of men, The humorist sat in unnumorous garb Plying his fountain pen
 Scratch Scratch! Scratch. In poverty, hunger and smoke. He lit his pipe with his last, lone match, And sang the Song of the Joke. "Work, work, work!
 It is nearly twelve, I guess; Work-worl.-work
 Page is going to press; And it's oh! to be slave
 Along with the barbarous Turk, Where mTn has never cent to save, If this is Christian work 70 men who read the stuff! o men who save your brain! It's not a joke to make you smile, But human creature's pain! Verse and jingle and jest,
 Jest and jingle and verse And oh! Do you know that each merry
 quip
 Is born of a heartfelt curse? ",rhere isn't a single joke That comes from lightsome heart The one that is wrought with tears and
 sweat
 Is the one you consider smart
 --scratch-scratch! Day after day, after day He tolls like mad at his labor sad And you ought to see his pay" With fingers inky and black, A bigger joke than he's made, The humorist sits in unhumorous togs, Plying his vilainous trade.
 -scratch-scratch. While he hopes the editors choke. And still in a voice made hoarse by
 grief Would that it's tune could reach the
 Chief!
 He sings the Song of the Joker!
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print paper. That majority is not al- lowed voice. And that is why I say the American House of Representa- tives is become an object of contempt. It is bound and gagged and not al. lowed to think counter to what it's masters order
 If Clay, Calhoun and Webster were members of the 60th Congress- as they were of the 18th, they would have to get the permission of the cabal of three, who compose the majority of the committee on rules, before they would be allowed to serve their coun- try in their legislative capacity. Never was a despotism more autocratic or more insolent--never one so imbued with cant.
 majority must be allowed to transact the public business without impertineat suggestion and ill-nfannered criticism on the part of the minority, when endeavor of the majority to neglect the public business as urged by a republi can President. That sort of hypocrisy, I make small doubt will prosper for the reason that of the 50,000 ,000 Amer ican citizens, most of them are fools and many of them are knaves. It is a standpat Congress, and that is ex- actly what the 61st Congress will be
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opportunity to vote on the wood pulp and print paper bill. Now, according to the majority of the ways and means com mittee the tariff on these articles is not protective. According to the figures of the treasury 1t is not for revenue. Thus the thing is not flesh, nor fowl, nor good red herring. But it is in the Dingley bill and therefore sacred. Every newspaper in the but the republican Congress tells the newspapers what Dalzell told Williams. that they do not know what they want, or what is good for them, and to go home and mind their own knitting.
 But the impertinent literary fellows persisted, and Uncle Joe gives them what he hopes is a soothing powder. He in- troduces a resolution and raises com mittee of inquiry. For what?sTo find out, at enormous public expense, what every body already knows.
 The consumption of print paper in our country Is many thousands of tons daily. The extortion of the paper trust Is sa a ton. There is fat porker that will be in the hands of the scullions and turnspits in the kitchen of the fat fryer next fall.
 That there is the nigger in this here wood pile.
 Copyrighted, 1sOS by E. W. Newman.)
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THE FAITHFUL ONE.

By Frank l.. Stanton. In the storm and the strife, when light
 nings of life Had blasted my deepest endeavor, She crept to my side when the last hope
 had died.
 And whispered: 'I love you forever!'' And the bitter unrest of grief-s stricken
 breast
 Saw star through the black shadows
 living, Knew joy from above in the strength
 of that love That is wounded. and yet is forgiving! And sorrow now seems but phantom of
 dreams
 And peace shall depart from me never; Der Eifes Valley of Signs, see, The light
 in the skies For she whispers: T love you forevarr'
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THE MOTHERS LAST SONG.

 By Barry Cornwall. Sleep! The ghostly winds are blowing, No moon abroad, no star is glowing; The river is deep. and the tide is flowing To the land where you and I are going!
 We are going afar,
 Beyond moon or star. To the land where the sinless angels arel I lost my heart to your heartless sire, CTwas melted away by his looks of fire), Forgot my God, and my fathers ire, All for the sake of mans desire;
 But now we'll go
 Where the waters flow And make us bed where none shall know. The world is cruel, the world is untrue; Our woes are many, our friends are few; No work, no bread however we sue! What is there left for me to do,
 But fly-fy
 From the cruel sky, And hide in the deepest deeps-and die?
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XVT HEN the Master said: Seek ye
 AA first the kingdom of God. and IVY His righteousness" we must not suppose that He was referring to what theologians now call "the imputed righteousness of Christ" but to per- sonal righteousness on the part of the believer, who is exhorted to take Gods righteousness as his standard. Tn other words, the meaning is snbstan- tially the same as that of Matthew 5:4S, Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect"
 And when he says: For I say unto you that, except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of heaven" it is certainly bad exegesis to make the word righteousness" mean imputed" righteousness. He is speaking of the Righteousness of personal character and conduct Indeed, the sermon on the
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POEMS FOR SUNDAY READERS

As it draws to the ocean, may strike Peace to the soul of the man on his
 breast, As the pale waste widens around him, As the banks fade dinner away. As the stars come out and the night
 wind Brings up the stream Murmurs and scents of the infinite sea.
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THE WORLD.

By Francis Lord Bacon The worlds bubble, and the life of man Less than spon In his conception wretched, from the
 womb,
 So to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to
 years
 With cares and faara-
Evening journal., 1908-01-06
HARRINGTON

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
HARRINGTON, Del, Jan. 6.-Tbe
young people OF Harrington gave a
leap year dance on Friday evening. The
girls asking for dances or nlling their own
programs caused so much fun that Il was
one OF the iolliest affairs ever given here
Mrs Hall Anderson IS the guest OF Miss
May Jones
Dr. T.. B. CULLEN. Of Rocky Mount
North Carolina, IS visiting his father and
sisters In town.
Harry Hancock. OF Dover. visited
friends IN Harrington this week.
William CULLEN, OF Goldsboro. was
town visitor on Saturday.
Miss Elva Reese. has returned from
a visit 10 friends IN stockton, Md.
William Ward. Sr.. OF Salisbury, Nd.
Is in town looking after his business in
terests here
Mrs. Or. Hunter. Of Wilmington. hai
been the guest OF her sister. Mrs. War,
zimmerman.
Miss Sarah Trice has returned from
visit to friends in Philadelphia and VIII
mington.
Harry Murphy visited friends in Berlin
on Thursday evening.
Evening journal., 1908-01-06
HAD TO GIVE UP
SEIZED BOATS

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER. Del. Jan. 6-The American
Fisheries Company. with plants situ-
ated near Lewes. owes the State OF
Delaware about $4OO. according to
Revenue Collector c. George Wright.
which the State has failed to collect.
Collector Wright. who was anxious 10
have his 1907 report show an Increase
In revenues to the State Of $500. en-
gagged IN his chase for the money some
time ago, but failed to get the States
revenue which was due from the oper-
ating company. Then he swung around
abaft to Georgetown and attached two
boats through Superior Court writs.
and placed the writs IN the hands Of
Sheriff Pritchett.
Scarcely had the collector time Ia
chuckle over his success. when Attor~
ney-General Robert II. Richards. rep
resenting the State. was served with
notice that this company had asked
for two receivers. and was called upon
TO deliver M his two boats to the re-
ceivers. Robert Pennington. OF Wll-
mlngton. appeared for the receiver
The attorney general notified COLI
lector Wright ana he, with great re-
luctance. united TIE boats az Lewcs
and delivered them TO the rcce veIs.
Evening journal., 1908-01-06
SEAFORD

special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
SEAFORD. Jan 6.-Mr. and Mrs.
James Prettyman and Miss Elizabeth
Prettyman are spending several weeks
with relatives in Wilmington
Wash Wright. of Dubois. Pa, was
the guest of his sister, Mrs. r. n.
Rawlins last week.
Miss Emma Nicholson. Of Baltimore,
is visiting her aunt. Miss Willie Rob-
nson
Prof Harry Baker OF New York city,
spent part Of last week with his par
onts
Miss Marjorie Josophs. Of swarth-
more, Pa, is visiting Miss Mary Ship
ley.
Edward l.. Hobbs. OF wilmington
was the guest of his father. John S
Hobbs last week
DIR, G. W. Betson, Jr.. left on IN,
boat Thursday for Tyaskin. Md, wher,
he win practice
Mr.. and Mrs. James Crawford, ol
New ~~~'- city. are visiting their par.
ents, Mr.. and Mrs Henry w Baker
Miss Rose James has returned from
New York, whore she has been spend
ing the holidays with her brother p
/ ID. James
Miss Florence Culver. who has beer
visiting her parents. Mr.. and Mrs w
| B Culver. has returned TO Mount Hope
| N. G..
Herbert Goslin. OF Linkwood, Md
Is visiting relatives, in.town
rMisE HELEN CoubOlrn, IS visiting he
sister Mrs. Fred Howard. at Sails
bury. Md
The wholesale oyster packing house
are working on full time Many order
for the New Years trade reaching u
IN tho thousands had 70 be turne
down,
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wright, o
Easton, Md. visited their parents. MI
and Mrs j. A. Wright this week.
Miss Clara DiclSerson Is visitinl
friends IN Dover. Wilmington am
Philadelphia.
Martin Horsey. Of Washington. ID. C
Is visiting friends and relatives q
town.
Evening journal., 1908-01-06
NEARLY e OUT
FOR GOVERNOR
Nineteen Names Are Already
Mentioned Down Sussex
Way
Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER. Jan. 6-The contest for
governor. the new term beginning jan
uary, 1909, and 10 pay a salary almost
double the present stipend, and 20
carry with it the power and authority
to reconstruct the Judiciary and APP
point an the public officials Of Della
ware, has broughtforth the names OF
els htoon men mentioned as candidates
In Sussex county.
Democrata--Joseph II. Holland OF
South Milford: Colonel James j Ross
of Seaford Colonel William II. Re-
cords of Laurel. Former Congressman
Henry a. Houston of Millsboro, DIR.
Roland o. paynter OF GEORGETOWN, l..
w. Mustard OF Lewes.
publioans-William J. Simpson of
South Milford General George H. Hall
of Milford. Thomas Curry and Simeon
S Pennewlll OF Greenwood. Henry r.
Cannon and Philip t. Cannon Of
Bridgeville. Daniel J. Fooks. J. Dallas
Marvil and Curtis u. Davis OF Laurel
Colonel John c. Townsend Of Selby-
ville DR. Caleb Layton OF Georgetown
Congressman Hiram r.. Burton and
/ Charles H. Maull Of Lewes
Sussex county is determined to hav,
this nomination. but, 1t is said. II she
cannot possibly agree because OF an
overahundancc OF gubernatorial tim.
her, then Governor Preston Lea of New
/ Castle. or Insurance Commissioner
George w Marshall Of Kent. may be-
brought 10 the front by their friends