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of Samuel Hoar, he was of the bluest blood of New England, and in Congress, until the last dozen years of his life his sentiments toward the south were as Catos toward Carthage. 1t was all due to his mistaken idea of the southern char acter. The Hoar of 1875 hated Jeff Davis with the malignity of Moloch: the Hoar of 1895 admired, loved and honored Edward C. walthall as a brother. And 1t is scarce too much to say that about the finest tribute to southern character in 5O years fell from the lips of George F. Hoar.
 Learned and wise as he was. MT. Hoar was an old man before he learned that George Rogers Clark was not the Clark who went with Lewis to the Pacific ocean. It only shows that New England pays little attention to the south's place in history. George Rogers Clark was one of the greatest Americans. As military commander he was of the class of Marl borough and Wolfe. AS a hero. he was of the class of Ruppert and Navarro of the white plume. He saved the northwest territory and was left to die of want. Had he been of New England, his monu- ment would be cloud-capped. Charles Sumner would have pronounced his eu- logy; Cabot Lodge would have writ his life.
 MT. Lodge is one of the leaders of the Senate. His power is due to his high personal character. his sincere convic- tions, his great talents, his prodigious learning and his long experience.
 Doubtless he has a life lease on his seat, and If he has not he should have. It is such men as he that have made tho American Senate one of the foremost de- Lucrative bodies of all parliamentary his- tory.
 Copyright. 1908. by E. W. Newman.)
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the old man and the boys left the house with their rifles on their shoulders. There wasn't any need for Babe to ask where they were going as it wasn't the first time they had left at such time and in such a way. Fact was before she had gone to town. and acquired such learning and such a foolish notion about whisky, Babe used to go with them and play around the still while the men were at work
 After they had gone Babe took up the milk pail and went out to the lot. She stood for long time, watching the men disappear along the well-beaten path that ran behind the barn.
 'I wonder" said she to herself, eff dadll ever stop malkin' likker. Seems ter me it ain't right, and he oughtern do hit. But then I jest cant do nothin'. The parson down ter town wuz CT always tallxin' likl<er. I shore wish dad would stop With her mind thus eased by oral expression, woman like, she went to milking the cows.
 Hardly was the task finished when two
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HENRY CABOT LODGE-By Savoyard

have required an army ten times as big as the United States army then was to enforce it, and the South was grfmly re- solved that if 1t was to be ruled by the negro or the bayonet, it would choose the bayonet. That would have trans formed our government from free re- public into a military despotisrn. And that was what this country thought about it. for at the succeeding election the South was solidly democratic, with the excep- tion of three or four seats. The demo- crats would have elected the Speaker if every southern democrat had abstained from voting. The New England delega- ton contained a majority of democrats. The Massachusetts delegation had ma jority of democrats. The democratic ma jority in the house was more than twice the entire republican membership, a beg garly eighty-eight It was the completest political victory--1S90-in our entire his tory when all the states voted. The Lodge force bill. the Mckinley tariff bill. and the Sherman silver bill did the work and paved the way for the triumphant election of Grover Cleveland in 1882.
 It was disaster to the American people and to mankind when MT. Lodge failed in his efforts to nominate Thomas B. Reed for President in 1896. when the re- publicans could have elected yaller dog. Mckinley was partly dragooned and part ly bunkoed into the war with Spain. Tom Reed was made of sterner stuff. He could neither be fooled nor bullied. In that respect he and Grover Cleveland were cast in the same mold. There would have been no Spanish war. and Spain would have withdrawn from our hepli- sphere, our friend. The more than bil- lion dollar war and its consequent cost would have been kept at home to help develop our country, which Is scarce emerged, in a comparative sense, from embryo.
 MT. Lodge was for the war and later for imperialism. He parted company with George F. Hoar OH that issue, whose speech against expansion is the greatest effort that any Massachusetts statesman has been delivered of since Webster's '7th of March speech" in 1850. Senator Lodge Is the author of our colonial policy. and to do him justice, one must confess that he has maintained his position with con summate ability and a lofty sincerity. There never was but one argument In favor of our acquisition and retention of the Philippines, and that Is that 1t would lead to ultimate federation of all the Eng lish-speaking peoples, and unless that re- suits, the Philippines will cost this coun- try many billions more than the big war of -65 cost
 It is not often that eulogy over a dead congressman is fit to print; but MT. Lodges eulogy of the late Senator Hoar Is an exception. It Is an oration in the best sense of the word. Perhaps it is not equal to Tom Marshall on Richard Men flee or Richard Menifee on Henry Clay. It is Of different order. and with them 1t is impossible to compare it. as it can not be compared with Lamar on Sumner for the same reason that 1t is of so differ ent an order.
 MT. Hoar. after he made the acouaint- ance of the south, was a delightful man. A grandson of Roger Sherman and son
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One of the chief difficulties which many people find in accepting unreserv- edly the doctrine of Gods sovereignty arises out of the supposed conflict of this doctrine with that of mans respon- sibility. T cannot conceive how man can be free and responsible agent if God is absolutely sovereign" says the obieetor It is not my purpose here to attempt to do what is called reconciling these two doctrines, but in reply would ask Is it possible to conceive of our responsibility to a God who is not sov- ereign? Does not our responsibility to God grow out of the fact that He is sovereign? You are not responsible to the king Of England, and the reason is that he is not your sovereign The British people are commonly called his subjects" and they are responsible to him because he is their sovereign. An American citizen cannot commit high treason against Great Britain, because that power has no sovereignty over him. but he can commit treason against the United States, by levying war against his country. or by giving aid and com fort' to his country's enemies.
 But logically speaking, we have not the least warrant for limiting all truth,
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to admit the real existence of anything but phenomena. A frs. cause was no part of his philosophy. and hence he de- nied or ignored substance just as far as that was possible. His idea of ''nature' recalls MT. Herbert Spencer's definition of mind Mind" says Spencer, "con- sists of feelings and the relations among feelings" How there can be feelings without sensitive substance to feel Mr. Spencer does not even attempt to explain. Indeed, the question does not seem to have occurred to him.
 And so MT. Mills definition of ma ture." In order to understand the phrase "eapacity for exhibiting phenomena" we must assume the existence of a sub stance which possesses this capacity; and when we do assume tlis, we are obliged to think of that substance as having a nature, if indeed the substance is supposed to have been created.
 The nature" of a thing, then, would mean the character, capacities, quali ties impressed upon it by its creator; and hence the term natural cannot, in this sense, be logically applied to the attributes of God. who is self-existent. The word nature" is closely allied to
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the Latin noun which means birth" and with the Latin verb which means
 Ito be born.' The word "innate,' too. is from the same root, and is properly applied to qualities, capacities, powers. which are born in us, or which belong to us "by right of birth"
 I am not quarreling with the system atic theologians tor using tie phrase, the natural attributes of God" for the phrase is convenient, if not strictly ac- eurate; though pr. James P. Boyce holds that there are no such things as innate ideas"
 Though God is the Author of nature. there is still popular and accommodate ed sense in which the term natural may be applied to His attributes. If we mean to say that certain attributes nec- essariy belong to His character, as God, then the word natural" has it's place.
 In this limited sense, then, it Is proper to say that sovereignty is "a natural attribute of God.' We cannot think of God as without sovereignty. Of course this statement is limited to the one God who is revealed to us in the Bible. The heather gods were by no means con celved of as necessarily sovereign. They were all under the control of Fate
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the omniscience of God. how can we intelligently pray? Whatever you may say about the sovereignty of God, you recognize it whenever you are on your knees. A Methodist may pray louder, and Presbyterian longer than I usually do, but If they are intelligent and de- vout men, they will both assume the sovereignty of God, and they will seldom offer a petition to which I cannot heart fly say "AmenH Indeed, we all pray to the same God, and we all ask for much the same things, in the same spirit, and often in the same words There is blessed sameness in the needs. the as- pirations. the desires of every soul that is hungering and thristing after right eousness.
 The petitions in the Book of Common Prayer were, most of them, framed hundreds of years ago, framed in state of society and under form of govern ment vastly different from ours; framed by Epscopalians and by Roman Catho- lies, and yet it contains very few peti- tions which are not now perfectly appro- priate for any devout soul to use in ad- dressing his Maker. In the light of Gods sovereignty we all become wonderfully alike.
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YT may not strike all travellers newly landed in Glasgow and athirst for \ information that it's tea rooms form the brightest, and it's other shops the darkest. spots in that interesting city, but 1t did us. Why the tea-rooms should have so captured our imagination l do not know, unless it was that we were touched by the spectacle of so much Tor so little. Is there any place but a Scotcn tea-room where you can lunch to re- pletion on sxpence Q2 cents), and where added acharmD the feminine tooth can satisfy it's taste for sweets without shame since nearly everything in sight is sweet and what Is not in sight is not to be hadI
 Cranstons S, the tea-room par excellence of Glasgow, Is not an inspiring spot Ill itself The main shop on Buchanan street is long, dark, narrow room where ono comes solely to eat. not to indulge In rowing eye. But who would not fix his eye, from choice, on tabe spread with every variety of bread known to Scotland -scones, soda scones potato scones, sweet milk scones curant scones, brown scones all rather heavy and suggesting indiges- ton, but all good bread and butter, brown and white; bread and butter with carvies (caraway seeds covered With su- gar), "bawbee baps," oat cakes,an end less other varieties of doughy confections. Then come cakes, and cookies, and buns, and little tarts to further distract the eye; and then, best of all, arranged in a neat square In the centre of the table, diminutive pots of jam, holding each enough for one person of good but not too greedy appetite.
 Having taken a bird s-eye view of all these glories, ones difficulties begin. In the first place. it is most distract ing matter to decide whether to take strawberry, raspberry, black currant or chase the last elusive berry around and around the bottom of the jar before catching and depositing 1t on one's plate. Then unless you are of such an extrav- agant turn of mind that you disregard the price list propped up in neat frame in the middle of the table. there are most complicated calculations to be made If a potato scone and butter costs a penny,
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still," without a warning of the ap- preaching danger. She had already seen the sufferings of the hill women when the moonshiners were caught and carried away. On one or two occasions there had been burned into her brain picture of sulle nmen in iron, whimpering women and staring. wild-eyed children. She saw her father taken away with handcuffs around his wrists, and the boys lying for weary months in the cold, dis nal little brick structure she had often seen while at the school in town Moved by a thousand thoughts like these she resolved to try to reach the still ahead of the officers and give warning to the men there. The call of her own blood was urging her own, and before It tho artificial sentiments of the school were powerless. Even then there came bit terness against all that had been taught her and a wild belief in the injustice of the law, because it was law.
 With an old sun bonnet to protect her bare head from the chill of the late fall afternoon, Babe started down the path In the direction her father and
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He brought in a bill to make it illegal for the cotton States to return Demo- cratic majority One of the provisions or the measure was that the Federal judi ciary of the South should do stunt in politics the intention of which was to make South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana reliably Republican, and cer- tain districts in other Southern States also Republican. Speaker Reed damned the thing through the House, and 1t went over to the Senate, where MT. Hoar took it in charge, but about that time 16 to became clamorous for paramountcy, and that fine old fellow. William M. Stewart of Nevada went to the aid of Arthur P. German, and the outcome was the death of the Lodge force bill and the birth of the Sherman silver law.
 The L-dge force bill was designed to vitalize the fifteenth amendment. The eff feet of it, if enforced would have been to put three States and numerous com-
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nor any truth, by the extent of our ca pacity to conceive. He is very pre- sumptuous man who denies Hamlet's statement that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt Of Tn our philosophy. Not only so, but, if we reason at all, we are forced to reach conclusions which are beyond our con ception. For instance, the material uni verse was a creation, that is to say, It was made out of nothing; or else 1t was constructed out of material that existed from eternity. Now, these propositions are both inconceivable. and yet one or the other must be true And this reason- ing is not dependent upon the assump- ton of a personal God. 1t is perfectly valid even upon the principles of eVolu- ton. Charles Darwin could no more have answered 1t than could Charles Sturgeon. There are, then, some in conceivable propositions which logic compels us to accept as true. A priori, 1t would have been impossible to con ceive of the introduction of sin into a world under the government of an all wise. perfectly holy and omnipotent God. But here sin is.
 Of course, 1t Is easy to pervert the doctrine of Gods sovereignty. Men may
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ister. He belongs to no party, no creed, no organization. He is the enfant terrible of all.
 The story is told that when Sir David Baird's mother heard her son was cap tured in India, and chained to natives, she remarked placidly: I pity the puir laddies that are chained to our Dauvit."
 It would be equally hopeless for any body to try and keep pace with MT. Campbell, who seems to be an incarnate automobile. And yet know no man who has a more delightful personality, or a more arresting appearance. Dissatisfied, unhappy hungering for something he does not possess. yearning after some great thing to which he has not attained. he wanders in a wilderness seeking rest, and at present finding none. It is right to have an inward revolt against the suf- ferings of humanity, to work and pray with a will, but can in nowise lift the world until be believe that there is some wisdom, some understanding to which we cannot attain on this side. which balances the evil that we see with the good that as yet we have not apprehended; but to- ward which we move, not as compensa- ton for i'll suffered here, but as a fulfill ment of the perfect life for which we are intended.
 On the other hand in England there is d HBuie HOl itSS llitelcStiH6, Dul WHoSo career is probably destined to be more momentous. Father Tyrrell is one of the leaders of the modern wing of the Roman Catholic church. He Is a man of ex- traordinary ability and piety. It is diff cult to believe that the name of the mod est quiet scholar is likely to be asso- ciated with a volcanic movement which is calculated to shake the very founda tions of the greatest Christian church. The movement was bound to come. The cleo ton of the present Pope, a pious Italian peasant, has hastened it's advent, but for those who are called to take part in it, suffering, punishment and persecution must be their lot. In the interests of Christianity it is to be hoped that they will remain firm to the church whose vigor they are destined to renew, as the purposes of the Italian party would only
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IN discussing this subject, it is not
 my purpose to deal in theological 4 techniealities, but to make my thoughts as practical as possible, and to use terms as plain as the nature of the subject will allow. Whether sover- eighty is to be classed with the 'natu- ral' attributes of God, is a question on which I do not care to dispute. Indeed, strictly speaking, I doubt whether the term enaturar' can be logically applied to the attributes of a Being whose exist ence had no beginning, that Is to say, to an uncreated Being. In order to make this view as plain possible, it is nec- essary to inquire into the proper mean ing of the word natural" and as nat urar' is derived from nature" let me first ask what is meant by the nature of any being.
 find it impossible to agree with John Stuart Mill, who holds that a things na- ture is the sum total of its capacity fer exhibiting phenomena. MT. Mill, think, was logically forced to adopt this view, because his philosophy made him slow
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Mrs. Ibsen and the Drama.

Isabel Fordon Curtis in Success Maga-
 zine"
 Recently sat through a performance of "The Dolls House." interpreted by Madame Nazimova, the Russian actress. Interesting as was the play. even more interesting was a conversation close to my ear that went on between the acts. Two men were talking. one was an American. the other was Norwegian. They were discussing Ibsen and his work Why" asked the American, "did not your great dramatist put Into at least one of his plays splendid. happy. normal womanT' "Because," answered the Norwegian, "of his human life. We had housekeeper in Norway who had lived for years in lbsen's household. She was an intelligent woman. and once I asked her the ques- ton you fired at me just now. Her an- swer was: Sir, if you had known Mrs Ibsen as did, you would understand why the master could not create a sweet. gracious woman. He had lived too long with Mrs Ibsen.'" We have an American novelist whose life work has, so 1t is said. been molded by the same sort of in- fiuence. His heroines are vapid, quer- ulous, mindless creatures. whose existence even on a printed page makes one tif ,d Two or three of them wearied me 50 that 1t is years since have tried to read ono of this mans shelfful of novels.
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ducking stool in Virginia and another bound in f100 to keep her spells off the cows in Pennsylvania. He indulgcs severe animadversions in denunciation of slavery at the south, but never hints that Massa chusetts gathered immense gear Kidnapping negroes on the coast of Africa to sell them on the coast of Virginia. Emancipation in New Eng land he traces to the benevolence of the Puritan character, its deep relig- ious convictions, or some popycock like that but John James 1ngalls, another Yankee, was far nearer the truth m this declaration:
 ''The conscience of New England never was thoroughly aroused to the immoral ity of African slavery until 1t ceased to be profitable. and the north did not finally determine to destroy the system until convinced that its continuance threatened not only their industrial in- dependence, but their political suprem- acy."
 Exactly. And if slavery had been as profitable in New England as it was sup posed to be in the cotton states, this blessed moment, slavery would be in the green tree in this glorious union or ours-land of the free and home of the brave Lord Macaulay shrewdly analysed the Puritan character when he said that the Puritans did not object to bear-Dait- ing because it was torture to the bears, but because 1t gave pleasure to the men who engaged in 1t. If one will read all Henry Cabot Lodge has writ of and concerning the Puritans, and then read MT. Gaskelrs account of the accusation, conviction and burning of witch at Sa- lem, and then strike an average, he Will get pretty good likeness of colonial Massachusetts.
 ,Irt,, t,, xxraf fnv Nrit nf cfr1 of Henry Cabot Lodge. I admire him for his talent, for his learning. for his industry and for his absolute sincerity. It is but natural that he should believe that a New Englander of the pure stock is made of a little better clay than other Americans, just as 1t is natural that Virginian should hold that the old Dominion has a monopoly of all the blue blood in this hemisphere. Henry Watterson says that the Scotch-lrish are worth the Puritan and the cavalier combined, and Senator Lodge says Daniel Webster. who, for century was sup posed to be Scotch Irish, was in truth of Puritan stock
 English visitors to our country, who pretend to be educated, are under the deluslon that intellectual America is bounded on the one side Aby the Penob- scot and on the other by Long Island Sound. Such historians as Senator Lodge, Henry Adams and Morefield Storey are responsible for that impression. They are of the New England that erected a monument on Bunker Hill to immortalize military defeat. They are of the New England that swelled the roll of the Revolutionary army with the addition of S5 ,00O cornstalk militia, who never smelled villainous saltpeter. They are of the New England that has taught old England that the American union is of unadulter- ated Puritan percentage. I do not blame them for this. The south that fought Kings mountain, the Gettysburg of the Revolution, did not even preserve the muster rolls of the heroes of that glorious
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munities of other States rnder the po- litical dominion of the negro. It was the highest compliment ever paid to African slavery, for the argument was that two or three centuries of slavery had so ex- alted the Southern negro in the scale of civilization that he was now not only fitted for political partnership with the white man. but that in South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana he was of right entitled to the ownership and the possession of more than 50 per cent of the capital of the firm. But then Mrs. Stowe took Uncle Tom," born and reared a Southern negro slave, and put him in the class with Victor Hugo's Jean Vatican and Charles Dickens Sidney Car ton And so it will be observed that the highest eulogies ever pronounced on Afri- can slavery in our cotton States came from a Massachusetts historian and Massachusetts romancer.
 But the South would not have submit ted to the Lodge force bill. It would