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Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-02

Mrs. A. P. Furber left yesterday
morning for Bloomfield, n. j., to re-
main through the winter at the homie of
DR.. L. c. White and family
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-02
HOUSE FOR SALE
WATERvILLE

Right on COLLEGE AVE. Not over !
min. walk from the Elmwood Hotel. !'1ne
cement cellar, electric lights, l finished
rooms besides AN elegant bath Chanc" t.
finish two more rooms. one of the neat
est. outcst little houses in the city and
right where you want il. For FURTHER
particulars call or address,
OdIin & Odlin, WatervilIe, Me
SO Main Street,
oct3ldtw
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-02

a stated communication of Water
vile Lodge. No. SO, F. and A NJ, will
be held at 7.30 this evening.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-02

Mr.. and Mrs Millard Fitzgerald hav'
returned from a tWo-WeekS hunting
trip, which they passed In the Lons
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-02

Miss Addie Chapman of Augusta
passed Sunday with friends in this
city.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-02

w. II. Cummings of Nassalboro left
on the afternoon train Sunday for a
brief visit.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-02

Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Quincy returned
Yesterday from a short visit with
friends in Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-02

An intense interest is being ShOWr
here In the formation of a local bas-
ketball team to take the attention o.
the lovers of the gamo during the win
ter months: but again the great cry is
for the lack Of some quarter to play
There is q large amount of excellent
material in the city aside from tho
college and school teams and if de
sireable and spacious enough place
could be located, the people could de-
pend upon some warm contests during
tie months. Teams are being formed
iii ether places and they are anXiou:
for z,arnes with Waterville local team
Already communication has been re
crivcd from the Littleton. \. II. man
a9er addressed to the manager of the
Watcrville team asking for a date
about December 26, as that team will
make a tour of the State and desire te
take in this city. But no one has an.
swered the letter and will probably no,
do so until organization is made anc
this VIII not be done if a place in Whlcf
t. play cannot be found.
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1 spread in the gesture of ingenuousnes l familiar to him.
 G"I am a clergyman he panted. q can not talk with that man. l fear he mean to murder me. l cannot fight with him l am a clergyman" He iterated tn, l plea as though it were convincing argu l ment. IT"
 "Is he telling the> truth?" asked Bal l lou.
 Tt was the mistake of my youth" tn, l doctor stammered; "an error of tn. heart; al loved her very much. It i, Mrs Wallace of whom we are speak l ing" he added with a pitiful attemp at dignity. After she got her divorce l married her. We loved each other very much, and being young but have expiated in daily prayer and con. stant repentance and in penitential sack, cloth. Don't you see, gentlemen, thaf 1t will do no good for me to go out witt him?"
 The New Workers were grave and si. lent. They looked on the guides fact hard as carved wood, and on this stut- terng coward, vibrating his arms as he appealed to them.
 And there is much that you do not understand" went on the doctor with an eagerness almost maudlin. Her longing for higher and better life-her seeking for intellectual companionship and her.
  in Ballard
 The doctor came closer to his hosts. His teeth chattered. q am a clergyman. ' he began again in tones which he en- deavored to make confidential.
 Tt appears to me that you were a man before that" interrupted Ballou with grim significance. Doctor Wallace stared at the faces of his new friends and seemed to read hostility there. There was a bluff sincerity as well.
 You don't mean to let this man force me out into the woods, do you?' he gasped. His paltering was becoming te- dious and piteous. We've three are men of the city-of the world together l look to you--''
 Manning gave grunt that seemed to resent this grouping
 We are in the woods now" he said. Were on the level of nature where d man sizes things differently in spite of himself. I've known Tom Ballard good many years. l never saw yellow in him. My opinion is only that of a layman, parson, but as long as the white tie and frock coat are off you just now you'd better be merely plain man and settle your mans business in private. Ballou and don't care to listen or to meddle. Really, we don't"
 The frankness of the elemental was in the hearts of the twain The sympathy of the woods had stripped away their urban prejudices and artificial affinities. The man at the door seemed for the mo- ment the superior of the man who cow cred
 But r." began the~clergyman pas sionately.
 Don't make us say it. interrupted Ballou coldly. Hes waiting for you He and Manning turned their backs. Sung to desperation, a flush replacing his pallor, the Reverend Doctor Wallace stumbled toward the door.
 Here's your rife said Ballard poking the weapon Into the minister's unwilling grasp. You'd better take it along, for you won't be coming back this way"
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Ehe oceans, that limit of.our country driven thick and deep through the mail of his vulgar audaclty. stinging and rendlng the very depths of his infamous soul" and his finger pointing him out to the scorn of every man in the crowded court room, he said in part;
 "Go! murderer. coward, deliberate as- sassin; pest and plague of society; wretch abhorred of God and man; go forth be- meath the dark and dreary shadows of that cypress swamp; put aside that long, rank grass, 1nd the bloody grave of your friend whom you murdered to gain his gold; dig through the heavy clay; look upon the gory, fostering corpse of the vic tim you slew; lay your face upon his dead and corrupting features; gaze into his lifeless eyes, wasting away in their aw- ful silence, and there receive the horrl- ble punishment of your crime. Open there your heart to the torments of shame for the murder of the father, and for the poverty and misery of the help less children from whom you have stolen their living. Suffer the bitter retribu- tion which remorse has prepared for you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26
CRAMPS ON THE MODERN PJUPT-By j. C. Hiden D. D.

should not write. The professor who can teach us to speak and to write has not yet appeared. And so of Homletics, which is only branch of rhetoric. It devotes itself-indeed it must devote itself-main- ly to the task of pointing out and cor recting the errors into which preachers are liable to fall in constructing and in delivering sermons
 Now, it so happens that the very things which Homiletics tells us we must not do are just the things which those old preachers always did, and that without the least hesitation or embarrassment Let us note an instance in point: An old preacher, who was famous for his lib erty" was preaching from the text, "A certain man went down from Jerusa- lem to Jericho and fell among thieves" [" He opened his discourse thus: My brethren, the Bible is a very wonderful book; it says so much in a word. Now there is very little said here about the character of this man that made the trip to Jericho, but l know just what sort of a man he was. And first he was a sober man; secondly, he was a punctual man; thirdly, he was an industrious man; and fourthly he was a married man. And
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It is for his good as well as for my own pride and peace of mind that l have
 asked 1t. l still say he must talk with
 me. Will you come outside, sir?" His calm persistence in the same query be- i gan to seem dark and omnibus
 No mumbled the clergyman, huddling
 with the obstnancy of trapped creature
 He shuddered as he looked into the black
 ness framed at the door. He edged toward | the light on the table.
 | Then l appeal to you as gentlemen have known in these woods year by year for long time said the guide turn ing to his employers. He realized how his presumption must have angered them. You have never before seen in me any
 thing except patience and courtesy, have you? Thank you, Sirs. l don't blame you
 for the stand you are taking against me
 now, but it is because you do not know
 1 would not have told you, but coward forces me- When I was three years mar rled and just getting together our first little home-awful poor, sirs-we thought to help out on housekeeping expense by taking a boarder, my wife and I. He was a theological student. And-well, srs, , all there is to tell, he took my wife away from me-my wife, gentlemen-2 For the first time in their knowledge of him Manning and Ballou heard Tom Ballard's voice break into a cry, a vail of sudden woe. All I was working and struggling for on Gods earth. Took her away-I never saw her again. That's all! I never saw her again and the bonds that l was fool enough to think God tied they cut asunder, and I knew nothing of it until it had been done. The goddess of the lawyers may be blind. gentlemen. but those with long ladders may whisper in her ear And this" he swept his hand around his little cabn-'this is all Eve got for home, and you know how many years I've been kere. Shut your eyes, you gentlemen, and think of your own. And that's why I want to talk to this man privately. God forgive me for say ing so much here. but I hau to, to make you understand Will you come, sir?' His voice in the query had the same calm, ominous evenness.
 No, I will not" screamed the clergy man. Physical exhaustion accentuated his natural timidity, This remorseless insist ence was maddening.
 You'd better wait, Tom," urged Man ming, stammering in his sudden agitation. This unveiling of a tragedy shocked him. This stern call to the night outside made him ,apprehensive of consequences. Tn the morning
 q cannot sleep, broke in Ballard, land he shall not sleep until we talk. You two have known me I am not thug. I am not an assassin I am not a butcher of sheep. But I say to you. and all here take warning-that. man must now this night go out with me and talk with me man fashion on my ground, under Gods stars and in Gods open where he is not a frocked parson nor l a moccasined guide, but just two men with business to settle. Rams Wallace, walk out"
 He reached behind him, lifted a rifle that had been standing against the log wall, swung it into the hollow of his arm, stepped to one side and grmly waited near the door The New York men stared at each other blinking in their uncA *ainty and were silent.
 Doctor sce broke the hush. He hastened towa.d his hosts, his hands out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26
SERGEANT, S. PRENTISS AS A LAWYER-By S. P West

i, and he astonshed all who heard him, convinced the judge, who acknowledged he had been wrong, and gave his de- cision in favor of Prentiss. He moved from Eatchez to YiclSsburg in 1SS1 His first appearance before Vicksburg bar was to argue against an or9inance quar- antining hotel infested vii h small pox. He had not had notice nor me for prep aration, but made a speech of two hours length, at the close of which the ordl- nance was repealed. Very soon the most hopeless criminal cases and the heaviest real estate business was given to him, and his income was very large.
 On one ocasion Prentiss quarreled and came to blows witls the opposing coun- sel The judge fined, them, and ordered them to jail for twenty-four hours. The other lawyer made many excuses and apologies. MT. Prentiss arose, acknowl- edged the justice of the sentence, said he had been guilty of unintentional disre- spect to the court, and a great lack of self-respect. But he asked permission to make one request of the court. He was given permission, and in great serious
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I When they were outside, the guide lift | ed a canoe that was overturned on the | shore, dropped it like a feather upon thE water and waved his hand. y-P
 Take the bow paddle" he said, The minister sagged his shaking bldlS1 under the forward thwart. Ballard carefully stood his own rifle beside him in the stern and pushed away. The canoe slipped into the shadows as it clove it's noiseless way up the lake along the tree bordered shore
 Ballou and Manning slept after a time, but it was only nervous rest that the soft chatter of pans outside startled into alarmed wakefulness. The dawn was there wide-eyed, the early catbirds were yaw- ling.
 The guide was moving about through the voleying smoke from the newly kindled fire. He greeted them quietly when they came out and placidly kept on al his work The food that he set before them went down chokngly and their tea pannikins wavered in their grasp. but with true woods reserve they respected his calm retcence.
 However, when they had lighted their pipes and ventured a few limping at tempts at general conversation, he came and stood leaning against tree near them.
 For a while he whittled at a chip and gazed thoughtfully down at the woods carpet of pine needles Then he clicked his big knife shut and looked them straight in the face.
 It's bad business, all of it, gentlemen" he began, ''sorrowful business and I'm ashamed that you have been troubled with it-when all the rest of your stay had been so pleasant. 1 wouldn't say anything more to bother you with my af- fairs, but I'd sort of hate to have you go away not knowing just how it was set tied. For we've been good friends. and and I'll kind of look for you next year as usual"
 Both men tried to say something, but he checked their embarrassed stammer- ings.
 "Oh, l know! You wouldn't want to come if you thought that-well so you see I've got to square myself, but it will never be mentioned by me again. MT. Ballou and Mir Manning, if youll only let yourselves be bothered minute now. You were men to me last night. I'll never forget it. His voice shook. You put me where a man belongs. You put man into my hands without aye, yes or no. It's all bad business, though. You see, when l married her she was only 16 and I was hostler and her folks weren't willing. I shouldn't "a done it. I was wrong. I had to nail burlap in a horse stall to make place for us to live. Awful, wasn't 1t? And she used to wake in the night and say that a bright spirit seemed to be calling to her to come to better things. ShS wasn't for me. And I don't have to tell you the rest. And it hurts me. I was most to blame, I reckon. But I'm human, gentlemen and when I saw him last night, and saw what he was and remembered what 1 have had to be, my my" he choked, walked away and then came back. His voice was calm again. You, put him in my hands. I ain't going to bother you with what thought I'd >-~.~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~~~
 (CONTINUED ON PAcs sess-
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tai law made by our fathers, as con- strued by the supreme court at the time the Confederacy was formed"
 Robert Barnwell Rhett of South Caro- lima was the chairman of the committee which prepared the permanent constitu- tion of the Confederacy to which Judge Jones alludes. Robert Toombs AleXan- der H. Stephens, a delegate from Louis jana, whose name 1 do not recall, and Louis T. Wigfall of Texas were other members of the committee of prominence in the preparation. Stephens says in ono of his histories that Rhett did most of the work He brought most of 1t from home with him. in all probability.
 If we read the debate over Clay's re- jected bill we must reach the conclusion that the Confederate Congress was gov erned in its views of a proper relation of the federal supreme court to the state courts by the opinion of Jefferson in which he says: "The judiciary of the United States Is the subtle corps of sap- pers and miners constantly working un- derground to undermine the foundations Of our confederated fabric. They are con- struing our constitution from a co-ordi- nation of a general and special govern ment to a general and supreme one alone" Particularly would 1t appear that the Congress objected to the Clay bill on the following argument of Calhoun "The state courts are the representa- tives of the reserved rights, vested In the governments of the several states as far as 1t relates to the judicial power. Now as these are reserved against the federal government-as the very object and intent of the reservation was to place them beyond the reach of it's con trol-how can the courts of the states be inferior to the supreme court of the United States; and of course, subject to have their decisions re-examined and re- versed by it. without at the same time, subiecting the portion of the reserved rights of the governments of the several states, vested in it, to control of the federal oovarnp,anto 9 -ctiu biobar sr,o,,,d
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may be taken. If the state courts stand in the relation of interiors to the su-
 preme court of the United States what reason can possibly be assigned why the ether departments of the state govern ment-the legislative and executive should not stand in the same relation to the corresponding departments of tho federal government? Where is there to be found any provision of the constitution which makes, in this respect, any dis tinction between the judiciary and the other departments? Or, on what princi- pie can such a distinction be made? There is no such distinction; and it must fol- low that if the judicial department or the courts of the governments of the indi- vidual states stand in the relation of the inferior courts to the supreme court of the United States, the other depart ments must stand in the same relation to the corresponding departments of the federal government. It must also follow that the governments of the several states instead of being co-equal and coordinate with the federal government, are inferior and subordinate All these are necessary consequences" (Works of Calhoun vol. l, p. 324)
 One word as to Appomattox. When Mir Lincoln was elected in 1860 a case was pending in the federal supreme court in which the state of Wisconsin appeared practically defendant on the charge of nullification of the federal constitution and laws. In fact, 16 of the IS states that voted for Lincoln were in open and boastful notification at the time of cast-' ing their votes. Now, we cannot escape the historical argument if secession of the southern states was settled ad- versely to the right at Appomattox, null lification of the northern states became by the circumstance of Appomattox, an adjudicated principle of American gov ernment. The nullifying states won.
 Confederate veterans in reunion should recommend to the state of Alabama the expunging of the false phrase. War of Secession from her statute books.
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Yield your heart to the gnawings of the worm that dieth not 10 the burning of the fire that is not quenched. And then come back here, coward, murderer, rob Der of orphans, and dare to present again your wicked claim, to steal from the chill dren you have orphaned the means of their living"
 Uuder this awful fire the villain fled ,n terror from the court room, and the cause of the orphans was won. The power of the bully was broken; he found himself scorned of men. and soon ended his mis- erable career by excessive indulgence in strong drink.
 Of all the men Prentiss ever defended charged with murder only one was con- victed, and he of one of it's lesser degrees. He defended a man once in a suit for islander which was a rare occurrence in Mississippi in those days, as that was not their method of settling such mat ters. It was cold weather, and the plain tiff was thinly clad. But as the argu- ment proceeded, he perspired and when MT. Prentiss had concluded he looked like he had swam a river. The defendant was
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the wine press alone"-Isa. 6S:S This treading of the wine press took to mean the sufferings of Christ in atoning for our sins. Upon this view l constructed my sermon. and had preached 1t with great liberty when I learned from Broadus what any careful study of the context ought to have taught me before, that this treading of the wine press has no such meaning as I had supposed, but that 1t describes a conquering hero fight ing alone. and staining his garments with the blood of his down-trodden foes So far from having liberty to preach that sermon again, I found that there was no room left for it to breathe init was dead, Whether I ought to have found any consolation in the fact that the famous pulpit orator, Richard Fuller, made just my mistake on this same text, and preached and published the sermon on ''The Lonesomeness of the Redeemer' now found in one of his volumes), may be questionable; but still did so console myself, and they say that 'an honest confession is good for the soul"
 But here Is this Revised Version" of the Bible: and what a. terrible cramp
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1 litical literature present a higher classic than the act of the legislature of Ala bama enabling the people to assemble in convention in January, 1861? Or will po- litical literature of the ages to come pre- sent a higher classic than Jefferson Daviss inaugural address delivered from the spot marked by the brass star? War of Secession!
 Land of the south-imperial land
 How proud thy mountains rise! How sweet thy scenes on every hand
 How fair thy evening skies!
 But not for this-oh, not for these
 I love thy fields to roam;
 Thou hast a dearer spell to me,
 Thou art my native home"
 Confederate veterans in their approach ing reunion at Birmingham should take cognizance of this unfortunate phrase, War of Secession" Incorporated in the statute law of Alabama and demand it's expunging. The tide of standardization of power Is rising rapidly and human lib- erty is receding from its approaches The Christian doctrine of individual responsi- bility and individual achievement is se- riously menaced by the combination of circumstances which expresses society," The man no longer accomplishes and is no longer recognized. The soulless bank handles bank-made money and the soul less corporation of money dispensers pays 1t out by virtual contract with organ ized laborers.
 The title of the act of the Alabama legislature which we here consider, does not express the meaning of the words, War of Secession" reiterated in the diff ferent sections. Our courts nullify leg islative acts amenable to charge of in consistency between the title and the text.
 
 Instead of seeking by inunendo to dis tract the public mind and dlsparage the Confederate cause, it better becomes the American student of politics and prin- ciples of civics to inquire into the actual force of that cause in an intellectual sense.
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that must be to some of our preachers who know, or think they know, some Greek and Hebrewl If a preacher finds himself not overfull of ideas about his text, some considerable time may now and then be spent, and some little repu- tation for learning may be got by flnd- ing fault with the Authorized Version" and giving a different translation of the text. But now that the late revisers have done their work so well there is reason to apprehend that this resource will be largely cut off. These revisers have done so much in the way of correcting the errors of King James men, that not a few preachers who have been given to re- translating their texts will probably find that their occupation Is gone In this circumstance their audiences will hard ly find much to regret; but we cannot say so much for the preachers. It will be sad cramp to some of them
 Some of us who have. in the days gono by, travelled over mountainous regions on the four-horse stage coach learned to enjoy the freedom and comfort of the wayside mountain inn, with it's old-fasn-