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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28

|, health of the people And that Is the preacher of 1t.
 The politician studies questions from an economic standpoint. Material prosperity Is his solution of human happiness. Make the people prosperous and civilization will proceed. If there is any i'll, pass law and cure it.
 The preacher Is the better philosopher.
 The preacher sees that good citizenship is more important than legal enactment It matters not so much what the laws may be as what the people may be.
 A great deal of fun has been poked at Roosevet's preaching
 But he sees better than most politicians, that laws do not make a people; that a people make the laws. The government does not make the people; the people make the government. The people are the government.
 And this distinction is fundamental.
 The structure of popular government IS not that of a so-called state" where priv ilege is handed to the citizen. It is that of commonwealth in which all the pow CTS of government are given to it by the citizen.
 And so-
 The question of a peoples well being is not so much matter of law. It is not entirely question of the form of govern ment.
 ''Treason?" you say.
 Is 1t treason to suggest, for instance, that the people of Germany under an inn perial government are better off in every way than the people of Venezuela under a republican form of government?
 Nobody wants to change the form of government. That is not the question.
 But
 The moral health of the people is the read Ortolan or Sallust.
 Roosevelt is right.
 We do not need more politics so much as we need more preaching.
 Alice Whaley of San Diego, Cal, is 13 years old and @ Carnegie medal heroine. It all happened at Ocean Beach last summer.
 Many people were bathing in the surf.
  about to lose his life when, at great risk to herself, Alice seized him. Then, with rare discretion, she got the little boy to take hold of her long braid ed hair and while he thus chung she swan back with him to safety.
 For this unique rescue the trustees of the Carnegie hero fund singled her out for medal and 5000 besides for her ed ucation.
 And the beauty about the whole matter is the admiration of her friends has not turned the head of the brave child an iota She Is the sarse sweet, simple child as before.
 Of course the newspapers have both cred her concerning interviews. and she talks naively of her future.
 She doesn't know whether she will be
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applied by them to Jesus, as the Christ. But my space Is limited, and besides I really thought 1t would be interesting and useful to show the whole of the testimony while Jesus Himself thought proper to draw from the Old Testa- ment. I will indulge in only one com ment upon this evidence, as whole:
 The only way to weaken it Is to say that Jesus of Nazareth was not a trained exegete: that biblical criti- eism" is a modern science, of which Jesus could have known nothing. This. when put into plain English. means that our Lord did not know what He was talking about when He quoted a certain Psalm as the language of David when He cited Moses as a witt ness. and when He applied the 5sd chapter of Isaiah to Himself To at tempt here a refutation of such libel as this would be too great tax up on the time and the temper of myself and of my readers.
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Luke 2o:42-4s. Jesus quotes Psalm 11O:1, and applies it to Himself. He says that David there calls Him Lord" (Hebrews 1.13, makes the same appli- cation of this passage). Our Lord ire auentIy made Lad hominem" arguments to stop the mouths of the gainsayers; and the case before us is one in point. If David called the Messiah, Lord. 9 how could the Messiah be David's son?
 In Matthew 26:s1, and Mark 14:27. Jesus cites zachariah 1s:7 and identf- ffes Himself as the Shepherd that was to be smitten.
 In Matthew 26:54 and Mark 14:49 Jesus speaks of His arrest as a full fllment of scripture. Compare Isaiah 5S:7-s.
 In Luke 4:1S-19. Christ in His ser mon at His old home. Nazareth. takes His text from Isaiah 61:1-2 and pro- eeeds to apply that manifestly nes- sianic passage to Himself.
 In Mark 15:2S and Lake 22:S7 Jesus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28

a great nurse like Florence Nightingale or a virtuoso.
 Listen:
 q think perhaps we shall take some | of the money and get piano so l can | take lessons. I play the violin and piano | lessons will help me. I have always | thought I should like to be a trained nurse It must be nice taking care of | yet what I shall be-" ' Blessings on the lassie, with her fine innocence of the future! Alice studies at a convent and doesn't , bother her head about the boys. She says:
 "We aren't allowed to look over the fence at ordinary people, to say nothing of looking at boys. Mother says I can't marry till I'm 25 years old. She says she was married at IT and that l must profit by her experience" Concerning which one devoutly hopes
 that Alice Whaley at 25 may be as un- | spoiled as she Is at 13 Perhaps that is too much to expect. | But
 Whether this rare little maid shall some | day respond to encOres on the concert stage or whether her heroism shall min | ister to the sick and suffering in a great hospital or whether her gracious, strong, | pure soul shall bless a fortunate hus- i band, or whether some brute shall marry l her and break her heart, Alice Whaley little heroine, deserves well of the years | that are yet to be. 1 The problem of how to get rich by farming has been successfully worked out by Francis Sestier of Des Moines, Ia-
 The young man has made s1S.0o0 worth of improvements on 32-acre farm in the
 last seven years, and paid for 1t from the products of the soil Sestier's father, stonecutter, went to Des Moines in 1875 to work on the con- struction of the state capitol building. He purchased the 32 acres within sight of the golden dome of the statehouse he had helped to construct. The elder Sestier worked along to make living and pay for his acres. Seven
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4 FRIEND of mine. a member of my "A adult male Bible class in the A Sunday school, had contracted the old and troublesome habit of investi- gating things for himself. Now and then he indulged in the still more trouble some habit of putting other people to in- vestigating for, him. In my lectures on the book of Genesis he had frequently heard me say: "This passage is quoted by Christi this story is referrAd to by Christ" And so he asked me: Can you furnish me with list of all the Old Testament passages which are quoted or referred to by Christ in the gospel?' Little thinking how much time and la bor it would cost me, I agreed to do it., but when I came to usdertale the task.
 l found 1t necessary to go carefully through the four gospels in order to find what I was seeking. Prof. C. H. Toys work on Quotations in the New Testa- ment' was not available: for even that learned book does not separate the quota tions made by Christ from those made
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|
 Not till then can you boast democracy.
 This is tale that is true and worth
 the telling without comment
 If you car read 1t without being touched | by the story, you are less easily moved | than is the writer. l The reward which followed the mis- | sionary effort of David s. Kidd of To- ronto. while unusual, is but incidental to the story itself
 l In 1897 MT. Kidd was a tea salesman,
 with headquarters at Chicago. He all ways carried with him a New Testa- ment.
 One day of that year MT. Kidd met Mary Burn, girl who had fallen into evil ways.
 i Miss Burn was the daughter of an Aus tralian millionaire She was about 20 years of age, handsome and intelligent. | Attracted by the girl Mir Kidd drew from her the story of her life. Recognizing the possibilities in this
 wayward soul. he took from his pocket the Testament and turned to the story of Mary Magdalene. This story he read with all the force and feeling he pos sessed.
 The girl was deeply affected. MT. Kidd pleaded with her to abandon her life of shame. He spoke to her in I the name of her mother. She promised that she would reform | She said she would go to Pittsburg to her aunt and forever leave Chicago and her way of living. That was in 1897. About year ago MT.
 Kidd received letter from the girl, to
 whom he had given his card, saying she was dying of consumption and that she
 was on her way to Florida with her father in hope of prolonging her life. Miss Burn died .ast July. Her father returned to Australia and died few months ago. He had heard from his daughter the story of her sal vaton.
 And, much to his surprise. MT. Kidd was notified that the Australian million aire had added codici to his will leav- ing the former handsome fortune. To further show his gratitude the father had left in trust a quarter of million dollars for the founding and maintenance of a home for fallen women. A rare young mani A beautiful story of rescue And that is all-excepting this: Of all the promises that stretch out to us from the spiritual world the greatest is Chat which requites him who saves a soul from moral death. He had made his pile" very quickly. f~..- he visited the little town where he was born and brought up. He was in too much of hurry to stay long. In point of fact. his stay lasted five hours. The newspaper the next day came out with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28

this brief table of his activities while in his home town. It Is significant and doubtless characteristic:
 Called on his old mother.
 Got shaved by tho town barber and gave him a s1o gold piece.
 Threw showers of quarters and half dcl- lars to the street boys.
 Was run home by curious crowd.
 Bought a stock farm for s25, 900 and gave 1t to an old friend
 Visited the Home for Boys, which hs founded when he first made his money.
 Yelled at the son of friend to come and go to Europe with him. and took him along.
 Left for the coast at midnight with his wife and son. after one of the greatest days of his life.
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of our heart for admittance. While at this striving we forget at the heart or things there is great naturalness, and to this end culture and spiritual striving must lead.
 Pharisee or Sadducee, creed or doctrine, availeth naught, but man must reach the heights through deeds, through the spirit that serves, and vaunteth not itself.
 While this introspection teaches that immortality is a spiritual sta'e anu not a physical, yet human-like, we cannot at all times turn from the flesh pots of Egypt, from a little serving or mammon, a turning around for last LOOK on the sights of the world
 Lenten thoughts should pc every uay
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28

A this period when a portion Of "A mankind draws apart for deeper A thought, an insight into the Christ spirit, things assume an incredibility be- cause of their simplicity.
 The higher law teaches that love en- kindleth love; for at recognition of simple things we must have that inward simplic- ity, trueness, more correctly speaking. that knows its kindred spirit by instinct
 For 2OOO years thei Christ story has be- come incredible to many, because its won- derful simplicity separates it so far from the vast acquisitions of our intellectual life. Many doubts, many entang'ements spring from the knowledge pile~ igh. while the simple truth knocks at the ooor
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fiKTT ,ssps's %ssasF has been dead several M There had been a long and in-

I'M $:;s:' ,,, has ..,' ',,s ,,. ... innate conversation between the two men, and as he spoke these words one Of them settled down on the cushions of the Pull man and continued:
 My mother was an old-fashioned moth- CT. When I was babe in arms she did not give me over to nurse, but nour- ished me at her own breast.
 ..She fashioned with her own hands the little garments that I wore. She taught me that simplest but most eloquent of all prayers, Now Hay me down to sleep Every night, even when l was a good big boy, she tucked the bed clothes about me in my trundle bed.
 .For years, long after left home. she loved me and yearned over me, sorrowing in my sorrows, rejoicing in my small suc- cess.
 DO you know, the world has seemed a little lonesome since my mother died" There was a long silence between the two men, and then the other spoke:
 My chief regret today is that before I to write to her. And my fondest recol- lections are of the happy days I some times made for her.
 'It is the way of the world. I sup pose our children will have the same re- rrets-and the same consolations-when we are dead Our chiefest treasures are not valued until they are gone"
 ,.That is true," responded the other, sand'-
 "All that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother. Her Spartan spirit knew no denarture from the straight lines of right eousness.
 And as for my religion-well she taught me the trustful faith of innocent childhood. And having boxed the com pass of religious thinking, always come back to that simple faith"
 So much the writer overhead.
 Or, rather, what is written is skele- ton of what was said.
 And the writer thought of his own moth- -er, now in heaven. How he missed her love and her rletters-motherless forever! And your mother.
 If some day she passed over to the other side, she cannot come back to you strange limitation of mother lovel
 But the sweet incense of her gracious life abides, and still grows the sweet flow er of Asphodel-unfolding bud of immor- tality
 For life is ever lord of death.
 And love can never lose it's own.
 If instead of going off to Africa to hunt Hons Theodore Roosevelt would go into the pulpit he would make great preacher.
 In his mental makeup Roosevelt Is more the preacher than the politician.
 He has insisted. In season and out of ,eason, that the main thing is the moral
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

aristocracy is a mere reminiscence, long bereft of exclusive estates and deprived of all political power and prestige.
 Abolish your house of lords, MT. Hardie. Not till then can you boast democracy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28

He had made his pile very quickly.
 and chiefly by "plunging." Not long ago he visited the little town where he was born and brought up. He was in too much of hurry to stay long. In point of fact. his stay lasted five hours The newspaper the next day came out with
The Washington times., 1909-10-15

dock after trial that things began 10
happen in the courtroom. Smalley was
standing beside the prisoners cage and
I carrie started for him on Jump He
dld not have time 10 attempt a defense.
She landed the first blow hard on his
/ lace with her hst, and then her left and
his neck came in contact There was
plenty of steam behind the woman
blow ad Smallev ducked As ne went
1 down she let fly with her foot The toe
OF her shoe landed on the mans shins
with crack that could be heard
all over the courtroom
The two bailiffs had mold of the woman
by ms time, and Judge MulloWuy called
her back 10 the bar The Assistant Dis
. trict Attorney vas instructed 10 prepare
charges Of assault and battery against
hes and she was hurried ont OF the
room. After the information had been
prepared and Smalley had sworn TO il ne
WAS chased out Of the courtroom to pre-
vent a scene when Carrie should be re-
called &c receive sentence. She came in
lauHtiiN with smile OF satisfaction
playing about her lips.
I'D a-dOne IL anywhere, II thev'd sent
me 10 the pen for il. she declared
Six months in JAIL announced the
judge and The womzn was again re-
moved TO the pen.
The Washington times., 1909-10-15
VICKERY To PICTURE
LIFE IN MISSIONS
Tourist Missionary Will Illus
trate Progress of Work
Over World.

&. Y. Nickery. the globe-girdling tour
ist-missionary, viii show moving pie
lures of lie at missions an over the
world. and just what the missionaries
and their converts are actually doing,
10 the men this evening at 8 o'clock,
at Luther Place Memorial Church.
The occasion is the meeting of the
general committee having charge Of ar
engagements for the big Laymen's Mis-
sionary Movement convention TO be held
ia this city November u-14 next Gift
ford Pinchot viii preside at the meet
ing Final arrangements for the lee
ture were completed at the committee
meeting yesterday.
Mr.. Vickery viii not only show NOV
ing scenes from all over the world but
viii show slides which will demonstrate
that the Christian world can accomplish
during this generation what it has been
expected would take centuries to come.
the CHARACTERIZATION of the world That
consecrated money only is needed. and
that there are workers and organiza-
lions IN plenty viii be demonstrated by
the lecturer
The New York committee in charge
of the Daymen's Missionary Movement
has just announced the times at which
the seventy conventions VIII be held
throughout the United States The first
VIII be at Buffalo, beginning October 10.
The Washington times., 1909-10-15
LASSIE
WHIPS HER SUPERIOR
Religious Worker in Fight With Captain Smalley, Car
rieS BelHgerency Into Court and Keeps the
Baiiffs on the Jump,

Not satisfied with breaking up a
meeting Of the American Salvation
Amy at Seventh street and PenusyI-
vania avenue, kicking in the head of
the drum and ASSEMBLING Majo John
Smalley, the leader Of the flock. Carrie
Travis. former salvation Army worker.
administered a second beating to Small
ley in the Police Court this morning
Immediately after she had been SEN
fenced 10 four months in jail for her
previous offenses.
There was a lively scTimmage IN the
courtroom for a few minutes iB which
Carrie, Smalley, and two Of the bailiffs
could be distinguished now and then.
When the dust cleared Carrie was be-
hind the bars and Smauey was rubbing
his neck, where Carrie had landed a
short arm jab. and brushiag of his
trousers, where the former worker had
kicked his shins. Miss Travis received
an additional six months in jail for this
assault
Carrie Travis was once the pride Of
Major Smalieys hopeful band OF work.
eFs, she told the court. She had been
the pretuest and most hardWOrking of
all the sisters The strait and narrow
path appealed 10 Ter when Smalley was
there 20 help her over the rough places
But she could not stand for the others.
ley. finally.
I'd a heap rather live the ways Of sin
and trouble than with a lot of no-ac-
counts Ike that crowd OF Smalley' 8, 30
she asserted
so she took a few drinks This was
sunday and she wandered along the
Avenue toward Seventh street where a
meeting was in progress. She was
W1athful, she admitted, very WTathfuI.
and the duh thump Of the bass drum
with the accompanying tinkie of the
1amDOurines did not sO0th her. Before
she realized il she was among the bunch
OF army workers hitting cat right and
left
Smaley told the court Carrie had not
behaved at the army headquarters.
There were half a dozen OF more Iassies
and attaches Of the army who sIbstan-
Jiated the majors testimony, and Judge
MuHoWny imposed a fine or $50 with two
months IN default iu each of the two
cases against her.
II was when Carrie started into the
The Washington times., 1909-10-15

out Of tie gossip characteristics
OF womankind. would the Rev Mrs
Georgia Ferguson, pastor of the. Peo-
pies Church. create a new suffrage
party which viii, she believes. clean
up the sIums of American cities and
create jobs for every man and woman
She would start the suffrage party, she
said today, by organizing committees
in every community in the land. These
committees are to talk AID gossip
with other women and men. studying
the social problems which a woman >
PARTY should stand for. she believes.
Then, when the committees have
aroused the country with their talk and
their study of conditions. she would
have a great convention in which to
draw up a platform for the women Of
all the country 10 unite upon THIS
means. she said today, the organ -ation
of the suffrage party only after the
women have studied and talked, ana
have aroused great sentiment for bet
ter social conditions among all people
Il believe a system of committees
throughout the land with delegates
brought together into great convcn-
ton where our platform shall be writ
ten viii create a party which men
parties VIII ne sidu 10 any theH1-eiNeS
with. she said today i am opposed
10 the women forcing themselves on the
gentlemen as the suffragettes in Eng
land are doing. Woman can DO her best
work in this country through organize
ton and persuasion.
II do not believe that woman should
adopt mans methods In political activ-
ity. The men parties are too corrupt
There is too much of trading in them
too much of compromise with evil in
order to accomplish their ends There
is party grating and individual graft
ing
The Washington times., 1909-10-15
ANNOUNCES TEST
IN CIVIL SERVICE

The Civil Service Commission an
nounces examinations at the various ex-
aiming offices as follows:
November a. inspectors assistant. Bu-
reau CT Animal Industry, Department Of
Agriculture. initial salary $50. increas-
ing TO $1,000 IN three years, and 81 800
In six years.
November a, miller and engineer for
rtah
November =, 3. and "A. skilled drafts
man at the Frankfort arsenal, Philadel-
phia, eligible to transfer to any arsenal
i'm the country; salary 81 400.
The Washington times., 1909-10-15
BALTIMORE FIRM
RECEIVERS NAMED
Imperial Bottle Cap and Machine
Company Said TO Be
InSolvent.

WILMINGTON. Del. Oct 15.-Chau-
celior Charles NJ Curtis has appointed
Harry p. Goldsborough. Of Baltimore.
and John G. Gray, of this city, as re-
ceivers for the Imperial Bottle Cap and
Machine Company. a miilion-dollar
Delaware corporation doing business IN
Baltimore IN manufacturing metal caps
and other shoppers for bottles.
The ComplainaHts allege that the com
pany is insolvsnt. Goldsborough IS
president Of the concern, and Gray IS
the Delaware resident director
An injunction restraining the office OF
the company from collecting Outstand-
ing accounts or disposing # property
was also issued.
The Washington times., 1909-10-15
PLANS SUFFRAGE PARTY
UPON WOMEN'S GOSSIP
Committees Should Be Spread Throughout the Country
to Arouse Interest, Is Belief Of Rev Mrs. Ferguson
She Would Have Organization Clean Up Shms :

We hsye tried charity on the slLms
and il has failed The people of the
slums haze the charity we are giving
them. They hate the women who dole
out to them the secondhand clothes and
the second hand food of charity. What
every man aid woman wants is a job,
and / believe woman's party should
stand for something that would clean
Up the slums by furnishing the jobs.
Mrs Ferguson said that this organ
ization should come from the common
people rather tnau from the aristocrats.
That little viii ne accomplished by the
ariStOCratic brea kfasts and lunches by
millionaire women, she doubts
As an example of successful plat
form written by a woman, Mrs. Fergu-
son cited the famous Omaha platform of
the Populist party. Tbs was written by
Mrs Annie L. DiEss, she said.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-02-03
Death OF Bub Tollison.

Corinth, Jan. 29.-Special: After
short illness from heart and kidney
affection, Bub, the eldest son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Tollison, died Lass
Wednesday afternoon. He had beeu
a sufferer for the past two weeks, but
was thought to be doing very well
until Tuesday o'clock, when he
grew worse, and at 3.35 o'clock We'd
nesday afternoon he passed to his
reward. He bore his sufferings gent
ly and said he was ready to go. He
was in his 2Sth year. When 20 years
Of age he united with the Corinth
Baptist church, and was devoted
member until his death. He was a
true Christian and faithful worker
In the Masters cause His many
kind deeds shall never be forgot. ..
ten. He numbered his friends by
the score. His noble, true Christian
life should be an example for others
to follow In the presence OF a large
and sorrowing concourse Of ftiends
funeral services were conducted at
Corinth church Thursday afternoon
at O'Clock by Rev. w. II. Land. His
remains were laid to rest in Corinth
cemetery. His death is not only sad
to his loved ones, but the whole com
munity Is grieved. He leaves \ wife
and little babe, father and mother,
two sisters and two brothers to
mourn their loss. The family have
the deepest sympathy Of the entire
community in their hour Of sorrow.