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gruelling half hour the second session of the Fourteenth Congress, John Randolph of Roanoke exclaimed, He's a kitchen knife whetted on a brickbatl" But sub sequently Hardin became anti-Jackson, a whip, and a follower of Clay
 None of our great orators has suffered more at the hands of the reporters than Hardin. Because of a crippled arm 1t was great labor for him to write and even had he written with all the faculty of Dumas he could not have reproduced a. single one of his great speeches. But as reported every speech of Hardin is read able. There Is not dull sentence in any one of them It was an intellectual im- possibility for the man to conceive, much less to say, a dull thing. But Hardin was an actor On the stage he would have been Kean for tragedy and a Jeff ferson for comedy. He was blessed in ex- travagant degree with an exquisite sense of humor that made him a happy man~an his days, though he could hate with the animosity of the very old horned devil himself
 l will say of this man. whom my fa- ther personally knew, and somewhat in- tmately-and several are the stories of him my father regaled me with when I was lad-I will say of Ben Hardin that he did as much to establish the historic fact that the quality. individuality and the commonwealth Kentucky, are not only near kin, but twin. as any other man who ever stood between earth and sky on that glorious old sod
 Now I am not nearly done with this man, and shall continue the story of him according to my version next week. and do it not only mindful, but defiant. of the fact that when the stuff gets on tho desk of nearly all the managing editors. they will throw 1t In the waste basket with a Who the h-l was Ben Hardln?'
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the many sorts of man he was. Under his tutelage young Ben became the most ex- pert "seven-up" player in the whole country round about; but he rarely gam bled, though it was an age when to gamble to drink and to fight were the common vacations of ninety per cent of the male population of the entire state.
 Before he was 20, young Hardin was sent to study law under the tutelage of his uncle, Martin D. Hardin, of Rich mond, Ky. There were few books, and he was set down to that terror of terrors, Coke on Littleton. Here I will quote from one of the shrewdest observers:
 Most men think they are busy when they are simply occupied. The secret of success is the compression by the hydraulic force of a masterful intellect of the maximum of accomplishment into a minute, and the utilizing of 60 minutes in the hour and every wakeful hour of the day"
 That is what Ben Hardin did. It made him greater lawyer than his rival Row an, or any of his cousins, the Wickliffs, or anybody else, except George Ropert- son. and I will say that if there was a better lawyer in all Kentucky than Rob- ertson it was Hardin, and if there was a better lawyer in all America than liar ain it was Robertson.
 After year in the office of Martin D. Hardin the young man returned to Nel- son county and entered the office of the great Felix Grundy as a pupil. It was the ablest bar of the state at that time, which means that it was the ablest bar between the Allegheny mountains and the setting sun. This boy. with glow ing and growing mind, daily attended the sittings of the court. saw mind clash with mind, learning confuted by learning. Never was there a better school, never an apter scholar-never anywhere were
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German invasion of England is chimera raised by politicians for political pur- pose and if ever there was an illustra- tion of the engineer being hoist by his own petard'' the promoters of the German invasion scare have furnished it.
 A few words of explanation are neces- sary to show how the alarmists got caught in their own trap. The term of ex- istence of either political party in office in the English House of Commons de- bends upon that party retaining the sup port of it's members. At the last general election in Great Britain the liberals were returned to office by an overwhelming majority and immediately the tories, led by A. J. Balfour set about pulling down that majority and driving them out. Jn every political party there are disafected members who profess allegiance, but play the traitor. and such a man Is Lord Rose bery to the liberal party. He did not &C., tually join Balfour, but never lost an op- portunty to criticize the liberal leaders and their policy and did succeed in se- dueing a few into opposition. Another re- cruit to the tory ranks was Admiral Beres- ford, who had been superseded by Ad-
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but owing to the rigors of the Canadian winter, several, three, I believe, went south Two settled in Virginia, and the other continued his journey and located in South Carolina.
 The name became Saxonized, and from 1t we get Hardin, Harden and Harding, and the greatest, most eminent, and the most distinguished of the entire blood was the remarkable man of whom I am now trying to write, "Old Ben Hardin, of Kentucky" It is a soldier race, and it's blood has fertilized many field of battle in defense of our great country. It is an adventurous race, and the name Har- din is writ conspicuous beside those of Boone Kenton, Harrod. Logan and the other pioneers of 'The Dark Bloody Ground"
 Ben Hardin was the sixth child of a family of seven children. His parents were Ben and Sarah, cousinsGerman, and he was born in Pennsylvania, February 29, 17S4. His parents did not intend to leave Virginia, and when they ascertained that they were in Westmoreland county, Pa, it was much to their discontent and some what to their disgust When Ben was 4 years old, they moved to Kentucky and settled in the grand old county of Nelson. The mother was the head of the family.
  If thou hadst been wife to Hercules. Six of his labors thou'ld have done, and
 saved
 Thy husband so much sweat.
 Fl line understanding and only such a woman could have been the mother of such a son. She was of that Virginia that Brad dock came to protect from the French man and the Indian. She had been the neighbor of, and had met and intimately known, George Washington, and when she led her husband and children to Kentucky, she was there a mother in Israel an explemplar of the tolls and triumphs of
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"HIS is the title of book by Prof.
 c. II. Toy of Harvard It Is pub 4 lshed by Little. Brown & Co.,, Bos- ton, and contains 456 pages. pr. Toy calls 1t "A sketch of the Progress of Thought from the Old Testament to New Testament;'' and says it was meant to give "a general historical survey of the period reaching from the distinct le- gal organization of the Jewish people to the close of the New Testament canon.
 In the limits of a newspaper article 1t is, of course, impossible to give anything like an elaborate review of such work; but after a careful study of its pages, and a good deal of reflection upon the general scope of the discussion, l believe that 1t is not impracticable to give, in brief space, a fair idea of the gen. eral character and the special tone of this remarkable book.
 The reading of this book somewhat viv- idly recalls two snatches of verse from different sources. The first is from an "Old Play" quoted by Sir Walter Scott, in the Monastery" and runs thus: Now, on my faith, this gear all en-
 tangled,
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, as it reached it's boiling, seething climax In which the serpent hiss of hate was
 heard at intervals amid its louder, deeper, hoarser tones, it was like the falls of NJ agara in its tremendous down-sweeping cadence It was whirlwind. tornado, a cataract of illimitable rage"
 And yet Forests voice could become as dulcet as a flute. It was said by Hazlitt when the great Edmund Kean made his farewell in ''Othello," that his voice was like the "sighing of the south wind through cypress grove" so soft and musical was 1t. The same has been af- firmed of the voice of Forrest. But at other times it was like the blast of storm. I recollect well scene in Jack Cade.'' Forrest wore costume of peasants gray. A crucial moment was reached Theshero was led on by sense of the approaching crisis, until, as Milton has it, he reached
 '"The height of his great argument"
 Louder and louder Forests voice be- came It was a roaring cataract. Taller and taller his form grew. and when he defantly lowered across the stage its very beams seemed to sway, while the vast au- dience sat appalled, and breathless, leaning forward unconsciousy. When the mar vicious spell was broken the audience went wild. I shall never forget that scene.
 I cannot conceive of any actors ability being equal to Forests in the tragic climax of Corolanus, just before the con- spirators accomplish their bloody purpose. He was then a towering giant falling ma jestically into the wreck of helplessness and death
 Forests greatest part was King Lear. It has been said that, as the heart broken king, he eclipsed Garrick, Cook and Kean, which is only another way of saying that he was the most perfect Lear the world had ever looked upon. Douglas Jerrold said: From the first scene to the last he was the Lear of the immortal bard The imprecation drew thunders of applause. It was dreadful in its intenseness and reality. He reminds one of the palmy days of Kemble and Kean."
 Forrest made Lear his life study. He visited asylums for the insane and public homes for aged people. He studied tho manner of naniacs and their facial ex- pressions, and carefully noted the lines of physical decay upon the faces of the aged. Thus he learned his part. He consid cred ,ear study In the scie' Zee of psychology. He never forgot that ! was representing an old man. and that old man king. His mighty physique enabled him to look the mart of a king and his art disclosed the '.blasted heath where once the king s mind reigned with such majesty, but now .sThe leafiess desert of the mindt'
 Someone compimented Forrest upon his .'playing Lear" He rose, and in his pas sionate manner, said "sr, I play Ham, let. Othello and the others, but I do not play Lear; am Lear
 Forrest had not the temperament nec- essary to a perfect rendition of Hamlet. fancy that E. L. Davenport was a better Hamlet. This Is only my opinion. never saw Mr. Davenport as Hamlet, though have seen him as the Ghost. The great
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4 IL political signs in Europe today
 "A point to war The black clouds 4 A which darken the sky on a sum mer's day do not more certainly presage thunder and lightning than do the war clouds which are gathering in the political sky in Europe presage the outbnrst of hostilities at a very early date. The sit- uation cannot continue as it is. It is too strained, too nerve wracking, too intense. There must be relief, and that can only come through an explosion which will clear ~he atmosphere and at the same time disclose the destruction which has been done. Today nothing is heard but talk of arms and armament, tomorrow or next day it may be the clash of arms and armament; but whether it be tomorrow or next day, that clash has got to come and, such being the case, the sooner the better. It was Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who said that when the time comes for thing to happen it were bet ter that 1t should happen than at some future time, as deferring the inevitable only made matters worse, and in the opin- ion of all who are competent to judge the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-10
FIRING OVER EUROPE-By F. l. Monks

introduced a budget which has set wealthy England bowling. which has brought out Rosebery in his true colors when he denounced it's framers as social ists. Asquith has decided that as it was the tories who worked up the demand for the navy they shall pay for the navy, and Instead of the liberal party suffering de- feat in the House of Commons on the vote for the navy estimates the majority has increased. Asquith is today the most popular man in England, except for the handful of women known as suffragettes, and the liberal party has so strengthened it's position that 1t is almost certain to have an enormous majority at the next general election.
 The tory party in England sees nothing ahead now but the prospect of war and such is the desire for office by that party that 1t would not hesitate to plunge Eng land, and with England all Europe. into war. And why should they? Is not the rank and file recruited from the masses, and have not the masses incurred the dis pleasure of the classes? Why certainly. These masses require to be thinned; they must be taught a lesson, and whiff of gra peshot from the muzzle of a German howitzer will serve the purpose exactly
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THE Edict of Nantes was the work
 of Henry of Navarro and grim old
 \ Sully, the latter the faithfullest and one of the sagest counsellors who ever advised a King of France. It was the termination and adjustment of the re- ligious wars that began soon after the death of Francis l. and continued until the coronation of Henry ", a period of over a century and three score years. And what a heroic period it was, the long struggle for supremacy between the Valois, the Bourbon and the Lorraine! What a waste of genius it was, over an absurd quarrel as to which was the right road to heavenl But it made the richest food for history and romance though history as yet has barely tasted it, while romance is surfeited with it. My friend Tom Watson has written very readable book about France, but 1t is mere gossip. When the historian of France comes he will have many accomplishments. He will be Gibbon and Hume, Swift and Hazlitt, Hallam and Macauay, and to these shall be added the splendid ina agination of Burke and the Ithuriel spear of Carlyle.
 well, that Olu feproDdte LOUIS AlF., III that most unhappy state possible to us poor sinners, found himself impotent with years and harrassed with the animal lusts of youth, and so he married, but did not crown, the widow of crippled man, who had written some witty and filthy poetry and prose, one Scarran. The woman, Madame Maintenon, was an cce for love, but volcano for religion, and she caused her senlle old husband to make the Edict of Nantes, and it cost France more than the defeats of Crecy, Poictiers and Azincourt combined.
 The best blood of France fled the realm Many located in England. Others came to the western hemisphere. South Caro- lima received great numbers of them; but many more located in Canada, and to Canada went some brothers, Harding;
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ssK0 f'''ss rss,' ''''s'' did his genius
 4 With Shakespeare's best in

A With Shakespeare's best in-
 terpreters
 His name is graven on Fame's temple
 front,
 With Kean's and Kembes, name that
 will not die
 While memory venerates the poets
 shrine.'
 wrote an article some time ago for a New York weekly whose publication brought me a most agreeable letter from an old and well known actor. I had known him in my childhood. In his letter he recalled to my mind many scenes and persons that I immediately recolleoted. Through the mists of distant years saw my friend again as I had seen him through my childish eyes. in his vigorous, handsome young manhood, wearing "the sock'' or "buslSin," as Thespis required. In those days my friend played with James w. Wallack, Jr., E. L. Davenport, John Sleeper Clark, who married Asia Booth. sister to Edwin Booth; Lucille Western, Maggie Mitchell, Mrs D. P. Bowers and many others who have all ready trod
 ''The way to dusty death.'
 The greatest actor with whom my friend played In those days was the wonderful tragedian whose name heads this paper, Edwin Forrest. He played with Forrest in the engagement during which the ill., ness set in that terminated his life and removed from the histrionic world the last great Lear, the last Corioanus and, per- haps the greatest Brutus that America ever gave to the stage.
 Now leaving my old friend whose letter has been excitive of "reminiscences to which I readily yielded, I shall confine myself to biographical sketch and an appreciation of the tragedian, Edwin For rest.>
 In his early life it was the purpose of the parents of Forrest to educate him for the ministry, but the boys ability to mim- sion that the stage and not the pulpit was to be the sphere of his activities. At ten years of age, he joined a dramatic club, and soon thereafter appeared in one of the theatres in Philadelphia, his native city, acting the part of girl
 When he was 14 years old he played the character of Young Norvell, in the trag- edy of Douglass" This seems to have been a favorfte character with young tragedians in the times of our grand fathers, for I have noticed that many of the famous actors began their profess sional life as Young Norvell
 Forests youth, reserved manner, fexi- ble voice, grace of movement and winning magnetism won the unstnted applause of large audiences. In his immature acting they saw the promise of famous future. Night after night he played various char acters in new dramas with the same sat- isfactory results. Growies in his art. he
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terpreters His name is graven on Flames temple front, With Keans and Kembles name that will not die While memory venerates the poets shrine"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-02-04
THE WORTH OF A WORKER.

Something may be said for the con-
tention that protection is needed by
the American laborer against the
strain of speeding up and the long
hours Of work. AS a proof Of the
manner in which human flesh and
blood is being ground up in American
mills, and as proof that Blaine was
right when he said that the actual
labor-cost Of American products is
less, on account Of the superior effec-
tiveness of American labor, than that
of the products Of any other nation,
the estimate Of the annual product of
the workers of different nations made
by William G. Clark in the Engineer
ing Magazine for May, 1904, is well
worthy Of consideration.
According to this estimate, the
years output Of a wage-earner is
worth in this country, $2,450 per
year. The Yankee workman's nearest
competitor, the Canadian, produces
Sl,455 per year; the Australian,
5000; the French wage-worker, 500;
the much-dreaded "pauper" worker
of the United Kingdom, 1856; and
the German, $3.50.
AS to labor it would seem that the
American trust may we'll hold its own
with other nations, its most active
competitors among which have to use
labor which is only from one-ffth to
little more than one-third as effec-
tive as ours. Conceding that the
American laborer gets more for the
days work, he is still cheaper
workman, measured in what he does,
than any Of them.-LaFollette s
Magazine.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-02-04
: or THE MANY.
Austin BieYbOber

royal personages. The dramas had
some noble character for the admira-
ton of the public. IF a common indi-
vidual was the hero Of play or novel,
he was a prince in disguise, or shown
to be Of high birth. The heroes and
heroines were often stolen from gyp-
sizes, and in their youth mistakenly
thought to be common people, Even
Shakespeare's plays turn on the
merits of some prince or aristocrat.
The people were the rabble, unfit for
anything but comic situations. Only
In modern times have the many en-
tered fiction as heroic. Princes are
not so much esteemed or needed. The
common people take their place in
literature, as in other branches Of
life, and this is the age Of the many,
which literature reflects, as does
every other branch.
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