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he was made for. While he was counsel for Admiral Schley while that grand hero was pursued by the envy and malice of precious little set who assumed that nobody should wear a laurel however gallantly won, without their permission. In that court martial Rayner discovered an aptitude for the nisi prius practice that stamps him as one of the great trial lawyers in the country. Had he had twelve men in box before him his victory would have been as complete as 1t deserved to be. However, some four score and more millions of American citizens were his jury and they gave him
 the verdict he pleaded for
 As a senator Rayner took high rank from the first day of his appearance in that body. In the debate of the rate bill he was second to none, and according to my poor thinking he was first on the Democratic side in the debates on the tariff bill just enacted.
 This man is a Jew, that wonderful race that produced Abraham, Moses. David
 A Jew wrote the book of Job, Jews wrote the Psalms, a Jew wrote the grandest of all OI lHeHl, illt DoOk ol lSdldli. Niidb O
 race 1t Is, and here I shall take the lib- erty of quoting from that magnificent pro-
 duction that ought to be in the hands of every intelligent young man and woman in
 the world, "The Scattered Nation," by Zebulon B. Vance. Citing Prof. Maury,
 There Is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts 1t never fails, and in the
 mightiest floods It never overfows. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain and its
 mouth is in the arctic seas." Vance then says:
 This curious phenomenon in the phy-
 sical world has it's counterpart in the
 moral. There is a lonely river in the
 midst of the ocean of mankind. The
 mightiest floods of human temptation have never caused 1t to overflow and the l 1ercest fires of human cruelty though
 seven times heated In the furnace of 1 religious bigotry, have never caused 1t to dry up, although it's waves for two thous- 1 and years have rolled crimson with the l blood of Its martyrs It's fountain Is in l the gray dawn of the worlds history, , and It's mouth Is somewhere in the shad- 1 ows of eternity. It, too, refuses to mingle
 with the surrounding waves, and the line 1 which divides it's restless pillows from the l common waters of humanity is also
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John Pollard, Charles Ryland. w. c. James. c. II. Winston, E. H. Pitts and Judges Witt and Christian.
 For the first two or three weeks I spent the week days at Buckroe Beach. three miles from Old Point. The cottage looks out upon the noble bay, and the surf is nothing short of sublime.
 But as August wanes I sigh for my na- tive mountains, and am now writing at Ash Lawn, five miles from Charlottesville. Ash Lawn was the residence of the late John E. Massey and of President Monroe. It is beautifully situated at the foot of the southwest mountains. Tn the spacious yard is noble pine tree, said to have been planted by MT. Monroe
 I have read a letter from Thomas Jeff ferson to James Madison, begging MT. Madison to buy farm in this neighbor- hood and urging the inducement that Monroe has just bought a place near me" Mir. Jefferson's residence, Monti- cello. is only 21s miles from Ash Lawn.
 This region is the hot bed of distin- guished Americans. Within a distance of some 26 miles resided Thomas Jefferson. James Madison, James Monroe, Governor Gilmer. Andrew Stevenson, William c.
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burg wants a temporary pastor to serve till they can settle on a permanent one, and so on the 18th of November of last year this scribe moves to the Hill City, and begins work What a contrast to the dead levels of the eastern shore. Here you are among the slopes of the Blue Ridge. If you preach three times a week and climb up and slide down these snowy hills. looking after the sick in flock of 1000 you will feel thankful that you were reared among the mountains and have not lost the sublime art of climbing.
 My engagement ended here with the in- stallation sermon for Rev. w. W. Hamil- ton, who took charge on the first Sunday of June last.
 And now here comes an invitation to supply Calvary Baptist church, Rich mond, for the nine Sundays of July and August, and the First Baptist church, Richmond, for the first Sunday of Sep tember This makes the eighth vacation for which have supplied the "Old First, the mother church of the Baptists of Richmond. What a charming task l found it to supply both churches, to meet and preach to such old friends as R. J. Will lingham, J. w. MeCown, w. R. L. Smith,
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around me the evidence of the influence of great men in shaping the opinions and the actions of people who lived hun dreds of years after these great men died.
 So. in accounting for the fact that the eastern shore people are so intensely Virglnian, my mind goes back to Abel P. Upshaw. Judge Bailey and Henry A. Wise. all eastern shore men, all men of genius and all devoted virginians. Up- shaw was in Tylers cabinet and was killed by the explosion on the Prince ton" during Tyler's administration. Bail ley was one of the ablest constitutional lawyers in the congress of his day. Wise was a distinguished member of the House of Representatives and gave great trouble to John Quincy Adams in the debates of that body He has the honor of being embalmed in Adams's famous diary" in which multitudinous male dictions are heaped upon his devoted head. He conducted the anti-knownoth- ing campaign in the gubernatorial cleo ton of 1855, in which he destroyed tho knownothing party, when it was in the full tide of success After this campaign
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Rives. Judge Alexander Rives, Gov. James Barbour Justice p. P. Barbour. and Thackary Taylor was born in ths same region.
 Gilmer was secretary of the navy under Tyler and was killed by the explosion on the warshlp Princeton. Stevenson was speaker of the House of Representatives and minister to England. W. c. Rives was United States senator and minister to France. James Barbour was governor of Virginia, United States senator, min ister to England and secretary of war under J. O. Adams. P. P. Barbour was speaker of the House and justice of the United States supreme court. It was he who defended Andrew Jackson from Hem " C1ay's fierce attacks in the House of Representatives. Old Thomas Ritchie, the 'Nestor of the Press" used to say: 'sWhen I think of pure men, l think of Nathaniel Macon and Philip Barbour; but when I think Of great constitutional law yers I think of Barbour alone.
 In all my wanderings l have kept in touch iwth Birmingham. for the Age-Her- aid has followed me faithfully from pil- lar to post, and the Alabama Baptist has been equally attentive.
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these pontiffs were but gentiles in the garb of the Jews, initiating their whole routine All Christian churches are but ofrshoots from or gratis upon the old Jewish stock. Strike out all of Judaism from the Christian churcA and there re- mains nothing but an unmeanlng super- stitlon.'
 Vance then proceeds to pay a tribute to the civil policy of the Jews, and declares that every idea of civil liberty known to mankind sprang from them- Here is the passage:
 Their organic law, containing the eie- ments of their polity, though given by God himself, was yet required to be rat- fled by the whole people. This was done on Ebal and Gevruzzin, and is perhaps the first as it certainly is the grandest constitutional convention ever held among men. On these lofty mountains separated by deep and narrow ravine. all Israel. comprising three millions of souls, were assembled, elders, prophets, priests. wom- en and children and 500, 900 warriors led by the spearmen of Judah and the archers of Benjamin. In this mighty presence, surrounded by the sublime accessions to the grandeur of the same, the law was read by the Levites, line by line, item by item, whilst the tribes on either height signifed their acceptance thereof by res- ponsive amens. which pierced the heavens. Of all the great principles established for the happiness and good government of our race. though hallowed by the blood of the bravest and the best, and approved by centuries of trial, none had grander origin or more glorious complication than this one-that all governments de- rive their just powers from the consent of the governed"
 I make no apology for quoting so CO., piously from this oration of one of the greatest sons the South ever gave to our country, and next week I shall try to write something about Zebulon B. Vance.
 I have said that Rayner is the foremost orator and among the ablest Senators in Congress. I repeat 1t He has been in ! that body but four years, and got a place | in the front rank of 1t the very day he 1 was sworn in.
 | The senate never made a man illus trious; but men like Rayner make the Senate illustrious.
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some democratic editor proposed as text for the. funeral of the defrated party the 9th verse of the sth chapter of Job For We are but of yesterday and know noth= ing. because our days upon earth are a shadow" The party had been in exist ence but few years when it met it's death at the hands of Wise.
 September finds me on the eastern shore. The squirrels are cutting hickory nuts in the woods; tomatoes, green corn and butterbeans are in season, and you find your mind running on Brunswick stew The Rev. MT. Spuce, a distin- guished Presbyterian preacher of Nir- ginia, used to say that the mess of pot tage for which Esau sold his birthright was squirrel soup with plenty of toma- toes in it. Icannot accent his exegesis, but his taste was all right
 Rising at a. m., taking lunch of Virginia ham, biscuit and cold tea or milk,s then a tramp of from four to six miles in the woods, killing four squirrels three of them out of one tree-and get ting back to breakfast, surely this makes delightful renewal of ones youth,
 But the First Baptist church of Lynch
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mained entire. In snatching this reliu from the fiery furnace my hand was se- verely burnt
 The ashes of the body of England's master of metrical harmony were gath cred up and taken to Rome They were buried in one of the most beautiful spots in or around the eternal city" I re- member the lovely place well, having stood in its sacred quiet. It Is the Protestant cemetery. It is just outside the ancient, mouldering walls of Rome, away from the din of the city's life and noise The soil here responds freely to the touch of love and violets and other flowers and soft green grass adorn the little Gods Acre. Shelley had once said: 'Tt's beauty might make one in love with death, if one thought he could be buried here" Shelley's dust lies near that of his dear friend Keats, under the blue Italian skies and beneath the vio- lets.
 When Trelawny drew the heart of Shell ley from the fire he handed it to Leigh Hunt, who finally turned 1t over to Mrs. Shelley, who had it taken to England. where 1t was buried. Cor Cordium," said Leigh Hunt of him who sang of ths slxylark as never mortal sang before or since.
 But bless mel into all this have been led by 'the heart of dead countess" If the countess be dead, what a lively organ Is her heart It has led me down through all sorts of histories, into various ages of the world, and I haven't told all yet. Many of the facts that I have re- lated I had not thought of for years. but the heart of the countess-i Does the reader ask, After all cui bono?' really don't know; but I suppose we all have things stored away In our memories which would render the world no poorer ke
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gress that would have become a law but for James G. Blaine, making it illegal for the American people to choose Congress with democratic majority. Old Ben had just been beaten for reelection and was in a great rage A democrat of the name of Thompson with a 'p', got his seat and there was more re- joieing over it by democrats and some Massachusetts republicans also than there was over the national victory.
 William R. Marshall was the dominat- ing force of the democratic side of the Forty-fourth Congress, and he it was Keer as speaker over Samuel J. Randall in the democratic caucus. Morrison be- came chairman of the ways and means, brought in his famous ''horizontal'' bill which would have passed the House had not Speaker Kerr died in August, 1876
 The disputed presidential succession of 1S76-77 sent the tariff to the rear and Ran dall was chosen speaker of the Forty-ffth Congress; but he took care to take Nor rison off ways and means and give Fer nando Wood, who he made chairman, a committee opposed to tinkering with the tariff. Randall defeated Joe Blackburn after heated contest for the democratic caucus nomination for speaker of the Forty-sixth Congress, and he took good care that the House should not go monkeying with the tariff The Forty seventh Congress was republican and 1t passed the commission" tariff of 1883, much to the disgust of John sherman, who was with difficulty persuaded not to kill 1t for it's reduction of the duty m wool.
 But in 1882 there was a democratic tidal wave and John G. Carlisle beat Randall in the democratic caucus for speaker of the Forty-eighth Congress- He made Nor rison chairman of ways and means, and there was a general tariff bill greatly re- ducfng duties; but Randall mustered force enough on the democratic side to kill it.. of the national convention and the re- publican shrieked in derision, What are you going to have for a platform?"
 Nevertheless Cleveland was nominate and elected and the Forty-ninth Congress was democratic and Carlisle the speaker. Again Morrison was chairman of ways and means. and again he brought in a general bill, with free raw materials a
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ing summer saw him with a national reputation, one of the most gifted public men in the nation.
 I shall always be under obligation to Rayner for deal of amusement he af- forded in one of his speeches in the House of Representatives. I believe it was the Fifty-third Congress. and the Hawaiian affair was up for discussion. The republi- cans were raising Cane because Cleveland, rather than disgrace the flag, ordered it hauled down at Honolulu. A set of as precious knaves as ever coveted a vine yard had put up the flag and stolen the entire realm of the Hawaiian islands. and Ben Harrisons man, fellow named Sewall. of Maine, was particularly instru- mental in the affair. Cleveland recalled him, and he writ a remarkable letter about it. and until that letter got into print nobody supposed that Charles Dick ems could be rivaled in that sort of com position. The difference was that PecksniR was the child of Dickens's genius, while the letter of Sewall was the emanation or his heart.
 Well, Rayner made speech on that letter, and he LOOK an llluslfation lroH that set of rogues who sat in conclave in the ecstatic hope that old Martin Chuz- zlewlt was dying at the Blue Flagon inn In the midst of one of the villainies, old Anthony Chuzzewit interrupted and said, "Pecksniff, don't you be a hypocrite.'
 "A what, my good sir?" demanded Peck sniff.
 "A hypocrite."
 Charity, my dear" said MT. Pecksniff, ''When 1 take my chamber candlestick tonight, remind me to be more than usu- ally particular in praying for MT Anthony Chuzzlewit, who has done me an tn- justice"
 When Raynor quoted that passage, with fine scorn on his lips and fine indignation in his tone, the effect was prodigious. He got an ovation, that he had to divide with Charles Dickens, however and certain 1t is that he was glad to share it. Never theless the flag Is back, though 1t was brutal larceny, as every candid man must admit.
 | Rayne~ retired from Congress in 1895 and four years later he was elected At torney-General of Maryland and served | in that capacity four years. In 1904 he was chosen Senator from Maryland, and then 1t was that he attained to the place
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WANDERINGS IN OLD VIRGINIA-By J. Hden D.

\ PAVING Birmingham year ago
 last June and travelling by the 44 seaboard we reached the city of Portsmouth. Va, after a run of s6 hours. Here was my first pastorate after four years service as chaplain in the Con federate army, and it was pleasant to learn of the great improvement and en- largement made by my old church, the Fourth Street Baptist, since I left them in 1868.
 In the early days of reconstruction the people here were somewhat divided in politics, some were Confederates, some unionists and some mugwumps. before the term mugwumps was invented.
 You may not like the mugwumps and you may even think them insignificant but they certainly elected MT. Cleveland the only democratic president we have had since the war
 The political divisions among my Ports mouth people taught me one valuable les son, l. e., never to indulge in partizan politics from the pulpit. Indeed, l made a rule never to utter from my pulpit
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IVY HEN the fftieth grand inquest of W our republic was convened at this canital in It's frst renl1la z

IVY HEN the fiftieth grand inquest of NA/ our republic was convened at W this capital in It's first regular sitting, December B. 1887, the tariff was the paramount issue between the two great political parties and the debate of 1t in that body, largely academic, has not been surpassed for learning, logic and eloquence in our political history. It was democratic House and a repub- lican Senate. The President was dem- ocrat and in his message nailed the ban ner of tariff reform to the masthead, startled the country and challenged the adversary.
 It was notable body. From Alabama was Hilary A. Herbert and from Ark ansas was Clifton R. Brockinridge, Tur- ner and Crisp from George and Bynum and Shively from Indiana, John G. Car lisle and W. c. P. Breckinrdge from Kentucky and John A. Russell and Pat rick A. Collins from Massachusetts. Mis- souri sent Bland and New York S. S. Cox and Bourke Cochran. Pennsylvania sent Samuel J. Randall and c. R. Buck alew. Benton McMillin was from Ten
 
 person from Texas, and William l.. Will son from West Virginia. These sat on the democratic side.
 On the republican side were Tom Brown of Indiana, Reed and Dingley of Maine, Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, liamJulius Caesar Burrows of Michigan, Knute Nelson of Minnesota, Ben Butter- worth, Charles H. Grosvenor and Will liam Mckinley of Ohio, Pig Iron' Kelly and John Dalzell of Pennsylvania, and Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin.
 And on the democratic side was another. His was strange face, his a new voice in that body; but soon he was to approve himself worthy any mans steel and soon he took the place and held it--one of the front rank of the elite of the Amer ican Congress. a learned lawyer, a spen- didly equipped statesman, a consummate orator and formidable debater.
 Any sketch of Isidor Rayner would be imperfect without a brief view of the tariff question for the F years pre- ceding his advent on the public stage in 1874 to the astonishment of everybody and the dismay of the G. O. P. the democrats swept the country and old Ben Butler proposed a bill in the Forty-third Con
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-02-17

We are still selling oranges cheap.
er than apples, 45c peck. The Boys.7-z
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-02-17
EX- SECRETARY
LESLIE N. SHAW,
our DISTINGUISHED FELLOW ToWNSMAN
IN DENlSON ON BUSINESS AFFAIRS
WILL LOCATE IN PHILADELPHIA
His Old Friends Delighted to Have Mr. Shaw
With Them for Two Days and to Find
Him Interested in Them

Ex-Secretary L. M. Shaw arrived in
Denison Wednesday for visit with
his old neighbors, and to look up
some business affairs. He has been
meeting with most cordial and even
loving reception by the men and wo-
men who knew him so we'll in the days
when he practiced law and superin-
tended the Methodist Sunday school
in Denison. He is looking and feeling
exceedingly we'll. While in love with
the West, he has decided to move his
family to Philadelphia, and will head
u large Trust company. The report
that he would move to kansas City
had no foundation. He is hoping to
be in Washington to see his friend
Taft inaugurated. They were in the
cabinet together for five years, and
formed high regard for each other.
Mr.. Shaw is stopped by about every
one he meets on the street, and he is
interested in the personal affairs OF
each. He reports Mrs, Shaw as in
good health.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-02-17
SCHOOLS ARE PATRIOTIC.
Prof. Fellows Gives US the Following Account
Of Lincoln Day in the Denison Schools:

On last Friday special patriotic
programs were given in the different
rooms of the Central and of the North
school. The pupils of the West build
ing will give their program on Wash
ington's birthday. At the High
School Hon. c. F. Kuehnle delivered
a thoughtful and inspiring address on
Abraham Lincoln. Mr.. Kuehnle was
fnll of his subject and held the I'M
divided attention Of his audience for
forty five minutes. He traced the
early life of the great President and
pointed out the characteristics of per-
sonality that made his rise from the
humblest ranks to the highest posi-
tion in the gift of the nation, posi-
BILE. The lessons of honesty. kind
ness, perseverance. and sacrifice were
driven home in a foreceful way and
the whole address was so punctuated
with anecdotes from the humorous
side of Lincoln's nature that the time
passed rapidly. Mr.. Kuehnle is al
ways welcome speaker at the hi gh
school.
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OWNED LAND IN CRAWFORD.
Abraham Lincoln Once Owned Pat ). #.
Jepsen Farm in Goodrich Township. ~.

just at this time every community
is laying personal claim to Abraham
Lincoln. Gravity county can boast.
that Lincoln was for several years ia
land owner and that the land was a
part of his estate and remained as
family possession for quarter.of a
century after his death. The official
record is as follows: y s,.
East y NE14 NW14 NE14 1884 49,
Entered by Abraham Lincoln Dec 27 1853 L.W.
6se45
Patented to Abraham Lincoln Sept. 10 1860.
Sold Mar % 1892 by Robert Lincoln heirs to
Henry Edwards consideration $130O,OO
Sold Apr,25 1892 by Henry Edwards to EFT.
Cochran consideration S15C0.0O
Sold Oct, 20 1892 by Enoch T Cochran to Peter
f Jepsen consideration sl925oO the present owner.
The farm which sold for less than
$4,000 in 1892 could hardly be bought
for $4,000 today. so it would az pear.
that Abraham Lincoln showed better
judgment in securing the land, than
his heirs did in selling it.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-02-17
THE DISPATCH WAS A FAKE
Sensational Item Concerning Miss Olga
Mueller Proven Without Foundation.

The Register and Leader of Tues
day morning contained a dispatch
from St. Louis saying that Miss Olga
Mueller, teacher. daughter of DR..
Mueller of Denison. Iowa. had taken
poison by mistake. No further de-
tails were given. A Review repre-
sentative called at the Mueller home
to get further particulars and was
surprised to find that no word had
been received chat anything was
wrong. DR.. Mueller was shown the
item and he at once wired St. Louis.
Last night he received an. answer
from Miss Olga saying the newspaper
item was a mistake and that letter.
to follow would tell all about it.
We think it was another case Of the
ambitious press correspondent who
probably magnified some little acci-
dent in order to earn his penny line.
At any rate. Denison friends are re-
joiced that no i'll has befallen Miss
Mueller.