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The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-11-12

A card from DR.. j. E. Urich, in New
York, states that he is now enroute to
Melbourne, where he will again put the
DentOs in commission for the winter
business "along the only great river
the Indian" He states that he has
had a very pleasant summer IN New
York.
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meath contempt. mere artificial aeei- dent was paraded as an essential. And yet not a few writers who mean to be serious and even philosophical work out, print and publish definitions which are open to this fatal objection. When Chris Unity is defined with Christ left out precisely this blunder is made.
 At the commencement exercises of a theological seminary in Pennsylvania after learned discourses from divers dis tinguished professors. a plain working pastor was called upon for a speech. He had not been notified that he was ex- pected to speak, and so was taken some what at a disadvantage. Here is a con- densed report of his speech:
 After all these scholarly professors, what can a plain pastor do but give you young preachers some practical points about the pastorate. If you are to suc- ceed in the pastorate you must keep your eyes open. You HebreF graduates have found out that, in wfiting your exer- cises, it was important to know what to do with your Dagesh Forte.' but I can tell you that in your pastorate 1t will be a great deal more important to know what to do with the long-tongued and short-tempered deacon, who is vexed with you because you did not invite his stupid nephew to supply your pulpit dur ing your vacation.
 '"1 ne Hebrews were so much in favor of 'women's rights that they gave fem mine form even to their verbs. To be sure. most other nations have somehow
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COMMENTS-By J. C. Hiden, D. D.

many a spiritual worker if he could take just such a view.
 In accordance with the principle set forth In the last paragraph, we will pro- pose an Experiment which may be profit able to some of our readers, if they will take the trouble to make it. Write down from memory "the Lords Prayer, ,n@ and then examine the New Testament, and see if 1t contains your reeension of that prayer. If you cannot find your version in the New Testament then ask your self the pertinent question: Where did I get it?p A preacher, who was well known as one of the ab1est debaters in Virginia, was called upon to conduct service in one of the state institutions. The superintendent, in giving him. the order of the exercises, instructed him to use the Lord s Prayer at a certain point, but when the preacher reached that point 1t became evident that he was unable to repeat that familiar composition.
 The following paragraph was originally composed for the benefit of the younger generation, but unless the older readers possess more than average information they, too, may learn something from 1t;
 For some of our younger readers, it may not be amiss to state that the Lords prayer occurs in two places in the New Testament that is in Matthew and in Luke It is evident from the connection that 0) 1t was given at different places, @ at different times, (9 in different
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TS HERE was a very wide margin of
 life-its ideals and it's experiences
 X between George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. These two were types of divisions of the American community in 1776 and also in 1860, but the Washing ton type had been in the ascendant from the beginning. Jefferson Davis was par excellence the incarnation of the Wash ington type.
 The southern Confederacy was the legit- innate successor of the civics established under Washington; as much entitled to that succession of intellectual, moral and social influence and opportunity as Ed ward is to the crown of Victoria. There are two instincts dominant in the genus homo, and these are the instinct of re- ligion and the instinct of organization for purposes of government. The instincts Of the southern people for religion and civil organization were precisely the same, dis tinct, active, and uncalculating, in the time of Jefferson Davis that they were in the time of George Washington. If Washington was not wrong, Davis was right
 The story of the genesis and career of the southern Confederacy should be writ ten and given to immortality under the patronage of the statea of Alabama. Clr- cumstances near and remote, conditions that cannot be ignored. justify this state in the enterprise and exalt the enterprise to a reverent responsibility. The scrip lures are the most widely read book, yet long after the art of printing had been invented, monarch after monarch found his patronage of the printers of the Bible necessary to it's publication and distribu- tion Let Alabama perform a duty, due from her to the sacredness of the part she
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forms. Matthew's reeension occurs as part of the Sermon on the Mount" Luke's was given in response to a re- quest from the disciples, who reminded our Loyd that John the Baptist had taught his disciples to pray. and they asked Jesus to follow Johns example. Even In our Authorized Version" Mat thew's recension of the prayer Is longer that Luke's. But the best-edited critical texts of the Greek testament show that the difference in length between Matthew and Luke is really and decidedly greater than It appars to be in our common yer sion. The scholars have shown that some comparatively late "eopyists ts-scandallzed, no doubt, at the difference between Mat thews and Luke's recensions of the prayer-"doetored" Lukes text by putting into 1t quite a number of words taken bodily from Matthew's recension. These words of course, the "crltieal' editions of the Greek testament have discarded from Luke's test. The Greek tevt, from which the Revised Version" of the New Testament was made, discards them and hence in that version you find Luke reeension of the prayer considerably shorter than that of the Authorized Version"
 If the following anecdote does not amuse you, then you are hard to amuse:
 Dean Afford, in his entertaining little book, Stray Notes on the Queens Eng fish," tells story of a cadet at a mill
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YOUNG SOUTHERNERS-BY Savoyarl

death He Is relied on by parents and man and skillful leech, he brings hope to 10000 burdened hearts. He Is in the confidence of all his clients, as much so as the minister of Christ, and @ good doctor, who is at the same time a good man, honorable and high-minded, Is benefactor to his community, in city or in country
 And such a doctor and such a man is Tom Hefin's father Young He1in was born in 1869 and received a collegiate edu- cation. Some men are destined for public life from their cradles. This boy Is one of them. At 24 he was mayor of his town, and at the expiration of his term he was reelected. Then he was register in chan cery, which he resigned for a seat in the legislature, to which he was reelected. He held a place in tho organization of the democratic party of tfis, state, and was delegate to the constitutional con- vention, a certificate of confldAnce the very highest a political constituency .can confer on a representative. It beats Coh- gress, either branch Of it. In 1902 he was elected secretary of state but resigned the office when his term had half ex- pired
 During the life of the Fifty-eighth Con gress, Charles w Thompson of the Fifth Alabama district died He was an ad- mirable man, and his heath universally deplored by all his associates of both parties. Without opposition and by com mon consent Tom Hehin was chosen to
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allowed the advantage that came to Blaine, leader of the minority of the Forty-fourth, or to Garfield, leader of the Forty-fifth and Forty-siXth Con- gresses, or to Reed and Mckinley, joint leaders of the minority of the F1ftieth Congress, there is no telling what he might have accomplished, and it will all ways be regret to his friends that John Sharpe Williams was denied opportunity to assume the leadership on the floor of a majority of the House of Representatives.
 Among the very promising younger members of the House is Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee. MT. Blaine remarks in his book that a man rarely makes his mark in either house of our Congress unless he attained his seat therein ere he had reached 40, and there are just about enough exceptions to vindicate the rule. Thaddeus Stevens was a remarkable eX- ception, being 5S when he first sat in the House at Washington. John G. Carlisle was 42 in 1877 when he first came to Con- gress, James B. Beck was 45, William c. P. Breckenridge 4S, and numerous other notably triumphant careers in Congress might be cited as exceptions to the rule laid Town by Mr. Blaine.
 Ffnis Garrett Is descendant of the second generation of South Carolinian who settled in west Tennessee in 1850, To- eating in Weakey county. The father of the young congressman, yet living, is a famer, and I opine a Cumberland Presby- terian in religious faith, and l jump to
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late. However. they do not know any, thing regarding sanitary laws, but under American tutelage they will readily &C., quire this. and cholera and bubonio plagues will be things of the past. AL though not as artistic as some of the other Asiatio people, the ragalogs have good taste and promising talent along these lines. The embroidery work of tho women Is as good If not better as any that ever came out of Japan or Mexico. Tag alog painters and sculptors have executed pieces that have taken high prizes at the Madrid Art exhibitions. As meohan- les they are very apt and have done praiseworthy work as wood carvars and silversmiths. As imitators they are par excellence and in this respect are not ex- ceIled even by the Japanese. The middle class Tasalog is very fond Of reading
 The class of literature that most appeals to them is stories of romance and adven- ture. Such books travel from hand to hand and every shack contains several well-worn dog-eared books. Every house has a Bible which has been translated into their language by the spaniards.
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eloquence of speech far above the average congressman. He has made several speeches in which he displayed fine forensic abilities, and they evidenced an industry and talent for research that would be the making of far less bounti- fully gifted man.
 His speeches on. the tariff were excep- tionally strong and ,he held his own with veterans in the running .colloquies that are the real test of the parliamentary de- bate. With a strong mind, a capacity for laboring and long continued study engaging manners, an unfailing courtesy a ready and a fluent speech, attended with elegant phraseology and eloquent de- livery, this man will be a familiar per- sonality in every political circle before the world is many years older, or I am moro mistaken than I generally am.
 Another young southerner who gives promise of a brilliant parliamentary ca reer is James Thomas Heflin of Alabama He is the son of an eminent physician of large country practice. Of all men your doctor should be perfect gentle man. He Is the deposltary of a thousand family secrets He can point to the closets that contain a thousand family skle- tons. How is the quotatlon2 There Is a coffin behind every front door, and Q skeleton in every colset." The doctor is with us at our birth. He stands by us in our cradle. He Is our reliance in time of distress. He is with us in the hour of
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gomery various eminent men from other states. The governor took his seat in the convention as from Sumter county. Yam cey was a delegate from Montgomery county.
 Yancey, as usual, took charge of the convention. His speech there has few parellels in the annals of political ora tory. Let us meet Philip" was the practically unanimous voice of the dele gates when he sat down.
 The state democratic party organiza- ton was Ignored. The convention or ganized the democratic and anti knownothing party" Delegates were selected to the forthcoming national democratic convention at Cincinnati and electors for the state were chosen. The Alabama platform of 1S48 was re- affirmed.
 There was henceforward no other party of control in Alabama and Yancey led 1t to the last.
 This was the party that broke up the Charleston convention.
 Fortunately Alabama has already col lected considerable volume of histori- cal data and has in operation a depart ment of history, liberally supported by annual appropriations of public funds adequate if so applied to the prepara- ton and publication of the proposed history.
 The emergency grows apace. Our peo- pie have been so oppressed with oppo- sition, in their affairs of local govern ment. the last 40 years have been so exercised in labors to rebuild their waste places. that the intelligent world without threatens to surpass them in the duty of making record of the his- tory of the Confectionery. Several Eng fish authors have contributed invalua-
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mack 10 years in the House and Senate. four years he was vice president, served less than five years in the two houses of Congress; his cousin, w. c. P. Brecken- ridge, was 10 years In the House, and Clifton R. Breckenridge was Il years in that body. Champ Clark first entered Congress in 1891.
 From the foregoing it can be drawn that public life in the United States is very short compared with that of Great Britain and other European nations. The reason is that in our country a states man is tied to single constituency, so the electorate of a republic where uni- versal manhood suffrage maintains is gen. erally whimsical. Oftimes 1t Is malicious and tires of hearing Aristides called The Just"
 And, therefore, opportunity is always open to the young man in Congress, if he have the stuff in his makeup that advances him to the front. Who would have thought, looking down from the gallery on the deliberations of the Fifty third Congress, that a certain little and not at all handsome member from Mis- sissippi, MT. John Sharp Williams, would develop into one of the ablest one of the most adroit, one of the most bril- liant leaders of a minority the American Congress ever saw, and that, too, when an insolent and a brutal majority had shackled and gagged him? If he had been
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who arc dependent upon them for sup port, but they are always treated with the utmost respect and veneration and are never made to feel that they arc not entirely welcome to everything that can be provided for their comfort Let us hope that this is a part of the Chris tian civilization that the Spaniards be- queathed to these people and that some real Christian good came out of the Spanish regime, that to all appearances was nothing more or less than selhshness and brutality. Everyone who has visited the Philippines and had social inter course with the Tagalogs, especially tho better classes, knows that their hospi- tality Is beyond reproach. There Is not a race of people in the world who will exert themselves more than the Tasa1ogs to make the stranger within their gates feel at home They embrace every oppor- tunity to feast and entertain visiting strangers and their guests are always welcome to the best they have, even if they have to deprive themselves to ob- tain it. This custom Is so universal that outside of the cities but few if any hotels are to be found in the country, strangers being entertained as honored guests by the best families in the community In out of the way places the rivalry between the natives for the honor of entertaining a stranger is intense, and traveller Is often greatly perplexed in choosing who shall be his host, and for fear of offend ing others will solve the riddle by length ening his stay and stopping for a day with each of several families. They are very anxious to appear well socially and this is one of the reasons assigned for their unbounded hospitality. They are extremely fond of pomp and display, and delight in anything in the nature of a ceremony.
 When travelling among these people and hunger overtakes you, you may go into any shack where the family happens to be dining and take your place around the common rice bowl and help yourself to whatever food 1t contains. Who you are where you arc from. where you are going and what your business is, is never asked The door of a native shack knows no locks or bolts. so if the stranger is tired and wishes a shelter he may enter any house that strikes his fancy and lay down in the .'surlo (the common sleeping room) and neither man nor woman objects.
 Like all Asatics the Tagalogs are ex- tremely clean people-that Is regarding their. persons They bathe often, several times during the day and change their scanty clothing at every bath. They are very dainty regarding their simple cook ing and their houses or huts are fmmacu-
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ments and leave out all the accidents of the thing. The color of a horse is not an element of the animal, if he be regarded as an individual under class; for the eolors of horses vary. Classification, then, is needed, and classification. or generalization" as tn philosophers call it, is one of the high est exercises of the human intellect Buckles History of Civilization in England' is one long series of genera1i- zations. So are Darwins "origin of Species,p and Lecky's History of Rationalism."
 Suppose a boy in the defining" class defines Q horse as "a four-footed beast of burden; he has failed to classify; for his so-called "dennitionn includes the ass, the mule, the OK, the camel and the elephant. In short, his def milton" does not define
 If Plato really did define man as "a two-legged animal without feathers, !" then his reputation as a philosopher was not much enhanced Jy the definition. But the man who is said to have thrown a picked chicken into a lecture room, say ing: There is one or Pato's men for you" did not really refute the philos- opher, for the fact that this individual chicken was without feathers was in eertificial fact, produced arbitrarily in that particular bird, and such a fact had nothing to do with classification Even as a joke the transaction was poor enough and as philosophy 1t was be-
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If we are disposed to rely on the evil dence there was at Charleston in May, 1860, no indication whatever that MT. Douglas could carry for the democrats a solitary state electoral college that had in office a republican state legislature. So intense was the anti-democratic senti- ment in those republican states that l8 of the number by their legislature had nulihed the federal constitution, def1ed the supreme court and bullied the pres ident. They were in open and armed h. surrection. The notion that anyone Of them could be persuaded, by MT. Douglas and the south, to repudiate Lincoln Is pre- posterous. The states that already main tained republican party government pos sessed a clear majority of the electorate vote and very large majority of the popular vote.
 Alabama did break up the Charleston convention but two years before Lincoln had defeated Douglas in Illinois. He did not prevent the reelection of Douglas to the Senate, but in the great campaign of joint debate between the men, he carried the day in the public mind.
 Alabama saw at Charleston the states that could give no electoral votes to the nominee of the convention determined to take control of the politics of the states which alone could be expected to cast electoral votes for that nominee. There was avarice, ambition and rivalry. The quadrennial period was come again when the honors and emolument of the great government were to be distributed by sections. The entire structure of society, there or here, had to be recast before the equities of a constitutional government could be enforced over the sections in their state of disoord.
 Two new parties were formed in lSo6, and each was a sectional party Governor
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worked along without this arrangement still in writing your Hebrew exercises you have found 1t important to numor these feminine verbs by making their nomina- lives agree with them. But in your pastorate 1t will be much more import ant to make yourself agree with that leading sister in the sewing circle, for her tongue may be like the map of the globe-having both latitude and long itude" The young men-and the old ones as well-did not seem to take this speech very seriously, for they laughed and applauded immoderately, but 1t will be well for them to think twice before rejecting or neglecting the advice which the speaker offered for their practical guidance.
 The following anecdote Is not funny" but 1t contains food for useful thought:
 An old Virginia planter, whose name is a household word among the Baptists of the south, and is by no means un- known in other parts of the country, was once standing at the fence which inclosed his fine orchard. His son was standing near him Presently the planter broke the silence with the remark: "I sowed buck wheat in this orchard. The experiment has failed. I've made no crop; but I have not lost my labor. for l know more now than I did before I sowed, and knowledge is worth working for" That remark has the ring of genuine philoso- phy, and 1t would be a real comfort to
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T HERE are more public men in the
 United States than in any other
 A country on earth; but the politi- cal life an American statesman rarely eX- ceeds a quarter of a century, and the average service in our parliamentary de- .{aartment is less than 10 years. Some -4dlf a dozen or less Americans have served In the national legislature above 40 years; a few more served more than 30 years and less than 40 years; but 1t is an exceptional distinction to have been q national legislator in one or both branches of Congress % years.
 Conkling ard Blaine each served 20 years. Stephen A. Douglas was four years in the House and 14 years in the Senate. William H. Seward was F years in the Senate Fessenden 10 years, Chase 10 years, Toombs eight years, though he had previously been in the House eight years, as Fessenden had been in that body two years. Jefferson Havis served one year In the House and eight years in the Senate. Thomas B. Pead was 22 yealA in the House, and John c. Carlisle 16 years in the House and Senate. Will liam R. Morrison was 16 years in the House and Roger Q. Mills g years in the House and Senate. John Sharp Williams was 16 years in the House and Is senator elect. Matt Carpenter was eight years in the Senate. Ben Hill was seven years in the House and Senate, and D. w. Car