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The Washington herald., 1909-11-23
AT THE HOTELS.

II would not be al all surprised If tho
so-called Insurgents In Congress would
renew their activities and fight at the
coming session Of Congress- said Repre-
sentative r. o. Moon, Of Philadelphia. at
the New Willard last night
This may be partly due TO the send-
ment Tor a more effective tariff revision
which is so prevalent I'm some OF the
Western States. and also 90 personal po-
Iucal causes. At any rate, we may
expect 10 hear from Speaker Cauuon's or
pOnents. but whether they VIII be sue
cessfGl is a question which ] am not
prepared 10 answer, for the simple reason
/ that I am not sufficiently posted on their
/ plans Of campaign. The payne tariff Is
/ perfectly agreeable and suitable and ac-
Ccptahie 10 Pennsylvania interests. Bus.-
ness in our State IS very good and grow
/ Ing better every day. and indications
point 20 busy season
/ Representative Moon. I'm speaking of the
/ Standard oil decision. said that there
was nothing new in the decision, and that
I he did not think the United States Su-
7 preme Court on appeal would render an
/ adverse decision.
1 In all probability Congress at this ses-
sion viii take up the Sherman law and
make some notifications" added SIR
/ Moon. This, however. is not due 10 Jhis
or any other decision, as YOU know the
/ Standard Oil IS not popular with the peo-
/ pie. The question Of modifying or revis-
/ ing the Sherman law was discussed at
the last session and is therefore nothing
new on the legislative programme Of Con-
I gress'
The Washington herald., 1909-11-23

Margaret WinEton's announced desire
TO darn socks was more OF less interest
ing- IL viii bc observed. nevertheless.
that her new husbands fortune is quoted
veil up iu eight figures
The Washington herald., 1909-11-23

crow.
What we want. moreover, is a reformed
article of football guaranteed against
backsliding.
with the udven. Of the taxl-aeroplanes
there viii come another way 20 make -sue
money fly. Of course.
AS an antirootbaH argument, 'rah,
'rah, 'rahr Is more or less thrilling and
attention arresting. 1t is not very con
vincing, however
The town Of Boozeville. Ga. recently
wiped of the map by a cyclone. is to be
rebuilt Perhaps the elements down
Georgia way would be kinder 20 that
municipality in the future II IN the re-
building it be renamed something like
Watertown or Buttermllkburg
Mr.. Champ Clark says Mr. Joseph G.
Cannon knows nothing Of parliamentary
law. The statement is misleading. Mr..
Cannon knows that part of II that Mr..
Clark does not know-tha latter, unfor-
tunately. to be sure, long ago having
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ment." after all Personally, we have
,'o' YET o'utH' any olalhohuS or corner
lots on the strength OF &c.
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When Refining Was Needed.

God knows just when specially sc.
we're affection is needed, and He times
its sending accordingly. We may not
always feel that He has chosen the
best time; but we may safely trust
Him in this. Two men who bore
heavy responsibilities, and who had
come to a time 80 critical that their
proper discharge of. those responsible
tiles meant the difference between
failure and success for themselves
and many others, were both con-
fronted, borne down, and well-nigh
overcome, by entirely unforeseen and
extraordinary affection. Asking each
other why God had seen best to per-
NIT this added burden, when their
efficiency in His service go plainly de-
manded that they should be at their
best, the only reasonable conclusion
they could arrive ct was that God had
probably done this in order to i'm
prove the quality of their work at q
time when quality was most needed.
And the outcome seemed to justify
their belief. God plans nothing but
blessings for us all; but answering
confidence in His love Is u only
sure title to the blessing.-Sunday-
School Times. ~.
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Most Popular Name For Brides.

Ann was the most popular name
for brides in 1907. The Maggies, the
Marys, the Hates and the Rosies,
all of whom have in past years car
ried off the honor, must bow to Ann.
Thomas C.. Smith, the application
clerk of the marriage license bureau,
has for years kept a record Of the
most popular names of brides, and
his records for 1907 show that there
have been more brides with Ann as
a handle to their names and sur
names than any other.
Katie carries off second" honors
and Mary, once so popular, drifted
back to the seventh place. In 1906
Maggie won first place, but now she
takes third place.
Mr.. Smith places the ten most
popular brides of 1907 in their re-
spective standing as follows: Ann.
Kate, Maggie, Elizabeth. Sarah, Car
RE, Mary, Rosa, Emma and Clara
Philadelphia Bulletin.
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The Canny Scot.

Scotsmen are noted for their can
niness, and a story told by a Lanca-
shire commercial traveller, who was
up in Aberdeen a few days ago, shows
that the men beyond the Tweed are
still worthily upholding their reputa-
ton. The traveller in question was
asked by a prospective buyer to sub
scribe to the prize fund for the local
golf tournament.
He parted with five shillings, and
as he was interested in golf he re-
marked that he would like to be kept
informed Of the progress of the tour
nament so that he could look out for
the result.
oh" said the customer, as he
picked up the five shillings and placed
it securely in his pocket, I'VE medina
dae that. The tournament was held
last Saturday"
This was rather a staggerer for the
latest contributor to the prize fund,
but he retained curiosity enough to
inquire who had proved the happy
winner.
The guileless solicitor for SUBJ
scriptions was quite undaunted, how
ever. The winner" he said coyly.
"Oh, just masel
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Avoid the Evil Eye.

Very curious to the Occidental
mind are some of the ways of Arabia
and other Mohammedan countries.
A traveller says: Zone of the objects
of the most anxious solicitude for
Mohammedan parents is the shield
ing of their children from the evil
eye; any person expressing admira-
ton for a child except by pious ejacu-
lation or the invocation of blessings
upon the prophet fills the heart of
the parent with apprehension. When
children are to be taken into the
street their faces are often even
smeared with mud or greasy sub
stances lest their comeliness should
attract attention, and in order that
the person of the child itself should
escape attention gaudy and glitterins
ornaments are hung about it, and
written charms sewn into leather me-
dallions suspended from its neck"
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~PaGoreSWISi'S Diet.

Prior to mis- appearance at a concert
Paderewski would not thank n for
a piece of the finest turkey or for the
most toothsome Christmas pudding
ever made. On a concert day he eats
nothing until it is concluded except
one soft-boiled egg. When it is over
he takes a hearty meal, which he en-
joys thoroughly, as his appetite is
excellent, although he is SO abstem-
Gus. During the concert he drinks a
soda lemonade made without sugar.
1t need hardly be said that this IS
net intended as a stimulant. After
the concert he permits himself a draft
of some malt beverage.-Tit-Bits.
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Good Advice For Everybody.

No one will charge Field and
Stream with being a prohibition or
gan. The advice that journal gives
or the drink question is all the more
valuable, especially to those who fol-
low sports in northern woods in the
winter time. 1t says:
Alcoholic liquor is generally worse
than useless in the woods, except in
the most extreme cases. Hot tea will
do anything that brandy or whisky
will do as. a stimulant, and do 1t 6.
whole lot better, and it is easy to
carry a sufficient amount in your
pocket to last a week on the trail. In
cold weather especially you should
use no liquor On the trail, as it leaves
you more susceptible to cold after it's
temporary effects have passed than
you were before. In zero weather tea
is a life saver and liquor is a kilie-.
Very few mountain men of expert
ence carry liquor, Eve though they
be haDitual users Of It, preferring tea
as a cold weather drink in the cold,
thin air of the high country, and use
it freely. Tea can be made in a few
minutes under almost any circum-
stances, and will brace you up won
derfully at the finishing end Of a hard
trip in cold weather.
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CHAPTER VII.

Beaufort behaved very we'll at this
crisis of domestic history. He shook
off his usual languor, and became at
cnce energetic and active. What he
said to Tom remains undisclosed, but
he spoke to" the boy with great
force, and even eloquence, represent
ing to him the ruin entailed by GER
tain bad habits, which more than
other vices, probably worse in them
selves, destroy e mans reputation and
degrade him among his fellows.
Though he was himself a man over
refined in his ways, he was clever
enough to seize the only motives
which were likely to influence the
ruder nature Of his stepson. And
then he went to poor Carry, who in
this home of evil memories sat like a
ghost surrounded by the recollections
of the past, and seeing forever before
her eyes the disordered looks and
excited eyes of her boy. He vas not,
alas, the son Of her dreams, the
child wnom every mother hopes for,
who is to restore the ideal Of what a
man should be. Many disappoint-
ments had already taught Lady Car
that her son had little of the ideal in
him, and nothing, or next to nothing,
Of herself; but still he was her son.
and to think Of him as the rude and
violent debauchee of the countryside
seemed more than she could bear.
Beaufort came in upon her miserable
secluSion like a fresh breeze of CON-
fort and hope. This was SO far from
his usual aspect, that the effect was
doubled. Tender he always was, but
to-day he was cheerful, hopeful, full
Of confidence and conscious power.
There must be no more of this" he
cried. Come, Carry. have a little
courage. Because the boy has been a
fool once-or eve twice-that is not
tc SAY that there is anything tragical
In it. or that he is abandoned to bad
habits 1t is probably scarcely his
faulL III ALA combination or circum-
stances. Nobody's fault, indeed.
Some silly man, forgetting he was a
boy. ~persuading him olt of supposed
hospitality TO swallow something the
boys head could not stand How was
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Compensation

AS is known to all our readers the
all. absorbing question agitating the
temperance people of England to-
day, is the demand of the liquor deal
ers for compensation in cases where
the magistrates refuse to renew IL
censes. The Rev. G. Armstrong, a
Wesleyan Methodist preacher of Eng
land, in an able article printed in the
Methodist Temperance Magazine,
turns the tables upon the liquor men
when he says: Justice. demands
that the publican should compensate
ages his trade has inflicted upon it,"
The following are some of the
items of the bill which he ssays the
nation might fairly lay against the
traffic: .i,t
Item damages for the deterior-
alton Of property in the neighborhood
of the license.
Item decomposition to employ
ers for all that they lose on Mondays,
and at other times, through the alb
n of tipping workmen from their
work. |f. -
Item 3.-Compensation to employ
ers for muddle-headed work done by
booty workmen. -,
Item 4.-The cost of the support Of
all drink-produced paupers and pau
pe%r-lunatics.
Item 5.-The cost of policemen,
judges, prisons and criminal pro-
cedure, as far as they are due to
drink. ..,.. ID -
Item 6.-Compensation to families
for death and sickness Of members
of the family caused by drink.
Item damages for all drink
caused accidents, shipwrecks and the
like. ...
Item S.-Damages for all skilled
workmen whose education has been
costly to the community, and who
have not given the number Of years
service in return that might have
been expected from them, in conse-
quence Of their premature death
through alcohol.
If the State allows this traffic,
which has acquired such swollen
wealth by means Of an unearned in
crement, &c go sdot free with what It
has got, the trade ought to consider
that it has been treated with merciful
magnanimity.
Does the liquor traffic clamor for
justice? 1t had better take care how
it utters that prayer, lest God should
answer it! What does the law Of
God say Is justice for the Ok that
gored, and for the owner who know
ingly kept it? Does the liquor traffic
ask for justice? Then justice let it
be! Justice for broken hearts, for
6esolated homes, for commercial dis
aster, for the manufacture of paul
pers, lunatics, incapables and GRIM
inals. Justice for myriads of little
children perishing in hunger and
squalor, and reared in filth, disease
and moral corruption, to be the
scourge of society. Does the liquor
traffic claim its due compensation?
What is it? The curse of the right
eous God, whose uttermost wrath
rests upon all systems that make
traffic OF the manhood which is so
precious in His sight that He has re-
deemed it with the blood Of His own
Son.
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Prompt.

There is no foolishness about re-
iigion in Southwestern Missouri"
said a St. Louis man. Il had occa-
sion, recently, to visit a town in that
section, and, while waiting the pleas
ure of the president of the bank I had
business with, caught sight of the
following notice posted on the door of
a church across the way:
There will be preaching here
next Sunday, Providence permitting;
and there will be preaching here
whether or no on the Sunday follow.
ing upon the subject. He that be-
lieveth and is baptized shall be saved,
and he that believeth not shall be
damned at 11.30 a. m Harper 5
Monthly.
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Phipps Owns Great Island.

BY the recent transfer of the title
of the former residence of Charles b
Cory, of Great Island, near Hyannfst
Mass, on the south side of Cape Cod
to Henry Phipps, the steel magnate
of New York and Pittsburg, acquires
full possession of the island, contain1
ing about 500 acres. This is n Of
the largest individual holdings Of
seashore property in the State. Great
Island is an island in name only and
not in fact, and boldly projects faI
into Vineyard Sound. 1t has an enor.
nous water frontage and a large -
is covered with woods, which at
time was used as a game preserY
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1t is Hard to Be Rich and Good.


Why should material prosperity al
feet u~nfavorably the righteousness of'
the people? Is it not reasonable 70
expect that those on whom a benef.
cent Creator has ishowered His bounty
in an unusual degree should be drawn
nearer to Him and become more dill.
gent in their obedience to His com!
mandments? The bounty of His
providence calls for larger gratitude.
stronger faith. more constant obedfs
ence. What shall we think OF son
who has been highly favored by his
father and granted every wish turn
ing away from that father to spend
his substance in riotous living?
Yet is it not true as q rule that
those who have received most are the.
most ungrateful? Do not the SONS
CT indulgent parents often turn out
badly? Have not the children OF
luxury ewnerally made shipwreck OF
life?
The same is true of nations.
Abundance brings luxury, luxury 0e-i
gets corruption and cor-uption ends
In ruin. Mr.. Wesley had hard work
to persuade the people called Metho-
dists to live as. well in prosperity az
they did IA adversely. His doctrines
made men upright and industrious.
Industry and integrity were followed
by prosperity, and prosperity almost
certainly caused religious decline
Many Of the followers Of Mr.. Wesley
became prosperous, and prosperity Z
erted its natural effect on their lives.
He found a remedy. He adopted and
promulgated three rules: First,
make all you can; second, save all
you can; third, give all 'yoi cansA->
herring strictly to these rules anyone
may become prosperous without dam
ger to his spiritual lifeA
The American people have reason
to be on their guard against the ruiD>
which has overtaken other nations.
We hear much Boosting Of unparal.
lelled prosperity. We see evidences
of the increase of luxury which such
conditions begets. We cannot help
seeing the overwhelming corruption
following upon the heels of great
prosperity and national Indulgence.
What shall the end be- America is
not a land of, destiny. In sueh2a sense
as to be exempt from the operation OF
the u~nalterable law that Whatsoever
a man soweth that shall he also reap.
He that soweth to the flesh shall OF
the flesh reap corruption
The times call for larger Hberality.
for deeper gratitude, for more COM
plete conservation. We are not own
ers, but stewards. We have nothing
which we have not received. For
every talent we must all give ac-
count. Much will be received from
those who have received much. II
churches grow wealthy, preachers
amass money, bishops; lay up treas
ures upon the earth; Christians be-
come sordid and covetous, while the
world lieth in wicke6ness and fgnor-
ance, no dignity or sacredness Of office
will save anyone from that word
which is so terrible in the parable:
Thou fool. christian Advocate.
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go
YR0lAL HEkPSY +.
4 batberrd jcr The
QUIET hoURf
MARTHA OR Macy.

I cannot choose; I should have liked II
To sit at Jesus feet,-to feel the touch
Of Hin kind. gentle hand upon my head
While drinking in the gracious words Ht
And veto. serve Him! Oh, divine EN-
ploy!
To minister and give the Master joyt
To battle in coolest springs His weary feet
And wait upon Him while He sat at meat
Worship, or service-which! All, that D
best
TO which He calls me-te it toll or rest;
To labor for Him in life's busy stir,
Or seek His feet a silent worshiper.
So let Him. choose for us. We are moi
strong
To make the choice. Perhaps we should
go wrong, ~
Mistaking zeal for service-sinful sloth
For loving worship-and so fail Of both.
Home Herald
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BITTER WAR ON MTEMPERANCE
SOLDIERS FIGHTING THIS CURSE
GREATLY CHEERED.
The Uncomfortable King.

u UnconqueraDle h1ng.
The friends of old King Barleycorn
Are looking mournful and forlorn;
And well, say. I, they may
For look'ee, there's a plan new-grown
To GUST the old King from his throne
And pluck his crown away.
1t started with the C. T. u,
And, laws-a-mussy, how it grew!
Just like mans thirst for drink;
And disaffected subjects cried:
"Old Barleycorn must step aside
We want another KING"
Of course, p%retenders soon arose,
And which will win out, goodness knows
T. The long lines never Stop
But those whose friends seem least afraid
Are gallant young Prince Lemonade
And Princess Ginger Pop.
To throw out poor King Barleycorn
They plot away from night to morn,
From soon to very late;
They'll get him yet, but this is plain:
Though he may be expelled or slain, o.
He'll never abdicate.
Richmond Times Dispatch.
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Lived With Broken Neck.

At a Coroner's inquest at Atlanta,
Ga, into the death Of Frank Carter,
sixty years old, it was testified that
his neck was broken seventeen years
ago and he had lived without serious
Inconvenience from the accident.
Carter died of ~apoplexy. When the
police found his neck was broken they
suspected foul play and ordered the
inquest. The testimony that his neck
had been broken seventeen years was
accented as satisfactory.
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lrcar to Drink Milk.

In Boston, Mass, Professor P. NJ.
Harwood, of the Massachusetts State
Dairy Bureau, told a convention OF
milk producers that there had been
a decrease of 10,500,000 quarts in
the amount of milk consumed in tho
State during 1907. He attributed the
decrease to the alarm over the adul.
iteration in milk. and said the most
important thing to be done was to
bring about a restoration of con
fdence.
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Piety O Means.

Piety is not an end, but a leans Of
attaining the highest degree of cul-
lure by perfect peace of mind. Hence
it is to be observed that those who
make piety an end and aim in itself
for the most part become hypocrites.
Goethe.
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A Novel Campaign For Temperance.

Right has always been on the side
of the temperance forces, but in days
past the saloons have often had the
most effective tactics, and the tactics
rather than the righteousness Of the
cause have prevailed. To-day, this
can no longer be said. The methods
which have served the saloons so we'll
in the past have been adopted by the
temperance forces and have been
cleaned up and purified and made to
serve the cause of righteousness.
Chief among these, perhaps, is adve:-
ti5ing.
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One Sin.

q. Never trife with one sin. It Is
like a little cloud which, as a poet
has said, may hold a hurricane in it's
grasp. The next sin you commit may
have a mighty effect in the blighting
of your life. You do not know the
streams that may flow from that
fountain; for sin is a fountain-not
q mere act, but a fountain of evil
Andrew A. Bonar. 49, =
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Cleaning Up.

A cleaning up should be a cleaning
up, aid not a moving around. 1t will
aot mean anything, as a whole, to
shovel up a load of filth from one
place and simply move it to another.
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Not Logical.

Some say that, though moderate
drinkers, they are loyal followers Of
the Saviour of mankind. Can this
5e true if they continue to drink that
which ruins many thousands of those
for whom He died?
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Questions For Pastors.

Have you a Temperance Commit
tee?
Do you occasionally have special
temperance meetings?
How many of your members are
pledged to total abstinence?
Will you try to get your members
to sign a simple total abstinence
pledge?
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Uncle Sam Owns One.ffth.

The forests owned by the Govern
ment cover one-fourth Of the total
forest area, and contain one-ffth Of
all the timber standing.
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At Fort Plain, n. Y, Alfred Bill
lington, a veteran of the Civil War!
murdered his son after both had been
drinking heavily together. Rum and
affection cannot thrive side by side.
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Subject: The Gospel in samaria, Acts
S:4.25-Golden Text, Acts .S:6
Commit Verses ii, 15-Com-
mentary on the Lesson.