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the case. The next day he went to court after failing to see Martin, and nerved himself to meet the assaults Of opposing counsel, nearly equal to Mar tin himself. But Just as the case was called, in came Martin, who took com mand, and never before did he show more forensic skill in the management of a. case. A chief point was a spring of water that had been located to de- termine the boundary. That was enough for Martin.
 At the age of 2s Fancy married the sister. of Francis Scott Key. I wish had space to copy love letter he wrote to her on the 4sth anniversary of their marriage, when he was honored as the foremost jurist on either hemisphere It is simply beautiful. and what a happy life must theirs have been
 Fancy was the chief counsel for Gen eral Wilkinson, who was tried by courtmartial on charges growing out of the complications, political and mili- tary, in the Mississippi early in the nineteenth century. The result of the trial was an acquittal, though Wilkin- son was always looked upon with sus- picion by the great majority of his countrymen. He was also counsel for the meddling Methodist preacher Cru Der from Pennsylvania, who sought to have rising of the slaves of Mary land, and strange as 1t may seem, the accused was acquitted.
 After Martin and Pinckney died Fancy moved to Baltimore, and there he was the head of the bar. William Wirt had taken up his residence ther and sometimes appeared in court but there was no professional rivalry between them. Fancy was chosen attorney gen. eral of Maryland and his fame as a lawyer continued to spread until he was everywhere recognized as the first
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the incoming soldiers. They also pro- vided. with food and tobacco those sold iers who were stationed by the Young Turks to patrol the streets and guard against any possible disorder.
 The patriotic conduct of the Jews called forth salvos of applause from all around. The soldiers of Salonica earn estly declared that the Jews were the most loyal citizens in the empire, while the officers expressed their hope that the time may not be distant when they shall have Jewish colleagues even in the main staff of the army.
 During the exciting days of the re- actionary uprising, and while the fate of the new regime was, as 1t were, hanging on a thread, and the outside world had with extreme anxiety awaited the clash between the two opposing armies In and around Constantinople- shocking tales of all kinds were cir culated among the Palestine population and these tales accompanied by re- ports of disturbances from various dis tricts in Turkey, especially the report of the great slaughter that the fierce Curds had perpetrated upon Armenians In Adana. which, of course. was insti- gated by elements antagonistic to the new regime-all of these things pro- duced a horrifying effect upon the peo- pie of Palestine. But the committee or Young Turks of that jurisdlction proved themselves alive to the situa- ton, and they quickly adopted the nec- essary measures to cope with the pow erful enemy They immediately took hold of all the telegraph offices In Pal estine, and placed their own trusty men in charge of tn em; they took the strict est precautions everywhere to guard against disorder among the populace, and they instituted public demonstra- tions in every town and country. with a view to establishing the confidence of the people in the effective leader
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tences for larceny, swindling and mis- demeanors only 2S per cent are pro- nounced against married folks. What more convincing argument In favor of matrimony could you find.
 More marriages-less crime; fewer mar riages-more crime. Also the indictment against divorce Is strengthened by these statistics. One-third more divorced and widowed women than girls are jailed for crime. On the other hand, the percentage of di- vorced men or widowers under sentance is little less than that of unmarried men, which speaks well for the uplft of marriage.
 The heaviest burden of divorce is borne by women.
 There are economic reasons. Many women are suddenly bereft of financial support and of the comforts and protec- ton of a home by dvorcement Often there are dependent children. Under such conditions the divorced. woman, especial ly If she is young and attractive, Is sub ject to many temptations.
 Puschans figures show that of divor- cess and widows below the age of 20, 1T per cent more go to jail than older women of the same class.
 The teaching of these facts Is plain.
 Marriage is a safeguard divorce is dam gerous, especially to women.
 MaTTldSe IS HOt only SdIeSudru lO society by the lessen'nr of crime, but it al~e r@fecsnras the individual.
 Matrimony spells safety.
 And the 1eel4ns uu44i.s .D the student or these statistics that not only is marriage the marriage of one man to one won- an-bound up in the economic system of today, but tlsat it is deeply laid in the constitution of mans nature.
 In other words, 1t is divire institution.
 Marriage Is more than safety; it Is duty.
 The obligation of it Is laid upon the race, not only for the preservation of the race in purity, but for the happiness of the individual.
 The present year Edward Payson West
 ''. ngc of T walked from New York to San Francisco inYone day less
 His average rate of progress was 40 miles per day through all sorts of wealth. CT and over every variety of roads. The latter part of his journey through desert and over mountain was peculiarly try ing
 Nevertheless he arrived at the end of
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on the vile vermin. His presence is dis grace. His touch may be deadly.
 Use fly posons, sticky paper. traps anything by which he can be extermi- mated.
 It is perhaps impossible to eliminate the breeding places of the insect. Wherever there is filth there will be flies But one can keep the things out of ones house.
 Who was it said he would not number among his friends any one who needlessly set his foot upon a worm?
 Ruskin said "I will not needlessly hurt or kill a living creature.'
 Until recent years birds were looked upon by the farmers and fruit raisers as pests to be destroyed, and the small boys malignancy toward the songsters may perhaps be traced to that feeling.
 The agricultural department of the gov ernment is doing much to educate the farmer into understanding that the bird is one of his best friends.
 Birds are weed seed and insect destroy CTS.
 The busy creatures wage constant war against the weeds. In the autumn the birds get nearly their entire sustenance from the weed seeds. The swallow family especially-barring the pest, the English swallow-is one of the farmers best help CTS in the destruction of weeds. bOD w Hlto, tHo pSiSiStciies outSpohcA orator of the meadows, is also a loyal assistant.
 Some interesting statistics have been collected in the department concerning Bob White.
 For instance
 In Virginia and North Carolina from September 1 to April 30 there are four oe him to the square mile. The crop of each bird holds an ounce of seed in two meals a day, half being weed seed. It is then shown by actual figures that the total consumption of weed seed in the two states by this one bird is 1541 tons an- nually And there are others.
 In the spring Bob White eats grass hoppers, chinch bugs, potato bugs, boil weevils, etc. In some places the Apprs e!ativs farmers feed him in the cslA winter in order to keep him around tho premises?
 The robin?
 Well, to be sure, he eats some cherries and other fruit. But he is entitled to some. He has worked hard to rid the orchards and fields of millions of cater pillars and bugs
 What is said about the swalow. the
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N ATURDAY, October 15, 1864, there
 was a meeting of the bar at Bos- o ton, Mass, to take measures for giving expression to the feelings of that body in contemplation of the death of Roger Brooke Fancy, chief justice of the supreme bench of the United States. A committee on resolutions was appoint ed, consisting of Benjamin R. Curtis, Caleb Gushing, Richard H. Dana and Sidney Bartlett. The following Monday that committee by Judge Curtis reported this resolutions:
 '.The members of this bar render the tribute of their admiration and rever- ence for the pre-eminent abilities, pro- found learning, incorruptible integrity and signal private virtues exhibited In the long and industrious judicial career of the late lamented Chief Justice Fancy"
 And then Benjamin R. Curtis, who had rendered the dissenting opinion in the Dred Scott case, took the floor and deliy- cred the eulogy. It is grand speech. It is a masterpiece of that character or eloquence-strong, massive, simple, chaste and beautiful. I wish l had space to quote 1t entire. This Curtis was the grand old lawyer who subsequently, was the main reliance of Andy Johnson In the Impeachment proceedings. He was on the supreme bench six years while Fancy was chief justice. and looked the character of his chief, through and through.
 I am persuaded that the speech of Ben jamin R. Curtis on that occasion was more than eulogy. It was March 5, lS6S, that William H. Seward made an elab- crate speech in the Senate of the United States, and then and there he assailed the character of the then chief justice with brutal mendacity. He charged that B few moments before the inauguration
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hired a substitute for his faithful servitor.
 As a federalist Fancy was chosen to the Maryland house of delegates when 22 years old, and greatly distinguished himself in that body, but in the wreck of the federalst party In 1900 he went down though leading his ticket at the election. He now left Calvert county and opened a law office at Frederick, and devoted his time to constant and laborious study of his profession. AL ways a frail man physically, 1t was as- tonishing that he attained to the great age of nearly 8S years. In Curtis eu- logy Is this passage;
 There can be no doubt that his was a vehement and passionate nature, but he had subdued 1t. I have seen him sorely tried, when the only observable effects of the trial were silence and a flushed cheek. So long as he lived he preserved that quietness of temper and that consideration for the feelings and wishes of others which were as far as possible removed from weak and selfish querulousness."
 He soon acquired a lucratice practice and attained to place among the lead CTS of the American bar. He had a case in ejectment in a Washington coun- ty, and Luther Martin was his senior counsel. They rode 26 miles, and at every tavern which they passed every five miles, Martin drank all the whisky he could hold, and when he could not get whisky he drank ale, and wanting both, he drank buttermilk. As a con- sequence, when they reached Hagers- town, the old lawyer was what the maid said in Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering-"Prett particular drunk" He was put to bed, and tEough his junior counsel sought to awaken him to consult, 1t was impossible, and Fancy went off, and sat up all night studying
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awaken in their breasts the former en~ thusiasm for the constitution, which may have suffered a relapse by reason of the reactionary movement. In all these demonstrations and necessary precautions Jews had figured promi- nently. Not a single step was made by the committee except with the afd and cooperation of Jewish compatriots. In Jaffa, Jerusalem, and various other places Jewish military organizations were formed, and, supplied with arms, they stood ready, If needs be, to fight for their beloved fatherland. and to carry the movement for liberty to ulti- mate success.
 The constitution in Turkey gives the Jews the fullest measure of human hber- ty, as we'll as the rights of citizenship And the Jews deserved this important privilege by virtue of their honest labors for the progress of the country's cause. and by being the first to shed their blood In defense of this, their own dear father land.
 Since the constitution was instituted un- der the new Turkish regime not less than four Jewish representatives were sent to parliament, and many offices, great and small are apportioned daily to persons of the Jewish faith
 The traditional friendship that existed between the Jews and the Mussulmans during the many centuries of the past has thus been intensified and rendered into bond of constancy and endurance. Both the Jews and the Turks are now entering their constitutional career un- der most congenial and promising cir- cumstances. We may now safely indulge the hope that the time of unrest and religious animosity In the Holy Land Is past. and the Palestinian population, i. e., the professors of three dominating religions, may now look forward to a new period of peace and of union and progress.
 CTo be Continued)
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pire. He therefore demanded that par hament declare the capital in possess sion of the Young Turks-the only party that would insure the peoples rights with the safety of the constitution. He con- cluded by saying that those who had instigated the conspiracy must pay the penalty of their vile acts; that the peo- pie of Turkey having once tasted of freedoms reign would never again bow their heads before old tyranny; that those who caused the confusion should be quickly swept away by the storm of public indignation His speech was a masterpiece. It created such a tremen- dous impression upon the hearers that friends of liberty by the thousands i'm mediately gathered around the patriotic leader, resolved to stand for their rights. to fight for liberty, to conquer or die in the attempt.
 At this very moment when Deputy Mazliach had thundered away In his trumpet-tongued eloquence, stirring the people to action at the Turkish capital another Jew by the name of Emanuel Efendi Carasso, one of the principal lead CTS among the Young Turks. was on his way to Salonica, the stronghold of Turk ish revolution. Arrived at the place. this heroic leader immediately sounded the alarm and started up the movement which brought the gallant army from Salonica to Constantinople, and compelled tho deposition of Abdul Hamid Already on the first day of his arrival at Salonica, Mir Carasso addressed number of meet ings that were attended by not less than 30 900 citizens. And by so doing he raised the standard of liberty in the land and called for an army of volunteers to move onward toward the Turkish capital. It was not yet definitely known whether or not the regular army of Salonica would consent to undertake the march upon the capital, so MT. Carasso merely called for volunteers to organize themselves into
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of Constantnople, goaded on by the dic- tates of bribed hirelings and minions of despotism. There seemed to have been nothing to do save to yield up the long cherished cause of liberty as a cause that is perfectly .hopeless. There was none so bold as to offer resistance; none so brave as to utter a single word in the sight of such tremendous odds. The president with some of the best known members of the Turkish parliament, fled for their lives; one of the best parliament leaders and the rest of the peoples representa- lives were utterly dumfounded, benumbed with fear, knowing not what course to pursue.
 In the height of this great confusion that ensued, in the midst of this dark pandemonium of a religio-political up- heaval, there arose one man who dared open his mouth and speak 'the word in due season''-the word which rekindled the spirit of liberty in the hearts of a Respondent citizenship. The man so bold and heroic was Nissim Efendi Mazliach, the Jewish deputy from Smyrna, who upon receiving the evil tidings hastened to the capital, entered the deputy cham Der, took the floor of parliament, and in @ fiery speech after the manner of Patrick Henry, raised his voice high against the treachery of the reactionary clements. Fearlessly, and with abso- lutely no regard for the dangers to which he had personally exposed himself this Jewish patriot stood up for the rights of the people and openly arraigned those mad fanatics and bribed hirelings who were responsible for the outrages. He even dared to publicly accuse the Sultan Abdul Hamid of treachery to the con- stitution. which accusation subsequently proved true.
 The military uprisings of April 13 the orator branded as high treason against the best interests of the Turkish em-
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ROGER BROOKE TANEY-By Savoyard

man in the profession in common wealth always famous for the learning, capacity and skill of its leading law yers.
 As remarked Fancy was originally a federalist but after the death of that party and the "era of good feeling, 1920, there came the split-up of 1924 when Jackson, Adams, Crawford and Clay all received votes in the electoral college, and all claiming to be "repub- licans." Fancy Joined the party of Jack son and in 1881 he was appointed At torney General in Jackson's cabinet. He opposed ratification, though he had the greatest admiration for MT. Calhoun. l wish I had space to give his estimate of that extraordinary man. While Jackson man, Fancy, who was absent from Washington at the time, disap- proved some of the passages of the famous proclamation against the nulli- flyers, and 1t is quite likely that 1t would have been materially modified had he been preesnt to pass on the law of 1t. And yet Fancy himself had bout with the nullifyers of the north 30 years later.
 It was not Andrew Jackson. 1t was not Thomas H. Benton, it was Roger Brooks Fancy who destroyed Mich olas Biddles United States bank. It was his conception, that battle; he planned it and he played a big part in the execution of 1t. Fancy it was who con vinced Jackson that the bank was menace to the liberties of the people, and that was enough. Originally Jack son had been a bank man, as Clay had been an anti-bank man.
 Jackson would never have removed the deposits if Fancy had not suggested it, and after Duane had refused to move the deposits Fancy was made Secretary of the Treasury. He had as much moral
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shaken by earthquake or sunken In great flood An. if you but knew 1t you would sym pathize and assist. It may be your next door neighbor. But the calamity does not perhaps ap- pear He fears the shame of humiliation or he doubts the genuineness of your sympathy and he Is reticent. Like cer- tain kind of animal, he instinctively hides his wound. | He has missed his opportunity to be helped You have missed your oppor- tunity to be at your best. The day of real brotherhood will come when the need of the one has as much publicity as the need of the many. the barrier of pride is put down; when the concern of one becomes the concern of all: when individual suffering makes It's appeal as does a great cyclone or flood or fire.
 It is glorious when all men respond to a great call; 1t Is no less glorious when one man responds to a lesser appeal.
 Do not wait for cyclone or flood.
 Men and women and little children are bearing burdens you should Tighten. The sick. the discouraged. the wounded, like the poor, we have always with us.
 Help them!
 Help not only because you can relieve and bless but because by so doing you can make the most of yourself. because you can develop in your life that which we admire when a great people responds to a great need.
 If you would be at your best, help!
 Facts may be eloquent.
 Properly presented they often preach a powerful sermon.
 Such a sermon Is contained in the sta tstics on marriage, divorce and crime prepared by the great German statlsti- clan Buschan.
 If you are willing to follow a few of these figures you may learn some sig nificant facts.
 You will learn, for instance, that the prisons of the world hold four times more men than women These figures. so com plimentary to women, justify ones nat ural expectation, and they contain hope of the race.
 Moreover
 Of the women in prison only a small percentage are married. It is also shown that the average of criminality in men is cut in half by marriage. Of 1ail sen-
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The young man was broken hearted.
 He returned to Hamburg. where he told the girl of his fathers decision, and the engagement was broken.
 Then, in an impulse of protestation against the sordid pride of his family Oscar de Rothschild sealed his love with his death.
 His rash act proclaimed in tones louder than words, You cannot buy my hearts affection with gold.'
 It Is a serious business this traffclxing in human hearts and interfering with a strong, natural affection.
 Life is more than money. Life, real life, Is abundant fullness, the fullness of love.
 The force of an abiding love in its realm is as strong as the law of gravity in its realm.
 Obstruct a natural force and, like the accumulated water above the dam, 1t will some time burst its barriers away, put ting to scorn the puny arm that dares to stop it.
 So the moral force of a great affec- tion The impulse is irresistible.
 Beware how you interfere with the sacred dictates of a strong and pure human affection.
 The divinest spectacle in all the world is a man at his best.
 A man is at his best when his sym pathies are stirred into action by some apreaI of a stricken brother-some appeal that opens his heart, his hand and his purse.
 Tn the same way our humanity is at its best when some Treet calarnity makes in- stent and universal appeal. At such times men are moved en mass to the high plane of united ministry.
 Such cataclysms as the Chicago fire, the Galveston flood. the San Francisco earthquake, develop in the whole people all that Is highest In feeling and noblest in action. There is no stint in any com munity of sympathy or helpfullness.
 But
 Did you ever think that in every day in somebody's soul Is a cataclysm as great to him as fire or flood or earthquake Is to the multitude?
 Every day some mans substance is swept away by the fire or by the flood of competition, some woman's soul is rent by the earthquake of sorrow or bereavement. some child's life is inun- dated by great deprivation.
 Every day some human is tried by fire.
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NO you remember the pathetic
 poem, "The Spider and the Fly" 0 contained in the old school read CTS?
 You will, then, remember how your childish sympathies were aroused In be- half of the poor little fly that came by cordial invitation into the parlor of the spider and was killed.
 That poem was written in a day when the fly was popularly regarded as an annoying but harmless insect.
 It was not then generally known that the common housefy is the filthiest of all vermin.
 By comparison the spider is bene- factor. He eats flies.
 The fly is born in filth, and his whole history and habit are of the slums. Be- fore he was a fly he was maggot. He matches where fifth germs hide.
 He is dirty little beast. The only toilet he makes is that by rubbing ms legs over his body, scraping off germs of typhoid and other diseases, so that whatever any part of him touches that spot is infected. One may have the vigor of vitality to throw off the infection, but the spot is nevertheless infected.
 He is not pleasant object of contem- plation, but he is such an enemy of hu- mans that his true character ought to be known.
 The fly is liable to infect you with tu- berculosis, typhoid or scarlet fever, diphtheria and other infectious diseases
 The mosquito is an infection-carrying insect but the mosquito family is not numerous, as is the fly tribe. The mo- so,nto breeds in swamps and Is common to certain localities only. The fly Is everywhere.
 That is the trouble.
 Your premises may be sanitary, but the hy may breed in the stable of your next-door neighbor. He Is community pest Your neighbours scavenger gets into your food.
 The fly should be kept out of the house by screens until frost comes to Kill him.
 Food should be protected from the flies at all hazard. Babies and the sick need special protection.
 Some housekeepers feel they are dis- rraced by the presence of bedbuss or flee: But these pests are harmlsss com parxd with the germ-bearing hou1efiy.
 War to tho death shculd bt deoiared