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pinched his face playfully, that tather
will write, for I have just 70 cents IN
the world and we must live somehow
If he invites us to make his home our
home 1 will use the rs cents to wire
him for money to pay our way there.
Nelly laughed infectiously. Isn't my
dear boy just little bit improvident-
isn't that the word 1 want?'
Il suppose it is, but what's the sue of
being provident when l have your"
And the canaries," said the girl, going
to the cage and chipping to the yellow
songsters.
Down one flight went Ned and the post
man handed him letter that bore the
postmark of his fathers town.
Three steps at time he raced up the
stairs and sitting down in an easy chair
(the reckless souls had handsomely fur
nished their apartment with no thought
of the future) he said: 1T has come, dear
and l am almost sure that that rich
father of mine is going to forgive you for
not being the girl he had chosen for
me-"
ST hope So" said Nelly, perched on the
arm Of his chair like "a pretty bird. Il
think 1 could like your father, dear, be-
cause he does look so like YOU
He's little sterner than | am, dear
said Ned and then with his girl wife
stroking his beautiful chestnut hair he
opened the letter and read it out loud. 1t
ran as follows:
- 'Ned-I disown you absolutely as
said I'd do if you married Ellen Marsh.
You are no longer a son of mine and
will never help you to the extent of a
single cent. Yours not at all,
EDWIN MERRYFIELD.' "
"Oh, my dear Ned" said Nelly slipping
off her perch and burying her golden
head in her husbands lap, I'VE will
starve"
81 have rs cents" said Ned, bravely,
but the future at that moment looked
very black. And then both caught sight
of the fragrant honeysuckles, glorified
by the sun, and the three beautiful cam
aries broke into ecstatic song and Ned
rigging, brought his hand down on his
leg and said:
IT am young and the world is before
me- My father made fortune with no
capital to begin with but broken shovel
and high spirits. l will write a story
Nelly danced around the room, clapping
her hands. II knew 1t would come out
all right" said she. ooh, I'm so proud
of you. Have you any writing paper?'
mot a bit, but I have rs cents and l
will buy paper pens ink and pencil, and
perhaps 1 will illustrate the story as well
as write it,"
"Oh, how splendid!'
Pride was in every lineament of the
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THE HOUSE OF STUART-By Savoyard

| daughter of James, and a Protestant, be-
came queen-regent.
All Annes children died, and she and
her favorite minister, Bolingbroke, de-
sired that her half brother, 1.-The Pre-
tender" should be her successor on the
throne, and here adverse fate again pur
sued the Stuart cause. Anne died sud
denly, and the Wings were too vigilant,
and thus came in the house of Bruins
wick, it's head also a 1ineal descendant of
Mary of Scotland. But George | was
very unpopular. He spoke not a word of
English. He was German to the marrow,
and thought hundred times more of his
crown of Hanover than he did of the
English throne There was a rebellion
in Scotland for the Stuart in 17l5, but it
was mismanaged, and old George himself
was half sorry that it failed, for he
would have gone back to the continent
feeling well rid of his subjects in Eng
land, who were determined to govern
themselves regardless of who wore the
crown. There was not a day amer he
! became the head of the family that tho
pretender would not have been made king
if he had only become communicate of
the Church of England.
In 1745 the Stuart made the last attempt
to regain the English crown. The young
pretender, Prince Charles, landed In Scot
land, and the highlands swelled his ranks
with drst-class fighting men.
| The standard on the oraes o. Mar
Is up and streaming rairlyl
The gathering pipe on Lochnagar
Is sounding lang and clearly
| The Highland men, from hill and glen,
In martial hue, with bonnets blue,
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some eightscore years. fate loved to deal
untold misfortune on the house of Stuart.
Charles l was the most virtuous man
who had sat on the English throne, and
he had the affections of his people OF
both realms; but he was indoctrinated
with the idea of arbitrary power, and to
attain it he adopted a course that was
full of fatal mistakes. He allowed the
parliament to chop off the head of Stat
ford, who was capable of saving his
crown. Instead of appointing Montrose
commander of the army in England he
sent him into the highlands of Scotland,
where he made a campaign that neither
Hannibal nor Napolean would have been
ashamed of, but that was as fruitless as
it was glorious. His father had sent
two regiments to the continent to fight
in the Thirty Years War" on the Prot
estant side. Monk belonged to one of
those regiments, and was the best tacti-
clan in England. Charles refused him
important command. Cromwell captured,
him and his book on tactics, adopted the
thing, and that was what got him the
ultimate victory. His soldiers were known
as the "IronsideS," much due from the
hint Cromwell got out of Monks book.
Heroic as were the kings army, they
succumbed to the prowess of the parlia-
ment armies, led by Cromwell, the great
est Englshman of that or any other age,
and Cromwell cut off Charles head, just
as Elizabeth had cut off his grand
mothers.
After the Cromwellian despotism ceas-
ed. upon the death of its creator, that
same Monk restored the house of Stuart
to the purple and to the crown on the
head of Charles H. who might have been
1,n
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T I was a gorgeously bright sunny day
I in early summer. Yellow and red
i honeysucl1les peeped in at the open
window of a brightly papered nesting
place Of room from the tasteful box on
the ornamental fire escape and three ire
mendously happy golden canaries sang as
If their hearts would burst with rapture
from their golden cage just over the
handsome bird s-eye maple desk of Ned
Merryfield, one time bachelor, but now
a happy husband of week
Dressed in a kimono of cherry blossom
pink his wife, Nelly. danced around the
room filled with the joy of life. A week
ago she had been living in a luxurious
home with her parents, but she had
thwarted their wills and run away to be
married to Edwin Merryfield. who had
nothing save expectations from his ex-
ceedingly rich father.
"Oh, love-" said she, running over to
him and imprinting kiss on his incipient
bald spot, 81 am just as happy as 1 know
how to be-"
well, DEAR said he, 'then 1 would
advise no one else to try to be as happy,
AOI L hllOW LllCy WOuAoAA :" 4 AAAAAArAt tiiouSA
I am a close second, for I have you"
He turned as he spoke and, catching
her plump, soft pink cheeks in his two
strong hands. he gave her a lover )
kiss.
Il expect a letter from father today"
said he, and I'm quite sure that he will
tell me that he Is glad l married you
and that We may come and live with him
until l get something to do"
What do you intend to do?" said she,
and burst into a fragment from the grand
opera they had heard the night before
Ifrom orchestra seats).
I'm sure l don't know" said he laugh
ing gayly. 81 can draw a little, l can
write little, 1 can sign a little; but l
have never done anything for money.
Never had to, you see. AS for going into
business, that's too hard work"
"Ugh" said she. How hate business.
Father was in business until he retired,
and mother never saw him except in the
evening and Sunday. l want a husband
who will be with me all the time. We
shall celebrate our golden wedding in just
30 years, dear, and | want you to prom
ise me that you will never leave me for
more than three or four hours in all that
time"
Just then the postman's whistle sound
ed and Ned rose and lifting his little wife
In his arms he held her high above him
BIS he promised.
IT hope, my dear" said he, as she
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several things, and he must beware lest
familiarity breed contempt. or, at least,
a perfnnctory formality. No other cali
ing in life requires so much thoughtful
ness in order to escape these snares.
And if the preacher falls into them. how
shall his people escape? The light, flip
pant way in which too many highly
popular and drawing preachers use
the august name of God; the careless
and thoughtless way IN which they too
often handle His inspired Word. and the
free license which they indulge In telling
vulgar anecdotes are all sadly demorallz-
ing to the people. If the most notorious
blackguard in the United States can draw
such crowds as John A. Broadus and
John Hall never saw" then tbs true
tbs pity and pity tbs tbs true"
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wretched tenements which are called
homes. Out of school hours they have
done as they liked, and when they have
grown older they have become a for
midable menace to society. Now. these
boys taken from these surroundings for
few weeks In the year and placed I'M
der conditions in which life becomes
a new and responsible thing may be
saved to be valuable citizens, instead
of adding to the criminal classes.
1t is for this reason that so strong
ly approve the plan which Mr.. Haldane
has conceived. and which, far from in
creasing the military spirit, will. be-
lieve, do much to make the man of
peace recognize the hardships of war.
Home defense is the positive duty of
every citizen, and therefore cannot
come under the criticism of those who
justly abhor aggressive warfare.
A little sensation was created under
the arch of Whitehall where the tall
figures of the Life Guards stand like
statues day and night, by the appear
ance of young lady in military uni
form, In a blue skirt with riding boots
scarlet tunic with yellow facings and
epaulettes and service cap.
Passers-by rubbed their eyes and
wondered whether this was another
phase of the suffragette movement, or
whether the territorial army had opened
their gates so wide to woman that she
was to be enlisted as recruiting SER
geant.
1t turned out. however, that Ser
geant Major Kitty Baker is an officer
in the Voluntary Association of Patri-
otto Young Women. who have formed
a nursing yeomanry corps for first aid
service in the field of action.
Applicants are required to pass the
corps doctor and obtain a certificate of
physical efficiency. to provide their own
uniform and the cost of riding lessons
if they do not already know how to
ride. 1t must have required no little
courage to face the eyes of thousands
of spectators, as they gazed with adj
miration on her smart uniform and be-
witching appearance.
1t is significant that in every great
national movement which now takes
place some new development of the
woman question simultaneously arisap,
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I HAVE often wondered IL music at
fected anyone as it does me. 1t would
1 be difficult to describe the emotions
melody quickens my heart-beats into
pain; my soul stands bare and helpless.
Through each strain It pleads for mercy,
for release from prison bars, and, with
hts passions borne upward to the skies,
cries out for that great indefinable some
thing that completes woman as the per-
feet work of the Master.
AS now sit at my window strains of
"Dearie" float adown the hill and touch
my heart-strings, tuning them to the
plaintive plea that flows throughout the
song. A feeling of deep sympathy seems
to fill the air. am not alone, for out
the silence of the woods across the way,
come the deep notes of the wood thrush
hlling my being with the very ecstasy
of feeling. The notes that lie within his
throat flow out ever and anon in full,
rich harmony. He seems to catch up
the broken notes of lifes songs that for
ever are around me, and from his up
lifted throat losses them back in refresh
Ing sweetness to a yearning world.
Sometimes his bars run in two or three
notes, disconnected, so like the ones
which sorrow wrings from my soul mat
look up TO him as my interpreter.
/ fain would be merry, keep the morn
hgs golden beams across my PATH but
Just now as I see the old piano in the
hall with it's lid raised displaying its
prIx, CT
octaves, tears bedim my eyes, for the
mother who brought forth it's sweetest
tones is gone
My mothers father gave her the piano
when she was a little girl. and it was
said to be the first one brought to Mont
gomery. It is of Nunns & Clark make
has a mahogany case and holds fine
tone all of these long, long years. There
y not Q broken key, and as I run my
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and it is a sad pity that 1t is to be
found anywhere in our age, which Is
by no means distinguished for rever-
ence, and hence it becomes all the
more important that Christians should
resist the spirit of the age at this
point, as they must resist it at so
many others, if they are to succeed in
preserving a sound and solid Christian
character. We should not only culti-
vate the spirit of true reverence in
ourselves but should do our best to
inspire 1t in others.
The preacher who faces a worshiping
congregation of some hundreds Of peo-
pie two or three times a week has special
opportunities for observation And what
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does he observe? Quite frequently he Is
obliged to observe a great deal that is
not pleasant, if he be a reverent, thought
full, Christian shepherd of the flock of
Christ. No small part of this flock are
late coming into the house of God. II
these come in during the singing of a
hymn. or during the reading of the
Scriptures, then another considerable part
of the worshiping flock seem to be great
ly exercised as to who the late corners
may be, and where the ushers will seat
them. The result Is that numbers of
people turn their heads and stare at the
belated ones Not a few of these staring
people are church members in good
standing and full Fellowship" But their
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CYCLISTS that the Master gave no coun-
tenance to the style of address which
has unhappily become so common
among a certain class of gushing petit
tions of our day. John tells US that
He said to the disciples: "Ye call me
Master and Lord; and ye say well; for
so l am" These were the titles by
which His disciples continually adj
dressed Him. There is not a single
recorded instance in which any one of
them ever addressed Him as Jesus"
Nowadays, in public prayer. we not
unfrequently have Him addressed as
Dear Jesus" and the words do not
edify us No such form of address
is to be found in the New Testament
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department Is so irreverent as to indi=
cate a very low degree Of interest in
the services of the sanctuary.
A newly married couple enters the
church. This is their first Sunday at
church since their marriage. How many
people can tell you. after the sermon.
how the bride was dressed, but can by
no means remember what passage of
Scripture was read, nor even the text
from which the pastor preached?
But the preacher especially needs to
guard himself against irreverenee. In
deed, the very functions of his holy call
ing are such as to subject him to pc
culiar temptations in this direction. His
calling requires him to be familiar with
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T oNDON, February 27.-That which
but a short time ago seemed to
- take its rank with the fairy stories
in the fables is fast becoming an estao-
lished fact. and the existence OF the peo-
ple of Mars is discussed as seriously as
any other scientific phenomenon winch
is In process of proof.
The storm of incredulity was raised
vban scbiaparellI first discovered the
r,arls on Mars which he attributed to
the work and agency of living beings.
The usual sneering remarks were
called forth but the unerring eye Oh
the camera has proved beyond DOUBT
that those marks exist.
The romance of Mars, however, con-
sists In the fact that If life exists
there it is a life which is fighting a
death struggle with nature. Mars is a
planet on which water Is becoming scar
Ger and scarcer.
All planets, we are told, as they ad-
vance in age, are doomed to lose their
water and when the planet has become
arid and dry and life ceases to exist
it rolls dead weight through space.
Mars is much smaller than the earth,
and consequently the process of drying
has gone on quicker. Moreover, it is prob
ably much older in its evolution.
Professor Lowell suggests, in his ex-
tremely interesting article, that THE Mar
tan canals are the hopeless struggle of
a people to convey water from their
poles that only a race of great intellect,
developing with the menace of nature to
its existence, could have surmounted the
growing difficulties, but the struggle or
environment" he says, must be drawing
to near the limit in Mars and the last
resources of ingenuity have been invoked
In the struggle with the inexorable con-
ditions Of tho universe"
A nearer interest. perhaps attaches in
the fact that the history we see carried
out in Mars will eventually be the his
tory of our own world.
Only within the last few years has
the power of the drama been fully
realized. | have long felt that serious
minded and, religious people had never
half understood the potent influence of
the dramatic sense which exists in al
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was praying in certain place, when
He ceased, one of His disciples said
unto Him, Lord, teach us to pray, as
John also taught his disciples" And
then and there we have LulSe's re-
cension of the "The Lords Prayer"
Luke also tells US that Jesus went
up into a mountain to pray, and con-
tinued all night in prayer to Cod Is
it not significant that this was the
night Immediately preceding the day
on which He chose "the twelve whom
He also named Apostles?"
Our Lord was not only revent Him
self, but the inspirer of reverence in
others. 1t is evident upon the very
surface of the records of the evan
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WI belted plads and FURNISHED blades
Are coming late and early
And victory came with them, repeated
victory in Scotland. Englan{ was in
vaded. and the king in London as ready
to go back to Hanover; but Duke Of
Cumberland met the invade cullo-
den, and there the cause of Stuart was
forever lost.
But 1t lives immortal in history. in ira
dition, IN poetry. and in romance. "Oer
the Water to Charlie" is yet snug in
Scotland:
1 ance had sons. but now haze none
I bred them toiling sairly,
And I would bear them a again
And lose them a for Charlie.
Ever since Culloden, now 164 years. the
house of Brunswick has been more secure
on the English throne than any other
dyK---- in English history. and yet more
EnA ears have been shed over the
misfoA of the Stuart line than Eng
land e4> We plaudits to the Hanover
ian sucee>
Low as tn Ae has ebbed with me.
Tt still rehA 5 TO memorys eye
The hour my bA We. Hty only boy,
Fell by the sfue of great Dundeel
Enough-he died the death of fame;
Enough-he died with Conauerlng
Graeme!
But the Stuart cause. though lost in
martial sense, will live forever in the
imagination and in the sentiments OF
men the world round.
And a Catholic, Campbell, is on the
supreme bench of Scotland
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WY HAT our Lord though of rever-
N/ ence may be easily aseer-
w tanned from His public min
istry, as well as from His private life.
so far as we know 1t. In that remark
abe composition, which goes by the
name of 1.-THE Lords Prayer" the very
first petition is "Hallowed be thy
name" None but a reverent spirit can
consistently utter such a petition
The evangelists are singularly reti-
cent as to what may be called the
personal habits of the man Jesus; and
yet our records make it quite evident
that He led a prayerful life. Luke tells
us that 1T came to pass that as He
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-07

Good rubber tire run-about and har-
ness. Can be seen at Eyerett's
stable. 2219 Wash. Ave. 3-14-tf
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|NONOP() ()L|E:S
AT I ACKED
BI 7 TERLY
Kellogg Says if Unchecked
Initiative Of Enterprise
Will Cease

st. Louis, April 6-'Tf these monop-
olies are permitted to exist uncheck-
cd" declared Special United States
Attorney General Frank 3. Kellogg.
today. addressing tho federal court in
the course of his argument to have the
Standard Oil company dissolving as
violator of the Sherman act, your chill
dren and mine will be mere employees
OF corporations and all further initia-
tive OF enterprise will cease"
The defense probably will declare
that 1t cannot be checked because of
existing conditions and It's prominence
In the economies of the country. But
history has shown that when uncheck-
ed by court of legislation, monopolies
have been stopped by revolution
Former United States Attorney Nor,
riSon of Chicago. OF "beef trust suits"
fame, who is Mr. Kellogg's associate,
took UP the matter Of alleged unfair
competition. describing In detail, first
the defendants marketing methods
and the manner In which 1t secured
records Of Its competitors business
through alleged secret agreements
with railway employees throughout the
NCohtfys IL Ia uoW uhNot otoOu thoS
the lawyers for the defense have prom
ised the court to finish their case Sat
urday, leaving Mr.. Kellogg reasonable
time for closing address. This Will
probably necessitate a night session
Saturday. II not on Friday.
John G. Milburn, Of New York. the
Standard OH company's chief counsel
OF record. late today commenced pre-
6enting the defense side Of the case
IN the governments suit TO dissolve
the Standard OIL company of New Jer-
sey, for alleged violations OF the Sher-
man act.
Although Mr. Milburn addressed the
court but forty minutes, he found time
TO tell much of the early history of
the Standard OH coropraton.
The two principal points made by
Mr., Milbun were that the corporation
had done much for American indus
tries and commerce and that the oil
business OF the early days was of non
descript type
Wherever" said he, has trod the
| foot Of civilized man: wherever the
hoof Of the camel has made its imprint
| upon the sands OF the desert, or wher-
ever an artificial light is burned and
wherever files the flag Of any nation
there Will be found the product of
STANDARD Oil-the product of America
and Americans"
The federal attorney, Mr.. Kellogg.
concluded his opening address for the
government shortly after noon and
then c. II. Morrison. Mr.. Kollogg's g
chief associate. finished the govern
ments opening of the argument in a
two hour s discussion Of alleged unfair
competition. scoring the Standard
! heavily.
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ACCUSED Of
SELLING
LIQUOR
Mayor and Four Citizens
Charged With Conducting
Blind Tigers"

Lakevile, Ohio. April 6-Mayor
Charles Miller and four other citi-
zens were arrested here today on the
charge Of conducting blind tigers"
The mayor was elected on dry"
platform. He Is agent for the Ohio
Electric Traction company and is ac~
cused Of selling the liquor from a
back door Of the traction station
Among other arrested we're E. D.
Carr and A. l. Byers.
Byers conducted livery stable and
is accused of dispensing liquor from
his hay NOW.
Carr is the town undertaken and he
Is said TO have kept whiskey for sale
in his place OF business
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WERE bURIE D
UNDER THE
DE- EbRIS
OF Illinois Central Depot
Which Was Demolished
by Tornado

Memphis, April 6.-Five persons
are known to have been killed. at
least four Injured and other buried
among the debris of the Illinois Cen
trail depot, which was demolished by
q tornado which swept through the
city of Aberdeen. tonight.
The dead:
w. c. Mcmillan, president Of the
Bank OF Aberdeen.
T. G. Mcmillan. cotton buyer.
Three unknown negroes.