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of an oligarchy like that of the Colonna, while LaFollette would bring the mob to authority to make government for all of ,A, the mob preferred in the spoil of office.
 A plague of both of them. The true path Is between the two-that blazed by Thomas Jefferson and trod by Samuel J. Tilden and Grover Cleveland-a represen- tative republic, partly national and part ly federal-vide Ben Hill.
 I shall never forget the first time I saw LaFollette. It was the first session of the Forty-ninth Congress, and I was in the House press gallery, of which I was then a recorded member. and tariff de- bate was in progress. Perhaps it was the last of the Morrison bills under discussion. Near the north door of the chamber. where messengers from President and Senate came in not at all tall, and rather slender and youthful looking man rose on the republican side, and began a terrific assault on democratic free trade" He had tremendous volume of lung, and I looked round to see where all that compass of voice came from. It was in the days when fools thought that Great Britain was sending over ship loads of gold to buy our elections for the dem ocratic party.
 I turned to Cicero Norris and asked, "Who Is that fellow?" He answered,
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gazing listlessly everywhere except at the preacher until one is tempted to quote the wise man who said: "The fools eyes are in the ends of the earthl'
 Jesus then took as text the first two verses of the 61st chapter of Isaiah, and he interpreted the passage as pointing to Himself. We have Lukes authority for the statement that the passage was from ''the book of the Prophet Isaiah," and We have no call to bother our brains here with speculation about Second Isaiah
 The verses are full of spiritual mean ing Isaiah's idea of the Messiah Is not the idea of a mere sign-monger, work ing wonders to make idle people stare and gasp. The miraculous element is subordinate. The spiritual content of the preaching was, and still is, the main thing. Christ frequently explains His parabes, but we never hear of Him ex- plaining any one of his miracles and the preachers who explain them nowa- days always explain them away.
 ''The Spirit of the Lord is upon me" says the text, because the Lord hath anointed me-" i. e. made Christ of me ito preach good tidings," And preach he
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thus: Tt takes so much grace to be a Christian at all in Chicago that when one does become a Christian he is a Christian out and out"
 During my residence in New Bedford I met a few-very few-old-fashioned state rights men, and nowhere-not even in South Carolina, the home of nullifica- tion-did I ever know men more pre- nounced in their state rights principles. And the reason is obvious: In order to be at all, they must be strong.
 Now, Christ's education was to great extent, conducted on human principles, and in a human way. He increased in wisdom as he increased in stature-nat- urally, that is. in accordance with hu- man laws of growth, and hence there Is reason to believe that his character was developed by the very evils of the bad society in which he was reared.
 When Jesus went into the synagogue at Nazareth and read from the Book of Isaiah the people listened intently, and the whole congregation fixed their eyes upon him. That must have been won derful reading, o, for such reading from our modern puplits How often nowadays we see large numbers of the congregation
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I TO HIS OLD HOME-By J. C. Hiden,

did He told those bigoted Nazarenes how God had chosen to feed a Gentle widow when many widows of Israel were hungry and how God had healed Gen tile leper when many lepers of Israel were crying. "Une1ean. unclean" It was not the preaching that they wanted, but 1t was the preaching that they needed.
 You ought not to give pffense for it's own sake, my brother preacher. but if the honest presentation of AScriptural truth offends people, then let them be offended early and often. The Naza- renes were so ehraged at Chrst's preach ing that they tried to hurl Him over precipice and dash Him to pieces.
 Why were they so angry? Ignorance and bigotry will probably account for it all I am not sure that the ring-leaders of that mad mob even knew that what Jesus told them was in the Bible, for he had told them a simple Bible story.
 William F. Broaddus once told me the following anecdote:
 When I was pastor in Fredericksburg I once had a number of candidates to baptize at time when the public mind
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to Canada-this appealed to Fortesque
 He determined to go on a visit to the community, study the people and write a book about them.
 The book was never written.
 One day in his travels through the col ony Fortesque came across a band of wo- men dressed in strange attire. They were drawing a blow and chanting In a minor key as they toiled at the ropes. When they passed the young man his eyes rest ed for a moment on the sweet face of girl In her teens. The girl looked at him shyly, and he thought her face the most winsome that he had ever seen.
 The incident passed from his mind.
 Then one day in little camp cabin far away the face of the girl flashed on his memory. He could not forget 1t. Inn pulsively he started back to find her Aft CT a long search he succeeded. The young nobleman discovered that the girl, Olga Vorinhoff, unaffected and simple, was sur prisingly sweet and womanly. He could not rid himself of her charm One day, after weeks of self-examina- ] ton and hesitancy, he took the little wo- man into his arms and kissed her. Hearing of Fortesque's approaching marriage to Olga, his old friends tried to dissuade him. They told him his fancy for the maid would soon fade.
 But the nobleman and the girl were married
 The news went back to England and Fortesque was disinherited Long before he had adopted the simple creed of the Doukhobors and entered the communal life. The announcement of the birth of a second child to the couple caused the resurrection of this story.
 The young man, by reason of his edu cation became leader among the pious people. He seems perfectly contented with the simple life and very much in love with his pretty wife.
 And here endeth the true tale of the romance of Arthur Fortesque, nobleman, and Olga Varinhoff, maid.
 A school board in Maine has enforced the rule that female teacher must quit the schools when she gets married.
 Sapient school board
 r. The rule is an unjust and unreasonable
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By

western Kansas made a like experiment and failed. When western Kansas finally adjusted itself and began to raise wheat it began to feed the world.
 It was so In dry farming"
 When the pioneers of eastern Colorado, Wyoming, eastern Oregon and Idaho fall ed in their early experiments 1t was be- cause they did not know how to conserve the scanty rainfall by proper culture. By adapting and adjusting methods they have made the desert bloom as rose.
 It s all a matter of adjustment-f1nding what you can do and doing 1t.
 This Is particularly true of men.
 Grant failed in business. but won death less fame in war. Goldsmith "wrote like an angel and talked like poor Poll"
 The round man gets into the square hole, and vice versa, because of inability to adapt himself.
 Unadjusted life is a failure because it is misfit.
 Adaptability to circumstances marks successful men. They do not try to alter the unalterable They realize how small they are and how big is the universe. They see they must join the logical pro- cesson of affairs if they are to get any where.
 You can only develop yourself as you subscribe to things as they are. He Is the fortunate man who can be at
  and do the right thing at the right time. Adjustment of his life to his surround ings Is the secret of that ability
 No man can get on in this world if he Is a misft
 "All the world loves lover''-and his story.
 Here is one of the prettiest tales in the annals of romance, and 1t Is real love story, too.
 It is the romance of Arthur Fortesque, nephew of the Duke of Portland, and Olga Vorinhoff, a Doukhobor maid of Canada.
 Ten years ago Fortesque was a hand some dashing graduate of Oxford In stead of settling down he went away to Canada, seeking adventures. In Quebec he heard much about those strange people. the Doukhobors. The sto- ry of their queer religious beliefs. of per secution in Russia. and of how they came
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discrimination against women.
 About the only pertinent excuse that IS made for such a rule is this: When a woman teacher marries she then has a husband to support her, and she ought to give up her position to the unmarried teacher who has to make her living.
 In other words, we should make the schools a life asylum for spinsters
 The only test that should be applied to any teacher, male or female. married or unmarried, is the test of efficiency. Does she do her work successfully? is the only question that should be asked.
 Is married woman less efficient be- cause of her marriage?
 In every other occupation a woman is permitted to marry and continue In her place so long as she renders efficient ser vice. Why should the marriage barrier be raised against the teacher?
 A young woman spends money and years of study in preparation for her work, all of which goes for naught if she happens to fall in love, like any other woman, and marry.
 Why not make. the man quit teaching when he marries?
 Why deprive the state of the valuable services of a man or woman by such an absurd objection?
 Marriage does not unfit teacher. It improves her The real teacher. the born instructress, she who does her school work with love and enthusiasm, usually desires to contiue in her place, for awhile at least, after marriage. The silly rule excludes her.
 The writer knows an ideal teacher who Is married and is a mother. And no one better knows the way to the heart of a child than does this gracious, capable woman There would be a public riot in her community should any school board presume to discharge her.
 Is it not humiliating that such teacher should sometimes be compelled to keep her marriage a secret in order to hold her position? Instances are known.
 The discrimination Is purely one of sex and born of narrow prejudice.
 One Is amazed that such ruling should be made by any intelligent board of edu- cation in this the twentieth century.
 Why doom female teachers to celibacy?
 Why deprive the state of it's best teach CTS?
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tion-this sort of books he issued from his presses and sold by the millions. It is a great thing to be able to choose the reading of the masses of the people One who knew Collier intimately says it was one of the sorrows of the mans life that the price of books should be advanced because of the increased cost of production.
 This brief article is not intended as a eulogy, but sketch. Nevertheless 1t confidently may be stated that Peter Collier lived a life that was well worth while.
 He made money, but 1t is of record that he made it honestly, serving his generation.
 It is a pleasure to subjoin to what is here written that when he was rich he bought home for the Irish widow who gave him his suggestion and supported her while she lived
 "The gobins'n git ye if ye don't watch out"
 Thus the jingoes of England and Ger many to the peoples of those countries. whose governments are running race in naval equipment
 England has long held the supremacy
  at Trafalgar But now Germany has built a navy that rivals Englands war fleets, and John Bull In his right little, tight little isle is dreaming O nights or the invasion of his coast by the kaiser. Whew
 There was a great fuss in parliament. Balfour stood up for the opposition to charge that the government was letting Germany get ahead, and Asquith for the government sadly admitted 1t.
 Whereupon little less than panic seized the newspapers and the people.
 I've must build more ironclad Dread noughts, and quickly-four anyway, and, if possible, eight"
 Pathetic?
 It certainly Is. England, with big national debt, has multitude of unem- ployed and half starving people on her hands. The tax burdened English must go deeper into their pockets.
 And Germany
 The people of that empire struggle under
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POLICE CATCH BABY FOXES.
They Had Been Living High on Thefts
 From Boston Suburbs.
From the Boston Transcript

From the Boston Transcript
 Poultry owners in Auburndale Weston, and adjacent places, will feel more secure because of the latest capture made by the Metropolitan park police at Riverside Seven baby foxes have been taken from den on the Newton side of the Charles river, below Norumbega park.
 The cubs. which are about half grown are confined in a largeebox in the base ment of the station. Several weeks ago a patrolman saw an old fox running along the bank of the river and after some difficulty discovered the entrance to the burrow.
 Saturday a squad of officers, armed with shovels and gun, found four oth- CT entrances to the den. They commenced digging In a spot near the center as possible. leaving a man on guard at each hole. One tiny fox made a dash for lib- erty. but was caught, and immediately made friends with his captor When the den was finally opened the remaining six were huddled in one corner.
 The place was filtered with feathers, fish bones and other evidences of the en- ergy with which the mother fox must have hunted to feed her large family The body of a muskrat formed part of the contents of the larder. It is thought that the cubs will be sent to the zoo on the Middlesex Tells reservation. The mother fox has not been caught.
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Copyright. 1909, by American Press As-
 sociation)
 ~ EFT plenty of sleep.
 He who gets less than eight 0 hours of sleep in "A gets less than is necessary for health and long life.
 Napoleon tried to prove otherwise. He affirmed that six hours in "A were suf- ficient More than that, he put in the six hours at any time he got chance. Napoleon died at 52.
 Moreover, good historians say he lost the battle of Waterloo because of JOSS of sleep.
 On the other hand, Victor Hugo lived to be SS. He allowed nothing to get in the way of his eight hours of sleep. And in his advanced years he invariably took a nap in the middle of the day
 Balzac, another great Frenchman, sys- tematically robbed himself of sleep in order to write his novels. He regarded every hour stolen from sleep as so much gained.
 Balzac died at 51, a year younger than Napoleon, a physical wreck.
 George Washington believed in plenty of sleep. He invariably withdrew from company at ID O CLOCK, some IneInper oI the family coming in at that time to say: Ladies and gentlemen, the general bids you all very good night"
 Early hardships and suffering like that at Valley Forge shortened his life, yet he lived to be 67, dying of an acute at tack.
 The fact is we human clocks are so made we must be thoroughly wound up once in every A hours.
 Shakespeare said that sleep "knits up the raveled sleeve of care" and that it is natures kim restorer."
 One cannot burn the candle of life at both ends and expect to last Yet that is precisely what Is done when one filches from nature what Is coming, whether by habit or by force of will or by stimu- lants.
 Physicians tell us that loss of sleep is the source of many ills usually at tributed to other causes.
 Poor Richard was right when he said;
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" IRVING to play croquet with live
 hedgehogs for balls, flamingoes for
 X mallets and doubled-up soldiers for arches is, according to Alice, a very diff ficult game, especially when the hedge hogs unroll themselves and crawl away and the doubled-up soldiers are always getting up and walking about. 'The play ers," said Alice, "all played at once with out waiting for turns, quarreling all the while and fighting for the hedgehogs, and In a very short time the queen was in a furious passion and went stamping about and shouting of with his headr or of with her headH about once min ute.
 Now, the game that is being played in Washington Is very similar in many re- spects to the queens croquet party ex- cept that it is called "tariff revision" The protectionist hedgehogs and the dou- bled-up free traders are crawling and walking about all over the hill until the people have grown furious and are be- Kinning to clamor for somebody's head.
 Many mills are idle and millions out of employment while the grand talkfest drags along. The industrial progress of the nation is brought to a standstill while
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Burkes warns us against the error of framing a bill of indictment against a whole people. and it is certainly not easy to make up a fair, unbiased and correct opinion of any large population, as a whole. As I have lived nearly all my life in the south. I have now and then been asked by northern people, How about the negro problem?' Well, the ne- gro problem is a big thing; and 1t is not the same problem everywhere A few summers ago I spent some weeks near a village In Virginia, and then week in the country, some ten miles from the village; and the negro problem was amaz- ingly different in these two localities. The negroes near the village were, upon the whole as worthless, idle thievish. lying vagabonds as ever worried the de- cent people of any country that I have ever known; those in the country, only ten miles off, were about the best ne- groes in the south, so far as my knowl- edge extends.
 New York city is sometimes called modern Sodam, but I have spent a good many Sundays preaching in New York. and I am not sure that can name
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city in which the people generally be- have better on Sunday. The roughs and rowdies did not come my way.
 New Bedford, Mass, is an uneommonly clean city. and yet 1t is the only place I ever lived in where a prizehght was Conducted in the presence of hundreds of respectable CD citizens, and the filth4est language I ever heard uttered In public was uttered in loud voice on the streets of New Bedford, and on a Sunday morn- ing. It was horrible and shocking, and the only consolation I had was a grim sense of it's appropriateness, coming as 1t did, from the lips of a dirty fellow, yell ing: Boston Sunday sGlobe'
 But there is a good reason to believe that Nazareth was a bad place in which to rear a family. I do not pretend to know why such a place was chosen to rear the Christ, but l do know that, when character Is set decidedly in a certain direction then opposition of the most powerful and persistent kind serves to develop and strengthen that character Thomas Dixon spent a vacation preach ing in Chicago, and he said that some of the best Christians he ever knew were in that wicked city. And he reasoned
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proceed in different way. There is 0 sting in their arguments that tortures the too powerful senator from Rhode Island, and In all his long service in this capital he was never initiated, or initiable, until now, and he has got 1t mighty bad.
 Why did he not bring In a report with his bill? here Is but one answer. There are things in it he does not intend the Senate shall understand Never were two statesmen better fashioned to plague each other than Nelson W. Aldrich and Robert M. LaFollette. They have one at- tribute In common and in degree suffi- cient to make the torture of a soldier on the field of battle-tenacity of purpose. LaFollette looks on Aldrich as a mon- strosity of depraved government. Aldrlch looks on LaFollette as the quintessence of nuisance in cebate. The Rhode Island man never speaks until he is forced to do it to save his bacon The Wisconsin man Is never so happy as when on his legs expounding reform Aldrich is an aristoerat and believes 1t is best for the poor as well as for the rich for men of intellect and men of property to conduct the government LaFollette Is democrat (that is a little "d') who has persuaded himself that wisdom and virture emanate from the cottage. while ignorance and vice issue out of the mansion. In its last analysis Aldrich would establish the rule
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an enormous debt. The up-keep of an immense military establishment Is added to that of a costly navy.
 And now both Germans and English are under spell of apprehension lest one spend more money than the otherl
 It would be humorous were 1t not pa tfletic. They are like two boys with chips on their shoulders-''one is afraid and the other dassent."
 The probability of war between those two peoples, having so many interests in common, and in these days of The Hague tribunals, is exceedingly remote.
 These are Christian powers" that lay burdens that are hard to be borne on the backs of their common people, who toll on short dinners for bare subsistence and who see their children doomed to a similar fate, all because of the war game played by a few statesmen.
 The spectacle causes one to say to the aerial experimenters of our time-more power to your elbow
 May the time quickly come when a few torpedoes dropped from an airship can send to the bottom whole fleet of Dreadnoughtsi Then will the enginery of destruction be the best ally of peace and bring in the day
 When the war drum throbs no longer
 And the battle flags are furled."
 One of the secrets of successful living is the art of adjusting ones self to changed conditions.
 Make up your mind once for all that the world will not adapt itself to you; you must adapt yourself to the world.
 Cultivate adaptability.
 In nature everything f1ts-ad1usts itself to surroundings. Animal. plant, star. universe-each must fit itself to environ- ment.
 Man alone tries to fight natural law and fails.
 The North American Indians defed this law They would not conform to their surroundings. As a consequence the In- dians are a disappearing race. Mound builders, cliff dwelers, foresters. plains people-all disappeared or are disappear ing.
 Also
 New England tried to raise Indian corn on It's rocky soil and failed. semi-arid