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able that they are living In the habitual
enjoyment of private prayer? It can hard
ly be supposed that they are The slim
attendance at the prayer meeting is both
an effect and a cause of slight personal
acquaintance with the throne of grace.
Is it true that the purely devotional ele-
ments of the average church service
awaken almost no interest in the mind
and heart of the average church member?
Is it true of the great body of us Chris
tians that
'Hozannas languish on our tongues,
And our devotion dies?'
[ If so, then our Zion Is In bad way and
sadly needs reform And from the Re
ligious Herald of Richmond, Va, take
the following account of an effort at such
REFORM
Some months ago the pastor of Bap-
list church in this city became seriously
exercised in mind on account of the slim
attendance at the weekly prayer meet
ing. He had tried various expedients to
remedy the evil, but none seemed to sue
coed. At last he hit upon the plan of
writing to individual members Of his
church and urging them to attend the
next prayer meeting. So he wrote sub
stantia1ly as follows:
Dear Brother Cor Sister).-I am ex-
ceedingly anxious to see revival of in
terest In our weekly prayer meeting, and
beg you. If possible, to come next
Wednesday night, and to bring with you
as many of your family as you can; and
it will be a special favor to me, if you
can also bring some neighbor who is not
In the habit of attending"
Twentysix postal cards, containing this
invitation were written and mailed on
Monday, and the result was very large
increase in the attendance at the prayer
meeting on the following Wednesday
night. From that time the prayer meet
ing seemed to take on a fresh interest,
and at this writing that prayer meeting
has doubled it's numbers and is still grow
ing. Are there not other pastors who
could take a hint from the experience
here recorded? If any should feel it wise
and proper to attempt anything of the
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N URING the first half of the last
century. and even later, this town
- was a village and a mudhole,
magnificent for its distance from nearly
everywhere, as Charles Dickens discov-
cred. In those days senators and repre-
sentatives instinetively separated them
selves into .messes," and as birds of a
feather flock together, they congregated
In boarding houses, where they lived,
ate, slept and drank. AS a general prop
ostion, those of a mess were of one polit-
ical faith, for politics was war then; but
1t is a historical fact that Holmes, dem
ocrat of Maine, and Henry Clay, whig of
Kentucky. were always of the same
mess and chums from skin to core.
That is now changed. A forceful man,
Alexander H. Shepherd, arose here, and
with clearest vision saw that the national
capitol would move across the Allegheny
mountains and set itself somewhere In
the Mississippi valley if this town did not
look out Mr.. Shepherd set about making
a beautiful city here, and he succeeded.
But that is a long story upon which l
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erybody loves him. Had justice been
enthroned. Mark would be serving his
second term in the United States Senate
as ambassador from the sovereign state
OF Arizona He, too. is a lawyer artful
and slsillfuI in a court of nisi prius. IL
is doubtless true that he can handle
witness more to the advantage of his
client than any one of the four ! have
mentioned. AS a debater in Congress.
he was always listened to with interest.
profit and pleasure He rarely discovers
acerbity of temper, but he did give Jim
Tawney stab under the fifth rib that
smote him hip and thigh
And all Arizona applauded, and Tawn-
ey felt that he deserved what he got.
Mark would make a splendid senator
His capacity. his experience. his geni-
aHty, his urbanity, would lend him i'm
mediate and great influence in that body.
And such is the mess ] sometimes,
about once In six weeks, dine with
About a couple o'clock in the morning
we have settled all things capable or
human solution, and Chairman Clayton
declares the n.eeting adjourned for an
other six weeks.
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and Akin" and so late in May No
spirituous drink is served but barley
brew"
Nobody gets flu, but some of us are
sometimes garrulous. And such discus
sicns that follow fast and follow faster!
When warm weather comes we have crab
flake, Maryland STYLE and there are
trimmings of lettuce salad, asparagus,
new potatoes, and what not
Will you pardon me while | try to give
a very brief sketch of all these chaps?
To be sure you will.
And first and foremost is Henry Clay
ton. Only a moment ago | laid down,
after an hour of delight, volume en-
titled White and Black Under the Old
Regime" written by his mother. who
might have been wife to Hercules:
"Sixof his labors you'd have done, and
saved your husband so much sweat
Every youth Of both sexes in every
southern community should read that
book. 1t reveals what the southern wo-
man was in that mighty struggle. Talk
about the Confederate soldier on the field
1t was the southern woman at the home
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A T a Baptist ministers conference,
"a held in one of our southern cities
a well known pastor is reported
as saying that he did not believe that
half of the members of his church had
been present at any one Sunday service
for year In this connection here is a
bit CT my own experiences:
Amons the quiet, unobstrusive infiu-
ences which tend to develop, to strength
en-, and to enrich the character
of the Christian. no observer could
fail to notice that of private devo-
ton. We can hardly think that this Is
a praying age. We are not forced to this
unwelcome conclusion simply by our
prayer meeting experiences, though we
may confess that these experiences have
probably had their influence in the mat
ter After an experience of 81 years in
the ministry; after having served In the
pastorate of various churches in Virginia,
in North and South Carolina, In Kentucky
and Massachusetts; after having spent
much time in the work of an evangelist.
and after having preached in almost ev-
cry part of one large state, and In various
parts of several other states, we may say
that we have yet to find, or to be credibly
informed Of a single church of any de-
nomination in which the great body of the
membership regularly attend the weekly
prayer meeting.
That record is not inspiring, but it
ought to awaken serious reflection In
every pastor that reads it. But further:
We have never known any large church
in which anything like half the mem
bers could be found regularly at prayer
meeting. We have frequently inquired of
other pastors, and have found thus far,
not one whose observation was different
from our own in this matter Such an
experience as this is enough to suggest to
any inquiring mind the solemn question:
docs the average church member of our
time love to pray?' The exceedingly slim
attendance at our prayer meetings would
seem to point us to negative answer to
this solemn question. But If the great
body of our church members do not love
to attend the place where public and So
cial prayer is made, can it be at all prob
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that made the bravest fight of profane
history!
Henry Clayton is of a lawyer as well
as of a soldier race. He is of the same
stock as that of John NJ. Clayton of Del
aware, who was the foremost champion
of the party of Henry Clay in the United
States Senate. He is a logiean. and his
fight for the independence of the legisla-
ture few months ago shows that the
man was made for the supreme bench.
which he would ornament. All I have
against him is that there is the dregs of
old southern whiggery In his brain, as 1t
was in his Uncle Pugh's. And yet l do
not despair of my task to make reg
ular free trade democrat of Henry Clay
ton, ere l am done with him.
Ollie James is the most popular man in
Congress, and that is strange, too, for IL
there was a ranker political partisan than
Ollie l have yet to learn his name or
his habitat. In rough and tumble de-
bate, Ollie can hold his own with any of
them He is a man of strong, of invete-
rate, of invincible convictions. an orator
with a fluent and ready tongue, and a
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The mess" is thing of the past. 1t
went with the boarding house and the
coming of the restaurant. The way Web
ster and Choate lived at this capital In
the early forties would not quite suit any
rural congressman of 1910, though Web
ster invented the 'planked" shad. In
these times senators and representatives,
who have money in both pockets. as many
of them have, live in their own houses,
or have sumptuous apartments in hotels
like the Willard or palaces like Stone
leigh court.
But what l purposed to write about was
a mess of southern congressmen-Henry
Clayton. Ollie James. Owsley Stanley,
Tom Hefiin and Mark Smith-all royal
fellows. Sometimes they invited me, so
as to have somebody to cuss over the
treason of 96." My revenge is come, and
now, with meekness, owning their evil
behavior, they allow me to cuss them,
all and singular, for the idiocy of '96.
But I must except Ollie. He believes in
it yet.
This mess meets about once a month
In the early spring 1t Is planked shad
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To this challenge the duke. who is wise
enough to divine what will be forth
coming if such floodgate be opened,
replies:
'Fie on thee. I can tell what thou
wouldst do"
Whereupon, Jacques, who is "full of
natter and, like Elihu, ready to burst,
says:
What, for a counter, would 1 do but
good?"
Duke: Most mischievous, foul sin in
Gliding sin:
For thou myself hast been libertine,
As sensual as the british sting itself;
And all the embossed sores and headed
evils,
That thou with license of free foot hast
caught,
Wouldst thou disgorge into the general
world
And there lies the danger. even II the
censor be preacher. If he be desperate
y bent on drawing a gaping crowd of
idle sensation-hunters, he may determine
to be realistic to hold 1.-The mirror up to
nature" to show vice his own feature,
and present to the very age and body of
the time his form and pressure and that
after fashion never dreamt of in Ham
let's philosophy. For instance: He may
go prowling through the dance houses"
and the low dives of a great city and then
advertise a sermon, or a series of them
on 1.-The Vices of Our Town" He may
greatly interest a certain class of people
by giving minute and graphic pictures Of
what he actually saw. But is there not
serious danger of doing more harm than
good by such a proceeding? And is he al
together sure that his own close personal
contact with the vices of the slums and
stews of great city, and with the scenes
there exposed to view will tend to quick
en- his own conscience and make him a
better man? 1t is greatly to be feared
that brilliant word-painting of the scenes
in a dance-house are likely to produce
much the same sort of effect as will the
reading of the very modern realistic
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Ubi saeva indignatio
Cor plterius lacerare nequit
Dolly Madison's First s'Drawing Rooms
From Harper's Magazine.


When it became known that Mrs Mads-
son intended to hold reception It was
called a drawing room by everybody.
and the White House was known as The
Palace" or, less frequently. 1.-The Great
House, for the names of thing were
still English. Many fervent prayers were
offered up for fair weather for thlo
night; for most of the guests woulA
have far to CO. and on a bad night .
chariot might get stalled. Alas! e
rained, and the carriages drew UP at
the White House door all spattered with
mud. and the splendor of the liverieA
marred. One or two chariots broke down
in mudhole near the White House gatea.
which was one of the worst places n
Pennsylvania avenue; but the occupants
were carried on by passing friends The
portico of the house had not yet been
erected. but the guests alighted at the
stone steps and were under cover almost
Immediately. There a brilliant scene
greeted them. Fully 200 people wero
present, and the house was glowing with
lamps and large chandeliers having .
thousand wax lights. The unique and
symmetrical arrangement of the rooms
and halls, the. appropriateness of the new
furniture, aid the brilliant costumes OF
the guests all combined to make a scene
which an unprecedented and discriminating
observer must have admired and rernenr
bered.
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than he who reads for information. It
would be worth going good long dis
lance TO hear trial at nisi prius, In
which the balance of justice wavered, II
the facts were numerous, the points nice
and Ollie James and Owsley Stanley the
opposing counsel, and an able and just
judge presiding.
Tom Hefin is a rollcking fellow, able,
eloquent, witty. humorous and with
vein of sentiment that is delightful and
temper of chvalry that harks back
to the old south. I never see or talk
with Tom Hean that the cotton plant
and the okra pod do not arise to my
minds eye He is as southern as the
gulf coast and as guileless as honor and
honesty themselves.
| saw Toms picture the other day.
He was dressed in white duck made of
| cotton, mounted on a cotton bale, and
addressing 5000 Alabama democrats, all
| his constituents. l was not surprised
| when he carried every county of his
| district 1t will be sorry day when
the cotton south turns from her sons
of the mold of Tom Helm
! Everybody knows Mark Smith, and ev-
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lessness. When he died he was found
denuded.
Swift was buried by the side iof Stella
in the cathedral, and there after '1ife's
fitful fever he sleeps" Should one
give the whole sentence as it was said
of Duncan. and add the word '.well?"
] said that Swift's madness was of an
accommodating nature and finally reached
its climax. / give one or two details.
While the dean engaged In writing
a satire which he called the Legion
Club" he became affected with giddiness
and loss of self control. He left the
satire unfinished, and the world is no
poorer thereby. From that time till
Blind Fury with the abhorred shears.
slit the thin spun life' which did not
occur for nine years, ''he grew worse and
worse, till his friends found his passion
so violent and ungovernable. his mem-
DRY so decayed. and his reason so de-
PRAYED, that they were obliged to keep
all strangers from him." After years OF
this experience of horror an idiocy or
imbecility. as I have said, fell upon
him; and with mind bereft he died
quietly.
Tame, of swift's last days. has this
to say: He had long felt that his rea-
son was deserving him. One day he was
found gazing intently at the top of =
lofty elm, the head of which had biast-
ed. Upon his friends approach. he point-
ed to it, significantly adding, I shall be
like that tree and die first at the top
His memory left him; he received the att
tentions of others with disgust, sonne-
times rage. He lived alone, gloomy and
unable to read 1t is said that he spent
whole year without uttering a words
hating the sight of human being,
walking ten hours a day, a maniac ana
then an idiot. A ttrmor came on one eyoy
he continued a month without sleeping
and five men were needed to prevent hig
tearing out the eye with his nails When
his will was opened. it was found that
he had left his whole fortune to build
a mad house"
Oliphant closes a sketch of Swim
with these words: AT last the great dean
of war and battle of quip and jest, he who
had thirsted to be doing through all hia
life, fell into imbeclity and stupor with
occasional wild awakenings into con<
seriousness which We're still more terrible
He died in 1745. having lived till his 18th
year in spite OF himself. ~
Ubi saeva indignatio
Cor plterius laeerare nequit
is written on his tomb.
No more can fiery wrath and indignA~
ton reach him where he lies by Stella'u
side In the aisle over against his cham-
Der VIII dow. The touch OF her quiet due
must have soothed, one would think. the
last fever that fingered In him even after
death had done IT'S worst -
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WAS he mad, sir?"
20, very mad, exceeding mad"
Shakespeare Henry VIII.
His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.
Hamlet.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-19
Explosion Injuries Zeppelin workmsn.

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany. July
l9.-lll-luck continues to pursue Count
Zeppelin. builder OF the monster diriei.
bic balloons that have been wrecked
aott, The great hydrogen gaze plant
In lonely spot near here. exploded
today with terrific force, seriously IN
juring a number Of workmen. Sev'
eral houses In the vicinity, occupied
by workmen for Count Zeppelin were
destroyed by the blast. The canse IL
the accident has not been ascertain
ed
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-19

Clarke Grifith says Roy Bescher is
another Bin LANCE. Any base ball fan
knows what that means.
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back at $3.50, when he presented the
company's proposition, which he said
was their estimate of the award OF
the board OF Cancellation.
The committee at Il glance found
that II was very far from being any
thing like the boards award and that
in the great majority of cases where
rates had been specified these rates
are very much below those suggested
by the board. 90
How He Views Proposition.
For instance, on the Portland
Montreal run we find Mr. Hays offer
ing $2.25 per 100 miles to a passenger
conductor instead OF S2.45 $40, as filed
In the boards award; we find in Mon
trealToronto passenger runs he Offers
conductors 1921 per 100 miles, instead
of the boards award of $2.45 $40. Tho
minimum standard monthly salary for
q passenger conductor In the territory
Ii $125 mopth--the board recon
mended SOL month. Mr.. Hays sug
gests very many runs at 500 a month
and some as low as $50 month. The
minimum monthly pay for a passen.
ger brakeman recommended by the
board was $50; Mr.. Hays offers I'm
many cases $55, monthly increase 81
So on a $50 salary.
Further In his proposition Mr. Hays
ignored entirely the boards recon-.
mendation TO standardize conditions
on the Grand Trunk and its recommen.
dation to put into effect the mileage
basis OF pay in either passenger or
local freight service. Instead, he pro
poses to perpetuate existing conditions
and In some way to make them much
more Objectionable. since there would
be greater inequalities than in the
past.
Therefore we positively refused to
accept his propositions on behalf of
the men, who had left us our instruc.
tions with power to act. AS a result,
the men left the service at $50 Mon.
day evening"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-19
Grand Trunk Can't Afford
Wage Increase Men Demand
"A. n. ATwATER.

THE Grand Trunk is In this fight to
win, and we're going to win"
I'VE look 20 the police to protect us
In case OF .'ioting, and the militia will
be called out, II necessary"
I'VE regard the men now on strike
as being out OF our employ and doubt
II any OF them will be taken back"
THE Grand Trunk will fill the places
of the strikers. and we don't expect
any interference with the regular pas.
senger schedule"
mo effort will be made to move
trains until matters become more set.
tied"
"Trainmen who have refused to
strike will Immediately get the In
crease of Is per cent offered some
days ago by President c. NJ. Hays"
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strike Of the conductors and trainmsn
on the Grand Trunk system has tied
up the Canadian connection OF the Le-
nigh Valley railroad No trains are
running today over the Grand Trunk
nom this city, the last passenger train
having pulled out at $50 last night
and the last freight train having
crossed the International railway
bridge at $3.50.
Only about 200 men are involved in
this vicinity. There has been no trou-
BILE Of any kind so far.
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over 5000 men are on strike. These
include conductors, brakemen, bag.
gagemen and some switchmen. II was
anticipated that the telegraphers
would also strike, but at late hour
Monday night their demand for more
pay was referred to a board OF arbi-
tration. The Switchmen's union has
not yet officially declared a strike In
sympathy with the trainmen, but such
an order is expected any moment, the
trainmen say.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-19
ASKS FOR MUSIC. DIES.
Ernest Mansfield Expires A son-In-
Law Plays the Piano.

While seated comfortably in the
home OF his son-in-law. William Deker.
at No. 1903 Jos. Campau-ave., Monday
night, listening to the strains OF
America" Ernest Mansfield. aged Al.
fell from his chair and expired before
physician could reach him.
Mr.. Mansfield Gale dat his daugh.
ter's home early In the evening ap,
parently In the best OF health. Being
fond of music he requested his son-in.
law to play for him, and the latter
complied with his favorite. a patriotic
selection introducing America,
Dixie" and the Star Spangled Ban
ner." Mr.. Decker had Just reached
the national anthem, when he heard
a moan from his father-in-law, and
looked about In time TO see him fal
to the floor. Coroner Rothaker de
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SYNOPSIS OF strike.

System affected: Grand Trunk
Railway Company OF Canada, home
office. London. Eng, total mileage
Las so exclusive OF the Grand
J Trunk Pacihc).
Yardmen, trainmen. baggagemen
ana conductors on strike. about
$500.
Shopmen affected, about 5000.
Men demand standard wages scale
now In effect on eastern railroads In
United States. known as the Il. a.
q. scale.
Company offered: Flat increase
OF Is per cent and standard scale
about 1913, when grain traffic OF
Grand Trunk Western Is expected
TO begin.
Mems defense fund totals. a.
coo. 900.
Promised by unions. $3.50. 900 a
month.
In addition, the Central Vermont
system, operating 536 miles OF road
is affected. the Grand Trunk con-
trolling II through ownership OF a
majority OF the stock.
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The horse had no more than got
used 10 the locomotive than the
street car was invented. Then the
automobile threw him into CAMP
ton hts.
Now there Is a new terror to con.
front old Dobbin, and send cold
chills up his expansive back. He
seems 70 imagine that the aero
plane is huge gad-hy. creeping up
behind him and about to land on
him.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-19
sEEk ALLEoEp FlREnlla.

KALAMAZOO. Mich, July l9--.
(SpeciaD--Th Kalamazoo police ast
searching for an insane man names.
Mclaughlin, who escaped from the
Traverse City asylum three weeks
ago. They think he 10 firebue WIN
has caused $4,000 damage TO prop
city In the past two days.
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BUFFALO, N. Y, July 1s.-The
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-19
St. Clair Sheriff Refuses
To Deputize Strangers

PORT HURON, Mich, July 10
Especially This city is hit particular
ly as result OF the Grand Trunk
strike. Orders were received this
morning to close down the block
shops throwing $50 men out OF en-
ployment until such time as the pres