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La Junta tribune., 1910-03-19

r., HE above question has been
discussed pro and con by
the magazines. but In my
~ opinion none Of the articles
I have read answer the subject. In
. letter written by an Illinois min.
ister to a friend In this state. which
I WAS permitted 10 read. this preach.
er states some very plain facts. some
Of which think are worthy Of pub
Acation. ! have never been accused
Of being . very devout Christian. but
down deep In my heart have always
had great respect and reverence for
The old fashioned religion Of my
mother. Who Tor many years has BEEN
sleeping her last sleep. and I have
always taken an Interest. more or
less. IN the doings Of the churches.
THIS Illinois preacher starts out BY
saying that there b nothing the mat.
Ter With the church. for the church
b oe God. and therefore there can
b nothing the matter. But" said
-. with the ehufchss-with the In.
stitutions which men have dsvised 10
carry ON what they have coaceivsd
% b Tie work og 0oA-theee V svL
dentiy sonethins the natter
Further on In bis epistls the rever.
end gentleman writes something like
this:
my answer. In oas short sentence.
10 the question. What's the matter
VIII The cAurchesr 70 that By their
vsry existence they have abandoaedl
he first principle os divine religion.
the great principle Il Christ. taught
aad shown N His Me. That principle
y love and uni,y-sot separation. not
division. not discosd. not opposing
crseds and belief" After discMsingl
soma other rsligious matters which
ars inmatesiai 70 this article. he
says:
NAY not the peacsscai people os
good sense we'll ask-why DO not
the twelve kinds Of Presbyterians
unitsi Why not the seventeen kiuds
a MsthoAisssi Why not the thirteen
dads oe Bapsistsf Why. In . word.
$50 dsaoninattons 70 Do the good
WORK. Good businsss requires econ.
e0y. 0as school = bsttss than hAif
. 6oees. Why ~ ons church h.
sesal g ~ . 1eess."
= slselAg ~ lsltse hs aslD; "1s
thsss ~ se0slhlag ~ nAttss VA
La Junta tribune., 1910-03-19
never had received any Of hiA NOR. -.

never had received any Of his more n.
cent letter..
He slipped the package into his
pocket with Z word Of thanks to Chez
vers. and then he left the turmoil Of
the rummnge sale to look for Nelln.
He met her just leaving her home,
and rs he came up the walk she re-
garded him curiously
II came to deliver my letters In per-
con aud to make certain OF their de-
livery" announced Dick. Can you
give me n few mnutes?'
Nella made no move to re-enter the
house. and Dick was too wise to press
the point.
II was helping Maude at the rum
mage SALE" he explained. "Cheevers
found these letters In Alexander's old
overcoat l might explain that when l
left my letter-this thick one-Alexan.
der was just going out. and he had his
overcoat on when he came to the door,
but he promised to deliver It to you at
once. His ideas Of delivery seem to be
to stun things In his pocket and for
get all about them"
Nella started as she recognized her
own letters. and hastily she glanced
over some of them. She saw In mo-
ment what Dick had already realized.
and her lips trembled as she recalled
the misery she had suffered since the
quarrel.
She loved Dick very dearly. even
well enough to offer forgiveness when
she had felt that he was In the wrong
and to have him make no reply TO the
kindly letter had hurt both heart and
pride.
Now she could see that Dick had
promptly concealed his error and that
all the suffering had been caused by
one small and very black youngster
who had been brought home from the
south because he had seemed so .'ente,"
II am afraid that Alexander win
never make messenger for Cupid"
said Nella softly. 81 nm 30 sorry,
Dick that we trusted too much to him,
but I had no idea that he was no care
less. Think of the trouble that he has
caused Us both. VIII you come In
and
Make upT' asked Dick promptly.
ITO be sure will and only too glad
to do H."
She led the way into the house, and
as the great hall door swung shut be-
hind them he caught her In his arms
and covered her face with kisses. A
low chuckle from the far end Of the
hall disturbed them. and without Q
word Dick dartcd down into the shad-
ows.
There followed wild yells and the
sound of strange expletives. Dick came
back flushed. but smiling.
81 shook him some" he explained.
"for both you and me. Wasn't It just
like Alexander to be hanging aroundr'
''He win be sent home declared
Nclla. I'VE cannot trust him again.
You were dear. Dick. that you didn't
kill him"
81 wanted to-" admitted Dick, but,
then. what's the usei I've got you
again. And all because ! helped Maude
at the rummage sale She said that
I charity like virtue. was lis own re-
ward. but | didn't realize the high
premium II paid"
La Junta tribune., 1910-03-19

; Nine trade and labor organ.
ixattons.
Most sunshine Of any Colo.
rsdo city.
Miles OF brick and cement
sidewalks.
Santa Fe shops. employing
1000 men.
Monthly payroll. all sources.
Of 100000.
One public library OF 49,.
900 volumes.
Water and sewer system
owned by city.
One railroad reading room
and club house.
Three printing offices and
one Newspaper.
Twenty-three frsternal and
secret societies.
Average monthly postoffice
beccspO OF u l.<03.
Mennonite sanitarium. five
ni1ss vest Of city.
0ns Touring mill Of 800 bar.
Bank deposits Of $1,000. 900.
rsls daily capacity.
Best prospect Of any town In
he Arkansas Valley.
One brick and tile plant. Of
oo.ooo daily capacity.
Electric light and power
Dsant. with all-day and all.
nigAt service.
Ten thousand acres Of v'r.
GIN agricultural territory now
rasidly settling up.
ToSty.thrce miles Of Santa
Pe sidetrack. with . freight
or capacity Of $500.
Local building and loan ~.
eociation with e3.ooo.o0o cap.
Nal and loans In Otero coun.
Y axgresiting $3.50. 900.
In fact. La Junta b the best
town OF it, sise In the state
q Colombo. and u the con.
tse and natural clearing
Aouss Of the richest valley In
~ world.
Rapidly growing. surround.
lng Agricultural territory.
Champion amateur base ball
team Of the state OF Colorado.
Headquarters Of the western
Grand division OF the Santa 70
railway.
La Junta tribune., 1910-03-19
WHAT
IA JUNTA HAS
IN 1oio

No salooes.
-Four hotels.
-Four parks.
One laundry.
Three hanks.
One city hall.
Two hospitals.
Nine churches.
One court house.
0As opsea houss.
One skating rink.
One Flaming Mill.
One kindsfgaSten.
-Four lumber yards.
One fire department.
Six school buijdinxs.
Three livery stables.
Two steam lAundStss.
Irss delivery Of maiis.
oss cold storage plant.
Three Telegraph offices.
Two automobile garages.
One hand and orchestra.
One fiftssn.toa Ice plant.
A altitude Of 1000 feet.
Tvsosy.1eae eeetAl clubs.
School population OF 1900.
Finsst climate n The world.
Two moving picture shows.
Seven thousana population
A $4,000 high school build.
lag.
Twsnty.tAree passenger trains
laily.
One star and threo rural
Ts'seAess sysss. With 700
La Junta tribune., 1910-03-19

HE above question has been
discussed pro and con by
the magazines. but In my
oplnton none Of the articles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-22
KING EDWARD VII-By Savoyard

England must yield first place to her; but as long as the British navy Is possessed of its present superiority, Germany dare not attempt the thing.
 Edward, by his tact, his urbanity, his good fellowship, his boundless litical sit- uation, made 1t impossible for Germany to wage war during his reign. For Ed ward was, what no other English mon- arch has been for centuries, the real sec- retary of state for foreign affairs of all his cabinets. And of all English mon archs since Henry ", he was the best fitted for 1t, king or subject
 Balzac, in one of his most horrible and at the same time fascinating novels, says that there are two ways for man to get along in this world-one to propel himself through 1t like a cannon ball. and the other to glide through it like a pestilence Bismarck was the cannon ball, and he challenged and overcame op- position Edward giided, and he, too, sur mounted opposition. Bismarck intimi- dated; Edward conciliated. The Ger man loved war; the Englishman was de- voted to peace. The Iron Chancellor was a great man; the king of England was good man.
 And yet Edward. more than Bismarck. had in his veins that blood of that race
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guards there" pointing with his hand, ''the day is ours" Wellington, the little old man." strengthened up and answered. And that is precisely what the damned old fool is going to do, and you take the order! And so the day was gained.
 Sir Robert Walpole said of the Han overian dynasty: This family has al- ways quarreled and always will quarrel George I positively hated George II, his son and successor, but that was possibly due to the episode of the insolent scoun- drel Konigsmark and Sophia Doretha. George II hated his son Frederick, and that hatred was returned with interest, and no doubt the king was glad when the prince died before him, making way for his son. later George III, who hated his son, George ", the scamp I have been talking so much about. But William ", the sailor king, was of better stuff, and kind to Mrs. Jordan, the actress, who was his morganatic wife The family life of Victoria was ideal, and was that of her son, the king just dead.
 There Is some rot in the papers in the way of idiotic speculation as to whether the hand of the new king, George V, is strong enough to grasp the scepter. There is no scepter In England except that in the hand of the prime minister. who Is the kings master. Has MT. As-
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necessary he would not have hesitated to steal. Such was George ".
 Yet he was the courtliest and hand somest man of his day, with a ready tongue for the instant falsehood of any occasion. And this unmtigated scou,l- drel was the first gentleman of Eu- rope!"
 George visited Scotland when he was Prince of Wales, and possibly at the time he was prince regent, during one of the periodic lunacies of his virtuous but lunatic old daddy. The Edinburgh of that day was the Athens of Europe, and the most intellectual crowd that any local community of all Europe of twice the population could produce. banquetted the first gentleman of Europe" Never was there more splendid figure than he presented and it was ready and happy tongue that had engaged many better man and lured many an innocent woman He was exceptionally brilliant that night, even for him. and all the best and noblest of Scotland were at his feet. Napoleon was conquering the continent bumper was drank, and this royal prince, now half seas over, drained his glass to the last drop. when Walter Scott, the real first gentleman of Europe anS of the age took the goblet, now empty, from the hands of his royal .highness. and shiver-
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LIE was not England's greatest king,
 but he was England's best king, X X and we may say of his royal moth- CT, that though she was not England's greatest queen, she was England's best queen. He was not man of genius, but he was bountifully endowed with the quality of talent and more lavishly gifted with the quality of tact than any other public man of the 18th century. He was as popular as the Black Prince, who was a savage, and it is lketly that he would have been as heroic as the Black Prince had his lines been cast in that remote century when the cutting of threats was the only calling fitting a gentleman, and especially gentleman who was also prince.
 There were many abler statesmen than Edward VII, but none more capable. There were greater diplomats, but none more successful than he who made the triple alliance between England. France and Russia that commanded the peace of Europe.
 The next big war will come when Ger many seeks to absorb Belgium and Hol- land. That is what that German navy is for That was the grand thing that Napoleon the Great almost accomplished. If Germany shall succeed in the attempt,
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quith the hand strong enough to grasp the scepter? That is the issue in England, where the house of commons is the scep- ter. Would it were so with the House of Representatives. In fact. our republic would be immortal if the President of the United States were as impotent for actual authority as is the King of England. When our republic dies it will be when some President assumes all authority.
 There was a time when England was ruled by the crown. William the Con- queror was absolute. Some of the Plan tagonets were absolute and I include the .house of Lancaster among them. The same is true of the Tudors; but these monarchs amused themselves cutting of the heads of the nobles. When they touched the people, as did Elizabeth, they heard a growl that even she respected and cringed to.
 Charles I did not heed the people, and hence Cromwell. James II did not eithers and hence William of Orange. and now the crown of England is shorn of every prerogative consistent with public order. and political power is in the hands of the people. and there it has safely lain for centuries.
 The British empire is the biggest asset Christian civilization has in it's strong box. Peace and prosperity to 1t in every quarter of the globe.
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of which it is writ. "They are capable of all crimes save cowardice, and capable of all virtues save humility" And that Is the blood that has made the Anglo Saxon race the first in war; first in let ters, first in eloquence, both written and spoken, and first in this lame and imper- feet condition we are pleased to call Christian civilization
 Edward was the first gentleman of the world. One of his not very remote pre- decessors was called the first gentle man of Europe" Indeed, he was the first ruffian of his age. He was false to every obligation. He got adulation from the cradle to the grave. He was the chief egoist of an age when Divine Right was far better recognized principle than it Is now.
 And George W. never had a friend. man or woman, whom he did not betray He was guilty even of that unspeakabe meanness of "welching'' a bet He made a hundred women curse the hour they ever saw him. He cheated at cards and repudiated debts. He hated his father and his mother and conspired against the crown. He repudiated his wife, who was a far better queen, bad as she was than he was a king. He was vain, weak de- spicable. He would lie, and had 1t been
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ing it on the floor, declared in an ecstacy of loyalty that no meaner lips should ever touch 1t.
 congratulate the glass. It had just been touched by the meanest lips in Eu- rope, and it was meet that it should be consigned to fragments by the then first man of Scotland.
 So egotistic was George w that he actually imagined that he was at the battle of Waterloo and led charge de- cisve of the result. He even had the effrontery to tell the story in the pres ence of the Duke of Wellington, who was a man of infinite tact, and turned the thing off with the remark that it was common history that his hlghness had contributed materially to the victory that saved Europe from the clutch of the Cor sican.
 And speaking of Waterloo and Yelling ton, 1t it related that at the critical pe- riod of the battle a young staff officer of Pigott carried a message to head quarters for the commander-in-chief. He saw little old man there on horseback. surrounded by half dozen officers all looking on the conflict; but he was utter ly unconscious that the little old fellow was the Iron Duke. Looking over the scene the young fellow exclaimed, NOW, If the damned old fool will send the
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simply records the fact in these and half dozen other instances. Each life story is gathered from the experience Of a Salvation Army corps in single quar- ter of London. There in the modern reai- istic world of our accursed materalism, saddened with our modern animal vices and overpalled with our modern inabil- ity to believe, these miracles did actually happen within recent days. The changes from crudest vice and animalism to de- cency, sanity and civic usefulness, with burning ambition to save others, are not rashly recorded on the impulse of an ad- miring moment, but they have been es- tablished through years of fercest temp tation. The stories will be told again ana again by eyangelists and pastors. They are available for service in every church, part of whose creed is T believe in tho Holy Ghost" Let us hope that in every community they may prove had grossly those old catch words of lately arrogant and blatant science have been overvalued, "heredity' and environment" For what are heredity, environment. habit or even destiny and fate, if the lowest of the low can still be set among princes and have a self-evident right to his throne3
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equally luminous themes. Surely it seemed that now at last the age of faith had yielded the stage to the age of reason, that poetry had become the gallery slave of a machine and that hope and fear penitence and awe were reduced to white bones, bleaching in the desert whereon the brilliant light of 1Iaeckeps genius blazed, blistering all that lived, usurping the place of the sun at monday.
 It is instructive to observe by what process this arrogance of science has been chastened, and the confidence of the church intelligently restored. I must be permitted to suggest that in quite unexpected way what was called "the new psychology" brought relief. The armies of faith at that time might have used the famous words of their greatest captain: We are per plexed on every side, yet not forsaken cast down, but not destroyed" When once more the scientific mind began to examine the mysteries and movements of the human soul. and discovered again it's close affinity to the body on the one side, and to the unknown on
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theme was "The Psychology of Conver- sion." The discussion is as able and as admira ble as expected. and that is say ing a great deal. It does not appear that Professor Davis was aiming at that wild caricature of conversion given by John Stuart Mill, in one of his Three Essays on Religion;" but if he had had Mill in view he could hardly have de- molished him more effectually. On only one point of his splendid discussion do see any reason to take issue with Pro- lessor Davis, and I do so with real diffi- dence. On page 159, after saying that the normal "craving desires' are essential to human nature," he adds the statement that 'In their instinctive and independent exercise they are purely selfish impulses. :" Now. I fail to see how an impulse which Is essential to human nature" can fairly be stigmatized as ''selfish." Does a hum gry man, who has honestly earned his dinner, fairly lay himself open to the charge of selfshness when he eats it? I admit that the impulse is sef-regarding; but hold 1t to be perfectly right that he should eat, and that it is not right to be selfish.
 It is related of the famous skeptic David Hume that he frequently attended the church of very earnest and in tensely evangelical preacher. and that he listened with manifest interest and pleas ure. A neighbor, who knew Humes opin- ions, was surprised at this, and said to Hume: "You don't believe what the preacher says" No said Hume; but he does" Preachers make great and sad mistake when they imagine that they can please any sensible skeptic by ''ac- commodating' the gospel to his opinions. Most sensible people. whether religious or not expect the preacher to Say squarely and honestly what he believes. There is a story afloat to the effect that John Ruskin once asked Charles Sturgeon. What do you think will become of me, if I die in my present state?" and that MT. Sturgeon candidly replied: 'I think you will be lost;' whereupon Ruskin called him fool Ruslxins vagaries have long been notorious; but we very seriously doubt the authenticity of this story. We think Ruskin had more sense than this yarn" would indicate.
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$ the modern scientific mind radically
 an unbelieving mind? So 1t seems A to one who will follow the story of its development since the days when geology first startled orthodoxy with its confident assertion that the earth was not made in six days.
 From then onward science proudly spelt itself with a capital and pr. Ora per contemptuously waved red flag in the face of the theological herd. Dr. Draper was undoubtedly a fair repre- sentative of the attitude of nineteenth century science toward the whole world of religious faith. How great a change had been wrought! Darwin's doctrine of the origin of our race had linked Us anew to the sea slime and the ape. Again we found experience assuring us that we are closer kin to a cat than to an archangel, and that when mamma called Tommy little pig she was more scientific than in his earlier days, when she adored him as "a cherub." Poor motherl Little did she reck of the law of reversion to
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type and far indeed, was she from supposing that her words were liter ally true, according to the new reve- lation which had superseded Moses and the prophets.
 Professor TyndaTs famous Belfast ad- dress, which was understood as the promise of up-to-date chemists to par allel in their laboratories all the mys- teries of creation, fell like a tn under bolt in the now thoroughly nervous camp of orthodoxy. If this scientific prophecy by Professor Tyndal was true then there seemed no reason why man should not make man by a more or less elaborate process with his retorts, acids and manufactured biaplasm. The alarm of the clergy had for it's coun- terpart the insolence of every soph- omorish journalist who had caught the new batter Those were the glorious days when young men loved to call themselves "Agnostics,' under the sup position that Spencer and Huxley had at last the only divine right of intel lectual klngship and that this title
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therefore was a sort of letters patent" of intellectual nobility.
 While still the tn theologians were try ing to adjust their faith to whatever truth might be contained in this stu pendous materialism, a new and un- expected blow came from the side of the literary expert. This time the ir- reverent German mind had come to grips with that book which the theo- logions for immemorial years had be- lieved to be with out error and divine. The churches of all kinds were being challenged on the one ground or the other. by physical science or literary and historical rationalism, the whole field of faith seemed to be made un- tenable to the armies of the Lord. Un- der circumstances like these who could wonder that intellectual Europe and America, in fiction, Journalism. art, should strive to express it's contempt or sorrowfully record its spiritual de- spair. Men wrote on such topics as Should an Agnostic Go to Church ?' or Was the God of the Hebrews Or iginaily a Meteorite?" and a thousand
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George Eaues

all shades of theological opinion can gather around MT. Harold Begbie. whose Twice Born Men" Is called by him "A footnote in narrative to Prof. William James The Varieties of Relig ious Experienced It may fairly be said indeed that here are facts which un- belief cannot explain away, and must dispose of some how. It is new stultificatlon of intellectual conseit that the high falutin" arguments at tacking and defending the gospel should thus give place to the simple story of a converted London thug, and of the loyal persistence of a Salvation Army lass. It means this, that the only Christian apologetic worthy the name Is a saved soul, and that salvation Is nothing if it does not involve a visible moral reconstruction.
 MT. Begbie does not attempt to explain how "the puncher,'' drunken and good- for-nothing outcast of the prize ring. could have shed his wicked and depraved personality In the twinkling of an eye; or how the cockney riff-raff of the Indian army could as suddenly have boomed into a gentle and courteous Christian saint. AS a scientific man MT. Begbie