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formidable. The wl1ig boss was Thur low Weed. who elected Harrison Presi- dent in 1S4O, Taylor President in 1S4S, and by the narrowest margin he failed to elect William H. Seward President In 1860.
 Tn this connection a rather good story is told Seward, when governor. was a passenger one morning on the stage coach from his home. Auburn, to the capital at Albany. The day was so fine that he rode on the outside with the stage driver, to whom he divulged his identity. Cabby was incredulous. and declared that he did not believe him. After time they met a mutual acquaintance, who was riding horseback in the opposite direction. Hail. ing him, Seward demanded to be identi- fled as William 1T. Seward, governor of New York to which the man answered: 1: "Everybody knows that Thurlow Weed is governor" And so he was, as much so as John Sherman was President when R. B. Hayes was in the White House.
 One of the most curious productions in the way of our political literature Is the scorching letter that Horace Greeley wrote, announcing the dissolution of the firm of Weed, Seward & Greeley" be- cause of disgust on the part of the junior partner. Better judges than I of such things wish that Greeley had not writ 1t. I am glad he did write 1t. It came from heart as honest, as brave, as sim pie, as guileless, as ever beat in human bosom It revealed to us the man as he was. the greatest of American editors. Horace Greeley would have gone to the stake sooner than swallow, or suppress, single thought of his mind. And this
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man, the greatest and the best of our cloth, lived to have his writings rejected by the journal his genius had made great and his name had made illustrious! That member of the American press who is not familiar with the career of Horace Greeley is to be pitied, and he that knows 1t and fails to applaud 1t is hope less.
 But let us get back to New York poli- ticians. Silas Wright was the most pa thetic figure of the lot, but he had the grandeur to tread redhot plowshares to elect James K. Polk President. One of his skeletons I shall refrain from taking from his closet The other was his fond ness for drink, and that he had in com mon with many other of the great men of that day. But we have fallen on times when politics says: We have enough temperate men to do our busi- ness" He was "barn-burner," where as Marcy was a 'Hunker." It is cu- rious fact that Samuel J. Tilden, the greatest democratic thinker since Jeffer- son. was a ''barn-burner," and voted the bolting ticket In 1s4s. It Is an interest ing fact, also, that Tilden held Van Buren greater statesman than Web ster.
 Later came the era of Seymour and Conkling, of David B. HUI and Chester A. Arthur. As for Conkling. he was the foremost intellect the G. o. P. has pro- duced, and as richly endowed with in- tegrity, so far as concerns meum ct tuum, as he was gifted with genius for political conflict In those days the re-
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Whether we wish 1t or not, they will come, and they will raise food for us, but it won't be much cheaper, if any cheaper. than now.
 For while a single farmer with his banks, he is raising the price of every other farm on the Coosa and elsewhere. and 100 other men. not farmers, yet with families, and expecting good wages, are descending on Birmingham and its en- virons. Won't they need all the produce of the new farmers farm? Won't they insist on having the best that he can raiser Hence he will not only raise po- tatoes and peaches. but prices. too. In the new agriculture everything will be developed. fruit, dairy, whatnot. Corn, instead of yielding the old-time 10 or 15- bushel crop, will go up to 100 bushels. And yet, 10, the hungry mouths, the hungry. hungry mouths. waiting for those increased bushels, those fruits. those products of the fecund COW! Massed in the growing cities and in cities yet mere villages. every child of them will want food.
 And so. aside rom d1SastrOuS panic ana the ruin of commerce. there seems little hope of reduced expenditures. We shall pay for every man who comes, and every one of us will have to share the cost.
 Win wages be higher2 VIII incomes re- spondr
 The other side of this phenomenon. about which the cities are batting their distended paunches, Is a question for the churchman and the moralist. Suppose we have nearly 16o,0oo people in Birming- ham. Is it all gain2 Are they any bet ter for coming here7 From every side they come Are the children of the farmhouse safe in Birmingham? Is the boy from Cleveland or Chicago safer than he would have been at home? Is the health of this increased population cared for7 Is its education cared for? Even though the price of real estate may be
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ness if only In the form of tender yearn- ing that moved His heart with pity.
 One of the saddest facts of life, Is that the abnormal man, "the gloom seeker" the pessimist, carries his habit to his home. Upon his entrance shadow falls upon tops, drums and dolls, and up- on the dear little ones playing with them. They must now gather up all their treasurers and put them away. and their gleeful voices must now sink into silence, for the reason, God pity us, that father is come, and he don't like noises, as if a child's voice were a noiseI SFather is not well, darlings. he has an awful disease call 'neuritis.' and you must be quiet" says a dear little woman whose eyes disclose something of fading sunlight and whose voice has a faint whisper of disappointment. The whole atmosphere of the home Is changed, be- cause father Is come" Dear madam, 1t is beautiful in you, to protect the father from the dislike that would naturally take root in the mind of the child. but 1t would be more to the purpose. if you would give him a good shaking up. Make him get down on the floor with the chill dren and enter into their games; compel him to play horse. and, on all-fours gal lop around the room; or tell him that he m ust play elephant and ride the chill dren on his back; make him-O, well force him to do anything that will de- light the little ones. He is not sick. hasn't even headache, 1t is simply the dumps" His face is merely turned the wrong way He has been looking tow ards the night. Turn him aBound. hard and. quick! Ask him if he knows the point of the compass towards which the Sphinx Is ever looking. Explain that the great great Egyptian figure is await in the sunrise; that 1t is always looking towards the sunny side of the world. Turn him around sharply and shake him up, saying the while. Now, sir you have looked towards the shadows long enough. and with your "dumps'' you have cast gloom upon your family all too long; be Sphinx: its sunrise. not sunset; see. what a fortune you have-two children.
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high, Is that necessarily a boon7 Is boom a boon always? If we have high prices on city lots and residences, why should not all else go up proportionately? If the cost of building a house on South Highlands were reduced, would 1t still cost as much to ride to Ensley? Would water be as expensive if land were less the subject of speculative boosting7 Is a mans patriotic pride in Birmingham to be discounted because he discounts that patriotism which for pecuniary con- alterations ''boosts Birmingham?' If these are conundrums, how much more the question of moral welfare!
 It was recently stated that this county of Jefferson is the most murderous coun- ty In the whole United States. A listener corrected the statement, putting Jefferson county fourth in that unenv1abie list. We still have nearly 50 murderers, or alleged mupderers, in our county Jair, or out of 1t, and untried. Cases of manslaughter abound.
 The courts interpret "generously" the oath they live by to enforce all laws impartial1y. Juries in many cases refuse to convict. Tn one instance Wltn- in my personal observation the widow of man who was atrociously mur- dered m any months ago has had to engage a lawyer to secure that the murderer Is prosecuted She Is spend ing her little living in justice to her dead. In other words, the dignity of law is travestied by the necessity of justicel Think of itl Private vengeance has to be substituted for public safety and public law. It Is quite within the limits of this principle that lawyer should call on his client at the coun- ty jail and leave a box of crackers for him. which turns out to be box of saws, made to cut Sheriff Higdon's iron bars or any other old barrier to hilarious liberty. Logical? Yes, but real
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drenched with crimson glory, while lanci of light glint and gleam across the tu| quoise sky. Morning comes, and evei rock is burnished into glistening goll and cataracts plunge on in liquid glorl It is morning and every sleeping bii awakes: the skylarl1 in hilarious flig1 and with fantastic song rises to salui the king of day. It is morning, arl grass-blades are hung with liquid did monds, and unseen censers fill the ninj ble air with the fragrance of the garde| of God. Sorrow may endure for tlj night, but the shouting cometh with tlI morning." Thank God. for every nigh there Is the radiant splendor of morr| ing. It's always morning somewher} Let our faces be turned towards tn morning
 Look at the daisy out In the dew, Violets fine. that were feeling so blud Never can tell what's coming to you But the worlds rolling on to the morning Look at the shadow that fades in th
 beam,
 Look at the mill-wheel turn to th
 stream,
 Look at your trouble. gone like dream And the worlds rolling on to tn
 morning."
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death, he should stiil exist. You and LAilie are one,' said the old man. Tt only seems to you that you are not Lailie.' I do not understand replied Esarhaddon-
 Do you wish to understandH Yes, I do.f Then come and enter this font Esarhaddon enters the font, when immediately a transmigration of soul and body takes place, and he feels himself to be Lailie, the captive king. He goes through all the sufferings of bis enemy, and is led to be executed; it is more than he can bear and he cries and begs and prays for mercy, and then in an agony lifts his head from the water to find that he Is Esarhaddon, and that the old man is still standing near him. "Ohl have suffered terribly he exclaims. Have you now under stoodT' replied the old man. You thought life dwelt In you alone, but I have drawn aside the veil of the de- fusion and have let you see that by doing evil to others you have done it to your
 self also, and then he says. You can only improve life in yourself by de- stroying the barriers that divide your life from that of others, and by considr ering others as yourself and loving them"
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so they persist. But as for us, let us turn to the sunlight. to the wondrous beauties in the great world of nature, to the goodness and trueness of men, to the innocence of childhood, to the chiv- airy around us, and to the birds of sun tinted plumage as they dart like flashes of gold from bough to bough their ht- tie throats pouring out a world of mel ody the while. Away from the owl, to the canary. Away from the cloud, to the rainbow. Away from the night, to the morning.
 Of course there is wrong in the world. There always has been. But in the name of mercy, Is all goodness gone? Is there no integrity. no honor left? And has all truth fled? Has the sun nothing but spots? Suppose we have in our country 100000 criminals, are we to forget that we number a population of 100000, 900? Millions and millions have we who live quiet sober, industrious and righteous lives and honorabiy fill their vacations. If I be told. that many of these rank as good people because their badness has not been found out. answer: Many are classed as bad people because their goodness has not been found out.
 I don't suppose that anybody is wholly bad. I most certainly do not believe in the doctrine of total depravity." The worst have some good in them, and everywhere there is goodness that shines as steady as star did not men 'scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day." and look about them only ''when light thick ems and the crow makes wing to the rocky wood" There were saints in Caesars palace" Now abide faith, hopc and love-" These graces abide now. They grow like fair flowers along humanity's pathway, and their fragrance makes sweeter the ambient air We can all find them If we will. They are shut from first view by the deadly night shade;" overhung by coarse, rough leaves and shapeless masses of tangled growths; but they are to be found. He of Gafilee found something good in the dying thief; and in the poor, soiled woman "who was q sinner there was yet left some good
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NEW YORK BOSSISM- Savoyard

publican party was dominant in New York, but they separated into "stal- warts" and "half-breeds.' and ultimate ly, in he fuflness of ingratitude, Conkling went to the wall and was retired to pri- vate life
 And now we have, as always there have been. in New York, bosses. Of course. the bosses are separated into two classes-the virtuous and the reprobate. The "old guard" are thoroughly vile, whereas the "prosressives'' are com pletely innocent. MT. Roosevelt heads the moral crowd. and MT. Barnes, de- scendant of Thurlow Weed, by the way, runs with the wicked fellows.
 Mir. Roosevelt Is thoroughly imacu- late character. He can nominate a friend an ambassador abroad. to be- seech the pope of Rome to send a red hat to clergyman who helped elect him, and then 1t is given him to repudiate the act. It is given to MT. Roosevelt to &C., cept big contribution from the insur- ance trust to buy his election in 1904, though widows and orphans of demo- crats were thereby robbed It was given to MT. Roosevelt to be stainless and inn maculate, though Hartman got for him $26o,000. with which Hartman confessed he bought 5000 votes for Roosevelt in 1904. si'
 How much did he get from the sugar trust, from the beef trust. from the oil trust, from the steel trust, and from the other trusts?
 It will never be known. and yet Teddy is thoroughly virtuous and pure and immacul statesman.
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per controversialist. Enter that field with him, and no American has been his match, not even Greeley; but in other re- spects old George Clinton was a greater man than Hamilton. Clinton. as was his nephew. the more famous De Witt Clln- ton, was emphatically a man of action. and 1t is possibly true that the rebellion of '7e would have been put down, as was that of 1884, had not Clinton been the patriot governor of New York He sup piled the patriot forces. He was the great war governor" of that period, and he would have made a great President if the "Virginia dynasty had not pre- empted that dignity for quarter of a century. It is almost certain that De Witt Clinton, his brothers son.. would have been President had he been endowed with the genius of patience and gifted with the patience to wait only four years. He was the father of the canal system of New York. that married the Mississippi valley to the Atlantic coast and thus preserved the union of the states. He was a very great man, a gigantic, figure of our early history, and Mayor Gaynor appears to me to be cut after the same pattern.
 After the wars between the Clintons. the Burrites and the federalists burned all their fuel to ashes, a new regime came on the carpet. The Jackson men. or dem ocrats, were led by the Albany regency" of which Martin Van Buren was the head, and with them fell in Tammany. and the combination was more than
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THE RACE FOR BIGNESS-By George Eaves D. D.

at once both fresher and not so fresh" But here comes a case in point the law concerning the carrying of concealed weapons Who in America cares whether that Is or is not regarded? Who. at least in Alabama, in Btrmingham7 The Englishman who would hesitate to be without "gun" handy would be uni versally considered a dangerous lunatic or a probable criminal. But, 1t is said, the cases are not parallel. Quite so. They have no blacks in great numbers in England who must be taught to rever- ence the law. We have; and in our wis dom we reckon the surest way of teach ing criminal negroes to respect the law Is ourselves to set it at defiance Hence there are more murders per annum within easy reach of the Birmingham city hall than in all England. The police, we are told, interpret the law generously" And 1t is wonderful thing to have a police system empowered to interpret" the law instead of obeying 1t! So doth not that fool, the Englishman. The re- suit is that every citizen has a good in- fusion of the anarchist in his blood, and a pious preacher vows that he will shift a certain blind tiger with a stick of dynamite, all other means failing. In every mine, in every factory, in every school. we are growing cynics. anarchists. yes, and even in every church. They, like Missouri. would like to be shown," the body of Moses. now stolen by the devil.
 Theodore, the magnificent, has reiter- atingly observed that here in America we are being watched by Europe, and by all the chimes of popular freedom and dem ocratic institutions, while work out our tremendous experiment. Tn the in ternationa hall of institutions. lit by the glare of the Great White Throne, Bir- mingham stands in the forefront of Amer ican cities, all marked by Michael as FIX hibt Az
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has just been brought wildly before my mind, while reading the charming and interesting little book, "Esarhad- don and Other Tales" by Leo Tolstoy. These stories were written by the au- thor for the bene1t of the Jews who had suffered so greatly and had been impoverished by the riots in Kishinef and Somel, Russia. The reader will re- member the horrible crimes of Kish- inef, when many Jews were mercilessly massacred In the presence of their own families and driven from their homes
 Think of this, reader and in a civ ilized country, the largest of the con tinental countries, with about 150, ,000,- 900 of inhabitants. And think on this statement made in a letter of Tol- stoy's when he was appealed to, to voice a protest: "Unfortunately what most wish to say, namely, that the guilt, not only of the Kishinef hor- TOTS. but of all the discord apparent in certain small. part (not the peas ants) of the Russian people. lies sole- ly with the government. But that is just what may not say in any pub
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ants number over 200 persons, has assured me that he has stood at his door and shot deer. Another. still youthful man of his years, has felt the blood-lust in the presence of herds of buffaloes and madly ridden, shooting, shooting, for the pleasure of killing. A young minister known to me has seen rush of buffaloes through Kansas and helped to secure some of the meat for home consumption. Men still dwelling in Birmingham have shot wild turkeys where now the furnace roars.
 On the trail of the bison came the cat tie man. Now he, too. is vanishing. at least as the lord of the range Barb range" f-a-r-m. The lands that used to go begging at 50 cents an acre now are competed for at $50. $1oo. or 300. and that for farming purposes.
 Is there any reason to think that this increase in demand for land can exist side by side with stagnation in prices of food stuff and clothing7 Instead of killing people in war, or keeping them herded in semi-starvation In southern or Cociit million with the freedom of America, and the lure of high wages; we work tooth and nail to bring them our way. we boast over the increase In the rural population, in the value of farm lands, in the necessity for more schools, in the tremendous growth of cities. and then we grow indignant because, to quote the bashful grocerman, "taters is rig v Rural Alabama is stretching its hands to the north in competition with Canada as a desirable home for the farmer. Unquestionably the appeal will get, is getting, a generous response Iowa Is implanted over and over again in south ern Texas and Louisiana, where shrewd and energetic men are raising and mnl- ing rice. developing oil. digging ship ca nals, and growing onions and oranges for export By all means, let the poly glot farmers of north and west come on!
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BLIZZARD AT SEA
Newspaper Reporter After Story Hn
 Thrilling Experience

William Inglis in Harper's Weekly.
 The roaring and shrieking of the tempt est, the thunder of the waves, that jarred quake, made fitting accompaniment foi the gloomy thoughts that possessed mel Home. friends, life itself-all seemed lost| Only one thing remained; to meet th} end quietly. without any cowardly com1 plaint fell into a sort of mental stupor| while all my physical energies were conI ccntrated in hanging on to my position on the windward side of the cabin. mJ feet braced against the deck. my hand} hooked inside the edge of the berth NoV and then came a Hull in the fury of thd gale, and I could hear faint, wailind cry like the call of little turkey chick strayed from their mother-peep, peep| pee-ee-eepl Here was food for speculaI ton. What in the world could 1t be thai made a noise like little turkeys? To solvd that riddle immediately became the ros| expressing thing. After much search1 discovered the source of the sound; th| wind was blowing against the compan| ionway, rebounding from that and whist ling through the keyhole of the cabiI door.
 A door in the bulkhead swung open and in came Manuel. smiling affably and reassuringly.
 "Ah-h-h!" he exclaimed. 'ver' bad storm Dees morning I begin maka d soup you like so much, Meest' Inglees Ah-h-h. Loavely pea soup wit .ham-a1 bone. All morning da soup pot on da galley stove she simmer, simmer. sim mer. Den, a twenta minute a twelve com da greata, beega blank-a-da-blanl | of a wave an knock down da sheep. an all my bee--yootiful soup Is gone to- all over da galley walll"
 l There is not enough room on this pagt
 to describe the long siege of horror tha
 settled down upon us. It lasted for twt
 days and a half One by one the pilot
 came down into the cabin to put on dr,
 mittens and hang up the wet ones tha
 were freezing their fingers. No ire coul<
 be made for two days; for should anothe
 knockCswn happen, the scattered coal
 might set fire to the ship. I don't thinl anybody ate anything from Mondays breakfast until next day; but my mem
 ory as to meals at this time Is vague, In asmuch as fear (not seasickness) hax driven away from me all ideas abou food.
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the faith, giving heed to seducing sI1 it's. and doctrines of devils"-I TimotI Fl
 Russia seems at last open for workers for Christ. We are told that Petersburg. with a population of abf 10000, and Moscow, with popuiatI of about 100000. "have practically bd untouched by evangelistic effort" a| that search for the truth and eagernI to hear the word of God now charactsz the people"
 A young converted Russian from Ko1 land, after studying at the Pastors q lege, felt called to preach in his o1 country. He went to St. Petersburg thi years ago and "secured an offiical stai as pastor of the Dettish Baptist ohu4 there, and began work among the RI sians" We learn that there are nowl halls opened for gospel preaching in Petersburg, and one in Moscow. The n tish church has been strengthened and Russian church has been organized. through his efforts. His work Is c1 ried on by government sanction.
 When that vast land has been tald for Christ we will hear of no more md sacres of the Jews, nor of any ot1 people within its boundaries.