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playing the devil. and thinking that he is
doing God service Again when the
wise man says, The instruction of fools
is folly, he does not mean the instruc-
ton which fools give, but the instruction
which is given to fools; that is, the more
you teach fool, the bigger fool he will
be-" Whether the able professor was
right in his exegesis we will not presume
to say; but the point is worthy Of con-
sideration from the thoughtful.
"A ringleader of the Sect Of the Naza-
rines, was the slur with which the car
pet-bagger Tertullus stigmatized the
Apostle Paul. Nazareth was certainly in
bad repute in that age. 1t is a curious
fact that though the town was only 50
miles from Jerusalem. not one of the Old
Testament writer's ever mentions it; nor,
SO far as we know, is 1t ever mentioned
by any secular writer before the time OF
Christ Its historical significance rests
wholly on the fact that Jesus spent some
30 years of his life there. How far Naza-
reths bad repute was due to prejudice 1t
is hard to tell; but Nathaniel, a thor
oughly honest man, found it difficult to
believe that a Nazarene could be the
Messiah. Still we must remember that
uncommonly honest men are often prone
to prejudice.
If you wish to see what some of the
advanced" critics have found out, read
the following points, taken from Canon
T. K Cheyne's lecture delivered at the
University of Pennsylvania. on Religious
Life In Judea Before the Arrival of Ne
hemah'':
THE so-called lamentations of Jere-
miah are too romantic to be true. They
were probably the songs sung by the re-
turned exiles to hasten the rebuilding of
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NOTES AND COMMENTS-By J. c. Hjden, D. D.

might have been stolen out OF a corner of
Burkes, and never missed. But after a
careful reading of the recently published
and amazingly numerous biographies and
letters of Gibbon, ones astonishment is
likely to take a different turn that is to
say, he Is likely to be astonished that so
frivolous a mind ever accomplished any
thing great. What but the most portent-
GUS vanity ever induced any human be-
Ing to write six autobiogra phies, all as
much alike as peas out of the same pod 2
Gibbon was a Protestant twice, Cath
Ollie once, and a skeptic all the time.
Apart from literature his mind was es-
sentially of the earth earthly, and speak
eth of the earth. High motives, lofty sem
timents, generous feelings are conspicu-
ously absent from these autobiographies
and letters. They are saturated with WIS.,
ions of money, and the comforts and lux
uries that money will buy. Carlyle failed
to find one great thought in all Voltaire' s
30 volumes; and l find no great thought
in all these six autobiographies. True,
Gibbon Is by no means lonesome in his
strange Inconsistency. Lord Bacon. the
faithless friend and the bribe-taking
Judge. was the greatest writer of the
Elizabethan age, with the single excep-
ton of Shakespeare.
Sir Richard Steele, the founder of The
Spectator, spent his life intoxicating what
was right and doing what was wrong.
Another author of repute in Sam john
sons day wrote very respectable po-
etry when he was SOBER and was at last
run over by a. hackney coach when he
was drunk One of the finest bits or
moralizing in all Latin literature is Sal
lust's introduction to the "Catillne War"
and in his life he followed the maxim,
Hate your neighbor and love your neigh
boris wife, Byron could write beautiful
morality when he was not too drunk to
hold a pen. Burns could write most
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charmingly of MARY in Heaven" when
he was not too drunk to see Mary on
earth. Weakened Christians are by no
means the only inconsistent" people in
the world.
From Richmond paper comes the fol-
lowing paragraph on Flirting:
1t really does look as IL flirting is
about to become a serious business. The
legislature of Tennessee has passed an
act entitled. 1.-THE Johnny Law" for the
protection of boarding schools and coll
leges for females, and the principals and
inmates thereof" This act makes it I'M
lawful for any person TO interfere with
the girls on any public road or street, or
to have any communication with them for
such purpose, orally or in writing, or by
signs otherwise. Fine and imprison-
ment await all offenders. A case is now
before the courts and many people are
looking with interest to the decision.
Meanwhile the Virginia legislature 1t
erently described as the anti-hirtation
bill. The Savannah Morning News jeers
at 1t; but the Evening Leader of this city
gravely defends it editorially."
So far as we are advised, no punish
ment is proposed for those girls who en-
courage the boys to firt with them.
Whether there would be much flirting on
the part of boys who receive no encour-
agement we are not prepared to say: but
one may hazard the question, Where
would be the fun of it? If the young la
dies who flrt or are flirted with should
be questionable enough to read so seri-
Gus a writer as George Eliot, they might
find food for reflection in the sentiments
expressed by that remarkably acute OBJ
server of life and manners to the effect
that it is better to be an old maid than
an old fool. 3
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the temple, Haggai and Zechariah prom
inent among them. Zerubbabel
himself is the branch spoken of at Zech.
Iii :S, a popular name by which the
ruler was designated. Zecharfah
shows traces In his prophecy of weak
human notions; e. s., the dualism dis
closed in his references to Satan apd a
principle of evil in the world warning, as
it were. against the good. The
prophecies of Malachi are falsely so
termed. The prophecies of the true
Isaiah were written probably out of Bah
ylon to encourage the Jews there to re-
turn, or to strengthen the hearts and
hands of those who had returned to Jeru-
salem This the sole significance of Ho,
every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
waters
The reverend canon further holds that
we cannot attribute to the suave and az
fectionate First Isaiah the angry in
vective of the Second Isaiah" as If the
same lips which uttered Come unto Me,
all We that labor and are heavy laden and
I will give you rest" could not have ut
tered ''Ye serpents, we generation of vi
pers, how can we escape the damna-
ton of help
The passage, 1T have spread out my
hands all the day." the canon says, rep
resents merely the true Jew trying to
convert a Samaritan, or half-Jew. He
does not even refer to the use which Paul
makes of this passage in the 21st verse
of the tenth chapter of the Epistle to the
Romans: but then, what did Paul know
about biblical criticism?
When one rises from the perusal of
that splendid monument of Gibbons ge-
MUS and learning, 1.-The Decline and fall
of the Roman Empire he will probably
be in a frame of mind to be astounded at
the reported remark of the philosophic Sir
James MackintcsA, that Gibbons mind
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Dissenter, would often be Disguised by
receiving mail intended for the Rev. John
Smith, curate, and vice versa. One day
the frequent occurrence of the mistake,
remailed a letter that was evidently for
his namesake, and wrote upon 1t the fol-
lowing: IF you had not assumed a title
Qeverend) to which you have no right,
such mistakes as this would not occur"
day or two later a package of ready
made sermons ordered by the .curate,
was deliveresd at the home of the Dis
senter. The latter remailed them, with
the note: If you had not assumed du-
ties for which you had no fitness, such
mistakes as this would never occur"
Apropos to this: minister of the
Church of England now and then preach
ed borrowed sermons. One Monday morn
ing an old university mate came to this
preachers study, with a book of SER
mons in his hand, and said: See here,
Jack, these yankees are terrible rascals.
Here is one of them who has stolen your
yesterdays sermon and printed 1t in
book; and the plague of the thing Is, he
did it 10 years ago."
The fact that when Jesus was arrested
Jesus followed him "afar off,, fact ex-
pressly stated by three of the evangelists,
is sometimes made the ground Of earnest
exhortation against following Christ afar
off. 1t is argued that If Peter had fol-
lowed closely with John, and had entered
with him, he would have escaped the
notice of the maidservant that kept the
door-the girl with whom originated the
suspicionings to which he was subjected.
Had he gone within, beyond the colon
made, where the trial was held, instead of
remaining in the court. he would not
have been thrown with the servants and
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can stand on. Then, If Harmon is re-
elected governor of Ohio, nominate him
on that platform, and he will beat any
republican betwee hearth and sky, unless
it be Roosevelt; and we may even beat
him. who declared that he was a repub-
lican before he was tariff reformer.
I was introduced to the Hon. F'oss of
Massachusetts at the Jefferson dinner
He is the gentleman who put Cape Cod
up side down and turned it inside out,
changing republican majority Of more
than 1000 to democratic mapjority of
more than 5000. Mr.. Foss is an insurgent
republican who insurged-that is, he came
out from among them and Joined the
democratic party fiat-footed. He is an ex-
tensive manufacturer, a very rich man,
and he frankly says that in some lines of
his business the Payne tariff allows him
to reap enormous profits. paid by the
helpless consumer, as much as 100 per
cent frequently. and that he knows 1t Is
pure and indefensible graft-which it is.
What a pity that every tariff-bloated
manufacturer is not as intelligent. as
candid and as honest as the Hon. Foss.
What are the western insurgents going
to do? You can jump across the ditch
than P. Dolliver and Champ Clark. where
there is gulf as wide and as impossible
as that between Lazarus and Dives, sep
arating the tariff views of Senator Dol
liver and Representative Dalzel. If the
tariff is to be the paramount issue in
1872 as 1t will be If the democratic party
has a ''smidgen" of sense, there Is no
City of Refuge for the western nsurgent
republicans but the democratic party.
Why don't they insurge? They are
bound to do it as soon as the democratic
party becomes absolutely democratic.
And yet there Is a difficulty, though
since my last talk with Bailey of Texas
I do not think 1t insurmountable. If the
next Congress shall turn up with DEM
ocratic majority at all, 1t will be the re-
suit of tidal wave like that of 1890, when
the democrats from north of Mason and
Dixon's line outnumbered the democrats
from south of that line-the solid south"
as it then was including the border states
of Delaware. Maryland, West Virginia,
Kentucky and Missouri. Every democrat
in the sixty-second Congress from north
of Mason and Dixon's line will favor
free raw materials and tariff for revenue
only on the finished product, and at least
half the southern democrats will join
them, such men as Champ Clark and his
fellow democrats from Missouri. Ollie
James and his fellow democrats from
Kentucky, FINS Garrett and his fellow
democrats Of Tennessee. Claude Kitchen
and possibly some of his fellow democrats
of North Caolina; and there are others.
There is, however, the possibility of a
serious row. such as separated Carlisle
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WHAT OF THE HARVEST-By Savoyard

.~l n..l.1, On $500 c.--4. n.t,.
GU is""'i "o Seais "eo 'eA'o' oanoy
"ouio vote 10 reduce the INFAMOUS TAXA
ton of Schedule X one-half, and that
would be great thing; and If Champ
Clark, before the present occasion Is
over, does not bring the insurgents to
the trough and make them feed on that
sort of oats, he will make a grievous
mistake. But would Senator Bailey vote
for Schedule X that provided free wool
and fiat duty of % per cent ad vaLorem
on all woolens? If he and every southern
senator and member will do that, we will
have a united party in the sixty-second
Congress and united party to confront
the enemy in 1912-and We might beat
even Roosevelt himself
Not since 1875 has the democratic party
won single national victory, except on
the issue of tariff for revenue only vs.
tariff for projection; or, as 1t is better
stated, tariff for public purposes VS.. tariff
for private monopolies. We have that Is
sue again. and the result Is bound to be
what it was in 1892 IL we are only true to
ourselves
I see the French have presented The
odore Roosevelt with a bust of Thomas
Jefferson. 1t seems that they have not
read the Historical works Of the Colo
mel In France Had they done So they
would have discovered that lofty and SOW
ereign contempt the twenty-sixth presi-
dent of the United States had for his
predecessor the third president of the
United States. It were meet If what
Roosevelt thinks of the father of the
democratic party were inscribed on this
bust of the Sage of Monticello. the pro-
foundest political philosopher the world
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A RE the tears OF congregation any
"a test of the effectiveness of the
4 \ preaching? How many of the
recorded sayings of Jesus have ever
brought ears from your eyes? Does
any one of the evangelists record an in
stance in which an audience was melted
to tears under any discourse of our
Lord? Do we learn from the Acts of the
Apostles that Pauls preaching ever made
a congregation burst into a flood Of tears?
We know that tears do not always repre-
sent the same state of mind. There are
tears of grief, of northumberland of
anger. Still, when we know that a man
is thinking of his sins, we count it a
promising sign to find him in tears. An
elaborate effort to make people weep,
when the preacher who makes the effort
Is not much concerned as to the cause
OF their tears, cannot be too strongly
condemned; but to make people weep
over their sins is probably doing them
an important and valuable service. One
of our popular hymns, on the tears of
Jesus, says
"He wept that we might weep:
Each sin demands a tear
This is bad theology; for it intimates
that our tears can wash away our sins.
The remark of DR.. Joseph Parker that
when a curate calls him a ''Dissenter,"
he Is tempted to reply: And you, sir. an
Assenter." calls to mind an incident that
we heard DR.. r. F. Horton tell, when he
was in this country some years ago:
Two ministers of exactly the same name
resided in the same town in England-the
one a Dissenter, the other a Church Of
England curate. The Rev. John Smith,
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WAS at the Jefferson dinner at the
New Willard in this town on April
1 8. We had nothing to eat. a little to
and were exceptionally harmonious and
duly enthusiastic over the development
of political situation which reveals that
there are more different sorts of repub-
licans In our glorious union than there
are different varieties of democracy Ev-
eryboly predicted signal victory for the
party of jefferson next November, and
the democratic party to do but to retire
permanently from politics.
But there are more than one million
voters In the United States who vainly
and delusively imagine that they are
democrats. because they are SO labeled. by
chance, and these would swim the river
to vote for Theodore Roosevelt for pres
ident Of the United States, in 1912. And
yet this country has not yet produced a
public man, from Alexander Hamilton
to Thaddeus Stephens, from Abraham
Lincoln to Nelson W. Aldrich, from Ben
Wade to Joe Cannon, who was less of a
democrat than Colonel Roosevelt, who in
suited and slandered Thomas Jefferson s
memory In one of his books that he i'm
gines is history.
At this dinner Col John Temple Graves
of the Hearst newspapers offered the In
dependence league as a present to the
democratic party. There was much APP
plause, none of which 1 helped to make,
BELIEVING as l do that the annexation of
that layout would turn out a liability
and not an asset, If 1 may steal With
csm from the brilliant Carmack. Like
nv friend, Joe Bailey, I am anxious for
our old party to annex some democracy.
1t is sadly in need of it.
| don't know precisely what the Inde-
pendence league is: 1t is said to have
abundance of principles. Let 1t keep
lem. Graves says it has million or
more voters, but even voters may prove
embarrassing to political party. as
witness 1896. when we annexed Jerry
Simpson and Tom Watson and their mil
lion or two chips and whetstones yclept
the populist party; and that cost us the
txote of New York, which we exchanged
for Nebraska.
| I hope the House of Representatives of
the sixty Congress will be DEM
ocratic by an immense majority. If so,
| let 1t enact tariff bill for revenue only.
and send it over to the republican Sem
ate to die In committee. Let 1t be such
a bill as we can make paramount in the
campaign of 1912. If possible. let 1t be
one that Bailey and Clark, Daniel and
Shively, Simmons and Rayner. Florida
AMI Kentucky, New York and Alabama
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From JUICE
Huckster with ancient rooster)-'On1
80 cents. ma'am; he's worth that as q
alarm clock in the mornin.''
Lady with market basket)--"His lon
experience is doubtless very alarmin(
but I fear he would not go off we'll
dinner time.'
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There is. however, the possibility of
serious row, such as separated Carlisle
The Washington times., 1910-12-18
ASSOCIATION NAY
RULE CHEVY CHASE
Power Found in Maryland
Law Since Charter Was
Annuled.

The Chevy Chase Association may be
come the governing body Of that town.
following the court decision declaring
the town charter void
This was the unusual discovery today.
A certain law passed By the Maryland
Legislature at the time the charter was
granted provides that an association
in either Of four districts, which are
outlined in the act, may levy taxes for
certain purposes. Chevy Chase comes
within district No. ., as provided for
BY the act Under the law the as
ISOLATION may apply 20 the county COM
missiOneTs for permission to levy a
tax. the proceeds to be used for police
protection, and for other purposes
enumerated in the act The treasurer
Of the association Is authorized TO &C
cept the proceeds OF the levy after he
has furnished a bond
This act, while il was passed at the
time the Chevy Chase charter was
granted, and was meant TO benefit
principally the section IN which Chevy
Chase was located, was not passed
upon by the court which declared the
charter void It is therefore valid
The Washington times., 1910-12-18
Missionary Meeting
Will Attract Many

The celebration OF the fftieth ami
verssry Of the beginning Of woman's
organized work in America for foreign
missions, on February ? and 3, next, will
be made the signal for the largest gath
erIng OF women missionaries washing
ton has ever seen
Realizing the Importance OF this con
vention and the large number OF per
SoES who VIII attend a committee Of
100 washington women has been ap-
pointed 10 take charge Of the arrange-
meuts for the convention and. from the
reports made by subcommittee at the
New York = venue Presbyterian Church
yesterday. the work is being pushed
rapidly and everything viii be IN readi-
ness for the gathering
The Washington times., 1910-12-18
Disagreement of Jury
In Mrs. KrauSe'S Case

Los ANGELES. Cal. Dec. 1s--The
friends OF Mrs Daisy Turner Krause
are hopeful for her complete vindIca-
ton in the near future. following the
failure Of the jury 10 agree at her trial
which has just ended It is rot expected
that she. will be retired
Mrs. KraUse shot Franklin G Griffith
a few months ago. after forcing her
wav into his Office She declared she
was mentally irresponsible at the time
She is the divorced wife Of Dr. Krause
dean Of the medical department Uni
versitv Of Mississippi
The Washington times., 1910-12-18
Former Police Chief
Of Buffalo DYING

BUFFALO, y Y, Dec 18--Gen- Vii
liam y. Bull, former chief OF the Buffalo
police, well known IN Grand Army and
police circles throughout the nation. Is
dying this morning at his Elmwood ave
nue. home A complication OF diseases
IS the cause
he entered the civil war as lieuten-
ant OF the New York state FOTty-niuth
Volunteer Infantry Later he was made
colonel on the staff OF Brig Gen VII
liam r Rogers, and later a brisadier
general himself. In 1884 he was made
thief Of police here, and served until
sSo6.
The Washington times., 1910-12-18
Hub City Forgfves Singer for fitting Isband After Mil
lion-Dolar Honeymoon and Will Hear Her
in January.
in January.

New York laughed at Bob Chanler
and winked at the shrewd Lima. Boston
only smiled at Chanler, but drew away
its skirts from Lima, with the ultima
ton that no matter how heavenly was
her voice. her presence on the stage
OF the ma gnilcent endowed opera house
on Huntington avenue in thz Back Bay
would besuirch that structure
Boston has now TeIeuted. and accord
iugIv Lima has cabIed Manager Russell
that she will sail from Paris early in
January for Boston.
The Washington times., 1910-12-18
A PUNCH"
SAYS ACTOR ARBUCKLE
Fat Man" of Roundup" Fame, Tells How 1t Feels to
Compete With Peter, the Monk" for the Plaudits
of a Discriminating Audience.

there are more precautions taken here.
have noticed In my brief stay, 10
guard against anything offensive to
good taste than IN any house / have
yet visited
But the fat man couldn't be serious
long.
ct surely Is a pleasure for a man
who takes his work. II not himself
somewhat seriously, to be treated with
the same consideration that IS tender
ed Peter. the Monk the trained ponies.
and other attractions that ar sup
posed TO bring the money"
The Washington times., 1910-12-18
Europe Makes War
On Tourist Robbers

PARIS. Dec 1S.-The hotel rat" or
sharper VINO victimizes the American
tourist has a rock road before him All
Europe IS getting ready to trail and tail
him Swiss hotel keepers who found
they were losing custom recently started
a movement OF determination, and now
the >olice Of practically every European
country have decided to Join In a con
certe6 and systematic Movement 10 help.
Intern stional gangs Of swfndlers viii Be
fCughI by methods OF publicity between
nations. All the hotel journals nave
been ca. led upon 10 aid
The Washington times., 1910-12-18
Straus Names Shepard
AS Peoples Choice

Ambassador Oscar Straus. who rep
resents this Government at CONSTANT
nopIe r. H. washington Mr.. StTaus
wants TO quit the Turkish post and re-
tire, but the President wants him 10
hold on a while longer. Regarding New
York politics. Mr. StraUs says
The sentiment Of the people is for
Edward NJ Shepard 10 be the next Sen
ator. and he Is we'll fitted for the place !.
but i can make no predictions as 20
whether public sentiment win prevail"
The Washington times., 1910-12-18

BOSTON. Dec 1S.-Liua Cavalier,
Vampire" as she was called here some
weeks ago, has 5een pardoned By Bos-
ton. and viii sing IN the Boston opera
house In JanUary
At the tine the story came but OF the
way she had quietly, bat firmly taken
a million dollars from her infatuated
husband, Bob Chanler. Of New York.
It was declared IN Boston that never
again would the opera house manage
ment allow her 10 appear on its stase.
The Washington times., 1910-12-18
Fire Fans Funeral
Is Held I'm Buffalo

CHICAGO, Dec 1S--The body OF Rob
ert Edgecomb, a wealthy Chicago man,
E-ho haC not missed a fire IN the last
twenty years. was taken by an escort
Of unifCc med firemen 10 the train which
bore It today TO Buffalo, where inter
1ent VIII be made
EGSecOm3 was not only 2 '-ffre fan. 30
but he took an active interest in the
welfare Of the men, to whom he was
personally known
The Washington times., 1910-12-18
Five Officers Called
By Retiring Board

Five officers OF the army viii go be
fore a retiring board this week. TO see
81 they ought 70 be retired, for various
reasons other than physical disability
They are Major John H Stone. Of the
Medical Corps; Major J NJ T Particle.
OF the Fourth Infantry, Major G. T
Holloway. Pay Corps, Capt. 9. D. '.
Hunt, quartermaster's department, ard
Lieut.. W. c. Rename Fifteenth Cav
airy