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intensely relieved to discover any field however barren, in which the clergy are not credited with more than average abil- ity. Thank God we have a governor who frankly puts limit to our credit for omniscience
 Indeed there seems to be a growing prejudice in this state against the political sagacity of the pulpit. According to medi- aevalism the priest was pre-emnently fit ted for magistrates bench or kings privy council chamber. But the hour hand points in the opposite direction here, just now, and l draw immense satisfaction therefrom. Let us go on and dispute about the authorship of the Book of Psalms or the mystical significance of the Canticles. The authorship of the latest tragedy will be settled by the coroner. We will pray for the survivors.
 Let it be observed that the persons who refer matters to the clergy usually reserve the right to resent clerical de- cisions. Some of them are not unwilling to have 1t even so. Orthodoxy does no longer imply that we are infallible, nor are our pastoral activities guarantee of our views on the Dentero-Isaiah. By all means let him who asks advice drop 1t like d hot coal if he deem it discomforting. We are DeSet Dy the greatest cHdHSSlul- ness of spiritual environment which ever afflicted the people of God. Like men aboard an aeroplane. the modern clergy man sees the old familiar outlines and objects in unfamiliar realignment. Had he been born 300 years ago or less, he hao then been credited with near omniscience. Two and half centuries later he still might have considered himself the spoiled child of destiny, with tip on the h. side Facts.
 Even three generations back, the cler-
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reau of statistics. Thus was defeated the prosperous schemes of the professional crop prognosticators hirelings of the cot ton speculators. who had heretofore made themselves arbiters of the law of supply, fixing it as their profits required.
 Not satisfied with that, MT. Burleson originated the idea and was instrumental in embodying in the law the cotton gin ners' reports, and one of the leading eX- porters of cotton testified that such re- ports issued from the census bureau had increased the value of the crop, while yet in the hands of the growers, $25,000,0O0, and MT. Theodore Price, one of the worlds greatest cotton spectators, states that this law was worth s100O00, GOO to the men who produced the crop of 1905-6. He secured the law requiring the depart ment, on September 1 of each year, to s- sue a statement showing the quantity of cotton consumed by the mills here and abroad the year previous and the quan- tity in stock, a thing of immense advan- tage to the grower. He also secured the law providing for uniform standard of cotton classification. This standard has been fixed by a committee of the greatest experts in the cotton world and has been adopted by all the exchanges in the ITni-
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"uE mediaeval church had a good
 many things settled, very satisfac-
 ! torily. From one point of view the church was the whole world, considered as the parish of the priest From another point of view the church was the hier- archy, reaching authoritative decisions, and acting upon the world with more or less precision and unity This was not CO., herent view, but it hurt nobody at the time.
 In our day bad logic brings it's own con sequents because intelligence is so uni7er- sal. Perhaps the most of the clergy, Catholic and Protestant, are conscious of the same shifting center of gravity, the same variable axis of rotation, Tor thelr ecclesiastical theories, as may be seen In the mediaeval writers. child is porn in an American home. Is It already a proper subject of church authority? Is It alreaoy, in a sense, the property or the church? Is the whole commonwealth of Alabama, this entire federation of states, a Christian fact? If not, where does the religious frontier come? Drink, divorce, dishonesty-are these especially moral questions which belong in sense to the province of the clergy? On the other hand are such things as rent, the price of beef, the labor market, in some mysterious way not religious questions?
 X man whom I suspect of ulterior aims sends me an offer of lot in the neighoor- hood of New York All that l am 10 dc is to let him use my name to prove that I think him a dsnterested, or at least an honest promoter Thus | may become a landed proprietor and pay taxes in the empire state. No, thanks. Months and years ago I was. in common with other ministers, besought to put dollars into the
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terially to the glorious victory of San Jacinto, commanding the center. while Rusk led the right and Sherman the left. He was elected vice president of the in- fant republic and rendered valuable mili- tary service in the war with Mexico. His son. the father of the congressman, was in command of a force or Texas rang CTS when the war between the states be- gan, and though a Union man like Hous ton, after secession was accomplished he entered the Confederate army and was commissioned as major general.
 So much for the mans ancestry. 1t Is a soldier race, such as has made tho people who speak our tongue the dominat- ing family of the world Among them statecraft. arms. law. liberty, lett srs. commerce. finance, agriculture, invention and some departments of the art elour- ish as among no other. It is the a.ll conquering race, and it's primacy is se- cure for ages yet to come.
 Albert Sidney Burlesome was born June |, 1863, four months before Joseph Weldon Bailey first saw the light. His father named him for his companion in ;irms in three wars, Albert Sidney Johnston, who fell like Dundee at Shiloh, and .Jef- ferson Davis was not alone in his be-
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ical word carried so much weight that to this day it's avoir-du-pois is VariouSiy estimated on things all and sundry, only advanced thinkers and governors of states refusing to overestimate it. But these are evil days, since there are such radical establishments, such rigid revisionists of the poor bleating centuries! As the prophet saith somwhere: "There 'ere Nephilim in the earth in those days" Now there are only Anakim, Philistihe Goliaths and Governors of the unredeem- ed Cosmic machinery, the foe of Israel.
 Perhaps may have succeeded in creat- ing a vague impression of something stiil more vague, not by any means clearly related with my subject title. In the in- terest of brotherhood we may profitaoly puff away the mists in two correlated instances.
 l. Yes. it is mercy, not orthodoxy, that impels Dr. OXnam and his contreres 10 seek and save that which is lost or human driftwood The boys and men 10 whom that mercy comes will not all De as the nine lepers healed long ago. No ..views'' have yet acquired monopoly of the right to heal to comfort to clothe. and feed the derelict and wayward. There is still room for volunteers. "Forbid nm not!'' says the Voice of the Coming Mdu' ''he that is not with me is against me No man can work a miracle in my 1ams and lightly speak evil of me- But preachers and pastors, whose hearts mis- give them when miracles of healing are guaranteed, are not necessarily less merci' ful. albeit more modern, and perhaps more wary.
 ''Is the age of miracles past?" What boots the answer to that conundrum? It is the spirit, the aim, the purposeful de- votion of love, that is of the only real
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BATHS IN NEW ZEALAND
Idea of Treatment for Rheumatism
 Taken from Battle Creek

From the New York Sun.
 "It sounded funny when I went to Ro- torua, New Zealand, to take the baths for rheumatism to be told that could have taken the same treatment at a resort in Michigan" said a Seattle woman at the Wolcott. "They assured me that the water was not the same, but added that they had borrowed the whole method of treatment from Battle Creek
 "Rotorua is curious part of the world You may be leaning on your umbrella and will suddenly notice steam coming from the ground where you made the hole. The ground is just like chalk, and you feel the heat coming up. I saw places where hot and cold springs existed side by side, the natives using one spring for cooking their food and the other for preserving raw materials.
 'The hotels in New Zealand are ra.he er primitive. In one, for instance, there was only one bath tub, and in the mornings men and women would stand in line be- fore the door, clad in their bathrobss, waiting for their turn at the tub. That was rather embarrassing to an Ameri- can, but the natives did not seem to mind it.
 They have way of rapping on your door at o'clock in the morning and ask ing if you would not like a cup of tea. Tea seems to be drunk to a larger extent than it is even in England. for New Zea- land is temperance country, and on the corners where you would expect to see Il barroom there is a tea parlor and I was told that the men drink the beverage as they would whisky in England
 'One of the most marvellous places l saw was where they dig for kauri gum. which is used in making varnish. The trees are practically all gone in that local ity, but they dig on the site of what used to be a kauri forest, and get the gum. This works up near the surface every four years.
 ''The sun burns down there with an in- tense heat. Of course you know the effect on the shoulders of wearing an openwors waist at the seashore. The effect will wear off in a short time But down there got pattern worked on my shoulders so deeply that it was eight months be- fore l could wear an evening gown again.
 "Of course the pet kangaroos were amusing. One which had been a pet of one of the leading officials caused soa- side able excitement among the members
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one on each side of the sweltering era tor. relieved the situation by the swaying of two large palm fans, which they cn1- ployed with vigor while he spoke with ardor. The contest between him and Mir. King was most striking-the one ponderous and bulky, while the other was tall, thin 1.-the and sinewy.
 Mir Lewis declined to be tested about his size and was sensitive to the faint est allusion to 1t. But his genuine chivalry forbade his taking the slight est advantage of anyone, or of sub jeeting any to the least inconvenience because of his condition. On one occa- sion while returning from Washington, the steamer on which he was. was wrecked. The small boat was ordered out for the relief of the excited and distressed passengers. but he declined to enter it, for fear that his huge weight would imperil the safety of the others. Remaining alone in extreme peril till he others could be safely rescued, he was subsequently, reached by the small boat and saved.
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lief that in his grave is also buried the lost cause of the south. Young Burle- some acquired such education as the schools of the period afforded, trained as he was in the Agricultural and Mechani- cal College of Texas and at Baylor univer- sity, Waco. At the age of 21 he was ad- mitted to the bar, and for six years there after was assistant city attorney of Ans tin and later promoted to the office of district attorney of the Twenty-sixth cir cult.
 In 1898 Burleson was elected to a seat in the Fifty-eighth congress, and has been six times elected. He is the immediate successor of the late Joseph D. Savers, who served that constituency so long, so faithfully and so capably, and who was now elected governor of Texas. It is the heart of the state-the Tenth Texas dis trict-and until the boil weevil appeared it grew more cotton than any other ;on- gressonal district in the south.
 When Burleson got here his party was as thoroughly discredited as it was possi- ble for folly and defeat to render it. Thus early he saw that if he was to serve his state and the republic 1t must be on lines non-political. The constitution was
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ing brother Raca or knave, or angriiy shuts him among the beasts. is himself in urgent, imminent peril. Nebuchadnezzar' furnace kills some who are not flung .n- side and spares their victims. There is a region where only judges are treated in the Inferno a superheated atmosphere of criticism and grievous poling witil' diabolic pincers In the shorter ribs. Seq them line up at Dante's Soda Fount, where the ice gave out long ages ago.
 It is he who wills to do the will'' Of eternal mercy who in the last judgment Is promised the crown of knowledge and the throne of judgment. In the long meanwhile one is on the safe side of d controversy who credits grapes to the vine, figs to the figtree and spines to The thistle. Yet when to experience and hope is added teachable humility, 1t may even be expected that mercy will grow wiser and theology more mereiful.
 "AS I write these words the newspapers are exploiting a case in point. Of that in- stance I was not thinking for historic comment must wait till history is made. Only mercy is always getting the laasn on judgment, even in the churches, as also saith the prophet in his own tongue. But when 1t comes to logic, and defini- tions that is a very different matter. There mediaevalism is rampant, and plain Protestant preacher essays the | chair of St. Peter, of old a young godler
 singed his waxy wings, and fell ''ker- | plunk!'
 I conclude that orthodoxy without l mercy. whether in things of business, politics, or the heavenly interests, is now out of date, most happily; but that mercy without orthodoxy. or with it, has a fair field and plenty of chance to gain experi- ence. It would be stupid to let the sick world die while the doctors debate on diagnosis and the new tar remedies.
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members are not good Some theatrical people deserve harsh criticism; so do some minister's Over and over agalh have actors and actresses come to the holy communion of my various parishes at the early hour of 7:9O in morning after a hard nights work, because their priF- ilege of attending the later service would be denied them by their early departure from the city. Charlotte Cushman and Edwin Booth were earnest Christians. know an actors home wherein little lips are taught the nightly prayers; and am other where the actor stands reverently before taking his meals and thanks Sod for His bounty. The presence of other actors does not silence his lips.
 What I say of actors say of plays some are good, some are bad. Occasion ally to look upon a pure play, to see an interpretation of some classic story, ar to seek recreation in the elevated humor Of the stage or to revel in the wondrols spectacular representations, such as are seen in Peter Pan,' most of my readers will find entirely without harm l say most of my readers for the reason that some churches exact the promise from their members that they will not go to the theatre at all; then man hurts his con- science when he goes. This is not hon. est If I felt that I had made mistake
 in making that promise. and that an occa-
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BILL VINES ON JUDGE JONES AND GOV COMER

by the railroads, and while he didn't ac- complsh evvery thing he desired, he went long way in correcting sum railroad evils. with the viggerus opposition he net, probably striking a happy medium be- tween his own eXtreem views, and the likewise extreem views in the uther direct sion entertained by the railroads and there supporters. He maid a big mistake in letting Squeekly run it ovver him by putting the Amindmint before the peepIl, but the peepul attinded to that, and there s no hard feelings. The Guvvernors steer ling silver honesty and loyalty and goot sound cents has landed him and his ad- ministrasion high and dry in the peephi' s favur.
 The peepul therefore air interested in the bludless battle of letters, only to the extent that they air hoping that the Dove of Peece may settle it's silky wings and flutter it's feethery tail ovver these Belly cose and Beligerint and kindly old gentle men--If this could be accomplished it would win moor applaws than enny thing that could possibuly happen. It is only with sorrow that the peepul see Judge Jones jerk butiful polytical plume frum the rappidly diminishing tail of Guvvernor Comer's record It is with equal regrets and apprehension that they witness an on slought by the doughty Guvvernor feering that evven the intrepid judge may be bowled ovver. It is awful to conten- plate. Here air two otherwise benign and luvvabul and distinguished citizens crowd ing out valuabul advertising mattur rum our daily papers hurling athemas and cuss words at each uther to the eddfycasion of noboddy at all, but there enemies
 For Shame, Gentlemen for Shame, Let dogs deelte to bark and bite" etc. Bend the pen into pruning hook. Let down the curtain of your little side show, your audiance is sleeppy Yours trooly
 BILL VINES.
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1 the pride of many a home, degraded to
 beast; the subject of many prayers, a by-word and a hissing; the object If a mothers tenderest love, now besotted and
 shame to her who bore him! o, ye, who dwell in darkness, what do ye see ''when
 night has scarfed up the eye of day?"
 The destruction of character, the loss ot reputation, and the whitening of life when
 it has just begun. Night suggests deeds
 undreampt by day.
 It was the Prince of Denmark who said:
 "'Tis now the witching time of night; When churchyards yaWn and hell itself breathes out
 Contagion to this world: Now could drink hot blood,
 And do such business as the bitter day would Quake to look on."
 In the darkness of the night Macbeth said
 Now OCT the one half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
 The curtained sleeper; now witchcraft Pale Hecate's offerings; and withered murder,
 Alarmed by his sentinel, the wolf,
 Who's howls his watch,
 Thus with stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishng strides,
 Towards his designs moves like ghost" When the sun goes down, 1t is folly for young man to pursue those courses of life that undermine his physical health.
 We live in an age of unparalleled com
 mercial activity and the demands of bus
 mess competition require the fulness of physical ability and alertness, of mind. To drag ones weary body about day by day to clutch the pen or pencil with
 nerveless fingers; to be unfitted for the
 days relentless duties, and all by the
 manner in which the night is spent, is to
 lose place in the ranks and finally to fall
 out of line altogether.
 We cannot run the machine of our
 bodies both day and night. Presently the
 cogs will begin to slip, the machine to slow down, and, long before it's time, it will stop! Wear not away in the excesses of the night, the vigor that Is expected of you in the day. There is golden pre- miu,N in business for sound, energetic body. Burning the candle at night means u candle! And this, the eXcesses and un- natural settlements of the i'll spent night will soon accomplish.
 When the sun goes down there are me opportunities for most young men 10 in-
 crease the stores of their mental treas
 ures, and thus fit themselves for advanced
 spheres of business and intellectual pleas
 ures Brains pay. Information and men,
 tai power bring swift reward. In the
 employment of certain corporations there
 are men receiving s1.50, S2. and others more, as ordinary worllmen; in those same establishments there are skilled 'le- chanics who receive from $5 to HO day. Some of them are college trained men, IL
 Is true but 1t is also true that many others of them educated themselves at night. The lack of college training need not stand in the way of any young man. The cheapness of literature brings the college to the young mans door.
 Think of the scientists. the master me chanics, the philosophers, the lawyers. the physicians, and others who consecrased their nights to study and won high plac ,s
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ted States except one and will ultimately be adopted throughout the world. This is now being taught in the agricultural and mechanical colleges of the south and will be of incalculable benefit.
 BurleSon also secured the adoption of a resolution for an investigation of the New York Cotton exchange, preliminary to the passage by the House of a bill to prohibit gambling In cotton; but the measure failed in the Senate, owing perhaps to the fierce opposition of the exchange. And it is not extravagant, nor in the slightest degree untruthful, to say that Burleson Is the father of nearly all the beneficient legisla- ton of Congress touching cotton growing now on the statute books.
 While Dobbin Burleson was thus turn ing the furrow for the cotton planter, tho touters of Bucephalus Bailey were going about proclaiming, Just waitl Bailey is the greatest constitutional lawyer that ever was or ever will be, and he has an amendment for an income tax that will stand the test of a suit in the su- preme court" It was gorgeous in the promise. but blasted in the fulillment. It was ever thus.
 Washington, September 9.
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The Way of It

From the Washington Star.
 Two men were watching a church pa- rade. They did not look like ambitious men, but one of them must have had his aspirations:
 Gee, I wish I belonged to somethin.. sos l could get a chance to march. Trouble with this procession is you got to be pious to jne.''
 The other man must have had his trt- umphs, for he answered. not boastfullys but with the natural pride of achievement:
 'I ain't pious, but I'm blanked patriotict Why, man. I've carried torchlights in ev- cry republican and democratic ratification prooesh they've had in this blanled town for the last 40 years -
 And a passing woman whispered to her self confdentially:
 Please pass the laureiss
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legislators. When scarcely eligible by reason of age, he was chosen for Con gross from his district, and continued in the lower house of the national Con- gress from 1929 to 1S44, when he was transferred to the federal Senate.
 MT. Lewis belong to the states rights school of politicians, and never had a cause a moro fervid advocate. In Con gress his influence was pronounced, and for years he was the acknowledged lead CT of the Alabama delegation in the lower branch of that body. He was unaIter- ably opposed to a protective tariff, and never let an opportunity slip to oppose it's fallacy and injustice. His princt- pies were embodied In the platform reso- lutions adopted by the national demo- cratic convention which met in Baltimore in 1S40.
 Ponderous as he was, Mir. Lewis was not impaired in his activity either as a state legislator or as a congressman. His interest in all matters public enabled him to overcome the hindrance encoun- tered in his enormous weight. It was one of his controlling principles never