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ed 10 or 13 days, these Wise Men, or philosophers, appeared in Jerusalem. They were in search of a great person. age, and what more natural than that they should apply to the king for in formation. Doubtless, they had made en- quiries along the way, and had learned from peasant folk, that about this time the Jewish nation expected a Messiah, "a king who should rule over Isreal." With this information, the Magi entered the palace of Herod, and asked that king Where is he that is born king of the Jews' Herod did not know, but the learned rabbs, being called in answered from the prophet Micah. and said, 'Tn Bethlehem about six miles from Jeru- salem. The Wise Men had no reason to believe that they would ever again see the star that they had seen in the east' Yet, when they came forth from Herod's S palace a great surprise awaited them; for, we read, And To, the star which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came over where the young child was" This is the only time they followed the star. They were profoundly astonished at seeing it again, as is plain; for When they saw the star they rejoiced with ex- ceeding great joy" They knew then of their divine guidance 'f
 Now, what of the star? What was 1t |? All sorts of hypotheses have been ad- vanced to explain the strange object on natural astronomical grounds. We have in astronomy a principle, discovered by Hipparchus a century before the Chris tian era, called the professional theory, not processional (as I'm afraid the com postor will set it up.) but professional theory. By this theory we can ascertain the whereabouts of every star, planet and conjunction for thousands of years back Of course, T mean the stars and planets with which we are familiar. We know that conjunction of planets oc- cured B. C.. about six years; but this is not an extraordinary event. Con functions often occur. No star, nor group of stars. nor conjunction of planets can be fitted in to explain the marvellous phenomenon that glowed in its splendor above the hills of Persia, and that ap- peared to the Wise Men again in Jeru- salem.
 What was 1t? It moved from Jerusalem
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along the way to Bethlehem and when 1t reached that little town, it stopped lover where the child lay" Suppose a star point out one house from another. what universal consternation would follow, and what pen could describe the succeeding cataclysm? Indeed, there'd be no pen left, nor scribe to use 1t. A star, close enough to earth for individual designation would destroy it's own purpose, for no house would have remained. I know new star, that He could have suspended those laws of nature with which we are familiar that He could have said to the approaching star, when likely to crash into the earth, Thus far shalt thou go and no farther; but I believe that not one of these suppositions or hypotheses is necessary to an interpretation of the facts recorded. Nevertheless, I believe that a miracle was disclosed in the phe- nomenon that is called a star, and one easier of acceptance than that usually be- lieved by some people.
 There is Hebrew verb, which, in our language, we would spell "shakhan;'' the cognate noun Is "shekhinah." The verb appears often in the Hebrew Bible. but the noun does not. However, in the Targums, by periphrasis, the verb "shakhan," to dwell, is changed to the dweller; to God, who dwell in Israel in visible symbol of light. The rabbis were perfectly justified in their periphrasis, ac- cording to the history involved. To in stance: In Exodus we read, Let them make me a sanctuary that may dwell among them;' Likewise, where we read. 'I will dwell among the children of Israeli in the Targum Jonathan, it is given. q will make my shekinah dwell among the children of Isreal.
 What was this wonderful symbol. called the shekinah? It was a globe or sphere of pulsating splendor that dwelt over the Mercy Seat between the outspread wings of the golden cherubim in the Tabernacle and later in the Temple. It was a realization of the words, God shekinah yelled in a cloud, for no man could look upon such brightness and live. Many times do we find this marvel lous symbol disclosed to the Israelites. When Israel fled from Egypt the cloud
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of Giddings, of Garfield and of Taylor. It went democratic the other day, and so the skies have fallen, and all. of us, the elect will catch larks. .. The last time I saw this grand old
 man, we toasted our feet before a bright
 and cheerful fire in the Capitol. He said much like this: A Sat
 Newman, I shall leave this town to- night, and will never return. I am glad | to known you, and you and I have spent many pleasant moments together in com munion, though you are rank south erner and I from the western reserve. want to put a question you. Are you not sorry that by a protective tariff we have established tin plate industry in this country?"
 I regret to recall that I employed a
 most emphatic expletive in my reply, for I damned myself if was not very sorry that the infamy had been consummated. The old man laughed loud and long, shook me by the hand and allowed that was hopeless. In those days Congress had grog-shop down stairs and the old man and I retired and drank in fine Kentucky whisky eternal friendship. And I am sorry that the tin plate "in- dustry' was established in this country, and for numerous and good reasons. some of which I shall now try to relate and exploit, as follows, viz:
 Tn 1890. the G. O. P. set about its periodic villiany of revising the tariff 'up.' MT. Mckinley was chairman of ways and
 means. MT. Andy Carnegie was an iron
 maker He descended .on Washington
 as the hawk on the dove and impressed on Mir. Mckinley that we must have a tin plate industry. You see he, was mak- ing steel plates and he wanted 9 dones-
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THE TARIFF INFAMY-By Savoyard

this spawn of atrocity, and this fruit of infamy. God forbid that the south shall fall down and worship Moloch. Let her not be seduced in the guise of raw materials. of which l shall preach later.
 Well. what happened? Theze men got their millions. paid by you and me. Tin shops shut up in Wales. and their work men came over here and entered the tin shops of Carnegie, slaves as they are, but not bond. My father was the owner of some negroes. He clothed, fed, and sheltered them. He looked after their comfort as he did mine. his son. The tin plate magnates got the labor of these foreign people at the lowest possible wage, and those laborers-more unfortunate than my fathers negroes-have to look out for themselves.
 Look at 1t! There is free trade in la Dor but there is protective tariff on the product of labor, that is the property of capital, and yet the miscreants have the stupendous audacity to say that the tariff is for labor! It will be for the laborer when the man whose muscle that fashions the wares own them. But he does not own them. Let me preach moment:
 If every nation, tongue and people would adopt absolute free trade, such as exists between the states of our union, there would not be standing army or an armed navy in the world. ten years later Then every hand would be laid to what what it could produce cheapest what 1t turned out would be sold for that which another hand could make cheapest. ,
 Why, that is all our union is! The glory of 1t is the free trade between
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tic market for them. The one way to create that market was to tax you and me. And so Mckinley brought in his bill ''to establish a tin plate industry" and 1t was passed. What did it provide ? I'll tell you, if you have pateience and can wait to hear the story.
 Not in literal terms-for every protec- tive tariff is brazen liar on it's face not in express terms. the Mckinley tariff taxed you and me if we bought a can of tomatoes, or cove oysters, or beans, or corn, or a tin dish pan, or other things made of tin sheet. Perhaps you and I did not realize that we were thus taxed to swell MT. Carnegie's fortune by tens of millions, but we paid 1t to him all the same, and besides, we made IS other big milionaires. Read this
 "Montclair, N. J.-November ,>21-Mrs. Mamie Leeds, the $30,000,000 widow of William B. Leeds, the tin plate king, was eviction that took place at the big Stew art mansion in South Mountain avenue here today. Under orders of Mrs. Leeds, it is alleged, all the personal belong ings of Miss Ferne Parkhurst, Mrs Leeds stepsister, were removed from the house and are now reposing in stor- age house in Bloomfield avenue"
 Where did that fellow get his s3o,000,00o? :? He got them by act of Congress that forced every man who bought a thing wrought of tin to make him rich. The poor old negro nanny in the cabin con tributed her mite to swell these millions as you and I did. It is a fiat. fortune created by law. and the tarIff Is the futile and incestuous womb whence comes
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soothsayers, witches and the like But according to the ZendAvesta, the sacred books of the Persians, their wise men with a study of the stars as their soft light shone in the clear Persian sky. They worshipped, not In temples made by the hands of men, but on the hill tops and mountain summits. The altar of God was far away and it's sacred candles were the f1awless light of steady stars. I suppose it was while these devout men were worshipping, in the only way they could, that they beheld the mysteri- ous phenomenon that men love to call the Star of Bethlehem"
 This phenomenon the Wise Men saw in the east that is to say, in their own land. It meant more to them than appears upon the surface of the story. The Zend-Avesta caused the Persians to believe that about this time some marvel lous parsonage would appear in the world and what could the new star denote but the birth of the wonderful being now ex- pected? He was to come from God, and here in this strange star, Is Gods decla- ration of His birth. Therefore, they inn mediately left their own land and pro- ceded to Jurusalem to enquire of his birth. .f
 But why, to Jurusalem? The great cities of the world were sunk in bestiality; not one of them was a fitting place for the birth of this wonderful parsonage from God the devout Wise Men could easily think; but Jerusalem was the re- ligious center of nation and the heart of divine ceremonialism. No city could be moro appropriately selected for such an advent. Thus could the devout Per- sian seekers after "the great one'' natur- ally reason. Therefore, they left Persia for Judea.
 But it might be objected, you illmin- ate their following the star to Judea, and make their going thither a mere matter of reason. Tn answer to this objection, I beg to say two things. First, believe the Spirit of God directed their reasoning. Secondly, I do not believe that they followed the star. They saw 1t In the east. As their following it to Judea, not single word is said in the account we have in the new Testament.
 After Journey, that must have requir-
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the states. Minnesota can grow wheat cheaper than Mississippi, and Mississippi can grow cotton cheaper than. Minnesota. Result-one grows cotton, the other wheat, That is free trade. Protection says Mis- sissppi must grow all the wheat she eats and Minnesota all the cotton she wears
 Look what that tremendous man Bis marck did He found Germany a lot of states each with a protective tariff against all the others. After he drubbed France he took them by the napes of their necks and the seats of their britches, damned their heads together, brought them into a united German empire, de- clared absolute free trade between them, and united Germany is now the chief power of the continental Europe. It was not the Germany. army that did it. It was the absolute free trade among the Ger man states that accomplished it and made Germany the first power of con tinental Europe.
 What our constitution did for free trade between the states, what Bismarck did for the German empire, would apply to all the world in equal beneficient de- gree
 When the fatherhood of God is uni versally recognized, and the brotherhood of man universally established. then there will not be trade tariff any where and the infamy of protection will every where be held barbaric. If may plagiar- ize from the most eloquent clergyman of the Kentucky Baptist faith l will say that in political economy a protective tar If is "the Gibraltar of hell and the Sa- bastopol of damnaton.' Deliver the south from It's virus!
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For can raise no money by vile means; By heavens, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachams, than
 to wiring
 From the hard hands of peasants their
 vile trash
 By any indirection."
 Marcus Brutus. HHAT is the greatest free trade
 speech that was ever made or that \ ever will be made, and. as Shakes peare interpreted 1t, it came indignant from as noble heart as ever beat in the breast of patriot. and perhaps he was the son of Caesar. whom he slew, and certain he was the near kinsman of Cato the grandest of the Romans.
 Let me relate little history, personal to myself, and we may also call it van ity. The successor of James A. Garfield in the American Congress was Ezra B.. Taylor, less intellect but grander man than the twentieth President. He was wonderfully gifted in memory of men and things, and he could delight you by the hour with reminiscence. He was old enough to be my father, and, radically as we disagreed on the subject of politics. we had fondness for each other. l pleasantly recollect that the fact that he insisted on buying pair of sl0 shoes for me. such as he wore, and with more pleasure recall that I would not permit 1t. He swore I would die of pneumonia if I did not get better footgear, but managed to get along.
 
 had written chapter on the Nine teenth Ohio congressional district which he represented. and 1t captivated the old fellow. It Is the district of Whittlesey,
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'I am the first That ever burst Into this open sea-"
ToIstoi's View of Death Sentence

Every conception or dream of differ. ent manner of handling criminals is met by the argument that the desire for re- venge is so ingrained in man that he in. sists on seeing his offender punished, and that this insistence on criminal retribu- tion is one of the bulwarks on which the. entire social structure rests. To Tolstoi," says r. A. Goldenweiser, leading mem- Der of the Russian bar, in The Survey, this bulwark is not essential and the de- mand of torture for the offender is not a fundamental trait of man. The history of criminal law establishes the fact that bloody revenge was invariably followed by period when the feelings of an of- fended party and his clan, as well as the demands of the authorities. were satisfied with a payment of a fine for the offense without the nfiiction of any pain on the offender; regular tax existed for various crimes and the payment of the tax took the place of bloody vengeance in criminal trials.
 "Often negative attitude toward crirn- iral punishments is met by the query: What shall be put In their place? From Tolstoi's viewpoint this reply merits no consideration. If someone discovered that quinine. for instance. not only did not counteract a specific disease of the or- ganism, but made it worse, could there be found man who would insist on tho continuation of the use of qusnine against fever until a new remedy be discovered3 And finally, we must keep Tn mind that 1'olstoi is not examining so much into the conditions which may lead man to kill his neishbor, as into the unnatural ness of the state of affairs which forces one man to say to another about his neighbor, Here. put him away, destroy himr and yet, figureatively speaking, every criminal sentence does just tha., and death sentence does 1t literally"
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Third, the view that I have advanced
 is not destroyed by the fact that the New Testament employs the word star" While the Hebrew word 'kokab" invaria-
 ply means star, the Greek word .aster,-
 used in the account given, does not. It
 describes body of light, almost anything
 luminous. Even a meteor is described as
 a star by Homer; while we, with our
 2oth century fearing, talk of falling stars, when in fact, we mean aerolites I there- 1 fore, see no difficulty in this direction. If be asked, why should the shekinah have been shown to the Gentiles and not to the Jews, should answer: Many
 times had the Jewish nation seen 1t. But
 the Gentiles never. The time was ap- preaching when the church. which Awag national, should give place to the churchl
 catholic or universal. The Gentiles had hitherto been excluded from the blessing4
 of the covenant: but the time had come
 for larger religious life for the whole
 race; the wall of partition was alreadw
 tottering, and would finally fall, so that
 there would be neither Jew nor Gentile,
 neither Greek nor barbarian, but brothera all.
 l am somewhat embarrassed by the
 fact that l cannot refer to any authori-I
 ties bearing upon this interesting subs 1ect. Like the Ancient Mariner" sd far as I know, ! 'I am the first E That ever burst
 Into this open sea-" So. that I may be all wrong Of pur. pose I make this admission. lest ever slightly, I should weaken any man si faith In the Scriptures. It will be seem
 plainly, trust, that I am not tryinst to escape the miraculous. I believe in the
 miracles already recorded, and have no. doubt that thousands have occurred that, are not recorded. The symbol disclosed!
 to the Wise Men was a miracle My
 effort in this paper has been, to show
 that my view is more easy of belief than
 the supposed miracle of an actual star being employed.
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Two of a Kind

From Success Magazine.
 ..'Sir. you seem to be troubled"
 'I am. For the last three years have done nothing but pay out money. money. money, and get no visible return for it. If this keeps up much longer I'll soon be a pauper." HH
 Cheer up. l. too have son at eei- lege."
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had written a chapter on the Nine teenth Ohio congressional district which he represented, and 1t captivated the old fellow. It Is the district of Whittlesey.
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Why, that is all our union is The glory of 1t is the free trade between
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-03-10
Copyright 1908 by Bobbs-Msrrlll Coz
SYNOPSIS.

capt. Nathaniel Plum of the sIoop Ty-
phcon lands secretly on Beaver island.
stronghold of the Mormons. Obadiah
tiice, Mormon councillor confronts him,
.tSllS MN ne is expected, and bargains for
the ammunition aboard the sloop. He
plnqs Nat by solemn oath to deliver a
package to Franklin Pierce, president of
Nat sees the frightened face of a young
woman who disappears in the darkness
leaving an odor of lilacs. 1t develops that
MATS visit to the island is to demand set
!tlement of the king, Strang, for the loot
ing OF his sloOp by Mormons. Price shows
Nat the kings palace, and through a
window he sees the lady of the lilacs,
who Price says is the kings seventh wife
Calling at the Kings Office Nat is warned
by young woman that his life is in dan
ger; StranS processes indignation when
ne hears Mats grievance and promises to
punish the guilty. Nat rescues Neil, who
is being, publicly whipped. and the king
orders the sheriff, Arbor Croche, to pur-
sue and Kill the two men. Plum learns
that Marion, the girl of the lilacs, is
'NeiPs sister. The two men plan to escape
on Mats sloop and take Marion and
lWlnnSome, daughter Of Arbor Croche,
and sweetheart of Neil. Nat discovers
that the sloop is gone. Marion tells him
that his ship has been seized by the Nor
mons. She begS him to leave the island,
telling him that nothing can save her
from Strang, whom she is doomed to mar
ry. Plum finds Price raVing mad. Recov-
.ertng, he tells Nat that Strang is doomed,
that armed men are descending on the
'Mland. Nat learns that Marion has been
aammoned to the castle by Strang. Nat
kills ArbOr Croche. and after desperate
lEght with the king. leaves him for dead.
The avenging host from the mainland de
'Bcends on St. James. Neil and Nat take
a part in the battle and the latter is
wounded. Strang, whom Nat thought he
had killed, orders him thrown into dun
,geon. He finds Neil a fellow prisoner.
They overhear the Mormon jury deciding
their fate. A bribed jailer brings the
prisoners word of Winnsome and Marion.
Bound and gagged the two men are taken
out to sea in a boat. They are left to
suffer the straight death" on a wild
,section of the coast. Just as they had
given up hope the men are rescued by
Marion and WinnsOmc. Nat faints, and
when he RECEIVERS Marion is gone.
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An OrnithoIogicaI Pest.

The invasion Of our shores by the
English starting is causing a great
deal of comment in pathological cir
cles.
Have we another English sparrow
pest on our hands? people are every
where beginning to inquire. This Is
a question which can hardly yet be
answered with certainty by direct
yes or no The federal government Is
making careful scientific investiga-
tons and has not yet reported its
decision 1t is safe, however, to say
this. that the starting is liable to be-
come a great pest and nuisance in
this country through pressure Of num-
bers, though it has useful traits, and
is in some ways a beautiful and inter
esting bird, far superior to the Eng
lish sparrow.
The sum and substance of the mat
ter. as far as we have gone at pres
ent, seems to be that IL the starting
could remain in only moderate num-
bers in a locality, its presence would
not be particularly Objectionable, but
that IL, after spreading out all over
the country, it locally increases to
great numbers and immense flocks, as
1t gives every promise of doing. 1t
will become a very serious menace,
both to our useful native birds and TO
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. X. Job, In Out.
ing.
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FEARED THE SCREECH OWL
Woman Was Not Superstitious, but
She Cut Short Her Visit to
the Country.

I'm not a bit superstitious, not In
the least bit, butt don't ever want to
hear another screech owl in the
night" said a woman who remained In
the country until the holidays. Posi-
lively believe | should go mad IL
ever heard that blood-curdling sound
again.
you know they say in the country
that If a screech owl comes crying
around the house it's sure sign or
death. OF course, I've no faith in
that sort of nonsense, but all the same
the coachman's mother died after the
OWLS first appearance.
"The owl came back and one Of TIE
employees died. 1t came back again
and I decided that, after all, / didn't
want to spend Christmas in the coun-
try and lighted back to town. The
coachman said something about the
old rule and l just naturally packed
up my buds and bought a ticket for
New York.
"Ugh-h-h! | SILVER now whenever
I think of that owl In the apple tree"