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with the portentous tidings that Bill Chandler is to become a democrat. MT. Chandler is the one citizen of this re- public who made a president of the United States by his lone self" On the night of the presidential election in 1S76 when even the head of the republican ticket made a speech of sur render, and everybody else, including Chandler himself, had given it up, MT. Barnum, the chairman of the demo- cratic national committee, addressed a thoughtless and fateful note of in quiry to the New York Times, a repub- 1ican newspaper, asking for returns from the election in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. That note was shown to Bill Chandler. In such q sit nation as was thus presented to such an observation as his, Bill Chandler is the most adroit, the most resourceful and the most audacious man in the world. As quick as flash his nimble mind discovered that the democrats were not quite absolutely assured. So he wrote q half dozen lines claiming 1S1 electoral votes for Hayes and the election of the republican candidate. and signed Zacl< the republican national committee, who was then fast asleep in Chicago, having gone to bed utterly defeated and humil-
 iated The next morning the republi- cans took heart, claimed everything,
 and subsequently they stole every
 thing-all because Bill Chandler was
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"HE telescope has magnified the
 heavens to our vision, at least 2O0O x times, and by it's use We have learned more intelligently than David ever knew, how "the heavens declare the glory of Cod By the use of the microsooce, however, we have seen as never before how God is slorified by the smallest ob- jects of His creative wisdom and power.
 The word microscope comes to us from the Greek 'mikros," little, and ''skopeo.' to look upon; and to look upon the small insects and other tiny objects of Gods creation when they are placed under the lenses of the microscope, is to be amazed at the marvellous ingenuity of the infinite mind. While Alfred Ten nyson was a student at Cambridge some fellow students came upon him few miles from the university. He was in tently studying insect life in pool of water. Now knowing that he was heard, he exclaimed, What a genius is God.'
 I fancy that no one who studies the works of God under the microscope can fail to echo Tennysons sentiment and ejaculation. The wonderful adaptation of
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well as "eugenics," right environm mt as well as a right organism.
 The Press of the University of Chicago issues the journal of The Religious Edu- cation Association, and Illustrates In it's October issue this secularizing tendency. Perhaps nothing more revolutionary could be put in so short a phrase as the heading to one paper. "The Rural Church and Community Welfare" For here is a pro- posal to reestaslish the rural church as the social center Of the community, wherein all matters related to the farmer. bis crops. his home, his schools his health, and so on. may be conversations ally considered Another article discusses the motion picture in education. Much modern religious writing and many mod ern sermons have now for their theme, "The Saved Man al Work" How very broad his field is-how many things may be reckoned in as properly religious, how the true definition of ethics is social ser vice. are surprising revelations.
 Now my objective in all these truisms is the question: Does the new view the new emphasis. indicate religious loss or gain? Granted that fewer Protestants come to prayer meeting, fewer Catholics to confession, fewer Jews to worship; cer- tainly more Protestants are engaged in priceless, voluntary public service, more Catholics are touched with unselfish phi lanthropy, more Jews are devoted to so- cial justice and the healing of broken lives. No modern theologian throws an ink pot at the devil. but we can see our devil much more accurately and actually hit him with serum or PasteurZed milk or a fresh air camp, things which Luther or the saints did not contemplate at all. In the language of the seance and the spiritualsts, we have materialized the devil and even secured his photograph in several stages, ages and typical activities. But this visible, physical disease-devil is not all the Devil there is He Is hydra
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eral but the Senate, for some reason or other-his work in Florida, doubt less-rejected him, the Senate being q tie, politically, with old Dave Davis president pro tempore and holding the balance of power. Subsequently he was Secretary of the Navy in Arthurs cab met In 1889 he took his seat in the United States Senate, in which body he was conspicuous 12 years
 His administration of the navy depart ment was successful in that it was a great improvement on that of the 20 years just preceding: but it was not un- til Cleveland came in that John Roach was made to take his hand out of the public crib There is this to be said Of Chandler that in matters of peeuniary meum ct tuum he is thoroughly honest and he will not allow any stealing by anybody if he can prevent it. II is that mainly that makes him so cordially hated at home and in Washington.
 In the Senate Chandler was not exact lY the stormy petrel that LaFollette is, but he was aggraVating to a degree He was the most vigilant member, ceaseless and untiring in industry and activity. If there was any graft on deck he was mighty apt to detect it, all he saw was exposed, and great deal Of il he defeated If there was any political mischief brew ing certain 1t was that he promoted it. From the day Ben Tillman made his vicious and ignoble assault on Cleve-
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pert to part the marvellous mechanism providing locomotion in the insect world, the weapons of defence and offence which nearly all creatures possess, and the strange fitness they have for the sphere in which they live, all declare God to be an infinite Genius. The same feeling is produced when we study, under the micro scope, inanimate objects, bits of shell, precious stones, particles of rock, various metals and the like.
 Solids seek to form themselves into beautiful crystals of the most fantastic shapes. Many of these you may see with your natural vision, but If the microscope be used they are seen to an infinitely bet ter advantage Even iron has it's beautiful specialization, which you may see in a fresh fracture of the metal if there falls upon it the proper angle of light.
 You say, of bar of iron, that it is sold because it looks so But it is not solid absolutely. and no trip hammer can make 1t solid and leave it fit for the purposes of iron Such a hammer may pound it into brittleness and into dust, but t can not make it d perfect solid. Some days after writing the foregoing I read his sentence from Professor Richards, "The
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land and Carlisle, Chandler was his friend and comDanon, and Chandler's s other friend and boon companon was ca- bot Lodge. But Chandler was valuable public servant in that he kept the Sem ate on edge every sitting he attended.
 If my observation was of any account, Chandler would not have put on saekeloth and covered himself with ashes if Bryan had been elected in 1896 Immediately after the inauguration of Mckinley he became an insurgent So far as l re- member he was the last member of either house of Congress to advocate the coinage of silver as full legal tender cur rency. He appealed to nature at author- fty, and cited that for any given period of series of years the production of silver was practically Is to l of gold in the element of weight, which was aoti- ing in the world but a reteraton of BrYan's contention that bushel of wheat and 4l21. grains of standard silver were always and everywhere of value
 The republican platform of 1896 con tained plank that was pledge to send a commission to Europe to plead with statesmen and financiers 10 re habilitate silver as 9 money metal on a parity with gold. That plank was inserted to counteract the defection of Teller and Stewart and for the beneut of Wolcott. They might as well have offered to send a commission over there to ask Europe to join with the United
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civic welfare movements of all sorts And this is about the same as was possible at any time in the past hundred years. But on top of all this is the new Brotherhood movement linking the laity of the church with those economic and political battles which create or bansh the social wrongs and sufferings of men. The modern church is a student of economies rather than an almoner Of charity. Instead of relieving distress the modern church is beginning to study the causes of poverty. Instead of reckoning poverty a divine ordinance and urging people ito be con- tent in that station of life in which it has pleased God to set them,' the modern church is beginning to recognize in pov- erty remediable curse. Instead of con senting to the tyranny of disease and just talking of the mysterious ways Cf Providence, whereby our brother has been summoned to join the caravan that moves towards the silent halls of dea - etc, etc, the modern preacher breaches against the typhoid fly which slew the de- ceased, the negligence which left the barn dirty or the practice of breeding mos qultoes, or the stupidity which permits tuberculosis infection. Not that he has ceased to believe in heaven and immortal ity! only he is enlisted against death.
 Knowledge, in other words, has invaded the sacred precincts of the church, and like a new Cromwell, ordered the melting of her silver eikons. Hence she runs nos- pitals now quite as earnestly as she runs schools, and schools as eagerly she used to run days of humiliation, fasting and prayer. She sees that religion has vast secular uses and that the world to come very much depends upon the world that now is as crop depends upon the sowing. She is changing her long em- phasis on personal salvation and putting q newborn emphasis on social well-being
 New words are being born to fit the new attitude. She speaks of "euthenics," as
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Besant. now theosophst, and high priest ess of theosophy, was one of them. When Bradlough was elected by the shoe makers of Northampton as their repre- sentative in parliament, all the pious though not puritanical sons of the peer age and the church lifted protesting hands and sWore that he should not take
 his seat without taking what to him was a meaningless oath. Then, when he eX- plained that considering the oath as a simple declaration, he was willing to take it. they vowed that he should not take it at all. After years of pickering and law suits, during which half Northampt on was steadfastly unreprcsented in parlia- ment. Bradlaugh took the oath and his
 seat, unchallenged, and secularism was thus admitted to the counsels of the wise, who mingled orthodoxy with legislation, theology with party passion.
 Now it is very odd that a group of earn est philanthropists, however unconven- tonal. should have been thus caught in a
 sort of atheistic theory and persuaded that the nearest way to the Kingdom Of God was by the expulsion of the Almighty
 from His universe. It was equally odd that the churchmen and statesmen of con servative England should have been blind to the positive and valuable element in the secularist movement. Most odd of all, and greatly to the amaZement of mankind, was Mrs. Annie Besant, wife of ritual istic and high-church clergyman, herself a ritualist, passing over to join Charles
 Bradlaugh and G. J. Hoyoake in what the orthodox everywhere regarded as vul- gar atheism. But the oddity of all this is
 as nothing when we contemplate he astounding fact of the rapid secularizins of the orthodox church which has actually come about within the past few years.
 Here, for instance, is the activity of eminent ministers on boards of education in health movements, library movements
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, headed. Does the new interest In this
 disease-devil involve a decay of spiritual ferHor. an ignoring of the deep Inward
 tragedy of the soul, a busy, clattermg
 activity which absorbs attention and , leaves no time, no direction for the old spiritual agonies and yearnings and pray CTS, as of Paul, Habbakuk, St. Theresa Bunyan, Rutherford and Fall their white. robbed host?
 How can piety and devotion live in he secular region of health-seeking, or in the heated atmosphere of political and in dustral disputes? If we are thinking so
 much about the body. shall we not quite lose interest in the soul, and quite destroy religion by making it secular?
 Even as l write these words a good and gracious friend sends me the Report of a
 Committee Appointed by the Council of
 the Diocese of Alabama upon Social Service" A singular coincidence. Here
 the Episcopal Anglican church in this
 state comes to grips with what it describes as all the great civil and social questions | that affect men's lives and interests, and that are constantly pressing for solution. | That is a huge Herculean task, but here | is the church essaying it. She proposes to save the children by making the civl
 power do it's duty. Under the old fanati- cism she proposed to save mems souls
 by invoking the civil power to burn their
 bodies. But it is not the church that has changed so much as it is human intelll- gence that has better learned the secular value of salvation. Prison reform, inn provement of iails, the liquor traffic and intemperance, well as the need of a Child Department of the federal service. receive attention in the report. the first yet issued along these lines in Alabama. The traditionaists who cry out that all il.ss, l to man. and from eternity and the soul to time and the body, from sin to discom-
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ite and iron have their orbits as have the stars. and revolve as ceaselessly.'' So. we see, that iron is not a perfect solid, neither is marble.
 l enjoyed a rare Illustration of the hy- pothesis of universal motion some time ago, while looking through a microscope. down upon a bit of radium. which was so small that 1t could not be seen with the natural vision. Let me first say that radium is a radioactive substance mat dscloses rays; it has great power as a germieide. I have known it's rays to H. luminate an adjoining room through a thick door which had been thoroughly closed. Radium was not recognized as a distinct element until about 1903.
 little while after that date I vas spending the evening with scientific friend who was greatly interested in he phenomena of the newly discovered sub stance In the course of the evening he handed me q small circular case. It was about two inches in height and one nch in diameter, It was closed at the bottom. and at the top il was sealed up with a strong microscopic glass. I took the case to the light of the chandelier and looked
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States in a declaration that "hants'' ex- ercised a material influence on the social, political and spiritual affairs or mankind, and they would have done that. too, had they thought there was a vote in it.
 When Chandler made his speech 1t was on the proposal ito raise the com mission, which was done with solemn face. My old friend James B. Me- Creary of Kentucky was one of the in the world who took the thing seri- ously; but then he would have entered upon the "hant' expedition with equal gravity, Of course nothing came of It but junket, and silver dropped out of our politics with dull thud
 But Chandler a natural born insur- gent, kept it up until the Boston and Maine railroad pitchforked him out of the Senate and gave his seat to one of it's attorneys. Subsequently, Chandler ran with Roosevelt in the mighty oc- topus chase. Daily and diligently. ne fetched and carried between the White House and Tillman and Bailey until Teddy put him in the Ananas club. The late Midas Harrison did not live to get even" with Midas Ryan. Will Chandler ever get even with Roosevelt :? You bet he will if Teddy affords the chance
 And Chandler is to be a democrat. ! Well, well. well,
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| rot in Tibet, or Tophet, when Barnum sent that momentous inquiry to the New York Times.
 Though born in Yankeeland, 1t may be opined that, like Daniel Webster and Benjamin F. Butler also natives of New Hampshire. Chandler is neith- CT Puritan nor Pilgrim, but Scotch Irish. Be that as may be, he is of whig antecedents and reckless as the statement may seem, stranger things have happened than the advent of Will liam F Chandler into the democratic camp. A son of William Lloyd Garri- son became a democrat and Garrison himself. who had championed the tar if of abominations," lived to champion absolute free trade. the repeal of all tariff duties and the abandonment of all custom houses.
 A great grandson of Roger sherman, grandson of Samuel Hoar, son of F. Rock wood Hoar. was a democratic member of Congress from Massachu setts 20 years ago. He was a son of John A. Andrew. the great war gov ernor of Massachusetts, and so also was a son of Edward Everett. But Ed ward Everett, like Daniel Webster, Ru fus Choate and Robert C. Winthrop. was cotton" whig, whereas the JIoars were "conScience'' whigs. And right here il may be remark ed that there IS tradition that Henry Cabot Lodge narrowly escaped mugWumpery
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summits were very much higher than tho others, and as the light fell upon the va rious and varied surfaces 1t looked like sunlight reflected from the sides and summits of the Sierra Nevada. Suppose you try this experiment with your sharp est razor.
 You have heard Of a razor sharpening tself.' A man tells you that he laid nsi11 Fl razor because it was so dull that he could not use it, and weeks afterwards he took il up, ran it a few times over the strop. and it worked like a charm. You thought he was romancing. But he was not. The reason is this: razor being like a saw, the teeth will sometimes be- come clogged up with tiny bits of cutieie which hinder the cutting process, md you say the arzor is dull You. thereupon. lay il aside When you take it up again in few weeks the cuticle has dried out. and few strokes on the strop will re- move it. and the blade is sharp as ever.
 Just here l stopped writing in order that I might experiment with safety razor blade under a magnifyng glass. which had never done. Sierra spurs could be seen plainly.
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"HERE is a toilsomely voluminous
 thesaurus of the English speech,
 \ compiled by the senior and junior Drs. F. A. March, and challenging TOT bulk a Websters International Diction- ary. In that castellated tome I have just looked for possible light on the word secular" seeing the enormous weight Of authority borne by all the letters that trail after the elder March's name. It was necessary to guess where so re- nowned an analyst of all things human would probably classify that word. l tried various leading topics, such as worldly" ''irreligion ''Spiritual,' as likely haunts of the synonym fraternity. l sought in vain, and at last gave up and referred the puzzle to the index compiled by pr. March himself. Where does he put secular? Behold, first, under Tive Quinquesection," then under Ministry Laity," or under eriodcity-1nequalty, or under Education Misteachipg, CT hope of my soul--under "EIeterodoxy- Or thodoxy" These word-pairs are the ter mini of series of opposed synonyms. and somewhere in the series we are directed to find the word we seek. Lamb-like look, and find. secular" in that goblin company of -Quinquesection," and am grateful that somewhere on this planet is a really educated man who knows the meaning of human words and can arrange them and pigeonhole them where he knows how to find them, even if no one else does. But I sing an old song in my disturbed dreams of real thesau- rus,
 Bring back, bring back bring back ny
 Roget to me, to me- etc.
 For Roget was not as big as the Inter- national: it could accommodate itself in a bookrack modestly, and it did not, to
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ability without effort 10 impart the in- fluenee needed to guide and direct, never failed of impressing those under his care.
 The uniformity of his bearing WAS among the first impressions made oli the youth under his guidance. His man-. ncr was always the same. This was true even of his manner of address. He was chaste without being gaudy; clear with out the slightest effort; earnest and zeal orS without exuberance, and pathetic and sympathetic without cant. These gave him grip on young men.
 No one caught him off his guard. There was always the possession of a self col lection that produced ease in his pres cnce and that left an impression for good.
 The influence of a spirit like that at the head of an institution of learning r a great state is incaculable. The per manent good wrought by a man like this through successive generations is be- sond calculation
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into it. l could see nothing but the white bottom of the case. But there was with in the case. at the bottom. what scientific men call "an invisible" speok of radum The light in the room was eXtingulshed, and I then looked into the case for the radium.
 1 saw it immediately. It was an aglta,ed mass of light; every atom was in motion. As l held the microscope to my eye what 1 saw was like scenes that l have often witnessed. on the ocean. The rays were like the pallid moonlight falling on the throbbing sea. and the restless waves of light seemed to rise and fall precisely like the waves of the ocean. seemed to stand on a ships deck looking out upon q world of water. upon whose restless tides the moonlight, mingling with he green of the sea, gave a softened glow.
 Of course, with every pusation of light there Twas waste of radium, and vet I was assured that in 90 years there would hardly be an appreciabe dminution of this invisible specll though it be in mo- ton day and night for a half century.
 Did you ever inspect drop of water rn- der the microscope? In the tiny drop that
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When pr. Manly assumed control, the institution was still young, and was in great need of increased equipment, but under his wise management the needed facilities came, and within few years he brought il to a pitch of prominence that gave 1t wide reputation throughout the country. Indeed no state institution in the south had a wider reputation from 1887 till the outbreak of the civil war than the University of Alabama Young men from other states, attracted by it's standard of scholarship, sought it's class ical halls for superior instruction. Dur ing the presidency of Dr. Manly thous- ands of young men throughout the state were fitted for lifes rough encounters.
 pr. Manly not only possessed the high qualities already named, but he had the power of impressing them on the rising youth that came under his direction ana discipline. His undoubed sincerity, as transparent as it appeared. his genuine
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him the successful college president that he was. His judgment was never ob- scured by the mist of sudden passion nor was he betrayed into warmth of feel ing that occasioned subsequent regret. A man of like passions with others, his sterner expressions were held in restraint under the mastery of a granite will, and were brought into action only as oc- casion required. Firm as a mountain on it's base, he was unmoved by sudden ness of impulse or storm of passion. His equabe temper made him accessible to all, but in his conduct he was swayed alone by principle. This left clear his sense of discrimination and unobscured his judgment which was never hastily expended, and not till he was convinced of a cause.
 Those superior traits gave to Dr. Manly a power with men, young and old, and his influence was as wide as he was known. A knowledge of these facts led to his being called, in 1887, to the presi-