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proceeded to tell the incident. After which I said: "Gentlemen in smoker on a train we meet people from every quarter of the globe. There are seven of us here; suppose we tell where we're from" One man said, I'm from Geor- gia'' another, I'm from Cape Palmas. Africa, where my father carries on a trading business; another, "I came from the land of Robbie Burns, but was brought to this country while a babe in my mothers arms; another, 'I am from no country on earth, for l was born at sea-; another was from Penn- sylvania; my Mallow friend was from Ireland and had the happiness of say ing I was from Virginia.
 Then followed series of comparisons and contrasts between certain foreign countries and America. There was hard ly a man of them that did not think this a fine country for money making, but they all agreed that we have too many elections, and too much politics.
 A startling thing occurred one day In the smoker, when five or six travellers were enjoying their tobacco. There had arisen a general conversation on the sub feet of the Thaw and White case. The most aggressive person in the conversa- tion was an educated and highly cultured Jew There could be introduced hardly any subject but that he was ready to dis cuss it. finally, in our hot discussion, reached subject which he could not handle. He surrendered, and said: You must be a professional man, sir, and are more familiar with this than l am." But if he had only known the facts he could have seen that my knowledge was very superficial After which he and becames good friends, and smoked the pipe of peace till l left the train.
 However, the subject in which all took part was, as I said, the murder of White by Harry Thaw. The discussion became quite heated Some holding that Thaw was justified in his deed, others contend ing that his act was dastardly. Present. ly my Jewish friend exclaimed with some excitement. 'Gentlemen, Mrs. White, the wife of the murdered man, was as much to blame as" At this a young fellow about 25 years old, sprang to his feet whipped out dreadful look ing revolver. and shouted Damn you, take that back, swallow your words quick, or I'll blow you into eternity; take that back or you're dead man." At this there was a general scamper to the door, some stopping there.
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as well as a sword It was in this Con- gress that Dalzel won his spurs and went to the front leader, one of the most ca pable and one of the most trusted lieu tenants of the giant from Maine.
 In the next or Fifty-second Congress the republican membership was reduced to SS, only about onehalf the democratic majority, that was the largest majority any party ever had in that body. But Reed was the leader of that minority, and do not believe that in the entire his tory of parliamentary government by the Anglo-SaXon people there ever was lead ership so brilliant and so effective. The SS, reduced several seats by the commit tee on contested elections, were a com pact body, disciplined like the household troops of a European monarchy. Reed s nod controlled them, and he paralyzed that enormous democratic majority, fore ing a rule that counted a quorum by a committee selected for that purpose. Of all his leutenants Reed found in Dalzell the most vigilant and the most tireless. Burrows was lazy and unpopular, Lodge was not suited to a turbulent body, Hit, in his seat, was deep in some Greek or
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HALOS AND RAINBOWS
The Varied Forms Assumed by These
 Phenomena

From the Scientific American.
 The correspondence columns of the scientific journals are oVerburdened With letters from persons who have witnessed one or another of the optical phenomena of the atmosphere, and who describe the same in such a way as to give the im- pression that they have never opened a book on optics. Strange to say these !et- ters frequently come from men who are more or less prominent in the scientflc world. One can hardly escape the con viction that large number-perhaps the maiority-or physicists meteorologsis and astronomers have profited little by the researches of Monge Blot, Bravais, Marcart Pertner and other students of at mospheric optics.
 There is, for example. a particularly beautiful form of halo-the "circumzeni- thai arc'-which is nearly always de- scribed by persons who thus report their experience as if the phenomenon in ques- tion was one of which they had never heard, and which they are consequently unable to call by it's correct name CT bring into relation with other luminous meteors. A description of this Kind tp- peared in Nature for May Il, 1911 (paSe 349) The writer who obviously had not the slightest acquaintance with the ter anthology of optics referred to what he had seen as a rainbow" Strange to say, the editor naively concurred in tnis ig- norant diagnosis and published the letter under the heading "A Zenith Rainbow. notwithstanding the fact that, in a note appended to the letter by well known meteorologist the correct name was i-p- piled to the phenomenon.
 Several forms of halo are decid edly common, though they often escape the at
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tention Of the casual observer. At the Observatory of Montsouris, near Paris. where halos are systematically watched for, the circumzenithal arc was seen on ILL days in ten years, an average of one day in 33
 The Saharan traveller who has occasion to mention a camel does not call it "a large brown quadruped with a hump en it's back" He saves time and obviates misunderstanding by saying 'camel.' On the other hand persons constantly report that they have seen in the sky luminous appearance of such and such a. size, and shape. along with other particulars that may or may not possess real scientific in- terest: the gist of which is merely that they have witnessed the tangent arc Of a halo, a sunpillar. q lunar cross, a parhe- Han, or some other luminous meteor that ought to be, but is not. perfectly well known to the maporty of educated peo- pie.
 The Scientific American believes that ifs readers will welcome the appearance in it's columns. in tho near future, of se- ries of Illustrated and plainly worded ar- ticles on the optical phenomena of the att mOSpIlere
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butter, and pr. Smith of Cairo failed to get a turnpike to the Soldiers Home. The Henderson regime was not much of a credit to anybody, and there was gen. eral relief when Uncle Cannon succeeded him as speaker of the Fifty-eighth Con- gress. Though Payne was the titular leader of the majority. Dalzell was the actual leader. He even had the temerity to engage Bour<e Cochran, and he might have quoted Andy Johnson-"None of my blood is on his beak, none of my flesh is in his talons." As spokesman of the rules committee Dalzell was Congress- during the entire eight years of the Can non regime except the last two when the rebellion of the insurgents paralyzed the majority and opened the way for the great democratic victory of 1910.
 But President Taft has reinforced the standpatters, and that puts new phase on the situation. The next session of Congress is bound to be of exceptional moment and the hopes of the G. o. P. in the House of Representatives are In the little man from the Thirtieth Penn- sylvania district.
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holding her in lne-and he does so. NO" there is Oliver Optick, no, that's not Il, Oliver R. Randolf, perhaps, enny how Oli- yer R. Hood. who would like Verry much indeed to go to congress rum the 1th, and who has been compelled to sit on the lid of his ambssion for quite a while
 He's still sitting and frum present indl- cassions its likely that he Il stay sot. But Oliver would moor than likely enjoy see ing John Lawsun Brandun, and evvcry thing. run for Governor, and would probabully joyishly support him, for he knows that this mite be his chanse in the 7th, and he also knows for him to cast his Caster in the ring against John, afore- sed that when John got thru mussing him up and scattering his remains all ov- yer the district, he would look like a scrambuled egg. But there Is nuthilg doinR-John maid one bad guess-on that Amindmint-not that he wasn't for 1t, lie was, but John don't beleeve in ramming his views down the uther fellers throat
 After he had got off good and stout on the rong foot on the Amindmint John with his keen ear to the ground soon saw that
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Roman classic In the original, Deliver was a new man, Dingley was up to his chin in statistics, Boutelle was too i'll tempered. Dave Henderson too sopho- moric, Ben Butterworth was gone, Tom Browne was dead, Mckinley was a can didate for governor of Ohio, Cannon was defeated, so was Grosvenor. so was La Toilette, and Tom Carter was a painfully slow speaker. So it was that Reed leaned on Dalzell, and the prop never failed him.
 It was In the Fifty-third Congress that Dalzell had the famous bout with Tom Johnson about steel rates. Johnson had sailed into the Carnegie works, and Dal zell was to the rescue. I do not recolleet the particulars, but it seems that John son had made a bushel of money in the manufacture of steel rails and Dalzell reproached him for assaling the tariff that had made him rich man; but Tom declared 1t was patents he held for the pattern of the rail. Be that as it may, when they were through the republicans were jubilant and the democrats by no
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bread, apparently at the cost Of the lan3- owners and farmers. should have been so indifferent, so frankly antagonistic to the reform of the labor laws at the cost of his Manchester constituency of manufactur- CTS. Says Shaftesburk long afterwar1:
 Bright was my most malignant oppo- nent. Golden, though bitterly hostile, was better than Bright. Glad stone is on a level with the rest; he gave no support to the ten hours bill; he was the only member who endeavored to delay the bill which delivered women and chil- dren from the mines and pits. Gladstone, he further says, was indiffer- ent to the shame that in Lancashire there were 5000 children under 13 years of age, many not exceeding or G. who were made to work at times IA or 15 hours a day. and sometimes, in another factory, during the night also.
 But Shaftesbury with his zeal and lis facts and his gospel of love won the bat- tie, while the economists and the eccle- castics squirmed He went on and re- formed the coal mines apprenticeship sys- tenn out of existence, and alleviated tho horrors of the ancient system of chimney sweeping, according to which a little 'ad was sent up with a brush to cut out the dry soot and to presently wave his broom in triumph at the chimney top! The
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Dr. Tutwler became to Alabama that which Dr. Arnold of the famous Rugby school was to England. He was not only a typical gentleman of the old school of the south, but a ripe scholar, d teacher of rare ability, and a model of manhood to youth. Simple and unpre- tentons in manner and in life, he was pattern in character to the young men who came under his instruction. His culture was unsurpassed, his scholarship profound and comprehensive, and his character throughout life vastly above reproach. Few men have left a pro founder impression on his students than pr, Henry Tutwiler. There was In his bearing the utter absence of the con-
 sclousness of his greatness, while there was always the demonstration of the gentleman of pure democracy. Simple and easy of manner, affable, gentle and readily communicative, he was easily ad- unstable to all circles without the slight est hint of constraint. and by a conta- gious touch, indefnabe but effectual he made all others at ease in his presence
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The only cool person in evidence was the handsome Jew Those who stood at the doorway heard him say to the young man. Young man, put up your pistol; put it up, I tell you. You will gain nothing by killing me, and nothing in the argument will be decided by your pistol. You did not hear me finish my sentence; now be cool, control yourself" ''No man shall reflect upon the mother of my college chum and live," said the tall young man. Said the Jew: Listen to me and you will find that l am not reflecting upon the character of the lady that I named" This he said with singu- lar calmness, the while looking the young man in the eyes. The revolver was replaced in the young fellows hip pocket. He sat down and listened When the ex- planation was given he rose, extended his hand and said, q thank you for pre- venting my committing murder"
 I have thought if my Jewish friend has been a coward and had lost his head or if he had had revolver on his per- son, there would have been a bloody tragedy in the smoker that day. The sequel is that a warm friendship sprang up between those two men. When that young man now visits the home city of the Jew he stops with his friend whom he once purposed to kill: and when the Jew goes to the young mans home town, he Is always a welcomed and beloved guest The two families are bound to- gether by the cords of a lasting friend ship.
 curious coincidence took place In smoker some years ago of which l have no explanation. Our train had no diner, so we had to stop at dining station" to refresh and satisfy the inner man.
 After lunch, lighting my cigar, I made myself quite comfortable in the smoker. A little distance from me a man sat He had on soiled linen suit, and his col his suit Upon his head there perched a light travelling cap. He had evidently come long distance and had been trav cling a long while, as his ugly growth of beard indicated.
 I found myself looking at the man sew eral times. Three or four times he caught my eye. I would naturally turn away But I'd invariably turn to him again. Finally he came and sat beside me- and asked: DO you know me-" Said l, "T never saw you before in my life" You have looked at me so hard and so often I thought you might know
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tiny that a St. Francis or Damien might have taken. And by the way, is it not fair to hope that the newer evangelicals, with their semi-rationalistic criticisms, their vague theology. their increasing mysticism, will one day give as-rich and splendid a series of saints to the service of the world the older faiths of au- thority? Certainly the faith of Shaftes- bury narrowly evangelical, was a faith absolutely based on authority. But .h.s cannot be said of Miss Addams, of Henry George, the forerunner, or of Lloyd George, the practical statesman. These all have faith; 1t leads to enormous masses of work; but what authority 1t holds is not external, not authority proper at all Rather it is a deep spiritual impulse and instinct that imperiously Ge- mands the sacrifice.
 When Anthony Ashley Cooper the sev- enth Earl of Shaftesbury, died in October, 1885, he was S4 years of age. Never was aristocrat followed to his resting place by a more motley crowd of mourners. East and South London poured out with tears to bury their friend. For GO years he had been seeking reputation not for himself but for the victims of a half developed social system. Beginning as a member of the house of commons in 1S26 he had turned away from the alurements of of flee and resolutely studied and served
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ALABAMA-HENRY TUTWLER-By F

save him from the haphazard to which he would be otherwise exposed
 From the walls of the Greene Springs school went forth young men by the hundred with initial equipment which not only made the mastery of a college course more easy and pleasant. but which served to lift them into future prominence. Passing from under the tutelage of Dr. Tutwiler and bearing a certificate with his name on it was a guarantee worth the having by any young man. From this rural retreat this skilled man of letters sent into the swelling ranks of usefulness in this and adjoining states hundreds of young men who have helped to make their common wealths resplendent. It was not a dem onstrative work. in the sense of showi- ness, but it was demonstrative as it found expression in richness of result and in exalted citizenship. Thus labored for many years this sage teacher and mellow scholar. and far more than can be computed is Alabama indebted to Henry Tutwiler.
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means boastful. It mgfht have been different if Tom had been bred to tho bar
 The Fifty-fourth Congress was repub- liean and Reed speaker. The tariff was yet paramount. and Reed drafted Ding icy from appropriations to head ways and means, though it is likely that he would have given Dalzell the post had he, and not Payne. been senior on the commit tee. There was tariff bill that Con gross, but Cleveland was still President, and it did not pass the Senate. By 1896 the coinage question had crowded the tariff out of the paramountcy, and Mark Hanna had deposed Reed from the repub- lican national leadership and put Mckin- ley in his place. The democratic party was agraranized, the Spanish war was fought, expansion was accomplished, and the G. o. P. given lease of 16 years on Congress.
 Reed retired in disgust and rage. Dave Henderson got to be speaker because Joe Cannon's district produced bacon and lard, Albert Hopkins district beef and
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uniformity are lacking, and often the defects in fundamental work are too far passed to be overcome and corrected in the higher departments for which the youth has been unwisely persuaded that he is prepared. Happily for these later times this has been corrected by an ad- mirable public school system with it's trained instructors, but this was not true in the early days when Dr. Tutwler opened his school at Greene Springs.
 To establish q school of logical gradua- ton with every department under his direct supervision, in which school the student would be thoroughly grounded from the elementary upward. so as 10 have solder basis for building. and an idea of correctness and symmetry in all affairs, was the aim of this skilled edu- cator. Schools of this particular char acter had dotted the south ever since the years of recuperation following the Revolution and fortunately for the coun- try that this was so.
 In 1850 there were in eleven of the southern states at least 200O academies
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of how the emmisrants themselves may look and he does not care at this time to cast it aside and plunge into the vortex of statewide proposition, as much and as profundly as he may, Presumably (Ev- tra heavy on the Presumably presumably believes in prohibsion. And John believes in prohibision too-persunnally, but, mind you this, and take due notice, John above evvery thing else Is Demmocrat-he is a Demmocrat frum the top of his he'd to the bottom of his feet, which is not so blamed far aftur all, and then again frum the south side to the north side, and frum East to West, which is good ways
 and John beleeves-being Demmocratc- in the majority ruling, unless of corse it goes without saying that sed majority be Republican In that case it is different verry. So if the majority don't beeeve in prohbision John will bow his he'd in humble submission. you bet you, evVery pop. John is no slouch when it cums to lowing in humble submission to the will of the party. He was born that way
 Feelng' thus, as John does, about 1t and
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me-" "I beg your pardon for my seem- ing discourtesy." "Oh, there's no harm done." DO yo utravel far?' I asked, q go as far as Alabama? said he. T once lived in Alabama" I said, and add ed, My name Is =" and then l gave him my name. He turned suddenly in his asked, You are not" and then pro- nounced the initials of my name "Yes, I am the very man. I said. well, well; my name is -, and I have long wanted to see you; I was your successor in the parish of -, in Alabama" He had never seen a photograph of me, nor had I ever seen one of him; neither of us were dressed as clergymen usually dress. and yet we met as I have de- scribed Each wanting to know the other. He was homeward bound from a trip abroad. What strange influence brought us together in the smoker?
 It Is possible to render a kindly ser vice to a fellow traveller in the smoker. I was sitting in a smoker one morlilng. As usual I wanted to talk. The men around we were younger than myself and were eager listeners. One young man was very restless, and suffering the effects of excessive drink in which he had indulged the night before. He was handsome young fellow, with, as thought great capabilities for business. I had serious talk with him, and point ed out his great and calamitous error. I happened to have some safe and excel- lent headache medicine in my grip I gave him a dose, which benefited greatly before he reached his destination. He shook my hand heartily as we parted I thought he had gone out of my life. He had; but not forever. One day. to my astonishment, he came to see me; it was long after our meeting in the smoker. He came to tell me that the little talk we had had on the train had made a new man of him. He gave up drinking from that trip and had lived q sober and upright life ever since. l do not think it was what I said to him that did the good. much as the sympathy I expressed for him. 1 did not once de- nounce him, nor had l any sharp words with which to describe his course. But I sought to love him up to something that he had lost. and into a path from which he had strayed.
 l have not always succeeded in turning the drinking man from his drink. l went into a smoker, a day coach smoker. one evening. It was badly ventilated and the
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No one was better fitted for a position like this than Dr. Tutwller. Himself ripe scholar and gentleman of superior culture, backed by natural impressive ness, his sway of influence was both salutary and. elevatng. In quiet re- treat, far from the madding crowd and the din and tumut of a busy world. with nothing to detract and all to con- centrate and stimulate. he was a charac- ter builder as well as a developer of the brain.
 The experience of former years as teacher brought to his work on this inde- pendent scale served pr Tutwiler ad- mirably. He had learned the defective ness of a system in which the raw youth with total unpreparedness would often stride over much that was Fundamental and leave behind him breaches never to be filled, possibly, in his eager outreach for a diploma which when gotten could not be read by the possessor Every observant educator is impressed by the divers irregularities with which most young men enter college Symmetry and
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"HIS. Ladies and Gentlemen, this
 short square persun, sho looks like
 ! a bale of cotton with the three mid dle bands busted off, is, the Honerapui John Lawsun Brandun Burnett, M c.
 frum the 7th district. We have men toned him causually before, but, nhuer- stand this, he's plenty big enuff to men ton several times, and then sum. l'e it understood, now, and finally Teller Ci.- izens, that John Lawsun Brandun, ana all that, is NOT 0oud pedal pleese) IS NOT. we repeet it, cannydate for Guv- vernon of the State of Alabama on the Prohibision ticket. No Sur not so as you can tel it-and again NO John Lawsun Brandun, be 1t known my countrymen IS not yearning for enny such honur to enny grate extent. John is content with serv- ing the peepul of the 7th district in the house of representatives. where he is now chairman of the emmigrasion committee, and few uther small things on the side. John insists that this emmigrasion com mittee job looks good to him, regardless