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enterprise Our numbers daily grow less and soon all of Us will be memory only as the old Black Mamma is nearly become. Let somebody with means and time take hold of the movement and push 1t to triumphant issue. All that is required is organization and business sagacity. Every southern newspaplr will open subscription books. The grand and subordinate eneampments of Con federate veterans will enter into fl with a spirit of enthusiasm. The Daughters of the Confectionery will lend filial and devout aid, and when we have reared the pile so that the clouds shall cap it. let there be room at the top for the old Black Uncle too. l want the privilege of contributing my mite tI this blessed undertaking, and l VII
 leave this life With less reluctance if it shall be consummated with triumphant success ere the final curtain shall drop for me
 Though almost pure Anglo-saxon, the southern people are emotional and sen timental. Aside from that, men cling the closer to one another in defeat than in victory. There never was, there never
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exist. But we will suppose that God con- descended to try it-not because He thought it possible. but because, without trial. the world might think Him cuba bie.
 So God called for His sculptor, and He said: "Hew Me out body of flesh, end he hewed it. Then He said to tne organ-maker: Put Me into the body d brain, heart and lungs.' He did It. Then He said to the keeper of His jewels: Pour into him all the virtues of My casket," and it was done. Then He called for the spirit of life and He said: Vital ize him. and the Spirit breatted into him the breath of life, and the man rose and walked and sang.
 Now" God said q will have a being that is wholly good, a being that vii, cognize and adore Me. 1 once made a hyena; it laughed at Me. I made a croc- odile; it wept, but they were crocodile tears I once made bird; it flew away made fish. it swan out of sight; l made a roe, it fled to the mountain. But man shall pray to Me at vespers and sing to Me at maths"
 The evening came, the morning came The man prayed. the man sang The lif- tie cherubs Tapped their wings in delight. for they were ignorant. The devil clapped nus ndDuS III loi ic WdS odpeiN' God listened. Gods brow darkened. He said: "The man is simulacium, a re- fection, an echo. I thought to make an automaton, and behold a puppet! He voices only what I have put into him. l see what is before Me. Night and dey he will stun My ear with entreaty; he will rock Me with inpunity: he will de- luge Me with petition. Should he sin, he will seek redemption by pleading heredity, environment I will have to save him by mercy, by grace, by vicarious atonement. IT made him without merit. 1 will have to save him without merit. l will com mand St. Peter to leave the gate wide open" God said this in irony. Then dusky angel with turbid countenance seizing the man from behind, hurled him over the battlements
 God said that the word good is jug gle and fraud I might havo known it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

A BAND of weary Indians, tribes of A the wandering feet" driven from 4 A place to place, after a long pill grimage finally crossed a broad river and setting up their tepees, exclaimed:
 "Alabama'
 The meaning of the word in the Indian tongue is, Here we rest" And thus 1t was, according to legend, that the state of Alabama got it's name.
 The sequel we know.
 Where the poor aborigines hoped to find rest and home they found only room for graves.
 And so of us all.
 Driven hither and yon by the whip of circumstances, we look outward to the day when we shall cross the river Diffi- culty and setting up our pilgrim slaves, say to ourselves:
 ."Alabama Here we rest.' " We say: When the business is thor oughly on its feet we will take it easy. Now we must work and economize. :" Finally the business is established. Well, the children must be educated Finally the children are educated. But now they are getting married and must be helped or started in business"
 And so it goes.
 Or if the children are started and es- tablished there are relatives needing help or a worthy cause to be aided.
 And thus we slave and save and walk the dusty highways, casting always eager eyes toward the Alabama of our hopes. And thus we carry our burdens until some day we drop them by the side of an open grave.
 Is it not better so?
 We need stimuli We need something to live for and work for and suffer for and die for, else life would be insipid and commonplace.
 The burden steadies the feet. Tt keeps the moral backbone straight. When your work in the world has all been done. then, and not till then, can you say to your soul. "Alabama!"
 And who that is able to carry bur dens is ready to say that his work is done? As Stevenson somewhere says in effect, Who would not prefer to go plung- ing over the edge of life like a Niagara rather than drbble in the. intellectual stream?
 As opposed to the Alabama of mor- tai accomplishments let us prefer the epitaph that is written on the fiat stone over the grave of that soldier of Padua '.Hers He who Never Rested Rests." II.- 4f IA ..
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HAMS AND HEYBURN-By Sauoyard

would have been, at the north, that feel ing, that is almost idolatry, for Grant. which the south has for Lee. And hence it is the pious duty of the south to erect the monument to the old Black Mamma whose conduct during the great war, to- gether with the behavior of her hus- band and sons. amounts to eulogy of the institution" If not justification of 1t. There was nothing like a servile revolt between the Potomac and the Rio Grande. fromxthe Ohio to the Gulf. Is the south ungrateful, impious? Then let us make that monument, if for nothing else, to clinch the lie of Mrs. Stoves absurd book.
 Robert Coates is the janitor of the dem ocratic cloak rooms of the House of Rep resentatives, and though his skin Is black, he has a friend in every southern member of Congress. Northern men are surprised at the good fellowship displayed when Coates meets Tom Hefin or Ffnis Garrett or Claude Kitchin, or Ollie James, or Tom Sisson, or Bill Oldfeld. No man has a heartier greeting from these and such as these, the first day of a ses-
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ENUGENICs is great word, perhaps a little overworlSed. Literally 1t 0 means Improvement, and is spe- cifcalIy used of social progress and the welfare of the toiing masses, the rescue Of what MT. Charles Booth believe, called "the submerged tenth"
 And the idea is therefore a great idea, the goal one would think, most praise worthy. Nevertheless, we may admit that even such goal would be won at too great cost, if won at the cost of per- sonaI religion or by the surrender of church efficiency. It is a strange sus- picion, but precisely this suspicion haunts some excellent persons who fear for the ark of God and are prone to the rash ness of Uzzah, a venturesome man who, according to the second book of Samuel. had better have laid hold upon a thun- dertolt
 I lind the same suspicion impelling cer- tain English critics who try to discredit the soc oio-political enthusiasm of those Y hom they delight to call "dissenters." A "dissenter," be it observed, is a non-con- formst, a free churchman, a protestant against the Erastan theory of the state church. These critics point with some urhoiy glee to the record of losses in- stead Of gains in the membership re- turns of the free churches, and attribute them to the unwarrantable concentration of attention on social rather than re- 1igous ends.
 Even so able and so sympathetic friend Dr Peter Forsyth recognizes the peril of the situation, and with his customary blaze ol antithesis and paradox, tries to Show that religion whose chief word is the welfare of man is weak in comparison with the old and tried forms of faith, whose first emphasis is the glory of God.
 There is a sense in which this peril is real. I think it's chief danger, however, lies in the tendency of human beings to weary of so concrete and imminent task, to become disheartened at its vastness, it's
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Or Richardson of Tuscaloosa, the au thor of the following article, was for many years a professor at the University of Alabama. He is one of the eldest mem bers of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He was SS years old last month. but 1t will be seen that his mind is as vigorous as ever. Few men of letters in the prime of life write such virile English as Dr. Richardson.)
 A PROMINENT divine, writing some
 "A months ago in The Age-Herald, 4 A inquired, How could a benef- cent God have permitted the existence of evil in the universe?" A pregnant ques- tion-how?
 How could He have permitted the preci- pice, how the tornado, how the thunder bolt? Does the precipice mar the grandeur of the landscape? Does the tornado carry miasm on it's wings? Does the thunder bolt convey only destruction and death? The tornado has charge of the sanitation of the globe, and the lightning rips up the bags of rain to let fall fertility and fatness upon the land.
 God has not abdicated: God still sits On his throne and welds his sceptre. Why did He do an unwelcome an un- wise thing-why a wicked thing-why? The answer is, God does not permit the existence of evil God permits nothing. Permission Is concession, acq,;iescence. Permission is compromise, permission is sufferance permission condones, excuses, reprieves. If God permitted what He ap proved, He ordained If He permitted what He did not approve, He ceased to be God Whatever is here is here by d. vine appointment, so let us have done with permitted"
 f I do tryitbn would like to pry into Gods motives 1 would like to sift Him, to weigh Him, 10 measure Him. and think you He would object? He would be glad to have mo wiring His secrets from Him; He would be glad to have me wrestle with Him like Jacob for the truth; He would be glad 10 have me go through His works with ! lantern.
 God is an honest God. He seeks no
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against the rules, whereat the spaniel surled contentedy at the foot of the hard cot. And when Maggie Ryan got up and paced the room the dog marched solemly by her side.
 In the morning the woman divided the rough breakfast with the dog. He was hungry little fellow
 Maggie Ryan answered the questions of the judge with reckless bravado. scorning the loafer audience The dog stayed close The charge against Maggie was that of
 ID. and D."-drunk and disorderly.
 Eyes hard and cynical, mouth set in
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you emanating from the source they did, and all his sympathy was given to Terry in that tragedy, and he had nothing but charity for that extraordinary mans sub- sequent conduct and calamitous end.
 On this occasion MT. Hilborn deliv cred himself of a fancy something like this
 "When I contemplate mans inhuman- ity to man, the sefishness. corruption, deprayity of the human heart; when I see wicledness triumph and virtue over thrown, good men in diversity and bad men in prosperity, when I look at waste places and deserts, at savage beasts, ven omous reptiles, noxious insects, pestifer- ous plants and innumerabe other things, l am constrained to think that the good God is so busy with his countless other worlds greater. than ours that he has forgot us.'
 When the old man reached that cli- max I rolled off the sofa, on which l was reclining, in a fit of laughter something l should not have done, for he was perfectly. sincere. in his conceit as to this defect of Omniscience. And now when I contemplate Hepburn I am
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severe straight line-despite all this there fingered traces of a one time beauty.
 The spaniel crouched close to the wom- ans skirts.
 ''I will give you until tonight to get out of town" said the judge. He was kind hearted and had looked often al the little dog who advertised his love for the woman.
 The woman made mocklnS DOW, Wnlch took in the spectators.
 She started to go Where? Out of town How? If no better way. to Init the rails'' somewhere, anywhere, out of town.
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WY WASHINGTON, July 29-tSpecial.,
 A/ The United states Senate is six
 w score and two years old, and in all that time no member ever went to its front rank more rapidly than John shsrn Williams Though scarce warm in his seat. this very week he made Jo- senh Weldon Bailey, the senatorial bully from Texas, to see that he is mortal and inc next day or two MT. Williams Iassoed weldon Brinton Hepburn, the bloody shirt bully from Idaho, and caused him to see himself as others see him. Al this writing the Senate recognizes in the brilliant Mssissippian the first man in that body. He supports talent with character, and reinforces intellect with culture. Not since Ben Hill was gath cred to his fathers has the Senate seen such a giant of debate. Soon I intend to contrast Williams and Bailey, who are as different as an apple and a potato. Williams is full of enthuslasm Bailey Is only impetuous.
 As for Hepburn, he was turned inside out and set upside down by John Sharp, and the Senate, together with the rest of mankind, was delighted. Unless he
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ginning to know her she is good Queen Mary"
 sulien eyed, defiant, she swept into the police court. Her hair was awry ana her clothes rumpled.
 She had spent the night al the poilee station. and the toilet requisites at the station are not the best.
 little brown spaniel trotted at the woman's heels.
 Maggie Ryan had 'dozed on 4 cot in the matron's room. And the dog? Some thing in the woman's wistful face caused the matron to admit him, which was
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-08-05
HoUoHToN BREvITIEs.


e. A. Schanz of Lansing, Fred Tar
son OF Ann Arbor II. Steele oi New
York and j. l. Nellist of Grand Rapids
who have been acting as assistants To
state Mine Appraiser Findlay' WIN
leave for their homes i'm few days.
Mr. and Mrs q. ID. Fellows OF BIOS
ton, Mass. have arrived 10 spend a
month at the home OF their son. O. ID.
Fellows. Jr.. superintendent OF the
Baltic mill at Redridge.
The Double H." baseball team VIII
go TO Hubbell tomorrow 10 play a
match with the team of that place.
Mrs Mowatt arrived yesterday Tor
a visit with her daughter, Mrs j. {
Mann.
A son arrived yesterday at the home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. octave Corrier OF
Franklin street
Justice of the Peace Marion mas
sworn out warrant against Con-
tractor Wallace charging the latter
with blocking the streets without an
official permit Mr.. Wallace is engas-
Ell In moving dwelling house To make
room for new St Ignatius parochlai
school on Albion and Ripley streets.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-08-05
A DELUSIoN.

John Kirby, Jr., the president OF the
National Association of Manufacturers
was talking To a reporter nj the assoc
ciations recent convention in New
York. about certain tendencies OF mod
ern life.
These tendencies" said MIR, Kirby
smiling, "look very harmless now, but
that is only because we misunderstanding
them. They are, really. evil tenden-
cies. and in our indulgcnt outlook ON
them we are as deluded as a little
Dayton girl | know.
"She took up, one July morning, a
mun that was sadly mOth-eaten.
Moths, she said. are so nice. 1t
is So easy To feed them. They eat
nothing but holes
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-08-05
EXCURSION PROSPECTS.
Outlook for Proposed Trip to Detroit
Very BRIGHT.


Theo. T.. Quinby and G.. w McCor-
mick returned yesterday from Esca-
naba where they met w. Il. Davidson
OF the Son, Thornton A. Green Ontona-
gon, and A. T. Roberts of Marquette
and made final arrangements for the
trio to Detroit to be made early i'm
September says the Menominee- Herald
Leader
Mr.. Roberts. chairman of the com
mittee un arrangements, reported "A
lively interest throughout the upper
peninsula concerning the trip. He
states that the Copper Country, the
Iron Country and the section around
the 500 are responding splendidly and
that record crowd is expected
To show the interest taken by the
business men of the upper peninsula.
Mr.. Roberts cited that one member
who knew that he could not take the
trip, sent him a check for $50, not
withstanding. 81 would like very much
to 90" says this gentleman i'm his let
ter but because OF "A rush of business
4; will be impossible for me to do SO.
/ am heartily I'm favor of the trip. and
believe that IL viii do much toward
bringing the upper peninsula before
the world and causing closer relation
ship To- exist between the upper and
clubs in the various cities are doing
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-08-05
VITAL STATISTICS.
Sixty Three Deaths in Houghton
County During June.

According 10 the monthly bulletin of
vital statistics. there were CO deaths
in Houghton county during June and
1873 births. There were six deaths in
Keweenaw county and 80 births. The
death rate was considerably lower
than usual. only four of the deaths
in Houghton county were from m-
berculosis, while there were II violent
deaths reported. There were four
deaths from cancer.
There were 2.6Ol deaths reported to
the Department as having occurred i'm
the state during the month OF June.
This number corresponds 10 AN annual
death rate of Ill per 1000 estimated
population. A considerable decrease is
noted In the number of deaths In June
as compared with the month of May
BY ages there were 1872 deaths of in
tants under one year of age; I45
deaths Of children aged one TO four
years Inclusive; and 1872 deaths of ell
.derly persons aged 65 years, and over.
Important causes of death We're as
follows: tuberculosis Of lungs. 1874:
other forms of tuberculosis, 80; ty-
phoid fever, 80; diphtheria and Group,
l6; scarlet fever 13; measles, II;
whooping cough. %; pneumonia and
broncho- pneumonia. SO; diarrhea. en-
teritis, under two years of age 60:
meningitis, %: Influenza, 9; cancer,
1G5; violence, 227.
As compared with the month i'm
mediately preceding. a decrease is not
ed in the number OF deaths reported
from tuberculosis. typhoid fever, diph-
iberia. scarlet fever, measles pneu-
monia and influenza. A slight increase
is shown In the number returned for
whooping cough. enteritis, meningitis,
cancer and violence.
There We're 5,225 births returned TO
the Department as having occurred
during the month OF June. This cor
10 an annual birth rate of
1913 per 1000 estimated population. An
increase OF 225 Is noted in the humble.
Of births returned for June, as COM
pared with the month Of May.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-08-05
WE'RE ALL POLICE.

Mayor Gaynor. is one of those nu-
merous and brilliant letters that are
making his administration memorable.
told a New York man that every citi-
zen had right To arrest malefactors.
The mayor. commenting on this
statement at a banquet in Brooklyn,
said gravely:
THE public. anyway. always uncon-
sciously exercises a policing influence
on the community's morals. But 1t
does this not so much by running evil
doors I'm as by running them down."
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-08-05
phillips on MatrImony.

The late David Graham Phillips had,
like many bachelors, cynical view
of matrimony. Mr.. Phillips. at re
union of Princetons class of 81. at
the Princeton club, said of marriage:
THE Persians have a proverb that
every young man should consider well
before proposing. Ii runs: He that
ventureth on matrimony Is like unto
one who thrusteth his hand into a
sack containing many thousands OF
serpents and one eel. Yet, If the
prophet so will 1t, he may draw forth
the eel"
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-08-05
Houehton Department

dresses at the college Tuesday after
noon and dinner viii be served the
DISTINGUISHED guests and the college
alumni Tuesday evening, 10 be fol-
lowed by concert In which Hess and
Pasauali viii sing. George OTIS smith
George W. Perkins and Henry ;
Drinker viii speak ON Wednesday.
The governor and his staff, includ-
ing Major William ". oates, state
game. fish and fire warden, Will leave
Houghton on Tuesday ON the Yantic
for port Huron. where the governor
will visit the state military camp on
Thursday or Friday. reviewing all OF
the Michigan troops. infantry, caNal-
RS. signal and engineering and hos
pital corps and the artillery.
Great preparations for the enter
tainment and care of the visitors and
excursion trains viii be run into the
city from all parts of northern Michi-
ran and from Wisconsin and Duluth.
Following is the schedule of the
special train that viii leave Mar
ouette ON Tuesday for the benefit of
iron country people who desire TO at
tend the reunion:
Marquette, C A. NJ, Negaunee. GAO;
Ishpeming. ESQ. Humboldt, 1920;
Champion. 1880; Michigamme, 1915;
Nestoria, S o'clock. LAnse, $40; Bara-
ga. $50: Keweenaw Bay. 9:O5; Chas-
sell. $3.50. arriving at Houghton at
9:5O. Returning the train viii leave
Houghton at p. IN.
Many Boats Entered.
The committee i'm charge of the ar
rangements for the big marine parade
of motor boats to be held on Friday
evening next has already secured the
entries OF "a large number Of boats,
while acceptances of the invitation
are expected from practically every
owner Of "a boat on Portage Lake. In
vitatlons have been sent out 10 APP
one hundred boat owners OF
Houghton. Chassell and Dol
lar Bay and the prospects are that a
water spectacle Of magnificent proper
tions will be afforded. Fire eras and
for the boats viii De- pro-
vided for the committee, and uFo tugs
will be secured TO tow the lin Of craft
from the starting point TO the finish.
a meeting of the Copper Country
Mining College club has been called TO
take place this evening at the offices
Of Cay q Sturgis in the Douglas
House az half past seven o'clock This
viii b., the last meeting before the cell
ebrau.u and all students of the NJ.
e. NJ, graduates or nom graduates are
invited 10 attend. Arrangements have
been made by which all students may
register tonight FOR the reunion and
obtain the necessary tickets for the
speeches and excursions.
Song books will be- distributed and the
informs will be ON hand and may be
obtained by students.
The seat sale FOR the concert 10 he
.iven on Tuesday and Wednesday
vening in the tent on the college
opened today at Cox's book /
tore and a large number of tickets
ave been disposed. of giving promise
( a most successful engagement OF |
.eslie Hess ana Mime Pasquali.