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few prominint polytical surgeons cum round to hold post-motem ovver his remains, Teddy was sum phase else "startting sumthng." Who knows but what Wsltur can do that? The laten pos sibilties of a. polytsan and Missouri mule air always unknown quantities.
 Enny how they can Mock all they want to but in our Judgemint Waltur D. Seed was elected purely on form 1t was not in error: it was not a mistake or careless ness, and it was sertainly grate com plimint to him presumably, for his posi- tion as favuring the Amindmint was well known, and since the Amindmint was the goat that the voters weer gunning for, and they took grate pains to jab evvery thing and evvery body that favured 1t, in the slats, exsept Waltur, they must have had a spesial reesun for voting for Wal tur and that reesun must have been ably put befour them by Waltur himself. The uther side say that Waltur got there be- cause his name appeared next to O'Neal's on the ballot, and that the two main "Guys" in the fite weer all the peepul paid enny attension to, but that's all rot you can't tell me the peepul of the statc air that far off the base I know it takes a Loly-pa-thu-sa to take an Austraylian ballot 17x26 with enough names on il to start a riot and pick out the simon pure" rum Governor down to Cunstibui of beet 47, and get back to home and muther in time for supper without dam age to his feelding average, but they do 1t all rite, there ant one man in a thousand that don't vote for his man frum one end of the map to the uther.
 waltur got elected because he has winning way and he may have to be vvitb cOpfAstS in the state.
 Well Waltur is a mise fellow, and he smiles all the time, and that helps sum, and if it should so happen that this Lew tinint Governor job was moor than he can carry. and he gets hooked out in the last inning, he'll make a crack-er- jack president or sumthing for a insur- arse Company. Yours trooly,
 Bill Vines.
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Baptists would seem to be happier this year in Philadelphia, at the Pan-Baptist Congress, than at Westminster. Never theless pr. Jowett, radical and Anglo America, goes back and Is favored with d specially selected seat for himself in the Abbey, not including one for his wife, however, in that array of the elect. I hope he would decline such an invitation if it came to sitting without her, even in the seats of the blessed hereafter, where however, there Is no danger of such separation F or Dr. Jowett is an anti ti-State-churchman, modernist, a radical. as I said, and a fervent Protest ant. What interests me in this corona ton fever is that usage, tradition, an cient customs, privileges, quaint revivals of lapsed formalities, phrases, costumes, precedences. and what not-all these avail to wash away Dr. Jowett's radical ism and the sturdy Cromwellian ideas of Dr. Brown. Other radicals by the thou sands, or the myriads, will have crowded longingly at the Abbey doors. shouted, God save the King" and felt sym pathetic Jumps rise in their Adams ap- ples, to see the principalities and the powers march past. Even we on this side of the Atlantic, democrats, republi- cans Canadian advocates of high tariff or of reciprocity, nationalists and social ists. smile a sympathetic smile towards the Westminster durbar, the religio-polit- ico-commercial Pageant of Decorative Despotism..
 But we are by no means consistent herein, any more than the gentlemen above named are consistent, who argue and work for the disestablishment of the church most of the time, and give the case away for the sake of a seat at the pageant on coronation day. For they
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torically inevitable that this experiment should be made. When the ministers of the church nearly monopolized the learn ing of Europe it was natural that they should become the statesmen, the mag
 istrates, the secret or confessed directors
 of national law and policy, the power behind the throne" With the Emperor
 as Pontifex Maxims, 1t was natural
 development that his spiritual successors
 should be imperial princes of the
 church." The old Roman Paganism,
 with its worship of the Emperor, was an all-pervading influence on the middle ages Christianity used that influence, adapted itself here and there to that
 polity, and found itself making northern
 Europe Christian rather by conversion Of the political leaders to a system than by conversion of the hearts of the people to God The so-called reformaton was never wholly logical in this direction It left Emperor and King as spiritually head or the nation, part of whose business It was to order the clergy to their duty. When
 Roger Williams went to Rhode Island to establish a colony wherein church and tsate should be forever separated. he
 was logically the terminal point of the
 Protestant movement. But he could not work the logic absolutely, and to this
 day the chief city of the little state IS named Providence, very busy confess
 sion that God and the community are es- sentially related. Did any other com monwealth- maker come nearer the ulti- mate truth than Roger Williams?
 Get rid of the church as close cor poration, as a denomination, or sect as legislator concerning creeds and disputa-
 ble matters of holy days. as dogmatic dictator of laws and duties; would there then be a chance to unite 1t with the state? Are we not indeed actually attain
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A cHBIsHoP DAVIDSON, anofnt-
 "A ing King George the Fifth, De- 4 A fender of the Faith, Emperor of India, etc, etc, etc, is a beautiful eX- ample of mediaevalism and modernism, democracy and hereditary right, sweet reasonableness and tyrannical tradition gospel and law, all muddled, mixed, and moulded to make clay images for the iconoclasts to break There's a passage in the gospels, the great classic battle ground of the theorists in ecclesiasticism, which ought to be quoted in every in- scription, every oration, every memorial volume of the coronation: Thou art Peter and on this rock will I build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it; and I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and what thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven"
 Certainly nothing Is further from my purpose than entering that arena and taking up the old polemical battle-axe and sword. History Is doing what the disputants could not do, making the air clear, so that one can see the boundaries of the discussion. Tn the light of history King Georges coronation and the com mission of the Apostle Peter are very interesting correlated facts. We talk of separating church and state. The corona ton of the king, however, is clearly church function. But my old fellow stu dent, Dr. Charles Brown. London Baptist pastor, now president of the Free Church Council, was officially invited and proba- bly, attended the function, though the Free churches are banded in a political purpose to separate church and state. Sturdy radicals like the English
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whether he wakes or sleeps. Doing these things, he will be all the happier even
 if he shall not be classed with the rich.
 !, Are you saving any money" Is a question l often ask men. asked the question of a furnace hand. The answer was, Times are so hard that I can't
 save,' and the alcohol on his breath was fierce. He could purchase all that
 he wanted to drink, yet could not make deposit in bank of a dollar a week.
 l asked the same question of a young man He said, T am saving something
 every week booze is cut out from my
 life and society as we'll I'm living plain
 y, but I am laying up something for the future.4 I asked a young shop woman
 what salary she got. She told me. I
 said You ought to be saving some
 thing" She replied: T saving some thing. I make my regular deposits In bank and when a certain amount is en-
 tered to my credit I buy a share in
 blank company I have a number of
 shares now, the interest of which re- 1 deposit One person answered my ques-
 ton by saying: When I get out of debt
 I hope to save" o. that terrible monster
 debt l know that sometimes it cannot
 be avoided. But when It can be. in the
 name of all that is good. avoid it. It cripples endeavor. It is suggestive of dis honesty It breeds despair It makes life a constant burden. Pay as you go, and if you cannot do this, don't go at all. Wear the old clothes a little while vet. rather than wear the suit that be- longs to the clothier down town. Remen1-
 Der that it is not dishonest to be plainly dressed. But 1t Is misery to be in debt.
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know and we know that King George IS no more "Defender of the Faith than he is defender of this republic. Their theories and ours are stalled in the pres ence of an archbishop acting as national high priest and amounting the hereditary king to be, in Gods name, the elected monarch of the English folk. The whole proceeding Is a mixed and monstrous thing. neither democratic nor aristocratic, nor autocratic, and therefore characteris- tically English, like the unwritten and quite unwritable Constitution of Great Britain
 The greatest inconsistency involved is the confusion inherent, however, In our American life as deeply as in English in stitutions that Is to say, the confusion between the church and the Kingdom, between things cumulative and things organic, between voluntary individual ism and the community as regulative fact How be a Christian country and yet divide state from church? Is the state a religious fact or only socially resulative convenience? We say that in America church and state are separated. But if so, how comes it that every or dained minister is empowered and au- thorized to perform marriages, and that his certificate is filed as legal docu- ment? And how comes it that the Bible is read and expounded in schools, pray CTS made in state and federal legislatures, and the legend, Tn God we trust" put on every dollar we use? MI sine nu- mine" says the shield of Colorado. nothing without divine aid" So that, after expelling the Bible from the schools, Colorado still waves her flag and wears her shield and stamps every document with her confession that in all these things she is illogically stumbling among
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MURDOCK-By Savoyard

he would have made success on the histrionic stage. Strength, health. en- ergy, industry. persistence. bright mind, joyous heart, a laughing face are his, and there is no sort of doubt among those who have met him that on The stage he would have been the equal of that other Murdock of whom the world has heard so much
 Victor was of a literary turn. Of course as chap he read his share of all the trash the others of us read in youth; but fortunately his father had gathered an admirable library in which were numerous English classics, espe- cialiy sterling fiction These the boy de- voured, and they were of immense ben eft to him in his subsequent career.
 Al 19 young Murdock became a re- porter on a Chicago daily and here he turned his hand to all sorts of jobs assigned him by the despot in author ity He became frst-class political reporter and was sent to Ohio to re- late the story of McKinleys first cam paiga for governor which everybody knew was a skirmish preceding a fu- ture presidential struggle and subse- quently he was of the very elite of the
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engage in the war for what they called
 1iberty" was a Virginian, Marshall M. Murdock, and he was the father of Yic- tor Murdock, the present congressman, so conspicuous in the ranks of the in- surgents,' who are become such a viriie force in political life in the last few years.
 Victor Murdock was born in a repub- lican community at Burlingame. Kas., in 1871. The next year his father set out for the frontier to build a city and halted at Wichita. where then dwelt Indians and buffalo. the one soon to give way to the cowboy and the other to be supplanted by the shorthorn He was a printer and an editor-this man Maj shall Murdock-and he became the father of Wichita, where with a peck of type and a Washington hand press The started a newspaper and called it the Eagle" He vas the stuff of which your real journalist is made. He be- lieved some things and made no secret of it. l have not the slightest doubt thai politically speaking he was tre- mendously wron 3. but there was noth : ing of the shilly shally about him, and the public loves to support such
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to Kansas if John James 1ngalls had seen the storm coming with the clear foresight of Preston B. Plumb. Woulo that remarkable Yankee have met it., combated it, and stiled it, or would he, as certainly Plumb intended to do, have surrendered to it, got control of it and directed 1t? When it was too late 1n- gals made the wonderful and falacious speech on silver: ''The Image and Super scription of Caesar" Another casting anchor to windward by this wizard or the tongue was that no less remarkable production, Fiat Justitia;'' but Kansas was going to school to 'con' Harvey and her most brilliant son found himself statesman without job.
 Kansas is mostly New England Puri- tan and was born of revolution, strife and blood when Border aRoughian and Jayhawker were face to face to settle by the sword what Congress could not tranquillze by statesmanship, nor the su- preme court compose by law. The com promise of 50 deferred the great war, the Dred Scott decision precipitated it., and it's first blood was shed in Kansas. Among those who went to Kansas to
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x XISTUR EDDITUR: Sum folks
 MI say that Waltur D. Seed got to be
 M Lewtenint Governor on a error.
 They say that Perry Thomas simply had
 a bad day, and waltur rompted home
 with the bacum, and had the job nailed
 down befour enny body got wise, which
 was, to tell the truth, sum grate surprise
 to Waltur as well as a lot of uther folks.
 Error or no error Waltur landed and
 strateway grded up his loins and pro-
 ceeded down to Muntgummery to engage
 in gliding the destiny, as presiding offiser of the esteamed senate-as gider or des- tiny we must admit there is sertainly s,m class to Waltur, and if asked about if he would blushingly acknowledge that he stands without a peer-maybe its with out a. pair. he's standing with, but ennyi how that's not essensial, he's husky glider all rite and can, rule on a point or order without consulting Dunn and Brad street on parlormentery law, and do IL without a moments heSltatlon-lno the onnosition may raise up and bark. ana charge that he's a Bum ruler, we don I.beleave that There weer sevVerai risihs yung statesmen in the senate who useu evvery trick known to the trace 10 ,rat'ei him and make him look foonsh, put Waltur gave them the frozen fase' ana continued to sit quietly on the lid. It was a strenuous crowd too in a way that Waltur was up against-there was that yung giant in debate, and 'Wlllum Jen- nings' in elerquence, Senater SkreWs or Muntgummery, who when he turned on the loud pedal went like the whistle on peenut parcher, who tryed to make IL as
 cumfertabul and plesent for Waltur as mise new boil on the back of your neck but in spite of all this and much moor Waltur came out of the ordeel with hls banner floating bravely much to the ad-
 mirasion and gratifycasion of his menny trends.
 Alabama has not indulged in the luxury of a Lewtenint Governor verry long. l believe we have had only three so far,
 but in the cases alreddy tryed out the
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iob has not proven to be that stepping stone to "sumthing higher up that sum folks fingered it would be-on the tuner hand it looks kinder like a phase to be used in emerginsy to side track a flavor ite sum- who mite otherwise give truble- take, for insints our esteemed and valued frend Doctor Rustic M. Cunningham-that is, take him if you can find him-he was Lewtenint Governor with a loud splash and the Doctor was certainly shining lite too in every old phase he was per mitted to shine-as a speel-binder the Doctors reputasion could not be dimmed
 by the best of them. and it equalled if 1t did not exceed his fame as distributor of pills-the big truble with the Doctor was he was a little slow on the bases
 and did not grab a signal promptly. But the Doctor was actually Governor by cur tesy for while and in spite the grate advantage this gave him, and in spite or his recognised ablity-in spite of all ms veggerous efforts the Doctor famed out, and it was anuther case of Casey at the bat, and he drifted out of fast Company, and where he, is today-we wot not. Then there is MT. Gray-he had polyticai ambisions too we air told, but, if so he has learned to subdew his passions. or keep them carefully consealed and is con- tinting himself with bizness career. But sumhowy we feel that 1t mite be different with Watur, we don't say 1t will. but that it mite be--we have a hunch sum how that Waltur will prove the exception to the rule-you know that Waltur is frum. Tuscaloosa, and Tuscaloosa con tains grate menny exceptions to the rule, and it is barely possibul that Wal tur is one of them. You know that a sertain prominent citizen of this Land of the free and home of the Brave cheers and drink all round-named Teddy was at one time muzzled, sur pressed, and tied to the post and pre- sented hyperdurmickly with the job of Vice Presidint, by his menny admring and luving enemies, but he didn't stay that way, so as you could tell it; little handicap like that was mo taters' with Teddy, he simply carved the load and broke all previus records and when a
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the slme-pits Of dogmatic doubt, near the borders of the Dead Sea.
 England is wrestling with the problem how to keep the schools religious, moral fervently pure, while freeing themfi from all interference by the church authority pr. Clifford suffers his furniture to be sold at auction to make enforced pay ment of a tax which binds the national school system to the Episcopal denom- nation. His published conviction is that it is the business of the state to conduct the schools, the business of the church to teach religion. In Australia they have evolved a plan for all churches to possess certain rights over certain hours of the school week, and to use them Tor definite moral and religious instruction And so they confess that there Is nec- essary connection between the church and the state, just as Colorado con fesses 1t, and so they contrive a plan for regarding all denominations as "the church."
 Of course, our good friends Brown and Jowett, and perhaps Archbishop David son himself, would ultimately justify their presence at the coronation pageant on this broad ground, that some connec- tion is necessary between the church and the state, meaning by the church, not denomination, but the religious concep- ton of life. So President Taft confesses that our American activities on the canal include religious provisions of various kinds, because religion is human neces- sity, therefore national necessity too. Hitherto. however, the experiments in this direction have been generally marred through the centuries by a narrow eccle- siasticism, the attempt to dictate creed, the hope of identifying the nation with certain type of church rule. It was his-
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"HE poet calls life a 'crystal palace"
 which is a fine figure. You can fill ! chalice or bowl to the brm with . liquid. Then to make an overflow you drop something into the liquid. The over flow is as large as that which you put into the bowl. So is human life
 The Lord of life has filled your earthly vessel to the brim. The chaliee holds your life. If you want life "more abund- antly' you must put something into the vessel It must overflow. And what you get in overflow is measured by what you put in. For instance
 If you put love into the, chalce your life will overflow in loveliness. If you put hatred into your cup 1t will overflow in hatred. If you put Into it sin you will overflow in sinfulness. In other words, you cannot get more out of your cup of . mortal life than you put into it. You may get less: you cannot get more. a
 harsh law? On the contrary, it Is a gracious one. It puts the powers of the universe into your humble hands. It commissions you lord of your destiny. You make what you will of yourself. You measure out to yourself your happiness or unhappiness.
 You get what you give.
 Moreover. the figure holds in this: The chalice is crystal transparent. You can sec the process going on within the lives of others. You can see men and women putting into the cup of their lives love or hatred or envy or bitterness, and you can see the overflow in kind
 And you?f
 What are you putting in-money? Then the overflow will be merely money, noth- ing more Certainly you would not ex- pect to get an overflow of happiness It Is contrary to the law. Besides
 If you keep on putting in merely money you will get not only the overflow, but you will by and by fill up the precious chalice. and there shall be no room for aught ,eIse but money.
 And then
 Some day Death will come with bis hammer and break your frail bowl of life and shatter it into fragments And ''all you can hold in your dead cold hand 's what you have given away"-what you have put into the chalice
 Here is the cup
 What will you put in?
 The torture of the inquisition is not entirely of the past, The modern rack is the dental surgeons chair and apout the only difference between that char and the chair of the Spanish inquisi- tion is in the upholstering.
 You go to yoyr dentist for an exam ination or cleaning of your teeth. That dentist may he very dear friend, but in his torture chamber he becomes your dearest foe.
 "Ha! What have we here?' Thus the inquisitor. Two filings? We must have another Appointment. How would tomorrow at o'clock suit you?'