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The morning news. (Estancia, N.M.) 1911-1912, 1911-08-17

President Tatt's veto mes
sage explaining his reasons for
Disappearing the Flood state
hood resolution is a strong
document. From the stand
point of the opposition to the
recall for judges and as ex-
pressing Mr.. Taft's we'll known
convictions, the message is
straight from the shoulder and
does not minCe words.
AS it initiates to keep out
two territories, half ID million
am bilious Americans eager to
enjoy the blessings Of state
government, the presidents
veto is unfair and does not dl>.
play st teSmanShjp of a high
order. 70 further emphasize
convictions which all the coun
try knew he held, the presi
dent has blocked the way of
the two lew states and has
done the grsyest Injustice to
their citizens. His actioa is in
contrast to that of Il large
number of senators holding
convictions equally as Sturdy |
and deep rooted as the pre8l- !
dent, but who have been bi2
enough and broad enough t..
subordinate their opinions to
Ghe rights If Il sovereign state.
If the house Of representa-
tives by almost unanimous
vote and he senate, by two
thirds, holds that he national
government cannot dictate to
a state, the opinion Of he
United States congress should F..
carry Just rs much weight -.
the opinion Of Wi,iun H
nv FL I'll
The morning news. (Estancia, N.M.) 1911-1912, 1911-08-17

The local W c. t. U. met on
Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. A.
A. Hpuo, north Of town. with a
goodly number present A pleas
ant and profitable afternoon was
spent la planning and discussing
the work Of the Union. 1t was
decided to give a Japanese Tea
at the Park on the evening Of
Tuesday, August 20, Of which
auoir particulars viii be given
IaDer Details were arranged for
the Silver Medal Contest to be
given Ell next Monday night al
tae Methodist Church, wherein
half a dozen young ladies will be
the contestants Just after adj
journment the hostess served ice
cream and cake to the Bvisiting
ladies, which was enjoyed by all,
The morning news. (Estancia, N.M.) 1911-1912, 1911-08-17

Read the News and you get al
the county news
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
, TWIN YEARS-By J. C. Hidden, D. D

You may be poor in worldly possessions, and yet stand behind the man who has them. and so influence him to use his possessions for the relief and benefaction of humanity. physically, mentally and spiritually.
 Have you brought aught against your brother from 1910 into 1911? Search your heart and cast out all resentment, and all hatred and vengeance. Do not de- ceive yourself by saying. He has done me an injury" When Peter said to Je-' sus. Lord how oft shall my brother sin against me, and forgive him? Till seven times?' Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, until seven times; but until seventy times seven"
 It is only by that light which comes through the grace of God that we can see that which dwells within us. Alone, unaided. we walk blindly. looking to our own selves for help, which Is only second to that of the father of lies. De Lisle, fleeing through the wild passes of the Alps, hears the song of his soul. the Marseillais. Sounding in his ears; knows his own inspiration of terror, but not its name. So with us. there is a spectre which haunts us in our moments of hatred and revenge, and though we may rot know 1t, its name Is sin. Let us fec from it. and strive by the help of God, to make our hearts receptacle for the repose of love, confidence and sympathy. God bless you my friends. and make you useful and happy through the new year.
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weak points of character are presented to our observation, let us not take pleas- ure in making them aware of our disap- pointment in them. We will not compro- mise with sin; but let us feel humbled ourselves, when we see the power of sin over our fellow men-knowing that our own weak natures are often cramped in their better and higher aspirations. by this same hideous enemy of man. Let us try and think kindly of, and believe in our fellow mortals. Give them the true, warm. helpful grasp of your hand, and the sympathetic commission of your soul, and in this way. when we meet despon- dent men and women wrestling with sin. we may be able to help them onward to a higher, purer life. Sometimes word with the slightest ring of irony, or a smile tinged with contempt, may destroy many noble resolutions, won from hard fought battles with the tempter. A cheer full word, an encouraging smile will often create a slimmering hope in the heart of some downcast brother or sister, and give him, or her, strength and courage ns a basis on which to build a character of high moral rectitude. widening the stakes for the good of man and the glory of God.
 Every human being has an influence for good or evil in this world. Let us not estimate this influence by the visible ef- feet of our actions and opinions upon those with whom we are thrown, either intimately or incidently.
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JAMES OF KENTUCKY-By Savoyard

rifle and Purchase, that did not delight to hear him, even when he had not yet fulfilled his sixth lustrum in the jour ney from the cradle to the grave. Twice J. c. W. Beckham was the democratic nominee for governor of Kentucky. The committee drafted James to go with him oyer the state and men who yet remembered Beverly l.. Clark, John c. Breckenridge, John Young Brown, John M. Harlan, homas F. Bramlette, Frank Wolford, George Alfred Caldwell, Aaron Harding and others such as Roger Han son and William H. Wadsworth, de- clared they had never seen the pop uace moved as Ollie moved them those two campaigns, and to this day he can draw larger crowds than any other man in the old commonwealth and wherever he addresses them there IS not even standing room in the hall.
 Perhaps 1t is because he is what that kindred spirit, the Little Giant" of Illinois, the idol of the young man, though there is nothing little about Oliie who Is a giant in hundred ways, that makes Ollie so popular in Ken lucky Douglass was a small man phys ically and the chief difference between
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guest. He had that quality we call, for lack of a better term, individuality" and he was a power in the land. "Oid Ben" Harding had it. Henry Watterson has it. I might call 1t the twin brother of magnetism, and the two are foster brothers of genius.
 We'll, Ollie James has got that 'fn- dividuality,, and it would be absolutely impossible for Ollie to be a cipher in any company he got into. If he were a senator in Congress, he would be just as conspicuous as he Is as a representative in Congress. Men are drawn to him by a fellowship that is my stery and that is a gift of God that makes the man poten- tial and conspicuous whether he will CT no.
 James first speech in Congress reminds me of the first speech of Stephen A. Douglas. The Little Giant pleaded for Andrew Jackson and from that day MT. Douglas was leader of his party. The Big Giant" excoriated the governor of Indiana for refusing to honor the requis- ition of the governor of Kentucky asking for the extradition of those accused of the murder of William Goebel. From my viewpoint the Hoosier governor was with
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in part to the plantation abilities, which in negro hands would naturally tend to excess.
 But, in any event, why the fireworks for the feast of the Nativity? Are they really of American origin? Did they per haps originate in England and receive an American interpretation which cost more than 1t was worth? For the matter of that, why fireworks on the Fourth of July? Were those patriotic explosions and essential of the National Birthday? It will be admitted that neither on the Fourth of July, when children are quite commonly sacrificed to the God of Noise, nor at Christmas, when we are spectators of the Manager in flames, is there any essential need of the pyrotechnics. What then? The need is in the Boy. The Yule-log. was once a bonfire. Why not burn sul- phur and nitre at the same time? It will make happy the ubiquitous Boy! And why not, since we blew the English into smithereens and made ourselves free on the Fourth of July, why not, I say, blow up ourselves on every succeeding Fourth, honoris causa, as the colleges put it?
 But there was a very real historical cause at work along with the boy. On November 5, 1905. one Guido or Guy Hawkes. essayed to abolish the house of lords the commons and the king In one supremely dramatic earthquake, to be promoted by gunpowder. The discovery of the plot and the execution of the con- ..;,,o+ Er. 1~+, ,,,,{t fr., ligious zeal; and so the Protestant pop ulace of England acquired the annual habit of burning Guy Hawkes. in effigy, and blowing him to pieces with gunpow der, 'hoist with his own petard," so to speak. The English boy took to this custom with amazing joy. He went about among the kings loyal subjects every year, collecting money for squibs
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fishness, the harshness, the bitterness and the unworthwy tastes and dispositions of the former years now crystalized in the characters of the aged. With this thought Oliver Goldsmith makes his Sir Philip Mordaunt say, ''If life in youth be so dis pleasing, what will it appear when age comes on? It at present 1t appear indif- ferent, surely then 1t will be execrable." His life was bitter, sunless and full of dissatisfaction, although he possessed riches and royal favor. Unwilling to convert his unhappy life In youth. he saw nothing before him but an old age of winters deariness; therefore, he pre- vented the approach of age by blowing his brains out. Now is the life to pre- pare the character for an old age of serenity and gladness.
 Even the reverses of the younger years of life may be made contributary to loveiness in age, as may the unworthy experiences of the past, if all these be forsaken and their opposites be permitted to glorify the life. Gray hair sthen be- comes a crown of glory. Dickens has 
 is called Dombey and Son. Everybody knows the selfishness of Mr. Dombey. his love of money and how he sacrificed all the gentler qualities of his soul to gain it, and that even the happiness of his home was shattered by his determina- ton to make money and to think of noth ing else. One of the unloveliest of men, hard hearted and cold, was this Dombey. But one sorrow after another came into his life, one loss after another befell him; and what nothing else could have done for him. diversity at last did; and when Dickens describes Donbey in his old age we read: MT. Dombey is a white haired gentleman, whose face bears heavy marks of care and suffering; but they are traces of a storm that has passed on forever and left clear even- ing in its track. Ambitious projects trou- ble him no more. His only pride is in his daughter and her husband
 The saddest thing in life, I think, is an aged man without any thought or hope
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in his rights and he set no precedent, but Ollie put the case so strongly, with such ingenuity. and with so forceful logic. that he was that day automatically initi- ated into the very aristocraey of Con- gress, a place he has held ever since. Hence his selection by the minority as a member of the committee to investigate Ballinger at the accusation of the in- surgents.
 In melee, such as the House fre- cuently makes exhibitions of, Ollie James is Ajax. Napoleon said on the momentous occasion of the eighteenth Brumaire that he would have given mil lions to have Ney at his side. Ollie is the Ney of his party in the House, and he is more, for even the republicans love that great big heart.
 As I was saying, MT. James is prodigal- ly endowed with that attribute of indi- viduality that is as mysterious as imag- inaton, and only a genius is fitted with it. It comes in many guises and it came to Ollie with smiles, with both hands full, and stamped upon his brow in et- ters of light: "This man was made for public life"
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not the young a reverence for age? Is not the most comfortable chair placed in the snuggest corner near the f1reside for the aged father or mother? Do not loving hands minister to them in these the days of their inflrmities? And, while there has been much of sadness in the past has there not also been much of gladness?
 How beautiful the sentiment of Dean Stanley, uttered with his face turned to the western skies and while yet awaiting the opening of the gates of pearl: Our company before is gone. The kinsfolk and friends of many years are passed ever the dark river, and we are left alone with God. We know not in the shadow of the night who it is that touches us; we only feel that the everlasting arms are closing us in. The morning breaks we are bid to depart In peace; for, by strength not our own, we have prevailed and the path is made clear be- fore us.'
 Mrs. Lydia Sigourney was one of the most accomplished and distinguished women that America ever gave to the world of letters. She left 56 volumes of poetry, travels, letters and biography. Many thousands have been enriched by her intellectual labors. She was 76 years old when she died. Just before her death she said, "A beautiful life I have had. Not one trial more than was good for me- Countless blessings beyond expectation Or desert. Behind me stretch the green pastures and the still waters. by which have been led all my days. Around me is the lingering of hardy flowers and flowers and fruits that abide the winter. Before me stretches the shining shore"
 Old age is often characterized by a cer- tain quality of fretfulness, peevishness and suspicion. Much of this is due to physical inflrnities. It cannot always be argued away. It must be borne with loving patience, for there was time when our fretfulness and general i'll temper was treated with tender forbear- ance by those who have practically now become children to be cared for by us. But sometimes an unlovely old age is tho sequel to an unlovely young age; and what Is more pitiful than to sec the sell
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is history that Samuel J. Tilden
 certainly the wisest and perhaps 4 the greatest of the democratic Faith our country has produced since Thomas Jefferson, was a party in tine councils of the Albany Agency and an adviser of such consummate politi- clans as Martin Van Buren, Silas Wright, John Flagg, and the others. when the boy Tilden was yet In his middle teens. We are sure that so splendid man as William Cullen Bryant listened to him even earlier. Perhaps in all our history we could not produce another case of such obstinate prccocity.
 In Kentucky We are famous for 1t. John M. Harlan was on the stump at 20. So was John Young Brown, as were W. c. P. Breckenridge and Thomas M. Green. There was another. I am from that part of Barren county that is now Metcalf and I am glad that opposed the new county" though then a lad scarce above a dozen summers ---it is tradition in Barren co,anty to this day that Young Chris" Toinp- kins, son of the old lion who met and grappled with Elijah Hise himself, per
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s RELAPSE-By George Eaves, D. D.

customs associated with the winter sol stice, when the days begin to lengthen. were wrought into the form of feast of the Nativity. The people were taught to sing carols. The tree worship of northern Europe was laid under contribution and the Christmas tree was evolved, in which poetic souls could find some resemblance to the Tree of Life, which bears 12 man her of fruits. It is easy to see that all this is but form of the Pagan New Year festivals, which may be still found in their original glory in Eastern Asia. But it is equally easy to admit that in adapt ing all the pnummeries of the Latin and German feasts, there was kept in view the honest attempt to make them carry some Christian lesson.
 Now I further suppose that in these days we are under no obligation to de- fend the procedure of good men simply on the ground that they were earnest servants of the church. On all hands it iss lamentably evident that good men make bad mistakes, and 1t may be that even from the first this was as Scotland Stll lnl1kS, d very SiedI HiiSldhe' Heeu- lessly wedding the Pagan usage with the Christian story. I am not debating that question. It is more interesting just now to ask: But how could these Anglo Saxon states, the most purely English of all sections of America, revert not mere ly to an English Christmas, but to a more organized form of the festival than ob- tained in the England from which the forefathers came? Will someone, learned in the usages of a hundred years ago, tell us whether cowbells and confetti, horns and bowling, were at that time consid cred befitting on an Alabama Christina, eve? Up to the present I am led to the conclusion that these are developments of more recent origin; that they have come slowly in the wake of the fire works. They may, no doubt, be traced
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and Roman candles and rockets and crackers. He begged barrels and brush wood from shopkeeper and farmer. For weeks before the 5th he toiled in feverish activity to amass a bonfire and a Guy that should surpass all the efforts of other years. '5st
 Remember that this arose 15 years be- fore the Mayflower brought to America the first pilgrims. Though these men were hardly in love with the Stuart kings, the waves of immigration that followed them and distributed themselves for two centuries, along the whole coast and in- terior, had no reason to forget the joys Of boyhood and the interests of November 5. The Revolution not unnaturally changed the date; but it could not erad- icate the lust for noise. And so in the north it went most vndictively to July 4. Did 1t in the south, attach itself to the bonfire of the Yule log? think it did. For the boy is always with us. And he dearly loves a bang. When once he had the right to bang the cracker he at once proceeded to reinstate the other signs of temporary license.
 Whatever may be thought of the evo- lution here traced, its aesthetic and spir- itual fitness leaves much to be desired. venture to suggest that the time has come for the absolute inhibition of that deadly weapon, the toy pistol which shoots blank cartridges. It is being cut out of northern cities, and a noiseless Fourth is being nourished. That pistoI causes a large death roll by lockjaw. On hygienc grounds alone the city should confiscate all stocks of that cruel little weapon. It Is not fit that we give chil- dren money to kill themselves.
 Then again the Sunday schools could do much to show all children in their reach the strangeness, the unfitness of trying to honor the Christ Child with
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him and Ollie is that the Kentuckian is herculean physically. James can al ways be dependen on to enter the lists. a champion of democracy. eager to meet all corners, for the man believes something and what he believes he wears on his sleeve so that all the world can read. Tn behalf of the dem ocratio party he would fetch water from he'll" if may quote Balzac, and I make no doubt that, young as he is in years. he has done more campaign ing in Kentucky than any other living man.
 It was inevitable that James would "get to Congress- The surprise was that he was not chosen as the repre- sentative of the Gibraltar district earl fer Long before he was of the reoui- site constitutional age men of influence had their eyes on him and they deter mined to make him successor of Lynn Boyd and Henry c. Burnett.
 When Ollie James got here he was all ready heralded. He had a national repu- tation. He was the happiest of combina- tions-a public man who was also inter esting. I remember "Old Jim' Bates, my fathers friend and 1000 times my fathers
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fhaps the most gigantic intellect the Mississippi valley ever saw-it is tra- dition there that young Chris Tomp- <ins who died ere he was 30, was the ahlest and most brilliant man even Kentucky ever produced.
 Ollie James Is another precocious chap. Long before he was a voter he was stump speaker. And it was in Kentucky that the term originated. But Ollie is more than stump speaker. How does it go. the sarcasm with which Junius blistered Lord Lough borough:
 "The wary Wedderburn, the pompous Suffolk, never threw away the scab- bard, nor ever went upon forlorn hope"
 Not so Ollie James. He shines best when like Fitz James he says: Come one, comes all, this rock shall
 fly
 From its firm base ass soon as l."
 Thus MT. James was a marked man ere he shed his youthhood and emerged into early manhood. and few are the constituencies of Kentucky, mountain, redbud, blue grass, bear grass, penny
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whnse sign was the wooden Midship- man." In former years this sign had led many purchaser to Mir. Gills' shop; but now he is old and "behind the times" |" Other shops handling his wares have and handy" young men. MT. Gills oc- equation is gone. for he cannot keep up with the times, he is too old.
 It can but be pathetic to aged men to awake to the consciousness that others now must take their places in the pro- gress of human affairs and that they themselves must step aside, while the quick tide of busy life sweeps on; that they are displaced in the counting room, at the bar, in the medical profession, in the ministry, and in the countless voca- tions of men. The world wants young men. A mans experience, his years of observation, and his long life among con ditions that have really made him an ex- pert, count for nothing. we want young man, a man who keeps up with the times, sprightly. quick, active young fellow up-to-date," thus speaks the world of progress. Therefore, men fight against the inevitable fact that every new year emphasizes, and try to hide the infirmi- ties and weakness that attend old age. The man of 65 will say "I feel as I did at N;'' T can do as much work now as could 20 years ago" But he is deceived, I think, and it would require a strong argument to convince others that he is not. However. some men, with marvel lous success. have withstood for a while the invasions of old age. as Cicero wit nesses. Plato toiled on his philosophy up to his eighty-1rst year, then death came. Isocrates did his best work at s4 Leon tinus pursued his literary labors up to his one hundred and seventh year.
 Long fellow recites that
 Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophoclcs Wrote his grand Aedopus. and Simonodcs Bore off the prize of verse from his conl-
 peers,
 When each had numbered more than four
 score years.
 And Theophrastus at fourscore and ten Fff.d but begun his Characters of Mem Chaucer. at woodstock with the nighten-
 gales,