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The Calumet news., 1912-09-06

J1uropes first railway was pul' "
1888. -.
Newfoundland has movement '0'
the conservation of animals
Roston now has Greek poii''
Nicholas II. Prempas by name an
British postotlices handle lo'VVV''
letters daily.
The Calumet news., 1912-09-06

Calumet Council knights Of Colum-
bus. will hold their children's day pic
mic at Electric Park Saturday after
noon Sept 9TH. ~
The Calumet news., 1912-09-06
AFTER STATE MEETING.
Esesnabs Pythisns Will Have Support
OF Laurium.

Lauiium Pythiaus will support the
invitation which has been extended by
the Escanaba lodge 10 the state con-
vention to meet there i'm 1914. The
delegates i'm attendance at Grand Ha-
ven have been instructed to work to-
ward that end.
4 state convention OF the Pythian
order has mover been held in the pen
nsula and the members Of Escanaba
lodge will make "A determined effort to
secure the honor for next year
The Calumet news., 1912-09-06

J. NJ. Barrie is in the highlands of
Scotland. writing a novel
The Calumet news., 1912-09-06

Calumet Council Knights of Colum-
bus. will hold their children's day pic
mic at Electric Park Saturday after
noon. Sept 7th. i
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-28

Weep Not, for I can no longer surve you, under No Circumstances will l consent to a third turm, but here is Bill, good, sweet, kind Old Bill, he is the Kennedy. It's trew, alias too trev, that Bill is not quite as Heavy as Me, when it cums to Raisingahell- ufafuss, but at the same time Bill is o. K, because have O. Ked him, and what Bill lacks in Skyrockets he makes up in size; ant he a Buty ?
 Take, him, My Deer Peepul, take Him, he is Your'n. Treet him kindly and let me retire in seclusion where 1 can contemplate at my leesure and with pleasure and prophet My Crate and Glorius Past" To Teddy's utter amaizmnt they did so. He was Not pursooed and urged to Cum Back and Save the Country. He pined in Crate Gloom for while, but he soon got as Peevish and unsettled as a Militint Sufferagett with Flee in her stock ing, and now behold him. Look, Eel Ter Citizens, at this Butiful example
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them have done anything wrong. I never
 have any business with them. I have some friends among them that I do be- lieve have. It is not right to condemn in- discriminatory any class or race of men. If individuals of any class or race do wrong let them be dealt with as individ. uals. It is needless to say that these men should dispense exact justice in so far as they may be able to ascertain what exact justice is. The amount involved may be small. The gravity of the matter is that man having authority over his fellow man does him a wrong 1t is far more serious to the one who does the wrong than 1t is to the one who suffers the wrong. Every man exercising author ity over his fellow man, however great or small that authority may be, repre- sents Almighty God in whom all power is vested and by whom all authority is given. and the man who may think he can misuse that authority and not be held to account for it by Him whose vice-gerent he is. is reckoning without his host. The man who would misuse his power to oppress. or for his own gain, Is miscreant and deserves to be 90 con- sidered by society and should be dealt with by law ss the case may deserve. The time has come for prompt, honest unequivocal administration of law, of all law in this country.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-28
WHO KNOWS HIS BIBLE?-By George Eaves, D. D.

said for the nickel Post and the nickel theatre.
 If this were merely question of taste, or the pitting of a passing generation against the generation now young, 1t would be waste of time to write these sentences Rather let 1t be acknowledged that tho issue Is between the real. the strong, the thoughtful, the true on the one hand, and the tinsel, the frivolous the shoddy. the pot boiler, the quack. "Le roi samuse" Is the name of famous picture of the French court I.e roi is now our own son and daughter. There they go to see a photo play which Is quite generally at variance with facts, and they spend 15 cents for a magazine closelvNa akin to the old weekly beloved of English servant maids half a century ago. known, I think, as "rhe Family Herald" sold then at one penny and what Is left of the quarter they had ded- ieated to the god DriVel they turn over to the dispenser of dope at the soda fountain.
 Am I growing? By no means. It is a faithful record of facts. This is a Bo- hemian age. But when Dad, at home, has no instinct for Scott, or Shakespeare, or Thackeray or Dickens, or George Eliot, to say nothing of the splendid stories and songs of the Bible, and when Mothers only intellectual interest Is bridge or the fashion plates, and when son and daughter vote everything bore
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young mans vices which vugarlZe his soul and destroy his interest in things pure and noble and simple. His are not the locust and the caterpillar, but the hot Sirocco wind. blistering and whitening.
 It is the pressure of competing interests that here concerns us. The young man who has been in the office all day re- volts from everything serious at night. The older man suceumbs to social attrac- tions as easily as his younger brother. Behind both Is a voice asking the ques- tion. What does II profit? And if the voice were not already written them It's strident tones would invade their think ing chambers as sort of age protest against merely ornamental and theoreti- cal interests We are tolerant of the nickel theatre and the silly vulgarisms of the Saturday Evening Post which is the nickel theatre done in Journalism. l would on no account satirze those pow CTS of the present age They amuse us. Expert tasters of the short story gabble about the various magazines. All this could be borne philosophically, were there no implication that the cheap mag azines and their type of art are worthy the name of literature. The trouble with them Is that they are too clever and too good, in a host of particulars, to be called other than attractive. By their goodness they steal the mind away from that which Is best. There itvery much to be
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It must be confessed that forgetfuness of this sort, which Is fundamentally not forgetfulness, but insufficient knowledge is dreadfully usual. My purpose at this moment is to raise the question: Why does this forgetfulness or this insufficient Knowledge of the Bible exist? l shall be grateful to readers who will frankly write me their own experiences, assuring them beforehand of respect for their conf dence. What l ask is this: d) Did you ever read the Bible through? @ Did You ever read the Bible. leaving out the long lists of uninteresting names, genealogical and other, which mark certain places? {? (3) If you are or are not acquainted with such problems as, "Who was Slsera?' to what do you attribute your interest or
 Expecting to return to this subject, I proceed now to my comments. It Is highly probable that the Bible Is by no means the only book which is passed over in these days by the great mass of busy men. Now is the age of the magazine, That so many more books are sold now shows that so many more boys and girls have learned to read. and thus have en- larged the proportion of book buyers to the population. But who, after school days are over, reads the great books that the true book lover reads time and again? wonder. for instance, how many people in this city, or how many readers Of The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-28

day school movement Is much more ag- gressive here than there.
 Of course it would be easy to multiply illustrations of this state of things, which we might add to the striking instance above recorded. A Scripture test of rep resentative High school students was made not long ago in this city, with re- suits which would doubtless produce mer- riment as well as mournfulness were they accessible. l think 1t was ex-Pres- ident Angel who started a similar ball rolling years ago in certain universities and with like consequences. l should like to get crowd of candid men together, representing all business and professional life, and apply a similar test. We have all heard of the lady who approached a visiting minister after his sermon with the question: That was beautiful story you told. sir, before you preached. Can you tell me where it is publshed? ?' He had actually read, without the usual preamble, the essential parts of the Book of Ruth. All he could do was blandly to refer his questioner to the Old Testa- ment.
 It was Joaquin Miller swho once ven- gotten Book Come to inquire what book 1t was. behold the Book of Genesis figuring as "forgotten.' l wondered as read whether the poet was representative in his forgetfulness.
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Age-H Herald, have read typical Waveriy novel. say "'rhe Fair Maid of Perth" In this Dickens year. how many have read Edwin Brood" and tried to imagine the authors projected solution? l suspect that there are more buyers than readers of the English classics. Heaven knows that this Is not saying much, for the books one sees in the average home are all too few.
 A good friend of mine once averred that no minister was fit for hs work un- less he could pass satisfactory exam inaton in the characters and plots of Dickens. 1 am inclined to the belief that hardly any minister could pass. off hand a 50 per cent examination on the charae- ters and plots of Shakespeare. If that is true of the minister's 1t is much more widely applicable and more drastcally.
 Are not the causes identical both of this general haziness concerning the En- gish classics and of that concerning the greatest of classics, the English Bible?
 We shall not go far astray when we att tribute this in a large degree to the clamant and urgent demands of business and competing interests. Now 1t is bus mess, and again 1t is athletics, and yet again 1t Is time consuming aimlessness or social drivelllng that is the locust, eat ing the years Alas. the years catch by such locusts or by the caterpilars of pif- fling habltsl l do not refer here to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-28

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 w unconguerable wills the first settlers came to dispossess the aborigines and win by self-denial and toll estates for their families and an empire for com ing generations. They stood for individ- ual freedom. but felt that individual free dom could not be attained except by so- cial and civil institutions. Severe obedi- ence to law must be required, else liberty would degenerate into license, feudaIism obtain and their purposes be thwarted. Laws were passed at once and duly en- forced.
 They sometimes took the law in their own hands and some of their laws were odd enough. They had one, for example, that no man should be tolerated among them who had not visible and honest means of support. There came into their midst young man who seemed to have nothing to do but to keep his hands warm by putting them in his pockets. Strolling around from day to day he was taking in the situation that he might begin his nefarious scheme. In his pocket he car ried a pack of cards, into the use of which he proposed to initiate the young men of the place. win their money and corrupt their morals and move on. Some of tho old gtntitmen ee the neighpornood
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did not look favorably upon his scheme and warned him that they had stat ute" on their books against that sort of thing But, as young gentlemen some- times do to this day, he thought the old men were fogies; he knew his business. They gave him the notice, he disregarded it. the penalty was upon his own head. writ was served upon him; he was de- posted for safe keeping in what they called their jug" Advertisement was made, a crowd assembled; he was carried to a public place. mounted on a horse block, put up at auction and knocked down to the highest bidder
 The highest bidder was the vilIme blacksmith, who fastened chain around his leg to keep him secure and conducted him to his forge, and for three months from sun to sun kept him busy blow ing and striking" When he had learned the stern lesson of their law, which they intended he should learn, he was given his liberty, when he made tracks," swearing it was the meanest place a white man ever got into.
 This method, though unique. was more effective than some of our modern efforts at law enforcement.
 Justices of the peace have been in the limelisht in Jefferson county for the past few naontAs q ,do not know that any of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-28

A T recent banquet in Ottawa,
 "A Ont, a speaker said, "Ah, sir. A the stars in their courses are fighting against Ssera.' the reference being to the inevitable reaction against ,the conservative party now in power in Canada. Every liberal newspaper man there present reported for "Sisera," Cic- ero. Every newspaper printed the copy in that form. Sir Wilfred Laurier, who caught the silly error. evoked poll of nor a Roman Catholic in the gallery knew the source If the quotation, and only one Methodist qualified" Seven Episco- palians at once identified the passage, and indeed "only one Anglican went wrong with it. Even he confessed, amid much Laughter, that he was brought up as a Presbyterian. Yet the Press Gallery of the Ottowa parliament contains no fewer than four sons of Protestant min isters and two brothers of Roman Cath- ollie priests,"
 It Is among the amazing things of modern life that so large a number of a Biblical alusion is made. What is the meaning of 1t? My impression IS that the decay of this sort of average in- telligence is much more marked in Amer lea than in England. This in spite of what we must acknowledge, that the Sun
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that is not amusing" the serious ques- ton thrusts itself upward, What shall be done with the Big Things? How about honor and truth and herosm? How about the soul in it's eternal battle with the world the flesh and the devil?
 Il Is from this point of View that the literary interests become q very appalling problem for our day. It seems that moro Bibles and other books are being bought, but that relatively fewer Bibles and other books are being read than in the age now closing. Outside school there are no lit- erary and debating societies. If there were such societies no member would be at leisure to prepare his contribution.
 Like the i'll fated Titanic, we are in everything so eager to reach our desti- nation that we run on the ice or the rocks. The picture of that heart-rending disaster is but n parable of the modern intellect and heart grasping at a worth- less ideal and losing the very life itself
 But that dear creature. the lternlist, will say, What has this to do with Sis- era? How much shall we be bettered by intimate acquaintance with Deborah and Jael and the songs and sighings of the past2
 To which I may tentatively answer: Much in every way my dear literalist, chiefly because to the Race in its won derful past have been committed the oracles of God. Measurably even to the great classics these were committed. but mmeasurably to the Greatest Classic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-28

credit, and a Blew ribbon frum the Temperince Committee.
 Then there is LaFollette and Taft and Wilsun and all the rest as bizzy as Bird Dogs trailing aftur that Nom- mynasion. Even Bill Bryan Is Gum Shoeing round the country trying to Start Sumthing. There air two men, one in each Party that air saving wood, and tending to there own biz ness, and the country ought to honor them both. It would tockel me as much as the announcemint that my muther-in-law was going home aftur a six munts visit, if the Republican nommynasion went to Hughes, and the Demmycrats to Underwood, both of them at least air trying to earn there salaries, and do there duties. If the Peepul could control those con- vensions, these two boys would land the Grapes, and statesmanship would one time win out ovver the Poly tisians. Yours trooly,
 BILL VINES.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-28

good old corn cob pipe, by the en- thusiastick and jubulint committee, who had after being promised jobs in the Sabinet, voluntarily took up the task of securing the nommynasion, who would cum to notify him that the Peepul, after having been duly fixed by sed committee, had in con vension assembulled named him as there standered bearer, and was firm ly relying upon him to Iced them to victory and save the Country, exsetry, exsetry. Of course it was Meet and Propper on these occasions that sed statesman would be verry much sur prised~ indeed, and embarrassed and all that; he would be fairly ovver- whelmed by these Greetings of Marked esteam and approval frum his countrymen; he had not anticipated enny thing like this, not at all. He had meerly intimated to few of his per sunal trends that if the nomminasion was offered him he would accept it, and that if they didn't get bizzy and
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see to 1t that sed nommynasion Was offered him. he'd slip the Harpoon to them the first chanse he got, but reel ly as a matter of fact he would all most prefer that he be left in Peece to pursoo the Cut Worms and the Boil Weevils, and the quiet Life, ex- setry, at Buzzard's Roost. However, if they insisted he would yeeld to the call of his country, and if they didn't insist they had better. All this List ems Good to the Peepul and they think rite away that they have uncanned the reel thing, newer dreaming that this little Drammer was all fixed up for there spesial benefit, and that they air reely the Goats. But that stYle has gone out of fassion. They don't do it that way enny moor. Not so as you would recognize it.
 In this day and time the country is treeted to the rare site of beholding several of our most prominint statesmen in both Parties in a red hot scrambul for the nommynasion.
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And what they say about the uther feller is Plenty. They call him evvery thing rum a Mollyeoddle to Fryed Egg. They buttonhole a fel- Ter citizen and get rite down to Brass Taeks, and tell him they air seeking the Job, and want his valuabull aid in hooking the uther man ovver the Ropes.
 Take Teddy for instints; that is take him if you want to, it's not com pursery; Teddy, surved two turns as President ard Faxed the Peepul into believing that he was the Greatest man this country had produced cents the days of Washington and Lincoln he was a Red hot Trust Buster, con occasionally; he maid moor noise and accomplished as little as a Mexican Revvolusion and got away with it. Aftur surving his two turns, he sol lemly biased his rite hand ovver his left, breast and lowing politely, sed unto the Deer Peepul, Thank you so kindly, haIve been honored enuff;
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law. as we'll as a ripe and finished scholar. So far from being ostentatious. Judge Ormond was disposed to shyness and tact turnity His conversation was marked by the finished dicton of which he was a complete master Besides all this, he was sef-contained and collected, never allowing himself to be betrayed into un- due warmth of expression, no matter what the provocation was. He equalled the con ception of the proverb, soft answer turneth away wrath, The combination of qualities so rare was the occasion of much comment among the lawyers of the time. His opinion did not escape chal- lenge, nor did his position always go with out criticism.
 The character of the man as well as the clearness of his judicial Judgment may be seen from a single extract from de- cislon written by himself In a celebrated case which came before the court during
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-28
BILL VINES ON RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT

of great statesmanship. Behold the grate and only T. R. romping ovver the country informing us that this same Deer Bill he so highly recum- mended, is nuthing in the world but a Hugh Wart on the Unnyverse which adds nuthing to it, but obseures the view. Behold the feller who sed that the exampul of Washington was good enuff for him, and that he did not beleeve in Third Turns, who now says that he newer sed it, and enny how if he did, he mint that he didn't be- leeve in Third Turns for enny boddy else exsept himself. Behold this shining exemplar of Truth and Loy- atty, who has consined evvery man in the country who did nat agree with him to the Devil and then sum, and branded them as Traytors and Lyars, Boneheds and Mollycoddles Behold him, I say, and if you can stand for him and at the same time retain your sect on the water wagon, lets see you do it, and if you do you desurve grate
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I With strange inconsistency the man to whom you permit some familiarity Is like 1 ly to brag about it to his chums. They will laugh, and your good name may be | leld in light esteem.
 There is, however, another side to the man.
 | If 1t be demonstrated to him not only that you are pure and modest. but also quite capable of taking care of yourself, he will deeply respect you.
 And Should your name come into discussion he will ste that 1t is unsulied; if you | should need his protection he will defend you as though he welesyour brother
 Every girl should know these things about men. The girls mother should tell her. If your mother has not explained the two sided nature of the average man who write these words would feel myself guilty If did not make it plain. Do not be prude. And do not le afraid of any man. Be honest and fear less. but draw the line. Let a man know he may cross that line at his peril. He will not cross it, but will respect you. Remember, my girl. men have two Sides. Katy and Hilda and Lena work in your kitchen and in the kitchens of your neigh bors.
 If you want to learn something interest ing ask the postmaster of your town how much money these housemalds send dur t,,<. t.t water.
 You will be surprised. The money goes by registered letter to the old country to be used in bringing father or mother or sister or brother to this country, or to pay doctors or under takers bills, or to buy comforts for the old folks.
 -In saving this money the girls do not re- gard their enforced frugslity as q sacri- flee. but as a joy
 Compare the fllal solicitude of these strong muscled, deep chested, rosy faced lasses with the ungrateful, even heart less, conduct of some native born girls.
 Is there something in the American at mosphere that br eeds insurrection under the roof tree?
 Certain 1t Is that tho old time family discipline. respect fo- parental authority. reverence and ready obedience are lack ing in many families today.
 Maybe 1t is logical reaction.
 Possibly the stern custom of former geneps ton was too severe. Possibly Anyway there is apparent nowadays a deplorabe loosening of discipline, a dis position to push the parents into corner, a disregard of parental authority
 In some places there Is the open sheer at parental direction.
 Is 1t not so?
 Who that reads the newspapers is not shocked at the frequent stories of ingrat- itude of children. or worse abandonment or abuse of parents? The easy manner of iocsening' family ties is appalling.
 This is not vapid pessimism.
 It Is Gods truth
 And 1t is serious because when the fam fly is strjcksn society is hurt in It's yitsls.