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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17

Among the visitors In town to-day are
first and foremost tho President of the
United states, who arrived yesterday from
Washington, and has been spending the
night a the Waldorf. He returns TO the
White House on Tuesday. Then there il
Prince Salvatore Brancaccio, OF Rome,
member OF one of the old patrlclan houses
OF the Eternal City. whose American wife,
now dead daughter of the late Hickson
Field, OF New York, was one Of the
Danes du Palais OF Queen Marguerite OF
Italy. There are also Count Odon de Luz
bersac and Prince Andre Poniatowski,
both of Paris; Count Tristan, also OF
Paris, and the Countess, who is a Cali
fornian Lord Litchhe!d's younger brother.
the Hon. Alfred Arson, and his wife, who
was Mrs. John j. Emery, OF this city; Baron
Gina di Merourgo, Of Rome; Sir Edward
Clouston, Of Montreal; Mr. and Mrs. Jo-
seph Widener, OF Philadelphia; Mr.. and
Mrs. Y. r. Stotesbury, likewise from the
Quaker City: Representative-elect Robert
Gerry and Mrs. Gerry, who have now be-
come residents OF Washington, instead OF
New York; Colonel Paul Kenna, formerly
OF the 2lst Lancers, and who, besides
being an aide-de-c camp OF King George,
wears among his other orders and medals
that famous badge Of heroism under fire,
the Victoria Cross; the Baron de Blom-
macrt and Lieutenant van Dooren, OF the
Bel g!an cavalry; Lieutenant A. de Labou-
chere, OF the Dutch army, and represent
alive Of that branch of the family or
the late Henry Labouchere NJ. p, which
failed to follow that legislators grand
father to England at the beginning OF me
nineteenth century. and renamed settled
IN the Netherlands; Miss Kathleen S.rcS-
ford, who is the daughter OF Admiral Lofd
Charles Berestord, and staying with Colo
mel and Mrs. Robert NJ. Thompson; the
Vicomtesse d. Etchegoyen, II Paris. and
her sen; also, Captain Mervyn 'rawshay'
OF the 9Th Dragon Guards OF the Eng
fish army, and Mrs. Crawshay, the Hon.
Robert Beresford younger brother of
Lord Decies; Lieutenant +. NJ. Stewart
Richardson, OF the 18th Hussars, whose
cousin, Sir Edward Stewart Richardson,
passed him or the ocean, homeward bound
for England; Captain Campbell Babcock,
of the Queens Dragons, besides a large
contingent of the foreign diplomatic corps
at Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Carroll are ex-
pected In town tomorrow from Dough
oregan Manor, their place In Maryland.
where they have been celebrating their
silver wedding, and incidentally enter
tanning n house party comprising Mr..
and Mrs. Elbridge T. Gerry, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Bayliss and Clarence II. Mackay.
Weddings of the week include that of
Miss Martha Knox Orr to Carl L. Victor
on Thursday next at the First Presby-
terrain Church. on Fifth avenue at 18th
street. Little Miss Marion Davis will
be the flower girl, Alexander NJ. Orr will
give his sister away and Thomas F. Vie
tor will act as his brothers hest man.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17

Miss Mary s. Atterbury is staying with
friends at the Arlington Hotel, Arkansas
Hot Springs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17

The Mornings OF Current international
Drama" which were founded last season
by Miss Ada Sterling at the home Of
Mrs William Alfred Perry and given
also In other private houses and at the
Greenwich Country Club. Will be held this
winter at the st. Regis Hotel, 20 accom-
modste the large number OF subscribers
who have signihed their wish 10 hear
these deeply interesting artistic works
The oates selected ere Thursdays, De-
cember 8 and IL. and January .. ls
and 30.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17

Henry NJ Ward VIII give a reception on
the same afternoon at No. SO Park ave
nue. for the debut Of his niece, Miss
Frances Montagu Ward. daughter Of Mr.
and Mrs. c. Montagu Ward. A theatre
party will follow at the Globe Theatre
and afterward there will be supper a.
Sherry's. Miss Ward is a grandniece OIL
the late Julia Ward Howe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17

Mrs. Arthur Mason will give a reception
on Friday at her house. No. ll9 East 5'tb
street, for the debut of her granddaugh-
ter. Miss Helen j. Du Bots
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17

Mrs. Henry s. Redmond. Mrs. Frederick
w. Vanderbilt. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and
Mrs. c. G. Cuyler are among those who
have taken boxes for DR.. Joseph n Dix
on's illustrated lecture on '"rhe Wild Lie
% the Plains and the Glories OF the yell
lowstone" In behalf Of the hospital tunc
of the New York Womer's League FOL
Animals, on Thursday afternoon next IN
the auditorium at Wanamakers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17

Lawrence Jones and Lady Evelyn Grey,
whose marriage takes place OH Tuesday
week IN London, at ST. Msrgaret's West
minister, are coming Immediately after
their wedding TO New York, ard win
spend the winter here. Lady Evelyn Grey
is well known here, having frequently
stayed in New York when her father,
Earl Grey, was Governor General OF
Canada. Her fsnce is the eldest son OF
Sir Lawrence Jones, OF Crarmer Hail.
Norfolk. and OF Les Laurlers Roses ST.
Raphael, on the Riviera.
Mr.. and Mrs r. II. Claiming, jr., ere
at the Hotel Gotham, whore they viii -
main until the end Of the month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua &. Rhodes. Of New
port, and DR.. and Mrs. Lewis Star, OF
Philadelphia, are at the Walcott for an
extended stay.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17

Mr.. and Mrs. George Bird have arr'veS
in the city and are at the Hotel Gotna"
for few days.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17

Mischa Elman, Pasquale Amato, Mic
Lucrezia Bori. Miss Geraldine Farraf,
Nine sembrich, Efrem Zimbalist and
Miss Alma Gluck are among the artists
whose names figure on the programme OF
Albert Morris Bagby's Musical Mornings
at the Waldorf-Astoria in December.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17

Mrs. John I. Waterbury and Miss
Gladys Waterbury are, at No 40 rarA
avenue for the winter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17

Mrs. Orlando Hartman will sail LOT
Europe on Saturday on board the PhIla-
delphia. She will spend the winter ID
England
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17
STANDS BY MAUD MALONE

New York. Nov. 10. 1912.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17

Miss Bessie Hyams, former pupil OF
the Benjamin School for Girls, will pre-
sent die K6nigskinder," at muslc~'
given at the school. No. IA Riverside
Drive. on November q
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel A. Weldon are
the guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Law
ingston Hoyt. at Staatsburg. n. T., osef
the week end.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-28
Work of a Watch
rom the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 It is matter of everyday occurrence for person to say to his watch maker.
 Here is a watch which you sold ma some 10 years ago It has always gone well till Just lately. when 1t has taken to stopping without any apparent cause"
 The people who speak in this way nt- tie think of the amount of work watch has performed in this space ot time and might be astonished at the following ng- ures:
 Tn 10 years, says London Answers. which includes two leap years. and con- sequently total of 3652 days. the hour hand has made 1904 and the minute hand s7.64S revolutions. The end of an average minute hand travels more than 70, 2S0 yards more than six miles. The second hand has made 5,25S,sS0 revolutions, and its ex- tremity has traversed on the dial dis tance of upward of 123 miles. The escape wheel has made 52.5Ss.so0 revolutions. and as 1t has 15 teeth it. has come 7SssS2, ,oop times in contact with each pallet. The balance has made 1.577, ,el4.cO0 vibrations. and any point on the outside of the rim has covered a distance of about 5000 miles, and that is equal to twice the circumstance of the earth.
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A

K T ANY of the hymns of the churches NI have had ther original sugges- WI ton in the experience of the writers. The experience may have been quite commonplace, yet it served as an inspiration for the little poem which sub sequently found place among the sacred lyrics of Christian people.
 William Cowper was one of the most eminent poets of the 18th century, and though his works are little read now, yet at one time everybody was familiar with Progress of Error" His published letters are invested with stately culture al- together unknown to the art of letter writing of our times.
 Cowper was severely afflicted with pe- riodic melancholia which assumed the ten- dency to self-destruction. While suffer- ing one of these attacks he determined to destroy himself. He sent for cab man and directed him to drive to the river where he might end his troubles. It was a night of intense darkness and of impenetrable fog. The driver got lost on his way, and after driving hither and thither for long time he stopped his cab to learn his whereabouts and found that he was in front of Cowpers house. from which he had started. The afflicted man then dismissed the cabman, having some what regained his better judgment, and went into his home. There it was that he wrote the greatest hymn ever composed on the subject of Divine Providence, the Providence that confused the cabman and
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Watts lived his life lone bachelor, for he could never "calr' back his "affec- tions" from his first love. Here is an an ticipation of Tom Moore's line: 70, the heart that has truly loved Never forgets."
 Is 1t possible for you to think of John Wesley's having a romantic side to his strong, dominant nature? And yet he had. He could love as the average man loves, with all the humanness of the af- feetion of a man for maid, pure, exalt- ed and consuming No, this last word does not describe Wesleys love. It was never consuming. 1t was too coldly phil osophical for that. MT. Toots' love for Florence Dombey was the consuming kind.
 However. Mir. Wesley loved, and knew what it was to drink the draught of dis appointment. But he seems quickly to have recovered So. ignoring the old Latin saying, "Amare juveni fructus est crimen seni," he loved the second time and was married when nearly 70. The marriage turned out badly. After his first experience MT. Wesley wrote the hymn:
 How Happy Is the Pilgrims Lotp
 The fourth stanza as he wrote it read ing:
 T have no sharer of py heart, To rob my Savior of part, And desecrate the whole;
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HYMNS OF THE CHURCHES 4-By D

prevented the poets drowning himself as he purposed. The hymn begins:
 God moves in mysterious way
 His wonders to perform;
 He plants his footsteps in the sea,
 And rides upon the storm.'
 through which the theme is logically sus- tained. James T. Fields, the friend of Thackeray, Dickens and Hawthorne, said, and no mean critic he, That to be the author of such a hymn as this is an achievement that angels themselves might envy" The last years of Cowper's life, spent in "the twilight of reason' remind one of the declining years of the life of Dean Swift. For the dean predicted that, like a tree that he looked upon which had decayed at the top, so he should suffer d blight "at the top and he did. For he died a madman.
 There lies before me volume that was published in the year 1927; it is bound in leather and is in fairly good condition. On the back is the title in gold, ''Works of Newton" It is an imperial octave, and contains the life, the letters and the hymns of John Newton, together with his essays and sermons. Newtons life illus trates that man may sink into the very lowest depths of depravity and infamy and yet be brought therefrom to a career of purity, usefulness. dignity and honor. In his early years he was blasphemer. libertine, an infidel and was a thief of human bodies in Africa. He was an abandoned wanderer on land and sea, homeless and friendless, and was lost to
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than 1Ss pages. The popularity of this book, of which 26,oo0 copies have been sold in one edition, proves the passing of what I have called the great ice age in English religious life. Far gentler breezes blow and a more genial cline prevails over the minds of puritans than when Mark Rutherford essayed to become an Independent minister which is to say, Congregationalist pastor, and when Charles Voysey was badgered into heresy by clergymen like the secretary to the Archbishop of York, and when such names as Maurice and Kingsley and Newman and Froude were sympbols or pennants on one side or the other of the great re- ligious tournament of the 18th century. It requires such a book as Rutherford's to make men realize the bleak and futile existence which associated itself with rural chapels. It needs sympathetic study of Matrices experience, or Newman's, to convince us of today how very stolid, how very superstitious how very irreigious was the orthodoxy of the established church. Love had flown into the far dis
 tance and hard, bitter, suspicious and
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But the forces that drove the one, the less sensitive, the more cultured man. into public battle. with uplifted voice. against the crude and void monstrosites which were called religious beliefs. and so made voysey the "Thelstic" lecturer, also drove the more sensitive, the less cul- tured Rutherford into agonies of suffer ing. but also into type of heart-rending utterance that reaches the ears with poignant and memorable tones.
 Properly speaking these men were not preachers. They had no call to the prophetic office. They were souls wait ing for that magic word evolution. to set their thinking in order. With the force of that word their function of criticism would have proved enough For it is crit ioism that they bring. criticism cour- ageous, mordant. When they become creators such men are not happy. Even their critical forces halt for lack of CO., herence But they march, God knows whither, each man carrying on his sleeve the emblem of the bleeding heart Above | them the old battleworn banner floats. emblazoned with the eagle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-28

HY the thoughtful kindness of two friends. acting independently and 0 with most curious coincidence, there have come to my hands this week two human documents that have stirred floods of memory. The one Is sermon. the other a famous bit of autobiography; but both are by Englishmen born just be- fore the year 1880, and both illustrate the intensity of individual protest against the religion of their fathers. One of the au- thors is dead, the other, to my great os- tonishment, still breaches to the ''Theistic church" which he founded in London nearly 40 years ago.
 It is so long since I came upon the name of Charles Voysey that I had as- sumed no more for him than for the ma jority of men who were born before the passing of the great reform bill and about the time of the first railroads. But here he is, still reiterating the same principles that he began with. Christian convert to Mosaism, a stalwart advocate of the liberty to differ from everyone, an ex- treme example of the protestant spirit, at war with the ideas that satisfy the
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Isaac Watts was one of the most pro- life hymn writers that the world has ever known. He was, indeed, poet, and had the poets right to fall in love, which he did But poets are like many who are not poetical. Their love is not always wisely placed. Therefore, not unlike others, they are doomed to disappoint- ments. It was so with Isaac Watts, the poet and minister. Watts was a curious little body, anyway. l say "little,' be- cause he was less than five feet tall, and for the reason that he went to spend week with a friend. Lord Abney, and ac- tually prolonged his visit for 30 years Just think of 1t, you housekeepers!
 However. Watts fell in love with witty, charming young woman. He mis- took her admiration of his poetic genius for love. He made his proposal, and to his astonishment she refused him and married another. One year after her marriage Watts hymnal was published and contained the hymn, which may be found even yet in some of the hymnals: How vain are all things here below, How false and yet how fair;
 Each pleasure hath its poison too,
 And every sweet a snare"
 The fourth stanza reads thus:
 "rhe fondness of creature's love, How strong 1t strikesth sense;
 Thither the warm affections move.
 Nor can we call them thence.
 Which in plain prose means that Isaac
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biting conventionalism set England under a blue and chilling atmosphere. Like Poe's raven, the religion of the masses could hardly do more than croak a mel ancholy prediction, sad and stupid reit- eration. a substitution of selected phrases for real feeling and real thought. So that when the masses began to learn of schol- ars work upon the Fundamentals of this phrase-system, whether they were geol- ogists or historians, or philosophers. and reaching negative conclusions, the old instinct of tho mob asserted itself and many a good man was harried to social death. "others were tortured. not &C., cepting dellverance."
 But it does not follow that all who bleed are martyrs to the truth. Some have been hanged who deserved no better fate. Persecution does not prove man to be in the right. What I desire to im- press on the average reader is that many a good man has been bleeding from seven wounds for no greater a right than to live and move and have his being In God
 Mark Rutherford's autobiography is not
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

Margery Bell, Cleveland girl, ran away from home to find out how lonesome the world is. When she got back Margery said
 You'll never know how much you want your mother or father Or brother until you are away from them."
 Is it not so?
 The world is so much bigger and strong CT than we are, and unles somebody is mother or father or brother to us it will break us
 Therefore the unerring instinct of all humans-the homing instinct.
 The Margery Bells. lured into the paths of dallianee, chase the winged butterfly of pleasure, listen to the batter of soft fountains and watch the dryads dance until-until the clouds lower and the hard ness of the world appears and the feet are tired and the heart is sore
 And then?
 Like little children who have forgotten all but the glinting sunshine and the pretty flowers, and who wander far afield until evening comes and all seems naught but strangeness. and who sit down and cry TOT nome
 So we
 When the mirage of the far of feathery palm tree and sweet water rises in empty air. when the rivers of gladness lose their runnels in life's desert places. then we see the mocking folly and sit down and long or cry for home.
 We all-tribes of the wandering feet we all are Margery Bells.
 Home. Like Noahs dove, we find no place to rest our feet, and so with tired wing we come back to the ark
 We may wander far from that one little corner of Gods creation that we call home, but always in concentric circles, and always we come back to it. To us 1t is the center of the world
 An exile from home splendor dazzles in vain"
 Misfortune? God pity him to whom it comes with no home or hearts to shart it!
 And sickness? Poor. indeed, is he who is without so much as the poor animal who seeks his hole for shelter and . place to nurse his wounds.
 And joy and pleasure? What are they
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crowd. Apparently Mir. yoysey's ser mons have been regularly published for about 34 years. They are preached at Swallow street, Piccadilly.
 The story of Voysey's life links itself so closely with the progress of unconven- tional and non-traditional religion in England that it is worth telling. He was born in 1928 and very properly educated in the Episcopal church, graduating with all decorum at Oxford in 1851. Ten years later he was elected from a curacy in White Chapel because of a sermon against endless punishment. This was the begin ming of a nagging process which finally made him a martyr. In 1865 a volume of his sermons attracted official attention and he was prosecuted by the secretary to the Archbishop of York in an eccle- siastical court. At that time he was vicar of a Yorkshire parish. He lost the case and his sermons were decreed at variance with the Thirty-nine Articles and the Bible. He appealed to the highest court in England. the judicial committee of the Privy Council, but again lost his case, was deprived of his living and required to pay the costs of the proceedings.
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The occasion was made a. memorable one on the floor of the house by the con- test which it provoked. pr. Bestor hus- banded all his resources and skill in the conduct of the contest and proved himself a giant in debate, and though met by much passion, he preserved his coolness and dignity throughout the de- bate. He failed in his effort at that time, though his labor was not in vain. for the array of facts presented respecting the illiteracy of the state awoke wide interest which gave an impulse to tho educational spirit of the state which has not ceased to this time.
 Coupled with all his immense work was that of an active pulpit ministry. He was a great leader in the Baptist denomina- tion and rendered signal service In the thorough organization of the Baptist forces. With the exception of few years spent in Mississippi, Dr. Bestor's career was confined to Alabama. He died at Mobile in 1869.
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The Prohibision party, as Party, will newer succeed in getting rid of all the Ticker in this country. It is being maid too fast. It has been darkly hinted that the party is the recipient of a large Campaign Contribusion frum the Sody-Pop Trust.
 If the Prohibision Party will, in- stead of devoting there time and att tension to Nasional electsions, begin a system of educasion among the Vim min of the country and get them to take there minds off of "votes for Wimmin" and put them on training there children to always have the same horror of saloon that houn- pup has for tin can. they will ac- complish moor towards putting a crimp in the Whisky Trust in two or three generasions than the Nasional Prohibision Party will in millyun yeers. Yours trooly,
 BILL VINES.
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have earned the right to sit in the sun free from worry, hale and respected.
 It seems so-from a car window.
 Give me morning courage-the courage that fronts my day of toll with zeal and cheerfulness.
 Throughout this day of task and anxious thought let me go, each hour a smile upon my lips and hope within my heart, so that at eventide I may look back upon a day of honest effort worthily essayed. And, whether l shall succeed of fail. bring me to look forward to another day when I shall try again.
 And
 Should l make new friend today may be worthy of his friendship, and the worthy friends I have may I hold fast.
 Help me that l may keep the open vision of the perfect life. that l may pattern my imperfect life thereby. Let me hold high hood.
 Let not fear have dominion over me. And may all hatred and all envy depart far from me. Help me to be of good cheer and generous and frank and seemly.
 May I live today, because there may be no tomorrow. Let me give today, because tomorrow I may not have wherewith to give Let me love today, for tomorrow my loved one may have gone away. And pray
 This day let me share whatever of good may come to me with those who make their stormy pass of human life along with me. And if sorrow shall come to me may I find my fellow travellers to the bar full of sympathy and helpfulness And, above all else, l pray
 May I be this day. and every day. an optmist going cheerfully forward with faith and zest, so that some sorrowing soul, seeing my shining face, may take hope and heart again. And these things I pray
 That l may not forget and that I may do that which I ought to do and leave undone that which I ought not to do.
 And bring me to the end of uis good day and all my days without fear and without reproach, honest and undefile1 and satisfied.
 This is my prayer
 Amen.