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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-03-14

FOR SALE trcproof safe, Graplia
phone. orEan ana some honsehoid
goods. Apply az los Holt ave. rear
1853 ". Pike 81
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-03-14

EF YOU WANT an Edison moytne
picture naehine, ew or second
hand or parts for same, write =. w.
Boehm, agent and dealer in all
kinds OF show property, Eilenboro.
w. va.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-03-14
STATESMEN

WiANTED-salcsmcn Of souic ability
to sell high class line Of groceries
direct to consumer: W. Va, terri
tory. Old established house; good
money and chance for rapid adj
vancement. For particulars, write
R. NJ. Eye, 12s w. Pike st.
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FOR BALE

,NoR sALE-Rcad Aloud and Listen
so pounds extra fine graduated
Sugar ....,... $3.50
bars Ivory soap .......... .o5
packages Uneeda Biscuits. .o5
bars FEELS Naptha soap. 20
pound pail Karo Corn Syrup IA
Other prices Just as reasonable.
We guarantee all our goods. We
do strictly a mail order business,
Write for catalogue and other in
formation to tho "cut Rate Grocery
= Company 5SS Mechanic St.
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FOR RENT-ConYenient and nicely

FOR RENT-one ten room llouss and
one six room house; each have hot
and cold water. Rent, $25 per
month each. Inquire OF DR.. Gore
at the Gore Bldg.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-03-14

Gets ths Tired of "a 8 Few inutas
Makes Ycgr Sore proo

20 Midget ItsnEiai how tired feet make
you feel tired ~ dftf So deais tired.
Then, when sou Ne rot i corn BE- les. ana a
bnnion, and o ten hilsters. and yonr feet
are terribly swollen, Jon don't caro- q
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-03-14

FOR SALE, or partner wanted-wn
sell my lunch car business or take
in an honest man or woman on the
footing of partner. Records show
up a nice. profitable trade. Very
little money needed for DEAL Best
locationtin city. Cannot give 1t my
personal attention on account eE
other business. Call at Owl Lunch,
corner Fourth and Clark SITS.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-03-14

FOR SALE-Saloon and restaurant;
best location In coal, oil and gas
territory; on most travelled street
of city. Owner leaving on account
of i'll health. Address &C. w."
general delivery Charleston, Ka-
hawhh county. W. va.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-03-14
Classified Ac.vertiss naents
Three Insertions for Is Cents
Ads % a line
p mcgy.e

FOR sAbE-onc lot Of household
furniture and very ane 81
shonighes piano. Apply at s3s ~
Main street.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-03-14

FOR sAIR-Delivery wagon, viii
top; good condition. Martin
Bros, Grocers, Main st.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-03-14
Y1TUATI0Ns WANTED

WANTED-A job as clerk in store
or hotel, by a young man 20 years
old. Have had some experience at
both. Have taught school three
= terms. Can give references IL nee
essary. Address Box 1. Lumber
port WA.
wANTED-A.sct of books to keep In
evenings, am experienced and can
give good references. Address
M. o." care Telegram Office.
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MISCELLANEOUS

WASTED-Hustling canvnsser ON a
salary. Address "canvNyser.'' care of
Telegram Office,
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rendered at Washington, when Junius Brutus Booth had the role of Brutus, with Edwin Booth playing the part of Titus.
 Edwin Forrest used to play the part of Brutus, and well was he suited to it. His great stature, his resonance of voice and his ruggedness of manner, all con- spired to make him Ian antique Roman Payne's comedy, called Charles II, was also of great popularity, the principal parts being played by Wallack, Richings and Mrs. Sharpe Riehings was father of the once famous Caroline Richings, who died of smallpox in Richmond a few years ago.
 Payne did not play often in his own dramas. stephen Kemble, then a con- sidered authority in dramatic ethics, told him that such a thing was unheard of; and though he had written parts for himself, he refrained from Illustrating them on the stage. In our day often do actors create characters for themselves
 Among the operas that Payne trans lated and adapted to the stage of his day was the Italian opera called "Clari the Maid of Milan" Into this opera he introduced the song Home, Sweet Home" Of this song over hundred thousand copies were published within a year. That he was in easy circumstances while preparing "Clarf for the stage, we may know from the fact that he acknowledges the receipt of $200. This does not look as if he was then home less, drunken vagabond.
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Having seen that Payne's carly life was full of success, that his moro mature years constituted time for busy en- agreements of a literary sort, I now ask, What of his last years?
 In 1892 he returned to America. From that time to 1885 he was the recipient of public courtesies, banquets and com pllmentary benefits, from New York, Boston, Charleston and New Orleans. In 1S43 he was chosen by the President of the United States as American Consul to Tunis In 1851 he was reappointed to the same post of honor. He was not, how eyer, to fill his term for he died in far off Ttnis on April 9. 1852 He was tenn porarily buried Tn Tunis. and on the stone that marked his grave a mistake was made. It stated that he was born in Boston," He was born as I have said In New York. though he afterYards re- sided in Boston.
 In the land of Tunlsa his body lay until the year 1883. It was then disin- tered and brought to his native country. and permanently buried in Washington, Mr w. K Corcoran, man of letters, a patriot and a capitalist, bearing the expense of the transportation and the final burial.
 curious story had rise some years ago, which is being told as an actual occurrence It is said, at the battle of Fredericksburg, where our army was on the south bank of the river and the northern troops on the north, that some eonfederates began to sing "IIome, Sweet
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at an education were made in Boston. He was prodigy in the art of declama- tion and very carly was famous for his elocution. When IT he adopted the stage as the field for his ambition His first character was Young Norval. In the cast he was called Master Payne" and was known as the 'boy actor" His play ing was applauded to the echo. He was a success from the beginning. In Bos- ton he played Hamlet and the audience Baltimore was overwhelmingly trium- phant. He played throughout the north and the south with the greatest success.
 In 1913 he went to England. He acted in London, Liverpool, Birmingham and in Manchester. Everywhere he drew immense audiences. He went to Paris, and in little while there sprang up q great intimacy between Payne and the great tragedian. Tama. This intimacy resulted in Paynes becoming a playright and a dramatic poet. He wrote many original plays, tragedies and comedies, and also translated many dramas from the French into English, occasionally ap- bearing before the footllghts. He was the friend and associate of the first actors of his times. He was also the compan- ion of Sir Walter Scott, Charles Lamb, Washington Irving, and, I think, of Leigh Hunt.
 Payne's greatest tragedy was Brntus. It had an unprecedented run for those days, and the author became recognized as a man of letters. Payne saw Brutus
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"..............airy ." navies
 Grappling in the central blue.
'HOME SWEET HOME'-By Dr. w. E. Evans

Home" and as they proceeded With tho familiar words 'the Yankees took up the melody, and they and our men sang it together For the time being both sides forgot their mission and remembered only their homes.
 This Is very beautiful story and l wish that some one who was there could verify it. General Fitz Lee was there, and very much there but it is said that he knew nothing about 1t if 1t ever oc- cured. I think, if there Is any truth in tho story, that 1t happened when the picket squads were near enough to hear each other, and so sang to pass the time away" But that the two armies engaged in singing in concert, I have never had reason to believe. I never heard General F'itz Lee refer to it, though l knew him well in his public and private life. He was a very young man at tho battle of Fredericksburg, and was not an old man when he died Anything affecting his emotional nature, as this incident would, if 1t had had foundation In fact. most likely he would have related. I know it is often told, and several times I have seen it in print-but did it occur? Who knows*
 The role of an iconoclast is not to my liking. I cling to old stories till the last horn blows. I don't want to think that my Indian ancestress did not sava the life of John Smith in tho way the old story has it; and l have had trough shock of mind'' by those who tell us that Geopee Washington never
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of the old family circle, and the final parting from the old home when father or mother were no longer there, have caused many a man out in the world, spontaneously to sing softly of 'Home, Sweet Home"
 But while this old song is such uni- versal favorite, how few know the origin of it. We are told that John Howard Payne wrote it.; that he was an outcast and a tramp: that he was shabbily clothed and half starved: that he saw a splendid home from whose windows warm light was flashing; that he crept up to the open shutters and saw a young woman who was playing an old Sicilian melody: that he walked down the street his immortal song on it, and set 1t to paid shilling for the privilege of sleep ing on a plank that night. Miss F. L. Mitchell, In her book called Georgia Land and People, is the first person, so far as know. to relate this story. Where on earth she got it I do not know One hears it from the pulpit now and then, as pointing a moral or adorning tale. For myself, I believe the story not at all. To learn the actual origin of the song we must go to the annals of the stage.
 It Is quite true that John Howard Payne wrote the song. but under what condi- tions? These:
 John Howard Payne was born in New York in the year 179l. His first efforts
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as tho newspaper wrapped sandwich In lieu of the dinner bucket or basket.
 In spite Of the brilliant intellectual achievements of the times-the existence of our colleges and universities-in spite of the incalcuable power of the press fifty per cent. and more of the people of these states are untouched by the quicken ing sense of culture. Fifty per cent of the people of these states are trailers-sheep, may say-gullible to the blandlshments of garrulous and elaborately waist-coated politicians.
 The writer Is no sentimentalist-no preacher-no aviator. But he has talked and worked with strong and stern and lov- able men. He has hobnobbed with the workers of this world. Of their needs he knows somewhat. and from them he has got great joy and some big facts the while. . Only of them we must talk at another time, and not under the cap tain of Demoeraey'-perh under ''Princes and Beggars." And vet. tho word Democracy eonjures consideration of them in -chef-of wonderful electric cities masscd with men, tolinG, rearing shaping. strong~armed big-brained. brave hea rted--citizens of Happy Land in very truth.
 And that after all must be the last
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ing more accessible. for never was the meaning of divine love more intelligently grasped It Is the old sufficient test: "If they speak not according to this word ,t is because their light is gone out" No church can evade the task, no priest evaded the test. And I suppose that my great old hero-f friend, Alexander McLaren, Baptist though he was, and John Bunyan Baptist though he was, and John Howe, Puritan though he was, and Thomas Goodwin, Cromwelrs favorite preacher and "Atlas of Independeney," as Aexan- der WI. rte says he was-all these, and many more, once accounted heretics, are carefully and reverently studied even by loyal Anglicans Romanists and Greeks. who desire to preach a strong and sane and compelling and scriptural sermon. It has come to pass that we, none of us, live to ourselves. We are not here for compe- tition and rivalry, save in love and good works. We have long ago quit committing one another to hell because we do not understand how anyone can have brains and yet differ from us. A certain chaste humility is besetting us and laying on
 
 found that priesthood is much more q heart function than an official badge As Beaconsfied's sardonic and subtle humor had 1t: "All sensible men are of one re- igion." "But what is that?' asked the other. Sensible men don't say" so there are worlds of authority which are known to the heart that knows through the per- captions of faith how very brief is the journey from self ito God Brief as from Egypt to Canaan, but alas it often costs men of lifetime of wilderness wander ings.
 l ought to add, for the sake of the seek CT for authority, that it is where he finds truth The test of truth is all within the soul. Hence the value of the church as 3, fellowship of souls. It is not SO wise to say: Because the Bible or tho church says this it is true" as to say, Because this is true you find others in the old days saying 1.-the men of the Bible and of the church. And there are analogies which indicate that ere long these days of doubt will pass away in favor of the wstful rev. erence that has been so rudey jostle, from the school and the college and the preachers pulpit by that charming, mis- chievous. but most useful young ruffian, philosophic doubt, and his cousin, intellec- tual vanity. Neither authority nor lb- erty nor any possible arrangement of penalties can avail to keep out painful
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T SUPPOSE in all the world of min
 strelsy no other song ever attained x the universal popularity of Home, Sweet Home" It is sung in the parlors of wealth and in the humble homes Of the poor One hears it everywhere in the United States, and in distant lands across the ocean he catches Its familiar bars. I remember hearing it played on a cornet in the very heart of the Alps one cold, dreary day. It was like a voice from home, and tears filled my eyes. The melody that always accompanies the song has been sung by some of the churches, the refrain running,
 Home, home, sweet. home;
 Prepare me. my Saviour, for heaven my
 home"
 Nearly every one has some tender mem ory associated with the old song. The veteran recalls how he and his comrades sang it around the camp fires in the eos, as their eyes swan with tears be- cause of loving thoughts of the old homes and the dear ones there: many who thus sang were never to see the sweet home" again, or to look upon the dear faces of loved ones who also sang,
 Be 1t ever so humble,
 There's no place like home
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PRIESTHOOD IN PROTESTANTISM-B Geo

1 have skill to make their hearers see the august realities of God and the soul, ser- dom err far from the faith of other souls
 who also in their day saw the vision. When they turn philosophers and dissect
 the vision they are perhaps in peril. An alysis and the theological brotherhood arc
 more productive of debate than of power,
 of heat than Of light. But every age has it's intellectual Marathon race, and there are some who run without obtaining dis tinction, some whose names go down as light bearers and winners of the prize. In the modern synthess Of faith room
 has been found for toiers in the scientific,
 the historical, the archaeological fields. But
 concerning life itself modern Protestants,
 who welcome the science and tho history
 and the authopologlcal data, are just as
 sure as were their ancestors in the 18th century. Life is like the Zion of the
 psalmist, "God is in the midst of her. She
 shall not be moved. God shall help her
 and that right early. The Lord of hosts
 is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge"
 These words are not true because they are in the Bible, for Tn their modern sense they are not in the Bible. But we read into the old words a modern, personal appropriative. universal mean ing. and we are just as sure of their truth under these new conditions as was any David or Moses or Isaiah of the old time. The church is as sure of them as Israel could be. Why have a pastor, with no more spiritual authority than the other members of the congregation? The an- swer plainly is that he has authority In proportion to his spiritual sanity and yls. ion. And one wonders Furthermore if any
 where on earth can be found any higher authority than this, indorsed and applaud ed by the silent consent of the spiritual audiences or assemblies to whom the preacher speaks. For though the task is an irksome task, can any scheme be de- vised to relieve the Christian assembly of the duty of putting the spirits of their prophets, or preachers, to the test? For certainly in every communion false preachers and misleading spirits are still going out into the world Ignorance and intolerance and pride still lay claim to the fair heritage of the church and the ad- hesion of human confidence. But there are no clear signs of the disappearance Of that old fraternal responsibility in the whole church. made known in the sacred
 task of proving the spirits whether they
 are of God. Never was the means of test
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than a heginning-more than a first step.
 Now. Is that not bridge-erossing be fore the bridge is reached, with ven geance?
 Obviously, Tariff Reform will mean one important thing to the people of these states; lessenng of the cost in dollars and cents of some necessities. This, of course, is of paramount importance at the moment It will mean somewhat to John Doe to get his 1913 wool suit for S5 less than the cost of his 1912 suit. For five dollars one can buy a ton and half of coal in the summer months when he doesn't need it. and the same amount will buy one ton of coal during the win ter months when he does need 1t. Five dollars is lot of money to some of your 90 100000 neighbors.
 But listen to me. The child who asked, And what then? And ain't there any more to the story?' asked a. reasonable question. For the capture of the Princess marked the Princes first success. Here began the important story. Here the Happy Irolk began their real careers.
 Certainly the Prince Democracy will do somewhat for those laymen and vas sals, and for those folks who, have waited long and long for his meeting with the princess. Democracy is just arriving, I
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wonder in a playmate of seven years is well nigh staggering.
 And because we were garrulous this afternoon-this child and I-of Happy Land and of the royal folk and the valorous giants in that country, we got us a text for our eonfab today. It Is of the Prince Democracy, and of the Elu- slve Princess, whom we may call Tariff Reform, and of the marriage or the two in good time.
 Before the present Congress adJourns we no doubt will see some drastic sealing downward of tariff laws. Any prince who loves his lady will pursue her through hundred countries of Purple and Gold and Democracy in power. if it holds the dream of ultimately alleviating the con- dition of her folk en masse, and withal is not money tainted Democracy. will ac- complish the beneficenee in due time
 The query of the child struck me, And then what? Aint there any more to the story?'
 After this first brave gesture Of our party, which is in the ascendancy today after it's one dear wish is Gratified- what will the party do then? From thls valiant winning, wht further step will the party take to commend itself in mens sight? For we cannot call this more
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"HERE are many indications of the
 set of the tide towards recovery
 ] of the idea of priesthood in the Protestant ministry. Incidentally came upon the word flowing in a perfectly nat ,ral and unstudied way from the pen of a very widely-known Presbyterian writer and preacher and used as descriptive of the Protestant pastorate. Nothing could more stril1ingly illustrate the new atti- tude of the church universal towards it's own past and it's great heritage of ideas. For the revolt of intellect and conscience from the intolerable bondage of unright- eous authority in the 16th century was, as we now see, not the creation of new church to rival and destroy the old church, but a movement within the church itself. a movement that has only seemed 10 lie outside the pale. It is safe 10 say that neither in the communion called or Rome. nor in the communions or the sons of ,Ibertv'' has there been sufficient toler- ance to understand this ultimate indivis- rbleness of the Fath. Let me premise that here am thinking especially Of the priest as preacher.
 What took place in the lbth century, however availed to make the Protestants contemptuous of the old traditional doc Urine concerning priesthood, just as the prior slow accretion of exiguous and heathen ideas had blinded. the churchmen to the deep practical significance of priest hood, substituting for the gospel reality what many regarded as quaint popular superstition. That actual wearers Of the priestly habit could and did trade upon these popular misconceptions is the sad dest proof of the necessity of the great upheaval and readjustment which the Reformation was.
 Now in both groups, where the old ana the new type exist side by side, there IS a steady progress towards a better un- derstanding of the past, increased respect now mutually, and fuller promised CO., operation in the future. But if the two are ever going to be made one it can only come through some change in the conception not merely of priesthood itself, but of the type of authority implied in the word It happens that recently devout Catholic layman expressed to me his won der at the survival of preaching in mod ern Protestanism. For" said he. you have no longer the old conviction that the Bible is the final authority. Your ad- vanced thinkers in the pulpits do not dream of appealing to the Scriptures as
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New York mayoralty. while addressing . crowd of East Sde laborers, Henry George. the celebrated single-taxer. said: T am not for the poor man; and that stern group of men who had been told that he championed their cause, would have stoned him. T am not for the rich man." Mir. George continued. T AM FOR MEN"
 And our Democracy too. must stand for Men. else it will be forced to resume the old seesaw with the Republican par ty Or if Democracy should elect to go loell-step there may be a seesaw game of quite another fashion. Socialism is past the experimental stage, and will have to be reckoned with in the future. However impractical their theories may appear, they are terribly in earnest about those altrustic theories. It is nightly increasing in voting strength. IL may even come to pass that, to save the re- public Republieanism and Democracy will join hands and ballots in an attempt to destroy the little party with the big ideals The passing of the conservative, even in the ranks of the Republican party, makes such a union not at all impracticabe
 There will be some fine battles in this future we arc timorously facing.