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fered for congressional representative. but was defeated by the Hon. W. R. W Cobb of Jackson county. The sting of defeat was abundantly alleviated, however, when he was chosen by the legislature Unit ed States senator at the close of the same year. The distinction was the greater because of the handsome majority given him over his distinguished opponent, the Hon. R. W. Walker, Clay having re- ceived s5 votes, while Walker received S7.
 The gifts, training. and requirements of Mir. Clay eminently fitted him for this exalted forum. It was at the time when state rights doctrine was we'll at the front. and into the thick of the fray he entered as an ardent disciple of MT. Cal houn. His speeches on the floor of the senate chamber won for him wide atten- ton, and gained for him national re- nown. Throughout the country his speeches were subject of comment, while in Alabama his name was on every thoughtful lip.
 Having served for six years in the
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For mind you
 Although you shut your eyes and deny them, there are such things in the world as pain and sorrow and sickness and bereavement and sin.
 Let's face the fact
 Life has it's disappointments and mis- takes and signing and suffering and sim ming. And
 If it were not so 1t Is sure we should not so keenly enjoy our triumphs and laughter and success. You cannot ap- preciate the light unless you know the darkness. Half our Joys are because of the contrast
 We grow tired even of plum pudding
 if served three times a day. The best things become monotonous.
 Down in the African jungles there are sunshine and smiles and optimism an l Don't Worry clubs, but there is very lit- tie doing. In the temperate zone mems toes are tingled by the frosts into ac- tivity.
 We weary of eternal sunshine,
 Rasselas got tired of the Happy valley and Tom Sawyer of his cave. Jerusnan waxed fat and then made a kick about his prosperous proportions.
 Even optimism pals.
 Smile if possible under all circumstances and do not worry unless there is great necessity. But
 If your grief is too deep for smiling. if care and worry and sorrow get a l,at. in Ia midst of your grief that there IS good in grieving And that though the night may be long and grevious-
 Joy cometh in the morning /
 Who of all the men in the world has been most successful.
 And why?
 There was only one really successful. He, the most lastingly famous person. age in all history, was born and lived in Palestine. nearly 20o0 years ago O. all who have lived he alone filled his destiny. He achieved the success of fulflment. Deny that He was divine if you will. it yet remains that measured even by the standards of our times He succeeded in His Iifes mission as no other has succeeded. His word is law to millions. He is the exemplar of the race. How did he achieve success? By self denial And there is no other way by which humans succeed. When He said, If any man will be my disciple let him, take up his cross and follow me, /" he pointed the way. The way Of the cross? Yes. or through Gethsemane. It matters not what you seek, whether ! it be financial success. social success, fame CT any of the things we make stancard, you can only. succeed by the way of self denial. There is no short cut. There is no royal road Ard men and women fail because they will not pay the price. The world knows what it wants. It has no use for one who lives the self centered and selfish life It has use only for those who rem der it service through self denial.
 Only he rules who serves.
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powerless to save itself from the hell of selfishness, coarse living, sensuality.
 Charles zueblin, editor of the Twen- tieth Century, is one of those righteous souls who has sensed our diseases and offered prophylactics. His paper on Art in the October magazine Is indeed something more than a warning against forgetfulness of beauty in the crowded cities. It is an appeal for social clean Illness of whatsoever sort The beauty of the world" he says, "is not likely to be much enriched by the people who can live with comfort In ugly cities
 the people who are obivious to slums, the people who speed aong the peaceful roads in smelly limousines. the people vino can eat without irritation in fash ionable restaurants, the people who can play bridge when there is ozone in the air, the people who prefer Clyde Fitch to Bernard Shaw, or vaudeville to pageants. or the Greek to the Goth ic........,' There is nothing vicious fin his soolding; rather it Is as if a wise master of a class of thoughtless chill
 dren were teaching a lesson in beha-
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Who holds that city can be we'll the while it nurtures vice2 So snug and sure are We in the faith that man is a beast that we segregate whole dis trcts for the continuation of his beast iality. That is a curious thing. Ne hound a man across states and into penitentiaries for traffickng in poor damned souls (which Is the real right thing to do the basest of us will con fess) and yet each " el -regu a Q Il city legalizes (bs toleration) institu= lions where we may keep our wins'd affections cllpp'd in crime" by thoss same damned souls The curious part O. the whole proceeding Is that society lmprisons men for recruiting women for an institution which society itself has reckoned IS q necessity.
 We may even suspect that society which reconciles a ''weariness that lies awake for hren would not be ill-pleased s the peaks and spires of Babylon up- reared at the next turn of the road.
 And how far is Ii to Babylon?
 Perhaps millions of leagues away. perhaps on your next street; perhaps in your own hot soul
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1T is a trite saying that ''The country
 is fast going to the devil" or that J swe will be re-entering Babylon presently--Babylon the Bold with all her vice and none of her beauty" It is equivalent to saving that mankind, in the ultimate test, is a failure-that ranifestly the Kingdom of God may as we'll be put out of mind as a probable estate for the children of men. It is a good-hearted loving, charitable type this twentieth century breed-the gos- slippers aver, but it is victim of its 1usts, and those lusts are destroying its soul
 Old heads particularly mark this new electric age as one of manifold dangers, seeing that 1t is SC different from that time which shaped their growing. Though the cid landmarks are not all weighted down with medals for passing through life's crucible pure and unde filed, we may yet find some measure of truth in their estimates.
 But whoever knows the ancient na- lure of the man-animal must see that the difference in the moral tone of say,
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openly changed with complicity in the assassination of President Linclon. he changed his course and made his way to Macon, Ga where he might surren- der with a view to a thorough investiga- ton. In reward for this expression of tonor on the part of MT. Clay, he was seized, sent to Fortress Monroe, put in iions. where he lay fellow-prisoner of Jefferson Davis. for 12 months, without being brought to trial on the false charges of treason and sssassination- His health was sadly broken under these cruel and disgracefui conditions, and his release was finally procured by his de- voted and gifted wife. whose pleadingS with the governmental authorities at last prevailed, and 1t was believed not with cut reason, that the government as 1t then was. was glad to appear to display magnanimity in view of the atroeious course pursued concerning one who was
 thus being served purely on an un- founded presumption. and one. too. wne had gone beyond his way seeking trial. in face of the public charges. MT, clay died at Huntsville on January 8. 1882.
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YOHN WHITMAN was a coa miner.
 Employed in a Kansas coal mine 0 eight years ago, he suffered an ac- cident that made him life cripple. It was this way:
 The Kansas law requires passage way at the bottom of the coal shafts leading from one side to the other, in- dependent of the space under the cage. The mining company failed to provide this passage because it cost few dol lars.
 Owing to the lack of the passage poor Whitman got under the cage and was crushed.
 The next day after the accident the passage was put in-too late for Whit man.
 While he lay in the hospital the mine manager and the company's lawyer came to see him. They made big promises When he got well, they said, the company would buy him a home and set him up in the store business.
 whitman was ignorant.
 He did not know the ways of the country, having but recently arrived from France. He believed the smooth words of the well dressed gentlemen. And he promised them he would not bring suit against the company.
 And now mark the duplicity:
 By dint of fair promises Whitman was induced to wait two years. And then The lawyer brutally informed him ne would get nothing from the company be- cause ''the statute of limitations cut him out. That is to say, a damage suit must be brought within two years of the accident or not at all
 The cripple had been overreached by q lawyers cunning.
 The company had made him a life cripple by its criminal carelessness and then robbed him, by spacious lies, of his right to sue the company v Robbed him?
 What is the difference between robblng a man of the legal right to what is due him and holding him up on the high way?
 The company first made Whitman a cripple and then kicked his crutches from under him.
 It was plain pilage.
 Meantime the poor man and his five children live in three room box and the family is kept from starving by the wife. who takes in washing.
 The law? Yes, but
 Why should victim be prevented from having recourse on his robbers three years, or five. or ten. or twenty years after the robbery?
 Smile
 ''Do not worry"
 In these two slogans is condensed the gist of much modern teaching. And it is wholesome doctrine. I myself have preached it, in season and out. for years. There is no doubt it helps wonderful i. ly to sit up and look pleasant 1t helps to think cheerful thoughts and to refuse ] to worry. especially when there is no good reason for doing otherwise.
 But
 There's another side Smile as much as you may try. cease to worry as much as yot can, nevertheless griefs will come into your life.
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said promise but contrivng to deceivs and defraud the said plaintiff in these particulars and totally to hinder her from the preferment and good fortune she would have met with by such marriage hath not taken her. the said plaintiff. to wife, though the said defendant after wards, to-wit, on the -, and often be- fore and after that time, hath been thereto requested by the said defendant But the said defendant hath always hith- erto refused so to do. To the damage or the plaintiff $50, 0o0 as paid in her wit. Wherefore she sues"
 Date. place, names of parties.
 December 2. 1906. defendant varbally promised to marry plaintiff. August 5, leO7 he married another woman. Plaintiff claims Gi0oo damages
 The difference between the machinery for disposing of appeals in the two coun- tries is correspondingly great. In the United States no matter how un- equivocal the evidence and the jury's verdict may have been. the coRvlcted man always can stay sentence by taking an appeal, which must be filed and con slider ed as a matter of course. The man convicted of crime in England can ap- peal only if he can show that new evil dence has been found or that princlpls of law is involved.
 The American Bar association has worked zealously for several years now to remedy the situation. After careful consideration for over four years, the committee in charge of the matter formu- lated a bid which was unanimously ap- proved practically in it's entirety at the annual meeting of the association In 1g8
 Two successive congresses have consfd- cred this bill in an amended form, blE as yet it has failed to pass both houses. But even il Congress should pass a similar bill, only the federal courts would be improved the situation in the state courts would not be affected. Just how this crucial phase of the situation is to be remedied it Is insuperably difficult to say. Much depends on the attitude and the energy of the state bar association; ! and much upon the character of the press of the various states.
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Clothes and the Woman

From the CIsveIand Plain Dealer.
 The womans waiting room of cer- tain Cleveland hotel is presided over by one of the nildest-mannered. sef-effac- ing little ladies in existence She seldom speaks. and never finds fault. It Is re- lated of her that a young man came Into the room one time to keep an appoint ment with woman who had not yet ap- peared. He held a cigar in his hand
 May one smoke here?" he asked pos litely.
 I'm corry.r smiled the attendant. but it's against the rules
 Where did all those cigar stumps coms from?"
 "Thcy are left by gentlement who didn't ask"
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from him and refused to go. She has not heard from him since that night.
 And now
 The years have come and gone and along with them the hope that she might meet her brother or hear from him. Fail ing in this, she holds out the ssterly olive branch in her solicltous advertise ment.
 May Mrs. Dohrman find Johann stai- nau, her brother,
 One of the most beautiful things in nature is the close relation of brother and
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sister. Children of the same father and mother, they are alike and yet different.
 It is the law of heredity--unity in di- versity.
 While one of the children may inherit more of one parents disposition than the other, yet if you blend the two dispos- tions you will have neither the dispos tion of the father nor of the mother.
 Brother and sister are the sum of the father and mother and plus or minus
 Because
 A long line of ancestry is behind them.
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He succeeds who denies himself.
 Nor should it be fancied that the law of self denial is mere preachers talk" It is the stern law of success, inexora- ble as the law of gravity or of crystal ization
 Says David Belasco, millionaire play wright, Most humbly do I admit that whatever success in this world has come to me has been the result of living ID to the rule of discipline and self de- nial.
 the long and tiresome and upward road to the end. It is the way to Calvary. Would you succeed-succeed everlast- ingly? The way is open. It is the way of the Master
 Love myself last
 Suppose
 Suppose friendly critic from the planet Mars should some day drop down on us? What would he say?
 I fancy he would criticized our extrava- gance and waste.
 Listening to our complaints about the high cost of living. he would point to our clumsy methods of distribution, our middlemens profit, our demands for quick delivery
 Noting how our big factories utilize the byproducts and make fortunes out of waste, he would be amazed at the way our common people squander our sub staaace.
 And our impatience: He would note our way of passing snap judgment. We prejudge things. We become excited about trihes and over look the weightler issues. Our changeable moods:
 This Martan critic would witness how calmly we permit abuses by our political favorites: how when we wake up to them there is much excitement; how when the abuses are partially corrected we so to sleep again. Our reforms must go in waves or not at all.
 Our craze for entertainment: Tke Martian would watch the stream of people as they crowd into the vaudeville and picture shows. Entering into these and the other places oi amisement, he would show us how the spectacular things appeal to our love oi sensationalism. Our singular cruelty:
 He would wonder at our disposition tc kick the man who is down. our contempt for the man who fails. He would be puzzled to understand how Humanitarian age, boasting it's churches and schools should be so disposed.
 Our standard of success: Very soon he would discover the fact that our standard of success is the dol lar. It would take him long time to figure out why we should lay the em- phesis on property rights rather shar human rights. l Suppose | Suppose this critic from another world should, in the very kindest and most sympathetic way. call our attention tC these defects in our civilization. 1 Would he be characterized as a bluta butter in? ] Just as I may be characterized for sup posing such criticisms?
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LION CLEMENT CLAIBORNE CLAY inherited all the strong traits 4 of his distinguished father. His birthplace was Huntsville, where he was born in 1877. Tn his boyhood years he would learn much of the struggles through which the people of the state were passing in a transition from pio- neer conditions to those of real life and thus manhood unfoided contempor- aneously with the development of his native state. His first knowledge or Alabama was derived at a time when conditions were rude and crude and during his career of more than three score years he saw 1t expand through successive periods, his sentiments keep ing pace with it's development.
 In most respects highly favored by fortune and condition. MT. Clay knew hcw to prize these and use them as stepping stones to success His father was his most intimate companion, ana the stations held by him were as large
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Like or unlike, the relation is sacred kinshp Blood is thicker than. water. The tie that binds them is the tie that tugs at the heartstrings.
 And yet
 Sadly it must be written, the tie is often broken by neglect or carelessness. The members of the family are scattered and letters are infrequent.
 Sometimes-sadder stlll--the relation Is severed by variance or rupture.
 Other slsters-and brothers-might we'll emulate the effort this German woman makes to find and reconcile her brother.
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