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TA Study iiv * T Zit/u/'Anf .23. CVa/rA-. MO OBCFV ploturesqueneßa and abll ftr-% Hr ■ congress knows no nee '§g m lions Nortliorners, southern «rn, easterners and westerners IB" harp their strengths and their t* ' \ weaknesses their likes and their f JB. | dl»likes. their physical manner \ngZtoaf isms and tholr menial Idlosyn crasles just like all other human \1 J beings. CJLiUi There have been men In con gress who year In and year out on rwy occasion have kept hewing to the line of one sjK*ial legislative endeavor. John T. TUorgau, imr yews senator from the state of Ala batna. worked lor lftouths untold to secure the adoption by the Ufiited States government of the Kicarsg**" rant* 'or the great Interoceanlc canal He h«at ont. but It Is probable that the facts which he obtained in his researches were of more rate* to the dljrgers of (he canal than those Gathered hi any other one man. Senator V«rßan was one of (he noted excep tions to ike (wultnist's rule for the limit of the Toars of oiam Some of the flippant, ami pos sibly Itrvd. senators declared (hat Mr. Morgan's speeches wet* an long as his life. If the voice of the Alalmaia fwan had been younger there wculd hare been few sleepy ones In the senate when he tslkcil that ts when he talked oti any otter subject than the interoceanlc cajiprt.) Then it war; to ty before the face of hts~^«|Br.v. There was substance to speeches, sod Hiia much cannot bo said for the \ncal '•CToria of some of the flippant and younger ones Tbe agod one's words went Into the Con gressional Record and Illuminated its pages. When be roue to apeak many of the colleagues of Mr Morgan retreated to the restaurant or the cloak room (Inly rarely did he take apparent no tice of the c eming discourtesy. Once, wisely or unwisely, lie tuid with something of pnthou in his toice thai tie wished he could talk in the lunch lonta. for ther,p he would be sure of an audience VU\ Morgan was no Imperialist. lie had ft ,fenr In his hear! «f the outcome of the policy of expan sion, *r»d Ike mo to of warning tha( came from his lips was freqnont and forceful. Ons; day, after, otiilinisr Ihr IMW.il ion which he believed his cowowy *b«*n(d take, his voice came back to him. Senator* Ktartinf. to leave their seats sunk hack *nd listened The,words fairly rang through the chamber This was what he said: •in !kt* lolly altitude we can prove the vlr tue of fh«r nftiuhile before the eyes of all tnnn kind. or w* can net its Itght as a beacon to warn fwiins fenerations that, even In the highest reach at power aud advantage, this republic— (he cynosure of all eyes Ih affected to the core with the stn of ruvctousness, and Is aflame with (he htst of power that is attended with tho niwcpatlons. tyrannies and oppressions which have aiarked tlie course of the oligarchies rnd d«fftoia that have disgraced the history of tfher nation* ~ The senAtp of the I'nitod States stands for dig nitr Sometimes the dignity is overdone, but, on one occasion the Senate was undignified to the jwtnt of striking several oldor senators with horror Senator Tillman of South Carolina was mak ing loan than an impassioned speech. Ho ■was marking toward (he skies of oratory, when Relator Wanes left his seat, unseen of Tilltnnn. and took mat ion behind the South Carolinian. The *peaher had both hands high over his head direr ting (lie snaiing of his thoughts and words. Warren took a alep forward. His hand stole to Tillman's aide, slipped Into his pocket, and came out l&ata holding in Its clutch a big black bot'le All enrnosrioim Tillman went on with his words . of Hre Warren held his find aloft in full view of the scivcidisc officer, of his colleagues and the crowded There was a gasp, then a smothered and simultaneous gurgle of horror frnm a ksndicd throats, and then roaring laugh ter iinrhoekablo Tinman tvrneri and knowledge of the awfulness of hi* situation came to him. For once, possibly for the drwt time in his life, he wits staggered to fpewrhlwwneim He strove 'or words, but they raree oot at hi* bidding His face was first black with joraethinjs like anger. Then the cloud clear ed and a awile broke through Speech returned, and two wordn came: "lloraclc acid." It was hmaric acid, but unfortunately for Mr. TiUras*. it had been put into a black and suspl-"~-« rimi* hrnfh" A sore throat was the reason for Its earry«c. and wkile (he South Carolinian Is a man *( kaiswo trolh. he would not let the matter j»ss until he had passed the bottle and had forred fctm comrade* to stnell the stuff and ntake clear kh temperance record \e(th*r senate nor house makes light of pen sion ptea* in the presence of the galleries,, but route of (he would be pensioners play "comic roles In "he mottprittee rooms and corridors. Claim ants wba can prove things are treated as old sol diers awd eld soldiers' widows ought to bo —decently and reverently. [ OWMpewa iw ila weakness I.as voted tensions on »a*» aw occasion, though doubtless know tatf that the peasions we.re unearned and unde h«tt the day of thai sort of thing ts pass laR W A has wot altogether gone. One member tru aakad t«» kae his influence to securo an in- The Shepherd of the Black Sheep - • , - if 1 : fnftimi Sir Charles Bell In the Wi»*4 Cath It a Convulsive Ac- Hon of the Diaphragm. »r» Professor Sir Ckuftr* Ml ia (he Ixmdon Strand, "Is ■ nrnivltiro action of the diaphragm. In this state the person draws a full krestfc t« throws It out In Interrupt ed. ntuart amd astfible cachlnnatlona. TVi «o«auftriM of tbe diaphragm is tfcerrtaripof part of the physical man- IfusLartew of laughter, but there are ~ KvctaJ ao s—rtsa. especially the AM* a4rsu sUensee aristnc from the vMaot tenha at the laryus and the M9t«n£«ai of the features, 'his being i55^5555i555555555555555|5555|5i^5555555555555555|^ wßxl 1 fWßlfSmm P■ BR ImsHp BHI %mln* IK l|l w v^*v cronse of pension for the widow of a soldier. There were papers forwarded to hUn which bore on the case, and these he turned over to the committee on pensions after his bill had been introduced. • x The widow did not (jet her money, and it was not long before the whole house knew why. The member who had espoused the widow's cause lmd been In congress for years, and the Joke at Ms expense was too good to keep, and one after another of his colleagues walked up to Ills desk and congratulated him on the wisdom shown In the plea which wjui~ln written form, he had turned In to thc&omnilttee to win the widow's enso. , it is perhaps needless to ray that the mem ber had never read the plea. It set forth the fact that while the amount of pension increase the widow of the soldier horo asked for was large, It must be understood "that she came of good family, moved In the best social circles, and was In need of a large sum of money to keep up appearances." I' pon occasion senators and representatives per mit their constituents to do their talking for» them In congress. Petitions come In floods at times, with the object of securing legislation by external pressure. In the Smoot case, and In the pure food and army canteen matters the pleas of tfie people came in by the tens of thousands. The members of both houses present these let ters, call attention to their Import and then allow the petition to do the rest If they are potent enough. Senator l«atlmer of South Carolina once intro duced a good roads bill calling for the expendi ture of government millions for the Improvement of the highways. The automobliists all over the country began sending letters of approval They pressed their friends Into the'wrltinß servtce, but that they did not always pass upon the persuasive merits of the friends' productions Is shown fair ly well by one letter on the good roads' subject received by Senator Cullom. It read like this: "Dear Mr. Cullom: Please vote for this d —d bill, and you will oblige a fool friend of mine who runs an automobile. Yours more or less sincerely, " It was a Chicago man who wrote this appeal. ' There were others like unto It. The good roads bill still sleeps. In the older days the school readers contained r the story of "I'll Try Sir Miller." Probably everybody knows who "I'll Try Sir Miller/' was. . Certainly eveybody ought to know. Gen. James Miller tben a captain, was the hero of Lundy's He said he would try to do the thing necessary for the thrashing of the enemy, and he did It. and "I'll Try Sir," took the place of his Christian name James a more Intense fornl of the smile. In extrdfne caseßfThe eyes are moistened by the effusWfT from the lachrymal glands." . There you have a scientific deflnl' tlon. But it Is clear that mankind would hardly take the trouble to go through that experience If that Is all that laughter consisted of. They would not regard a Dickens or a Mark Twain as a benefactor merely because a perusal of their writings produced that. No; even the philoso phers know that laughter Is something better than- that—something Internal —that there la such • thing as silent laughter. Uobbes calls laughter "a sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some emlnency in our selvett by comparison with the infirm ity ol others, or with pur own for merly." If a laugh Is a benefaction and the provoker of a laugh a benefactor, why" are there more statues to dull people than to witty ones? Who was the greatest laugh promoter In history? It was said of Sidney Smith that he | was the father of 10.00Q.000 laughs. ! "laughter," said Lord Rosebery re i j cently, "Is a physical necessity. We ' | live under a sunless sky. surrounded i | by a melancholy ocean, and it Is a ! physical necessity for the English n«- ; ! tlon —even for the Scotch nation and I j the Welsh nation—to laugh. It ex ■ j Mlarates all social relations. Was i [ uot," his lordship added, "the laugh Kor years several representatives In congress tried tQ: secure an appropriation to be used (or the building of a monument to Oeneral Miller at Peterboro, N. 11., near which town "I*ll Try 81r" lived on a farm before the war of 1812, and for years after Its close. The representatives who had the matter of pushing the bill In hand used the words of Captain Miller at Lundy's Lane to express their own determination to secure a vic tory. They certainly did try, and the speeches that were made before the library committee of congress held patriotic appeals lti every sentence. Apparently, however, it was easier for Miller to capture a battery against odds than it was for members of congress to capture the dollars neces sary to build a monument uf enduring stones to his memory. It was a case of try and try again. While the cause of Miller, whose heroism was worth a dozen mgnoments, was being pleaded, congress voted money for memorials to other men less de serving Finally,, however, a New Hampshire member who had been digging Into history found out something about "I'll Try Sir's" career which was not generally known. Congress had been told time and again that Captain Miller not only had shown conspicuous gallantry at Lundy Lane, but that prior to that light he had thrashed a superior force of nritish and Indians at Managua. Congress had also been told that Miller had com manded the, center column of Oeneral Brown's army, which routed what was apparently - an overwhelmingly greater force of the British at Fore Krio. These things didn't make an Con gress seemed to think that inasmuch as Miller was a soldier that it was his business to defeat superior forces of the enemy every day In the week without imposing any monument-raising duty on posterity. The New Hampshire member, however, found out that after the war of 1813 Miller went back to bis farm near Petersboro, plowed fields, chopped wood and. milked the cows instead of going to Washington to ask the gov ernment to jlo something for him on account of his record. Miller's popularity was such after the treaty of peace that the government probably would have been glad to give him anything that It had to give. When "I'll Try Sir" was aaked why he was playing Cincinnatus Instead of taking a job In Washington, he replied: "When men begin leaving the farms for the cities the nation will begin to decay." Congress was told of this saying of Miller's, and either admiration for his choice of a farm er's life or else belief that he was a prophet who before long might have the truth of his prophecy proved, brought a favorable report from the committee on library In the matter of the monument at Petersboro. of Sir FYank I»ckwood something that would make a stuffed bird rejoice? And those who listened to the splen dor of merriment which he could im part by that laugh realise the intense value, of that emotional exercise." i Alibi. Father {having caught his son In a lle> —Haven't I always told you to tell the truth? Son—Yea, father; but you also told me never- to b«come the slave of a Do you ever think of the irrevocable nature of speech? You may flDd, years after your light word was spoken spoken, that it made a whole life unhappy, or ruined the peacs ol a household.—Stopford Brooke. ♦ Finding of tbe Book of the Law Swiay Scfceol LNM fm My 30, 1911 Specially irrund lor Thi* Paper I.EBBON TI3XT—II Chronicles J4:14-33. MEMORY VERSE—2I. GOLDEN T.5XT—"Thy word have I hid In mine heart, that I might not aln «gainst thee."—Pea. 119:11. TIME—B. C. «2lr in the !Sth year of Joalah'a reign, when he waa 24 years old. Stage IV of the laat lesson. PLACE—The Temple and Palace at. Jerusalem. PERSONS—JosIah the king. Huldah the prophetess. Hllklah the high priest. Shaphan the scribe or secretary. With hundreds of millions of Bibles In existence and several millions more printed every year, it is somewhat dif ficult for us to imagine how knowledge of the written Bible, and of the exact tenor of its teachings could be lost. Some facts will help us to understand. There were at that time very few copies of the sacred books in exist ence. They were very expensive. It was customary for these copies to be kept In the temple, while the copy which (according to the law) was made for the use of tbe king, would most certainly have perished under such kings as Manasseh and Amon. Ft is plain that the -finding of this book "was not the discovery of some- I thing unknown before, but the rescu | Ing of the temple copy of the law from j the hiding place in which it had long j l lain." It must have been the ancient i copy of the law, and not a book writ- j ten. as some critics think, by unknown persons in the reign of Manasseh, never seen or used among the Jews j before. When they brought out from the old chests in the temple the money con- j trlbuted for repairs, which had been j deposited in the safest hiding place, j I Hllklah the priest, who had charge of j the money, in searching the chest j I found at the bottom a book of the law j | of the Lord, the law given by Moses. Hilkiah delivered tho book to Shap- i | han, King Joslah's secretary of state, | us the fitting person to show it to the | king. When Shaphan reported the I contributions and tha work on the tem | pie, he brought the book with him, told how it haT been found, and read'lt to i the king. The king neard the book read, and he assembled the elders and priests, and the Levltes. They made a public covenant and pledge. The king him | self first made P. public covenant be fore the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, with all his heart. This was vory similar to the groat meeting under Joshua on the slopes of Mount Ebal and Oeriilm eight centu ries before, on taking possession of the Promised Land. The same motives were presented, and the same cove nant made. The covenant was made under the power of the strongest and best mo-' lives that could be brought to bear upon them, when their minds were up lifted into clearest vision, above the smoke and clouds of earth. That was J the right time to make a decision. God has given us feelings on purpose to I move us to decide aright. Joslah restored the regular temple services under the priests and Le vltes; and he celebrated a passover, such as had not been*"celebrated from the day 8 of the Judges that Judged Is rael, nor In all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah. From all parts of the land the people flocked up to the renovated temple and Joined with every demonstration of gladness in the eight days' festivity prepared for them. Thirty thousand males of ful,l age attended. During all these days the services of the temple choir were brought into requllstion— the singers of the famous clan of Asaph chanting, in relays, the«psalms for the season, appointed centuries be foro by David, Asaph and Jeduthrn. The Bible may be lost today by neg lecting it —neglecting to read It daily. Neglecting family reading and prayers. Neglecting to read its stories to little children. By disobeying It. Disobey ing Its precepts dulls the conscience, and the whole moral nature, so that it may be said, "Eyes have they, "fcut they see not, ears have they but they j hear not." By being BO absorbed' in worldly things that while he heareth the word with his ears, "the care- of this world, and the deceltfulness of riches, choke | the word, and he becometh unfruit ful." By keeping the Word far from ' dally life, so that all its blessed truths i are admired, but not geared on to right action. By making the Bible unattractive. I have heard a number of ministers read the Bible so poorly that people were not Interested In it, listened careless ly, jnd liked tt less than if it had been unread. Then the printing of the Re vised Version is so solid as to be un attractive and difficult to use". JBy lee cenlng its authority. It makes a vast difference in the power of the Bible, whether It Is received as only the thoughts of men, or as a message from God. By neglecting all the light that U shining upen it from many sources. Find the Bible —Get acquainted with It Read It. Study it. Know what is In It One of the best things In the Sunday school, in the Epworth League and Christian Endeavor movement is their emphasis OH the daily reading of the Bible. Practice its precepts. Only by doing God's will can one understand it Use It as a guide book for daily life. Sometimes boys In school and college have litle Interest In their studies because they do not see any practical use In them. But as soon as , they see how they guide to success, or are essential to their alms, they be come full of enthusiasm.*' Charlotte Directory Typewriters Rebuilt Your old machine can be maHe as good as new in our shops at * nominal coat. All makes of typewriters rebuilt, repaired, cleaned and adjusted in the shortest possible time and in the most satisfactory manner. J. E. Crayfoa A Co., Charlotte, N. C. Be a Gnat Pianist Yourself even if you don't know • one note from another. Educate yourself, your family and friends to the beautiful in music. SELF PLAYER PIANOS $400.001« $950.00 Convenient terms if desired. CHAS. M. STIEFF Southern War#room: ~ 5 West Trade Street, Charlotte, N. G. | C. H. WILMOTH, Manacer HOW IT HAPPENED. m » - Tom—Was It case of love at first eight? Harry—No—first call. She was a telephone girl, and he wan taken with her voice when he first heard It. Honors More Than Even. Mr*. Patrick Campbell Is not kindly Inclined to criticism of her work. At a rehearsal of a new play, one morn ing. her manager. Charles Frohman. stopped Mrs. Campbell and said: "Mr® Campbell, It seems to me that those lines should be delivered thus," repeat ing the lines In question. Mrs. Camp bell drew herself up and said: "Mr. Frohman, 1 am an artist." "That is all right, Mrs. Campbell," replied the ur bane manager. "I assure you I will never reveal your secret." I ■ ■ ■ . ■■ !■ Making It Legal. "We don't know what to do about j Piute Pete," Bald the Crlnißon Gulch citizen. "He was a real good feller, but he would be careless about shoot in' up the populace." "Did you straighten out the mat ! ter?" "To tome extent; we elected him sheriff, thereby maktn' It look a little more legal." The Man Who Sued the Widow. A St. Louis man Is suing a widow for SIOO,OOO fqp refusing to marry him. He must be one of those iron gray whiskered men who want to sit on the front porch of a house that was built with money earned by another man—Houston Post. Would Need It. _ "Gracious, what Is all that crape for?" ,_"I had a chance to get it at a baiv gain, and, you know, my husband goes in for the flying!" A Triumph * Of Cookery— Post Toasties Many delicious dishes have been made from Indian Coco by the skill and ingenuity of the ex pert cook. C' But none of these crea- v bons excels PoStTOMt ies m tempting the palate. "Toasties" are a luxury that make a delight ful hot-weather economy. The first package te&s it) own story. "The Memory Lingers" SoM by Grocers POSTUII CEREAL \ Bull* Creek, Mich., ufs. A.
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