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MEROK2Yr A.TCWN3,'
Ed'tore nnd Proprietora,
CNI COLLAR A YEA It IN ATJVANCI
Adverting rate reasonable . sa4
eade known upon application, pay&Ks
quart!? bo!o otherwise stipulated,
g bat metal blue euta accapUA.
Chicago Is to have 114,000,000 hoti
complete, even to the diamond studded
tooth picks, says the Detrols Journal
When you are behind It, It is public
opinion, declares the New York Press.
, When you are the object of It, It la
public clamor..'
Russia Is so pressed for funds that
the Cossacks, wtio are setting about-
Bix cents a year ave-Uable any moment
. to be cut down to three cents, declare
;, the Montreal Star. -'.T;.v-V
The honeymoon may very properly
be said to be over when the wife tug
. gents to her husband that he'd better
hare his trousers pressed by a tailor,
concludes the Detroit Free Press.
Dr. Hulbert, of the University of
Chicago, thinks football is too good a
game to lose. Yes, agrees the New
York Tribune. It is also too good a
game to be commercialised and bru
talized as it has. been In tat years.
In fixing up the new football rules it
may be pertinent to suggest that rule
: number one requires the slugging to
be done by the players before they step
out on the gridiron or delayed until
' after the game Is over. It doesn't add
' anything to the pleasure or excitement
of the play, concludes the Ban Antonlf
Express.
The Baltimore American states that
a woman's club in an Indiana town
has disbanded, the members, coming
to the conclusion that the home life Is
better for their sex. : Husbands are
, rejoicing, and doubtless the event will
be celebrated In the masculine clubs of
the town with the usual male cere
monies of rejoicing.
; It is Very difficult to say what laws
- regulate proposals why some girls at
, tract, attention only, while others at
tract "attentions," opines the Lady's
Realm. There are .pretty and popular
ouK.J"to :. wfcjJTiii nobody Tjifoi'
. there are plainer ; ones "with whom
every second man finds, himself con
; templatlng marriage. .; " - '
The late Marshall Field stands out
conspicuous among men of his financial
ratingln this country-,"' declares the
Providence Journal, because be ac
quired his enormous fortune by meet
ing competition fairly, not by brutally
suppressing It; by honorable efforts to
raise himself, not by unscrupulous de
vices to pull down others. j
In spite of the occasional failure, of
which depreciatory ' critics never fall
to make the most, British detectives
will emerge well from comparison, with
their French or New York rivals,
whom their critics are apt to extol In
terms of exaggerated panegyric. There
are fewer unsolved mysteries in Van-
don fhan In Paris or In New York, as
serts the London Magazine.
In the calendar year Just closed the
exports and Imports beat all records,
states the Philadelphia Record. The
exports were $142,209,160 larger than
In 1903, the best .previous year, and
the imports were $143,448,6t greater
than In 1904, which was the best pre
ceding year. The Imports have ex
ceeded a billion dollars only la the last
two years. The exports have exceeded
a billion dollars In each of the last tea
years; seven times they have exceeded
a billion and a quarter. In no calendar
year, prior to 1905 did they exceed a
billion and a half;" they amounteoMast
year to 91,626,962,343. 'The export of
manufactured goods In eleven, months
amounted to 3S204000,000. ''.''
The opportunities for the spread of
Infectious disease, especially of. the
skin and scalp, in dirty barber shops
are so obvious as to admit of no ar
gument, avows the New York Globe.
The practice of every cutaneous spe
cialist contains records of many cases j
In which the source of contagion can 1
l.e traced to m? a source. The sim
plicity and cheapness of the mei-Uods
by which this danger can be avoided
are well known and have been pointed
put by the health board of this city,
which a few months ago attempted to
secure a general adoption cf them In
local barber shops. That these protec
tive measures are more " honored la
the breach than the observance, even
in the better class of establishments, Is
still true. ,:.'.,
Easy Wy to Carve.
Freddy lived In a boarding house
near where they had been excavating
for the subway. One day v V'n he saw
liia mother struggling wlu a particu
larly tough e'-vu the boarduj went
convulsed to hear hist pipe out:
, "Mama, whv don't you blast tt?v ,
FY.ECIDENT "OVEOLED"
His Schema for Federal Control of
Corporations .Repudiated . by the
Houes Judiciary Committee.
A Washington special says: Taking
sharp Issue with President Roosevelt,
the house committee on judiciary de
clares it cannot follow his recommen-
I dations that congress provide for fed
eral control of great corporations anil,
if possible for the control of life in
surance .is interestate commerce. -Cowing
as does its report from the
republican majority of the committee
on Judiciary, this report has all the
essentials of a repudiation by leading
members of his party, in congress pt
these leatures of President Roose
velt's message.
s. The report in question denies the
right of the federal government to
take away from the states their police
powers, expressing itsV dissent ,,; in
strong language.
"Let It be said kindly, but not of
fensively," is the language of the re
port, "that it is a monstrous doc
trine, subversive of our dual system
of government, to even suggest, after
the distribution of these great, power
between the federal government and
the states, that the federal govern
ment created by the states can take
from tha stater the power they have
always enjoyed and which is expressly
reserved to them by the constitution.
Hamilton himself never made such
a claim.".. :' .y.-'':. ' , ' ' 'r:y-,
The report has been drafted by
Chairman Jenkins of the committee
and Is now in the hands of the . mem
bers of the committee for thoir pe
rusal.' An unofficial poll of the. mem-,
bers of the committee indicates that
with practically no exceptions they
concur in the correctness of this con
clusion. The report of Mr. Jenkins
may. therefore, be taken as the basis
of the answer the committee is to
make to the house in compliance with
the Instructions of that body.
The report collates all of the lm-J
portant court decisions on the ques
tions Involved, treats each exhaustive
ly and reduces the whole problem to
these two "principles. :...;'
"The supreme court of the United
States has declared, and has nevor
been shaken or : weakened In main
taining, first, that Insurance Is not
commerce, and second that congress
cannot impair the police powers of
the states." -r.
The advocates of federal regulation
concede, according to the report, that
insurance is not commerce.
"The advocates of federal supervis
ion admit and concede that it Is en
tirely optional with the states to ad
mit or exclude Insurance corporations.
Hence, it follows that the state has
entire power to . regulate.' The busi
ness can be carried out without com
mercial transit and it is only during
commercial transit ihat federal power
caa'- be' exercised y rpf"?
The difficulty of administering fed
eral regulations is emphasized as fol
lows: .' ' ' ' '.'"' i . ,
"What can congress act upon under
its power to regulate interstate' com
merce? Congress cannot prevent the
making of a contract of Insurance be
tween a company In New York and a
resident of Oregon. After the con
tract Is made, when will the power of
congress attach, and to what? The
policy and premium are not merchan
dise. As the power of congress' does
not attach until the merchandise Is
In commercial transit, it could not
become active until the policy and
premium start on their journey and
would terminate when the place of
designation Is reached and the duty
and power of congress would be to
protect both in transit, and that is
the limit of congressional 'power."
SON PROTECTS HIS MOTHER.
Forced to Kill. Father Who Was en
Murderous Rampage. ,
TO save the life of his mother, his
wife and himself from a murderous
attack made on them by his father,
who was trenxled with rage and mean
whisky, EHsha Franklin Purcell," at
Atlanta Wednesday night, shot and in
stantly killed Henry ... Jackson Pur-
celL . -
DIVE PRISONER TESTIFIES.
. ; ,' ,-. 1 ' : .
White Woman Tells Story of Her
' Horrible Treatment by Negroes."
HatUe '"Warren, a white . woman.
v as lured to a resort frequented only
by negroes in-New .York city, and
there held a prisoner for niore than
five months, during- ,'wbich time she
was subjected to the grossest indigni
ties, according to the story told by
the woman herself In the court rf
general' sessions Thursday,
She was the first witness produced
by the prosecution in the case of Rob
ert Sprigs, colored, the alleged pro-;
prletor of the house the -. woman
claims she was held prisoner.
GEORGIA PEACH IS NIPPED.
Cold Snap Damaged Crop from Fifty
'to Seventy-five Per Cent. '
Reports which have been recdlvcd
from almost every section of tlio fruit
belts of Georgia, indicate that . ths
peach crop has been seriously .dam
aged by the f reeling weather and
killing frost of Tuesday bight .Al
though no official statement can' be
made at present, a conservative esti
mate of the damage is placed at trom
50 to .75 Per cent of the croD.
" NINETEEN TlVES LOST
lit Terriflo Storm Which Swept the
Coast of Vera Cruz.
A dispatch from Mexico City says:
Ninetoea persons perished in a ter
rite norther, which swept the coast
of Vera Cruz Tuesdoy.
Tw of the storm victims , were
pleasure siwkars. As yet no reports
hive bear made of vessels lout.
.XERS GO FREE
1
All Charges Mads Against
. Them Fall Flat. ,
IMMUNITY PLEA STANDS
Tnelr Contention Upheld by Federal
Court In Chicago Indictments, '
However, Will Stand Against
Corporations.
A Chicago dispatch says: All the
packers whd were indicted by a fed
eral grand jury last ' summer on
I charges of conspiracy in restraint of
Interstate trade and commerce have
been granted immunity from criminal
prosecution under the indictment. '"
While tha individuals are to go free,
the indictments found against the
corporations, of whiotr some of the in
dicted packers are members and oth
ers are employees, are to stand. The
jury returned a Verdict in accordance
jr.ltmtUfl direotiojivot the; court, '
A deoision to this effect was. handed
down Friday afternoon by Judge ,T.
Otis -Humphrey In the United. States
district court. The court reviewed the
case la all Its bearings, and all the
essential facts which had been brought
out, and concluded as follows: :
"Under the law In this case the
Immunity pleas filed by the defend
ants will be sustained as to the in
dividuals and, denied to the corpora
tions, and. the Jury will find In favor
of the government as far as the cor
porations ere concerned, and against
the government as far as the Individ
uals are concerned.' -
During the rendition of the decision
the court was crowded by defendants
and numerous spectators. "
Edward Morris and Edward Swift
were in court and both smiled hap
pily when the decision was announc
ed. J. Ogden Armour was not pres
ent, but some men prominent of the
employ of Armour 4b Co., who were
under Indictment were there and their
Joy was 'great.' '.:...' i . :'';
..' When, the judge announced that
the Indictment would not lie against
them, the defendants crowded to
gether and shook hands. t. .
Immediately following the dismis
sal of the jury, District Attorney Mor
rison raised the question of the date
for the trial of the corporations. He
asked that the case be set for trial,
and that it commence within ; two
weeks. ;. , f .
This met with a storm pt protest
from the attorneys of , the' packers,
who insisted that they would be un
able to prepare for the case before
fall, pleading the number of witnesses
which It would be necessary to bring
$o Chicago,; the strajc of he present
trial, and various other reasons. -
'After some discussion, Judge Hum
phrey directed that the lawyers agree
among themselves on a date and noti
fy him of their decisions next week.
It Is expected that the total number
of witnesses in this trial, when it be
gins, will number, at least, 1,600, ,
MOB FORESTALLED BY SHERIFF.
Would-Be Lynchers Failed to Get
Negro In South Carolina Jail.
Late Tuesday night a body of arm
ed men rode Into Bishopvllle, the coun
ty seat of Lee county, South Caro
lina, and made a desperate effort to
lynch a negro who recently attempt
ed to assassinate a white man. ,
The sheriff got wind of the mob's
Intention and prepared to resist it
When the mob neared the jail volleys
were exchanged with tha sheriff and
his deputies. Seeing that tbey. were
outwitted, the orowd dispersed with
out bloodshed. .
.- We Action Taken on Treaty.
The senate in executive - session
Wednesday had under consideration
the Isle of Pines treaty, but, after a
general discussion, lasting more than
an hour, the legislative session was
resumed without action having been
taken. ' -
RECOGNIZES BUT TWO FLAGS.
That Is- What Mayor McCarthy of
Riohmond Said to Ice Men,
The Southern Ice Exchange met
In. Richmond, Va., Wednesday in its
seventeenth annual convention. . The
tody was welcomed in an address by
Mayor McCarth?,rwTo said, -among
other things, referring to Richmond's
having been the Confederate capital
"I am 'the' son of an Irishman, and
I recognise but two flags the state
flag of Virginia and the battleflag of
the Confederacy. Tha , stars and
stripes are all right In their way,
but for me there are but two flags.
RUSSIAN BANK LOOTED.
Twenty Armed Bandits Get Away With
425,000 In City of Moscow.
A special from Moscow, Russia,
says; A. the officials were clewing
the Mutual Credit Society's bank on
Tuesday afternoon, twenty armed men
surrounded the bunding, which is near
the bourse, and, covering the em
ployees of the banks with pistols, they
pillaged the plaoe, getting away with
$425,000, and made good their escape.
CHAMPION TYPEWRITER GIRL.
Blindfolded, Mite Frit Wrote 4,420
Words In Sixty Minutes.
The world's record in blindfold
typewriting contest was broken nt
the National Business Show in Chi
cago Wednesday night by Miss Rose
L. Fritz of New York, who wrote
4,007 word correctly in sixty niinules.
The total number of words written
was 4.457, but i'o mistakes wcra
made. .
Li....u:.l'i
Many Qui in Chattanooga Ee.
cause cf : hing of Ed Johnson.
F co i fiurrowly Averted.
, $ :
"At Chat, '.joga Tuesday, nearly
1,000 ncgr.o .topped work in several
of the larg industrial plants and
&tood around Q groups talLlng. The
womeu sorv ' i have in n:'iny cases
left their en
s'llicn ami .
mfnt '. d aie more
.'
ii t' o rr.cn. The
trouble aio' ' cMng of
Johnson, r i u-u, mI of as-
V
v, yco
to the suprenvy court of the United
States. . '' ' ' , '
Law and o; lor won a signal vic
tory in the city Tuesday night when
a squad of less' than 100 policemen
backed by four companies of militia,
held a large crwd pf negroes, vari
ously estimated ,' from 2,000 to 4,000
in number, in check; preserved peace;
an prevented a which might
have resulted in a great loss of life,
With the exception of a small fusil
ade ' of .shots on Bast Ninth street,
in which , two ita men , were shot,
and the burning of a house on West
Ninth street, there was ' no further
disorder.' ! . ' . ; -
Up to midnight the following injur
ed had been reported; )'.-; "
; John ' Curtis, a railway man, shot
in shoulders by unknown negro.
; Dick Light, deputy Sheriff, shot In
hand by unknown negroes,;
'A report from Washington says that
the United States supreme court, in
whose custody the Johnson .case has
beeo placed will take the matter up,
and that secret service men will oe
sent to Chattanooga 7 to arrest the
members of the( mob. ' Considerable
apprehension isfolt. - .
Governor Cox's Statement -Governor
Coxiof Tennessee was in
tercepted -by telephone Tuesday while
he was err route, to Spring : Creek,
where he had an appointment to
speak,' and asked concerning the
lynching of Johnson. It was the first
news the governor had received con
cerning the matter. He greatly de
plored the 'affair; and said he was
confident no lynching would have oc
curred had1 the case not been taken
from Tennessee courts to the federal
courts. He was not prepared to say
what action he would take In the mat
ter. -.-: 'n .? ' -' ".'.:; y,-
COUPE EFFECTED BY CLAY. "
Georgia Senator 8aves Uncle Sam
340,000 by Timely Action.
Senator Clay of Georgia saved the
government $340,000 at one stroke in
the senate Thursday, '.' When the foi
tifications apiroprlatlon bill was un
der consideration In the senate, fien
ator Lodge & Jhe fight against a
provision- that v.. A .".rt of $600,000 'ap
propriated for . fortifications In Ha
waii and the Philippines should be ex
pended at the naval station of Olong
apo or Sublg Bay. .
He claimed thut this was an evi
dent effort to divert the -expenditure
from Sublg Bay to Cavite, Finally Sen
ator Teller moved to strike all refer
ence to the Philippines In the item and
this carried, the effect being to appro
priate the whole $600,000 to Hawaii.
The Item was sliding through in this
shape when Senator Clay came to
the front with , a motion to Cut the
item from $600,000 to 1260,000." '
The Georgia senator produced the
estimate of the war department show
ing the needs of Hawaii to be fully
covered by the $260,000 and Insisted
that the appropriation bill be cut to
that figure. . Finally, this was done,
the result being a saving of $360,000
to the government. ;'; :
In less than twenty minutes time
the senate voted away $140,000,000 of
the public funds. The sum Is carried
by the pension appropriation bill,
which being a brief document was
made the subject of very little Dis
cussion. . ' .' '.?-V 1
.The railroad rate bill was laid aside
for the day, and the major portion
of the time was devoted to the con
sideration of the fortifications appro
priation bill. - ' i '
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L. A N. ENTERS ATLANTA.
First Train to Georgia Capital Over
Road's Own Tracks.
The first through freight train of
the Louisville and Nashville railroal
from KnoxvIHe, ' Tenn. to Atlanta,
Ga., over the road's own tracks, reach
ed the latter city Tuesday afternoon
and signaled, the beginning of serv
ice on another line of railway into
Atlanta..- i.
It Is announced that the first passenger-
train, with cars of the latest
equipment will be put on April 15,
and will make th run between At
lanta and ICnoiv',: .1 In a few hours.
QUICK SAL : CF EOriDS. '
Alabama Ditpos-- .f L'j Batch Whick
Falls t in July.
The $7.4 s 7,6 ..0 . .' bund due by the
state of Alabais . t 1 maturing the
Bn.t dy of Jul.' ' ie i.o, fxn a
small aiiiotint, . i .-i. t -
poserl of yvr
afonlMi try I s (
3.82 a'il (in
tied. Ti. ', t v.ii r ,t-
ecribed tl.i'f. ; t v :.
LAID OUT
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Laborers to
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rlon, !W. C..
. suit between
1 '"! on tli
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0v-rr; cf its Edict ty
TrcusLE fo.1 so:.:ecody
Victim Was Visl'y Coverntnent
Prisoner, and Punishment Is Pos-
" tfble, for Local Oxalate if
Laaity it Proven. .. ,
' The Atlanta Constitution's Washing
ton correspondent wired the following
Tuesday: A thorough investigation
into the lynching of the negro, Ed
Johnson, at Chattanooga, la to be
made by. the federal authorities, and
such investigation Is fraught with pos
sibilities of trouble "for somebody. V
i; The case is ' a , most unusual one
from the federal standpoint.:-: When
the mob lynched Johnson the majesty
of an order of the United States su
preme court staying the legal execu
tion of the prisoner was outraged, For
the first time in the history of the
country a mandate of the supreme
court was nullified.. '.'. ,'
, If it can be proven that this re
suited from the action or. laxity of
any effloial, ' the sheriff of Hamilton
county, or anybody else, such officials
will be haled before the federal courts
.for. punishment. t;:v ';V y'
: Mr. Justice Harlan, who Issued the
stay of execution n the Johnson case,
called at the white house this after
noon, but it is stated he did not see
the president While the announce'
ment Is made that he did not go for
the purpose of 'conferring with refer
once to the Johnson case, I have It
from high authority that it was his
purpose to discuss the case with the
president for the purpose of having
the department of justice take prompt
action through' the federal authorities
at Chattanooga for investigation look
ing to prosecution. : -'J.v- . ; :.
Acting Attorney General Jurdy said
Tuesday, night that the department
baa already begun consideration of the
case, but It Is so unusual no determi
nation has yet beenr reached as to
the method tot procedure. Justice Har
lan granted a stay In the Johnson case
on Saturday and his action was con
firmed by the full court at .Monday'!
session.' ;;'t v; ;",'.'.".
- Justice ' Hai lan himself wired the
federal judge, the' state' judge, who
tried Johrson, and the sheriff of Ham
ilton county, Tennessee, a synopsis of
the order and Instructed that John
son be retained in. custody until the
caso was disposed of here. ,,; :' ,;,
, The supreme court having taken a
recess until April 2, no action can
be taken, by that body before then. It
is not probable, however, that the
court" would taft orfy, action in "ad--vance
of investigation to be made
through officials of the department of
justice. '
PRINTERS "OSTRACISE'' WATSON.
His Magaxine Plated or) "Unfair Llat"
for Refusing Eight-Hour Day.;
Tom .Watson's Magatlne has beett
placed on the "unfair"- list by the la
bor organisations of the country.
The announcement of this fact is
made In The Trades. Unionist, official
organ of the Columbia Typographical
Union in Washington. This Is made
on the authority of Typographical Un
ion No. of New York, which in
cludes Tom Watson's Magazine In Its
list of "unfair" publications. This mag
azine is published by the same com
pany, which publishes Town Topics.
The company has resisted the-demand
of the printers for an eight-hour day,
and is accordingly placed under the
ban by ; the unions. In cdmmentlnrf
upon the interesting fact that the
magazine controlled by one who has
so frequently declared himself a friend
of organized labor, the Trades Union
ist W "Perhaps it Is true that
Tom Watson cannot control tbe policy
of his company toward its employees,
but at least he can take his name
away from the magazine." " ,
' JEROME TO VISIT GEORGIA.
New York District Attorney Will Ad
' ': dress State Bar Ateoolatlon.
: William Travers Jerome, district at
torney of New York city, will be the
guest of the Georgia Bar Association,
which meota " at Warm springs In
July. ' - r '
' In order to have the distinguished
jurist and political reformer as Its
guest, the etate Bar Association hai
changed the date of holding the an
nual meeltag of the lawyers from
July 4 to Inclusive to July 13, II
and 20.
ALLEGED CROOK NABBED.
Ten Men Now In Atlanta Jail Suspect,
d cf Being Yegjmen.
A short and stout young man t,!
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vil.o f ' ' 1 1 '4 r 1 r a i :
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NEWSPAPER REPORTS FALSZ.
Governor of Philippines Says Women
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We pass fiom ' 1 i t f
CKriflfP'f'9 Hixl I i !!
son of i.t r.t t! (it c M it .J (' .
Bess of Good rviilny, lie we I .il
Epiphany goodby let us consider what
it tells us, namely, that our Baviour
came to be tbe Saviour of fill mankind,
Epiphany falls into two divisions! Tha
Christmas of the Jew and the Christ
mas of the Gentile. : First, the Christ
mas of the Jew, when tbe shepherds
came as the representatives of the
shepherd nation; came called on by
an angel through whose dispensation
the law was given to the Jew;
came to the manger; came to worship.
And then, the Gentile Christmas, called
Epiphany, when the kings were led by
the star to worship the child. And
then the fact that the Jew and tbe
flentlle alike fell down and worshiped
the little child, baby, weaker than
the weakest, I may say, of all tbe
youngy and yet Him by whom the
worlds were made. . It Is Indeed a won
derful spectacle to see the Jew and
the Gentile alike worshiping the babe.
We leave the angelic host that sang
over Bethlehem and : ie brightness of
the star which brought the three kings
at all events the kings of the East
worshiped the little babe with appro
priate, gifts for tbe transition period
of Lent. "';
Could I do better than ask you, with
myself, to consider our personal re
sponsibility In the wo-ds of the text:
"The Lord is my shepherd therefore
can I lack nothing?" Here Is a dec
laration which may make or not' as
we choose, for the possessive pronoun
Is intenslve-i"my," as tbongh it were
something that we loved, as jewels of
earth "they are mines I own them."
So: "The Lord is my shepherd," and
based upon that declaration is the
fact; "therefore can I lack nothing."
There Is no word which more frequent
ly falls from our lips than "I." It Is
the shortest word in human speech
a single letter because It brings to
the surface personality.' Go whither
yon will, on every side you will hear
men, women and child uttering "I."
"I" is to each one the centre of the
universe; everything radiates from it
and everything comes into it' And this
is right in its way, only sometimes It is
exaggerated and we have what we
call selfishness. But I am not dis
posed to criticise tha lust now, only
to say that this pronoun "my" grows
out of the persouai pronoun "I," be
cause It denotes ownership "my."
And we may say, the poorest of us,
first we own ourselves: "I, thyself; I
belong to myself," and It is on the
basis of that claim that we have the
wars for independence, for. liberty or
personal right, and men resist the Idea
of being owned by the others, and pre
eminently in this land of freedom
claim to be free "I own myself." I
have not time to analyze the worth of
the claim, for it is immense: "Mine,
spirit, body;" this creature, of God
like mould and sunning workmanship,
box', .iiarvellooily built upl A sluice
profession, numbering some of tbe
greatest men, devotes days and weeks
to studying it and yet has not fathomed
Its secrets. ; The medical profession is
largely experimental to-day. It has
'made wonderful discoveries In fifty
; ears, and still it has not yet probed
this little mass of matter, tbe body, to
its deptbs. And back of it is the mind,
tbe intellect, the memory that holds
the past and hope that grasps the fu
ture; the miiid. that deals with prem
ises and conclusions and reasons. It
has no moral quality, it le pnre intel
lect Deeper down than it is tbe spirit
the seat of conscience, the moral sense,
marvelous beyond expression! that em
phasizes our nearness to God. Body,
mind and spirit bound tip together and
each of us claim to own that trinity
blended Into unity. "I, myself, I own
myself," -
Let us pass On. "My time;" that is,
"my life. These hours and days and
weeks are mine," and, hence, the wage
Question, when men claim the right to
sell their time for so mnch. Bo, ybu
see, we claim tbe ownership of time.
Of course," It is not really our. "Onr
times are in fiis hand." t-Ifl, ws
Claim it. "My years are so many."
Hence, we see another element of
wealth time, opportunity. Then,
again, character, "my character," em
phasized by the name. A good Dan e
is worth a good 4eaL We pass stlU
further) "My position in life, in so
ciety, my parentage, my surroundings,
my friends and relatives these belong
to me." And they are worth a great
deal sometimes. Then we come down
to that with which we are most fa
miliar: "My material wealth, my stocks
and bonds. Jewels, wardrobe. They be
long to toe" : "
Now, that brings us to David's
claim: "The Lord is my shepherd."
You do not give up the other things,
but you make another claim, and tbat
you can only make through Him who
allows It, and He aliowe it by coming
here to be reached and embraced, if
you will, and loved. He revealed Him
self as one of us in order that through
Him we, by the Holy Ghost, m)ut
roach the Kathir, for He coun-s out
from the invi"!!;)o to be vk;.ble. lie
can be touched and bundle;) and seen
here. He was lioro with a certain gen
eration when tins was the cane. Yve
must not envy tlion, for we have a
greater privilege tJ'fln they. You re
member Thnmii!!. Josus snid to him
after he hsd L n so obRtlnnte, "lie
cause thou lumt m-cn Me tlinn hast be
lieved; blesKod are tl'y tlmt have not
seen and yet have benovud." We msy
believe if we will, on the undoubted
testimony of the that Jesns after
death wa on tins earth. 1 e bed
passed throiurn, the 'graven pate of
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E..irii.(iU:ii, Uhey are tbe fle-ia in
religions. They cannot begin to tell .
upon mankind until passion shall de
velop in manhood and womanhood.
Take the Intellectual systems of Greece
and the philosophies of the present day -that
appeal to the intellect, and A
man is almost half way upon tbe
journey of life before they touch him. ,
Take Christianity; where does it be
gin? With conception, with birth, in
fancy, childhood, youth, manhood, In
health, in sickness, in death and the '
resurrection and the life eternal in
the presence of the great White
Throne. , Christianity embraces the
religion of life. Does, if appeal aim-,
ply to tbe body? Vt). But It appeals
to the body, tbe Intellect and the soul.
' "Hemember the declaration - of 8t. ,
John, "the disciple whom Jesus loved.'' '
He says: "Tbe Word wss made flesh,
and dwelt among us, and we beheld
His glory, as of the glory of the only
begotten of tbe Father, full of grace
and truth." He embraced the wbxrie .
of man. - - The Word was made flesh, ,
but with tbat was intellect and spirit,
and so He was a complete and perfect
man. This morning we were Joined to-
getber band in hand in the prayers of
fered by your rector, but when we .
come to the creed, how is it,? The hus
band drops the hand of tbe wife, the '
father of the child, the friend of the -friend,
and each for himself, at iu .
the Day of Judgment, stands" on his ;
own feet and says, "I believe." It is -a
personal act. i "The Lord is my,
shepherd; therefore can I lack uotli
ing." There is one element of wealth .
on which we can rest and which will .
enable us to say "We shall lack noth
ing.'' Without our Saviour we thnll
lack everything' when we come to die. .
I care not who we are or whether we t
have been clad m the purple of kings
or the splendor of jewels, we shall be
stripped stark naked and go dp naked -Into
the presence of God. We shall ;
lack' nothing if we can say from tbe
depths of our soul, "The Lord is my
shepherd." Then when the end come
we shall be able to say: "Thy mercy
and loving kindness Thy mercy for
forgiveness; Thy loving kindness for
my needs shall follow me all the days
of my life, and I shall dwell In the
house of the Lord forever." There la -no
dwelling place beie. I was once a
rector in Brooklyn, but where are my
parishioners now?- Most of them are
gone. Within the last two months
two of my classmates in Columbia are ,
fine. And there are but few of those -knew
in the lecture room left. . There
Is no dwelling place here. It Is a cheat ' '
we put upon ourselves when we talk
of houses as dwelling places. , They
are not. God grant, my brother, (bat
it may be our lot to "Dwell together
forever in the house of the Lord,"
which will be our eternal home.
Th Buiy Watchmaker.
A watchmaker who enlisted for the
war thinking that he might earn a lit
tle when off duty, took some of his
tools along with him. But he found
so many watches to mend tbat be for
got he was a soldier. One day be was
ordered into battle. He looked cbont
hlmln consternation and exclaimed:
"Why, how can I go? I have tea
watches to mend?" Many of our ex
cuses . and sometimes our ' reasons,
which we try so bard to be consclen-,
tkus about, if correctly translated,
would read: "Why, how can I read
my Bible and pray every day? How
can I be true to my religious duties?
I have sometuinj; else tojlo." ' .
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Attorneys at Law,
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