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-.- i i rc. . id !' - t' cf tha Arnori .. . 3 ij t . ;;? czisr la t!-:;.t !r r a f ort cf ' i h -t: in 0- r.i-cf There i3 i 1 the House, but there :,t:on. Vh;t the Speaker aCrr-3. Tom Reed's ' :irg in the grave, but his aching on. Debate in the r ues already determined. 1 .h la the Senate the first .n of the Fifty-ninth Con- eed.IIale, and that made ' ......... I.. ..1.. vw tk . Hotting like that has occur-' 1. House of Representatives i.j r.o of Henry Clay and John i" -;f the matter tinder dlscus- e . to he political, unless pe a contested elecelpn case, rson vs. Carmack-rbut an ?h( it appeals to the personal ,vei each member, "-who - may jer i , party to tin election con hov cceedlngor other future, j ' '-v- ' hi h position among men, to S t: 3 , leaders of . Congress j onLthe side Of the majority Minority. Character Is the.maln jtotTier Qualities are requisite 'qtuallcapaclty, tact, eloquence, industry, a love of Justice, a regard for the . publio weal. r Marshall Would have been .v. st "oommoner" If he had not icipnt in character. Tom Mar ved but a single term .In Con- at- he would have been first 1 body "that numbered among jershtp John Qulncy Adams, , Lewis, William Pitt Fessen ib Cushing, Robert C. Wln Illlard Fillmore," "Joshua""? R. i and Henry A. - Wise, If his a4. not been so erratic , Not- ding the waywardness of his 1 and, the Intemperance of his ,ie. 'was. the first orator ttf the i evVnth -Congress and the ' ) the greatestMn forensic de netlmes men do not take tha y might attain in Congress be-; an lncunerence to tne rame fe In' such a body brings, .nott was such a man, and so Glass, a member at the pres- not the scholar I.e. is; cut enr ; C"-i tell Williams t;,,-i3 t ' ut Mi - '.s- ; i and Missis:;;r!;;i:3 Williams nev er heard of; he em tell Cirmack thj-jj about Ik. ..... .-e nd Tennes- seana Carmack r :ver heard of; he can tell Cockran thirds about New York and New Yorkers that.Cocran never heard of; he can tell Foraker things about Ohio and Ohio public men that Foraker never heard of. And one can see Daniel Webster, the man, more clearly by listening to. Champ Clark's lecture dn" him than he can get out of Cabot Lodge's life of him. Clark could not have made that speech on the powers and duties of the House of Representatives delivered y Bourke Cockran In the Fifty-eighth Congress. Neither could Williams, neither could Carmack, neither could Foraker, neither could Bailey, ne lth re ' could Lodge,, neither could any other rfnan In either House -of the American Congress, j As an ex position of the philosophy of parlia mentary government as it should exist, and was designed'to exist, in this country it is the greatest speech the American Congress ever held. While Cockran ; delighted and enthused the House, es he always does, he shot way over the heads of nine-tenths of the members t whom the thing was all Greek,an4 that" is why the speech died the day after it was made. Old Joe never paused in his czarism and made a requisition that very night on the White House for adltlonal ram. mater ial for Congressional legislation, if the White House was in further need of that sort of stuff. If the impeachment of Andy Johnson had not f aided the House of Representatives, .instead of being in the subordinate position it nOw occupies, would have become, What It was Intended to be first in the governmental system. Take the Con stitution and read Article I and see the vast powers conferred on Congress, and to the House was given the purse, without; which the government would die. 1 - . Champ Clark was born in the blue grass region of Kentucky the very day Daniel Webster made his masterly lir I III if t n t " '; l;t !.? v : x , ' . ".an cc.i: t . Va., v '.. re r 8 r. J then entered the famous law s-'hoci et CI - :!r.r:.'.i, and Georga I. ...-islley was cr.e cf his masters in the study of that great profession. ; Kentucky is the child of Virginia, and Missouri is the child of Kentucky. Defore this century shall have com pleted its fifth decade Missouri will be the empire State of the Mississippi Valley. Not so prolifLcally endowed by nature in the variety of products as Kentucky, her area Is greater and th gross products of her soil larger. Farmer Hatch, the grand old man who so long represented in Congress the Hannibal district, always grew elo quent on the agricultural products- of his State corn, wheat, oats, rye, cat tle, swine, and mules. To those are added the products of the barnyard and the T orchard poultry, eggs,' and fruit. Missouri will pass Ohio in the race" the "next census, and collar Illi nois by 1920, when she celebrates her centennial as a State in the American sisterhood.' Champ Clark, too,' loves Missouri as devotedly, as did Father Hatch, and he is eloquent when sound ing her praises. No plebian little ad jectives for him. It is always "Imperial Missouri wheii Champ talk- of hla and Father Hatch's Adopted State. And Pike county! One must hear -Champ on Pike before he makes up his mind Dom me nuD or this union of ours. In 1875 Clark, now a lawyer, went to Pike county, and pitched his tent, He taught school, edited a newspaper, and practiced in the courts. He was young, healthy and vigorous, gifted, determined, popular and, if sometimes peryerse, he was never godless. He succeeded, was chosen, to office, and in 4880 was elector on the Democratic ticket of Hancock and English.. Later he was in the State Legislature,; and In 1881 he married .the excellent wo man who is now his wife' and. the mother of his children. She, too was born' In Kentucky, Misi Genevieve Bennett, closely related, to the famous McAfer, fami'y that contributed ' so much to the character, and civilisation of the State. Her fathervwasa cousin of Senator MeCreary., of Kentucky. uotn nus&ana ana wife were students, with congenial tastes, and their read ing is both extensive and varied. Few women have such profound knowledge of American history's Mrs. Clark, and she has been of invaluable assistance In this respect to her distinguished nusoana. ,v : . lay !., i i Arrll -1- ' t'-3 children have 11. er.e 1 ". :. ;. : ch interest to the story cf the 1.;: 1 -wl.o bought and won such a great tattl-a for them: "Nothing ood comes w ithout a struggle," and Champ Clark ls'an orator, but he Is not rhetorician; he as a debater, tout he Is not a declalmer. He believes In facts, but he is not a Gradgrlnd. It is a pity that he had not taken Shakes peare: 20 years ago' and studied him Une hy line, for fmaination is Champ aark's weak stilt. He shine best In debate in the House, t a , partisan de bater and wary and' fortunate ' is' the adversary that evades his club.V It was a, calamity; to history, a' mis-' fortune, to letters, and must ever beji rejrVet to the ohildrn of th? ld Com monwealth., that .th? late W C. : P, Ereckinride did not devote the lst 1ft years of his life to writing a' hist try of Kentucky.' He was the one of her eon fully equipoed for -the task. He was familiar with her story as none other ,- was.; as none other will ever ' .be the story'" of ' her- first century. As a writer, he was "rrAat- er than lift-was as an orator, and had he done what he was so often urged to fio, he would have produced a narra tive that would have remained a clas sic as long as American history ex ists. ; ; ' .;, -;.,- '-; Champ Clark ought to" tell the story of Missouri.. He knows it as ha other msn knows It. With a less captivating style than Breeklnrlde, he . Is. even fonder lot; the curious in fact S-nd cir cumstance Direct and simple in nar rative, history of Missouri bv Champ tuarK , would be as entertaining- as a novel. ' , . , i - Champ Cbrk. rm Virginia, ' Sometimes a ingress gets a bad start and rcomes the, adverse impres- nakes. "Cyclomj" Jim Mar 'lrginia, was one. Ms a great Senate. , that ttlepresentatlves, and mainly ere is no royal jcoad to pre- ere. No skill will turn ; a to a silk purse, and no pre- 11 make a statesman of one 'rned for a tater-dlgger. A llencres may i be obscured louse, but1 hly 'defects will (.brazen in, the. beams of the "lift! It was said of Engene t he owed his prominence In to James Q. ClalnA but. Hale " esman Of high order the first ok his seat in the body pre- by Mr. Blaine. Not even the 7werful as he is, can rn&ke tmentaryr leader to order. alzell. - Hepburn. Burton, Williams, Champ Clark, an. and men of that cau- tthe places they attained flfforts. Congressional Ule here hard , knocks - and . Every head, that standi k; and hard licks encflir Wssman works wonders 1 iiutal e. The scars they bore monyi that Caesars . a enjn a notimade up '' of " carpet VhenfConkllng and Blaine punished each other, that ,'day, 1866, they were train- splendid conflicts of the fu- one was to be the Idol of Jad jth other .the acknowl er of the United States Sen- lark is a conspicuous figure .onal House of Representa- :tho club he wields is an f d powerful support to the rhn Sharp Williams. It was dge of the history of Amer 'm?nship that so formidably cably armed John ' Qulncy (the forensic contests he o engaged in. It was hls-fa -1th the history of American 4 made Stephen A. Douglas, 'a f f the United States Sen e aecaae ibou-co. pamp ra-il more attention to tory and 'American' ta ny other man in Con nide it a specialty, as speech on the compromise of 1850. .His father was John Hampden Clark, and his - mother was Aletha Jane Beau- hcamo. ; Collaterally she was not a distant relative of George Kooert son, whose superior . as a Jurist the American bench has not' yet produced, not even John . Marshall. Clark gets hla stalwart . phys ical development from the Robertsons, and much of their Intellect went with It. His father, was a farmer, and Clark was put to work as soon as he had strength to perform the lightest share that is a part of farm economy. Thus he Is of the soil, of the farm, of the cornfield of the tobacco patch, of the hemp brake. He shot squirrels for re creation and hunted 'possums for ex citement, He had a penetrating mind, and thus he could- read, write and cipher before drdinary boys were half through, the old blue-back Webster's spelling book. His was a healthy body, ana cornbread, strengthened his bones and toughened his muscles as the blue grass, does those things for the thor oughbred.' He was left motherless at the age of three years, and was reared by an elder sister, now the wife of a beloved clergyman of Richmond, Va. tsne neipea to xorm tne boy's charac ter and make, a useful man of him. How well she" succeeded is shown in tne ? tact that he taught a school, to which went boys older and lareer than nimseix. wnen ne was barely 45,; and that was a community where no moral or .Intellectual weakling could teach schooj at an. " He was tauffht the virtues of frnci; lty from, his childhood and from hla savings lie. managed to sustain himself at tne Kentucky university for threa years, and until he was expe'led for snooting a man irom Ohio. He wa quicic to learn and his, memory is like a tar nucKet that retains whatever touches it. specially was he swift to learn facts, and they serve him well in tne American congress and on the lec ture platform to this day. ' Later we fina nun a student at Bethany college, Alexander Camo bell's school. I do not state it as a fact but I am of the impression that it was the Intention Cto make a preacheij of the Hon. Champ. Be that as if may they made an Intense Campbenite of him. and the man who assails tha church in his presence can get ail tl p- - -( r T!-!3tever sirt. h r T In 1893 Clark took his seat in Con gress,, came to the front Immediately, and since' the day ho first secured the floor, in the-national councils he has been a marked and a consnlciinn man; but his Congressional career I shall reserve fw a fjutnr tarr; (uopyrignt, 1907, by B. W. Newman). The Hon. Grover Cleveland. High Point Enterprise. ... And if it should so come to pass what then? . They are actually after good old Grover Cleveland again to run for President It all -sounds too good to be true In every way. If the American people .can return to the olden Cleveland doctrine and the ex ercise of It we may.come Into the real ity of a fine and select deal again po litically, for of what Grover Cleveland did the American people need never be ashamed and need. never again fel afraid. '.. . a. v Not All Bryan's Way; Macon Telegraph. " V ' . It Is not all going Bryan's way In Virginia. - The -. Roanoke World says the time , has come when . ha should "cease his dictation and at least give the party the high privilege of fram ing Its "own platform," and the Vlr ginla' Citizen remarks: . "He has un doubtedly put himself beyond the pal of a possible presidency, He, or rath er politicians who are afraid to speak for themselvs, mayv fprce William J. Bryan upon Dmocracy as a nominee, but in : such event both he- and our party are dead ducks nationally." . : Sike Receiving Stolen Goods. ' Waxhaw Enterprize. In Meckllnburg county. Superior Court one day this week Judge G. W. Ward fined man 125 for buying blind-tiger liquor. This is to us rather a new turn In the administration of Justice In our courts Bat if it is violation of law to ' sell blind-tiger liquor, then why not construe It as a violation of law to buy blind-tiger Uquor Just a much so as if It to re ceive stolen goods? This would be tret ting right down at the tap-root of th blind-tiger evil and would be a long step toward Its removal. " ; ' ; , t Coll at our store, plee, fir a frr tnmpla of .Dr. hKip' "Health CofTcc If real coffee Jtturb your Sfomarh, jour Ilesrt. or KMneyg, tnn try tM ( " vfr Coif- imitation. V.'t ' Dr. fhf. -. In this instance the man struggled he roically for the cause of little children. As the children have been somuch In terested in the story of the man who founded and conducted the first kin dergarten, it seems tame a fitting time to say a few words in explanation of the system this genius gave to us. Kindergarten, however, covers so much that it 13 impossible to do more than touch upon a few of its salient points. Froebel said: "The kinder garten is the, free republic of child hood from which everything danger ous to its morality is removed." His genius led him to observe chil dren in all walks of life, and to dis cover that thwei was need of some system Of education ; to trjdge. . the gap between the nursery and the school: some systematic plan of devel opment for the child between three and six years of Age. Froebel says three and six, but la these days of ner vous men and women consequently high strung , children I prefer to place ' the age four and seven. The kindergarten' has a marked calming Influence upon nervous children. They enjoy the work that is never allowed to be too exacting and that Is giving them- development and strength. It is my conviction, and this conviction comes from observation and expert ence in my work, that 6ven years of age Is early enough to place text books In the hands of most children.. Froebel turned, and naturally,' too, to nature; he studied her laws; he ob served the gardener preparing the soil, planting the seed,, caring for the little plants with the watchfulness of a pa rent; removing everything that might prove harmful to the best development of the delicate plants under his charge, and the thought of the children's gar den came to his 1 mind. A garden wherein the most precious of nature's plants should be harmoniously devel oped. The more he studied both na ture and children the more firmly con vinced was he that it was his mission to prepare a scheme of. education for the little people. . He worked long and faithfully for them and gave to us the j system we use to-day.'- ' v-" The gardener, perhaps, gave him in spiration, for he gave the name of kindergarten (children's garden). to his system' of education and he aald that he must have, trained women. cliiU gardeners, to take charge of these gar dens, for women would devote their lives to the work and carry out tha system according to certain laws most of which he took from nature. He said: "An Institute Of education should have the character of a family." The klndergartner has it in her power to create a homelike atmosphere; to gather, her family, of little ones close to-her and with the ld of the kinder garten methods, conceived by Froebel she can exert a wonderful' influence over this family. She must thor oughly trained In his metheods and principles. ,'Sh must -be a child among her. 'children, Joyous and merry - as they; playing the games wth them and singing their songs, . xet she must be strong enough to guide1 and direct them all, and obedience must be hersfl when she aska for It. It n list be wll ling and cheerful obedience, else the atmosphere will be cloudy. Children taught by a conscientious, student of Froebel, At she possess . the (attributes that are necessary to make a kinder-' gartner, will give this obedience ; be cause they have perfect confidence In their leader. They feel the rawer of guidance in everything she does.. They Know mat every interest they bring to her will be received sympathetical ly that' if tHey -. come ; with little hands full of flowers, or an old crook ed nail or a chip from the wood pile, an win nna a place In her heart and some sory will be forthcoming. ; They trust ner guidance with a faith that is beautiful. . - ; ;,.,.;. A -Hiiu l4 UOii UVJ b IttUftUl i f LC J through fear, yet obedience to ' law must begin in the cradle. It has been said that: "The very soul of the kind ergarten is the child gardner," and In deed there is truth In this, for Froe bel gave us a system that will prepare the children for the books that will follow. In the kindergarten we lay the foundation upon which the educa tors who. follow build the superstruc ture. We have nothing to do with text books. Froebel gave to us what he termed gifts and occupations. We use smybols, or subject teaching with tne little people. It ra not to be in ferred that the kindergarten it nothing but play. There Is work done, and good work, too,' but everything is pre sented in a natural and childish way. He absorbs things little by little; one never knows what the brain is retain ing. The lessons move along In logi cal sequence. One day it may be cubes, another day f ricks, rings, tab lets and so on. Each day the same fundamental nrlncrole Is taught al though the material has another form. Absorption Is going on constantly; nothing forced or ; arbitrary, but a faithful adherence to the law of oppo sltes and progression as developed by uroeoei. '- ' The gifts are, perhaps", the most se rious and thoughtful feature In the system. In these we find opportunity for-many UBeful lessons in mental arithmetic; accuracy of eye, dexterity or nnger,. and discipline of the mind play an active part, The ear must hear the dictation, the mind must, car ry the correct message to the mus cles of the fingers and they obey the command. if a wrong message la car ried the form of life or symmetry so named by Froebel will not be trtte; will not be beautiful. ' In the occupation work - there Is more relaxation, and to this depart ment belongs the badge by which kin dergarten is generally known, viz': the mats. Were It not for the fact that they are very dear to the child heart and certainly have their educational valueI should eliminate them front my kindergarten with the hope that other' features -: might be (brought to the notice of the publio. There U a wealth of material aside V from the weaving, for, Instance, ; paper folding, free cutting, sewing, color w6rk, card modeling, etc. It must be remember ed that kindergarten covers a period of three years.fand a child who comes f-jr one yr-nr can do only a small part O, I ( ;"e I-', ', : v.t f .7 f ) f,; w j ; . . i . ii--.Vrf. Yft how r.oce. iry :; 1 t 1, i c - . - lepment and r.ii!r.tena:;-i cf a t .1 r that it shall t8 prcperiy Lal anccl. Tl.a rarr.es are excellent exer- . 3 for tha body. They all have their educauo-ai vaiue. aiso, ana are at source of merriment and pleasure. The kindergarten is rich in song, We have songs for every season, songs of flowers,' trees, birds, patriotic songs. Indeed anything you choose to call for. The klndergartner who makes the most of the opportunities that come her way has her mind, heart and soul very full. It all comes to the child as naturally as does a glass of milk at breakfast There is no exictabllity nor anything harmful to the child In the diversity of the work, because of the absolute composure of the klnder gartner. she rules and controls through the power of her own self control that is the secret of her suc cess. ' .- It would be dlfl1cultft-iMaft-4he. mosfdelightfui feature in kindergar ten. Each has its place and a very necessary place; but to me there is a peculiar fascination about the litera ture and nature-study work. There are stories of truth and stories that belong to the reader of fancy, all of which are helpful not only In Interest ing and educating, but in managing children. ; . Even the goops I find helpful. "The goops wet their fllngers to turn the leaves of books," etc. Who, in deed, would be a goopl The litera ture, songs and nature work blend beautifully. The children are encour aged , to bring flowers, twigs, fruit bark, animals, insects, indeed any thing they can- find In nature's won derful garden is always welcome in the kindergarten, and we find out all we can about these; to us, curious things. This acts as an eye-opener to the children. ' They learn to see things. and a walk through the Woods takes on an entirely different meaning when we can "greet- the people we met by the way . Bide and call them -by name. So many people see nature as a whole, and find her beautiful, but think how much more' beautiful she is when one has the power to individualize as it were! - :;';. ' With the child an interest in things has been created. Impressions have been made and Froebel said: "These Impressions are the root-fibre for the understanding that Is developed later. Whenever I look at a klndergartner In the midst of her circle of bright merry little faces, that tell of a happy spirit within, : I am reminded of strong .apple, tree: with its fruit, firm red-cheeked apples, mellow to the core, clinging closely to Its branches The tree has performed Its duty well It - has take care of the flowers, brought! the fruit to maturity in state of perfection, and pproduced the seed ?whlch, will carry on the life of thi aDttle famllv. Each child. lllc perfect apple, sound and mellow to the core, and the klndergartner? Will sho succeed In her duty to them? Froebel aald'Com'e, let us live with our children." There Is no suggestion that we shall live for. them, or beyond tnem or Instead of them, but with them.. The kindergarten teaches us how we may do this: be a child among; them and yet be their' guide, phllds- J opner ana fried, hence Its value to all mothers. i Each child is an Individual with a will and temperament peculiar to It self, and must be nurtured according to its temperament. In nature the soil that will produce a perfect, rose may, be hurtful to some other flower that cared to feed oh a different sub stance, and so retard and warp Its growth-that It -would never attain ;a high state of development. Just so with the child; hence the necessity for child-study and psychology, that the klndergartner may fecognize the pecu liarities of each child and know In, what kind of soil to plant each one. It Is possible to keep to the funda mental principles of kindergarten and nopwound the finest sensibilities of the greatest Froebel woHhipers and yet wind up the school year of faith ful work by giving a party out of doors to - the little people. Froebel did this, and the pleasure and joy of these festival days filled him with keen delight. Because the children are playing their games and singing their joyous songs on the front lawn It does 'not necessarily follow that we have relegated Froebel to the back yard, nor that we have lost sight of any of the fundamental principles of the great educator whom all kinder- gartners and mothers delight in honi orlng, as some of our contemporaries seem to think. ' . " ; "Living with our children" Implies on our part sympathy with childhood, adaptability to children, and knowl edge and appreciation of child-nature; it implies general Interest in all that Interests them In the measure of our appreciation of loss and gain, of sub stance and shadow; it Implies seeing ourselves with the eyes of a child, hearing ourselves with the ears of a child, judging ourselves with the keen intuition of a child. MARY CATHERINE THOMSON. r-e Leading to t ter tha t it art thou? a fitern aud it 1. r, , e judgment ot Eternity at il scene o Time; O, Death, what ait thou? an nusbana- maa that rearcth elway, Out of season, aa In season, with the ' sickle in his hand: 9, death, what art thou? the shadow un to very budbiij", . , In the bower of the battle haunting night and day: . O. death, what art thou? nourse ol dreamless slumbers . . Freshening the fevered flesh to a wake fulness eternal: ' . , O, Death, what art thou, strange anu solemn Alchymist ' , Elaborating life's elixir from these claey . crucibles! it Thou calm, safe anchorage for the snat tertd hulls of men-; ,', Thou spot of gelid shade, after the hot breatnea aesert. of the end. We f with telescopes a. 1 les3. And of ail tl lng I3 a drop in t; thought. But when She stopped and her to the white ribbon c door. There was in t shadow. "I have thought of it I Little Minister said qui.: watching the shadow in knew that te time hi; God's universe somewht: an island of most entrar The air about It, yea, the Itself was athrob with 1 the songs of angels and th of God. The whole place w ful expression of God's love Thou silent waiting hall! tt- hnv . birdnesty very perfection dTDeautyri . .u" .L: - foliage In a thousand perfect fallen. A shadow that the May sun could not shine away. - From the knob of the closed door a broad white ribbon hung In straight heavy folds. A, little child was dead.. 1 . - Men and women passed suenuy about the place. There was no noise in the 6treet Draymen, glancing at the white ribbon, passed Blowly,. and gro cery boys hushed their merry voices. Once or twice a man, passing 4he gate, took off his hat and bowed his head. At the sitting room window sat the College Girl watching it all. Her books and busy plans were an forgotten, iier hands were folded in her lap. The Motherly .Woman had gone across the street at nightfall, and had not returned. It seemed a strange patterns were spread like u over the island. Jt was a : 'place made fit for the horn? sons of God. "But the inhabitants of tl were all prisoners I do r why they were prisoners. I was the plan of the King of t Just as it is God's plan to er nut In a shell and a reed In r husk. The fact remains: Th of the King were all prisons "Their Imprisonment was because each was shut In q We shall think especially of who lived very thoughtfully i culiar prison. There were tv windows In his walls, and went to one of them he was t thing that the sun could shine and the 0 wonderful melody. It th flowers bloom on a day like this.' The Plain Little Woman worked si lently upon the silken folds of a little snow white shroud. The Quiet Man was v unusually absorbed with the morning mail. But the Little Minister watched the College Girl, for. Death hid never come so near to her heart before.; "Is It possible," she said In a hush edawed voice, "that this Is going on all the time, everywhere? That men and women and little children are passing out of the lives of those who love them, that their voices are si lenced, their forms coffined, their faces shut away forever! How is it tnat any mirth, or gaiety, or happiness is left to us? Think of the burden of grief that the old earth has borne. How is it that we are able to go on in the ordi nary way? And it must come directly to us to me some day, some very early day," Her voice trailed off into silence. -; "? ' ' There were tears in the Little Minis ter's eyes, but a smile that was brave and sweet and tender shone through them. The Quiet Man, with his 'face hidden in the pages of his morning paper, said slowly: " 'Anything so uni versal, so necessary, so unavoidable as death could never have been intend ed as a calamity to mankind. We see It from the losing side, that Is all. Death is as natural as life to the body. It is the struggling spirit's hour of joy..,.w-f-- Thn rlnrl umanrlnatlon of the BOUl. The moment when the cumbrous fetters drop, And the bright spirit wings Its way to rreeaom." Or be Suppressed Himself. Waxhaw EnterprlzeH , The big dalles can .boast tttatthey win not suppress any item of legit! mate news, and they may be able to maite gooa their boast. T But it Is sometimes up to a coutitry publish .r either to suppress such an Item or be suppressed himself. ' Stephen G'sv Trouble Concord Tribune. A Washington' special to The Ob server says that there is on effort ne Ing made to get Cleveland aa a can didate for next year. Well, the only tr6uble is age. If Grover could call bao kten years he would sweep the deck. Catarrh (T Which usually commences with cold In bead. Hay Fever, rapidly in fects the mucous membrane of the throat, and leads to graver compli cations, : unless promptly attended to. We recommend King's Sarpaparllla Internally to - purify the blood, and direct treatment with Dr. King's Ca tarrh Remedy (a douche comes with each bottle).. It gains a foothold i h it 13 hard to dlsloa-ra. from But the College Girl's uncomforted eyes went back to the heavy white rib bon against the closed cottaga door. A little breeze swept across the : sweet beauty of the Gardener's rose beds and lifted the ribbon tenderly. It was as If some loving, invisible hand had caressed it. A cat" bird In the acacia tree sang softly. : I wtehMhat I could understand," the College Girl said with a little quivering sigh. "It all seems so very terrible to me." ; f It was then that the Little Minister went over to her window. He was a very lovable Little Minister, ana, thinking always of others, hi was un obtrusive and helpful. "I konw," he said gently, "because I used to feel that way. It was before so many of my own loved ones passed into the Silence. I wish I could tell ypu how It all Beems to me now. One of the troubles about living In bodies like ours is that we have such difficul ty In understanding one another. I dare say you have thought of that Tou see we are each shut in a little clay house, and we have a pretty .hard time trying to communicate one with another. We are always understanding and getting things wrong. Now I feel that those who slip away from these tenements or ciay are relieved of all this difficulty, and know as they are known. I feel too, that they never go quite away from us. , - " 'They understand me now. There are no clouds on heart or brow. But spirit reading spirit answereth glow , tor glOW.' - ; .;;." "And I think they have a more per fect understanding of alt the beauty and good that Is all about us, for you must know that wesret only a very im perfect glimpse of It all as we are no, They are 'Where hope is lost in hap piness, And wishing in possessing." r The College girl - looked up with quick, understanding interest and the Little Minister went quietly on: "As we are living now In the flesh, we each have very different uses fori the things that we find about us. They mean different things to Us., Our Im presSlone of them reach us through the five senses. We might say three senses, because some of them are so nearly the same. It has come about somehow that these senses are never quite perfect and if ' they were we could not expect to see the whole uni verse through five little windows.' "It , happens sometimes that these little windows arc closed. A man who can neither see nor hear has a very Imperfect idea of his surroundings. Ills soul Is shut up very closely. Unstop his ears and a hurst of melody greets htm. Open his eyes and visions of beauty spread themselves before hla entrant ed consciousness. All this was there before, but the man was shut away from It We, cannot believe that even now when he can see and hear that he Is able, to comprehend the whole glory or the universe, only two little, rifts have been made for the inshintnsr of the glory of music and beauty.; Tut Imagine the spirit unfettered.' nn hound, unhin-lere.l!" "V-- T ' ' T ' - listening soul. Bursts of m the great Outside like the v an ocean wave when it breal the sand. He knew that the r an enaiess woria 01 narmoi and he longed for his place When he went to the oth he was conscious of great t expressed Itself In form' .r- And he knew that the Ot, filled with loveliness. He co voices of his fellow prisoner learned to watch for their sL to communicate with them.; "This son of a king came the walls that enclosed hh were his home. He doubted If be better housed, or-if bettev modations could be found a He watched the decay of t" prison walls and dreaded t when his own should give t the time came. His windows v Ing and he began to think music and beauty had nev there at all. He couldn't ur what he was to do without old prison. But the king who dered Its removal, knew wl best, and I don't suppose that ting of the prisoner mattere But he grieved and wept and "He knew that from their the other prisoners were wat despair. Altogether it was a r time for the "king's son. But t only because he qould not urn For, there-came a day when quite free in his Father's ' Everywhere, at home with tl were like him, - In perfect i with his surroundings. No and listening through lit : clouded windows ever any r free in an ocean, of melody i verse of beauty with ; noth away! ; ' - , . . - "For the good, the true, tl ful are absolute. God's love crevice of creation. It alone whole fabric together, : Whf free we shall reveal It. &y, Ing Into a. fuller knowled "I think we feel like that have many who love 11s on t side," said the Plain Little timidly. "We understood tl enough when they were with 1 quite sure of-lraowlng a lit' them now. pur peace and c too real to be born of our 0 Inatlons." And her hands tr little over the folds of white "What we call dying is net to live, for life Is not Intern the failure of the animal f Its manifestations through ' dlum of the body cease, and t the only manifestations that t In the body, can understand." Quiet Man, folding his finish sureiy we ougnt to be aoie Him who placed us so suits' to take careif us continuous', and common sens ought to of the fear of death which 1 the offspring of sin end Ignorr. not a natural instinct' ; "And there was One' who t the meaning .of Ufa and deal the Little Minister simpty. "t finding that we should never stand by the voice of prophet came to us with the message, and died and we who love t' that he was God's perfect ex God's Word made flesh. I hav wished that the bewildered, t ed men who knew the ft " deatlCand something of Ms -life, could have told us the l the questions that we ask c now. ' But there comes a t none of the questions trou we Know that the answer right This is no delusion. A But the little child is mother is, bereft, her hom late." said the College Girl. shadow was no longer in her . ."Yes,' answered the Lit'.' "Tes, if the mother thinks r warm, rweet little body cf That Indeed has been taVn f But the child Itself? V that the child is gone. "J am ye may be also. Lo, is always. I tell you there i sweet, holy mlstery ,here. Into a knowledge of it wh-n love us pass on. It Is only t grief, the cloud of unhrr f the beautiful truth away." ' "And I, am, glad," nil Man earnest!y. "thiit t'- ginning to under'" ' t to take It for grant " means well by u81 many who are not ; vants of the Master 1 rniinser'hy cr riv r. their lovp.1 crr--ted thf
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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