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AND LOWVILLE TIMES. .. If, ' : M H. A. PHILUPS PUBLISHING COMPANY. LOWVILLE, K Y. t THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1909. VOLUME 50. No. 32. NOT SATISFACTORY., Pre.ident TafU Message on Taxation Condemned— Great Injustice in the Corporation* 2 Per Cent. Tax • Wa-hinyrton. June 21.—Five progres- •^, Krpdhlican Senators, Messrs. Horih Wistow, Cummins, La Follette an ! n'-ipji conferred to determine what their attitude is to be in relation to the income tax amendment to the tariff hll, in the face of President Taft's special tm's^affe to Congress favoring the submission of the question to the State* lor^a coiistitutiojnjaLJiniendinent of'a law taxing the net earnings of corporations. They decided that the President's plan is not inconsistent with their de- mands for the adoption of an amend- ment taxing incomes and that both may be adopted in harmony. „..„., They assume that the President's plan, endorsed by leading 1 republicans on the Finance committee ,is designed to ''chloroform\ the incometax amend- ment, but nevertheless announce that they will continue to fight for its adop- tion. In a brief statement, prepared by Messrs. Borah and Bristow, concerning the amendment, they say : •The friends of the income tax feel it a duty to continue to put forth every effort fed secure the adoption of the nuusure. They will therefore, urge the adoption of the amendment. - They also stand ready to support a resolution pro\ iiling 1 for an amendment to the Con- stitution of the United States. \While they believe the Supreme Court wi[l sustain the law, yet to pro- vide against any possible contingency that may arise from an .adverse decis- ion theyplady favor the proposition to amend the Constitution, Corporation Tax Mot Satisfactory. \They do not feel satisfied with simply a corporation tax. A tax on the net income of corporations alone will very imperfectly reach the desired re- sult. It will tax tens of thousands, df stockholders whose total incomes are very small and, will exempt • in large 1 measure the immense personal incomes of the country. \The provisioa they favor treats lar.cre incomes- exactly alike, whether received by corporations or 'individuals and whether arising from interest.divi- der.ds. inheritances or otherwise. The plan which they propose simply carries the President's: views to their legiti- mate end and is as consonant with the decision of the Supreme Court as is the OUR MEW YORK LftTCR. Items of Interest from Glorious Gotham. Defence Against Motor Car*—\Glitter- ing Garden*—Child Corruption— Keese's Ken—Scandal Satiate. New York, June 22.—To protect life and limb against the hundred thousand motor cars that whirl over this island and its suburbs night and day, public authorities and private vigilantes have to-day inaugurated for the summer season the strictest defensive cam- paign that Gotham has ever known. Lurking for the J6y rider at every turn of the speedways, scores of specially trained automobiles detectives are now being posted eaclvnight by private or- ganizations formed to preserve human life against the motor maniac. Squads of patrolmen, on motor-cycles, in dark hooded autos and on foot, have been detailed to the single duty of keeping the summer rush of motor traffic with- in the grasp of the authorities. More than a hundred pairs of eyes are cease- lessly watching each move of the auto- mobile traffic during every hour of the night, and newly perfected camera clocking devices are secretly snapping their evidence of speed violations from sunrise* to dark. Never have New Yorkers been so roused to curb the abuses of motoring: and before the hot days are over it is believed that this pressing problem will be much more nearly solved. Drawing diamonds outnumbering the pebbles on their gravel walks and rich gowns almost outvaluing the very build- ings which they top, half a dozen gaudy roof gardens are to-day opening the I season of summer nights with a display of luxury in their audiences which has ! not been seen here since the times were ' at their best. No one who finds him- j self stacked about by the most elabor- ate of Paris toilettes at any of these resorts of the hot nights can fail to find sure signs that the old prodigality has once more made Broadway its own. Drowning the voices of the aerial per- formers, the ceaseless' pop of cham- pagne corks proclaims that men with money are again flocking every by-way of the tenderloin. Time was when flannel suits and shirt waists took the place of the glittering evening dress of this year's^ roof garden crowds and beer and sandwiches sufficed where now DIRECT NOMINATIONS. •lam for State-Wide Crusade—-Every Assembly Nominee to be Called o» to State Attitude. terrapin and vintage wines abound. tax on corporate incomes alone. There • This present profusion of the luxuries is no reason for exempting from of night life invariably means better this tax incomes of individuals like Carnegie. Rockefeller and others a very lartre part of whose fortunes do not consist of corporation stocks. \It is a!?o well known that corpora- tions, especially the larger ones, can in most instances shift the burden of the tax to the public by imposing upon the people incri-ased-charges and prices. \As to ihe publicity feature, there is no substantial difference between the two measures. In other words, there is the same necessity for securing pub- licity in the income tax as in the cor- poration tax. HEJvery posjuileTffort^Will be made to secure the passage of the income tax amendments.\ • The small attendance at the confer- ence, it is assorted, does not'argue lack of sympathy with the income tax -pro- h f position, but is that business in forgotten office hours, and the oldest observers predict from its coming at this time a speedy return to the best of good times. That the very school children who flock the streets have been approached and tempted into the use of the deadly cocaine drug, has been brought to light through extensive investigations into this evil to-day. The cocaine: procurer is known to be very much in evidence on every block of the disreputable dis- tricts here ; but no one ever suspected that one of these drug demons would attempt to fix the fearful habit uponble Albany, June 21.—Plans for a State- wide campaign for the enactment of a law to put into effect the direct pri- mary System of nominations advocated by Gov. Hughes were perfected lately at a meeting of the advisory council of the Direct Primary association of the State of New York at the Hotel Ten Eyck. Ex-Judge William H. Wadhams, of New Yprk, president of the associatin, who presided, stated that it was the purpose of the association to co-operate with direct nomination leagues through- out the State. Each candidate for member of Assembly is to be asked to state his position with reference to di- rect primary legislation. Gov. Hughes sent a letter approving the purpose of the association, Officers of the association were an- nounced as follows: President,ex-Judge William H.Wadhams, New York; vice- presidents, Darwin R. James. Brook- lyns Merwin K. Hart, Utica; William H. Clark, Cortiand: Pliny T. Sexton, Palmyra; Fred R. Hazard, Syracuse; treasurer, James Talcot, New York. The advisory committee is headed by Oscar S. Straus ,of New York; former Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Included in the advisory committee are the following: Oneida—George E. Dunham, Merwin K. Hart, M. Woolsey Stryker. Judge Frank S. Baker., Rome. Oewego—Luther W. Mott. St. Lawrence—George Sisson, Jr. Jefferson -W. W. Kelley. Otsego—Stephen C. Clark. ''Since Gov. Fort of New Jersey ad- dressed a meeting in ' Utica on direct primaries the reform has received great impetus in Oneida county,\ said ex-Assemblyman Merwin K. Hart of Utica, to-day, prior to the meeting of the advisory council. \I think we will win on that issue in the county his fall. We have a republican organization in Utica, the Republican League, which is not committed to any bill, but is committed to the principle of direct primaries.\ County organizations were announced as having been formed in Kings, West- chestex Oneida, Ontario, Erie, Cayuga, Onondaga and Monroe counties. It was also announced that county direct pri- mary leagues were organized in other counties. Gov. Hughes was invited to attend I the meeting, but his absence from > Albany made his acceptance impossi- i ble. In a letter to Judge Wadhams, I the governor said : \As I have frequently stated,I regard the provision of a proper system for the direct nomination of party candi- dates as a matter of fundamental im- portance and I hope every honorable effort will be made to secure it. The movement is not an attack upon party or upon party organization/ or upon party leadership. It aims to promote party efficiency attdto secure represen- tative party organization and responsi- leadership. If we are to have true THE COCAINE CRAZE. p explained by the fact! cope with the effect of the insidious was not called until i cocaine habit, that Congress will the plea of the American secret foreign supply of this destructive drug aft.T the President's message was re-U answe , r _ - , , . ... ceived and which they could not break. I Health League and shutout the An effort will be made to-day to get together again. that the supporters of a direct tax on incomes do not like the idea of sub- stituting an amendment imposing a tax on the net earnings of corporations, was manifested by the discussion. It .was arurued by Mr. Borah, that it isLun- just to tax the earnings of a corpora- tion and le-t a partnership, in the same line of business, escape. Such legisla- tion, he declared; only can. be ex- plained by the fact that there is a wave of antipathy to the corporations that leads many people to believe they are objects of legitimate prey. What the proposition of the democrats in the Senate will be when President. Taft's programme is submitted for a vote has not been determined. groops of innocent school children. Rigid-prepresentatLve government, through investigation of this matter is to-day ~—* : — * u ~- —*^~»~ —ui-u *~~.u«.,.4.~ being taken up by the police in connec- tion with their general crusade against- the cocaine curse on this island. It is hoped by the police heads who have to JURORS WERE HOOTED. Acquitted Frank Denatio of Murder But They Nevertheless Considered Him to be Guilty—Scored by the Judge. Fonda, June 23.—Frank Denatio, a wealthy Amsterdam Italian saloon keeper who has been on trial here for the past four weeks for being the ac- cessory before the fact\ in the murder of William E. McLachlan+»«f-6wKie's Hollow, in July, 1907, was acquitted by a jury which handed up one of the most remarkable verdicts ever rendered in a homicide case. The written document reads: \Wbile by a practically prohibitive tariff and place restrctions upon the domestic dis- tribution. For the first time in a decade the City Hall clock stopped twice this week as \Marty\ Keese, its veteran custodian, lay dying over in a hospital on Long Island. For twenty-eight years this faithful old custodian has ruled over every nook of the main municipal build- ing and his freinds include very one of the great army of mayors, alderman, parties, then methods which facilitate the control of party machinery by cliues and make it unnecessarily difficult for the party voters to record and en- force their will, must be abandoned. \The movement is one in which all citizens should be interested, for the need of auv improved system is apparent in all parties. And the more desirous one is to main tain, party integrity and to avoid the disintegration of parties, the more solicitous he should' be to provide methods by which the wishes of the party voters may have direct and decisive expression.\ j Resolutions were adopted at the meeting endorsing the governor's po- sition on direct nominations. . Judge Wadhams, after the meeting issued a statement concerning the pro- posed work of the organization. \The last Legislature presented a city officials and newspaper men who good example of the present system,\ • _ _ _ _ _ j * _ l ^*«._ »J _..j . n»«* n i at*\»ta Tfis-lfv^'h U/orJknmo * * T k r\ 1iv\An /Jwaiim have passed in and passed out again j says Judge Wadhams.\ The lines drawn since the time of Tweed. As deputy . there were not party jines. There was sheriff \Marty\ boasts of his arrest of Republican-Democratic combination ----•• -- — - that stood for the principle that obedi- ence to the appointingn5ower~ supreme duty of a legislator. Tweed in the old Metropolitan Hotel. take up the before he came finally to care of City Hall. No more interesting character has lived in recent years to remind the present politicians of the political past than \Marty\ Keese, and the building he superintended for the better part of his life looks to-day sadly empty and unkempt. The City Hall clock has been wound up to go on without him, and so his friends must take up the daily round in spite of the lack of his familiar face. To those who love to devour the de- tails of divorce proceedings these days g There was no real party leadership in the Legislature. The test by which each member was judged and rewarded or condemned by the bosses was whether or not he stood for the boss principle, whether he was willing to be delivered regardless of his individual conscience or the aesires of his constituents. \In their zeal in establishing the supremacy of the present system, the majority party capitulated and placed the Republican Legislature under the of the Gould case and a dozen other re-Jdomination of Tammany Hall.\ citals of martial difficulties.areoffertng opportunities. From over the rare water spicy stories concerning Another young millionaire are also furnishing food for the scandal mongers. To the cleaner minded, and luckily the greater part of the public, this riot of scandal- ous stories is proving more or less of a in our minds and opinion we, as men, bore, however\ Of the Gould taleevery- the defendant as guilty,yet after one j 8 g^ an( j tired, while the adven- g our oaths as juors and care- 1 fully considering the evidence as placed render a verdict of not guilty.\ The jury was roundly scored by Jus- tice Spencer, who declared that they were unfit for such service, and that they had apparently failed to give full attention to the case, and in conclusion he ordered the clerk to remove- their names from the list of available jurors for future service. When the jury ap- peared upon the street they were hissed and hooted at by a large throng of people. McLachlan, the murdered man, was aneccentric and wealthy farmer, who lived alone and had frequently be- friended Denatto*by loaning him money, it was contended that it was for the purpose of stealing unrecorded\ evi- dences of indebtedness that Denatto sent five Italians to McLachlan's home with instructions to also kill him. TwA> of the actual participants in the crime nave already been convicted and another was killed by a fellow countryman a few days after the crime.' while the other two have never been apprehended. —Girls, listen to your mothers; you will never regret it. No matter what your advantages are above what hers w ere, you are nol>etter. You can rest assured that it is not book learning or knowledge of fashion that will keep your feet away from the many pitfalls that phe can warn you from, in a ten- <W, loving fashion, that you would do will to heed.' No matter how mothers [\ay speak, you may rest assured their hearts are in the right place, and that they want their daughters to be inno- and good, rather than fashionable. ^ turea of Alfred Vanderbilt present a certain sameness and lack of novelty. over the unearthing of big bundles scandal seem to be almost over even in this light-minded town. Mead. Early Impressions are Enduring. There is no earthly need of so much poverty and grumbling, as one hears on all sides to-day. There Telephoned Over 1,800 Miles. London, June 21.—An invention of the Swedish engineers Ogner and Holm- stroem for increasing the distinctness of sound in long distance telephony has been attracting attention for some time. Experimental conversations be- tween Paris and Sundsval, 300 miles north of Stockholm, seem to have been heard with remarkable clearness. The distance is 1,800 miles in a bee New York Police Head Urges Home Protection Against Cocaine — Bins;- ham's Plea Backed by Doctors and American Health League — Drug Plague Spreading. New York, June 21.— Declaring that all the police heads of the country would be greatly helped if a practically prohibitive tariff was placed on foreign cocaine and Internal revenue restric- tions on the domestic supply of the deadly drug, Theodore A. Bingham, police commissioner of this city has to- day written Senator Aldrich urging that Congress give this protection to all American homes. The spread oT the cocaine craze in New York City has become \widespread and insidious,\ General Bingham points out,' and al- ready his department has listed sixty three drug stores as suspected of ex- tensive illicit sales to vitcima of this drug. If this national evil.is not to be checked, it is the opinion of the police head here. Congress must at once fol- low the recommendation of the Ameri- can Health League and shut off by a tariff tax the secret sources of supply from abroad by which unprincipled dis- pensers are at present abe to evade all local laws and circulate cocaine to rapidly widening circles of drug fiends. With this plea from New York's police head, many similar communica- tions from local authorities who must also fight the cocaine curse are being received to-day by the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Philan- thropic, medical and charitably organ- izations throughout the country are joining the American Health League to urge that this vital opportunity to guard the physical and moral welfare of every community in the land be not neglected by their representatives at Washington. The leaders of this new movement are asking every citizen who would protect his home town from the drug plague to write to Senator Lodge who is to-day calling the matter to the attention of the Senate. Startling evidence of the grip which the cocaine habit has taken upon com- munities in every section of the conti- nent has to-day been presented to Con- gress. It is estimated that some 150,- 000 ounces of powerful drug were con- sumed last year in this country, con- siderably more than half of which is known to have gone to meet the crav- ings of the victims of its deadly habit. Though ita use is usually more or ltyss confined to the lower and more vicious classes, it is recorded that school chil dren have been approached and taught to use the drug, while distinguished physicians and other professional men have fallen before its insidious powers. In almost every one of these cases, the men who pander to the drug victims have b£en able to conceal their source of supply by importing cocaine from London or Hamburg, it is snown. Only a removal of the source of sup- ply of this drug can of the habit, medical men declare, and «uch a result catttf only be brought? about by- the proposed duty of $1.50 an ounce on foreign cocaine. Backed by the reputable physicians of the country and the fathers and mothers,who seek to shield their communities from this subtle drug habit, the American Health League is to-day looking to Congress for this particular form of real home protection. Duty on Print Paper. Washington, June 21.—The Finanee-- Committee of the Senate has reported an amendment to the tariff bill provid- ing for a duty of $4 a ton on print paper and the admission of wood pulp free of duty from countries which do not im- pose an export duty on wood pulp sent to the United States or otherwise dis- criminate against wood pulp exports to this country. The present duty on print paperia^6 a tonr-The House reduced the'duty to $2 and the Senate^ commit- tee has decided to split the difference. There is now a duty on wood pulp. The House bill provided for the admission of wood pulp free with a provision for a countervailing duty. , This action of the House with regard\ to wood pulp has been adopted by the Senate Com- mittee on Finance. OLDDAYS1N LEWIS COUNTY L. L. Fairchild Continues Inter- esting Reminiscence*. Revival Day* in CoiuUbUvilU-t-Loc*) Preacher.— \ Whipping th« Cat\— Fir»t Buggy—Hiraih Fcbhaw. Mr. Editor:—In early days Elder Knapp, the old-fashioned revivalist, struck Constableville, and waked up all the sleepy heads with a glaring brim* atone hell, so hot that you were never consumed, and burned on for evej* t and ever, and then some more. The village had no church, but a newly built barn was occupied. The boys climbed up on the beams and cross timbers and they then mounted the lower scaffold; The barn floor reserved for the preacher and the ladies. The meetings continued several weeks, and the excitement was intense, especially among the women. The lurid pictures of the bottomless' pit, and the wrath of an offeuded God, were enough to make hair stand on end, scare nervousVornen nearly out of their senses, crying \What shall I do tor be saved.\ One woman went crazy, be- reft of reason, and several others were BO Beared, that they were fairly beside themselves. He utilized Col, Miller's pork house for his anxious house, and outside parties were denied an entrance The sobs, groans and shouting, were about the equal of an old-fashioned crazy house. Some husbands and fath- ers put a veto on their wives and fami- lies visiting the meetings,. . A dozen years later Elder Clark visit- ed the place. He stirred up quite an ex- citement, particularly among the young people. But Clark was not in it with Knapp. Perhaps these- excitements did some good, as well as harm. Sen- JESUS AS AN ORATOR (James B. Clayton, D. D., Washing ton, D. C, in the Homiletic Review.) Jesus is entitled to the distinction of being the world's foremost orator. To His successes as a religious teacher He added the triurriphs of the popular speaker; and that His oratory appealed strongly to the masses and was in some respects unique is indicated by many statements in the gospel narra- tives regarding His audiences and His popularity. The \innumerable multi- tude\ \preat upon him.\ thronged him,\ and rode upon one -another\ when they were gathered thick\ to hear Him. We are not left in doubt aa to the reception accorded Him. The common people heard Him gladly, \and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth,\ \were as- tonished at his doctrine,\ and shared the opinion at least once expressed by \whip the cat.\ That was what we j never left His hearers indifferent, but called a shoe maker, who went from | always evoked Btrong feeling and em- house to house, making up shoe's and phatic comment. He was too personal TnJTitT vi^t^l-boots for the family. Everybody took ! to be ignored and too impressive to be cure its vicumsr^ ir hideg and calf gkins to ^ ^n^y • and had their own leather, to make for sible people of the present day, look upon the ruler of the Universe as a God of Law—not vengeance—who doeth all things well for the best interest of man. Old cloven foot, with his har- poon, has been relegated far into the background. We'had several local preachers—good men—who administered to the wants of the comnuinity. Among them, we remember Elder Way. of Collinsville. Elder Hubbard, of Leyden, Priest Miller, of Tug Hill, and Good old John Hughes of the Valley. The latter would occasionally stop his exhortations long enough to give his hearers time to wake up. We remember Brother Pinnick of the Methodist persuasion, a school house preacher, holding forth on the Hill. We heard him say if the New Testament was lost, or blotted out, he believed he could rewrite chap- ter and verse from beginning to end. He surely had a remarkable memory. On the road from Constableville to Highmarket was a farmer who used to enemies, \never man spake like man.\ Whi le each of thetie state- ment* had an individual value, the yall unite in conveying the general impres- sion that His oratory was not only un- usual, but at times even sensational, invariably arousing both the bitter hos- tiltiy of His foes and the enthusiastic commendation of His friends. The utterances of Jesus may be grouped in three classes: His table talk, conversations, and public ad- dresses. Some of the most suggestive deliver- ances of Jesus were made as He ate. with His discipleB, friends, or benefici- aries. Among such utterances were HiB revolutions^ remarks upon the forgiveness of sins, made in connection with the incident of the woman of the city breaking her alabaster box in His honor as He sat at the table of Simon the Pharisee; His parting words to His e ariee; His prtin g words to His disciples before His crucifixion, spoken as they kept the passover feast in the upper room; and His final injunction to the same body of men to whom \he appeared as they sat at meat,\ and whom He commissioned to go into all the world and preach His gospel; His conversation with the Woman at Jacob's well on the spirituality of re- ligion ; Hia appeal to the rich ruler to make God and not gold the supreme quest of life: His memorable inter- view with Nicodemus on the higher life of the soul and His greeting to Simon I Peter by the Gallilean Lake, will for I ever remain models of wise and affec- ; tionate counsels on the subject of per- ] sonal religion. ! Of His many public addresses, such as the Sermon on the Mount and the sermon in the synagog of Nazareth, we know, even from the brief notes in the'gospels, that they were original in contents, striking in form, and surpris- ing in the penetrating appeal. He home weftr. - He was a Scotchman by birth, and marry a time, has the writer heard him describe the long and stormy voyage across tbe ocean^in a* sailing vessel. He was quite a reader of history, and kindly loaned his books to the writer, when we were nearly starving for some- thing to read. He was an intense Whig. He at one time lived in Dutchess county and was a neighbor to Martin .Van Buren. He hated- him intensely, and was very bitter on the Democrat party. He had a hilly farm and was about the only one in the neighborhood that continued wheat raising year after year. Charles Felshaw was the first man to introduce an eliptic spring buggy into Cuyaba. The boys forlmiles away used to vie in hiring it to take out their girls on Fourth of July, and other extra oc- casions. He was brother to Hiram Felshaw, the early day gunsmith of Constableville. ^ Hiram iFelshaw an exclleent mechanic. carried on by way of Berlin, the length of the wire used was considerably greater. It IB said that this is the distance record. Growth of the West. food in this great and glorious world for all its people. It is the fault of education of our children; they are brought up wrong. The children should be broken into some useful labor and taught to respect and honor the useful more than the ornamental. Every by and girl should be made to work at something that would be of profit, till the second nature forms with them. A man or woman eo educated becomes actually fond of labor or at least pleased with the results, then it be- comes a pleasure to perform it. All children at an early age should have a bank and be taught to save their money, or. at least, the larger part of it. They should not be allowed to waste anything, food, clothing, or any other article of value. It is the early impres- sions formed on the mind that are en- during. Very few children trained in tH^rii . There was a notable celebration forty is plenty 01 years ago, when the last spike—a gol- ppr unless caused by sickness or some un- avoidable accident. ' —This year's intercollegiate boat race at Poughkeepsie will be rowed Friday, July 2d. One of the gravest breaches -of-de- corum is the exposure of the faults of husband or wife by the one who should shield them. den one—was driven in the Unioii Pacific. The first railroad to complete the link across the American continent was heavily subsidized by the govern- ment, but even so it was not able to keep its head above Wfftet. Transcon- tinential traffic was too small to pay running expenses of one line. There are now five between the Can- adian border and the Rio Grande and two more are nearly finished. The two Hill railroads pay 7 per cent; divi- dends. One Harriman road pays 10, the other six, while the fifth completed line pays 5 per cent. There is official authority for the statement that the nearly finished St. Paul transcontinen- tal extension already earns more than 7 per cent . Here is the story of America's indus- trial achievement written in the form of railroad dividends. While Grant was president, and even long afterward,the Union Pacific was rtarving. There was not enough ocean-to ; ocean trade to keep one railroad busy. Now five well equipped lines have enough business to make each of them to prosperous that they have invited thre construction and competition of two-more.— —If you are going to ask a fay or ask for twice as much as you expect to get. Lands of Bible ^History Redeemed by an Englishman's Genius. Alexander Powell in July Every- body's Magazine writes of the lands of bible historyfvery interetsingly. The following is an extract, Naturally fertile and once the richest region not only in Asia but in all the world, Mesopotamia, owing to neglect, is now a barren waste. The ancient irrigation works perished because the country was so torn asunder by inter- necine warfare that the inhabitants ceased to keep them in repair. The scene of the sudden destruction which overwhelmed the cities of the plain is still visible. The Tigris burst its bonds and temporarily engulfed a great area, and from that day to this desolation has reigned supreme around ancient Opis. There comes then from Egypt a modern Moses, Willcocks by name, a baronet and an engineer of note, who has been entrusted by Turkey with the survey of the works for .restoring the ancient canals and irrigating channels along the Tigris by which the plains of^Meso- potamia, after centuries of waiting, will be restored to their old-time lux- uriance and prosperity. Sir William Willcocks,known to fame as the builder of the great Nile dam at Assua,n—an economic success, if ever tKere was one—divides the region which he pro- poses to restore into two sections; one, Upper Chaldea, representing an area of 1,280,000 acres of first-class land waiting.only for water to yield at once a handsome return; the other, Lower Chaldea, 1,600,000 acres in extent, al- Chough highly valuable, he considers was never as fertile as Upper Chaldea, its soil having become impregnated with salt. Suffice it to say that the works contemplated resemble closely those in operation tonlay 1n the Nile Valley and present no exceptional diffi- culties to the engineer. The cost is estimated at approximately forty mil- lion dollars,from which, it is calculated there will be a net income of ten mil- lion dollars 'per annum, or twenty-five per cent, on the capital invested. Let those who know Egypt say whether they, consider such figures too.sanguine. .I i 1 • •- •,<• Trouble Makers Ousted. When a sufferer from stomach trouble takes Dr. King's New Life Pills he's mighty glad to see his Dyspepsia, and indigestion fly, but- more he's tickled over his new, fine appetite, strong ner- ves, healthy vigor, all because stom- ach, liver and kidneys now work right. ,25c at_F. C. Snyder's. —Time is money, but it is a mighty i poor substitute for a bank account. and gunsmith by trade, was one of the early settlers of Constableville. Being a natural mechanic he did not confine his business to guns alone. If there was a difficult job that nobody would take, it j went to his shop. His gun trade came from all over the county,and guns were ! sent even from Jefferson county by stage to his shop. He was one of the very first to take up denistry in Lewis county, and made some of the first complete sets of teeth on gold plate. In later years he confined his labors to dentistry and was seldom excelled. He was one of the first inventors of steel spring harness snaps. He also invented a wire stretcher for buck saws or wood saw. He invented a lathe, and other machinery for making other articles. L. L. Fairchild, Rolling Prairie, Wis. BASE BALL AND THE POPE. forgotten. While the rabbis were jeal- ous of His popularity, His hold on the ppy masses remained unshaken; and when the rulers plotted His overthrow, they resorted to trickery,making no attempt to take Him openly \for fear-of ; the And Archbishop Farley Pitched First Ball for Game at Ca»tel Ganddlfo. Rome, June 21.—Pope Pius X. has enrolled himself with the hundreds of thousands of people the worTd over who love baseball. His duties'and the rules of the Vatican prevent him from at- tending a-gamerbut he shows a decided interest in the contests between the students at the American College at Rome. When Archbishop Farley had an audience with the Pope to-day sev- eral minutes were passed in friendly discussion of the great American pas- time, of which the Archbishop is an admirer. The Archbishop attended a game be- tween the students in connection with the celebration of the golden jubilee of the college. In a joking tone the Pope said to the Archbishop: \I have been told that yesterday you went out to Castel Gandolfo and played baseball.\ The Archbishop replied: 'Yes, your Holiness,! pitched the first ball. It was the first game to be played at Castel Gandolfo, and I wanted it to be inaugurated by one of the old- est of the alumni.\ The Pope also gave separate audi- ences to the* Bishops of St. Joseph and Scranton. The two prelates are mak- ing ad limina visits, while Archbishop Farley's visit was merely one of court- esy* T&e £ope° was very^affable to all. \He discussed general topics, including the jubilee of the American College, and reaffirmed the consolation that American Catholics afforded him. —The Canton Semi-Weekly Times has suspended publication owing to lack of patronage. —The new greenhouses to be built for the State Agricultural college at Cornell University. will have 109,626 square feet of glass and if placed end to end would «xtenc 1,881 feet. Any discussion of tbe oratory of Jesus must take into account His op- portunity, equipment, and message, Hia Opportunity. The political, social, and religious conditions of His times presented a golden opportunity for the man of the hour to raak.e Himself deeply and per- manently felt. In addition to posses- sing an extraordinary mental and spirit- ual endowment, Jesus was a close stu- dent of His times, and the reach of His mind carried Him far beyond Judea and Rome, embracing, indeed, all man- kind. His development was normal and gradual. Luke says that He 4 'grew in grace and wisdom.'' The eighteen years of . obscurity in the carpenter shop of quiet Nazareth developed RIB mind and gave Him the necessary op- portunity for the careful formulation of His message into a compact system so that its presentation Bhould be not only adequate to His own turbulenjt period, but be suitable to men in all ages and conditions of life. Politically His people were divided into many sects and parties, and were weary, not only of Roman despotism, but of their own incessant strifes. The three hundred years preceding His ad- vent had been rilled with popular up- risings and the coming of many mes- Biahs. Caesarism had all but crushed the nation, though some hope remained, and the longed-for \Prince of the house of David,\ if He came, and possessed initiative and administrative genius, would, be able to enlist the multitude under His banner. Politically, conditions favored Jesus; and socially sudh a man was needed. The spirit of caste completely perme- ated the national life; those at the top were unwilling to assist or to co-oper- ate with those at the bottom of the social scale; and pride of family, sta- tion, and purse, together with a self- righteousness which has probably never been equaled in the history of religion, made a unified society impossible un- less* a social revolution should inter- vene. Religiously, the timeafavoreda radt love for the sinner, and cal reformer. Worship had degenerated into formalism, and righteousness into paying tithes and saying prayers, the religious leaders being content, if the tithes were paid, to regard saying prayers as a work of supererogation. John the Baptist having preceded Jesus with his ministry of repentance, had opened the way of the Becond and greater preacher of a positive and con- structive religion. Both of these mini- stries were widely different from any of the preceding Sessianic movements, and they united in the idea of the im- mediate establishment of the kingdom of God among men through the regener- ation^ tbe individual. Th^um total of conditions, political, social,and religious, favored the advent and supremacy of a great orator, who, instead of being a caustic ascetic like John, should mingle with the people; and this social condition JTesus so far fulfilled that He was assailed as \glut- ton and^rine-bibber.\ His customruf regularly attending the weekly servkes in the Nazareth synagdg during the eighteei years prior to His entrance upon public life, had thoroughly famil- iarized His mind with the ideas, hopes and needs of His people. One of the first of His recorded addresses, that in Nazareth, was unsettling to His audi- ence and resulted in as trying an ex- perience as could befall a popular speaker. At first the people \won- dered at the gracious words which pro- ceeded out of His mouth;\ but when, in that same brief address. He appealed to their history to prove Hia position that God could not be confined to Juda- ism,the meeting broke up in a ^uproar, and ended in an attempt, the first of many, to destroy Him. v But His oppor- tunity had come; how should it be util- ized? Should He conciliate narrow Jewish prejudices, or seize upon the occasion to inaugurate a propaganda for universal brotherhood? Hi* Equipment. The equipment of Jet us as an orator was never excelled. His utterances in public were dignified, and often sober to the verge of gloom; but He posses- sed a highly nervous tempermanent in an even more notable degree than Whitefield, whose impassioned declama- tion often produced bleeding at the nose and mouth; but, while he was Qf great range and depth of emotion, He was not one of that class, now happily al- most extinct, a \crying preacher.\ He occasionally wept, or.ten \sighed deeply in His spirit,\ and iiutbeugarden Hia mental agony was so great that He 8w9at blood. These . indications point to a supernormal sensibility, through the multitude's many appeals to which He became \a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.\ His Bupernormal sensibility was regulated by k an inexorible will, ihough He were \meek and lowly of heart,\ yet had He an unwavering purpose and the executive power of subordinating all things to it. No stress or strain weakened either His con.icuuisor His - will, Which He regaraed as being iden- tical 1 with God's will, tie thought and spoke in the imperative mood; \I must\ and \thou must\ often 'fell from His lips. If the accidents of priva- tion, temporary unpopularity, or- the ' weakness of the flesh at times made conformity with His purpose difficult anu perilous, He never luitered, Lut \set His face like- a flint\ in Uvojj.rig the path which He knew m^ct tr.a **u Calvary. Neither suffering nor be- trayal, hardship, nor the cio^s, altered His plans or paraiyzed His lacuhies. he Knew neittier tear nor vauliiaiion. Whether Jesus was above or below the average stature is a subject of con- tradictory traditions, but Hia presence must have been dignified and even ma- jestic. His general appearance being a ' it expression of the kingly soul wiftnn, . and especially noticeable in one of His humble origin and rank in society. He resorted to none of the cheap clap-trip i of the professional agitator nor to ar.jr of the accessories or. stage cral't fir producing an effect upon His audiences* nor did rie need to resort to such petty artifice for gaining the public ear. He spoke as one who loved l»od and men, ao that it is not strange that v \the common people heard him gladly,'' \came running together,\ \hung upon v his words,\ and withal were \amazed\\ at the Belf-asaertion with which He , spoke. His presence must also have been magnetic jMjthmpn by ,the fact that women and children trusted him, and that when He addressed such a man «• Simon Peter with such simple words a* \Invest Bat,\ and Matthew the tax-collector wjtli the tetwt: • *f ollow UJ», \' t % results - portiooata W tfcaV*4tta_ and clear!* proveThJW^frs mu*t _, been in His manner and tone an'aJil»pf%~ irresistible kindness. In addition such effects there Were others $• §£ SI alarm, and, indeed, terror, press ion of His countenance. AA xto spoke of His death Boon to occur in V Jerusalem, .His disciples were afraid of Him; and in the garden of Gethsemane He exercised that strange power* more; than once resorted to by John Wesley, - of quelling a mob by a mere. look.', There was that in His face that charmed the needy into trust; but there vWa* ; also that which forbade undue familiar- ity, inspired respect, and even produced fear. ' - - ,. Of His movements while engaged public discourse, we know but,,little..^ \He lifted up is eyes,\ and **« forth His hand\ are about the things said of His gesture or but fully taking into account the that He had complete control self at all times, and so was Calm in delivery, so emotional a. must at times have been very in His discourse and assumed posture*:; or indulged in movements that accompanied His speech. His and .His silence in dealing with woman brought to Him to be condemned was dramatic in the extreme, and fair\ more effective than words alone could? have been in such circurr.satcnea. • h Jesus, frequently, and for months spoke in the open air,Bnd fore certainly rx)88eBBed a voice of great v : i volume and compass, else He have endured the strain incident. such efforts. No small part of geon'e popularity was due to his , woio-j^v^ derful voice, which ranged frbm tlfiK;^ highest tenor to the lowest bass, was so penetrating that its could be heard by thousands. So thert: i, must have been a charm in the voice oi »J£f ~ Jesus as well as great power. 0$e*ew%«v not imagine that it was monotonous, ov^i? harsh. The transforming power of fl|s i$$. gracious invitations and friendly ajK^^ peals must have be*»n considerably-*0g4\r%- mented by tender tones'in which n y tender tonesi which thg#i£^ were spoken. When He spoke peace, Be fx^ fill d the ht f the bdd d^ filli d th heart of th abandoned outcast; as He pronounced absolution,- the midnight shadows of sin disapr-' ; peared before HiB smile of welcoming morn; \of breathed in the Btilling souls 01 proHr?e gates; when He whispered Simon wept-* and John sobbed; and when He thund- ^ - dered,Lazarus came back ^ h l shores and the waters lay down at feet of the Lord. - . / ;s4i; The mind of Jesus wu equal to H k > opportunity and the demands iropoaed.'... upon Him by His unique position. lhfaJ4 ' is proven by the quality, reach, and ap-w^ propriateness of His saying*. Hlsmlwl >- was comprehensive. The most aoptX^K ficial examination of the thought of '>?*$ Jesus shows that He grappled mightljr v with actual conditions rather than spent his strenght on abstract tbeorie*-- His parabolic form of teaching wai',v;-.: ; peculiarly adapted to His hearers'mtn*' tal qualifications, and to the pwpoaea • of a popular orator. At His d<^th Ht ;:~ had left unsaid many things w.yich Ho. ' desired His disciples to know but which they were then unable to bear; yet '' even allowing for such necessary re- ;. : : striction upon His teaching. He said ..'* enough to prove that His knowledge of \• the human heart was marvelously com- .%. plete and that His mind had compassed 'Q. the heights of truth, the depths of/ misery, and the breadth of love. ..: His mind was also clear as crystal;- There were no shadows clouding Hii-^ vision; no uncertainties, mental feBer^ . r -^ vationa, verbal quibbling, or rhetorical ^ evasions are to be found in His ire-* . ;- corded addresses. The topics of Hia ,.-••> discourse stand out as clear as the parts y of a tree in the morning sun. He Bawr nothing \through a'glass darkly, \ bel.eld every truth \lace tqface *' (Continued on •»*< •''A -I-' I
