MARCH 15, 1007
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the great political parties, and at last,
the plant lie had nourished and wat
ered, had greened and grown and he
saw the fruit upon the tree, ripening
to its fall, at the time he died. He
lived to see the American people mak
ing ready to enjoy again their wrested
inheritance. It must have been gra
cious to his soul that he had headed
the phalanx that was to give the laud
back again to its own.
Mr. Overmyer had none of the
characteristics of a politician." He was
of too great liber anil mind to be pos
sessed of guile, machination or scheme,
and too true and ruddy dropped to be
recreant to, a pledge.. With so ,niany
instances of man's ingratitude and
treachery, as a part of his experiences
an a lawyer in big practice, there was
no word of warning, advice or cau
tion that ever made him wary, or one
jvhit forego his absolute confidence in
man. He was not only too big to be
a politician, but his chosen profession
had limitations for his usefulness.
He was a great lawyer in every phase
of the profession, advocate, counsellor
and jurist. Lawyer that he was, Na
ture turned him out of Its workshop
a statesman of heroic mould, who
stood for high ideals, the land, the
people and the common weal, that no
defeat could embitter, nor victory in
ebriate him with the impulse of sin
ister ambition,
It was the fond hope of his friends
that some day he would stride down
tiie aisles of the United States senate
commissioned "by his splendid state to
represent her there. He was not to
fire its embored hearth, with the flame
of heroic thought or action.
"A lover of books, a thinker, a philos
opher. He enjoyed history, and down
the chronicled ages, he drew to his
Bide every great warrior and made him
light all his battles over again. He
rWas a patriot of the intenser sort, and
the one especially tender spot 4n his
composition was his high regard for
the yalor and. glory ,of American Arms.
H'he story of the commonest soldier,
5,000
Reward
iWill be paid to any person
A (who 'can find one atom of
opium, chloral, morphine,
cocaine, ether, chloroform,
heroin, alpha and beta eu
caine, cannabis indica, or
chloral hydrate or any of
their derivatives, in any
of Dr. Miles' Eemedies.
JThis applies to goods in
original packages, unop
ened, and not tampered
,"wi(th. .Certain unscrupu
lous persons are "making
false statements about
these remedies.
"T have been troubled with a ter
rible headache for the last ten years;
the doctors could do mo no good. I
uaw Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills adver
tised in the Sunday magazine, so I
thought I would try a sample. I did
bo, and they helped me wonderfully,
i-had headache so badly I could hard
ly see to work, so I sent to the drug
etoro and got a box. In a- couple of
hours I was all right, it was tho first
medicine to do mo any good."
A. A. ILLTG.' Philadelphia, Pa. )
S3G2 Tacoma Street.
Dr. Miles' Antl-Paln Pills are sold by
your druggist, who will guarantee that
the first package will benefit. If It
falls, he will return your money.
25 doses, 25 cents. Never sold In bulk.
Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind
ho listened to with the eagerness of a
child.
Of all men, what, a loving husband
and father. His hearthstone was liL-5
shrine; its doors opened to him a rare
content and peace, and when they
closed they shut out the turmoil of
life. Here he worshipped, here were
his altars, and here tho humblest could
come and shake a hand that had no
chill, hypocrisy or greed.
It is not intended here to give a
chronology of his life. It is known of
all men, and is a permanent archive
of the stale.
This Memorial would be without
purpose did it not suggest tho lustrous
path he trod to those who feel the im
pulse of ambition, to those who as
p:re to a career of usefulness.
It would be .meaningless did It not
tender all human sympathy, to his
family in this their direst affliction,
and it would not reflect our hearts, did
we not drift our love to him across
the darkened space.
GERMANY'S POPULARVOTE
The victory of the German kniser in
the recent elections, on examination,
proves to be one of those misleading
aifairs of w&ich the politics of most
nations give illustrations. While the
emperor has a majority in the new
reichstag, it is based not on an in
creased popular' vote, but apparently
on a gerrymander of the constituen
cies. For example, the socialists, who
have lost thirty-six seats, have gained
240,000 in their popular vote. The
clericals, who gained but four "seats,
have made a gain of 400,000 in their
popular vole. The socialists and cleri
cal centers now cast 5,500,000 votes,
or considerably more than half of the
vote of the empire, but they have only
151 out of the more than 3G0 seats in
parliament.
The explanation of tho result is to
be found in part in the fact that there
prevails in ordinary elections the sys
tem of uuopposed returns. In these
cases the dominant party in the dis
trict, having no incentive to bring out
Its full vote, is content to return its
member with the vote of the regular
political hacks who always attend elec
tions. The same condition prevails in
dozens of "districts in the south in tills
country. The republicans in many
districts do not oppose the democrats
and very few votes are cast. In tho
state of Mississippi last year 51,000
votes elected eight congressmen. In
Minnesota, it took 253,000 -to do the
same thing. Presumably", In the last
German elections the government op
posed the socialists and other hostile
groups wherever they could get candi
dates, and have won some of the close
districts, while the socialists, being op
posed in their own districts, have re
taliated by putting up candidates
where they could not hope for victory.
Thus they have increased their popu
lar vote while losing parliamentary
strength.
But the government groups being
opposed everywhere must have had
open to tliera the same source of in
creased vote. Why should they have
so much the better of the greater turn
out of voters? The reason seems to
be that the constituencies are arranged
so that it takes a greater socialist
vote to elect a member than it does a
national liberal or a .conservative.
The same thing is true of Great Bri
tain, where a, bigger vote is required,
to elect a liberal . or labor member
voted for in tne cities. jmuueupujm
Journal.
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"What!" said the giiest, before open
ing it, "A dollar charges! I won't pay
it. Anybody .who cannot pay for his
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let you report this uncollected and tho
sender may payl the charges.!, - .
At that :hev tore the envetonp' opn
As he react &'smile settled onlttis face;
g a-dollar from his1 pocket;
and, pulling
he handed it to .the. hoy.
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Then he threw the message on the.
counter. "Read it!" he said to 0. T.
iNewton, the cjerk. The message read:
j$"apa's little girl sends,, him. fifty
.uishgjs o love, and wishes Jie was
rfomVto kiss her good-night Nellie."
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