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YKtn-Tjm a, v 1 ic 'I - -v : t 1 V " "' , , r ;a i. f .ti JANUARY 5, 1S12 -- - 0JdJ "call (it k LUO vocers la sufficient number to enact thorn, demand them wid oay so by their ballot) the real mends of the judiciary? Think of 2? lonf11Jle ot distinguished men whose wisdom has brightened the pagesof our state and nation, shrink ing from duty, or trembling with rear, and all because the people who honored them with their positions Keep In their possession the riglit of feC?il! i, Do you think ifc could be truthfully said that with a thousand ieu.u s pointing as spears at a Jay, an Ellsworth, a Marshall, a Taney, a Chase, a Wait, a Fuller, or our now distinguished chief justice that either would have failed to write- a line They have written or would have changed a,iine if it wa3 written? To answer this question in the negative Is to confess that they would not as men rise to the height of your ideal r my ideal of their distinguished ability and independence. These are some of the questions that are now being asked and these are some of the questions that must be candidly una iairiy answered. The fear urged is a childish fear, unsupported by our history and unwarranted when we recall the illustrious names, the unflinching independence, their ideals of fair and equal justice, which has, as we believe, entered into and formed a part of the history of juris- prudence? Well you may say you have mentioned men above the aver age, and have not mentioned some beneath the average. I would answer wo are entitled to men above the average, and may I ask, might we not more often get them if the laws sought now to be enacted were a part of our system of government? That the people's judgment can be trusted has been proven to the world's satisfaction by all history, has been proven by all literature, prose and poetry, by song and by story! The Commoner. -- - - ii Dr. Mayo, the celebrated Rochester surgeon, is recovering from his own operation in New York. Theodore Roosevelt doclined to at tend the great peace banquet held n New York City. In a seven page letter he said he was opposed to the ratification of tho peace treaty. Delia Fox, tho famous actress, is seriously ill in New York City, as the result of an operation for appendicitis. Senator La Follette, aided by Sena tor Clapp of Minnesota, and other republican insurgents are making a whirlwind tour through Ohio in the effort to capture the republican dele gation from that state. Washington News Admiral Dewey celebrated birthday December 26th. He seventy-four years old. his was A Washington dispatch to the Chicago Tribune says: President Taft, who makes the laws for the Panama canal zone, amended a re cent executive order regarding the practice of medicine in the zone, so as to sanction explicitly the use of Christian Science and other non medical methods. George Shaw Cook, member of the Christian Science committee on publication from Illi nois, said the original executive order was issued some time in November. "In its first form," he said, "it had the effect of forbidding Christian Science healing in the canal zone. The church itself never made any formal effort to have tho order amended, but I believe the matter was taken up with President Taft bv individuals. It Is proof of his fairness and liberal mindedness that ho amended it." A Kansas City dispatch says: Accompanied by a special escort of police, a -committee of women, re ligious workers, among them many well known socially, visited houses in what is known as "the south red light district" of the city In an effort to pursuade tho women residents to take a new start In life with the now year. Bach woman was offered a respectable home and a position in which she can earn an honest living. The home, to be conducted as an ordinary boarding house, its address to be kept secret, will be provided for those women who determine to accept the offer. Conditions will be so arranged that no stigma may fol low the reformed. The effort to help the unfortunate women of the city is a part of the religious forward movement. In addition to plans of caring for the women, the organiza tion has secured the names of all the property owners of the district who rent the places for Immoral purposes, and will ask that action be started against thom. Every house in the red light district will be closed at midnight by a squad of police. "sed tho hemorrhage apoplexy. Griffith, a farmer's son, was a human calculating machiuo, a puzzle to learned psychologists; almost as soon aa an arithmetical problem was put to him ho saw tho answer through tho maze of figures. He was "dis covered" In a barber shop near Elk hart, Ind., four years ago by a Chi cago newspaper man who hearing of his phenomenal powers of calcula tion, proposed a theatrical partner ship. Griffith, who was then twenty seven years old and working on a farm for fifty cents a day and his ooara, accepted the offer. His stago career began in Chicago- tho next day. In February, 1910, a score of professors and tutors at Harvard uni versity tried to corner Griffith. Prof. Julian C. Coolidgo of tho mathe matics department invited him there. Professors and instructors threw problems at him and ho tossed back tho solutions. Then ho turned qulz zer and asked tho professors sorno easy ones. Like this: "My birthday is April 23. If tho next timo my birthday comes on Easter Sunday I shall be 20 per cent older than next April, how old am I now?" And this: "If on that Easter birthday tho population of Boston wore GO per cent moro than the sum of all tho numbers from 14,107 to tho next prime number above, and they should all celobrato ray birthday by giving me as many Easter eggs at 41 cents a dozen, what would, be tho com pound interest on tho money at 3 per cent from that day until the uext timo my birthday falls on Easter Sunday?" It is not recorded that the learned professoi'3 have answered yet. The Wesley Teapot and its History Mrs. Daniel Onstott I havo boon asked to tall hnw t ,...i tho replica of tho historical toapot of Wosloy, that highly troasurcd rollc la Wesley's house. City Road. London. Several yoars ago, while living at Old Orchard, Mo., tho Ladlos' Aid Soolaty Bavo a sorlos of teas and Invited tho Kontlcmon. Tho ovcnlngs woro devoted to tho origin and history of our Church hymns. Ono evening I gave the history of John Wosloy's hymns. In an old book I found hln tabic hymns, and In a foot note It eald, "Tho blessing and return thanks always used by Wcaloy was printed on an old toapot now a highly treasured relic in London." The thought came to me and at the same tlnio to Mr. Israel Luco that tho teapot might be copied and Hold for missionary money. Inquiry was mado, and after a great deal of correspondonco I found tho old teapot had been mado by tho famoua potter, Joslah Wodgewood. Tho Wodgowood pottery being still In exigence they be camo IntercHted and acnt tholr artist to London, und mado a copy of It. At The Vatican has declined to grant Count de Castellane an annulment of his marriage with Anna Gould, who is now tho Duchess of Talleyrand. Clem J. Kern, a nephew of Sena tor John W. Kern, died suddenly at his home at Valparaiso, Ind. He was sixty-one years old. A St. Petersburg cablegram, car ried by the Associated press says: Supplementary legislation of a pro hibitive character was introduced in tho duma aimed at the United States. It provides for the total exclusion of American citizens of the Jewish faith. In other respects it is similar to the bill of ex-President Guchkoff intro duced December 22. A proposal has been introduced In the Russian duma to increase tho import duty onfall American products. "Washington correspondents say that United States Circuit Judge Hook of Kansas will succeed the late Justice Harlan on the supreme bench. President Taft has refused to par don Charles W. Morse, tho New York banker, now in prison at Fort Mc pherson. Morse's frienda claim that he will die at an early day. President Taft has upheld and warmly commended Maurice H. Thatcher, the Kentuckian, who is :.nni. nf tho Pnnama canal zone. notwithstanding the charges pre- had subjected his brain weakened the ferred by former- Governor Abaldia. e blood vessels thero and so A Springfield, Mass., dispatch to the New York World, says: Arthur F. Griffith, a famous lightning calcu lator, known as "Tho Marvellous Griffith" on the vaudeville stage of Europe and America, was found dead in bed in the Nelson notei Dy m. iv. Nadel, his manager, who went to bid him a merry Christmas. Griffith toyed with the figures hurled at him in a local theatre recently and was to have appeared in Poll's theatre at Bridgeport, Conn. Gaining no re sponse to his knocking, Mr. Nadel called Griffith's colored valet, who, looking through the transom, saw bis master motionless on the bod. The door was forced and physicians called Medical Examiner Russell said Griffith died of apoplexy during the night. The medical examiner was not prepared to say that the arithmetical gymnastics wnicn unmia W. Morgan Shuster, tho American treasurer general of Persia, was notified by the cabinet of his dismis sal from that office. An indignation meeting was dispersed by the police. General Bernardo Reyes, the Mexican rebel, surrendered to Lieu tenant Placido Rodriguez at Linares, in the state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. He asked for no guarantees for him self, but pleaded for mercy for the little group of men who had attached themselves to his standard. At the first dinner of the Russo Japanese society in St. Petersburg, toasts were exchanged between tho Japanese ambassador and tho Rus sian premier referring to tho value of Russo-Japanese friendly relations. At a meeting of tho Japanese cabinet, It is said that the conference reached tho conclusion that the adop tion of a republican form of govern ment by China was apparently inevitable. Tho trustees of tho Peabody educa tion fund havo issued an appeal for $1,000,000 to make the George Pea body college for teachers at Nashville a fino memorial for Mr. Peabody. Tha Now York World objects to the democratic national convention General Conference was near at hand in Baltimore, Md., May, 1308, I Hccurcd enough advanco orders to guarantco suc cess, and In September, at an Epworth League convention In Boston, exhibited tho first teapot, and In Philadelphia, In October, at tho Annual Meeting of tho Woman's Home Missionary Society, they wcro on sale. The teapot of Wosloy hold nearly a gallon, while tho replica holds threo pints Just right for family use. Tho original was mado by Joslah Wedge wood and presented to John Wesley about 1C0 years ago, In the summer of 17C1, whllo Joslah was weeding m flower garden. Wesley passed through Burslem, and was entertained at tho Ivy Cottage, where ho used tho Moravian table blessing "Be present at our table, Lord." This was the beginning of a Ilfc-Ion friendship between these groat souls, and In token of that friendship the tea pot was mado and sent to Wesley. Tho grace before meals and tho return thanks is printed on cither side, sur rounded by a wreath of lowers which grew in tho garden. Above the spout arc England's national flowers tho rose, thistle, and shamrock: tho rose for England, thistle for Scotland, and sham rock for Ireland. On tho spout the threo arc united, which represents the United Kingdom repressing Wesley's influence In England. The checked design Is a piece of Sarah Wedgwood's dress, as tho first time Josjau worn. io uu iur buu woro a blue print dress, which ho greatly admired and asked her "for a pleco of it to use on his pottery." This is the only pleco of pottery with this decoration, and shows his lovd for Wesley. (Sarah afterwards became his The teapot was much admired by Wes ley, and was always used at his table, and when guests were present the sido of tho teapot with the blessing was turned toward them, and It was sung; and at the close the side, and with re turn thanks. For many years after Wesley's death the teapot was used In Wesley Chapel, City Road, for tho famous tea meetings which arc held at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoons, and still observed. The teapot is now In a glass case for preservation, which now makes the replica very desirable. An illustrated leaflet with menu for a Wesley Tea will bo furnished, with a wholesale price list, by sending a two-cent stamp t Mrs. Daniel Onstott, Covington, Ky. -? - y. vMtitrtm', , -i : XbU aJ' &MJm&- SLJtwdir . -ujl . ii ViV ft