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JANUARY 5, 1S12
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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.
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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.
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