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My Quarter Century of American Politic),
by Champ Clark. Illustrated. Harpe:
& Brothers. New York city.
In language remarkable for im
modesty and use of natural expres
sions. Its conversational style yet
with the presence of dignity and
furnishing- many anecdotes to explain
concepts of American public men and
recent and present political history
thtR hinffraiihv nf a nir-ln.aBniia A 1. 1 1. T"
lean statesmen is notable.
It will rank with the best and
most widely-read biographies of the
year.
The story is told in two volumes.
th first numbering 495 pages, and
the second 472 pages 967 pages in
all. The illustrations are well chosen
and of excellent quality.
Mr. Clark writes that if he were
asked to sum up his life history, it
could be condensed in these words:
'"Fifty-odd years of unremitting toil."
Born on a farm near Lawrence
burg. Ky., March 7, 1850, the future
big democratic politician and recent
speaker of the lower house of con
gress, had literally to make his own
way through life. His mother died
when he was three years old, and
his father was a man, never rich, of
several occupations: Carriage and
buggymaker, teacher in an old-fashioned
singing school, dentist, car
penter, "a good democrat, a good
Christian, a good citizen."
It Is especially interesting to know
that the one book that largely de
termined the course of Mr. Clark's
life is William Wirt's "Life of Pat
rick Henry," in which the lesson ap
peared that it is easy to win law suits
and go to congress. These other books
also were found to be vitally import
ant the Bible and the United States
declaration of independence and con
stitution and Washington's farewell
address.
Mr. Clark's parents named him
James Beauchamp Clark, and when
he was 24 years old he visited an
unclev a lawyer in Bowling Green. Ivy.
There was living in that city a man
named J. B. Clark, and he not only
opened our author's letters, but sent
them back to the various places from
which they came to our author's
great annoyance. Our Mr. Clark made
up bis mind that he would not keep
a name owned by so many people.
Hence the name Champ Clark.
Sent by his father to work on a
farm run by a man named John Call,
our author soon improved his deli
cate body, and taught himself Indus
try. Today, our author says If he
were rich he rather would live on a
farm than anywhere else on earth.
At 15 years of age,
Champ Clark
taught school. When the Civil war
flame, of course Champ Clark was
too young to become a soldier. He
writes that around him was a verita
ble hot-bed of angry contention and
fighting. It is stated to the Union
armies Missouri contributed 109,111
soldiers; Kentucky, 75,760; Maryland.
46,638; Tennessee. 31.092, and West
Virginia. 32.068 making a grand
total of 294.669.
Champ Clark attended Transylvania
university for three years and two
months, teaching during the summer
vacation to make what money he
could. In October, 1870, he was ex
pelled from that university for shoot
ing at a fellow student named Webb,
from Ohio tp. 95, first volume). it
seems this unfortunate fact was used
against Mr. Clark in the political
, campaign of 1912, very much to his
detriment. . i
Our author had fallen into an ar
gumenf'with Webb as to supper hour
at the barracks mess, and when Webb
passed the "short and ugly word."
there was a fight. A young giant
named Thompson grabbed Champ
Clark and held him, while Webb hit
Champ Clark where he pleased. Wild
with rage, Mr. Clark broke loose,
reached under the bed and pulled out
an old pistol, but just as ho fired,
Thompson knocked the weapon, and
the bullet missed Webb, lodging in
the door casing.
On being expelled. Champ Clark
went home, taught school for two
years and afterward went to Bethany
college, Vsl, where he graduated in
1873.
Champ Clark took to politics as
naturally as a duck takes to water.
The rest ot the book largely is de
voted to comments on public men and
especially to events in congress
Both as congressman and speaker of
the house of representatives, Mr.
Clark's career is more than ordi
narily Interesting.
Much space is devoted to comments
on president Cleveland, President
Roosevelt, President Taft ("one ot the
finest gentlemen that ever occupied
,the White House"), William Jennings
Bryan. Speaker Thomas B. Reed
President Wilson and other notables.
Our author expresses the opinion
that when President Taft tried for s
second term as president and failed
it was due to the fact he traveled too
much, played golf and appointed two
democrats to his cabinet. In the cam
paign of 1912. our author thinks he
lost the democratic nomination as
president through the unfriendly ac
tions of W. J. Bryan, once a great
friend.
The opinion is expressed as a part
ing message from this book, that the
consensus of world opinion is that
President Wilson has been and ia "a
great president."
The Great Adventure of Panama. by
Phi'.tpp Bunau-Varllla. Doubleday,
Pass & Co., Garden City, X. Y.
Much information that Is new to the
subject relating to the series of
events connected with the construc
tion of the Panama canal appears in
this dramatic and sensational book.
The author, engineer of the old
French Canal company, is stated to
have saved the canal for the world by
starting the bloodless -evolution
against Colombia, by which the little
state of Panama came into being.
It will be remembered that for a
long time Colombia refused to ratify
and it is shown that the principal
reason was ilue to the nefarious plots
of German diplomacy seeking world
control. Plots and intrigues from destruc
tive German sources are shown to
have- existed around Panama, from
1SSS to 1914.
Our distinguished author is a
French soldier who lost his right leg
above the knee, in defending Verdun.
The Rponlhi11ties o' the League, by Lord
Kuftace Percy. Georgo li. Doran Co.,
Mew York city.
A frank. Informing, hands-across-the-sea
book, written by a shrewd and
r-bservant Englishman, about the need
of friendship between Britain and
America, and also the need of a real
league of responsibility among na
tions in which people will mean what
they say.
Benjy. by Georse Stevenson. John Lane
Co., New York city.
Starting about 60 years ago. and
toward the end treating of early war
days of 1914. here is an English novel
full of agreeable charm.
A World Rwnakisg or Trace Finance, by
Clarence W". Barron. Harper & Broth
ers, New Tork city.
Mr. Barron recently visited Europe
en more than one occasion to investi
gate the human problems of personal
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ican Politics."
and national finance, and decides that
the keywords to the great problems
of reconstruction are character and
money. The latter is especially
needed, he thinks, at least until we
get a new basis of value and ex
change. The present book consists of 28
chapters in investigating after-the-war
causes for needed economic
changes. Our author is sure that our
problems in this country, from the
situation in Russia to international
competition in shoes and machinery,
are problems of finance. He adds
that the hope of the wor?d and its
civilization now rests upon the United
States.
Generally speaking, the book con
sists of a series of letters written
from various cities, one of those oeing
London, England.
Days of Glory, by Frederick Villiers II-1
lustratert. George H. Doran Co.. New
York city.
Verily. Frederic Villiers, the cele
brated war artist and also veteran
war correspondent, surely is entitled
to be known as one of the kings of
that precarious profession. He is a
real knight-errant, as much every
bit as one . of the mail-clad knights
Of Old Who sallied forth InnL-inff f, -
adventure. Mr. Villiers was actually
veteran war-artist and corres
pondent at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir,
away back in 18S2.
This book contains 50 full-page
pictures of the recent war, along the
French-British front, with a sketch
of the subject of each picture shown.
In these pictures, British, French and
German troops are shown, and the
pictures are glorious, gory and ter-
riDie. rney glow with vigor and
action, and vividly bring battle scenes
betore one s very eyes.
The book will make a handsome
gut to some lucky friend.
A Portland Poem In a Chicago Magazine
Miss Hazel Hall of this city has a
long poem in the April number of
Poetry, a Chicago magazine, a poem
with the unusual title of "Needle
work." It reads in part:
Lengths of lawn and dlmltlcs,
Lainty, smooth and cool
In their possibilities
Beautiful
Stretch beneath my hand in sheets,
Fragrant from the loom.
Like a field ot marguerites
All in bloom.
Where my scissors' footsteps pass
Fluttering furrows break,
As the scythe trails through the grass
Its deep wake. '
A Pilgrim Maid, by Marlon Ames Taggart.
Illustrated. Doubleday, Page & Co
Garden City, -V. Y.
Of profound historical value, and es
pecially interesting to young readers.
this splendid novel. of 1620, of there
abouts, depicts the landing of the
Pilgrim fathers on the shores of
Massachusetts. It also depicts the
Plymouth colony, as it was in the
first three years, and Is filled with
incident and conversation.
We meet fair Prlscilla, the maid
John Alden, Myles Standish and oth
ers of that dauntless group. A pretty
love story is intertwined.
Anno, by Charles Philip Krauth.
f'ornhill Co., Boston.
The
Fifty-one pages of a romantic poem
attractively written, and introducing
a dramatic love story and an ethereal
heroine.
The Silence of Colonel Bramble, by Andre
Manrois. John Lane Co., New York
city.
Translated from the French, this
novel already has run through 17
editions, it Is so decidedly popular.
THE LITERARY PERISCOPE
ETHEL R- SAW x EH,
Director of Training Class, Library
Association, Portland, Or.
I a pile of flexible covered diction-
aries marKea aown irora
$1.25, you should at once turn about
and walk out of that store without
further inquiry. You are in an es
tablishment which is still in the
"caveat emptor" era of retailing or.
in the future language or tne wonu,
in the era of dishonest, bargain-sale
advertising, so the Publisher's 'Week
ly says. The business world is pass
ing definitely beyond the familiar
slogan "It pays to advertise" under
the seductive sound of "Truth pays
in advertising." At least we Judge
the passing must be definitely well
under way if such words as caveat
emptor can be casually applied with
out fear of starting a stampede back
to more homelike ground.
Indeed with advertising costs soar
ing up into six or seven figures may
we not be almost ready for the slo
gan "It Davs not to advertise." If a
publisher should print an author In
stead of advertising him couia ne not
almost afford to -publish his works
free of charge out of the net saving
from his campaign of refraining from
advertising? That doesn't sound Just
right but surely there is a thought
there.
I am reminded of the following
story of d vision of talent
Friend ' How long did it take you
to write you; new book
Author "I completed it in Just 23
days but the ad writer worked six
months on the selling campaign for
it."
John Maynard Keynes' book "The
Economic Consequences of the Peace"
seems destined to be a sensation cen
ter. We understand that the United
States senate has ceased to read any
thing else and that all the senatorial
wisdom is concentrated upon uphold
ing or refuting the claims therein set
It is bright, amusing, cynical, sad and
dramatic The author was attached
to an English regiment during the re
cent big war, and his sketches of
English and Scotch officers and en
listed men are splendid and full of
wit.
The ew Science of Analyzing Character.
by Harry H. Balkln. The Four Seal
Co.. Boston.
Mr. Balkin says he has made, in the
course of several years' study, thou
sands of charts of individual charac
ter analysis. In this book of 281
pages he presents the results of his
long season of study. He speaks of
a "new science of character reading,"
based upon physiology, biology and
psychology.
Tbe Mystery of the Silver Dancer, by
Randall Parrlshv George H. Uoraa Co.,
New York city. ,
Adventure crowds upon adventure
in this pulsating novel, written by
one of America's master-novelists.
The hero finds on the floor of a
dark touring car a long thin-bladed
dagger, and from the latter comes a
series of international plots. The
finale is eminently satisfactory.
The Book of Marjorie, by Alfred A. Knop.
New York city.
It is a delightful pleasure to read
such a sane, well-balanced New York
city story as this, . depicting prin
cipally the emotions of & young mar
ried couple, awaiting the arrival of
Mr. Stork. It is a husband's story.
and Is really a delicate rose-like poem.
but dressed in prose.
The Forrinr of the Pikes, by Anlson
worth. George M. Doraa Co.. New York
city.
Featuring the Canadian rebellion
of 1837, this stirring tale of romance
and adventure in upper Canada sure
ly will please and entertain readers.
NEW BOOKS BECETVED.
'The Red Seal." by Natalie Sumner
Lincoln, & dazzling, clever mystery story
the best of its kind this season, dealing
with the use of a strange poison, and the
probable murder of a bank cashier who
masquerades as a burglar (Appleton.
N. Y.).
The Rose of Jericho." by Ruth Holt
Boucicault, a little story of delicious
finish, of romance and glamour, dealing
with likable feminlnty and stage life
(Putnam's. N. Y. ).
'Order, by Claude S. Washbourne. a
smart, admirable novel, dealing principally
with a man of the world who was a seeker
after adventure (Duf field Co., N. Y ).
"His Majesty's Well-Beloved' by
Baroness Orezy, a romantic and entertain
ing novel of English life, dealing nrin-
eipally with English aristocrats and pictur
ing the England of the 17th century; "The
Plunderer." by Henry Oyen. a rousing and
fighting novel, about combative men, poli
tics and - the Florida swamps; "Songs
From the Journey," by Wilton Agnew
Barrett. SO readable, smoothly-written
American poems, many of them containing
fine verse, and all bound in a book with
covers of yellow and blue; "This Marry
ing," by Margaret Culkln Banning, a
lively, engrossing, smartly-written novel
about American newspaper work and de
picting Mies Horatio Grant, heroine, who ii
modern young woman and a live-wire;
nd "The Hermit of Far End." by Mar
garet Pedler, an English novel of our day
of delicate literary finish, smart and en
tertaining, and with pretty young women
as heroines (Doran Co., N. Y.).
"Fairfax and His Pride." by Marie Van
Vorsrt, an American novel of importance,
attractively presented and decidedly worth
reading &mall, Maynard & Co., Boston.
"Present and Past Banking in Mexico."
by Walter Flavius McCaleb. managing di
rector, the Massachusetts credit union as
sociation. 08 pages, with Index, a first
hand, authoritative, educating presentation
of money and banking in Mexico, up-to-date,
and iust the working book for states
men, hankers. Importers, exporters and
students of economics (Harper & Co.,
N. Y. ).
"A Farm in Picardy." by Dora Nelson.33
splendidly written, patriotic poems dealing
principally with deeds of heroic soldiers in
France, a thoughtful little book dedicated
to those who fell in the recent great war;
and "Eagle Quills," by George Faunce
Whttcomh, 30 cultured poems, polished
verse and depicting war scenes, love and
fine sentiment (The Cornhlll Co.. Boston).
"The Story of a New Zealand River," by
Jane Mandtjr, a novel of consummate lit
erary skill, picturing love, affinities and
matrimonial troubles in New Zealand;
"The Silver Bag," by Thomas Cobb, an
ETnglish story of entertaining merit and
ending with a pretty love tale; "Unknown
London," by Walter George Bell, with 16
Illustrations, 254 pages. Including Index,
an up-to-date, descriptive guide to scenes
worth visiting in London, England to read
this book is like experiencing a vacation:
and "Don Folquet. and Other Poems,"
by Thomas Walsh. 30 poems of distinction,
poems of many moods, romantic, tragic,
sentimental and some dealing with child
life (John Lane Co., N. Y.).
"Tbe Shadows," by Mary White Oving
ton, a wonderfully fashioned, sympathetic
story of a beautiful southern girl, of gentle
family, whom fate places in childhood on
the doorstep of a negro cabin she passes
Into the "white world" and discovers the
secret of her birth (Hareourt, Brace &
Howe. N. Y.).
. "The Tempering," by Charles Neville
Buck, a dramatic, exciting novel of the
south, and ending with war scenes In
France: "Kathleen," by Christopher Morley,
a delicious lively little story of current
English life, in which the types are edu
cated, liberal people; and "The Gorgeous
Girl." by Nalbro Bartley. a powerfully
constructed, splendid American novel, of
the newly-rich, and particularly about the
heroine. Miss Beatrice Constantino, foolish,
rich, silly, conceited and her love dream
(Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City,
N. Y.).
I forth. Now our suspicions are
! strongly excited that the higher pow
ers themselves are somehow inter
ested. In fact almost theatrically in-
of the book waa m pres8 a blUzaTlJ
struck Rahway. N. J., and made ship
ping from the printing establishment
to New York almost impossible. Im
patient book sellers sent their spe
cial messengers to Rahway and the
publishers kept four men carrying
capacity loads into the city. And
tnen wnen tne supply of copies :
printed had been thus wearisomely
transported, the blizzard stopped'.
Credulity gasps but they say that
as the third edition was printing the
snow began again!
St. John Adcock. editor of the Eng
lish Bookman, sounds like a British
Howells as regards the exercise of
his critical function.'" They are both
the sort of critic that the young
writer must pray for as a reviewer of
his first book. Gentle, genial, always
more eager to recognize . merit no
matter how artfully concealed, than
to write a clever review, they temper
ior tne snivering novice the keen bit
ing wind of unmitigated critical hon
esty. Christopher Morley. whose "Par
nassus on Wheels" and "The Haunted
Book Shop" brought to our Jaded
pursuit of the newest novel the flick
of novelty, has recently transferred
his editorial activities from the
Philadelphia Evening Ledger to the
New York Evening Post. He is to
edit a column to be called "The Bowl
ing Green."
By the way "Parnassus on Wheels"
comes true this summer. The Wom
an's Educational and Industrial union
of Boston, who started the highly
successful Jbook shop for boys and
girls four years ago, presides over
this new venture. It is to be called
the Caravan book shop and it will be
a perambulatory book store built as
a specially designed body on a Stew
art truck . auto. , The book capacity
will be somewhat over 1000 volumes.
Miss Mary Frank, director of exten
sion division of the New York public
library is to be the driver. Miss
Frank has for some time been in
vestigating the possibilities of book
wagons. She plans to tour the, small
coast resort towns north and south
of Boston for about two months this
summer. The book supply . will be
: maintained as the "Caravan" is to be
I met at variniiH nnintft with extra
stock. Orders will be taken for any
book of any character for prompt de
livery. Id Kelly's "Human Nature in Busi
ness," there is a frontispiece. It is a
photograph of a city street bearing
below it this caption:
1 "The Shadv side of a husineK ntreet
usually has nearly 25 per cent more
pedestrians than the sunny side. It
is the cooler side in summer and the
dryer side in winter."
If the lovers of humanity should
ever learn to be as close observers of
humanity as the business men and
the politicians have become we might
begin to prepare "our flowery beds
of ease" on which to be "wafted to
the skies" of the new millennium.
Before Hugh WalDole came over to
the United States for his lecture tour
ne seems to have left behind him the
brewing for a nice ijttle literary
tempest. Mr. Walpole had arranged
for a cheap uniform edition -..ptonin
for a cheap uniform edition of his
writings a thing which no Enirlish
writer has before achieved at an
young an age. Thereupon he was in
spired to write a letter. I believe it
was, to the London Times literary
supplement, suggesting -that the
threatened lives of possible young and
untried literary geniuses be conserved
Dy issuing their works first In chean
editions which could be made to pay
wieir way on the small initial sales of
unknown .authors. All England is
now in the throes of a giant contro
versy over paper-bound "dime novel"
editions of "inglorious Miltons" versus
the present style of cheap but ex
pensive first editions, with the Brit
ish publisher going strong for "busi
ness as usual.
A bondon Times correspondent
wants to start a reciprocal wave of
emigration of American literary men
to the continent. He thinks Britain is
interested enough in American letters
to make such a venture profitable for
some English Pond lecture bureau.
"There might be a danger of bring
ing over some of the merely 'tremen
dous successes.' those advertised so
as selling a million copies, whose
puffs read In such terms as: 'Hooded
over oy the mystery of spirit
strengin.- -.Mined from moral bed
rock, fine, big, wholesome, sweet
moral uplift.' Still, there are the
others. Can we not reciprocate Amer
ica s interest in us and invite a few
of her really worthy literary men to
come and speak to us?" The wo
Americans he names as examples of
'really worthy literary men"' are
Joseph Hergesheimer, representing
fiction, and Bliss Carman, represent
ing poetry. Hasn't the gentleman
nearu or our new poets?
Also in America
Bruce Bairnsfather, who is lecturing
ana drawing original cartoons. He
shows screen pictures of some of his
most famous sketches which were so
iunny that even the Scottish Hieh
lander could see the point. The (creat
or part of his work has been collect
ed in his published books: "Fragments
From France," and "Bullets and Bill
ets." It s largely from these books
that they made up the comic opera,
The Better 'Ole," which Portland
people had the opportunity of seeing
ana Hearing during the war.
.Robert Underwood Johnson has
been selected by President Wilson to
succeed Thomas Nelson Page, re
signed, as ambassador to Rome. Dr
Johnson is a poet and was the edi
torial head of the Century magazine
for three years and a half following
tne oeain ot ttichard Watson Gilder.
He has been closely connected with
nearly all our national literary move
ny?nts and is now permanent secre
tary oi me American Academy o
Arts and Letters and director of the
Hall of Fame. He was also one
the founders of the League to Enforce
Peace. His "Collected Poems, 1881
isi has recently been issued and
is one of the important books of the
season.
Author of Robert Elsmere
Linked Present and Past.
Great Popularity Given Novel
Gladatone'a Review.
by
1JRS. HUMPHRY WARD can hard
XIX iy be said to have belonged to
the present literary generation. He
death recalls, indeed, that Bhe was
one of the last links that bound the
present to the past, and although she
wrote well into the present century
it is difficult to disassociate her from
the period of three-decker novels, of
social and religious problems as re
flected in the art of fiction and of a
certain high portraiture and style
that were carried over by the school
to which she and Meredith belonged
from the dimming of Victorian days
Mrs. Ward was not a George Eliot
She was an intellectual, but the art of
fiction was not enriched by her gifts
which belonged rather to the field of
polemics. She would have written
admirable pamphlets on the contro
versial subjects that agitated English
intellectual circles of the '80s. but
such discussions expanded into three
volume novels do not meet the re
quirements of art in fiction.
"Robert Elsmere," by which Mrs.
Ward is best known, does not rest for
fame upon any development of the
art to which George Eliot contributed
so much. It was fiction, indeed, but
fiction bent to the ends of contro
versy, and that controversy hap
pened to be upon a subject that the
English of that period always rose
to. Mr. Gladstone roBe to it. and that
circumstance gave the book a vogue
that went quite beyond anything its
merits as fictional art could' have
made possible. One circumstance may
be cited in proof of thiB. Its Amer
can sale following the Gladstone re
view became enormous, yet the., sub
ject, the portraiture and the atmos
phere or "Kobert Elsmere are as
distinctively English as can be imag
ined, ana were notning less than a
riddle to Americans. Read as fiction
it could have had no American appeal
Read as a chapter on the contro
versy over Chrjstian belief in which
uiaastone naa tanen up arms it be
came, an article of news like the
progress of home rule or the deceased
wife's sister bill in parliament. It
became necessary to know the latest
word on a subject that had stirred
English thought. That explains, we
believe, the success of "Robert Els
mere" In America, and, to a large ex
tent. In England.
Mrs. Ward wrote well, of course.
She was an Arnold and a scholar. Hef
environment was the cultural and
intellectual, and she would have writ
ten well if she had written criticism,
philosophy, or perhaps even poetry.
They all ran in the family. But Mrs.
Ward chose to combine many depart
ments of literature in one, and wrote
novels that illustrated arl literary
gifts save that she seemed princi
pally to. aspire to. She knew the so
ciety of which she wrote, but Bhe did
not know the characters in it as
George Eliot knew hers. The differ
ence is the difference between the
novelist and the student. Mrs. Ward,
we think, must find her place in the
role of tj latter. Kansas City Star.
QUESTION OF IMMORTALITY IS ONE THAT WILL ALWAYS
REMAIN NEW, SAYS DR. STANSFIELD IN EASTER SERMON
"We Have a Past, a Present and a Future and in the Consciousness of It
. Church "Finest Characters Made Out of
(Easter sermon to be delivered this
morning at the First Methodist church by
Dr. Joshua Stansield, pastor.)
I
WANT to apeak this morning on
the Easter truth. We shall take
these statements as a text:.
If a man die shall he live again V
Job xiv:16.
In my father's house are many
mansions. If it were not so I would
have told you." John xiv:2.
'We know that we have a building
of God, a house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens." II Cor. v:l.
Tbou will not leave us In the dust.
Thou madest man. he knows not why.
He thinks be was not made to d-ie
And tbou hast made him; thou art Just.
, Tennyson.
The subject of immortality is ever
fresh and new. for people live and
suffer, and hope, and love and die,
and so long as that is the experience
of the race the question of immor
tality will always be new. It is more
than a speculation, it is a subject of
deepest interest to human life.
A man of affairs in this city said to
me recently: "Doctor, I want to ask
you a question, you need not answer
it right now, but the older I get the
more I am thinking upon and query
ing about this subject of the Immortal
life. Since I buried my oldest boy
it is with me again and again, and
I am wondering whether they know
I am not questioning that they exist.
but whether they know life here as
well as there. I am wondering," he
id, "whether their continued life is
simply a merging of themselves into
tbe all-life, or if it is a continuance
of their own personality and identity."
Now that was not a question of meta
physics or philosophy, it was a ques
tion of a father's heart, because of
the oldest boy. who bad gone out.
Does the life continue as personality?
talked with him and ministered as
best I could for half an hour. I think
to his comfort and grreat hope.
Job's Question Recalled.
Job, that famous character of the
old testament writings, through whom
there has come to us a revelation of
life, both divine and human, perhaps
Beyond any character that we have
in the old book Job asks the ques
tion, "If a man die shall he live
again? He asKs it. However, wim
the upward inflection of the voice.
even though he feels that he is going
down to death,. for Job has seen some
thing during the days of his life. He
has observed in the world that when
things seem to be dead it is only a
seeming. "Even a tree that is cut
down, yet by the scent of water, it
will spring forth again and bud. And
the waters of the rivers that run on
and out, are they lost? No, they still
continue to be. not what they were,
but In something larger. Then he
said, if man, the highest and best of
II life, die, shall he not livo again?
Job reasoned from the known to the
unknown, and from all that he knew
in life, he could see clearly that
though there was change, there was
no destruction, and it trial is so in
all other things, will it "be less so on
the part of the highest and best ot
all? Job believed that though a man
die he will live again. And such is
the hope and expectation of the hu
man race, springing out of the lntima
tlons of immortality we have with
in us. .. .
Immortality is not the result of an
argument. Immortality Is a con
sciousness. W hen persons say, as
some do, that we have no proof of
the future, or that there is a future,
they usually mean that we have no
proof of It through the five physical
senses. That is so, and we have no
proof of some other of the greatest
facts and forces of life through the
physical senses.
We have no proof of honor, or Jus
tice, or love, or truth, or goodness
through the five senses. A11 the
eternal qualities and facts of life you
cannot sense through any of the phys
ical senses, you must sense them
through a higher power human con
sciousness.
Now, we have in human conscious
ness both a past, a present and a fu
ture. There needs no argument of
tble, we know it. Oh, you say, have
we a future? Yes, we have a future.
Because I have a future, I plan for to
morrow, I arrange for next month
and make plans and dates for years
to come. The great things of my life
are all predicated upon the tomorrow,
upon my future. I have a future
I have, too, a past, it is mine by mem
ory, I can cite facts in it. The past
and the future are mine. The moment
or hour that we call the now is only
the passing part of both past and fu
ture: and past, and future and now
are an unbroken one.
Fine Characters Disrnsaed.
We have a past, a present, and
future, and in the consciousness of
It our whole life is determined. The
finest characters are made out of the
consciousness that man has a future,
What do you mean by the "prudent
man? The man wno can look ahead
and into the future. He could not if
there were not a future to look to.
What do you mean by the "far-seeing"
man? The best characters and peoples
in all the world are those who have a
future.
Now, if that be true It says much.
and it is true.
'One world at a time" Is motto for
a brute, not for a man. The now only
life Is a poor life. Thla Is true both
Elderly People Have A
Daily Health Problem
Stomach muscles and digestive organs
slow to act as age advances
MOST people find the years
slipping- by without real
izing it, until suddenly
confronted with the fact that they
can no longer digest everything
they would like to eat. It then
becomes their daily task, to avoid
what they know to be chronic con
stipation. When exercise and light diet
fail it will be necessary to resort to
artificial means. Strong physics
and cathartics, however, are not
advisable for elderly people. They
act too powerfully and a feeling of
weakness results.
What is needed is a laxative
containing effective but . mild
E roper-ties. This is best found in
)r. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin
which is a combination of simple
laxative herbs with pepsin. It
acts gently and without griping,
and used a few days will train the
digestive organs to do their work
naturally again without other aid.
Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin
has been on the market since 1892
and was the private formula of
Dr. W. B. Caldwell, who is himself
In business, in social life, in morals
and in religion.
Now. that is tremendous. I say, that
is tremendous. We have a past, we
have a present we have a future,
and we have them In the conscious
now. Such Is human life.
' Futher. we have other intimations
of immortality as we know ourselves
now. We have desires and plana, and
projects, and purposes, and aspira
tions, and longings, a thousand times
more than we can realize. There is
not in the now enough or either space
or time for us to be at our conscious
best. There is not a man or woman
here who has not felt it again and
again that they cannot realize what
they would and should be.
The present time and conditions of
life are not large enough for us to be
at our fullest and best. This, we say.
is a matter of common consciousness
also. Now, if this be true, what is
the implication? What does it argue?
It implicates this, that there is a
somewhere and a somewhat wherein
life may fully realize itself. We say
again, immortality is not an argu
ment, but a consciousness.
Henry Ward eBecher used to say,
"We shall have immortality if we
want it and feel we must have it." I
feel I must have It. Immortality is a
demand of the consciously large souL
May I say in passing that Jesus
Christ does his finest and greatest
work in the salvation of a soul when
he brings it Into that kind of con
sciousness? "He that belleveth in me
hath eternal life and shall not see
death. He that belleveth in me,
though he were dead yet shall he
live." Jesus Christ brings men and
women into a life which they feel they
are related to, created for., and cap
able of the hiarhest and best "tr-
nal" life".
"If then ye be risen with Christ
seek those things that are above."
Every maja who knows the Christ,
begins to seek and to live for those
things that are high and "above."
And so. that which we have as a con
sciousness,, and intuition and imper
ishable hope, Christ brings to us as
an assurance. Tennvson urell Rtntox
It when he says.
Thou wilt not leave us in the dust.
Thou madest man he knows not
why.
He thinks he was not made tr rll
And Thou has made him. Thou are
just
Animal Instinct Considered.
Would God give an instinct yes.
we call it Instinct in an animal,
would God plant an instinct In the
bird, born or hatched here In the
north, that there is a warm sunnv
south somewhere and not have a
sunny south? There would be no in
stinct of migration if there were not
some better place to which then
might go.
The scripture save of mankind "RnH
hath set eternity in their hearts." I
have It. You have it. the race has It.
We feel that we were not made to die.
and "Thou hast made us. Thou are
Just." I say to you by all the rules
of soundest reasoning, inference and
implication, there is a heaven, an im
mortality, an eternal destiny. Jesus
said, "If it were not so I would have
told you." And he surely would.
And thus out of the deenest con
sciousness of human life, out of the
finest and deepest intimations and in
tuitions of our being, and out of the
now, of the eternal life in Christ, we
have this sublime assurance, there is
a future, a heaven for the redeemed,
the "home of the faithful." the "bouse
of the Father," the "house not made
with hands, eternal In the heavens."
.This we know in personal conscious
ness. And God would be eternally
unjust and wrong if there were not
an immortality to meet that con
sciousness tf mine and thine. And
so when people come in some smart
way and say you cannot prove immor
tality and heaven and the future and
God, they are talking on the sur
face, very much on the surface. What
they mean is. you cannot prove It by
any of the physical senses we usually
prove things by.
I would have you remember, how
ever, that there is a sense in .every
normal human being far more than
the sense of touch, or smell, or sight.
or taste, or hearing. There is
sense by which you realize love, and
goodness, and justice, and truth, and
God, and right, and purity, and honor,
and heaveia, ai.d immortality.
Faith la Knowm.
When it comes to the finest, deep
est, highest, divinest human sense,
the sense of faith and consciousness,
then we know. We know that we
have "a building of God, a house not
made with hands." When I talk or
think of the building of God I am not
thinking of a fine mansion along cer
tain architectural lines and with a
certain beauty of decoration and trim
ming. No, no. If any of you want
a house or a mansion gilded with
gold, the Lord will give it to you if
it will do you any good: but the house
that I am thinking of is a house "not
made with hands." It is neither
stucco, nor brick, nor gold, nor mar
ble, nor stone, chiseled or uncut.- No.
No. The house that I am thinking
of "is eternal in the heavens," that
is in the highest, and I have seen it
building. I have seen it building in
the lives of people whom I have
known here, and it was so marked
that some of these we often spoke of
as "heavenly minded" people. They
were Just that kind. I have seen the
past 80 years of age aod still active
in bis profession. It can be bought
at any drug store and one bottle
is enough to last even a large
family many months- It is a
trustworthy preparation.
In spite, of the fact that Dr. Cald
tveWs Syrup Pepsin is the largest selling
liquid laxative in the world, there
being over 6 million bottles sold each
year, many who need its benefits have
not yet used it. If you have not, send
your name and address for a free trial
botde toD W. B. Caldwell sit
Washington Sl, tAondcciiQ, Illinois
Our Whole Life Is Determined," Declares Pastor of First Methodist
Consciousness That Man Has Future."
house eternal building: I have seen
the "body celestial" being formed.
What do you mean by the "saintly"
character? What do you mean by the
light ne'er seen on sea or land? The
light of beautiful character, a fine
spirit, in a saintly face?
Oh, yes, we have seen glimpses of
the celestial body. We have too Been
bodies terrestrial many of tbem. We
mix with them much, but we have
seen glimpses of the celestial body,
and have seen in part the house not
made with hands.
Money Can Do Good.
In talking about the matter at one
time, Jesus said, "Make friends of the
maiVnon of unrighteousness that
when these shall fail, they shall re
ceive you into everlasting habita
tions." Suggesting that if we use well
the material we have here it may go
forward and be used there. I can see
the reasonableness and possibility of
tnis, ior I know that in life here and
now it is possible to change money
into something much better than
money. It is possible to change mon
ey into comfort and character, and
fine conduct; and then, I assure you
it becomes fine and lasting. I read
of a case where a man took money
and put several thousands into the
education and character and life of
one who became a strong servant of
God, who did fine service as a mis
sionary, and all too early died In the
foreign field and went to his God.
This was the man who would receive
this rich brother into the everlasting
habitations. It is a fine story, and
there is truth in it. One may put
money into education, into comfort.
Into character, into soul-betterment,
and the highest things of life, and
that money lives forever; and all that
we do not change into the eternities
we must" leave behind. There is noth
ing that one can take forward into
the eternities but that which is of
the order of the eternal. Spirit, soul,
character, gentleness, goodness, truth,
honor, service. love. Justice, kindness,
helpfulness, these will abide forever.
Riches may be transmitted into eter
nal values a moral and spiritual cur
rency. Tkosckts Should Be Grand.
And now when you think of the
Easter teaching, which Is essentially
this, that life continues forever, do
not lose yourself In a few foolish
speculations as to how it can possibly
be that a body ehall live after death.
Rather take the grander, deeper
truth, that life, your life as certain
ly as the Christ lives your life shall
continue forever; that is, so far as it is
continuable. But if your life has
simply been material, and dust and
dirt, and things I care not how high
or how coarse then your life, mostly,
is not continuable, and whatever
there may be of you that shall go for
ward into the eternities will be a
small, cramped, shriveled you. But if
you are going to have "an abundant
entrance into the everlasting king
dom you must be of abundant Birte
Rnd abounding life, with finest quail'
Doctors Stand Amazed at Power
of Bon-Opto to Make Weak Eyes
Strong According to Dr. Lewie
Guaranteed to Strengthen Eyesight 50
In One Week's Time in Many Instances
A Free Ireaeription Yon Can TTave
1-1 lied and lae at Home.
Philadelphia. Pa. Victims of eye
strain 'and other eye weaknesses, and
those who wear glasses, will be glad
to know that according to rr. Lewis
there is real hope and help for them.
Many whose eyes were failing say
they have had their eyes restored by
this remarkable prescription and
many who once wore glasses say they
have thrown them away. One man
says, after using it: "I was almost
blind. Could not see to read at all
I - 5 twVvV"'JV?
any more. At nleht tnev would nam
d read fully. Now thry feel fine all
the time. It waji like a. mfracl to
me." A lady who used it says: "The
atmosphere seemed hazy with or
without glasses, but after using- this
prescription for 15 days everything
seems clear. I can read even fine
print without glasses." Another who
used it says: I was bothered with
eye strain caused by overwork, tired
eyes which induced fierce headaches.
I have worn glasses for several years
both for distance and work, and
without them I could not read my
own name on an envelope or the type
writing on the machine before me.
I can do both now and have discarded
my long-distance glasses altogether.
J can count tne fluttering leaves on
the trees across the street now, which
for several years have looked like a
dim green blur to me. I cannot ex
press my joy at. wnat it has done ior
me
it in believed that thousands who
wear glasses can now discard them in
a reasonable time and multitifdes
more will he able to strengthen their
GUARD
Appetuficitis is caused by poisons
from decaying: food in the bowels.
Many people have a bowel movement
every day, but it is not a COMPLETE
movement and much old. etale matter
stays in the system to ferment and
cause trouble. Often there is only a
small passage in the center of bowels
while the sides are covered with old,
hard matter which Mays in the sys
tem. Beldes appendicitis, such un
clean bowels cause influenza, fevers,
headaches and stomach trouble. Old,
hard waste matter sticking to the
sides of the bowels often poisons the
system for months, making you feel
tired all the time and "half-sick."
Don't allow this old. fermenting
stuff to stay in your bowels but GET
IT OUT and keep it out. Even if your
bowels move slightly each day, that
is not enough. There must be an oc
casional THOROUGH. complete
cleansing to rid your system of all
accumulated decayine1 waste matter.
COMPLETE STSTF.W CLEANSER.
The most COMPLETE system
cleanser known is a mixture of buck
thorn bark, glycerine and ten other
Ingredients, put up in ready prepared
form under the name of Adler-i-ka.
This mixture is so thorough a bowel
cleanser that it removes foul and
poisonous matter which other cath
artic or laxative mixtures are unable
to dislodge. It loosens and dissolves
foul matter sticking to the sides of
the intestines, working without the
least discomfort or trouble. It is so
gentle that one forgets he has taken
it until the THOROUGH evacuation
starts. It is astonishing, the great
amount of foul, poisonous matter ONE
SPOONFUL of -cA-dler-i-ka draws from
the alimentary canal matter you
would never have thought was in
your system. Try it right after a
natural bowel movement and notice
tow much MOR-h' loul matter will be
ties, and then, then. "They shall re-y
ceive you into everlasting habita
tions." Now, this is not the ordinary kind
of an Easter sermon. I know; but
if you come tonight we will talk to-
gether earnestly about the question
of the resurrection "With what body
do they come?" but I assure you. my
friends, that what we have considered
this morning is far deeper, and a
thousand times more important than
the form and the how of the body,
It Is the' truth of immortality, a life
that we know now, and that we have
now, and ehall have forever. Aa
Christ said, "Because I live, or as I
live, ye shall live also." Amen.
SONG WRITERS GET HOME
Conventions to Be Held at Indiana
Community House.
GREENWOOD, Ind. With the dedi
cation of the Polk community house
here recently announcement was made
that it was to be the home of the
annual convention and contest of song -composers,
the first of which will be
held here next June. The contestants "
will -be selected each year In annual J
state contests, when the composers
will compete for the best American "
folk song and the best American art
song. Prizes will be offered from a
fund provided by Grace Porterfield .
Polk, an Indiana song writer. The .
first state competition takes place in.
Florida this month. The Indiana con
test will be held here in March.
The community house, which wm"
erected at a cost of $75,000, donated
by James T. Polk, contains a large
gymnasium, swimming pool, showers, '
reading room, room for games and an -auditorium
with a seating capacity of
Arrhdnke to Wed Widow.
LONDON. Archduke Joseph Ferdi
nand, head of the house of Tuscany,
has become engaged to Mme. Rosa ,
Jacket, widow of an officer in the
army, if reports, leaching here from
Berlin be true.
FIRST FRIENDS CHURCH
East S5th and Main Sts.
Homer Leslie Cox, Pastor
Morning service 11 o'clock.
Easter sermon and public recep
tion of new members.
Evening service 7:45. "Modern
Spiritism, Its Cause, Effect
and Cure."
Special music at each service.
You are welcome.
A CHURCH WITH A MESSAGE
eyes so as to be spared the trouhl
and expense of ever getting glasse:
Eye troubles of many description '
may be wonderfully benefited by th
use of this prescription. tio to" an
active drug store and get a bottle o
Bon-Opto tablets. Drop one Bon-Opt-tablet
in a fourth of a glass of wate
and let it dissolve. With this liquh
bathe the eyes two to four time:
daily. You should notice your eye? '
clear vry perceptibly right from th(
start and inflammation and redness .
will quickly disappear. If your' eye.s
bother you even a little it is youi
duty to take steps to save them now"
before it is too late. Many hopelessly
blind might have saved their &igh t
if they had cared for their eyes in
time.
Note: Another prominent phy.cian to
whom th above article was submitted,
said : "Yes. the Bon-Opto prescription is
truly a wonderful eye remedy. Its constit
uent tnf?roiie.nts are .well known to emi
nent eye specialists and widely prescribed
by them. I have used it very successfully
in my own practice on patients whose eyes
wore strained through overwork or misfit
glasspf. I can hi fthl y recommend it in
case of weak, watery, achinp. smart in sr.
itching, bum in j? eyets. red lids, blurred
vision or for eyea inflamed from exposure
to smoke, sun. dust or wind. It is one of
the very few preparations I fel should b
kept on hand for rirular use In almost
every family." Bon-Opto, referred to above,
is not a patent medicine or a secret rem
edy. It is an ethical preparation, the for
mula be-in k printed on the pack a ire. Th
manufacturers (tuarantee it to strengthen
eyesight r.O per cent in one week's time in
many Instances or refund the money. It
c-H.n be obtained from any good drucKist
and is sold in this city by the leading
druptrit.. Adv.
AGAINST
brought out which was poisoning
your system. In slight disorders such :
as occasional constipation, sour stom-
acn. gas on the stomach or sick
headache, ONE spoonful always
brings relief. Adler-l-ka is a con
stant surprise to people who hav
used only ordinary bowel and stom..
ach medicines and the various- oils
and waters.
REPORTS FROM PHYSICIAKfS
"I use Adler-i-ka in my practice
and have found nothing to excel it."
(Signed) Dr. W. A. Line.
"I have been very successful with
Adler-i-ka. Some cases require only -one
dose." (Signed) Dr. F. li. Pretty-
man.
"I have found nothing- In my 50
years' practice to excel Adler-i-ka,"
(Signed) Dr. James Weaver.
"One of our leading doctors has '
used Adler-l-ka in cases of stomach -trouble
with wonderful success. He
has not lost a patient and saved many
operations." (Signed) Druggist D;
Hawks.
"1 had bad stomach trouble. After
taking Adler-l-ka. feel better than
for 20 years. Haven't language t -express
the AWFUL IMPURITIES
which were eliminated from my sys
tem." (Signed) J. E. Puckett,
"Thanks to Adler-i-ka. I can sleep '
all night now, something I could not'
do for years." (Signed) Cora E
Noblett.
"I could not eat a thing, my stom-'
ach was so weak. Adler-i-ka made
me feel better and am now able to
work and gaining." (Signed) Mrs
L. A. Austin.
Adler-i-ka is sold by Teadinsr drug
gists everywhere. Write tor free
booklet about appendicitis. Adlerik-.
Co.. Dept. 18. St. Paul, Minn. Sold in
Portland at Rkidr-oie and otlisr
druggists. Adv. B
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