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...political stand-by, tariff, is about to resume its formerly undisputed place in the public eye. A senatorial committee for investigation of the United States Tariff Commission has just been formed. The usual concomitants of such investigations are not wanting: startling disclosures are promised and the old line Republicans aver that the Democrats are merely seeking campaign material. The Commission, it is charged, has lost its non-partisan, independent character and has become a tool in the hands of the present administration...
...latter Churches are quite similar in their creeds and their organizations. The Reformed developed on the Continent, the Presbyterian in Scotland. Both aver as fundamental principles the undivided sovereignty of God in His universe, the sovereignty of Christ in salvation, the sovereignty of the Scriptures in faith and conduct, and the sovereignty of the in dividual conscience in the interpretation of the word of God. As a polity they recognize Christ as the only head of the church and source of all power, and the people of Christ as entitled unde their Lord to participation in the government and administration...
...sound of an airplone motor in the sky is no novelty to the citizens of Mineola, L. I. Planes from the airport began to drone aver the town in 1917; they have never stopped. Mumbling like bumblebees by day, complaining by night like mosquitoes brushed, for their plaguery, from the beard of their God, their noise has jarred through the brains of the townsmen, mingling its drowsiness with the reveries of sleepyheads until that jargoning has become part of the normal somnolence of the place, part of the indistinguishable murmur of the summer countryside, the wash of the salt...
...that irreverent but optimistic curmudgeon famed in race-track ballad has now attained the age of 100, he was a stripling of 25 when the first issue of Harper's Magazine was published. If it is a fact, as some aver, that his quaint prophesy concerned, not the speed of a horse, but the future of that publication, he has been amply justified...
...your description of the supposed death of Prince Abdul Kadir, Page 13, under "Turkey," you aver that "too much water in the lungs was the cause of his demise...