Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1910 — Page 3

The Pulpit’s Message for Today

seeded message for any day will be unwelcome; beX mIL % cause It will necessarily be uncompromisingly hostile " >,v il sa to and destructive ©f most " widely cherished and fatal errors. Those who profit by the propagation of those errors will appeal to every popular superstition'and passion against the truth which threats eus their destruction. But few will (endure patiently the sound teaching In the matters concerned. The .needed message for any day will be unwelcome, because it will condemn sinful aud degrading Indulgences, and seek to divorce men from them. Just In the measure that widespread errors ar® fatal, and their Influence degrading, will the message of the reformer be needed, and while men are human the need of and desire for It I*lll vary Inversely. Paul’s adjuration to Timothy to “preach the word” was chiefly prompted by the fact that It jWas distasteful to the hearers of that day, and the young preacher might prefer to speak smooth things. As in the case of spoiled children, of dyspeptics, of pleasure-seekers, of mischiefmakers, of wrong-doers and wrongthinkers of every sort, what they most needed they least wanted. He who has a message worth while will need to pray for courage that he may open his mouth boldly and speak as he ought to speak. The Real Message. The pulpit message for all days, “even unto the end of the world," is the gospel of Christ, “for It is the power of God unto salvation to every one that belleveth.” "To every one”— ja personal message of salvation to (every man that has lived or ever shall (live till “the end of the world.” The |man steeped In and stupefied by sensual indulgence Is prone to be oblivi'ous to his need of salvation, and to jreßent any effective measures for attaining It, but (and this fact will suggest where the emphasis should be I put upon the "pulpit message for to--day”) the man steeped ln and spiritually stupefied by Intellectual Indulgence is apt to be. even more oblivious [to his need of the salvation offered In the gospel. The carnal mind Is not only enmity against God, but against man. While Its servants are not so (offensive and pitiable as the slaves of carnal appetite, they work more social ruin In our day. Philosophic cynicism, intellectual pride and avaricious cunning are robbing this generation of Its best ideals, of Its faith In God the father, and of Its “Inalienable right to life, liberty and the ■pursuit of happiness." Carey called the attention of the camp of God’s spiritual Israel to the long-neglected marching orders of the captain of the world’s salvation. He and a few heroes of his kind gave Protestant Christendom the pulpit message for the last half of the nineteenth century—the message of foreign missions. Are there not Indications at .present that the heat of controversy and zeal of advocacy have caused to be magnified to the neglect of some other things of vital, perhaps equal, importance? Has not the zeal of some of its propagandists become so little according to knowledge that they are ready to make the observance of Christ’s other explicit orders, and even the question of his deity, subordinate to the furthering of missions? Are there not those who In their zeal to go and teach all nations, are ready to modify, and compromise upon, what Christ commanded to be taught? The special message for any day, in science, In politics, in religion, is in danger of becoming like the farmer’s mettlesome horse /hose “natural gait was running away.” Essential Teachings.

As already Intimated, the “pulpit message for today”—the essential teaching of the Scriptures which needs special emphasis and repetition. Is that concerning the deity of JeSus Christ, his superhuman origin and divine, superhuman, miraculous power. In our day the carnal mind, self-con-scious intellectuality, denies and derides this teaching, in the name of science. It Is a strange sort of “science” which bases a dogma not upon what It knows, but upon what it does not know. It makes In effect the absurd declaration that there can be no truth which cannot be discovered and demonstrated by the human mind by physical means. Whatever it, by search, with physical senses and appliances, cannot find out, or verify, t» non-existent It la strange that not a few of those who profess to be ministers of the gospel have taken a leaf, many leaves, and even whole chapiters, from this non-sclentiflc, agnostlo teaching.

Logically enough this agnostic cult, based upon a denial of all things iwhlch so transcend human experience as to depend upon revelation, flourishes most In our great educational centers, and hurtfully affects many ministerial students who are subjectltd to its influence—thoee having most Intellectual vanity being notoriously most susceptible. While the chief priests ot this "modem” cult talk Charmingly of “divinity” and “spirituality,” there Is nothing more of either of them in it than there was In the paganism which expressed Itself la exquisite Greek architecture and statuary.—Christian Standartj. Never is happiness more clear thaa when founded on clean-beartedness.

RUINS US PATHOS

UTTLE INDIAN BOY PLAYB HAVOC WITH "HIAWATHA." A* Critical Point of Glen Island Play Genesee Breaks In With "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" Genesee Is a seven-year-old Indian boy who lives In a wigwam on the Shore of the sound at Glen Island, where a tribe of OJibway Indians is reproducing “Hiawatha,” the Indian love play, for city children, who have been hearing Indian music oh the recreation piers this ummer. Genesee never heard of Arthur Farwell’s rendition of Indian music, though he has learned from his father some ,of the two and three-tone native songs of the Ojibways, and he knows, of course, the chants of the Indians as they dance and perform Longfellow's 'great poem. The other day Genesee, who was born up on the Cattaraugus reservation and is the grandson of the Indian who holds the medal for being thq finest physical type of Iroquois left alive after the Inroads of civilization, wanted to Introduce a flying machine into the most critical part of the performance. He has been looking at the papers and has een pictures of Curtiss sailing through the air. With a cracker box the boy had poade a fair flying machine model and wanted Breathes Hard, his father, to have a big one made so that the soul of Mjnnehaha, after she had been “burled” in the branches of the trees “In the forest deep and darksome, underneath the moaning hemlocks,” could get back to earth. Old Nokomla, his grandmother, who takes the poem play very seriously, refused to listen and his father cuffed him for the unholy suggestion. This made Genesee feel bad. "It’s too old fashioned,” he Becretly told the ancient arrow maker’s daughter while he was dressing for the part of the boyhood of Hiawatha. “But wait!” The next day he Went over to the' beach dressed In a little shirt and leggings, to swim with the other bathers, and there he heard a song that had more than three tones. It was full of notes, and they rippled up and down the scale to the ravishment of his little ears. There was one line that pleased him. very much. It began, “Has anybody here seen Kelly?” He got away by himself and sang it over and over. The next morning there was a rehearsal In full dress. The play had reached the point where Hiawatha paddles away across the lake to the tent of the ancient arrow maker and, killing a deer, throws It down at the feet of Minnehaha and her father. Across the lake the voices of the Indians rose and fell In harmony. The voice of the hidden reader came: "At the doorway ot his wigwam sat the ancient arrow maker; at his side, all In her beauty, sat the lovely Minnehaha.” Just then In the tense silence out on the float at the lower end of the lake appeared a ttby Indian boy, his feather head dress trembling with excitement at the example of modern progress he Intended to give, and, stretching up his arms skyward to the abode of the Great Spirit, he sang In a boyish soprano that could be heard all over the Island: “Has anybody here Been Kelly, Kelly with the green necktie?" That was as far as he got, for Kwaslnd, the young man, dodged out of the doorway and bore him away.

How He Found Out.

There was silence for a moment. Presently she spoke, and the tone of voice she elected to use was tremulous and pleading. "Gustavus, dearest, do —do you ever drink?" Reluctantly he admitted that there were occasions when he glanced carelessly upon the wine when it was ready. "Ah! dearest," she continued, with anxiety depicted on her lovely features, “what do you suppose papa would say if he should discover that his only daughter’s future husband drank?" "He discovered it yesterday afternoon," responded Gustavus, with some of the same old reluctance. “Oh; and what did he say?" she Inquired, breathlessly. "He said”—the manly young fellow’s voice trembled—“hi said, ’Well, Gustavus, my boy. I don’t care If I do; mine is the same, with just a of bitters.’" There was silence for a moment—possibly two moments.

The Ideal Mourning.

Apropos of the unexampled extravagance and luxury of New "York multimillionaires, Mrs. August Belmont said at a dinner at Tuxedo: “Then there’s young Knickerbocker. Look at young Knickerbocker now. He has 19 regular servants at his town house, and yet since King Edward’s death he has hired four extra ones —colored ones, you know—just to bring up black-edged letters and to look after visitors dressed in mourning."—Los Angeles Times.

Relative Risks.

"You know the fate of the pitcher that goes to the well too often.” “Going to the well never hurt any pitcher yet. It's going to the corner saloon that ‘send him back to the bush leagues."

WHITE SOX NEW INFIELDER

When President Comlskey recently traded Trank Smith and Billy Purtell gthe Boston Americans for Lord and cConnell, the latter, it is understood, was thrown In to “sugar” the deal. Up to the present time, however, McConnell has been showing up remarkably

RETURN OF FARMED PLAYERS

National Commission Gives Out Long List of Sanctioned “Options" on Minor Leaguers. The national commission has announced that the following list of options on minor league players had been exercised by major league clubs and approved: American league—By Washington— PTorn Minneapolis, Warren Gill; from Scranton, Miller; from Peoria, Mercer. By Detroit —From Williamsport, John Ness and George Harding; from Wilkesbarre, Delos Drake; from Scranton, J. Kiyke; from Rock Island, Cavitt; from Port Wayne, Gainor; from Toronto, Renter. By Boston —From Chattanooga, Terkeß; from. Worcester, C. A. Thompson; from Lynn, J- W. Buzick; from Brockton, Dulip. By Chicago—Prom Birmingham, Messenger; from Wichita, Koerner; from Des Moines, Owen; from Quincy, Burg. By Cleveland —From Roanoke, Doane; from New Haven, R. Peckenpaugh; from Portland, 8. A. Long and Gus Fisher. By Philadelphia—From Scranton, Charles Staley and Charles Friene (now with Danville). By New York —From Ban Antonio, Abeles; from Jersey City, Walsh and Johnson. By St Louis—From Monmouth, Williams; from Springfield, 111., Earl Hamilton; from Omaha, Corrldon; from Newark, Waddell; from Toledo, Gilligan; from Montreal, KrltchelL National league—By Brooklyn— From Sioux City, H. H. Meyers; from Milwaukee, W. Schardt; from Chattanooga, Miller. By Cincinnati—From Fort Wayne, D. D. Young; from Buffalo, Carmichael; from Denver, Alvin Dolan; from Birmingham, Harry Coveleskle; from Buffalo, Mike Konnick; from Wheeling, Joseph Burns. By Chicago—From Danville, Fisher; from Spokane, Ray Keener; from Lincoln, Clyde Glest. By New York—From Rochester, C. Spencer; from Troy, H. L. Buck; from Memphis, Klawltter; from Lynn, F. Metz; from Newark, Rleber. By Philadelphia—From Scranton, Edward McDonough, Bert Humphries, George Chalmers; from Albany, Ralph Mcßride; from Grand Rapids, Harry Welchonce. By SL Louis—From Omaha, Melter ; from Memphis, Johnson; from Louisville, Magee.

Keene to Retire From Turf.

Antirace legislation is likely to result in the retirement from the turf of Jambs R. Keene, vice-chairman of the Jockey chib, who for many years has been One of the largest winners in the country, says a New York dispatch to the Chicago Journal. Mr. Keene says that he will retain about tea of his yearlings to be raced or sold next year. The others will be disposed of at public auction. - The Keene horses have not been eo successful as usual this year, and it is said that his big stable has been run at a loss even though the winnings are close to the $50,000 mark. Last year the stable cleared $lll,OOO, and In 1907 he hung up a world’s record with winnings of $397,000. - .

Fielder Jones Will Be Back.

President Johnson Is authority for the statement that Fielder Jones contemplates returning to baseball next year somewhere and somehow, probably owner and manager of an American league club.

SECOND BASEMAN M'CONNELL.

President of Chicago National League Club Hits on Unique Plan to Becure Recruit*. “Almost every mall brings me let. ters telling of some undiscovered wonder,” said President Charles W. Mur. phy of the Cubs, who recently hit up on the most unique plan ever attempted to recruit young ball players and today has 8,000 fans working for him. The plan of the Cub president is as simple as it is unique. He wrote a personal letter to these 3,000 fans requesting them to forward

Connie Mack Thought to Have Been Asleep If He Ever Paid That Bum for Pitcher. They say Connie Mack paid $12,001 for Pitcher Russell of the Baltimore club. Acquaintances of the astute manager of the Athletics are from Missouri, however. If Connie Mack 'ever paid $12,000 for any player, he must be addicted to sleep walking, or has changed his system most radically, says Chicago Sunday Sporting Telegram. Heretofore Connie has been content to get bis players very cheaply and develop them himself. Plank, Bender, Coombs, Collina, Barry and Krause did not cost him a cent He got Morgan In trade tor Sohlltser. Harry Davis came to him with the franchise, as did "Topsy** HartseL Danny Murphy may have cost him a few hundred, and Baker, Oldrlng, Atkins, Dygert and Heitmuller cost him a few thousand apiece, but it is doubtful if all the men on the Philadelphia payroll cost Mack much over $12,000 at the outset.

well. His batting has been good and he fields his position cleverly. It is not saying too much to state that McConnell .has proven to be equally as good a player so far as Lord and tbat the White Sox did not lose anything on the deal.

MURPHY IS KEPT VERY BUSY

President C. W. Murphy.

names of the mo9t likely looking' youngsters In their locality. He promised to pay a liberal sum to the discoverer of the youngsters who finally made good with the west side team. The letters were sent out several days ago and already many answers have been received.' "You would be surprised at the answers I have,” he says. ‘.’Fans In the most remote parts of the country have written me recommending the likely prospects in their territory.”

PAID $12,000 FOR RUSSELL?

Swacina Making Good.

Swactna, once a member of the Pittsburg team, is now the big bit of the Mobile team of the Southern league. -

TREASURE WELL PROTECTED

How Uncle Bam Carefully Guards tkd Gold and Silver in Hfe Mints. The precautions taken at the United States mints against waste of the precious metals are of a most extraordinary character. No miser could guard his treasure with more sedulous care than does your Uncle SamueL Every evening the floor of the melting room is swept cleaner than a good housewife’s kitchen. The dust is put carefully aside, and about once in three months the soot scraped from every flue is transferred to the same precious dust hea'p. This is then burned and from its ashes the government derives a handsome income. The earthenware crucibles used in melting are not employed more than three times. Then they are crushed under heavy rollers and In their porous sides are found fine flakes of fine silver. Like Aladdin with his lamp. Uncle Sam would not exchange old crucibles for new ones . In the melting room when the casters raise their ladles from the malting pots a shower of sparks flies from the molten surface of the metal For the most part they are bits of incandescent carbon, but clinging to the carbon is often a minute particle of metal. Lest such particles should escape the ashes and clinkers below the furnaces are gathered up at night The debris is ground into powder by a .steam crusher and then is sold to a smelter, like ordinary ore, at a price per ton warranted by the assayer. The ladles that stir the precious metal, the big iron rods, the strainers and the dippers all are tested in a most curious fashion. After considerable use they become covered with a thin layer of oxidized silver, which looks for all the world like brown rust The Implements are then laid in baths of a solution of sulphuric aSid, which eats away the Iron and steel and leaves the silver untouched. Gradually the ladle, or whatever the Implement Is, will disappear, and in its place remains a hollow silver counterpart of the original, delicate as spun glass. These fragile casts reproduce the ladle with perfect accuracy In all Its details, although their surfaces are perforated with innumerable little holes. Scarcely have they been molded, however, before they are cast into a crucible, to become In time dollars, quarters and dimes.

There is a large tank In one corner of the melting room and Into It newly cast silver bars are dropped and left to cool. Infinitesimal flakes of silver scale off and rise to the surface of the water, which acquires the metallic lustre of a stagnant pool. Here Is sliver which must not be lost, so beneath the pipe through which the tank Is emptied is banked a thick layer of mud. As the water filters through it the mud retains the precious residuum. Four times a year this mud IS removed, and each experiment shows that some S6O has been saved by this device.

Before the Passion Play.

As the time for the first production approaches, the religious spirit of the people deepens. The productions are given several times a week during every tenth summer. They continue from May to September, and are now going on. At seven o'clock the nights preceding the performances, a band of musicians marches from one end of the town to the other annuoncing the next day’B performance, with the intention of warning all those who expect to attend to prepare for it At five o’clock the next morning the village cannon, placed at the foot of a high peak crowned with a large cross which stands guard over the town nestling at its foot, calls all to early mass, both villagers and visitors, and they are expected to re spon<Ji_ At seven o’clock the musicians again march through the town to warn those who have no reserved seats that they had better hasten to the theater. At eight o’clock the cannon sounds again, and the play begins. Before the curtain is raised, the 500 who are to take part join the pastor of the church in silent prayer behind it, and with this preparation the drama opens.—Harper’s Bazar.

Call for Dr. Blank.

To have themselves publicly called out of a crowded place of entertainment on the pretense that they are urgently wanted by Importunate patients is stated to be one of the stock methods of advertising resorted to by young doctors who wish to build np a practise. A budding physician tried this device. He instructed his boy to go to the doorkeeper of the theater and say that a patient of his was in argent need of attention. "Right you are, sir!" said the servant, with a solemn wink. "You leave it to ma I’ll manage it all right" But Apparently the honest retainer exceeded instruction in his zeal, for at the end of the second act the manager appeared before the curtain and made ths announcement: "If Dr. Blank is in the audience, I am requested to tell him that he is wanted at once, as the poor fellow aa gave some physic to this afternqen has been having fits ever since!"

A King’s Memorial.

It has been suggested that Crystal Palace be bought and turned into a children’s palace of education as a memorial to the late King Edward. The king was always Interested In any charity that was tor the benefit of the children of the world.

JUMP STARTED “ART" HOFMAN

Started In Baseball to Reach Seme Other Profitable Business— George Huff Found Him. By ARTHUR HOFMAN. I always played ball for the pleasure of it until I sqw that there was a chance for me to get Into fast company and make a better salary than I could as a bank clerk. Also I decided early In my career that baseball was the best means for me to reach some other profitable business. I started playing ball with my brothers and the neighbor boys around St Louis and joined a semi-professional team before I was sixteen. Tbat led me to a Job In a bank, which maintained a baseball team. I noticed that 1 received more attention and was more thought of because I was a good ball player and decided to become a better one. I bad no idea of devoting all my time to the game. 1 played' Saturdays, Sundays and holidays and worked In the bank the rest of tbs time. I got Into the Trolley league and played good ball, but never had an Idea of becoming a big leaguer. I was getting $lO a game for play* Ing, with a proviso that. If weather did not permit the game to be played, I got nothing. One day we were playing in East St Louis and the river rose suddenly and swamped the ground. I wanted the $lO and claimed the weather did not prevent the game because the sun was shining. The .management kicked and I jumped. It whs that Jump which made me in baseball. I went to Alton and there was discovered. Pittsburg got me, but they put me on the bench and I never

“Art" Hofman.

was a good bench player. Pittsburg never gave me a chance but sent me back to the minors and finally George Huff found me and brought me to Chicago. ’There I had a lot of trouble until Selee left the team. That shows how lucky a player may be. If Salee had stayed with the team I probably never would have been heard from. He did not think 1 could play ball and wanted to let me go. Chance, however, had confidence to me and I think Chance’s confidence did more to make me a ball player than anything else. I felt that he was risking his own reputation on me and wanted to make good for him as well as for myself. It is that confidence, one to another, that has helped make the Cubs a great ball club. A young player Just starting to the business should think first whether he fits into a team and is to sympathy with It, and seek a berth with some club he likes and feels will like him. • ‘

ABOUND THE ERASES

Frank Sparks, the old time Fhillle pitcher, Is making good as a Southern league pitcher. "Texas’' Covington of the Evansville baseball team of the Central league has been sold to tbe Detroit Tigers for $1,500. Jimmie Doyle of the Louisville team has been purchased by the Cubs. He will not report until the end of the American association season. President Comlskey does not think Meloan will lose his batting eye as the result of being rapped coco by that "bean” ball the other day. Down at Areola, 11L, Ernest McDow. ell pitched a perfect game against Lovington, allowing no hits, no runs, and no base on balls, won over Lovington, 8 to 0. Arrangements have practically been completed for a post season series between the two Hew Tork clubs at the end of tbe regular baseball sea* son. There Is a lot of rivalry between the dubs. Happy Smith, who lumped tbe Brooklyn team recently, has been located In the outlaw Pacific Coast league. He quit the Super baa because be was In love with a girl In the far west. It' Is rumored. The San Francisco and Oakland teams are fighting It out for the pen* nant in the Pacific Coast league. It Is the first time Oakland has beep In the running for years add Harry Wolverton Is getting all kinds of praise from the fans across the bay. Manager Jennings predicts that the Athletics are sure to have a slump. “Every team has Its slumps. We have had ours and the Philadelphia men are bound to have theirs. Our men are rounding to form and will be going right In a few days, for they are hitting the ball hard again. I am satisfied with my men as they are.**