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o > tan-S ' The Ligonier Banuer = . ~ L Z LIGONIFR, - - ' INDIANA e ee e e e e ettt e . NEWS OF AWEEK MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS GATH- . ERED FROM ALL POINTS OF s~ THE GLOBE. : GIVEN IN ITEMIZED FORM Notable Happenlnsps Prepared for the, - Perusal of the Busy Man—Sum- * mary of }he Latest Home and For- . eign Notes. WASHINGTON NOTES. _Theodore Roosevelt officiated for the seventh time as president of the United States at the New Year's reception at the White House. Assisting him in exchanging the salutations of the season were Mrs. Roosevelt and the members and ladies of the cabinet. - . ) . President. Rdosevelt and family returned to Washington from their holiday at Pine Knot, Va. - The federal government, replying to a pamphlet issued by President Moffatt of the Standard Oil company of Indiana, calls his allegations “evasions™ and scores the concern as a hardened law-breaker. ) - The American battleship fleet sailed from Port of Spain for Rio Janeiro, which Admiral Evans said he expected to reach en January 10. P ) MISCELLANEOUS. Dr. Nicholas Senn, Chicago's “fightinz doctot™ and one of the foremost surgeons of the central west, died at the age of 63 _\'vzllfs. Y Lamar Jackson, a full-blooded Choctaw Indian, has been appointed to a cadetship in the United ‘States military academy at West Point by Congressman Charles D. Carter of Oklahema. : _ The State Bank of Rockyford, Col., closed its doors following a run. The liabilities exceed $400,000, and the assets are placed at over $525.000. Friends of Secretary Taft outvoted the Foraker faction in the Ohio state commiitee and primaries were ordered for February 11 at which ‘Ohio Republicans will express by direct vote their choice for presidential nominee. Two women were killed by an explosicn in a fireworks factory in Rochester, N. Y. - "~ Gov. Folk of Missouri announced the appeintment of Virgil Rule to succeed Circuit Judze Jesse McDonald, who resigned. Judge Rlule was once a St. Louis newsboy. ‘ Louis -M. Givernaud, a member of the firm of Givernaud Bros:, said to be the first to establjph silk manufacturinzg in the United States, died at Los Anceleg; Cal, -of heart trouble, aged 73 vears. ) United States Circuit Judge Pritchard at Richmond, Va., named two receivers for the Seabord Air Line railway. . } R Suffering from melancholial Charles Becker of Belleville, HI, former state treasurer. shot and killed himself. | Nightriders raided the town of Rus- | sellvillée, Ky., dvnamited the tobacco warehouses and burned other bnild-‘; ings. : | ¢ Allison J. Nailer, secretary fzmiera“ of the Supreme Council of the Ancient Order of Scottish Rite Masons: southern jurisdiction, died of the grip in Washington. . . John D. Rockefeller gave $2,191,000 more to the University of Chicago.Count Boni de~Castellane and his -eousin, Prince Helie de Sagan, had a sersational fight in Paris. Ulrich Augustus Hoegger, a Swiss] artist, was probably fatally burned in a fire which burned his studio in Philadelphia and destroyed paintings said to be worth $lOO,OOO. . Although officially declared dead §ei'eral vears ago and for many years believed by his wife and -friends to have died, George M. Gable appeared in court at Lancaster, Pa., to claim $12,000 from the estate of his urcle. His wife had remarried. . |

During the calendar vear 1907 thel bureau .of navigation reports 1,056 vesgels of 502,508 gross tons built and | specifically pulbered ‘in the United States, compared with 1,045 vessels of 393,291 tons in 1906. Phillip F. Kramer of Portland, Ore., a locomotive engineer employed on the Isthmian -canal, was murdered by robbers, ; ) . e ' The vaudeville war was finally conscluded when George Middleton, president of the Western Vaudeville association, and his associates signed an agreement to take over Cella & Oppenheim’s theaters in Kansas City, Milwaukee and Leouisvile and the new theater being built at St. Louis. The torpedo boat flotilla arrived at “Para, Brazil. 2 ,~ The New Jersey pardon board refused to pardon Walter A. McAllister and William Death, ‘who were &enjtenced .to 30 years’ imprisonment in ‘l9_ol for complicity in the murder of Jennie Bosschcieter of Paterson. Prof. Thomas Day Seymour, senior professor of greek in- Yale uni\"ersity, died in New Haven, Conn., after a short illness of pneumonia. An alleged attempt was made to assassinate Father Volitas, pastor of St. Ann’'s Catholic church at Spring Val-f ley, 111 : T A petition in voluntary bankruptecy ~was filed by Henrietta Crosman, the actress, and her hussba_nd, Maurice’ Campbell, in the United States district court in New. York. - : Viscount Aoki, the Japanese ambassador, left Washington on his way, home to report to the emperor. * Receivers were appointed for the Passaic Steel company of Paterson, NJ ‘ b Twenty-three hundred ~ barrels of béer,- valued at $17,500, was. poured ~into_the sewers of Oklahoma City, Okla., by United States Internal Revenue Collector Charles Howard.

| Fiveumgyg%y}mred and two street cars.were riddled with stones at Muncié, Tnd., in a riot that followed an attéfpt of the Indiana Union Traction company to run cars manned by strike-breakers. The strike followed

the refusal of the company to sign again the wage agreement that has been in effect for five years. Rioting was resumed on the streets of Muncie, Ind., between the striking employes of the street railway company and the »strikebrgakers. . Two thousand men began stoning the car§. Shots were fired and nine persons were injured. St. Anne’s Orphans’ home at Terre Haute, Ind., was burned, but the 100 children were saved. . o

James G. Stowe, former consul genera} to South Africa and a well-known manufacturer, died in Kansas City.

Roy Howard, 19 vears old, was sentenced to -eight years in the .penitentiary for the murder of Martha Picray at Des Moines, la. Secretary Metcalf announced that Capt. J. E. Pillsbury had been selected as chief of the navigation bureau of the navy department. o Curtis Guild, Jr., was inaugurated for a third term as governor of Massachusetts. ' . Fire that brought death to Charles Figone, eight vears of age, fatal injury to Louis Figone, 16-years of age, and almost cost the lives of 50 others, broke out in the coal yard of. Antonia Figone; in San Francisco, and caused damage to‘the extent of $50,000. ‘J. W. Belknap, a wealthy lumberman, was dangerously injured, H. A. Kemp was hurt, and Charles H. Tidy and a housemaid, had a narrow escape from being burned in their beds at Greenville, Mich. S

A suit to oust Peter Everhardy from office as mayor of Leavenworth, Kan., on the charge th# he failed to enforce the . prohibition law, was filed by the attornev general.

A Pennsylvania passenger train col lided” with an engine at Montandon Pa., and a dozen passengers ~were hurt. ! )

At Collinsvilie, 111, the explosion of a lamp in the home of George Steger set fire to the house gnd three children perished in the flames. )

. Two men were killed and 13 others were injured by an .explosion in converter No. 3 of the Edgar Thompson plant of the United States Steel corporation at North .Braddock, Pa. . While crossing the mountains with government mail for Rodecky Bar, a mining camp in “_Elmoré county, Idaho, George McKenna was f{rozen to death.’ ; " Mrs. Mary Ramsey Wood died at Hillsboro, Ore., aged 119 .years. Miss Augusta Fahrm, aged 28, cashier of the A. E. Johnson Steamship agency of 'Minneapolis, was arrested and locked up in the city jail on a charge of embezzling about $5,000 of the cocmpany’s funds. ) Owen Moran, champion featherweight of England, made a draw fight of+*2s rounds with Abe Attell, ,champion of America. at San Francisco. Marshal Murdock, editor and proprietor of the' Wichita Eagle, father of Congressman Victor Murddck and one of the best-known newspaper men in- the United ~States, died, aged 70 vears.. g At Dillon, Mont., Fred Baker shot and Kkilled E. A. Lawrence, who was to have married Baker's 16-vear-old daughter at three o'clock. - “Three white firemen were badly wounded in a fight in the 'Japanese quarters of Vancouver, B. C. ' Affairs of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad company reached a crisis, and after a long conference of the voting trustees it was decided to make application to the courts for a receiver. ) .

George A. Fisher, a building inspector.of Newark, N. J.,, was shot and killed by a burglar. .

The Colonial Arms, the Ilargest summer hotel on the north shore of Massachusetts, was burned with nearly all its furnishings. The loks is estimated at $lOO,OOO.

Agnes Pettdigon, aged about 25, and Otto Hiiglin, aged 26, were drowned, breaking through the ice while skating at Ford Slip, Mich.

The case of the members of the first Russian duma who were convicted for signing the Viborg manifesto and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment will be carried before the senate, the highest tribunal in Russia. Rev. Edward Twitchell Ware was installed as president of the -Atlania (Ga.) university, which his father founded - .

Charles Francklyn Reglid, former actor, more recently a wealthy whip and automobilist, who came into prominence about ten years ago, when at the age of 32 he married Mrs. Adele Ronalds, then 70, and widow of Thom-* as A’ Ronalds, a New York society leader, died at his country mansion at New Rochelle, ) In the Tombs at New York, awaiting trial for murder, is Henry Shipman, aged 52, who shot and killed Mrs. Josephine Mason in that city about 20 vears, ago. Shipman was adjudged insane and sent to Matteawan, and was discharggd, recently. Gov. Sparks of Nevada called &n extra session of the legislature to convene January 14, 1908, to take action on the Goldfield troubles, The Archaeological institute, in.session in Chicago, wag told of the dis¢overy of a new saying of Christ that belonged in the gixteenth chapter of St. Mark. It wag found by Charles L. Freer of Detroit in Egypt. Because Rev. Ernest Sweeton in a sermon at Newburg, Ind. said, that any womfin who danced was of questionabl¢ character, young men ofgNewburg- attacked the minister with decayed eggs and with clubs. £ The grand jury in San Francisco returned four indietments for alleged embezzlement against officials of the California Safe Deposit and Trust company. T : . Andrew Carnegie donated $lO,OOO for a public library for Fairbury,-Neb., under the usual conditions—the donation of a site and the appropriation of $lO,OOO a year for maintenance. Transatlantic passenger traffic during 1907 was increased by nearly 1. 000,000 over 1906. A total of 2,957,328 -was éarried, according to figures given out by the North quman Lloyd company in New York. - o

Robert Weston, colored; who “shot up” .a passenger train near Bdton Rouge, La., killing A. K. Wridert, was sentenced to death-after a trial lasting 30 minutes. <t Dr. Mary Merritt, a -prepossessing young woman, has begun, work in Brooklyn as an ambulancfie surgeon. - Comptroller Metz, in a review of the growth of New York in the ten vears since consolidation, said that the assessed valuations of real estate owned by the people had advanced from $2,532,416,819 in 1898 to $6,240,480,602 in 1907. ;

Lieut. F. P. Lahm, U. S. A., returned from Europe, where he won the international balloon contest in France, declared that dirigible airships would henceforth be an important part of the equipment of modern armies. The trial of the 169 members of the first Russian duma, who signed the Viborg manifesto, was concluded in St. Petersburg. One’hundred and sixtyseven of them were convicted and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, while two were acquitted on the ground that they hagd signed under misapprehension. The sentence carries with it the loss of all political rights. -

The systematic campaign for lower rents by thousands of tenants on the lower East side in New York began to- show material results when many landlords announced that they were ready to mase reductions. )

The Temple of Neptune, in, Rome, built by Hadrian; and standing in the center of the Forum of Agrippa, now occupied by the stock exchange, was the scene of a tremendous explosion, presumably of gas, .in which 20 persons were injured.. The city was thrown inte wild excitement,

Capt. Von-Goeben, a disttinguished officer in the artillery branch of the German army, caused a sensation in military circles by confessing that he was the author of the mysgterious murder of Maj. Von Schoenbeck, a brother officer, who was-shot -dead on Christmas by a man he caught leaving his wife's room. . . kD

Judge Charles 1. Thomson died in Denver of asthma. He was a member of the Colorado courf of appeals for 12 vears. ' - !

Gov. Sheldon of Nebraska wanted to zive the lieutenant governor $lOO of hig salary for serving as governor several days, but found the law. forbade it. : )

Mrs. A. Mosher of Lincoln,. Neb., while smoking a pipe in bed set her coverlet afire and was burned to death, i, , ' : M. De Troos, premier and minister of the interior of DBelgium, died at Brussels. . i Mrs. Anson Jones, widow of Dr. C. Anson Jones, the last pPesident of the republic of Texas, died in Houston. A bill was filed in the United States circuit court at Atlanta asking. that the Georgia prohibition law be declared unconstitutional. _ . Nine miners were killed and several injured -by an explosion in a mine at

Carthage, -N. M. U : Edward Ritchie and William Hay were appointed veceivers for the Wi-berg-Hanna Lumber company, one .of the largest .lumber firms in Cincinnati. . et

Capt. N. B. Thistlewood of. Cairo, 111.,, was nominated on thg Republican ticket for- the seat-from the Twentyfifth. congressgional district made vacant by the death of Representative George W. Smith.

Mine knspector James Martin of Plains, Pa., died suddenly of hemorrhage of the lungs, aged 56 years. In September, 1897, while sheriff of Luzerne county, he led the deputies who fired upon several hundred striking miners at Lattimer, and 12 were killed. - SR

Jean - Francois Edmond Guyot-Des-saigie, the French niinister of justice, dropped dead of apoplexy during a session of the senate, o Judge John W: Barr, a distinguished Kentucky jurist, died in Louisville of pneumonia at the age of 82. : In spite of the recent financial depression, -the port of New York collected $212,697,926 in duties during 1907, an increase of $3,131,018 .over 1906. ; R

After a long illness, Mrs. Charles Gibson, 78 years old, widow of Sir Charles Gibson, died at her home in St. Louis. Her husband died eight vears ago. _

Wireléss ' messages. from Sitka, Alaska, were received- at Mare Island and Point Loma, Cal. .

Mrs. A. B. Upton committed suicide in Elgin, 111,, by drinking carbolic acid. Her husband, formerly a merchant of Elgin, deserted her three weeks ago. The Herbert Baxter Adams prize for the best essay on European history was awarded to William Spence Roberts of Cleveland and Edward B. Krehbiel of Chicago, by the American Historical association at Madison, Wis.

The body¥ of Thomas Charles Druce, in Highgate cemetery, London, was exhumed and the coffin was found to contain the remains of a human body, thug exploding the romantic tale told by Robert C. Caldwell and others, who gwore during the recent hearing of the Druce perjury case that it contained a roll of lead. : :

A severe earthquake, probably in Central “America, was recorded by seismographs in America and European cities.

Judge R. E. Lewis of the federal court in Denver, C 01.,, quashed all indictments aftd - sustained all the demurrers in. ¢oal land fraud cases, thereby releasing about 50 prominent defendants from prosecution. Dr. Simon Flexner, head of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York, asserts that he has discovered an antitoxin serum with ‘'which he has fought successfully 60 cases of cerebro-spfhal meningitis. ‘Mrs. Moljie Desmond, of New York, who attempted to commit suicide 18 months ago by swallowing a package of 144 needles, died after physicians had made 25 surgical operations. The body of Miss Emogene Kinner of Penn Yan, N. Y., who disappeared from Michigan City, Ind., on- December 11, was found on the bank of a creek in a wild and. unfrequented place. ’ “Kansas for Christ,” is to be the slogan in a state-wide evangelistic campaign that is to be pushed sl‘multaneously in every county ¢f Kansas all of 1908, i

Being the © . 2 | Reminiscences : .of a 0 Nature Fakir By | ' John Kendrick Bangs : (Copyright; by Joseph B. Bowles,) “lI am, an’ allus have been, a firstclass Republican,” said Si Wotherspoon, helping himself to a handful of raisins out of the box on the end of the counter, “but I must say that if the next national convention puts a nater fakir plank in the platform I'll be sort of up a tree. ‘I think th’ president means all right, but sometimes he ’'pears to me to speak a little bit hasty.” : “O-casionally he does,” isaid the Capsain. “Not often preaps, but often enough to keep things goin’ some.” “Now in the nater fakir proc¢lamation. oo’ his,” continued: Si, “he don't mention that there story o' Balaam’s Ass, an’ yvet it seems to me he might of, just as reasonable as pickin’ a feller up for sayin' that an enraged rabbit chewed up th’ vermiform appendix of a buffalo that had invaded the sancty of his home.” farrie “You don't seem to see that that there Balaam’s Ass was a miracle, Si,” said the Postmaster, loyally flying as iln duty bound, tc the defense of the

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“There’s a lot in- what ye say, Si,” gaid the Captain, “but ye've chose the wrong story ‘to hang the p'int on. There warn’t nothin’ extryord'nary about that there story o’ Balaam’s. If ye'd took the story o’ Daniel in th’ lion’s den, or that one about the bears that come out an’ eat up the . baldheaded man—" . s 5

“They eat up the children, GCap,” said the Postmaster, “for callin’ the old feller bald-headed.” :

“That’s so—l'd forgot just how that was,” said the Captain. “I'm gettin’ a little rusty in my history, they're makin’ so much that’s new these days: Anyhow, Si's p'int ’'ld be stronger if he'd brought in either o’ them tales than it is with the story o’ Balaam’s A_ss." 5

“I don’t see why,” said the Postmaster. “There’s lots 0’ men who haven’t been eat by hungry lions, an’ plenty o’ kids that has been eat by bears, but who besides Balaam ever vieard an ass make remarks?” :

“I have,” said the Captain. ' “You?” c¢ried the Postmaster. “When? Where?” “In this here town last summer,” said the Captain.. “Humph!” ejaculated the Postmaster incredulously. “What'd he talk about?”

“Pretty nigh everythin’ under the ecnopy,” said the Captain. “I think I must o’ had a dozen talks with him off an’ on through the summer. The first thing he spoke about was the weather. I was settin’ out in front o’ my house one afternoon, an’ this here jackass came browsin’ along -the road, an’ when he see me he stopped in front o’ the gate an’ said it was blamed hot. ‘Yes,” says I, but it ain’t as hot as it was in the sammer of eighteen hun* dred an’ eightty-seven, when one o’ my hens fell imfto the well, an’ laid hardboiled eggs for six weeks afterwards.’ He allowed that that was putty hot, but he didn’t think it was as hot as it was one day when he was down to Boston when a couple o’ steers passin’ up Tremont street was cooked all through before they'd gone tWo blocks 30 that the guests o’ the Parker house icome out an’' got their roast beef on the hoof. ‘No, says I, ‘it wasn’t as hot as that. But likewise that was a cool ! day compared to the one we had here {n August, eighteen hundred an’ ninetytwo, when we picked bakéd apples .right off the tree back o’ the icehouse, ‘an’ my ther’momter in th’' cellar: riz go fast it plugged a hole through the

kitehen floor an’ went straight on up through the roof an’ perched on the chimbly for ten minutes before disappearin’ in the clouds.’” ““What'd he say to that?” laughed Si.

“Nothin’,” said the Captain. “He looked at me out o’ the corner o’ his eyes, an’ ambled off up the street, an’ disappeared round the curn leadin’ down to the beach.” =

“He prob’ly thought you was lyin’ to him, an’ took offense,” suggested the Postmaster. . 0

“No, I don’t think so, because he came back the next afternoon about the same time,” said the Captain. “He stopped at the gate jest as he did before, an’ stickin’ his nose over the fence he ast me if we had much lightnin” around here. ‘Yes, saysl. ‘That is, they have a lot o’ what they call lightnin’ around here, but it ain’t kneehigh to a Katydid ’longside o’ the lightnin’ they have further up the coast.” An’ then I told him about a streak that come along one night on my fathe‘r's farm up back o’ Bar Harbor, an’ stayed with us for five full days. Most lightnin’ comes like a flash, does what it has to do and disappears,’ I says to him. ‘But this here streak took a fancy to a sixty. acre track o’ woods we had, an’ kep workin’ away on it for five days, at the end of which time it had knocked down all the trees, burnt -the timber, trunk, branch an’ stump, an’ then plowed up the .field so’s we was able to sow it with ecorn when he’d got the job finished an’ disappeared.”’ ‘Ever been struck? says he. ‘Yes,’ says'l, ‘dozens of times. Last time it hit me was summer before last. 1 was settgn' right where I am .now talkin’ to another jackass, when'a bolt seven inches wide come in the kitchen door, through the house an’ right out here right behind me. . It took me between the shoulders an’ when it got through with me I found myself settin’ on* the deck of a lumber schooner seven miles off York Harbor, makin’ for Boston an’ without a scratch, an”

pullin’ away on my clay pipe, which, by the way, the lightnin’ had Ilit, I havin’ only jest filled it when the bolt come along.” ‘That’s goin’ some,” says he. ‘T'd hate to be struck like that myself.” *You ain’t in no danger, says I, ‘Lightnin’ never strikes brass.” ‘lt killed old Annynias,’ says he. ‘Yes, says I. “That’s one reason why I ain’t afeard of it.’ ‘Because it never strikes in the same place . twice? says he. ‘No,” says I. ‘Because I ain’t made 0’ the same moral material,’ says .- An’ then he moved on again.” ! :

“He was a pretty clever ass, seems to me,” said the Postmaster.

“He thought so himself,” said the Captain. “Anyhow he thought he was smart enough to come back again g couple o’ days later an’ bring two of his friends with him. ‘Good afternoon,’ says he with an assinine grin an’ a wink at the other two. ‘ls it’ says I. ‘I ain’t nbticed the weather.’ ‘My friends an’ I have come around to ask how the lobsters 18 runnin’ this years,” he says. ‘Oh, have ye? says I. ‘Well, I:can’t exackly say—ye might ask your friends' to give an’ exhibition run up an’ down the road, an’ ye can see for yourself, only,’ says I, ‘ye’d better not let Tom Seevy ketch ye with ’em.” ‘What’s Tom Seevy got to do with it?” he asks. ‘He’s the town constable,’ says I, ‘an’ from & bird's eye view o’ your friends I'm afraid they're under size. Ye’ll be fined fifty dollars for havin’ ’em in your possession.’ He brayed for two hull minutes when I said that, but his friends wasn’'t p’tic’larly pleased an’ made off up to the hotel where they was stablin’. He sort o' lingered around ’'s if he hadn’t had qui%e enough, an’ after awhile he says: ‘Any shootin’ around here? ‘Well,” says I, ‘it all depends upon what ye call shootin’.” - If ye want deer an’ pahtridge, they ain't as plenty as they used to be, but if you'd like to bring down a few shuffers ye can set right dowh here in my yard an’ pop 'em by the dozen, ‘an’ I Gorry,” I says, Tl lend you my gun t’ do it with.” ‘What's shuffers?’ says he. ‘Shuffers is little brass monkies,’” says I, ‘that these here summer folks on their way from Boston to Bar Harbor hireg to run. their ottermobyles.’” ‘O, says he. ‘You mean show-foors.’ ‘Oh, 'do I? I says. ‘Well, jest you bag a couple o’ dozen with my old blunderbuss, an’ you an’ I won’t quarrel about how to pronounce ‘em.’ ‘Do you objeck to the ottermobyle?’ . he says. ‘I object to anythin’ that makes my flower garden smell like a gashouse,” says I, ‘runs

over my hens without so much as a word of sorrer, an’ turns the occasional visit o’ the midnight skunk into a beautiful an’ fragrant mem'ry.’ Then that jackass begun an’ teld me what a blessin’ them ottermobyles was to the farmer. How it brought people into our midst, who bought our eggs an’ butter, an’ patternized ' our roadhouses, an’ eat our doughnuts. ‘May‘be sO,” says I. ‘Maybe so! But 7 ain’t noticed that I ever ast to have any people come into my midst. My midst ain’t more ’'n middlin’ strong ‘any ways,’ I says, ‘and it's go‘t all it can do digestin’ its.own troubles without burdenin’ itself with the trials of the gasolene aristocracy from the cities. As for the butter'n eggs,’ I says, ‘all the butter 'n eggs they consume is the butter they' spread on the country side, an’ the eggs they scramble in the highway when their chariots o’ fire bump into our waggins goin’ around turns at forty miles an hour. They’s prbfit in that, an’ I ain’t sayin’ that some o’ th’ farmers up round here don’t load their waggins an’ sort o lay around waitin’ to be run into for the sake of a quick sale, but that sort o’ thing don't breed no permanent prosperity,” ”’ . -

“You was dead right ahout that” said Si Wotherspoon. “I've tried It myself, an’ it don’t pay, considerir’ the ;time ye lose waitin’ for an ottermobyle to come an’ bump ye.” - “’Tain’t good business anyways,” said the Captain. “An I said as much to that there jackass, an’ then he launched out into a long distance talk on prosperity in general; how much more real money they was in circkylation than they used to be; what a boon to the country the trusts was, until finally I got so gol-derned -tired o’ th’ sound of his voice that I went to sleep, an’ when I woke up he'd gone.” “An’ ye mean t’ tell us that this was a real jackass!” observed the: Postmaster scornfully. S “Well, ye can judge for yourself” said the Captain. “The last talk I had with him was on the subject o’ this

here post office. He said it was the worst run, all-firedest slowest, most incomp’tent, eighteenth class rural slow delivery shootin’ match he ever see in his life. He said the postage stamps he sold here was stale, an’ left a taste like sour ippycack in your mouth when ye licked 'em. He said his newspapers nine times out o’ ten was covered with m’'lasses when they was delivered, an’ that half his letters smelt o’ kerosene oil, an’ th’ other half o’ dried herrin’s, an’ he thought it was a disgrace to the country-to have a fed'ral institution as important as the post office run as a side issue to a rundown, tattered an’ leaky old combination of a grocery an’ fancy notion store in charge o’ some old moss-back of a farmer that didn’t know the difference between a mail bag and a keg o’ nails.” .

“He s,ai.d that, did he!” said the Postmaster, flushing up. “Them was his exact words,” said the Captain. “An-he added that the next time he was down in Washington he was goin’ t’ speak to the authorities and ask ’em if they couldn’t change their histori¢ policy of puttin’ post offices in groceries, an give th’ undertakers, an village barbers a chance at the treasury.” :

“All right, Cap,” said the Postmaster, rising. “Ye've proved your p’int. He was a good all round jackass, all right.” “Yes, sir, he was,” said the Captain. “And a derned intelligent one, t 00.” “Yes,” said the Postmaster. “An’ I guess the president’s surrounded by that kind down in Washin’ton, too.” < “I guess he is,” observed the Captain. “They have ’em pretty much everywhere nowadays.” ; : “An’ they’re incurable,” said the Postmaster. ““Af long as a jackass has four legs there’s hope for him, but the two-legged kind with a big mouth and a pin head—O, well, what’'s the use? They're too common to be considered extryordinary.”

“Yes, they be,” agreed the Captain. ‘“Maybe that's the reason the p°resident didn’t think it was wuth while/to rake old Balaam over the coals, Joe. I guess he knew the breed. - Still Ashamed. First lieutenant—How do you like the horse you bought -from me last week? : , Second lieutenant—Very much. Hemight hold his head a little higher, though. First lieutenant—O, that will come all right when he is- paid for.—Stray Stories. Sl i

Sunday Schocl Lesson for Jan. 12,1968 - Specially Arranged for This Paper - -, LESSON TEXT.—John 1:19-34. Memory Verses, 29, 30. ' P GOLDEN TEXT.—'“Behold the Lamb of God, which takethh away the sin of the world.”’—John 1:29. : = TIME.—John . the- Baptist - began .to preach in the summer of "A. D. 26.- 'He preached six months before Christ. appeared@ on. the scene.. He: continued a vear and three mornths préaching while Jesus preached; till March A. D, 28. Jesus was baptized January, A. D. .27 His temptation—Janudry and February. His first disciples—in, February.. The delegation of the Pharisees—February. - > PLACE.—The wilderness of Judea. The baptism of Jesus at Bethabara, on ‘the east bank of the Jordan. 3§ Ja

Comment and Suggestive Thought. John preached the things that were necessary before one could enter the kingdom of God. (1) Repentance and confession of sin.” (1) A change.of conduct that proved the repentance to be sincere.. (3) A public.profession of this change of life by baptism, essential to; the proof of their sincerity, to permanance of ‘the new life, and to power for good. (4) The Kkingdom of God is at hand. -~ = - = -

This preaching ‘led people .to- inquire, what does all this mean? Who is coming? What is coming? = . The Witness of John to Christ— Vs. 19-3¢. The Christian ‘wants proof. The issues are too important ' for credulit¥. We need fo know. -~

The- witness of John ‘is repeated, reinforced, more and more’ clearly, all down the ages. The facts wriften: in the history pf.-fl,OOO@ars confirm his testimony. 2 . e itE

First: John Witnesses That Jesus Is the -Christ, the Som of God:; *He refused to be called the Messiah. He was merely one who announced.-his. coming.” And when Jesus refurned to Bethabara, John pointed him out to. the people—“ Here is. the Messiah. This is the Redeemer from sin: This is the man whom God by sure signs made known to me as the Saviour.”. | There is a great deal of evil in the world yet, in the best of .countries, in the best of people. ' But it is evil fought against. It is gaining the victory slowly but surely. = The very revelations of evil, the controversies and conflicts, are signs that the power of. Christ is working upon the evil, a nevep ending conflict till the goqd hag triumphed. . = o U aensl s Second, = John Witnesses to Jesus as the Redeemer from Sin. V. 29. “Behold the Lamb of God.” Jesus was so named by John, because the Jamb was used in three ways as a symbol of the deli\;erance_which Jesus brought. (1) John and his hearers were familjar with the Tepreseatation in Isaiah (53:7) of the coming one, “as a lamb jed to the slaughter.” (2) Still more would the Jew think of the Passover Jamb as-the type and promise of. national deliverance. (33 . The -daily sactifice of a lamb was continually pefore the Jews, -teaching "them the .meaning of all the sacrifices, and continually reminding = them -of their need of .an ~atorement - for -sin. It is well worth noting ‘that Jesus died for our sins at ‘the Passover feast, and at the hour of the daily sacrifice. - “Which taketh away the sin of the:world” “To bear:away 'sin is to remove the guilt and punish-. ment of sin Dy expiation, or to cause that sin be neither- imputed nor punished.”—Thayer’s Greek-English Lex. (1) The work of Christ is to do-this for the whole world till this sinful world is changed . into -thHe sinless Paradise Regained. (2) Jesus provides redemption for all the world. (3) He pardons past sin, so that it is no longer remémbered by him, but is blotted out forever. ~ (4). He s, in fact, removing sin from the world. Wherever he comes, sin is in ‘- the process of removal from each heart that accepts him, and from ‘the community. &

Third.. The Witness- of the Holy Spirit. V. 32. -“I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.” He descends ed not only in the mannper of a dove, but in bodily shape of a dove (Luke 3:929). This means more than “It was as plain to him'that Jesus was possessed by the Spirit as if he had seen the Spirit in a visible shape alighting upen him.” It was necessary for his assurance, and ;hat of the people, that there “should/ be some visible proof of the descfint of the Spirit, as there was ‘at Pentecost, and the results proved that-the sign was accompanied by reality. It n%ay be that John saw the effects “in the demeanor of Jesus, in his lowliness, and sympathy, and holiness, all of which came to their perfect bloom-at and in his baptism.”—Exp. Greek Test. But the sign that accompanied this power was given to reveal the-fact,-“in letters that could be read from -the stars,” that the invisible Holy Spirit was actually present; to make the fact clear and unmistakable; ‘to show the source whence the power and its effects came. Sl e ' Practical Points., -

The Dove expresses the indwelling of Jesus.in our hearts, awakening all the gentler, lToving, affectionate qualities of religion, sweetness of spirit, graciousness of feeling and of manner. ! z g

Light cannot be hidden. .If it ceases to shine, it ceases to ‘exist. | , The apostle said to the Corinthian Christians; “Ye are our epistles . . . known and read of all men . . . manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered,by" us, written not with ink, but. with the Spirit of the living God” (2 Cor. 3:2, 3). : '~ Widow Too Impulsive. - She had buried three husbands and the fourth lay cold while the undertaker measured him. And she was known 'in the village to have put aside something more than husbands. “It isn’t p’'raps the right time to mention such a matter,” said the undertaker to the widow, “but if you was thinking of taking a fifth—" “‘Now, that comes of being precipitous,”. replied the widow. “I've just took the barber what come to- shave the corpse.” o e

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