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Ehe Zigonier 3 ¢ Ligonier Banner ’ TR T aveEe ‘ . LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. e et et St Tt P e ——————————— NEWG OF A WEEK ' I - . ~ MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS GATHERED FROM ALL POINTS OF -t THE GLOBE. - _ GIVEN IN ITEMIZED FORM Notable Ha,pperrfngs Prepared for the ' Perusal of the, Busy Man—Summary of the Latest Home and For- - eign. Notes. " THE THAW TRIAL. © At the close of three court sessions, | which marked tl]f first day of the sec ] ond trial of Har® K. Thaw for the al-| leged murder of Stanford White, nine tentative jurors had been selected out L of 37 talesmen examined by Distric‘té " Attorney Jerome,. for the prosecution, | .and Martin W. Littleton, for the de-| fense. Mr. Littleton formally served notice that the former plea of notg guilty was amended by the specifica-% ‘tion that the defendant was insane | " when the homicide was committed. ‘ » Three Thaw jurors were sworn ¥n | and feur tentatively accepted, on-the | second dayv of the trial. Three meorve miembers of the Thaw -jury were sworn in. The defense an-| ‘nounced ‘that it hag subpoenaed several of the alienists who testified for-the. - state on the previous trial. = ° One new sworn juror was added to | the Harry K. Thaw trial panel, making | - seven in all :ff-lected from the first 400 talesmen. . i © - MISCELLANEOUS. " Testimony was begun in the suit in- | Stitnted by Richard Snell, son of Col. | Thomas Snell, -the late miilionaire | . railroad builder, in Clinton, I, 10} break the will which cuts young Snell | ~off with an annuity» of but $5(, Sen-! sational statements were made by | counsel for the i:'.,uin’iff to the efiect ‘that Col. Snell had expended no less | " than $300.000 upon women during the | lagt tenn vears of his ‘Tite, of which $75.000 had gzone to his alleged granel- | niece, Mayvhelle Sneil,cf Kansas City, ! AMo.. now Mrs. McNamara. o The district court of appeals at | * San Francisco handed down a decision | demiing aside the judgment in the case| of former Mavor Eugene . Schmitz, | convicted of extortion in the* French restaurant case. Abe Ruef also benefits by the ruling. ) ; The old historie building at New- | Wrn. N. C., which was part of Gov. | Tryen's place before the revolutionary ’ war was destroved by fire. ‘ Two negio farm hands yho made a murderous assault on Mr. and Mrs. " Martin Livingston at Goldsboro, Ga., were captured. by a 'posse and shot to death. - ] “.Cvrus J. Lawrence, aged 76, of the New York banking firm of Cyrus J. Lawrence & Son and vice president * of the Bush Terminal company, died. . Maeck St. Clair and “Solomon Lawrence, shot firers, were instantly killed ‘ “in.dn explosion in a mine at Princeton, Ind. : | Friends of Jack London, the author, are beginning to feel anxiety over his’ _failure to .arrive at the Marquesas islands. which he was expected to reach early;in Decerniber. ) Frank J. Mcßrien, a wealthy retired business man ,was killed in New .York in saving the life of Mrs. Mary Scheele of Brooklyn, who had fallen in ~the path ¢f a train. Martin Maloney of Philadelphia began court proceedings to fhave annulled the marriage of his daughter Helen to. Arthur Herbert Osborn of New York in 1905. i o The candidacy of Gov. Charles E. . Hughes for the Republican presidential nomination was_launched at a “Hughes dollar dinner” in New York city. ) : W. J. Bryvan, speaking at Danville, 111., said he believed the Republicans would nominate Speaker Cannon for the presidency. - Austin O. Sexton, once active ‘in‘ - Chicago in state and local politics, died at the home of his daughter at rHammond, Ind. Dr. Horace Newell Marvin of Dover, Del., father of the boy who_wandered away from a farmhouse near Dover

last spring and died from exposure. was married to Mrs.. Flora Melinda Swift, his mother-in-law. £ L. C. Storrs of Lansing, Mich., aged 70, secretary of thé Michigan state board of charities and correction, died suddenly of heart failure on a Queen & Crescent train near Somerset, Ky. Urban Angney, captain of last vear's football team at Kansas university, committed suicide at Lawrence, Kan., by jumping from the dome of Frazer hall. o At Springfield, Il Judge Creighton appointed the Sangamon Loan and Trust c?tnpany receiver for the Mechanicsburg Coal company of Mechaniesburg, lIL C. Snider and wife were found shot to death in their burning house at Carbondale, T ) Senator Aldrich introduced in the senate the currency bhill which for some time had been under consideration by Republican members of the senate. e _ George L. Chase, president of the Hartford Fire - Insurance company, died in Hariford, Conn. . Harry Gordon, formerly president of the Tippecanoe club, committed suicide in Cleveland, 0., by shooting in the head after swallowing morphine. A daughter was born to the duchess of Manchester, who was formerly Miss Helen Zimmerman of Cincinnati, at Kylemore castle, Ireland. Maj. Henry Ward Wells, a veteran attorney of Peoria, 111., and one of the frameérs of. the Illinois constitution in 1870. died, aged 74 years. ' Richard A. Ballinger resigned as commissioner of the general land office and Fred Dennitt was appointed to succeed him: :

"Edward Burch, at Hampton, Va., and Miss Eva Downing, at Winchester, Kyv., were married by long-distance telephore. ' Lo William Shamburgér perished in a fire that partly destroyved the roundhcuse and shops of the Lake Shore road at Elkhart, Int. . Christopher H. Connor, former city cpmptroller‘ ~of La Crosse, Wis.,, and one of the best-known Democratic politicians in-western Wisconsin, died: at Spokane. Five men were injured, one proba‘fily fatally, and the livgs of 50 passengers endangered by a terrific headon collision on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway in Chicago. _ Chinese students educated in America have taken precedence over those educated in Europe and in Japan, according to advices received at the state department from American Consul General Bergholz at Canton, China. A stretch of beach 300 feet long at Oregon Inlet, N. C., was washed away during a storm, carrying with it the land end of the government cable to Hatteras Station. & ) The courthousé ‘at Calhoun, Ky., was | destroyed by fire. All court- records for McLean county were burned. Vernon L. Nettleton of Coldwater, Mich.. gashed his sister’s throat with a carving knife and then killed himself. : | “\W. B. Thomas was elected presi-‘ dent of the American Sugar Refiningl company to succeed the late H. o.‘ Havemeyer. . Lansing, Mich., was seized by a{ strange malady, thousands of persons being stricken with nausea and acute: intestinal trouble. Being unable to meet payments due on his stock ‘in the institution.Augustius Heinze lost contrdl of the Mercantile National bank of New York. The stock was taken, back by Edwin Gould. | ~ Father Charles F. Kearful of St. Joseph, Mo.. has been notified by the state department at Washington that he is heir to a fortune of $500,000, left by his unecle; a prominent wool mer; chant, who died recently in Sydney, Australia. Judge Munger of the federal court at Omaha ordered the jury to dcquit Henrv Sutton, who had been on trial on charge of conspiracy to defraud the government out of large tracts of land. ) ; Liquor valued at $7,000, seized in raids, was poured into the seweér at Topeka, Kan., under orders of the court. : . J. F. Selby. qjmavor of Hillsboro, N. D.. dropped dead in Moorhead, N. D. The American battleshij) fleet, un-. der command of Rear Admiral Evans, was " sighted passing Pernambuco, Brazil, on its way to Rio Janeiro.. Bishop George Woerthingten -of Nebraska, who was recently :urpmuted to take charge of the Episcopal churches on the. continent in succession to Bishop Henry C. Potter of New York, died suddenly at Mentone, France. © Judge- Walter H. Sanborn, of the United Statés circuit court at St. Paud, Minn., appointed A. B. Stickney and Charles H. F. Smith, both residents of St. Paul, receivers for the Chicago Great Western railroad. Dean James B. Eddie of Salt Lake City, who was convicted by an ecclesiastical court of immorality a year ago, was formally deposed from the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, many of the congregation weeping and hissing the sentence. . Prominent coal operators from the principal coal producing states of the east gathered in Washington to dis}éuss the recent mining disasters and the best meihods possible for the pres- ! ervation of the lives of the miners in i the future. | Congressman William Sulzer of New York married Miss® Roedelheim of Philadelphia, who was his nurse ~during a serious illness. I Mail advices from South China tell of a terrible fire at Canton where 300 l‘ lives were lost in the burning of a restaurant. 5 Albert Jackson and Minnie Burton discovered just before the day set ;'or their marriage at Englewood, S. D, that they“were brother and sister, and they have gone to northern Missouri . to make a search for their mother. 1 A new Roman Catholic diocese was - carved out of the archdiocese of Chiicago, and will be-- known as the bishopric of Rockford. ‘ o . Fred C. Bonfils of the Denver Post was fined $5O for assaulting former Senator Thomas M. Patterson. Charles W. Whitney, a New York }stock exchange man, committed suicide. . /

Robbers dynamited the State bank at Quenemo, Kan, and escaped with about $£7.000.

The Nebraska Republican state committee fixed the state convention for March 11 at Omaha and declared for Taft. .

Capt. Daniel Ellis, aged 79, the celebrated union s¢out of East Tennessee, died at his ltome near Elizabethtowm, Tenn. i L

A radical bank bill was presented in the Illinois house at Springfield by, Representative Templeman. It provides that losses by depositors owing to failures shall be shared pro rata among banks. While the selection of Baron Takahira, Japanese ambassador to Italy, to succeed Yiscount Aoki at Washington, has not been officially announced, it is admitted at the foreign office in Tokyo that the appointment has been decided upon. - United States District Attorney Sims in Chicago asked the federal court of appeals to increase the supersedeas bond of the Standard Oil company of Indiana to $29,240,000, the amount of the fine. . Miss Lena Craig, a school teacher, was murdered by John Hopkins, a rejected suitor, near Seneca, Mo. ~The Reptblican committee of Erie county, 0., -rescinded resolutions adopted last March indorsing Taft for president. ! F. Augustus Heinze asked for a stay of 6. days in the collection of the $20,000 fine imposed upon him by the federal court for contempt, in order that he may appeal to President Roosevelt to remit: the fine.

Unless the spinners modify their demands¢ the cotton mills throughout the country, owned by 500 members of the Federation of Master Spinners, will be closed January 25 and 150,000 emnloves locked out.,

A schooner was wrecked on the Diamond shoals, near Cape Hatteras, and only two of the crew of seveu were saved. % ) )

Attorney General Bonaparte directed the various United, States attorneys to institute suits against a large number of railroad companies to recover. penalties incurred by them for alleged violations of the safety. appliance law. Isaac Kushemoff, a 17-year-old New York boy, who was a bank messenger and disappeared, was arrested on his return from Europe, charged with taking $390 collected for the Bank of North America. - . Running at a speed of 30 miles an hour the second section of an excursion train on the Southern railway from Cleveland, 0., known "as the Collver special, and bound for Florida points, plunged through a trestle over Copper Mine creek, about 50 miles west of Atlanta, Ga., and three trainmen were Kkilled, two women fatally injured and 80 other passengers

hurt. o Rev. D. I. McDermott, rector of a

“atholic church in Philadelphia, re‘used to permit a lodge of Hibernians 0 attend a funeral in the church, and nade serious charges connecting the; rder .with the Molly Maguires. =~ Indicted by the federal grand jury: 'or the over-certification of 15 checks, ‘epresenting in the aggregate - over $400,000 and drawn by the firm of Jtte Heinze & Co. on the Mercantile National bank, F. Augustus Heinze, he copper magnate and former presiient of the Mercantile National bank, surrendered himself to United States. Commissioner Shields in New York ind later was released on .$50,000 bail. Walter C. Stewart, superintendent »f the municipal lighting plant of: St. Joseph, Mo., and_other persons were indicted for fraud by :means of padling pay rolls.. { ‘The long overdue Mount Royal of ‘he Canadian Pacific ragilway’s Atlanic service steamed slowly into Queenstown.: Heavy weather and rrouble with her boilers. compelled her o put back. , : ‘The students of Washington university at-St. Louis held a xpooting and formulated demands upon the faculty to reinstate Student J. Allen Stevens, recently expelled, on threat »f a general student strike. Gagged with his 'own handkerchief, tied by the feet to the iron upright of the elevated railway and robbed of $7OO in c¢ash and $5OO in checks, was the fate that befell .JJ. Ward Flook, a collector for Libby, McNeill & Libby, of Chicago. Despondent because- of ill health and financial difficuities, M. A. Horn, merchant, councilman, bank director and stockholder in manufacturing concerns, drowned himself at Defiance, O. ) ‘Seven” hundred and forty th(lsand dollars is missing from the Bank of Yucatan. Fernando *U. Rodriguez, sub-director, and Mateo Ponce, excashier of the bank, and ten other persons have been arrested. ) Claus A. Spreckle, son of the big sugar refiner, charges that the American Sugar Refining company has no surplus and that it hgs included in its assets ‘a ‘dozen or two dismantled plants. Four men, who attempted to hQId up passengers on the “Katy” flyer in the union station in Kansas City, Mo., were foiled. The conductor struck one of the gang over the head with a lantern and all fled. " Postmaster General Meyer ordered that it shall be a condition of any contract hereafter entered into for carrying the mails upon star, screen wagon, messenger or special service route, that the contractor shall not transport intoxicating liquor from one point to another upon such route while in the perfromance of mail service. ‘A. Ross Hill, dean of the college of arts and sciences and a director of the school of education at Cornell university, was chosen president of the University of Missouri to-succeed Richard H. Jesse, resigned. - ~Capt. ~ William Thomas, . superintendent of the Aurora mine of the United States Steel corporation at Ironwood, Mich., was shot and killed Monday by John Bendette, a ‘miner who had been discharged. By a majority of 26® the voters of the territory interested declared for a greater Birmingham, Ala. The territory comprises 41% square miles and the estimated population is 125,000. ; , . J ;

Allegations of fraud and -graft in supplying the blureau of - engraving and printing with black dry color, used in the manufacture of ink, resulted in the indictment by the federal grand jury at Washington of Edwin ‘M. Vandyck, formerly a chemist and ink maker employed in the bureau, and Victor Boede, president of Baltimore, manufacturers of ink and colors. J ' Prince Stanislas "Poniatowski, the head of the historic Polish house of that name, is dead in Paris. :

Leonard. Brown of Grand Rapids, crazed .by jealousy, killed his wife near Ludington,: Mich., and then attempted suicide. At Easton, Pa., Frank Smith, who accused his wife of infidelity, murdered her with a bhutcher knife and tried to take his own life.

Gen. Hempartzoonian Boyadjian, head of the Hunchakists, or Armenian Revolutionary society, is in New York to organize Armenians in America in armed bands to help the society in its effort to wrest their country from Turkey. G George Dixon, colored, for many years the featherweight champion, died of alcoholism in New York.

Four big New York diamond firms, with combined assets of $6,225,000 and liabilities of $4,500,000, were forced into hands of trustees by inability to dispose of stocks and meet maturing loans. ®

Foster E. Percy of Mendota, 111, committed suicide in Chicago. President Roosevelt's attitude on the question of the command of hospital ships in the navy, which resulted in the resignation of Rear Admiral Willard R. Brownson, and incidentally some caustic observaticns on that incident and the controveréies among the naval officers and their adherents as to details of naval construction and methods of training, were made known wheni Secretary Metcalf gave to the press two letters from the president addressed to him on these subjects. ; 2

' Being the Reminiscences ~ of a ‘ Nature Fakir e By John Kendrick Bangs (Copyright, by i{)seph B. Bwles.) “It’s mighty selddm that the president misses a p’int,” said the Postmaster, as the Nature Fakir association vgath’ere’d about the office stove. “And I lfind o’ think maybe when he seems to it's all done intentional. He's a great believer in amendments, an’ ye notice whenever he says or writes anything, he leaves a loop-hale for tackin’ on a few footnotes in case the other side gits too perky.” !

“ What's he left undone now?" asked the Captain. “I'm a putty close observer. Joe, an’ I ain't noticed nothin’ under th’ canopy he ain’t tackled.” |

“You ain’t as good a scrootinizer as ye think you be, Cap,” - returned the Postmaster. “If ye was you'd ha’ noticed that when he skinned them Nature Fakirs he didn’'t tetch .on the habits o’ the worst offenders o’ the lot ~—the fellers that lies about fish.

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“I've hurn tell on it,” said Joe. “But I wasn't there when it happened.” “Well 1 was,” said the Captain, “an’ 1 tell ye it was ,great sport. I was workin’ on my grandfather’s farm up about twenty miles back o’ Sockamackractac. It had been a putty hard winter, an’ it come on us all on a sudden. It was so cold that year ye could take a cake o’ ice an’ saw it up into thin slices an’ use ’em for winderglass. We glazed thirty-two winders an’ a dozen hotbed frames with ’em—an’ raised vilets an’ summer squash under ’em, too, b’gosh. But that ain't what 1 started in to tell ye. When the spring come, an’ the snow an’ ice up in the mountains begun to get flirtatious with the sun, we got a freshet for fair. 1 don't like to brag none, but the flood that come down ‘the P’nobscot—" j “Thought ye said it was the Kennebec?” interrupted the Postmaster. “You're gettin’ very thoughtful, ain't ye?” retorted the Captain. “Well, this time you're all right, Joe. I was talkin’ of the Kennebec. What I was sayin’, however, was that the flood that come down the P’nobscot, an’ the one that lanched old man Noah an’ his family on the seas o’ posterity, wasn't knee-high to the torrents that flew down the. valley o’ the Kennebec that spring. I never see nothin’ like it before or ;since. Talk about them tidal waves in South ‘Ameriky—they wasn’t a bucketful o’ milk alongside o’ the water that flowed down the Kennebec, an’ wet—it was twice as wet as any water that ever come out o’ the sea. . Me an’ grandfather was out in the field plowin’ when it come, an’ before we realized what was happenin’ the watter was up t’ our necks. ' Th’ old man was a powerful old feller for a ninety-two year old, an’ he turns to me an’ says, ‘Come along, sonny, git aboard your old grandfather’s neck, an’ I'll swim ye home. It's a leetle -too swampy to do no more wérk today.’ So I climbed up his back an’ get astraddle of his shoulders, an’ the old man struck out for home. When we got there the watter had riz up as -high as the second floor, an’ I tell ye grandma was putty glad when she see us ciimbin’ in the bedroom winder, none the worse for our little swim. Soon 's he got me landed safe, th’ old man dove in agdin an’ swum over to the hen house, an’ towed it back an’ fagtened it with a rope to the brick

chimbly, so’s we wouldn’'t lose none o’ the poultry, after which we set down an’ played peenuckle until dinner time. Grandmother ’d had the sense to move the kitchen stove upstairs, an’ enough kindlin' to ‘keep the fires goin’, an’ for three days we fed on spring chicken. I never thought I'd see the day when I'd had enough chicken t’ eat, but on the beginnin’ o’; th’ fourth day it sort o' made me tired: to ‘have it brought on th’ table agin, an’ T said so. I guess I must ha’ been one o 'them spiled youngsters, lgrcausew as soon as I said that grandfath®r said he guessed he’'d go foragin’ for a little variety.” - : i

- “So he took the cat-boat, I s'pose, that ye kep’ in the cornfield, an’ went cruisin’?” put in the Postmaster sarcastically.

“If I was romancin’ I might say that he did,” said the Captain calmly. “Rut seein’ as I am _temii' ve nothin’ but. what happened I'm goin’ to .stick to the facts. He took the door o’ the cloe’s closet off the hinges, fastened a couple o’ bed-slats an’ thole pins into the sides for oars, lanched the door through the winder an’ rowed off to see what he could find. Bimeby he came back again and said they wasn’t ngthin’ in sight, an’ he guessed we'd have to stick to chicken until the watters subsidized. The words was hard1¥ out o' his mouth when we heard a terrific floppin’ goin’ on out in the hall and, I gorry, when we went out- to see what it was, goshed if we didn't see a bustin’ big sammon swimmin’ areund just over the staircase, an’ fightin’ like the dickens. with a couple of pick'rel.. Th’ old man bust into ‘a fit o’ laughter, when he seesi the fish ‘an’ turning to grandmother he says, ‘I guess ye must o' left the back door open, Ma,” he says. ‘The house is. full o' fish! -An’ I gorry it was. I never see such a lot of 'em, or so many kinds o’ 'em all to oncet. There was pick'rel, an’ sammon, an’ trout, an’ ‘bass, an’ sturgeon till ye couldn’t count’ em, an’ every mother's son of ’'em’ as mad ’'s a hornet because they couldn't git out. Ye see the old farmhouse had acted jest like a net, an” after they’d swum in the back door,

through the kitchen into the parlor, they couldn't find their way back. They was ketched jest as sure, as if théy ’d swum into a net. The only trouble was how we'd ketch ’em ourselves. All our tackle was .downstairs, but my grandmother was a mighty inventive old lady considerin’ her eighty-seven years, an’ it didn’t take her long to fix matters so’'s we had all the fish we could eat. She cut open one o' th’ pillars, an’ threw a half a dozen feathers on the surface of the water, so’s the fish would take ’em for flies, an’ when they riz for a snack, she'd lean over the top step an’ scoop ’em in with a pillar-case fastened on to the handle of a warmin’ pan. On top o’ that a half o’ dozen nice fat partridges lookin’ for a place to light flew in the winder an’ dropped exhausted on the foot o' the bed. Well, sir, I never lived so high in all my life as we did that week. Grandfather’d married grandmother because she was the best cook in Aroostook county, an’ she lived up to her reppytation that week I can tell ye. She roasted, biled and fried them partridges, an’ the way she didn’t serve up sammon, pike, trout :an’ bass ain’t been invented yet. Th’ only thing we missed was our pie for breakfast, an’ I tell ye it come hard for awhile doin’ without it. When ye’d had a thing all your life, an’ it’s suddenly cut out it gits on your nerves a little.” : !

“P'tic’larly coffee,” put in - Si Wotherspoon. “I sh'd think ye'd ha’ missed your coffee more 'n the pie.” “We would have,” said the‘captain. “But ye see grandfather bein* a first class: swimmer—he'd been a logger for 50 years of his life, an’ what he couldn’t do in the watter can’t be did -—Hhe dove downstairs into the kitchen an’ swum to where the coffee was, grabbed a canful off the dresser, swum through the back door an’ come up with it sputterin’ like a porpoise outside the house jest under the winder where grandmother was sittin’ waitin’ for it. Of course we had to do without milk an’ sugar, but after a couple o' trials o’ pure coffee we got to like it, an’ from that day to this I ain’t never used milk an’ sugar in mine, an’ as far as I know, neither has my grandfather an® my grandmother.” s o o

“l hope they're very well an’ enjoyin’ good health,” said the Postmas: ter, gloomily. -“First rate, thank ye,” said the Captain cheerfully. ; : : :

“Are they still livin’ ou the-secona floor?"” said Si Wotherspoon.

““Oh no,” replied the captain. “At the end of the week the watter subsidized, an’ things resumed their nat eral course, but ye never see such a place as the first floor when the last drop o' that freshet trickled out the back door. It was chock full o" fish. We was putty nigh onto a week pick in’ 'em up. I guess there must ha’ been 600 sammon averagin® eight pounds apiece in the parlor. The melodion was teemin’ with trout, an’ ‘the: way the bass an’ sturgeon was strewed all over was a caution. We made enough out o’ the haul to repaper the whole house, an’ pay for paintin’ th’ outside with the trim in three different colors. It was a great experience, Joe, an’ it has learned me never to cast no doubts on the stories fellers tell about what happens when thley're out ~fishin. 1 reckon that if a thing li%hat has happened to me, 'other extr»ordinary things in the fish line may happen to other folks.”

“All of which is very eddicatin’,” observed the Postmaster. “But I don’t see what it's got to do with th p’int we were discussin’. You said ye'd gone gunnin’ in the woods for fish, an’ up to date we ain't heard anything like a bullet whizzin’ through the air?” i ;

" “That's because I ain't come to that part of my story yet,” ‘explained the captain. “You're one of them féllers. that wants to git through before vour finished, which ain't a thurro way o’ doin’ business.. No, 1. ain't never through till I'm done. 1 was goin’ to say that as soon as we was able to go out-doors on tollable dry land, to look after the horses an’ cattle, we found a most surprisin’ State o’ affairs in the woods. They was mostly tall pines, the kind yve made masts for schooners of in them days, an’ that is now used for telegraph poles an' flag-staffs. The water hadn’'t come up- higher 'n half ‘way to the top of 'em, but wherever they had been under water there was ‘a couple o' fish of one kind or another caught on the sharp needles of every branch, too far out ‘'to be ketched hold of by anybody' climbijq’

the trees, an’ too high up to be reached by hand, or with an ordinary pole, so we had to shoot 'em to get ’em off. I guess the old man an’ me must ha' bagged a thousand of 'em before we got tjgrough. : . - So yve see, Joe, now that ye've give me time t’ finish the story, that it has somethin’ to do with the p'int we was discussin’, an’ that there is cases

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Sunday School Lesssn for Jan. 19,1908 Specially Prepared for This Paper LESSON TEXT.—John 1:35-51. Memoryverses 35-37. . Lo i GOLDEN TEXT.—“We have ‘found him, of whom Moses. in the law, aml the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth.”'— John 1:45. . .

TIME.—The ‘next .two" days .after our: last lesson.. The last of February, A. D. 27, or early in March. Jesus: was about 30 years of age = = oo u b gy PLACE.—Bethabara (R. V. “Béthany”), a ford ef the Jordan, probably the Abarah ford 14 miles: south: of the Sea. of Galilee, 25 miles southeast from Nazareth. The traditional place was the: ford near Jericho. : o SosinE

Comment ahd Suggestive Thought

Among the crowds Jesus walked, to all appearance a common man. The methods by which he began his work and gained his first disciples and followers are very suggestive and helpful. From such small beginhings grew the Christianity which we see to-day, and the visions et to be realized. - V. 35. “John stood, and two of his

disciples.” One of these was Andrew of Capernaum (v. 40), the other, unnamefd, is universally - regarded as John'the aposfle . = = oo =wo V.. 36. “And looking upon Jesus,” “gazed at, fixed his eyes on, contemplated”. (Exp. Greek Test.) with intense interest. “Jesus as’ he - -walked” by them. “Behold,” see. an exciamation,

“the Lamb of God” (as-in v. 29), the oneiwho, by his sa'c‘rifice.,Wonld:_ta;ke away the sin of the wqrld, the taking away of which was'the bringing in of the kingdom of God. _ This. was the work of the expected Messiah, the Son of God. | . SR “What ve seek” is the test of ‘life. “For what port are you steering pn the ocean of 1life?”" That will tell you the port vou' are likely to reach. .It

may be laid down as a general principle, not only that whosoever seeketh shall find, but also’ that they shall find what they seek; seek first; as the main purpose of their lives; mot

all they seek for, but -of ‘the kind they seek- for. The answer each person makes to this question both tests and determines his character and his destiny. e R e

V. 9, “Come and see.” R. V:, “Come and ve shall see.” | A welcome Jesus extends to all who wish to go to:him. And a promise that they shall .ot come in vain. A minister-once put over the bell to ‘his study “door: - *Don't touch that bell.” ~ Another motto-was: “The man that wants to see me is the man I want to see’”” ““And abode with him that day.” The remainder of the day. ' “It was about the teath hour.” - Four o'clock in the afternoon, according to the Jewish'and the usnal Roman reckoning. Thereis no reason why they should not have remained into the evening, even' as Nicodemus came to Jesus in the evening. Thus fthey could have several hours =of sweet communion ' and conversation with Jesud | &« ¢ "o 5 o o

The result, as appears from what follows, was that they -were — convinced that Jesus was the Messiah and were filled with the impulse to spread the good news. M : Abiding with Jesus.—This interview was not the end, but-only the beginning of a lifelong abiding with Jesus, which transformed their hearts ' and lives. e

V. 40. “Oneof thetwo . ... was An. drew.” A _Greek‘ pame meaning “manly.” The other was dxkg}ztléss-lohn the apostle, who mever mentions his own name. el

V. 41. “He first findeth,” or better as R. V., “He findeth first.”” - The com-

mon version implies that the first thing he did after leaving Jesus was to find his brother, which:is probabiyv true. The R. V. implies that both he: gan immediately to seek each one his brother, and that Andrew’ found his first. This implies that John also found his brother James. .~ - V. 42. “Thou shalt ®be -called Cephas.” Aramaic, the -modified form of Hebrew which was the common language of Palestine, for “a stone,” or “rock,” which John interpreted for his Gentile hearers into Greek, “Petros,” “Peter.” This was a revelation to Peter and & prophecy. . = ‘i . “To draw out the latent gift, to discover the unexpected capacity, to believe in the pupil even when he does not believe ifi himself—this. is the test of the teacher’™ = . = .. . V. 43, “The day following” the interview of Jesus with Peter. "It is quite possible that that interview was on the evening of the same day that Andrew and John ‘had discovered Jesus the Muessiah:

Why Did Jesus Not Remain in: the Wilderness Like John?—(1) The wilderness was notj:the place for his work.: (2) In Galilee was his home and that of his followers.: (3) -Here they could edrn their living by their acqustomed work. - (4) Here they could reach their friends and acquaint-

ances. (5) The Galileans - were: less prejudiced, more open to -new lideas, less bound by customs; so that if he could gain a toothold there, and traig

a few disciples, he -could more. easily begin his work. - - s Come and See.—This is the universal Christian invitation. (1) See what Christ has done for the world. (2) Hear the qxperiences of ‘others. -(3) Experience for yourselves. , “* =

“What Nathaniel under the fig tree had been longing for—an open communication from- heaven, a ladder reaching from the deepest abyss of an earth submerged in sin, to the highest heaven. of purity, Jesus tells him i 3 actually -accomplished in his person.” —Exp. Greek Test. -All that'one needs to know about heaven and its realities, its. love, forgiveness, and righteousness, comes through Jesus,

The Kafir Bible. ..~ . A revised edition of the Kafir Bible has just been completed in South Africa. The Presbyterian® . synod .of Kafraria at its recent session recorded its appreciation of the work of the revision committee which it declares is “the fruit and unsparing labor of men who bhiought to their task the gifts of accurate scholarship and thor ough and living knowledge of the language and have placed the Kafir-speak: ing people and Christian workers under an undying debt of graitnde.”

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