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The Ligonier Banner - LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. ' t i S —ee | MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS GATHFRED FROM ALL POINTS OF . THE QLOBE. , - . GIVEN IN ITEMIZED FORM Notable Happenings Prepared for the Perusat of the Busy Man—Sum- . mary of the Latest Home and Foreign Notes. THE THAW TRIAL. Harry Thaw's mother arrived in New York to testify in his defense. More evidence as to his irrational actions was presented. . After’ the state had presented its direct case against Thaw, and Assistant Attorney Garvin had characterized the Killing of Stanford White' as “premeditated, deliberatesgand cowardly * murder,” Martin W. fitleton. for the defense, made the opening plea for the prisoner. He promised new evidence to prove that Thaw had been insane frecm his boyhood. ; The two principal witnesses in the Thaw trial were Prof. Charles H. Koehler of Winona, Minn., who acted as instructor to Thaw in the Wooster " (O.) university in 1886, and Mrs. Amy ' Crosette of San Maeto, Cal., who attended Thaw as a trained nurse at Monte Carlo in '1897. - They both told of the.young man's eccentricities and declared that his manner always was irrafional. Some of Thaw's alleged eccentricities, revealed for the first time, were related at his -trial by ~Christopher Baggam, steward of the New York Whist club; by Miss -Matilda Stein, a telephone operator, and by Per August Weber, a former butler in the Thaw ~ bousehold. ) ‘M!SCELLANEOUS. ) In a terrific lén hours’ engagement in a ravine near Settat, Morocco, between a French column under the command of Gen. d’Amade, and a-col-_umn commanded by-Mulai Rachid. one of the chiefs of Mulai Hafid's forces, the French gained a splendid victory “in the face of heavy odds, succeeding - in dispersing the ‘enéemy and ocecupying Sertat. / = ° Edward. S. -Whitaker, inspector of police in New Orleans, fired wo shots at J. M. Leveque, editor of the Morning World; because that paper had " eriricised him- severely. ) After one¢ of the bitterest fights in itz existence the New York county Republican committee adjourned without having ipdorsed Gov. Hughes or®any other candidate for the presidential %xu-!;xi‘;‘.:uim‘,. . “The Western Bank & Trust company of Dallas, the largest savings deposit bank in 'Texas, was placed in the " hands of 2 receiver, all its quick assets having been exhausted By a long run. . - T * The PRritish ship Hartfield, from Liverpocl to Seattle, is believed to have gone down with all on board off the west coast of Vancouver island. - A petition in bankruptey was filed at Denver, C 01.,, by *Orman & Crook, railroad contractors. ° The total liabilities are given as $741,136 and the total assets as $1,282,771. ‘Mrs. Lvdia K. Bradley, one of the richest- women in Illinois, died at Peoria, lil., aged 92. She was partic- " ularly known for her philanthropy, having. endowed the Bradley Polytechnic institute. . - John C. Guinn, a millionaire mine owrner, 65 vears old, was severely beaten and robbed ati his home in Georgia City, Mo., by rtobbers who first cut the telephone wires. H. R. Drew, a prominent real estaie man and one of the pioneer residents of Mineapolis, Minn., died. E. H. Harriman was directed in a decision given by Judge Hough in the United States circuit court to” answer all questions propounded to him by the interstate ¢ommerce commission ekXcept those relating to the purchase - .of the TUnion Pacific and Southern Pacific railroad stock in connection * with the dividend of August, 1906. . . The Lake Carriers’ association, in ‘ con,vemion at Detroit, Mich., placed itself on record as opposing the diversion into the Chicago sanitary canal of water enough to make it a commercial waterway. . Fire in East St. Louis destroyed an . elevator,’a grain storehouse and some freight cars, the loss being $150,000. Mrs. Eliza Matsen of Duluth, Minn., / confessed that she murdered her husband. ) Ezekiel Gregory, an aged farmer, .~ was slain by his son in a quarrel near Davidson, N. C. 5 . Misses Annie and Maggie Wade, sisters, of Oak Park, 111.,, went insane at Ocean park, near Los Angeles, ~ Cal, as a result of the financial depyession. L The British steamer Tolesby was wreeked on Cape Race, the crew being gaved. ' - Two members of the Japanese cabinet resigned and the resignation of all was narrowly averted, the “rouble being over the budget. '~ Smoke entering the Nixon theater at Pittsburg,~Pa, started a panic that | was quieted by the efforts of a detective. o 2 Vandals ' have | stolen - and ruined © $25,000. worth ef pictures, furniture - and bric-a-brac in the home of F. -P. 3 Earle in New York.. Mr. Earle is in Italy. Vs o B - Robert Maclay & Son, members of the New York stock exchange, failed for $1,500,000. ‘Sevretary Taft has written a letter "~ to the ;pregldent recommending an increase of the width of the . Panama i __canal locks from 100 feet, as at pres- - ent planned, to 110 feet. ._ - Emmett R. Olcott, a well-known New York lawyer,:fell dead of apo-

Over 165 persons were killed and many injured at Boyertown, Pa., when the opera house burhed. The .explosion. of a moving picture tank started a wild panic; oil lamps were upset and blew up and the floor collapsed. The victims were mostly women and children and belonged to the leading families of the town. *John F. Betz, one of the best known brewers in the country, and one of Philadelphia’s wealthiest citizens, died after a long illness. ) \' Prince Edward- F. L. Zu Innhausen Und Kuyphausen, president of the Prussian house of lords, died in Berlin. He was born in 1827, ° Mayor R. A. Smith of St. Paul, Minn., and his family were poisoned by tainted chicken. 5

One person was fatally injured and others hurt by a panic caused by the explosion of a moving picture machine in St. Catherines, Ont. Another New York tenement house was wrecked by a bomb supposedly placed by Black Hand members:. .

The new ‘German armored cruiser Scharnhorst ran aground-and was badlv damaged. .

Secretary Taft told the senate committee in intéroceanic canals that the Panama canal might be completed in about six years. ) Isaac W. Baird, who 20 years ago was proprietor of a celebrated minstrel troupe, is' dead in Portland, Ore., aged 61 vears.

The special grand jury which was sworn in to investigate the conduct of certain banks in New York county returned- two indictments against. William R. Montgomery, president of the Hamilton bank.

A serious earthquake occurred at Gonaives, Hayti. A few houses were destroved and others were damaged. No loss of life has been reported. At their annual meeting in Detroit the Lumber - Carriers’ Association of the Great Lakes decided that it would be impossible 'to operate their boaj during the coming season at the same expense and under the same conditions as prevailed during 1907.. It is predicted that there will be a great labor struggle. - l

The Maple-Leaf’ mills at Kenora, Ont.; were destroyed by fire. The elevator; in which was stored over 300,000 bushels of wheat, was also destroved. The loss was $1,000,000; insured.” ) ) . Oil-producing firms at St. Petersburg received news from the Caucasus of the opening of a mammoth oil gusher in the Bibi-Evbat field at Baku, flowing at the rate -of 120,000 barrels a day. ® - Farmers in Stanley county, South Dakota, were plowing during, the first week in January. = - ) The coroner's jury practically exonerated the coal mining eompany for the great disastér at Monongah, W. Va. : S dward Henry -Strobel, general adviser of the government of Siam, died after a long illness. - . The body of Lieut. John W. Crawford, private secretary to Admiral Dewey, was found in the Potomac. The prince regent of Bavaria, who recently pardoned two murderers sentenced to ,death, declared his intention not to sign_an}? more death warrants. The ofiiters of the American battleship fleet were breakfasted by Presi dent Penna at Petropolis and . later attended a garden party at the American embassy.” ' - It was positively asserted that Secretary Cortelvou would not resign though he was virtually offered the presidency,of the Knickerbocker Trust company. > . - John" S. Peters, one of the jurymen who found R. Meade Shumway guilty of murder at Beatrice, Neb., affixing the death penalty, committed suicide. Five persons were drowned while skating in the Jimtown reservoir, near Connellsville, Pa. : - Hepburn hall, the girl§” dormitory at Miami university, Oxford, 0., was destroved by fire. ~ .

E. D. Scott, cashier, and Roy W. Van Hoesen, bookkeeper of the People's National bank of Franklinville, N. Y., were arrested, charged with violation of the revised statutes relating to the making of false statements of a bank’s condition to the controller. ‘

Denmark’s greatest modern poet, Holger Drachmann, died suddenly at Copenhagen, in the sixty-first year of his age. 3 -

Prof. Charles Baetens, for many vears solo cellist in the Thomas orchestra, committed suicide in- Omabha, Neb. &

The City National bank of Muskogee, Okla., purchased by Dr. J. L. Johnson of St. Louis, was merged with the First National. The Bank of Commerce will go. into liquidation, its business having been sold to the OKklahoma State bank. .

¢ Mayor William B. Thompson of Detroit, Mich., in his annual message, calls attention to the fact that the city will have to deal with the street railway franchise question in another vear and urges that “no new leases of life be given except on the basis of a three-cent' fare.” ‘ : ; The high court of Monaco_has refused the appeal of the Goold couple. who were convicted December 4 last of the murder of the Swedish woman, Emma Levin. )

Ten persons were hurt and a tenement house wrecked in New York by three dynamite bombs, exploded presumably by Black Hand members. | Edward Keiper, who was tied to a tombstone in a cemetery for several hours at night as part of his hazing a* Rose Polytechnic institute, Terre Baute, last fall, died in San Antonio, Tex., as a result. = < 1 Samuel V. Proudfit of lowa, first assistant attorney in the office of the attorney geéneral of the interior department, has been appointed assistant ‘commissioner of the general land office. . s s

Prof. B. M. Reynolds, for the past 30 years one of the best-known educators of Wisconsin and Minnesota, died in a hospital at Morgan City, Ala. J. Gilman Chouteau, 72 years old, a descendant of the founder of St. Eouis, who was born in 1836 in the first house erected in the city, died at the hotel at which he had been living for 22 years. = - Marvin R. Reynolds, 20 years old, night clerk at the Oliva apartments hotel in Joplin, Mo., was killed, and Mr. and Mrs. John E. Stephens were seriously injured by an explosion of natural gas. ‘ ;

" Frank Nunno, .a = wealthy _young banker, was found murdered uear Ardsley, N. Y. . R

Hypno-suggestion treatment is said to have determined the sex of a baby boy born to Mrs. H. A. Folgen, New York. : : :

The trial of Rocco Quinto was brought to a sudden end at Long Island City, L. I, by order of the judge because a juror fell in a fit after the verdict had been agreed on but which had not been returned into court. ; ‘

Senators Foraker and Dick obtained in the senate the rejection of four Ohio postmastership nominations, alleging they were given as political bargains. o J. J. Fitzmaurice, a blind man, is accused at Butte, Mont., of beating a cripple and leaving him to freeze to death on the prairie. - ' Suffering from insomnia a woman named Mrs. Kitphener, widow of a brother of Viscount Kitchener 'of Khartoum, committed suicide in "the port of Colon by.drowning.

James Randall, famous as a war poet, died in Augusta, Ga. He was born in Baltimore in 1843. Among other products of his pen was “Maryland, My Maryland.” Elias Matson of Chisholm, Minn.,, was murdered as he lay asleep beside his wife, who was not awakened.

A general 'inquiry into the conduct of all state charitable jnstitutions was ordered by the legislature of Illinois. It was reported that Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou had resigned and would become president. of the Khickerbocker. Trust company of New York. . .

G. Washington Smith, a prominent planter, was shot and killed at Rosemark, Tenn., in a pistol duel with M. W. Yarbrough. : ’ - The convention of the Northwestern Lumbermen’s association met in Minneapolis, and the feature of the first session was a defense of the organized lumber trade against the charge of being a trust by W. G. Hollis. secretary of the association.

Benjamin Emmons, former clerk in the post office at St. Charles, Mo., was adjudged guilty of having embezzled $988.01 in office funds by a jury in the United States district court.. President Roosevelt’'s declaration that the turning over of the government to the new Cuban president and congress must occur not later than Februaryv.l; 1909, was given-out at the

palace in Havana -and was received evervwhere with expregsions of the keenest satisfaction. o

J. T. Melchers, a noted sculptor, died in Detroit as the result of a stroke of paralysis. He was the father of Carl Melchers, the well-known painter. ) Mayor Gerber of Reading, Pa., received a “Dblack hand” letter in which not only his life but the lives of the entire police force of Readihg are threatened if any harm comes to the two Italians under arrest charged with the murder of State. Trooper Kelleher. ' After a strenuous and exciting campaign Shreveport, La., was carried in favor of prohibition. The supreme court of = Ohio sentenced former Supreme Court Clerk Lawson W. Emerson to ten days in jail and State Senator Austin of Toledo to ten days in jail and $lOO fine in connection with the -charge of securing the latter’s certificate to practice law without proper examination. Fire Chief Harding of Jackson, O, was run over and killed while answering a fire call. =~ Eight hundred unemployed men marched to the city hall in' St. Louis and asked Mayor Wells for work. Harvey Lockner of Tuscola, TII, while insane killed his wife, his baby and himself. ) Representative Sabath of Chicago introduced a bill imposing a “‘tax upon all dowries, gifts, settlements, or advances of property made in consideration of or in contemplation of marriage by citizens or subjects of the United States; of America to persons other than citizens or subjects of the United States of America.” .

The great Mexican gold mining camp of El Oro was reported to tge burning up. . Testimony in the court-martial of Gen. Stoessel at St. Petershurg showed that the Russian soldiers defended Port Arthur with desperate bravery, and called forth cheers from the hearers.

The festivities in honor of the American fleet at Rio were marred by the illness of Rear Admiral Evass. The Citizens’ Telephone company of Batavia, 0., went into the hands of a receiver Monday. o

Edwin J. Collier of Cleyeland, who killed his blind son and; then shot himself at the grave of his wife at Ravenna, 0., is dead. )

Frane Purdy of Chicago, a freshman in the college of agriculture of the Wisconsin university, was run do%n by an ice yacht while skating and so badly injured that he died. The saloonkeepers will make an attempt to enforce the closing of the churches in Waukesha on Sunday because, through the work of the ministers, the saloon proprietors have been compelled to close their places of business on the Sabbath. .

Canon William S. Chase, rector of Christ Episcopal church, New York, was found guilty of contempt cf court by Justice Marean of the New ‘York state supreme court for questioning the legality of an injunction. Sentence was suspended. The socialists of Berlin, 40,000 strong, made a remarkable demonstration against the government and Chancellor von Buelow because their demand for direct universal suffrage was rejected. There was great disorder in the streets and the manifestations were helped along by about 30, 000 sympathizers with the socialists. That former Attorney General Judson Harman will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States was confirmed by John W. Hill of Cincinnati. Raisuli, the bandit, has joined Mulai Hafid, the new sultan of Morocco, and still persists in his refusal to give up Caid Sir Harry McLean, except by order of the new leader. ; ;

John Ullery of Indianapolis, a Pennsylvania freight conductor, was, -instantly killed at Richmond, Ind., by another freight train, of which his brother, William Ullery, was engineer.

DOMESTICATED Being the Reminiscences of a ‘ . Nature Fakir By John Kendrick Bangs ; (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles,) . “lI was readin’ in one o’ the papers the other day about a feller down in South ‘Ammeriky that had a trained python to do his housework,# said the postmaster, as he joined the circle of nature fakirs after cancelling the stamps on the evening mail. “Some how or other I find it a hard story to stummick, but it appears - in the County Clarion, which is the stanchest supporter o’ the present policies of our administration, an’ I don’t b’lieve ole Guy Humphries, the Horiss Greeley 'of Piscataquis, would print nothin’ that could be in any way offensive to the present incumbent of the White House.” “They do say. that the president reads all the proofs o' thé Clarion before goin’ to preés," said Si Wotherspoon. “Sam Busby told me so when he got me to prescribe. He said the Clarion was the' 'Fiscal Moutpiece o’ the Washin'ton Gov'ment in these partg.” . g “I guess he meant the fishy mouthpiece, Si,” said the captain, with a grin. “I ain’t néver see no soopreme evidences o' the naked truth in the Clarion’s political remarks, but I must say fts wild animal editor has allers

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struck me as one o' the most . veeracious men in the party. Anyhow they ain’t anything very onusual about that python story to them as knows how easy it is to domesticate a snake. Up hete where hosses an’' nired men is pleatiful we don’t have to make use o’ the reptiles for household purposes, but down round Peru, an’ Ven’'zuela, and Pattygonia, help’s kind ‘0" skeerce an’ the people that lives down there hag to use whatever comes handy.” “It’s a durned shame you never was down there, cap,” said the postmaster. “We’'d a heard somethin’ wuth listenin’ to if ye had been.” “I hev been down there,” returned the captain. “Where d'ye suppose 1 got my title o’ captain if I hadn’t been a sea-farin’ man? “I've commanded a :sloop in my day, an’ they ain’t many ports’ between the north an’ south poles that I aMn’t been to. ‘An’ once when me an’ my crew, consistin’ of ‘a bulldog an’ two Swedes was blowed ashore on the coast of th’ Argentine Republic I learned .a lot about th’ habits o’ snakes that I ain’t never forgot. The place where we went ashore was about half way between Rio de Jannuary an’ Santy Cruz where the rum comes from, and for miles an’ miles in every direction ye couldn’t see nothin’ but forests, an’ I tell ye they was jest full of animal life—parrots, monkeys, jiggorinos, parapets an’’snakes hangin’ from the trees like fringe on the bottom of a sofy. They give us a tough time of it at first, an’ the two Swedes deserted after we'd been ashore a couple o’ days, an’ I ain’t never seen ’em since, but the dog, Bildad, he stuck by me to the last. Omne o’ the snakes nearly got away with him, but he was an intelligent pup an’ had the sense to bide his time. It was a boyconstricty got him, an’ swallered him jest like a frog’d swaller a fly. Bildad didn’t make any fuss at all but waited till he’d got down into the boyconstricty’s stummick, an’ then he let loose like he was in a reg-lar dog fight with ahother bull, an’ in two minutes he’d ‘bit his way through the sarpent’s stummick and ribs, an’ popped out o' the side o’ his middle coil as frisky as ye please. After that he used to go round lookin’ for boy-constrictys, fairly pleadin’ with them to swaller him so’s he could fight his way back te life an’ liberty. but they fought kind o' shy of him after that until

they came to see that if they didn’t do no harm to him he wouldn’t do no harm to them.” :

* “Mighty intelligent for snakes,” said the postmaster. > S “Yes,” agreed the captain. “Bimeby,” he went on, ‘‘they all got sort o’ friendly together, an’ Bildad acted as a sort o’ ambassydor extryordinary between them an’ me. The pythons especially began to feel that Bildad's friends was their friends, an’ they used to come around the shack I'd put up along about twilight, an’ let me scratch ‘their heads like as if they were kittens. I'd lie off there in my big steamer chair softly croonin’ to myself, an’ wonderin’ what mother was doin’ to home, an’ them pythons would curl up alongside o’ me an’ beat time to the music with their tails, an’ show:a general interest in my comfort an’” happiness that was very gratifyin’. It did a hull lot to relieve the lonesomeness of my ‘days down there. After a little while I found out that they was reg’lar monkeys for imitatin’ yve. If I'd git in my hammick" an’ swing from one side to: the other, they’d hang ’em selves: between a couple o’ trees an’ do the same, an’ once when I took off my clothes an’ took a plunge into, the surf, blamed if one of ‘em didn’?- shed his skin an’ come 'in after me.” -

The captain paused to light his pipe and possibly to give the postmaster a chance at cross-examination, but the silence remained unbroken until the captain began again. - : “Well, of course,” he went on. “as soon as I noticed that T sort of made up my mind to profit some by it. I reckoned that if those fellers could imitate my recreations, they’d might as well be taught to imitate me in my useful ockypations, an’ save me a lot o’ hard labor. So I picked out one big fat feller about 80 feet long who seemed to be the most intelligent one o’ the lot, and takin’ a couple of axes I went out in the woods one morning, an’ let him watch me chop down a couple o’ trees. It begun' to look as though I wasn’'t goin’ to be rescued for a long time, maybe never, because I hadn’t seen any sign of a ship on the

ocean for the hull six weeks since 1 come ashore, an’ I made up my mind I'd_build me a comfortable house to live in, with,all .the timber handy, an’ the wreck o’ the Dan'l Webster bein’ full o’ good nails, an’ my tool chest havin’ washed ashore about the same time as me an’ the Swedes an’ Bildad. Well, sir, that pyvthon watched me like as if he was a kid at the circus an’ I was the trained gyascutus. He seemed just reglarly fas’nated by the sgetticle. I kep’ on choppin’ for three days an’ 'on the mornin’ o’ the fourth I put the extry ax down on the ground an’ wound the old python's. tail around the handle. Then I patted him gently on his forehead, scratched the back of his neck up where his ears would ha’ been if he’d had any, an’ went back to my. work, an I Gorry, gentlemen, he took the hint like a drum major, an’ the first thing I knowed trees was fallin’ all around us like snow flakes. His length give him a terrible sweep, an’ when that there ax come swingin’ around with all that 80 feet of accumylated power back of it, it 'ld whistle through the trunk o’ whatever tree it hit like a 4 buzzsaw goin’ through a cream cheese. I'm a putty big punkin with an’ ax myself, but he'd do in one stroke what I'd get half done in 20. The only trouble I had was stoppin’ him. Nobody dared go near him when he was swingin’ that ax, an’ before night come on he’d chopped down 630 trees, which was several more’n I needed. Fortunately along about four o’clock in the afternoon he begun to prespire rather freely, an’ his tail got so slipp’ry the ax slipped out of it an’ flew off into the air about a thousand yards, landin’ in the sea. I was sorry to lose the ax, but I guess it was all for the best. If it hadn’t of flowed off that pesky old snake would ha’ chewed up that hull woods.” - i

“That’'ld ha’ been a serious matter in that there climate, I guess, said Si Wotherspoon. ' “Yes,” said the captain, “ye can't git along without shade trees in lands where the ther'mom’ter averages 200 or 300 durin’ the Christmas holidays. Well, sir, we went right along on them lines for three weeks. Them pythons buckled down to yvork, hauled the lumber up to the p’int where I was goin’ to put up the house, sawed it up for me into joists, rafters, laths, clapboards an’ even shingles. The only thing I couldn’t teach 'em to do was

hammer. They could hit a nail all right, but they come down so hard on it that they'd drive it through the board an’ out the other side, but they was a great help in every other respect, an” at the end of six weeks I had as putty a little two-story cottage there as ye’ll find anywhere’s on the coast o’ Maine, or-Noo Jersey, either.” “They did your cookin’ for ye when ye got settled, I suppose,” said -the postmaster. - :

“Pretty near,” seid the captain. “They previded me with all the food 1 needed. Every day they’d go off huntin’ in the woods an’ bring back all sorts o’ birds—water hens, pahtridges, an’ wild geese. Once in a while they'd bring in a deer or a goat, an’ twice théy come crawlin’ back with one o’ them ‘dubblellamys ye read about.” “lI never read about any dubblellamys,” said the postmaster. “How d’ye spell it?” : 5 5

“Double ell-a-m-a,” said the captain. “It’s a sort o’ cross between a goat an’ a camel. It has more whiskers 'n a goat ap’ less humps than a camel, but if you’re hungry it’s durned good eat inlt : -

I explained that the first 1 in llama was silent, and that the animal’s name was pronounced lah-mah. ;

“Thank ye,” said the captain. “I'm mighty glad to hear that. It's bothered me some in tellin’ this story to th’ ignorant, because the most of 'em says they never was such an animal g a dubblellamy, an’ I ain’t been able 10 prove it :

"“I lived high them days, an’ by slow degrees got my staff of pythons -eddicated up to such a high p’int .o’ perfection that bimeby there wasn’'t a blessed thing I had to do for myself,” he said. ‘They 'kept the house dusted, an’ the wood-pile sawed an’ neat lookin’, an’ the yard around the house was the spickest lookin’ place ye ever saw, an’ all day long one o’ the most devoted of them snakes sat coiled up on the roof with his tail stickin’ 30 feet up in the air wig-waggin’ the sea with an American flag, so's to attract the attention ol any steamer or sailin” vessel that happened to be passin’. I

put-a flag pole up there at first but it blowed down in a hurricane one night and this little cuss—he warn’t over 60 foot long—crawled up there’ hisself an’ took its place. I've allers felt that I owed my rescue to him.” “0, ye waamrescued, was ye?”’ said.the postmaster. “I leave that to you, Joe,” said the captain. “If ye think I look as if I died down there ye can think it, but it : . . g g ‘ §I 5 5 =\ 5%\‘7/? R 1y Ay i K s : e 4-: ::—"—“‘* -— fe i | T e o N e — < /¥ E ‘ { A i ALY | / ‘s“(‘B < N : « : N b Y : | // X ~);i~\y‘\\\ /// // 2N ® 7 A 7700 - e wipmall A N : Wig-Waggin the Sea. ye’d better be ‘careful of announcin’ the fact. Postmasters otherwise honest has been known to be removed for parrysis. Anyhow, I was rescued. 2 $ A sailin’ vessel carryin’ bananas from Panama to Oyster Bay was passin’ that way one hot day in April an’ seein’ the flag wavin’ in the air, sent ashore an’ took me off. It was sad partin’ with them pythons o’ mine, good friends as they were, an” not given to lyin’ about their neighbors, willin’ to work 24 hours a day, an’ not a walkin’ delegate amongst ’'em.” _“An’ what become o’ Bildad?” dasked Si. . “He died a week before the rescue,” replied the captain. ‘“He eat a parapet an’ it weighed too heavy on hig stummick.” o

“As usual,” sneered the postmaster, as the captain departed. “The only witness to the truth o’ his story, & bull-dog, an’ a dead one at that!”

Jesus Cleanses the Temple Sunday School Lesson for Jan. 26,1908 Specially Prepared for This Paper - z ; LESSON TEXT.—John 2:13-22. Memory verses 15, 16. ~ el GOLDEN TEXT.—'Holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, forever.”—Psalm 93:5. - P! TIME.—The spring of A. D. 7. Passover was Apri} 11-17. % = PLACE.—In thé temple at Jerusalém: PLACE IN THE HISTORY.—EarIy in the first year of Jesus’ ministry. The second of his first two ‘“signs,” illustrating his work" as Redeemer. & : Comment and Suggestive Thought. The first sign which Jesus gavé was the revelation of his glory at Cana of Galilee related in the first part of the chapter in which our lesson is found. At the close of our last lesson we left Jesus and his five or six disciples on the way from Bethabara to Galilee. The, disciples had as yet but slight acquaintance -with Jesus, his charac, ter, his powers and his mission." They believed in him, but they needed a deeper foundation for their faith and a fuller knowledge of his work. °

Everything about this miracle must have been a strange and wondrous revelation of Jesus to them, as a light from within, or as the sunlight shining through dull stained-glass windows reveals the true nature of the picture wrought in them, and they are ablaze with royal colors such as are the exquisite ‘lamp shades of Favrile glass, that require the electric. bulb within to bring ,out their lovely hues. Jesus was a prince in disguise, and hé threw off his outward guise and appeared in his own royal glory. o What Did This Miracle Reveal to the Disciples Concerning the True Nature of Jesus?—(l) It revealed -the miraculous powers - residing .in. him which would enable him. to do -the work the Messiah was todo. = - (2) It made known to them that he was sent from God as his -son with divine credentials worthy of his or: igin and his mission. " 2

. The Second “Sign.” The Cleansing of the Temple—Not long after the “sign” at the wedding, a strange, almost discordant, note was heard in that anthem of love and joy and hope. That experience did not express the whole of life, nor the whole of the misgion of Jesus. The new ‘sign” was as illuminating and marvelous. and unexpected a§ was the first, It was the act of a hero, a patriot, a reformer, and a king. . = e

(13)_“And the Jéws' passover,” .the great annual religious- feast of ‘the Jews to whigh all good Jews were expected to come, Sometimes; according tn Josephus, as many as 2,600,000 wisitors were present. “Jesus went up’ from Capernaum (v. 12) “to Jerusalem.” Jesus.was pa.r,ti&ui’ar ‘to. attend these great feasts, for however mueh they were often perverted and misused by some, they were divinely appointed services. o - Jesus’ Heroic 'Act of Patriotic Reform.—When Jesus entered the temple, and- saw this desecration of his Father's house—which he hagd seen. many a time during his youth—his soul flamed with indignation.. = What he saw was contrary to all law, Jewish, Roman and Divine, and what he did was patriotic toward all .three kingdoms under which he lived. - . (15) He alone, unaided, unknown, “made a scourge of small.cords,” ropes made of rushes like a ,Roman flagellum or scourge with several lashes, and “drove them all out of the temple,” _the court, ‘“the 'sheep and the oxen,” and those who trafficked in them. He did not strike the mien, most probably not even -the animals, and such a scourge would not hurt them. The owners would naturally follow their cattle without the’ gates. “Poured out the changers’ money.” Upon the marble pavement, thus stopping their traffic. S ! rela e

(16) “And said unto them that sold doves.” The doves, -being in cages, could'not be driven out: - - = .-

“Take these things hence.” 2 The' boldness of the act may well have given a hush to the noisy crowd, and the voice of Jesus rang out: “Make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise.” e e "How Was It Possible for Jesus to Succeed in This?—Why did this great burly crowd of drovers, and soldiers, and elders in authority yield to the single voice of an unknown young man? Because they knew that they were in ‘the wrong. ‘“Conscience makes cowatds of us all.” Because théy knew that God was on his side, and “ome with God is a majority.”. .~ <~/ 7 - Because Jesus embodied in himself, as a prophet, .the moral sentiment of the nation. “All the true friends of law, who must have been leng grieved by this disorder, would :defend the righteousness of his actiOn,thustl"endering resistance impossible.” - -

What This “Sign” Revealed -as to the Nature of Jesus and His Kingdom.—Let no mistake be made concerning what is meant by a Christian spirit. Let us not, as is too often done, take one side of the. character .of Christ in forming an estimate of the whole. e

- Note how Jesus acted for the reform of the world. He did not spend his time in ‘denunciations of the Roman or Jewish authorities before his disciples. He sometimes = uttered “Woes,” but it was to the face of evil doers. When he could reform a wrong, he reformed it. When he saw sickness, he cured it. <o _ : We ‘are to be reformers. We are to be sourageous and ‘heroic in reform, in cleansing the world from sin: - e But our first work is where we are, in our hearts, in our principles, in the things which we can touch, for which we can vote or act or teach, . A Conscientious Banker. It is heartening to observe how the conscience of one banker in North Dakota serves him. He has refused to<collect sight drafts sent him by liquor houses in other states, and returns them with a note stating that the liquor business is illegal in North. Dakota and that he will be no party to it in any way. A few more men .of similar Christian integrity in each prohibition district, remarks Home Herald, would sqon show the world that “prohibition does prohibit.” - .

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