Ligonier Banner., Volume 42, Number 46, Ligonier, Noble County, 6 February 1908 — Page 2

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NEWS OF A WEEK ~ TOLD IN BRIEF

MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS GATHERED FROM ALL POINTS OF THE GLOBE. -

GIVEN IN ITEMIZED FORM

Notable Happenings Prepared for the Perusal of the Busy Man—Summary of the Latest Home and Foreign Notes.

THE THAW TRIAL.

William Travers Jerome, representative of the people, made a masterly plea that justice be done in the case of Harry Kendall Thaw. Vindictiveness, sneers, <insinuations, all s<were lacking: logic, analysis and a calm consideration of the facts were their substitutes. B

~ ‘Martin W.- Littleton, chief counsel in the defense of Harry K. 'f‘haW, asked for the acquittal of his client upon the ground of insanity, declaring he could not see how, in the face of the evidence, the jury could render any other verdict. .

Taking of evidence in the. second trial of Harry K. Thaw for Kkilling Stanford White ended ' without Mr. Jerome having made any attempt to combat, with expert testimony, ‘the insanity claim of the defense. . The Thaw defense closed its case with “manic-depressive” insanity as the explanation of the death of Stanford White at the hands of the young Pittsburg millionaire; according, to three alienists. ;

M:SCELLANEOUS.

President. Roosévelt transmitted to congress what is considered the “warmest” and best message he has written since he entered the White House. It urged re-enactment of an employers’ liability law, dealt with the abuse of the injunetign in labor eases, asked for laws to secure better federal control of corporations engaged in interstate commerce, scored the high officials of the Santa Fe and the Standard oOil company in connection with rebating, flayed the great law-breaking corporations that have been attacking the administration and vigorously repelled the charges that the policies of the president have been the cause of business depression. .

Fire wip ut the village of Twin Lakes, Minn., ¢ver 200 persons being made homeles .

After 4 struggle of five hours againsg cold -and a turbulent sea, the -life savers of the .Coslata station, near Nantucket,. rescued the crew of the Newport brigantine Fredericka Schepp, which was wrecked on the north side

of Coatue beach. ° The flag. of the American man-of-war Chesapeake and' the “Balaclava bugle,” two of the most valuable war relies. of a collection of antiquities that belonged to the late T. G. Middlebrook, ‘were secured at the auction sale of the collection in London for American buvers. . ) :

A proposal for state-wide liquor prohibition was rejected in the Michigan constitutional convention by a vote of 55 to 39. .

In a dispute over a horse, Philip Kastner, aged 62, shot and fatally wounded his son George, aged 32, at Jasper, Ind. The office of the superintendent of poor at” West Seneca, N. Y., was besieged by 500 men begging for food. Four men were taken to the county hospital suffering from starvation.

" The lower house of the Oklahoma legislature passed a measure- prohibiting the smoking of cigarettes in the state.

William S. Wood of the firm of Lloyd & Wood, one of the best-known lawyers on the Pacific coast, died at his home in San Francisco. Nine miners were killed by an explosion in the New Rivery ' colliery near Hawk’s Nest; W. Va. : Because he was angry with his wife, William Meutsch of Chicago killed one of his children and fatally shot the two others.. e Col. Burr Robbins, the old-time circus man, died in Chicago. )

King's court, one of the show places of Lakewood, N. J., a residence built some years ago by George Gould for his son,_Kingdon, was destroyed by, fire. The building was valued at $500,000. Liquidation of the State National bank of New Orléans was decided upon by a vote of the stockholders. This bank is nearly 100 years old. ‘The superior court at Paris refused to grant an absolute divorce to Maud Gonne from her -husband, Maj. McBride. : :

--A currency bill was introduced in the senate by Senator Hopkins and in the house by James McKinney of Illlinois which bears the indorsement of the currency commission appointed by the American Bankers’ association and of the executive council of the Illinois Bankers’ association.

James L. Burkhaller, president of the Farmers and Merchants’ bank of Galesburg, 111., was stricken with apoplexy in his bank and died. AC Frost'&hicago & Milwaukee Electric railroad, involving $30,000,000 in corporations, was again thrown into the hands of receivers. z

- By the will of Morris K. Jessup, the financier and philanthropist of New York, $1,000,000 is left to the American Museum of Natural History and $lOO,OOO to the Brick Presbyterian. The remainder of the estate is bequeathed to his widow for life, and after her death it is to go to his heirs.

A colored family of seven persons burned to death at Bedford City, Va. The Order of the Legion of Honor

Capt. William Rohde of the German steamship Neidenfels, just in from the Orient, asserts that the natives of India are busy preparing to shake off the British yoke. ‘

The schooner Helen E. Taft of Thomaston, Me., was run down and sunk by an unknown steamer 16 miles southwest of Cape Lookout lightship off the coast of North Carolina. ; Pearl Harper was acquitted at Cadillac, Mich., on the charge of murdering her stepfather. ; Arthur W. Fergusson, secretary of the Philippine commission, died suddenly of heart-disease in Manila. ~ The Diamond Window Glass factory at Gas City, Ind., was destroyed .by fire, resulting in a loss estimated at #£loo,ooo. :

INDIANA.

- The American- torpedo boat flotilla sailed from Buenos Ayres for Punta Arenas.

Dr. J. C. Brigham perished in a fire that destroyed eight stores and residences in Girard, Ga. ;

E. G. Anderson, alderman, coal dealer and prominent citizen of Aberdeen, S. D.,, was arrested charged with being a receiver of stolen coal. ;

It is estimated that the steel plant to be built at Hankow; China, by Chinese capitalists will cost $6,000,000.

Two financial institutions of New York city, one a national and the other a state bank, closed their doors. The New Amsterdam National bank, capital $1,000,000, was taken in charge by the representative of the comptroller of the currency, and the Mechaniocs’ and Traders’ bank; a state-institution, capital $2,000,000, announced the- decision of the directors not to open. Both banks announced their ability to pay all depositors. . The $lOO,OOO estate of Capt. Hooker of Rochester, N. Y., who left a will bequeathing his property to Galesburg, 111.,, will be distributed, the surrogate having denied probate to the will on the ground that Capt. Hooker was mentally incompetent. - Peter F. Clark of Girard, 111, pleaded guilty to the charge of murdering Mrs. Ollie Gibson on a trolley car near Virden March 25, 1907, -and was sentenced to serve 40 years in the penitentiary.

-Gov. Hughes was strongly indorsed for the Republican nomination for the presidency and the administration of President Roosevelt was commended in a resolution unanimously adopted by the Republican committee of New York county. 35 Marshal Halstead, former Upited States consul at Birmingham, England, and son of Murat Halstead, died in Cincinnati following an operation for appendicitis. . Gen. Benjamin Rush Cowen, for over 23 years clerk of the United States circuit and district courts for the-southern district of Ohio, assistant secretary of the interior under President Grant and formerly editor“of the Ohio State Journal, died in Cincinnati.

The Illinois house passed the direct plurality primary bill already adopted by the senate. - :

In Lublin, Rpssian Poland, ghé police unearthed a band of robbers composed entirely of women and the leaders have been taken into custody. The coroner’'s jury in the case of the theater holocaust at Boyertown, Pa., asked for the prosecution of Mrs. Monroe, owner of the stereopticon machine, and Harry. McC. Bechtel, the deputy factory inspector, on the charge of criminal negligence. *

;Practica‘lly complete e{ection returns gave J. Y. Sanders a lead of between 14,000 and 15,000 votes over T. S. Wilkerson in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Louisiana. - Charles H. Kipp of the wholegale grocery firm of Kerr, Kipp & Co., of Hastings, Neb., committed suicide, as the result of overwork and worry, by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun.-. ; That this nation has reached the point where it must decide whether it is to lose the use of the rivers in the east and south through the nonpreservation of forests which safeguard the watersheds was the declaration of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, president of -the American Forestry association, which convened in Washington. 53

Night riders burned two large to bacco barns near Adairsville, Ky."

Two negroes who robbed and killed their father near Commerce, Miss., were lynched by a mob of colored men. :

Judge F. M. Powers at Denison, la., sentenced Joseph and Solomon Harssan to a term of 25 years. each in the penitentiary for the murder of their cousin, Fred Nawfal, last January. " Bert Swan, a;wealthy farmer near Missouri Valley, la., committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Two masked men robbed the office of the Adams Express company at Mansfield, 0., of $3,000, but missed a bag containing $40,000 in gold. .The jury in the Schooley-Crawford will contest at Scranton, Pa., declared the paper presented by George B. Schooley as the last will of James L. Crawford, the millionaire coal operator, to be a forgery. Nolan J. Whiteside, at a religious revival in Minneapolis, confessed to a long series of crimes.

Mistaking his father-in:law, William Conner, for a burglar, A. C. Burr shot and instantly Kkilled him at Dallas, Tex. : T ; ’

Several persons were fatally shot in political riots on the streets of Lisbon. The Nevada police bill passed the assembly by a vote of 31 to 7. It already had passed the senate. A startling report was current, both in "St. Petersburg and in Helsingfors, that the emperor had decided upon the partition of Finland, annexing to Russia the district of Viborg, which formerly was a part of the empire, and sending an army corps to the grand duchy of Finland to overawe any pro: test, e

Francis T. Freeland, a retired mining engineer of Denver, Col., was found dead in his room at the Colonnade hotel in Philadelphia. Lady Showing Ichijo, mother of the empress of Japan, died, aged 80 years. Mrs. Mary G. Baker Eddy, founder and head of the First Church of Chrigt, Scientist, left her home, Pleasant View, in Concord, N. H.,, and by a circuitous route in a special train went to Chestnut Hill, Brookline, Mass., to a house recently purchased by the Christian Science denomination, where she will reside permanently. _ Three men were killed instantly and five othersg seriously injured by a premature explgsion of dynamite in the Bergen Hill? section of the Pennsyl venia tunnel at Homestead, N. J. .

Rev. John W. Venebal, for many years pastor of Grace Episcopal church at Hopkinsville, Ky., and for the past 40 years sovereign grand chaplain- of the Odd Fellows in the United States, died.

Fire jln Newton, Kan., ‘destroyed half a~dozen stores, the loss being $150,000.

During the last quarter of 1907 the net earnings of the United States Steel corporation were $32,5563,995. It seems likely that prosecutions may follow the coroner’s inquest into the Rhoades opera house disaster at Boyertown, Pa., which cost 169 lives. In the testimony there were strong hints of graft as well as admissions of gross neg{igence. ,

Ambridge, a little town of 17 miles northwest of Pittsburg, was the scene of an extraordinary double tragedy in which two lovers killed each other in a quarrel. ; Fire in the heart of Chicago’s down: town district did about $1,700,000, the heaviest losers being Alfred. Peats & C 0.,, wall paper; Edson Keith & Co,, wholesale millinery, . and John A. Colby & Son, furniture. S " The Coburn warehouses in Indiahapolis were_burned, the loss being $500,000. : Flames destroyed a part of Nelson Morris & Co.’s packing plant in Kansas City, half a million dollars’ damage being done. : The Parisian laundry building in Detroit was gutted by fire, the loss being estimated at over $200,000. Gen. John Coburn, lawyer and former congressman, died suddenly in Indianapolis from an attack of heart failure. His age was 83. ; The Alva Bank of Commerce -of Enid, Okla., with $lO,OOO capital stock, was closed and Cashier Lou Westfall with $2,500 is missing. : Heavy winds and a great rainfall have done :much damage to the Porto Rican roads and to the new. railroad to Caguas. The tobacco crop was badly damaged. : é Francois Marie Benjamin Richard, cardinal and archbishop of Paris, died of ‘congestion of the lungs after a short illness. He was born in 1819.

George Barlow, 32 years old, was lilled and two others probably fatally hurt when an lowa & Illinois train struck their buggy at Princeton, la. Four cars of a fast New Orleans & Northeastern passenger train.toppled off a low trstle near Hattiesburg, Miss., and rolled down an embankment without killing or fatally injuring a person.

~ Robert S. Hewey was appointed receiver for the Montana Grand Lodge of Ancient Order of United Workmen.

The Crocker heirs gave a block on Nob Hill, San Francisco, as a site for an Episcopal cathedral. ¢ The Michigan constitutional convention rejected the public utilities commission plan. 3 United States Lighthouse Inspector Olin N. Wexel of Chicago. was killed by a switch engine while he was walking on the railroad tracks at Muskegon, Mich. N ; i An address to congress, remonstrating against a further increase in the navy, was adopted by the board of directors of the American Peace society at a meeting held in Boston. Because a portion of his congregation objected to his, breeding dogs, Rev. L. Moore Smith, pastor of the Scotch Plains. (N. J.) Baptist church, resigned his charge. An old Roman coin has been dug up at Springfield, Mass., which is discovered to be worth $1,500. President Ira Remsen, of the Johns Hopkins university, has been asked by President Roosevelt to head the board of scientists who are to form a consulting committee on the enforcement of the pure food and drug law. John A. Lovely, former associate justice "of the Minnesota supreme court, died at the age of 64 in Al bert Lea.

Dr. Gpstav E. Karsten, head of the degartment of modern languages and professor of German at the University of Illinois, died at his home in Urbana. John C. Hubinger, formerly one of the richest men in lowa and inventer of elastic starch and founder of the largest independent starch works, died of pneumonia in Keokuk, la. The wedding of Miss Gladys Moore Vanderbilt, daughter of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, to Count Laszlo Szechenyi, member of the Hungarian nobility, lieutenant of Hussars and hereditary member of the Austro-Hungarian parliament, took place at the Fifth avenue home of the bride’s mother in New York.

Gen. Charles H. Howard, brother of Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard, U. S. A,, died in his home at Glencoe, a suburb of Chicago. - A The board of managers of the Illinois state reformatory at Pontiac met, at the request of Superintendéent Mallary, to investigate the death of William- Hamlin, an inmate of the institution. T

A. L. Sloss, cashier of the First National bank of Appleton, Wis.,, committed suicide. by blowing out his brains with a shotgun.

A cs;clone swept through the northeastern portion of Etowah county, Alabama, and while no lives were lost, much damage was done to property. Frank R. O’Neill, vice president of the Pulitzer Publishing company and assistant manager of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, died from pheumonia. J. E. Gage, a prominent grain man of Minneapolis, died of heart disease.

The Retail Grocers’ association of the state of Washington protested against the use of ‘the frank by Postmaster General Meyer in sending out his speeches in favor of a parcels. post. A political crisis exists in Argentina because of a government edict closing the congress. President Alcorta said force would be used to keep the legislators from holding a session. At the request of the board.of directors of the National Bank cf North America of New York, the comptroller of the currency ordered the bank to be closed for liquidation and appointed National Bank Examiner Charles W. Hanna as receiver. It was believed the bank was solvent, but its resources had been drained by a long run, = - Miss Louise - de la Ramee, better known by. her pen name of Ouida, died in the home of her faithful maid, Tolina Cervelli, near Florence. Her death was due to old age. : has been conferred upon = Eugene Meyer, a New York bankzr. o

The Captain’s Waterloo | Being the Reminiscences , of a Nature Fakir John Kep::itk Bangs

There was a steely glitter /in the postmaster’s eye when the Nature Fakir’s association of Cape Mousdm met the other night. He had evidently” got wind of the fact that the captain was laying pipes to secure the postmastership for himself, and having held the office through two successive administrations he resented as an unwarraned ' presumption any effort on the part of anybody else to deprive him of what he had come to consider a life job. It was easy, too, for me as an outsider to see that there was some kind of an understanding between him and Si Wotherspoon which boded ill for the captain, unless the latter discovered thé conspiracy in time, _ : : : ~ “I heerd last night,”.the postmaster began, “that Sam Busby’s goin’ to kill that goat o’ his’'n.” o ' “Yes,” said Si, “I met Sam 1p at Bill Wither’s ice cream s’loon yesterday an’ he told me that keepin’ a goat an’ a boardin’ house at the same time was a losin’ proposition.” e Somebody taught him to butt, an’ last week he got sort o’ crazy an’ when he saw the cook comin’ up the back stairs with a biler full o’ clam chowder for the mealers’ lunch, he banged him square in_ the stummick, an’ sent

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him, an’ the clam chowder, an’ the biler clatterin’ backwards down the steps into the kitchen again, an’ they had all they could do ' scrapin’ up enough chowder to satisfy the boarders.” T

“They’d ought to kep’ him out o’ the dinin’ room,” said the postmaster. “Dinin’ rooms ain’t no fit place fer goats.” . £ “That’s what they done,” said Si, “an’ two days later he ambled into the office an' eat up the boarders’ mail, an’ then went out on the back piazzy an’ butted two old maids off the porch into the lap of old Gen. Slatherberry, who was lyin’ asleep in a big arm chair on the lawn.” : .

“Scand’lus,” laughed the postmaster. ; . “That’s what Mrs. ‘Gen. Slatherberry remarked as she come along an’ see the party tryin’ to pull ’emselves together,” said Si. ‘“They had a council o’ war that afternoon an’ Sam was informed that onless he showed ’em the dead body o’ that goat before next Satiddy night they’d all leave.” 3 “Well he’d ought to knowed better than to have a goat around the place,” said the postmaster. “Ye never can count on ’em. Where they's wimmen an” children goats ain't safe. Now jif he'd been a cantelope it might have been different.”

“That's true enough,” said Si, with an uneasy glance at the captain. “They tell me them cantelopes has a very sweet disposition—tho’ I must say I don’t know much about 'em.”

“Me neither,” sajd the postmaster. “Fact is I never see anybody that had ever tried to make a pet out of a cantelope.” -

“When it comes down to real experiences in life, you're the shyest thing in New England Joe,” put in the captain at this point. “Here I've been livin’ within a half mile o’ this post office for goin’ on 20 year, breedin’ cantelopes season after season, an’ yet you ‘never knowed anythin’ about 'em!')

“I don’t pretend to know everythin’, captain, an’ as heretofore I am willin’ to learn,” he said. “Any information vou may be willin’ to give on the subject o’ cantelopes will be #hankfully received.” .

“Let me see.,’ said the captaln re-

flectively stroking his beard. “T think it must o' been in 1896 that I first had a cantelope o’ my own. I'd seen ’em plenty o’ times boundin’ about in the woods up near the Canady line, but the idee they could ever be made domestic pets on never occurred to me until I caught Bolivar.” - i

(“Bolivar, eh?” said the postmaster. “That’s a fine name for a cantelope, ain’t it sSi7” .

“It sure is,” replied Si, with a choking gurgle. 5 “It was curious how Bolivar entered into my life,” the captain went on smilingly. “Jest like Sapphira, my caribou. It was in the: winter time that I first saw him. -Me an’ JackSpringleton was' loggin’ up back o’ the sources of the Penobscot. I don’t know how we come to pick it out, but one day we landed a whoppin’ big tree, an’, I Gorry, as she come over after we’d sawed her through she turned out to be rotten an’ holler inside half-way up, an’ when she fell with a crash we discovered that they was three big black bears asleepin’ inside of her. Ye see the bees had filled the hole half full o’ honey, an’ them ‘bears had struck a reg’lar bonanza for their wintef supplies. Well, sir, ye never see anythin’ so mad as they was at bein’ waked up before Christmas had even thought o’ comin’ along, an’ Jack an’ me didn't wait any to apolergize, an’ tell '’em we was sorry an’ didn’t mean to disturb theirnap. We jest lit out for the cabin as tight’'s we eould foot it, an’ we didn’t get there none too soon neither, them bears was so close on' top of our heels. Fact is when I slammed the door to behind me the door knob hit the head bear bang in the mouth an’ nigh knocked his nose off, which didn’t improve his temper none. They hung around outside for three fuflf days, holdin’ us pris'ners in the meanwhile, because onfortunately we didn’t have no guns along an’ didn’t dast go out. On the mornin’ o’ the fourth day when we waked up’ we found they’'d give up the siege and had went off, an’ Bob an’ me resumed our work.” = : = l

“Bob? Who's Bob?” asked the postmaster.

“Bob Sparhawk, of course,” retorted the captain. “I told ye once that

Bob Sparhawk an’ me was loggin’ up there didn’t I?” -

“O— excuse me,” said Joe, with a sly wink at Si. ‘“Mebbe ye did. Go on. What happened next?” :

“Bob -an’ me went back to work again,” said the captain, “but we hadn’t been at it long when we heerd some putty lively growlin’ off to the northeast of us, and a blast or two that sounded to me like the note of the cantelope, though I warn’t so sure because there be times when ye can’t tell it from the chirrup o’ the woodpecker. So I looked at Tom an’ says, ‘there’s them bears again. I guess we'd better hike it to the cabin.’ Well yé all know how quick Tom Yadkins is to take a hint., Ye don’t have to blast no idees in his head, an’ five minutes later we was safe inside the shanty, an’ then there began an awful yoppin’ an’ blattin’ an’ growlin’ out in the woods. I clumb up on the roof to see what was agoin’ on when what should I see comin’ through the trees at a mile a minute clip but Bolivar an’ close on his heels was them three bears, an’ gainin’ every minute. The cantelope’s eyes showed how ' scairt he was, an’ it didn’t seem’s if he could get away. Howsomever obeyin’ a natural instinct of interferin’ in other people’s troubles I hollered out to Bolivar, ‘Jump up here ye jackass. They kin outrun ye, but if you're a real cantelope ye can jump all around 'em.” Well I don’t say that Bolivar could understand the English language, but I'll be teetotally dod-gast-ed if he didn't jump as I told him to, an’ he went sailin’ through the air clear over the cabin an’ landed in the branches of a big pine tree 40 feet off on the other side, an’ the bears, they’d been goin’ so fast they couldn’t stop, an’ run plumb into the side o’ the cabin, an’ knocked ’emselves senseless.” . : : - “Gee! That must ha™been excitin,” said Si.

“Yes it was some,” said the captain, “but it got more so. Soon 's I see the bears lyin'. senseless down’ below 1 hollered down to Bill to get a knife an’ despatch ’em before they come to, an’ I clumb doWn to help. We had to git rid of ’em or be tied up in that there cabin all winter. Bill got the

carvin’ knife an’ I took the ax, an’ we started in, but onfortunately we'd wasted too much time peginnin’. We hadn’t more 'n got outside the door when the wind blowed it shat an’ the bears woke up. Well, sir, George hiked off in one direction with one

bear after him, an’ me in another similarly ‘pursued, an’ it looked like it ‘was all up with me, when I'm blamed if that cantelope seein’ what danger I was in didn't.give a leap out o’ the pine tree; an’ with a jump of 87 yards landed with all four hoofs on the bear’s back, puttin’ him out o’ commission. Then he lept back into the tree again apariently overlookin’ the third bear that come up about this time to see what he could do toward squeezing me to death. He sneaked up behind, an’ was just reachin’ out for me when down come Bolivar again hittin’ bruin square between the shoulders, landin’ the three of us in a heap in the snow. I never see such a mix-up as follered. For a few minutes ye couldn’'t tell which was me, which was bear, an’ which was cantelope, but the first thing I really knowed I was settin’ astride o’ Bolivar’s back, an’ he was jumpin’ back onto the roof o the cabin with me, where we both lay down an' panted for a full hour before we got breath enough to peek over the -edge to see vhat the bear was doin’. 1 guess he’d had enough for he'd faded from sight altogether an’ we never sot eyes on him again. Meanwhile Bill an’ the other bear kep’ circlin’ an’ circlin’ around the house, Bill about two feet ahead o’ the enemy, an’ run.nin’ like th' old scratch, but Bolivar didn’t pay no attention to him at all, which makes me think he done what he did for me jest because he knowed my tellin’ him to jump when I did saved his life. I tried to sick him on the bear, but he wouldn't pay no attention, so in order to save Bill I resked my own life by puttin’ myself at the head o' the procession an’ makin’ Bolivar believe I was bein’ chased, only I made a mistake in gettin’ ahead o’ Bill, for Bolivar thought it was Bill that was chasin’ me, and in half a jiffy 75 pounds of cantelope landed on Bill, leavin’ .me an' the bear to fight it out alone, which we did by his chasin’ me into the cabin, around the settin’ room an’ finally out o’ the back

door. I got out quick enough to slam the back door in his face, an’ then I run around to the front door an’ shet ‘that so we had the bear a prisoner inside. After that I found Bob lyin’ in the snow cussin’ th& cantelope for fair, an’ the cantelope perched on the roof again lickin’ himself off, an’ once in awhile strokin’ his whiskers like a cat. Fortunately Tom was a reasonable feller, an® when I explained the cantelope’s ticktacks to him he see how it was, an’ they made it up an’ become very good friends. Next day we borrowed a gun from some fellers passin’ through an’ shot the bear in the cabin, so everythin’ come out all right in the end. Bolivar disappeared two days after that an’ was gone a week, after which he come back, bringin’ his wife an’ a couple o little baby cantelopes With- him, an’ they stayed with us all that winter. I brought two o’ the cubs home with me, an’ for several years kep’ ’em around the place breedin’ ’em an’ sellin’ 'em to circuses. I sort o’ guess that a good 90 per cent. o’ the cantelopes in the travellin’ meenageries is off my farm.” “Ye don’t happen to have none now, I s’pose?” said the postmaster. “No, I don’t,” said the captain. “I give it up when I went to South Axperiky, sellin’ out my whole stock to a wild animal dealer from Bridgejport.” : . . ;

“They was good péts, was they?” asked the postmaster, takin’ a piece of paper from his pocket. ‘ “Yes,” said the captain. “Gentle as kittens. If ye can imagine a goat with all the p’lite s’ciety manners of a cooncat ye git some idee of the likeable qualities o’ the cantelope.”

Well I'm glad t’ hear ye say so, cap,” said the postmaster as he rose from his- chair. “Only there’s ome p’int I don’t understand an’ that's why Dan’l Webster when he come to write hfl; dictionary wrote that about thg cantelope.” °~ .

And he handed the small piece of paper he held in his hand over to the captain. The captain read what was written upon it, flushed deepiy, reached over and took up his hat and walked silently from the room, and has not been seen at the post office since.

Jesus and the Woman of Samaria Sunday School Lesson for Feb. 9, 1908

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LESSON TEXT.—John -4:1-42. Memory verses 23, 4. : ¢ e

GOLDEN TEXT.—“If. any man thirst, let him' come unto me, and drink.”’~John 7:37. - B %

TlME.—Jesus had spent most of the summer and autumn in Judea. The incident at Jacob’s well was probably in December, A. D. 27. .. It was near the close of the first year of Jesus’' ministry, John still preaching at Enon, ‘near the Jordan. > 5 .

. PLACE.—Jacob’s well, near Sychar, between Mts. Ebal .and Gerizim in Samaria. L s AR

SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES.—I. The soul full .of thirsts (Psa. 42:1-3; Matt. 5:6; 16:26; Rom. 7:23, 24; Psa. 51:1-10; 63:1-3; Rev. 3:17). 2. Worldly things cannot sat. isfy the soul’s thirsts (Jer. 2:13; Isa. 55:2Psa. 107:5; Eccl. 1:12-14; 2:1-11; Rom. 7:18-24), 3. The water of eterpal life (Psa. 46:4; 42:1; 23:2; Matt. 5:6; John 4:10, 14; 7:37, 38; Isa. 55:1-3, 10-13; 41:17; 18; 44:3, 36:1, 7; 12:3; Rev. 22:1. 2 ¥Ezek.: 47:12; 6. e ol e e e

Comment and Suggestive Thought. V. 6. “Now Jacob's well was there.” “One of the few sites about which there is no dispute.” It is situated in the fork of the two roads that'lead to Galilee from - this region, one runnortheast to the fords of the Jordan, a few miles- south of the lake, the other going .to the northwest by way of the southern pass inte the plain of Esdraelon directly toward Nazareth. ~The well is 75 feet “deep, but was originally much deeper, “as the bottom has been filled up with rubbish. The well is about seven feet six inches in diameeter, but the mouth of it is a narrow neck four feet long, and only large enough for a man to pass through with arms uplifted. -See Hastings’ Bible Dict. : : ‘ “Near the plaece where Christ talked with the Samaritan woman now stands a Baptist church, with a regular congregation of a hundred persons.”—Jewish Messenger. : “Jesus ~ therefore, being wearied with his journey.” He had probably been walking several hours, as -the Orientals “were accustomed to start early-in the morning, and it-was now “about the sixth hour,” or noon, according to Jewish reckening. Josephus (Antiquities) describes Moses as sitting weary by a well at midday. Jesus was weary in his work, not of it. The wise approach by courteously rising and asking a favor that: could easily be granted. The Syriac.Cordex implies that Jesus rose ‘and ‘stood tc meet politely the standing woman, and this standing was one thing that caused his disciples to marvel: “Give me to drink.” Jesus asked for water because he needed it, but he used the request as a means of preparing the way for his teaching. A useless request would have defeated his pur pose. ; - :

13. “Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again.” {his water satisfies only bodily thirs% and for brief periods—a type .of “alteworldly supplies for the deeper thirst of the soul. 3 - ST

Every person is fyll of wants; longings, desires, _hopes,%bbth of the body and of the soul. There are the thirsts for pleasure, for power, for money, for respect, for love, for knowledge. There are thirsts for the friendship and love of God, for forgiveness, immortal life, holiness, happiness, usefulness, heaven, a larger sphere and broader life. The larger the soul the more and greater are jts thirsts. =~ - ‘The greatness of any being is measured (1) by the number of his desires and thirsts; (2) by their quality; (3) by their capacity, intensity. '~ Dead and Living Water.—“The old Greeks believed that, before passing to the Elysian Fleld, all souls could drink from the River Lethe, and forget the sins and sorrows they had experienced in this world. K The Iliving water which Christ offers does not enable us to forget our sorrows, but it helps us to bear them. It is not a prelude to a life of ease, but a stimulus for the struggle entdiled on all who follow Jesus.” . - e

V. 26. Jesus declargs to the woman that he is the expected. Messiah. “I

. am he.”

True Worship.—(l) God wants all' men to worship him, because thus they become like him, near to him. - (2) Thus every heart may become . hallowed ground. (3) Worship must be spiritual rather than formal. (4):It must be sincere. (5) It is the fruit of love rather than fear. (6) True worship cannot be separated from morality, while formal worship can. (7) Worship is essential to the religious life. (8) Forms and rites are valuable only as they aid the spirit in its worship. (9) It is not necessary to renounce forms (for some form is necessary in public worship), but to fill the forms with the true spirit. : _ (10) Sir Matthew Hale found that prayer gave a “tincture of devotion” to all secular employments; that *“it was a Christian che'qxistry, donverting those acts which are materially natural and civil into acts truly and. formally religious.” He discovered in habitual devotion what Herbert calls “the elixir” of life. 2 g We need personal interest in- the welfare |of others, . not. “Organized charity, scrimpt and iced ih the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.” We need the personal touching even more than the needy need our touch.

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