Ligonier Banner., Volume 42, Number 47, Ligonier, Noble County, 13 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. - i ——— -~ Former County Judge James Hargis, for maby years member of the Kentucky Djmocratic..executive committee, accused of complicity in many murders and a prominent figure in the feuds which have disrupted Breathitt county for several years, was shot and instantly killed in his general store at Jackson, Ky., by his son, Beach Hargis, whom he censured for drinking. Conecurring in the recommendation of acting Public Printer Rossiter, the president canceled the contract of, the government wi}h the Audit System and ordered its ejection from the government printing office at the end of six days. The Audit System is the corporate _name of the cost-ascertain-ing method which was installed more than a year ago by Public Printer Stillings. ) :

Caid Sir Harry Mac Lean, commander of the sultan's bodyguard and next to the sultan the most influential man, in Morocco, arrived in Tangier under an escort from the Bandit Raisuli, who has held him under bondage -for the past seven months. At the request of United States District- Attorney @ Stimson Albert -B. Boardman, counsel for Charles’ W. Morse, the New York financier, cabled Pis client at -Liverpool to return at once. T : . Robert Mitchell, colored, an alleged murderer, was taken from a deputy sheriff by a mob at Oakgrove, La, and lynched. Owing to recent heavy withdrawals the Copenhagen Freeholders’ bank temporarily suspended payments. The bank’s capital is about $5,000,000. Highwaymen in the vicinity of Woburn, Mass., shot two policemen and several other persons who tried to arrest them. Two men were killed and several other persons were slightly infured when part of a passenger train on the Western Maryland railroad jumped the track and toppled over an embankment at Gorman, W. Va. Fire in-an apartment house resulted in the death of three -persons. Mrs. Cleo’ Walton of San Francisco committed suicide in New York. Through close personal friends of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, mother of Countess Szechenyi, it was learned that Mrs. Vanderbilt will in the near future become countess Hadik. Samuel Floyd Angus, former owner of the Detroit American league baseball club and promihent as a capitalist, died at his home in Detroit. Jack Long, white, was lynched near lewberry, a small mining town in Florida. He was accused of the murder of Elias Sapp, a prominent farmer. ‘The Democratic state committee decided to hold the state convention in Indianapolis March 25 and 26.° Republican factions in Florida held two state conventions in the same hall, one indorsing Taft and the other condemning the use of federal patronage to secure delegates. An exposition designed to show the best methods of safeguarding workmen and protecting the -general public will be held in New York beginning ezarly in April under the auspices of the American Museum of Safety Devices and Industrial Hygiene. Ernest Douglas, the mysterious foreigner who was found murdered in Baltimore on January 16, was in reality Count Henrico Douglas Scotti, a member of an Italian noble family. Alvah H. Martin of Portsmouth, Va., was appointed a member of the Re--publican national -committee to succeed the late George E. Bowden. Five firemen were injured and $120,000 damage done by a fire in the Alshuler block in Racine, Wis. - Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens of Haverhill, Mass., killed her little daughter and son by cutting their throats with A razor. !

~ Gustav Walstedt, a carpenter of Chicago, crazed by an attack of grippe, killed his nine-year-old daughter and himself. S Sir Birrell Barnes, president of the divorce court in London, granted the countess of Yarmouth, who was Miss Alice Thaw of Pittsburg, a decree nullifying her marriage to the earl of Yarmouth. The New York ordinance recently passed forbidding women from smoking in public places was vetoed by Mayor McClellan. Ferdinand vMeldahl, the noted Dan- ~ ish state architect, and for many years director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, died, aged 83 years. Judge Thomas A. Mellon, known throughout the country as a banker and capitalist, and one of Pittsburg’s foremost citizens, died of apoplexy. George W. Smith,- Democratic candidate for county superintendent of schools, committed suicide by hanging at his home near Pilot Mount, la. . Col. Thomas G. Lawler, former com-mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, died at his home' in _ Rockford, 111., of bronchial pneumonia. " The official canvass of the vote for - president of the United Mine Workers - of America shows Thomas Lewis to, s it i ~_ Robbers dynamited the safe of the & Co. at Northumberland. Pa. =~ i e e e e Lt et

King Carlos of Portugal and the crown prince, Luiz Philippe, were shot to death as they sat in the royal carriage, by a band of revolutionists., His majesty, accompanied by Queen Amelia, Crown Prince Luiz and Prince Manuel, were returning from the Villa Vicosa, where they had been temporarily residing, when a company of men leaped from behind a barrier and, leveling carbines at the royal family, fired. No revolutionary outbreak followed the murders, and the second son of Carlos was proclaimed King under the name of Manuel 111.

Under a new regime, with a new king and the establishment of a new cabinet, Portugal seemed to be for the moment at peace. There was an underlying current of revolutions, however, and the strictest measures were taken to preserve order. Premier Franco resigned and was succeeded by Admiral do Amaral, who acted with great energy, proclaiming martial law and deporting nearly 100 political prisoners. !

Admira: do Amaral, the new PortugueseL premier, succeeded in uniting the various factions in a new cabinet and it was given out that the entire policy of Franco will be reversed, repressive measure being abolished and government by decree being withdrawn. ‘

King Manuel of Portugal signed three decrees abolishing repressive measures. Franco, the former premier, was said to have fled to Spain. Revolutionists in Oporto captured the city hall and raised a red flag, but were routed by the municipal guard. _Viscount Aoki, ex-ambassador to Washington, was made a privy councillor by ‘the emperor of Japan. Senhor Franco, the former prémier of Portugal, arrived in Madrid from Lisbon. He was accompanied by his wife- and son. In the evening he boarded the “south’ express,” presumably for Paris.

‘The senate passed the bill placing Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard on the retired list of the army as a lieutenant general. :

The United Fruit company’s steamer Auselm was wrecked on a reef off the “coast of Spanish Honduras. Charles W. Morse, organizer of the ice combine and of the Consolidated Steamship company, and a few months ago regarded as one of the greatest financiers. in America, has disappeared. His creditors attached all his property in New York, including his residence at 728 Fifth avenue, in a suit for $243,321 begun by Charles A. Hanna, national bank examiner, asereceiver of the National Bank of North America, which Morse controlled.

Blizzards and snow and sleet storms were general throughout the northern states, paralyzing transportation and causing great suffering. Mrs. Felix Jobes, an 18-year-old bride, was shot and instantly killed at El Dorado, Ark., by her father, Andrew Bradshaw, as she attempted to shield her husband.

President Roosevelt temporarily suspended as public printer. Charles A. Stillings and appointed William S. Rossiter temporarily to fill the duties of that office. The action, as explained officially, is to facilitate the investigation now :‘being made of the government printing office by congress. Residents of Lanesville and Still River, in the Housatonic river valley between Brookfield and New Milford, Conn., were startled by two distinct earthquake shocks and several large cracks appeared in the earth, - George F. Goddard, 73, well known | as one of the pioneer millers and flour dealers of St. Louis, died suddenly from heart disease. ; Mrs. P. H. Hough, wife of the superintendent of the Beardstown division of the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney railroad, was shot in the head and seriously wounded by a lad who shot-at the train on which she was a passenger. - i Mrs. Honorah Kinney died in Beloit, Wis., at the age of one hundred years. and three months. i . Dr. H. Laidley, one of St. Louis’ most prominent physicians, and who was medical director of the Louisiana Purchase exposition, died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage. Columbia, Mo., voted in favor of prohibition by a majority of 42 votes. The election ended a long and bitter coq,test. . Louis Auklam of Menasha, - Wis,, shot and dangerously wounded his wife and son. ; “Judge Peter S. Grosscup in the United States circuit court of appeals granted a writ of supersedeas in the case of Rev. James E. Kaye of Oak Park, 111., who was convicted of counterfeiting. ; : Fire in the business district of Peoria, 111., destroyed nearly a block buildings, the loss being $500,0007

Four persons were burned to death in a farmhouse near Preston, Minn. " A Christian Science church in Milwaukee that was nearing fcompletion was burned, the loss being $BO,OOO. Caught between collapsing floors, seven firemen were injured in New York while fighting a fire which destroyed a five-story structure occupied by dry goods firms at 43 Worth street, in the heart of the wholesale dry goods ~district. One man was missing. ~ The Transylvania Printing company of Lexington, Ky., one of the oldest publishing companies in the west, asr signed. Assets are. about $50,000; liabilities not given. Leaving their bed without disturbing his wife, Abraham Laudnicht of Des Moines, la., went to the kitchen where Le soaked his clothes in kerosene and then applied a match. He died in terrible agony. : ‘A. K. Maurray of Cincinnati, suspeeted of connection with an arson plot, committed siucide. - Sever Severson, aged 104 years, died at Calamus, la. 2% Eight Frenchmen were killed. and 50 wounded in a desperate - conflict with a horde of Arabs in Morocco. In the case of the hatters’ union the supreme court of the United States decided that boycotts of articles entering into interstate commerce were violations of the Sherman anti-trust law. 3 : Fa ,_,\ bt ‘Harry K. Thaw was found not guilty of murder, on the ground of insanity, and was at once committed to the hospital for the criminal insane at Matteawan, N. Y., where he will remain until set free by a lunacy commis-

Two large buildings of the John A. Roeblings Sons company, wire rope manufacturers in Trenton, N. J., were destroyed by fire, involving:a loss of -about $200,000. - Secretary Metcalf asked the house committee on naval affairs for an appropriation of $73,770,000 for the construction. and conversion of war vessels. ’

According to an average established by investigations undertaken by the Pittsburg survey typhoid fever cost Greater Pittsburg the enormous sum of $721,436 for the year ended in June, 1907. P Daniel E. Fitton, in charge of Los Animas forest reserve, reports fully 75 per cent. of the homestead entries there fraudulent. ' " The Los Angeles limited on the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad was wrecked a Fettly Station, Cal. Five passengers were injured. The graduate school of the University of Illinois, Urbana, 111.,, was formally opened. At the last session of the legislature $50,000 a year was voted to maintain the school. "The Old Dominion liner Jefferson sank 'a three-masted schooner off Virginia and three members of the sailing vessel's crew lost their lives. s

Alderman R. D. Haven, Republican, was elected mayor of Duluth over Emil A. Tessman, Democrat and president of the city council, in the. bitterest campaign ever conducted in Duluth. - Capt. Smith, master of the British stegmer Ashfield, committed suicide by drinking poison in his stateroom following a mutiny of'the crew while on the high seas. When fire in the Ontario Powder works at Tweed, Ont., reached the explosive building the resulting explosion destroyed 12 buildings and shattered windows for miles around. There were no casualties. .

The trustees of Hanover college, near Madison, Ind., elected Prof. W. A. Millis president of the institution. E. S. D. Shortridge, former governor of North Dakota, died at the age of 78. Charles H. May, publisher of the Peoria Herald-Transcript, has acquired the controlling interest of the Springfield Evening News.

Chairman Payne of the house committee on ways and means and Speaker Cannon told a delegation of business men that tariff revision would not be taken up until the short session next winter and that the present congress would not appoint a tariff revision commis_sl’on. | £

Max Sackman of New York, having sought work in vain for three months, killed himself, his wife and baby by turning on the gas. : Congressman Robert J. Cousins of lowa announced that he would not be a candidate for re-election. Two fires in the business section of Berlin, N. H., caused an aggregate loss estimated at approximately $400,000. / ¢

Hundreds of the unemployed gathered in St. Louis to attend .a convention of the Brotherhood Welfare association. . ° :

Nathan Shaffner, formerly owner;of the Biswell hotel in Pittsburg, Pa., and well known in eastern business circles, died of apoplexy at Bartlesville, Okla. The plaza in front of the new Union station in Washington was selected as the site for the proposed memorial to, Christopher Columbus for which congress has appropriated $lOO,OOO. : Three prominent ice dealers of Toledo, 0., were sent to prison for six months for conspiracy in restraint of trade. g

Mrs.. Mary Sherry died in Brockton, N. Y., aged 102 years. Two volunteer firemen in Xenia, 0., were killed by a falling wall. George D. Wise, for many years a member of congress from the Third Virginia district, died in Richmond. He was unmarried and 72 years old. - The Smithsonian institution has offered a prize of $1,5600 for the best treatise -on “The Relation of Atmospheric’ Air to Tuberculosis.”

Mrs. Elizabeth B. Nichols of Newark, N. J., received a letter, written by a former girl schoolmate, after it has lain in the mails for 54 years. How it came to be finally put on its way from New Orleans is not known.

The duke of the Abruzzi of Italy is reported to be engaged to’ Miss Katherine Elkins, daughter of Senator Elkins of West Virginia. - Mrs. Mary Schwartz and her infant son died of starvation and exposure in Chicago. Vice President Gallivan of the International Union of Boilermakers announced that the strike of boilermakers against the several railroads in Minnesota was declared off. Members of the “black hand” soclety have started a fresh reign of terror among the Italians of Chicago following the death of one man and the capture of members of the band who had forced a saloonkeeper to give them $l5O at the point of a revolver. The White Star liner Cymric rescued 37 members of the crew of the steamer St. Cuthbert, which was burning in midsea. The other members of the crew, 15 in all, had been drowned on the previous day when they attempted to leave the blazing vessel in a small boat, which capsized. Robert S. Minot, Jr., of Dover, Mass., a freshman at Harvard, shot and dangerously wounded himself. Handcuffed and shackled, Police Judge James Austin, Jr., of Toledo, 0., was carried to the patrol wagon and taken to the workhouse to serve a short time with the inmates for the experience to bé gained. ! ; A petition in voluntary bankruptcy was filed by Chris Von Der Ahe, for many years a principal figure in the baseball world and owner of the St. Louis American association team from its organization in 1876 until his retirement in 1898. ,

Notwithstanding the efforts of post office authorities and a force of 60 agents 330 depositors of the suspended Knickerbocker Trust company of New York, with deposits aggregating $700,000, cannot be located. The Merchants’ and Shippers’ warehouse in Buffalo, N. Y., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $225,000. Five persons were injured, one fatally, in a fire which destroyed a threestory apartment house in Kansas City. Trafic has been opened over the Julfa railway comnnecting Russia and Persia. This line clinches Russian hold on the north Persian provinces.

An American in Politics

DRIFTING INTO THE GAME BY ERNEST M'GAFFEY.

Politics is the great American game, baseball noiwithstanding. It requires all capital and no capital, as circumstances may shape themselves, and >nce a man has acquired the right to vote, he is a factor in the game. Without his vcte he is a cipher of the deepest dye. Let him be under age, or not naturalized, and there is none so poor, to do him reverence. Count Vichy de Fizz found this out one day when he attempted to make a “cen-ter-rush” into a certain mayor’s office ahead of a long line of unwashed but anxious common citizens. The vigilant officer at the door collared him without remorse or awe. :

“Pass back there my good man,” said the guardian of the door, ‘“and take youF place in the line there with the rest of the boys.” ; Count Vichy, dressed in the height of fashion, with an imposing spread of whiskers and loaded down with decorations, a tox;}gn consul in his own right, and prdid of it, was properly indignant. - Drawing himself to his full height of six fedt two he said: “But I am Count 'Vichy Fizz, the Agrarian consul.”

“Count or no count,” retorted the Cerberus of the mayor’s office, “you're no ’count if you haven’t got a vote in this country; pass back there, and take your place at the end of the -line.” e A ;

With the political disadvantage of being born in this country, I nevertheless began to dabble in politics shortly after leaving the twenty-first hurdle behind me in the race to oblivion. I say “political disadvantage” advisedly, for Americans as a rule are s 0 prejudiced against political life that they do not enter it until some sweeping reform is imperative, and then they usually get worsted. There is nothing in politics to interest the average American business man, unless he may happen to désire to evade the strict interpretation of an ordinance, or have a franchise jammed through a city council.

The Jacksonian and Jeffersonian principles with which I started out rapidly faded from sight in the hurlyburly of “practical” politics. ‘“Equal ‘bunk’ for all, and special privileges for me,” is the real animus of the average ward politician; “bunk” meaning ‘“hot, air,” flattery, soft solder, etc. In looking back over my tempestuous career as a politician, I am impelled to believe that the true motto of all parties is the frank and Jacksonian one, “to the victors belong the spoils.” It is perhaps regrettable that such is the case, and possibly I am wrong, but that is the way it strikes me. ; In drifting into the game I saw that one of the requisites for getting along was the ability to be. a good “mixer,” that-is to say, to possess the ability to meet and mingle freely with all classes of | white, black, green, pink, yellow, any and all nationalities, no matter what their age, sex, rack or previous condition of servitude. This, of course, applies to the begining stage in politics. There comes a iime to the particularly successful office holder. when he can freeze up snd look sideways at former associates, but’ this obtains only when he has “put away” enough of “the siwuff” in government bonds €n as nof to care whether political school zeens or not, and when he has been bitten with @ wild desire to “break through the crust of society.” “

As a “mixer” 1 “made good,” in the parlance of the slangy. A long experience in the way of the legal proJfession had made me a fairly good speaker, especially if I prepared myself, and I always did that when possible. This legal training, of course, enabled me to take any side of any question, and show up the fallacies of the opposition. It also was a help in gauging the average helplessness of most men as to telling the truth -against their own interest. Lawyers also have a good deal to bump up against in the way of specious argument from brother counsel, and the practice of the law is not calculated to make a man over-credu-‘lous. 'This helps some, in politics, as the amount of ground and lofty, “bunk” that is dealt out by the rank and file of political workers is something sanguinary to .-the last degree. 3 : ~ Particularly is this the case if a man happens to be nominated for some office. Then indeed are the flood-gates of "“bull-con,” or highly colored mendacity opened, and the tales he hears, and the assertions which are made would .cause the shade of Baron Munchausen to shed envious tears, while Ananias would simply have to “pass.” - It was a source of constant and delightful ‘amusément to me to hear the candidates of our party “hand me the bunk” when I first started out to ‘make speeches. As Hans Breitman has it: v , “Who takes your hand when you | would shtart }Und told you, you vas mighty smart, - Und how he loved you mit his heart—- : Der candidate.” ' These raw-head and bloody-boned “selling-platers” had no scruples in hurling flattery at me by the baml.l I had no scruples, conscientious or otherwise, in hurling it back at them. I had one genuine aim:in the matter, and that was to help the ward go Democrati¢, so as to strengthen the chances of the Democratic candidate for mayor, a man for whom I had and have the highest respect. Long before I was accidentally elevated to an official position I had formed a -high opinion of his charactetr, and I was glad to help fight his battles. Saenns ; ‘What is known as the party machine is simply the drilled strength of a party, in rank, file and leadership, and all pifie in regard to “machine politics” is as absurd as pos-. sible. If a reform movement ‘starts, it, too; must have its “machine”— that is to say, its rank and file and leadership. The very government it-

self is a machine. The only trouble in the whole matter is that the average man .is too busy and too selfish’ in chasing the almighty dollar to care who runs the machine. It is not the fact that hurts, but the ccxditions which face the fact. : 3

Now, the Democratic machine in those days, and not far distant, either, had a fairly well ordered agreement with the Republican machine 'by which the county offices were given to the republicans and the city offices were handed to the Democrats. -This agreement was not recorded on -the books of the county recorder, but it was a tolerably secure “cinch,” nevertheless. But at times the reformers, maddened by being kept' from the publi¢ crib, or really actuated.by high motives—or both—and the independents, tiring of both parties, would hook up and upset things. So “it became and was necessary,” as they say in a personal injury suit, to “take due and careful precaution.” Thatmeant, to hustle in all campaigns, and work between campaigns to strengthen the party by argument, combina-. tion and patronage; especially patronage: Talk is cheap, but the man behind the influence is the man behind the job. : - Now, a man with the ambition to go into politics with a good end in view namely, furthering the political for‘g tunes, even in a slight™“way, of a leader in whom he had the highest confidence, was actuated by a good motive. It may seem rather elaborate to make this statement so plain, but it must be remembered that no one is supposed to enter politics with an honest motive. I had an enthusiasm for the tenets of my party, but I had much greater enthusiasm for the man whose cause I espoused, for I knew that if any particular maxim of the party did not make for a “square deal” for the people of his native city, he would apply some other maxim that would. ;

To go into ward politics with a bunch of seasoned adepts at the science was to invite comparison, enmity, suspicion and treachery. I knew - all this perfectly well, and whetber or not I was trusted by the members of the party in my particular district, I can at least say, without the slightest bitterness, and in perfect truth, that I frusted none of them. For thé exigencies of numberless occasions I assumed friendly relations with dozens of men; they were simply pawns in the game. If Icould use them to the advantage of the man I was trying to help, well and good. If not, I could at best make the effort. .

I had the advantage of knowing exactly what thev were in politics for they were in it for what were the material advantages, for the little appointments, the influence that was to be gained in the distribution of ward “patronage,” and the aim, sometimes near, sometimes remote,-of being candidates for ahy office within the gift of the party. '

- Selfish motives? ' Of course. And so were my motives selfish. I wanted to see a man I liked win; wanted the Democratic party to win. The man I worked for always won when he was nominated; the party that presented him as its standard bearer never lost.- When they went straying after strange gods—but that is another story. ‘I was handicapped by being a professional man, a lawyer, in a ward composed quite strongly of the laboring classes. A man whe does not work ‘with his hands is sometimes suspected of “grafting” his living by the more passionate of a certain class of reformers, but there is room for argument as to that. : . My first active work was going out and making speeches for the candidates. I went at this systematically and thoroughly. I tried to think up arguments, and even where I made several speeches in a night, I would not repeat myself. I studied upon the questions of the day, and fouhd that few people ignew less about them than I ¢id. There was an apparently fathomless unrest on the part of a good many citizens, and there was a strong and apparently numerically superior opposition force in the world, and so there was at least the delight of a hard fight to be had in each eampaign. This, then, was the first plunge. To be out at all hours of the night, making speeches and meeting people. Going down to headquarters and getting assignments to the various halls. Getting in “live” fellows from other parts of the city occasionally to make little talks. Consulting with candidates and advising as to campaign ‘literature. Studying up primary laws and election laws. Working in every straight and honorable way possible to hold the Democratic vote already in the ward, and striving to add Wit | : : o . ERNEST McGAFFEY. (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) A Suffolk Ballot. : A ballot on novel lines has besa taken at Glemsford, in Suffolk, Englandy where the workers in a mat factory had all received three months notice. The employers were ap proached and a deputation of the men suggested a ten per cent. reduction in wages in order to keep the works going. To ascertain if this would be accepted by all a ballot was taken. Each man was" given an original ‘“voting paper” in the form of a bean -and a pea, and the voting urn was a plain jar. The bean was a vote for the reduced pay, the pea against. Seventyfive beans were placed in the jar and only 19 peas: Work will therefore continue as usual. - Many Persons Paupers. - A few months before the last general election a good authority (L. G. C. Money, in London’ Daily News, ‘August 7, 1905), calculated that one person in every 17 of the population of this country was or had been a pauper in the year ending Lady day, 19065,

Jesus Heals the Nobleman’s Son Sunday School Lesson lgr l‘eb.lfi?%!! Specially Prepared for This Paper

LESSON TEXT.—John 4:43-54. Memory verses 49, 50. GOLDEN TEXT.—'“The man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.”—John 4:50. TlME.—December, A. D. 27, or possibly early in January, A. D. 28. A few days after the last lesson. Beginning of second year of Jesus' ministry, known as the great Galilean ministry. John the Baptist was still preaching in wilderness of Judea.

PLACE.—Cana of Galilee, a few miles from Nazareth; and Capernaum, a city 20- or 25 miles to the northeast, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. : SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES. — Miracles as an Aid to Faith.—Matt.-9:6; 11:2 (compare with Isa. 35:5, 6); 14:33; 15:31; 27:54; Mark 2:10, 12; 7:37; Luke 5:24; 7:18;. 18:43; John 2:11, 18-23; 3:2; 4:45, 53; 6:36; 6:14; 7:31; 9:16, 30-33; 10:21, 25, 37, 38; 12:9-11; 14:10, 11; 20:30, 31; Acts 2:22. Comment and Suggestive Thought. V. 45. “The Galileans received him,” because they had “seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast.” (John 2:14-17, 23; 3:2.) Because the miracles were signs and proofs that Jesus came from God, and they indorsed his message. The miracles were no breaking or changing of the laws of nature, but were the personal will of God acting directly upon the needs of men. i :

A miracle is simply God’s doing with his infinite power the same quality of action, though vastly greater in degree, that we do every hour when we exert our personal will amid the force of nature. I lift up a book, I turn on the water from the waterworks, and- make a shower on my parched lawn or garden. I stop a part of the machinery in the factory and rescue a child caught in its wheels. If Jesus was divine they were as natural to him as any other act of his will. = They were object-lessons in the spirit and the work of the Gos pel, the principles of which he had been teaching. Every miracle is a visible picture before men of the character of God, of the nature of the Gospel, of the loving-kindness of our Saviour, of his pewer to help, of the wonders of grace he can work in our hearts, of his power to deliver from the diseases of sin. \ V. 47. “When he had heard that Jesus was come . . . into Galilee.” He must have heard about him, and especially of the miracle at Cana. It was the knowledge of what Jesus had already done that gave him faith to believe that he might cure his son. _ Earnest Seeking.—The faith was so strong that “he went unto him,” from Capernaum to Cana, 25 miles away, a long day’s journey. Jesus must help, or there was no hope. The fact that he went to Jesus shows that he had some faith, and that his faith, that was theoretical from what he had heard, had now come to be a working, living force. “Besotght him (‘continued to beseech’) that he would come down.” Thinking that Jesus must go and see the boy in order to cure him. “At the point of death.” Showing the difficulty of the cure, and the urgency of haste. Siékness and trouble are often one means of increasing faith. Like Jacob from his pillow of stones in the night of sorrow, many have seen visions of heaven' and of -our Father, and have received the messages God’s angels have brought. Countless stars, invisible by day, shine upon us in the night. - :

V. 48, “Then said Jesus unto him.” Jesus neither refused nor granted the request at once, but uttered a truth which tended to awake a fuller and more spiritual faith. “Except ye see signs and wonders (miracles in two aspects) 'ye will not believe.” Perhaps Jesus was thinking- of the form of the request when he said this—the feeling that Jesus must go to Capernaum if he would cure the ,boy, that the father must see Jesus present to heal. But, chiefly he wished to lift the man beyond the outward form of miracles, out of wondering, out of miere proofs of faith, to insight into the very nature and spirit of Jesus as the Son of God A Heart at Rest—What interesting lesson can we learn incidentally from this part of the story? : The cure took place at one o’clock in the afternoon, the seventh hour. The distance from Nain to Capernaum was 25 miles. E The nobleman in haste could have reached home, riding down hill, sometime that same night, perhaps, as Maclaren says, before dark. But it was' the next day, some @&istance before he reached Capernaum, that he met his servants coming to report that his son was restored. The natural inference is that the father did not hasten home, himself and the beast he rode being weary by their swift and urgent journey in the ‘morning. He had come weary and. heavy laden and found rest. “He that believeth shall not be in haste.” He had a foretaste of the promise Jesus gave to his disciples more than two years later, “Believe that ye have re. ceived and ye shall have” (Mark 11:24 R. V.). : V. b 4, “Second miracle.” Sign. Not the second miracle Jesus had wrought (v. 45), but the second in Galilee. Why was this the best of all the blessings which rewarded his faith? How can we have such faith? Prof. Drummond says: “So far as I can see there is only one way in which faith is got, and it is the same in the religious world as it is in the world of men and women. I learn to trust you, my brother, as I come to know you. I watch yow, I live with yon. I find out that you are trustworthy, and I come to trust myself to you, and lean upon you. e ' Instead of Radiators. ~‘One architeet of my acquaintance has contrived to warm a number of rooms with coils of pipe placed under the window seats. This does away entirely with the purchase of a radiator and is effective, since the cold spots in a room are usually near the window. In the corner of a diningroom arranged by the same man one. of the small round topped radiators manages to heat the room and at the same time to keep piping hot all the dishes which are to be used. This may not be an artistic scheme, but it is an extraordinarily comfortable

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