Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 24, Ligonier, Noble County, 3 September 1908 — Page 6
The Ligonier Banner LIGONIER, . INDIANA,
Record of the Most Important Events Condensed for the ' Perusal of the Busy Man.
' PERSONAL. Admiral Dewey unveiled a memorial tablet to Admiral Farragut in the Portsmouth navy yard. _ William J. Bryan visited Salem, 111,, his birthplace, and was given a great ovation. _ Delaware Republicans nominated S. S. Pennewell of Sussex for governor. David E. Thompson, American ambassador to Mexico, was run down by a bicyclist and suffered a fracture of one arm and contusions of the face. Fritzi Scheff, star of the light opera stage, who was recently divorced from Baron von Bardsleben, an officer in the Austrian army, is to marry John Fox, Jr., the Kentucky author, it is reported. President Roosevelt went to Jordanville, N. Y, for the dedication of a public library erected in honor of the mother.of Douglas Robinson, the president’'s brother-in-law. ‘
‘District Attorney Jerome was completely exonerated by the commissioner named by Gov. Hughes to investigate charges against Mr. Jerome. " George W. Fitzgerald, the assorth}g teller in the Chicago sub-treasury from whose desk $173,000 disappearet_i about 18 months ago, was arrested charged with the theft of the money. A son was born to Senator and Mrs. A. J. Beveridge of Indiana at Manchester, Mass. Cashier N. A. ‘Alston of the.bank of Stevenson, Ala., disappeared and it is alleged that he is short in his accounts from $20,000 to $24,000. . GENERAL NEWS. Nearly 30 miners are believed to have perished in Hailey-Ola coal mine No. 1, at Haileyville, - 0k1a.,, when fire destroyed the hoisting shaft and air shaft and cut off air from the men. Floods at Augusta, Ga., did immense damage to property, demoralized business, stopped all traffic and caused several deaths. L A terrific downpour of rain lasting more than 24 hours and attended by the coldest” August weather New York has experienced for 23 years, was responsible for two deaths and great property damage. ] Earl Irey, an apprentice on the training ship Pensacola at Yorba, Cal, is said to have been so severely hazed that he probably will lose his eyesight. Macrena Kavorzoof, 19 years old, confessed at Valdez, Alaska; that she induced George Postriakoff, ‘whom she Joved, to kill her husband;, Peter S. Kavorzoof, a woodman, at their home on Afoguak island. ‘2 As a result of an attempt by David and William Webb, brothers, to carry out a threat to “do up” J. W. Culpepper, a grocer, of Tulsa, Okla., David Webb is dead, Willlam Webb. fatally wounded and Culpepper is seriously fnjured.
" Snow fell in Baltimore and other parts of Marylanrl. :
Mrs. Kate Howard, leader of the mob in the recent race war in Springfield, 11l killed herself by swallowing poison “while being taken to the jail following the return of an indictment : against her charging murder. The police of Warsaw captured a band of swindlers who have carried on an extensive and lucrative business in the sale of spurious government - bonds of the so-called lottery issue. Yeggmen tobbed the State bank of Geneseo, N. D, of $2,200. Two negroes entered the home of Mrs. Virgil Bassett in St. Louis, choked and locked her up, robbed the house and set it on fire. . The American battleship fleet sailed from Sydney for Melbourne. : The national rifie team match for the national trophy, authorized by congress, and $3OO was won at Camp Perry, 0., by the United States Infantry team. L | The post office at Rushville, Mo., was robbed of $5OO by burglars who bhad failed to loot the bank there. After a big harmony meeting of Jowa ' Republicans Gov. Cummins called a special session of the legisJature to so amend the primary law « that Republican voters can select a successor to Senator Allison. : - “Tommy” Burns, the American heavyweight pugilist, won from “Bill” Squires in the thirteenth round of their fight at Sydney, N. 8. W. John Stansberry, a farmer aged 73, who lived near Columbus, 0., died within 20 minutes after he ?ad been stung by a bumblebee. . = | Two men arrested in Detroit on the ‘charge of passing counterfeit money gave the names of Lucien P. F. Tull, auditor of the New Amsterdam Gas company of New York, and Richard ~'W. Meacham, Dayton, 0., trafiic man- _ ager for the National Cash Register company. : WE S - Daniel Rhoeder, a grocer of Streator, 111., and William H. -Wright were_arrested for raising two-dollar - bills to $lO and confessed their gnilt. . Heavy frosts were reported from Minnesota, North Dakota and north- ~ Striking cap makers and strike- ~ breakers engaged in a flerce riot in _ pelled to firte on them. N S T L o e
A. O. Brown & C 0.,, one of the largest brokerage firms in New York, failed, the liabilities being estimated at considerably above $1,000,000. Hostilities between the Netherlands and Venezuela were brought a step nearer by the receipt at The Hague of an unofficial copy of a second note from Castro's foreign minister, Jose de Jesus Paul, setting forth Venezuela’s grievances and stating that that country awaited satisfaction. 111, half blind, criticising the church on the score of untruthfalness and insincerity and declaring that he could not worship “America’s trinity—suc: cess, pleasure and gold”. Rev. Albert H. Trick shot and killed himself in a room in Mills hotel in New York. He was once pastor of a Presbyterian church in Chicago.
Gov. Magoon announced the Cuban elections would be held November 14 and the new president installed January 28 next. s Vance Williams, a negro a.clusgd of murder, was lynched near Louisville, Ky. : W. C. Conlee, a St. Louis barber, killed himself because the use of safety razors had ruined his business. The stage running between Cody and Meetettso, Wyo., was held up and the passengers robbed of $1,500. C. H. Watson of Allison, 0., shot and killed Elijah Crabtree, who had eloped with Watson's daughter. ) ‘Eight men were killed and a score injured by the collapse of a wall of a new brick building at Chelsea, Mass. Forest fires near East Tawas, Mich., destrayed many acres of pulp wood. Burglars cracked the safe of the post office in Waukegan, 11i.,, and got away with money and stamps to the value of $3,000. :
. So suspiciously large was the volume of business done on the New York stock exchange on one Saturday that it will be investigated by a special committee of five members. . More than a million shares were bought and sold-in very large blocks and it is believed the trades were “matched,” in pursuance of some deep laid scheme.
The railroads met a decisive defeat in the federal court of appeals at’'St. Louis when two opinions were handed down reversing the findings of the lower courts in the matter of the safety appliance law passed by congress and sustaining the position of the government.
The grand jury at Springfield, Il returned indictments against six more alleged leaders of the mob. At Kankakee, Private Klein of Chicago, who killed Earl Nelson, was released on $lO,OOO bail. .
The Seventh regiment, I. N. G., was sent home from Springfield, 111., leaving the city without troops. Frank Halladay of Rosedale, Pa., fatally slashed his 19-year-old wife with a razor because of jealousy. Formal notice of his nomination for the vice-presidency by the Democratic convention at Denver was served on JohA W. Kern in the great Colosseum at Indianapolis. Mr. Bryan was among the speakers. Eleven coaches were held up by a lone bandit in Yellowstone park and the passengers robbed of about $2,000 in cash and a quantity of valuable papers and jewelry. Tourists are not permitted to carry weapons in the park.
Judge Thompson in the United States court at Cincinnati denied the petition of the Union Distilling company and others for a temporary injuiction restraining the government from carrying out its order that “imitation” whiskey must be branded as such. All the schools in Christiania have been closed, owing to a serious outbreak of smallpox. Lol s Alonzo Walters, 'cashier of a bank at Ellaville, Ga., committed suicide to avoid arrest on a charge of embezzlement. .
Lowry and Alaska, two new towns on the Minneapolis & St. Louis road in southern Walworth county, South Dakota, were partially destroyed by fires:of an incendiary origin. Herbert Fryer, an Englishman, a recluse and owner of a ranch of 5,731 acres as well as other property, killed himself in his house near Ventura, Cal.
Seven -cruisers of the Pacific fleet, each towing a torpedo boat destroyer, sailed from San Francisco for Hawaii and Samoa. :
Herr Geltermann, cashier of the coupon department of the Metteldeutsche Credit bank, shot himself dead in Frankfort. He had embezzled $125,000 from the bank. A. C. Bartlett of Chicago, accompanied by his wife and his daughter, was automobiling from Karlsbad to Dresden when the car ran-over and killed a boy eight years old in the village of Schmiedeberg. The licenses of five of Pittsburg’s largest cafes were revoked on charges of selling liquor to minors. : An unidentified man killed himself by jumping from the Eads bridge at St. Louis. :
Through the treachery of his tribesmen, Abd-el-Aziz, sultan of Morocco, was utterly routed by Mulai Halfid, who was proclaimed sultan in Tangier and was accepted as ruler by all the large cities. Miss Wilifred Parsons of America killed herself in Paris, because of grief over the death of her fiance. Injustice to Judge Landis, misstatement of his position and misstatement of the facts on record are charged against Judges Grosscup, Seaman and Baker of the federal circuit court of appeals in the government’'s petition for a rehearing of the.appeal of the Standard Oil Company of ' Indiana, filed at Chicago. : Having been defied by the Indiana state executive board of the organization, President T. L. Lewid of the United Mine Workers issued from headquarters a letter advising all miners on strike in indiana to return to work immediately. : : OBITUARY. ' Rev. Johannas B. Frich, one of the pioneer ministers of the Norwegian Lutheran synod, died at St. Paul, Col. William J. Glenn, 68 years old, formerly commander of the Fourteenth regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard, and prominent in National Guard circles, was found dead in bed at his home in Carnegie, Pa. - William Bronson, proprietor of the Wflm&tum Wis,, and
JOINN FENRY = D |AMERICAN
Dear Bunch: Yours from Nice received; also Alice’s letter to Peaches. I'm wise to the good time you're having, old pal, and, believe me, I wish we were with you. 7 i It must be aces to travel through the Riviera and pipe the forget-me-nots and the magnolia blossoms blooming all over the place, while the air is laden with the scent of. roses and the song of the nightingale makes music for the midnight lunch—what! Not bad on the poesy thing this morn, eh, Bunch? ; | Holy mackerel! I'd like to see you travel over this part of the universe and get a peep at any forget-me-nits or maggieolas. Nothing doing. | Over here, Bunch, the wild-eyed advertiser is abroad in the land, and his "fi‘\. ; « | g | el W | 4 ’)\ ]'i' ~ , .o\l y"‘i!*rivl.' ‘ ‘ W“ ) i 1 : (€ A ARhl .‘ YARERN PR (i - R O @:@ P “Took Another Look.” advertisements are stuck, like a ‘lot -of second-hand court plaster, all over the face of Nature. I love to read the advertisements in the newspapers and. the magazines, but I also love to be permitted to stop reading them when the dinner bell rings, which is an impossibility if you're traveling on the railroads in sour dear land of liberty—God bless it! In these days, Bunch, you’ll find that the‘something which once was a beautiful landscape is covered with a board fence whereon it says: . : EAT EATEM’'S EATABILITY : : EASILY THE MOST 3 : EATABLE s : - -EATING EVER EATEN. : I think the idea of changing a green hillside into a tréatise on indigestion, and making all the pretty trees along the roadside point their branches in the direction of a drug store is wrong, but maybe I've too much poetry in my veins and not enough business. I took a little trip from New York to Philly last week, and it was then that the foregoing thought hit me a belt in the thinker. v It’s only a question of a short time, Bunch, when our American scenery will be changed to pill news. I looked out the car window with the laudable intention of admiring all the geography as it rushed by, but before I could enthuse over two spruce trees and 18 blades of grass, a large sign shut off my view and caused me to see this: -
: SAWDUST FRITTERS : 3 The New Breakfast Food s : Once Swallowed $ $ Never Forgotten .: I winked my eyes once or twice and took another looh, and there, spread carefully over the map of New Jersey, was a sign which said: ". Blonde Pills for Brainy People : i Try One Box o : And You’ll Never Try Another. : 1 dodged back into my chair and closed my lamps for a moment. Then I said to myself: “I'll try the other > \ , L( §;‘r A @ e - 977 5 A 8« V Qw \ A \ 7 S I 0 L7l AN~ LTS I 7 N KRR 3 f D 2 - i “The Wildeyed Advertiser Is Abroad.” side ot"the car where, no doubt, I'll see a mountain or a country fair or something human in the distance, “but all I saw was 97 feet of board -fence, which was yelling out these words: . DRINK BINGLEBAUER'S : . WHISKEY . : All Judges Say It Makes : : Trade kively : : Especially the Police Judges : For téen minutes I sat there, Bunch, with my eyes shut, and when finally I took a little peep out the window it resulted in this: v : ~ SMOKE : : YELLOWFINGER'S $ S ; - CIGAROOTS ¢ s And Die Lingering, But Dopey : S ‘and presently came to the conclusion | : : i aa
heart of civilization, and that after we reached the real country the landscape would assert its rights and begin to happen. | In about 20 minutes I glanced carelessly out the window, and I'll be doggoned if I didn’t see another board fence with this on it; : Be a Good Chooser and Chew : ~: CHEWINGTON’S CHOO CHOO : : The Gum That Don’t Come Off. : Now I leave it to you, Bunch, if it isn’t discouraging. Can you beat it in Europe? Can you get close enough to it to tie it? Then I looked up and out and saw—yes, Bunch, another ‘mile of fence, some of which bore this legend: : Children, dear, in any case % : Don’t drive nails in Mother’s : . face; . : If you do and she should : : ' scream : : Try Mike Smith’s Complexion : : Cream! : Speaking of scenery reminds me that Peaches and I took a flying trip to MNiagara Falls not long ago. I'm not out to describe the Falls, Bunch, so don’t throw this letter down and scream for help. When we stepped off the cars we found, stretching out as far as the s s ’t%.flww'_ < DY ST 1. P9O, % @ R s fi_/,é ), S T g ,/—_ 5 Aol / \"'4‘3 g:‘.‘?{d'- Q : (7T Y LEr ‘,3 7Ty Q.fi» St "g‘.“ % Yooar o \Z") . “Took a Flying Trip to Niagara.” pocketbook could reach, a line of hacks, river-going hacks which had been standing so long in the shadow of the falling water that they seemed to be giving each other the Minnehaha. (Indian joke.) - Eighty-seven hack drivers with tears in their eyes and beer in their voices, when possible, coaxed Peaches and me to jump on board their catamarans and be concussioned over to the Falls, but after a long and Dbitter fight our consciences won the vietory, and we walked. = Like all great things in this world, Bunch, the Falls of Niagara started out from a very small beginning and gradually worked itself up to fame and fortune. e 1
When it started out away back in the woods the Niagara river had no thought of getting itself in the school books and becoming a national pet, like a prize fighter. : On the contrary, Bunch, it started out to be just a plain, ordinary river rolling gently on its rocky mattress, but one dark night it suddenly feil out of bed and created such a sensation that it has kept right on falling out of bed ever since. : This is the only record in history where a reputation has been made by falling out of bed. A Peaches and I walked down to the edge of the Falls, and for eight minutes we stood there without speaking a word. o Peaches afterward acknowledged that the Falls had a wonderful influence over her, because that was the first time in her life she ever went eight minutes without saying something. ; * To stand there, Bunch, and watch those thousands and thousands of gallons of water pushing each other over the edge of that precipice and then falling with a roar into the depths be low makes 2!! the poetry in one’s sys« tem come to the surface and beg to be let out. Yours for better scenery, e JOHN.: (Copyright, 1968, by G. W. Dillingham Co.) Pity and the Picturesque. There was a widow (her husband had been ‘dead for a fortnight) who lived in a humble and honest way, and who achieved triplets at a stroke. Two newspapers, touched, and rightly, by her indigence, decided vhat a candy ‘shop would be a pleasant thing for her, They ran a human story that fairly dripped mercy and loving kindness, telling of the tenement home, the bereavement, and the scheme for ready bargains in caramels and chocelate kisses. The public, which ia& ~everything rather than stony-hearted sent back $l,OOO and the widow was able not only to start her shop, but to include a soda fountain. This is the same public that throws newspapers and banana peels into the hospitable gutter, and thereby cuts off the appropriations for tenement house inspection; spits on the sidewalks and &\ public buildings, and thereby mul Tiplies disease. The average persom responds to obvious signs of sympathy rather than to bigger and more distant good.—Collier's Weekly. Venerable Clergyman Dead. ~ Rev. Angus Bethune, vicar of Seaham, England, who has died at the age of 97, discharged his clerical duties to the last. He was 67 years a clergyman in the diocese of Durham and 49 years an incumbent of one
WHY DO BIRDS FLY SOUTH?
YEARLY MIGRATION OF FEATH- - ERED HOSTS AN UNEX. ‘ PLAINED MYSTERY. OBSERVING NOCTURNAL FLIGHT s Can Be Seen with Opera Glass Crossing Face of Moon—Aristotie’s Kinglet—Other Points in Connection with This Species. . BY EDWARD B. CLARK. (Associate Member American Ornithologists’ Union.) - (Copyright, Josgph B. Bowles.) Who shall explain the mystery of the migration? Regularly every year at the first pulsing of the spring and at the first chilling of the fall the great bird army takes up its march of migration. Why? For centuries scientists have been striving to answer the question. Answers have been given by the score, but as yet the answer is to come which shall spell satisfaction to the multitudes who wonder at the mystery. ¢ If we conceive for a moment of & o R Ree R L e b S Re A R R Fish Ducks, from Life. condition in which an army of birds newly sprung to life, finds itself in a temperate country with foraging conditions of the best, and then suddenly finds itself face to face with frost and famine we can understand why the army pressed by hunger and cold should take up the march for another and a better camping ground. What is it that has sent the birds back to the country which less than six months ago chilled them and starved them into the deserting of its borders? No one knows, and there are those scientists who, unlike most of their brothers who never are willing to admit any problem unsolvable, are not backward in saying that the migratiom will remain a mystery until the end of time. : Aristotle 300 and more years before Christ wrote of the yearly movements of the birds. The scientist of to-day is writing upon the same subject and it may be that the scientist of more than 20 centuries hence will write of the migration and end his writings with the same old interrogation. It has been said that the birds feel the touch of frost and famine and immediately take up their march. In the n:onth of September the warblers (family Mniotiltidae) hurry southward. Countless thousands of them 'pass over the city and country in the darkness of the night. They are mites of creatures, these warblers, being but a degree or two removed in gize from the humming-birds and the kinglets, yet they undertake unchart-
. »fig\ . . G R e P AR R e RIS R e for e, T P R . Ny b q;olden-Crowned Kinglet. ed journeys that for peril and distance would strike terror to the heart of man, armed though he be with reason and foresight. The weaker birds seem to prefer the night time migration. William Brewster of Cambridge, Mass., has settled this point probably definitely. ; He believes the reason the wrens, the- warblers, the vireos and all the thrush family except the robin prefer the night journey is because they are afraid of the exposure by daylight, or are unable to continue such journeys “day after day without losing much time in stopping to search for food. By taking the nights for traveling they can devote the days entirely to feed. ‘ “Bold, restless, strong-winged birds migrate chiefly or very freely by day bhecause, being accustomed to seek their food in open situations, they are indifferent to concealment, and being further able to accomplish long distances rapidly and with slight fatigue, they can ordinarily spare sufficient time by the way for brief stops: in
FREAK OF VEGETABLE WORLD
California’s Rootless Cactus Has a Remarkable Ggrowth. Curious among vegetable growths of the new world, and one which is seldom seen of men, is the rootless cactus of the California desert. This plant, a round, compact growth, rolls about the level floor of the desert for some eight or nine months of the year, tossed hither and yon by the winds which blow with fierceness over all of California’s sand plat during those months. o ‘At the coming of the rains, or, rather, the cloudbursts, which sweep the desert in its springtime, this cactus takes root, wherever it happens to have been dropped by the last wind of which it was the plaything and immediately begins to put out all around it small shoots, which in turn become cacti, exactly like the parent plant. These young growths: increase 'ln size rapidly, sucking the moisture both from the parent plant and from the surrounding earth. The roots do got venetrate the soil deeply, but
places where food is abundant and easily obtained. Under certain conditions, however, as when crossing large bodjes of water or regions scantily supplied with food, they are sometimes obliged to travel partly, or perhaps even exclusively, by night. Excellent examples are the robin (Merula), horned lark (Octocoris) and wost Icteridae (bobolinks, blackbirds and. orioles). J }
“Birds of easy, tireless wing, which habitually feed in the air or over very extensive areas, migrate exclusively by day, because being able either to obtain their usual supply of food as they fly or to accomplish the longest Journeys so rapidly that they do not require to feed on the way, they are under no necessity of changing their usual habits. The best examples are swallows, swifts, and hawks.” : If you who read this article on the migration wish to have an experience that will appeal to you as being little short of startling, take a field glass with a two-inch lens and focus it upon the full moon, and then take up & nightly vigil. If conditions be favorable you will see clearly the forms of the southward flying birds as they pass across the moon’s face.
There is no experience known to the bird student, perhaps, which has the interest that is held by this midnight study. If the place of observation be elevated, the interest is heightened by the fact that while the images of the birds fall upon the eye their notes as they call to one another through the semidarkness drop tinkling down upon the ear. Though you may see them not, because their pathway does not happen to eross that of your line of vision, yet you may recognize the call of the grosbeak, the twitter of the swallow or the “chink” of the blackbird as if marking the time for each successive wing stroke. ‘ One observer more lucky than his fellows saw a sparrow hawk stop suddenly in its flight, seemingly in the very heart of the moon, ‘and there hover fully a minute, while its wings beat with lightning-like rapidity to keep it at its chosen hovering point. The sparrow hawk thus poises before
L e R sEE A e TN QTR el o a e . TR, 0 B biaaiai e G g e Barn Swallow on the Wing. striking, and what little straggler of the great bird army fell a victim to that hawk’s rapacity can only be a matter of conjecture. Thousands upon thousands of ‘birds are killed every year by striking against the panes of the lighthouses which- line the coasts of lakes and seas. The birds become bewildered by fog and rain and are attracted by the light which is meant to be a beacon of safety for the travelers by sea, but which proves to be the lure to destruction of the wanderer of the air. Observations have been made systematically at nearly all the lighthouses under government control, and the-fig-ures of bird mortality are startling. The student of the birds finds himself wondering when he contemplates the slaughter in the bird ranks due to the shotgun, and the killings due to fog and storm, that the question of the migration of the birds does not cease to be of interest because there are no birds left to migrate. .
Just a word on the good that the warblers do. In a government report prepared by F. E. L. Real of the biological survey this appears: “Although warblers are individually small their numbers are great, and the quantity of insects. they destroy in the aggregate must be large. In the month of May when the apple-trees have expanded rosettes of small leaves and flower buds,; a multitude of warblers of several species were seen going through an orchard examining these rosettes, and apparently picking something from each. An investigation of the trees not yet reached by the warblers showed that each rosette contained from one to a dozen large plant lice. Watch sharply during September for a daytime migration of the hawks. Some morning or afternoon you are certain to see the birds of prey flying in great numbers over city and country. 1 have watched them traveling over the city from sunrise to sunset on one day and far into the afternoon of the next. You will see them from the great rough-legged hawk, the red-tail, the red-shouldered and the others, down ‘to the diminutive sparrow hawk, sailing, ever sailing, southward across the blue. o
spread often over a circle whose radius is not less than ten feet. These roots, too, are small, but practically innumerable, and they get every bit of moisture and plant food to be had in the territory they cover.—Technical World Magazine. Pennsylvania Giant Pine. A giant white pine tree was cut in Cameron county, Pennsylvania, recently, which produced the following number and length of logs: Twelve 16-foot logs, two 14-foot logs, eight 12foot logs, three 10-foot logs and six 8-foot logs, and the whole bunch scaled the magnificent total of 10,800 feet board measure. The butt log measured 60 inchgs, or 5 feet, in diameter at the smalf end. The tree was not 394 feet high, as it would seem from the figures, but it had two forks and three branches of immense size, hence the large number of logs. 'T'he tree was cut down during the deepest snow of the last winter, and hence it was not much . broken because the snow
Saul and Jonathan Slain in Battle Sunday School Lesson for Sept. 6, 1908 Specially Arranged for This Paper
LESSON TEXT.—I Samuel chapter 3L Memory verse 6. e
GOLDEN TEXT.—“Prepare to meet thy God.””—Amos 4:12. 7% i L
' THE ERA.—The c¢lose of the first reign of United Israel. . The dawn of & new era. . ; 7
TIME.—B. C. 1085 (Ussher, in margin ‘of our Bibles). B. C. 1027 in Revised Chronology. : : 3 PLACE.—On the mnorthern slopes of Mount Gilboa were encamped the army of Saul: the Philistine army at Shunem. The valley of Jezreel lay between qrem. Comment and Suggestive Thought. Saul and the Witch of Endor.—Saul, brave as he was, felt a deep depression of spirit. Why? It was not so much the numbers and battle array of the invading army, as his feeling of guilt and of loss of the favor of God. There is nothing so weakening and depressing as a guilty conscience.. Saul made every effort to obtain the favor and aid of Jehovah, except the only one that could have been successful; complete repentance of sin and turning with his whole heart to God. Like the king im Hamlet, he could not try what repentance could do, because he would not repent. -~ His last resort was to find a sorceress or witch, the whole tribe of which he had driven from his: kingdom, because they led men away from God. Saul learned that eight or ten miles away to the north in some of the remote gorges of Little Hermon, near Endor, a sorceress “had built herself a cabin, and there in gloom and obscurity pliéd her unholy arts.” There are two possible interpretations: g . xg
First. That the woman was interrupted and frightened by the .-unexpected, actual appearance of Samuel, whose voice Saul heard, but whom he did not see; and that Samuel uttered the terrible: wards of condemnation against Saul. = . - : Second. That the whole scene was a deception on the part of the woman. She Tecognized -Saul, and was glad of an opportunity to revenge upon him the evil he had done to her race. She acted astonished, and made Saul think she saw Samuel. Then the put in the prophet’s mouth only the doom which seemed probable, and, as Milman says, “excepting the event of the approaching battle, the . spirit said nothing which the living prophet had not said before repeatedly and publicly.” S V. 1. “And the men of Israel fled before the Philistines.” Saul's three sons, including Jonathan, were slain. The Philistines drove the people out of their town and occupied the territory (v. 7). . - : “Gibeah, Saul's own eity, was thrown into terror. The roval family fled for their lives., In the flight the nurse let fall Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, then a child of five vears of age. ‘He was lamed for life’ (2 Sam. 4:4).”"—James Sime. - The Death of Saul—ln the general rout, Saul realized that there was no way of escape. He was In despair. His army was gone, his son slain, he himself was wounded and weak, and God was -not with him.: He had “supped full of horrors.” =~ Finding he could not escape, “Saul took a -sword and fell upon it” (4), the hilt on the ground and the point at his heart. Thus father and son lay dead together on the field of battle. 9. “And they cut off his head.” To send as a trophy and proof of their victory. It was hung in the temple of Dagon at Ashdod (1 Chrcn. 10:10). “Stripped off his armor, and sent into the land . . .” to publish it in the house of their idols.” '
A Heroic and Loving Deed.—V. 11. “The inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard.” Jabesh-gilead -was a city of Manasseh, east of the Jordan, about ten miles across the Jordan valley from Bethshan.. The inhatitants remembered the splendid feat of arms by which King Saul at the very beginning of his reign delivered them from the Ammonites under Nahash, who agreed to spare them-only on condition of the loss of their right eyes. The men in grateful memory rescued these trophies, burned the decaying bodies, and gave their bomes an honored burial. ‘ : _ What Aids Did Saul Have Toward a Blessed.Life?—(l) He had a long period of home preparation and testing in little fhings till his powers were matured before he was called to sustain the strain of the ecourt-and the -battlefield. (2) Saul as king was required (see Deut. 17:18-20) fo write out a- copy of the law, thus becoming thoroughly acquainted with it, better than.by almost any other means; and then he must “read therein all the days of his life.” (3} Saul received special influences of the Holy Spirit (1 Sam. 10:6), fitting him for his great duties. (4) He bad the ability to become a warrior and statesman, a great benefactor of his nation, educating them in religion, defending them against enemies, building them up in prosperity and trwe success. - What Was the Central Source of His Failure?—lt was a wrong choice. He would not yield blmself heart and soul to God, as David did? Everyone makes istakes and errors, but they are not absolutely destructive so long as one’s central aim and purpose ig to do God’s will. ) “The will is-the ranking official of all in man.” : “1t is the will which creates the man.” "A wrong choice is “as a. poison in the blood which permeates. arteries, veins, nerves, brain and heart, and speedily brings paralysis or death.” The Magic of Odd Numbers. “Even in the matter of weighing groceries there seems a magic in odd aumbers,” said a housekeeper. ‘“Most oq the packages of salt, sugar, coffee ang otHer commodities - that grocers keep on hand to facilitate ,trtifie contain an odd number of pounds. If you are in a hurry and ask for a.madeup package of almost any kind of groceries tradesmen can accommodute you with a ome-pound, three-pound or a nve-pbnh'!ll*‘pqew'; but the chances are that if you want two pounds or mmmfiw it will have to be weighed to order”
. ONE EXCEPTION. eV 2.) 2 - ’ & Oe’ = qi\\‘ o A 0 ¢, : A <P Gt © T vewaen : : p—Easy Edmund—lt's one uv de fraik ties uv our poor human nature dat no matter how much a man gits he wants more. Drather Sitdown (thoughtfully)— Oh, I dunno ’bout dat. Not in a police court: he don’t. : ECZEMA FOR 55 YEARS. Suffered Torments from Birth—in Frightful Condition—Got No Help - -Until Cuticura Cured Him. “I had an itching, tormenting eczema ever since I came into the world, and I am now a man 55 years old. I tried all kinds of medicines I heard of, but found no relief. - I was truly in a frightful condition. At last I broke out all over with red and whits boils, which kept growing until they were as big as walnuts, causing great pain and misery, but I kept from scratching as well as I could. I was 80 run down that I could hardly -do my work. I used Cuticura Soap, Ointment, Resolvent, and Pills for about eight months, and I can truthfully say [ am cured. Hale Bordwell, Tipton, la., Aug. 17, 1907.” ; “I cheerfully endorse the above testimonial. It is the .truth. I know Mr. Bordwell :¢nd know the condition bhe was in. Nelson R. Burnett, Tipton, 2"
Fine Y. M. C. A. Building Planned. A Young Men's Christian Association building that cost to build ang equip more than a million dollars is to be opened in Philadelphia this fall, with Walter M. Wood of Chicago in charge as secretary. An effort is to be made to recruit the membership to 4,000, so that the largest pos‘s‘ihlo number ‘of boys may have the bene fits of the new structure. Philadeiphians are proudly pointing to the eight-story building in Arch street as one of the three finest Young Men's Christian Association homes in the world, the other two being the ‘'Twenty-third street branch, in New York, and the central building in Chicago. : ' What a Poultry Man Says Abdut 20Mule Team Borax. i As lam in the poultry business, I had ten white chicks to wash and prepare for a show. I used “20-Mule Team” Soap for washing the birds, and I can say from years of experience washing white birds, never before have I found .a soap or Borax that cleaned my birds so fine and easy. 1 had a great deal of comment on my birds being so white J. A. Dinwiddie, New Market, Tenn. All dealers—l 4,, 1 and 5 Ilb. cartoms. Samplc and booklet, sc. Pacifie Coast Borax Co., Chicago. - e Her Reserved Seat. It was raining and the car was sopping wet.” Most of the passengérs stood, but there are always. exceptions.: = i - One big pink man with a snowy beard defied rheumatism and wet cloth by plumping himself down on one of the drippy seats. His presumable wife, with a laughing explanation that she was tired, seated herself in his' lap. And when the conducter came along to collect fares she imquired, with the earnestness of cne who seeks knowledge: .“Do I have ‘to pay exira for a re--served seat?” - b The conductor spoke no words that could go resounding down the corridors of time. He just grinned, and the passengers grinned with him. Deaths of Presidents. Washington’s death was due to acute laryngitis; Adams, Madison and Monroe, practically to old age; Jefferson, chronic diarrhea; John Quincy Adams, paralysis; Jackson, dropsy; VaVn Buren, catarrhal affections of the throat and lungs; William Henry Harrison, pleurisy; Tyler, cause. of death not given by biographers; Polk, cholera; Taylor, cholera morbus, combined with a severe cold; Fillmore, paralysis; Pierce, dropsy; Buchananm, rheumatic gout; Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley, assassinated; Johnson, paralysis; Grant, cancer at the root of the tongue; Hayes, neuralgia of the heq.rt; Arthur, heart trouble, and Benjamin Harrison, pneumonia.
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After several years of indigestion and its attendant evil influence on the mind, it is not very surprising that -one finally loses faith in things gen-. erally. : A N. Y. woman writes an interesting letter. She says: “Three years ago I suffered from an attack of peritonitis which left me in a most miserable condition. For over two years I suffered from nervousness, weak heart, shortness of breath, could not sleep, etc. “My appetite was ravenous, but I felt starved all the time. I had plenty . of food but it did not nourish me because of intestinal indigestion. Med- - ical treatment did not seem to help, I got discouraged, stopped medicine and did not care much whether I lived or died. T - “One day a friend asked me why I didn’t try Grape-Nuts, stop drinking coffee, and use Postum. I had Jest faith in everything, but to please my friends I begau to use both and soon becanie very fond of them. “It wasn’t long before I got some strength, felt a decided change in. my system, hope sprang up in my heart ‘and slowly: but surely I got better. I could sleep very well, the constant craving for food ceased and I have - better health now than before the attack of peritonitis. - - “My husband and I are still using Grape-Nuts and Postum.” “There’s a Reason.” . o C Name given bf Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read, “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. ; Be. JUANING VNG, IV 00 ein