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HE HUNTS DOWN HIS PA IN PARIS

The greatest relief I ever. experienced was getiing off of that cattle ship, which I did somewhere in France, because the ship had become so foul smelling that one had to stay on deck to breathe, and there was ro more fun to have, ‘cause the officers and crew got on to me, and evervone expected to be blown up or electrocuted if they got near to me, and the last three days they wouldn’t let me eat in the cabin or sleep -in my bhammock, so I had to go down with the cattle and eat hot bran mash, and sleep in the kay. Gee, but when you <at hot bran mash for a few days you never want to look at breakfast food again as long as you live. r

I traded my electric battery to a deck hand for a suit case, and so I looked like a tourist, because I went to a hotel and got a square meal, and had a porter paste some hotel ads. on my suit case, and I took a train for Paris, looking for Pa, 'cause I knew he wouldn't be far away from the bullyvards. 3

I left my baggage at a hotel where we stopped when we were in Paris before, and the man who spoke shattered English told me Pa was rooming there, but he was not around much because he was being entertained by the American residents, and had some great scheme that took: him away on secret expeditions often; and they thought he was either an anarchist or grafter, and since the *assassination of the .King and crown prince of Portugal the police had overhauled his baggage in his room several times, buf couldn’t find anything incriminating, so I had my baggage sent to Pa’s room, and went out to find Pa, and pick up. something that would throw suspicion on him if he showed any inclination to go back on me when I found him.

It was getting along toward dark when I walked down a bullgvard where Pa used to go when we were

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In Paris before, and ps I came to a cafe where there was a sign, English spoken, I saw a crowd out on the sidewalk surrounding tables, eating and drinking, and there was one big table with about a dozen men and ‘women, Americans, Frenchmen and other foreigners, listening to an elderly man bragging about America, and I saw it was Pa, but he was =0 changed that but for his bald head and chin whiskers I would not have known him.

~ He had on French clothes, one of those French silk hats that had a flat brim and a bell crown,;and he had a moustache that was pointed at the ends and was waxed so it would put your eyes out. = :

Pa was telling them that all the men in America' were millionaires and unmarried, and that all of them came abroad to spend money and marry foreign ladies, to take them back to America and make queens of them, and he looked at a French woman across the table with goo-goo eyes, and she said to the man next to her: “Isn’t he a dear, and what a wonder he is not married before,” and Pa smiled at her and put his hand on his watch chain, on which there hung zold nuggets as big as walnuts, and ke fixed a big diamond in ‘his scarf, so the electric light would hit it plenty. : They ate and drank and the party began to break up, when Pa and the beautiful woinan were alone at the table, and they hunched up closer together, and Pa was talking sweet to ber, and telling her that all wives in America had special trains on railroads, and palaces in New York, and

ANCIENT CUSTOMS OF TURKEY

As long ago as 1613 Coryate visited Constantinople and has left a minute account otd:ts manners and customs. Among other matters he notes that “it is the custom that whensoever any fire ariseth in the city, to hang up him in whose house it beginneth; as now, a cook, in whose bouse it begun, was hanged up presently after the fire ceased.” The Turks rdm it appedrs, were ee e e e

at Newport arid in Florida, and yachts and gold mines, and she could be the queen of them all if she would only say the word, and she was just going to say the word, or something, and had his fat, pudgy hand in both of hers, and was looking into his eyes with her own liquid eyes, and seemed ready to fall into his arms, when I got up behind him and. lighted a giant fire cracker and put it under his chair and just as the fuse was sputtering, I said:

“Pa, ma wants you at the hotel,” and the fireworks went off, the woman threw a fit and Pa raised up out of the smoke and looked at me and said: “Now, where in blazes did. you come from just at this time?” and the head waiter took the woman into a private room to bring her out of her fit, the waiters opened the windows to let the smoke out, and the crowd stampeded, and the police came in to pull the place and find the anarchists who threw the bomb, and Pa took me by the hand and we walked up the sidewalk to a corner, and when we got out of sight of the crowd Pa said: ‘“Henpery, you ma ain’t here, is she?” in a pitiful tone, and I said no she wasn’t along with me this trip, and Pa said: “Hennery, you make me weary,” and we walked along! to the hotel, Pa asking me so many questions about home that it was a like a catekism.

When we got to the hotel and went to Pa's room and I told him what I had been doing since he abandoned me, he said he was proud of me, and now he had plenty of work and ad-','}en-ture for me to keep him in. o He said he -had tried several irships™ by having someone else go up up in them, and that he was afraid to go up in one himself, and he seemed glad that I had been ballooning around home, and he said he could use me to good advantage. I asked him about the woman he was talking to about marriage, and he said that was all guff, that she had a

husband who -had invented a new airship, and he was trying to get title to it for use in America, for war purposes, and that the only way to get on the right side of these French women was to talk about marriage and money, because for money any of them would leave their husbands on 15 minutes’ notice. He said he had arranged for a trial of the airship the next day, from a place out in the country, and that I could go up with the inventor of the ship-and see how it worked and report, so we went to bed and I slept better than I had since 1 shipped on the cattle ship. In the morning while we were taking baths and preparing for breakfast, 1 found that Pa had been flying pretty. high on government money, and he had all kinds of gold and paper ‘money and bonds, and he made people think he owned most of America.

Pa asked me how the people at bome looked upon his absence, and if they advanced any theories as to the cause of his being abroad, and I told him that everybody from the president down to Rockefeller knew about what he was out looking after, and that when I left Bob Evans at Fortress Monroe, he told me to tell Pa to send a mess of airships to him so he would meet them when he got to San Francisco, as he wanted to paralyze the Japs if they got busy around the fleet, which pleased Pa, and he said: “Just tell the people to wait, and I will produce airships that can fight battles in the clouds, but it will take time.” i Then we went out in the country about a gdozen miles, and met the inventor and his wife, and the inventor

doth never at the saluting of his friend at any time of the day, or when he drinketh to him at dinner or supper, put off his turban (as we Christians do our hats one to another), but boweth his head and putteth his right hand upon his breast, so that he utterly disliketh the fashion that is used among us of putting off our hats; therefore, when he wisheth any ill to his enemy he prayeth God to send him B 0 more rest than a Christian’s hat.”

filled a big balloon that looked like a weiner sausage, with gas that he made over a fire out in a field, and the inventor and I got on a bamboo frame under the balloon, and he turned on the gasoline that runs the wheel for tseering, and they cut her loose and we went up about 50 feet and sailed arotnd the country a half a mile either way and watched’ Pa and the wife of the inventor as they sat under a tree and talked politics.

We came back after a while and Pa was proud of me for having so much nerve, and I told him the government at home was complaining because Pa didn't go up in the airships, ’cause they said he couldn’t buy airships intelligently unless he tried them out, and that if he didn’'t look out they

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- I have seen some scared men in my life, but when -the machine gof up about as high as a house, so Pa could not get off, and the woman waved a handkerchief at Pa, he swallowed his Adam’s apple and said: “Let her go Gallagher,” and Gallagher, the Frenchman, let her go. ‘Well, you'd a died to see the thing wobble and see Pa cling on with his feet and hands. For about a quarter of a mile she went queer, like a duck that has been wing-tipped, and then she began to descend. First she passed over a lot of cows that women were milking, and the cows stampeded one way and the women the other way, and the women were scared more than the cows, ’cause ‘when they got out’'from under the ship they prayed, but the cows didn’t. .

Then the ship struck a field where about 40 women were piling onions on the ground, and it just scattered women and onions all over the field, and of all the yelling you ever heard that was the worst.

Pa yelled to them that if he ever got off that hay rack alive he would pay the damages, and they thought he was swearing at them. Then the worst thing possible happened. The airship went up over a tree, and Pa was scared and he grabbed a limb and let go of the bamboo, and there he was in the top of a thornapple tree. The balloon went over all right, and the inventor steered it -away. to where it started from, and the woman and I watched Pa. The thorns were about two inches long and more than a hundred of them got into Pa and he yelled all kinds of murder, and then the women who owned the ¢cows and onions the ship had wrecked surrounded the tree with hoes and rakes and pitchforks, and they made such a frantic noise that Pa did not dare to come down out of the tree. So Pa told us to take the train back to Paris and send the American consul and the police and a hook and ladder company to get him down ané protect him. I told Pa I didn’t want to go off and leave him to be killed by strange women, and maybe eaten by wolves before morning, but he said: “Don’t talk back to.me, you go and send that patrol wagon and the hook and ladder truck, and be quick about it or I won’t do a thing to you when I catch you.” So we went and put the airship in a barn and went back to town and turned in a police and fire alarm to rescue Pa. The chief said there was no use in going out there in the country before morning, because the women couldn’t get up the thornapple tree and Pa couldn’t get down. So I went to bed and dreamed about Pa all night, and had a perfectly lovely time. . Took His Stock to Camp. A French Territorial, who had received notice to join his regiment for nine days’ service, made a sensational entry into barracks the other day at Privas. Unable to leave his live stock to shift for itself, he decided to bring everything with him, and so arrived in his cart, drawn by a mule, and containing his goat, two rabbits, several fowls and 12 chickens. It is not stated what the colonel has decided to do.?

Women at Berlin University,

“Woman’s place at the University of Berlin,” says the Tageblatt of that city, “has already become an important one, although her rights have not .yet been fully recognized there. According to the latest report, 449 women were entered at the largest high school last summer and 753 attended the winter session. Degrees were conferred on 12, ten in medicine and two inphilosophy.” New York city has 133 departmens stores that employ 11,000 persons.

E. PLURIBUS UNUM

By WILLIAM S. WALKLEY |

(Copyright, by Shortstory FPub.: Co.)

There was me bunkie, Dunham, the rookie, an’ Gawd only knows why he ever went in. He was the littlest, brown-haired, blue-eyed kid you ever saw, witt\ laughin’ ways an’ dainty manners; but his place was with his ma, though no man ever put up a better scrap, as even Silver Anderson knows. He come to me tent, an’ he says, “I'm to live here,” chuckin’ down his kit. - >

Billy McNutt rolls over an’ says: “Hope to die! What dairy calf air yout’ - | :

“The cove must of busted his apern string, an’ run for it. Where's your nurse, little 'un?” hollers Sliver Anderson, the Swine. ,

He just grinned sort of sheepish an’ never said nothin’, and goin’ red as a artill'ry blankit. I asked him what's his name, an’ he hauls out a little silver mounted bizness an’ pulls out a visitin’ card, handin’ it to Billy MecNutt. You orter seen us fellers opeg our winders an’ look:at it.

Billy gits up an’ bows an’ scrapes his feet, lookin’ at the ticket. Then he says—Billy was a feller what would have shined in a thee-ater—he says, sarcastic like an’ grand, “Aw, glad to welcome you to the Fift’ Army Corps, Mister E. Pluribus Unum, with your name parted in the middle,” handin’ the ticket to me. ' The rookie just grinned some more, an’ we all laughed—Billy’s such a funny little beast; then he up an’ tells us his name is E. Pluribus Dunham, an’ that the bell-boy of our hotel —meanin’ Billy—wa’n’t no lady. That riled McNutt, an’ he was for murder, only I sat on him, he bein’ best controlled by force. “Take it cool, Wil liam,” says I. The cuss growed on us, spite of his milky way; had a knack for sogerin’, too, an’ could cook like a Chinaman —guess he done it for his ma, when she was sick. He was willin’ an’ handy round camp, an’ worked 'like

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Billy McNutt softened up on the child an’ tried to do some of his work, 'cause E. Pluribus was gittin’ thin, though he stayed with his feed —when they was any. I heerd Billy argyin’ with him. ; “Pluribus,” says Billy, “gimme your shovel, an’ you rest yourself like a nice boy.” e

“Thanks, Billy,” said the youngster, proud -like, “you ain’t so many, an’ this is my detail. You're just come in, ain’t you?” : Billy laughed sort of soft, an’ said he guessed he could stand it better'n Pluribus could. Then he made a pass for the shovel, but the kid was quick an’ wouldn’t have it. i : “Darn it,” says Billy, “you’ll kill yourself in them hellish trenches, diggin’ like an Eyetalian in a sewer. Let’s see your lunch-hooks.”

The little bantam’s hands was blistered like he’d been,K burned with a red-hot iron, an’ we never knowed it. “My Gawd,” says Billy, near weepin’. An’ ‘he took the shovel, an’ a extry stunt shovellin’ trenches. Billy’s heart’s as big as old Shafter, is Billy’s. Th’ excitement kept him lively as weevily hardtack. The first dead man Pluribus saw, he turned white as a hospital cot an’ swallered hard; but he never let go. He wa'n’t no coffeecooler, you bet. At San Wan he was a wonder. We was lyin’ in the long grass, eatin’ of our hearts, waitin’ for the word to pay our respecks to the Little King's sogers, an’ the bullets was singin’, singin’, whistlin’ an’ whistlin’ like a hundred fiddles playin’ top notes ‘in wicked spasms. McNutt was crawlin’ in front of Pluribus so ’s to be a bullet-proof for him, doin’ it gradual, so the kid wouldn’t git on. Curious how Billy cottoned to the lad. Pluribus was on his back, starin’ up into the sky—'twas hotter an’ bluer than coolin’ steel—an’ he laughed.

“Billy,” sdys he, “them bullets sound’ like a fily under a sheet of paper—mad an’ sassy.”

“Yep,” says Billy, fingerin’ his cutoff, “an’ they stings wusser'n a hornet; the fellers are dyin’ too; potted like woodchucks.” v “Shut up,” says the kid, thinkin’. ‘“The band or them buzzards'll take care of 'em. You tend to your knitting. He was a keener for fair, Pluribus, an’ Billy grinned at the sass of the rookie—under fire, too. B Menhn it's funny, but I don't remem- 1

ber much about the fightin’ after we got to work. ’Tain’'t right to Reep men under’ a nasty fire, an’ sharpshooters a-baggin’ everything blue in sight, without showin’ what the range practice has done for them. Men what lose their mess waitin’ on their stummicks are wasted, sort of wasted, anyhow; they don’t get a chanst to die with their blood up, when they don’t care if they does die—kind of locoed; only they never fergits where the flag is. Bein’ killed while you're reservin’ fire for half a day is bad for the nerves. :

But finally they give us a go. ’'Twas a tidy sprint while it lasted, Billy an’ Pluribus clost together, pumpin’ lead at a stinburnt mud wall. There wa’'n’t much yellin’ till we were at the top, an’ the yaller rag was yanked down an’ Glory was floatin’ over free Cuby. We yelled then. Yes, an’ blame if the burnin’ tears could help comin’, just for joy at seein’ it there, an’ bein’. alive to see it. That’'s what.

There was some as got their everlastin’ discharge—honorable; some got a big go at servin’ their country in hospitals gittin well; some made crutches out. o’ crooked sticks, an’ stayed away from the Sawbones to fight for grub; an’ there wa’'n't no sorrer when the bloody Hidagoes hung out a shirt on their back porch, an’ quit the game. ) Now, in course of knockin’ round barracks for 20 year, in one regiment an’ another, I've seen some curious things. Chasin’ Indian ‘devils over alkali plains an’ in the Bad Lands, an’ makin’ little maps of Alasky, puts a man on sentry-go over more’n a tenacre lot, an’ interjuces curious folks; but Pluribus beat the hull outfit to a standstill. : After Pecos Bill - Shafter took a pasear down fo the village, an’ raised our flag over the palace, there wa'n’t nothin’ to do but swap baccy, an’ git the fever, which last me an’ Billy did; not bad, but we didn’t notice things for a day or two. Then we saw Pluribus was goin’. The hustle an’ rush an’ excitement had kept him up, an’ he sort of forgot he had a home an’ a mother, but it took him sudden, an’ that kid was dyin’ because he couldn’t git up an’ dust for his ma. Homesick! Dyin’ for his mother jest as certain as if he was mortal wounded. “If Pluribus would only cry,” says Billy, bein’ a great lad for the wimmin, “it’d bring him right, wimmin does; but he sets there with his eyes big an’ shiny—like Micky Hogan’s woman when they told her he had cashed in. Gawd, it's wicked.” “Billy,” says I, “the kid’ll never see his home again, if he don’t git there quick.” “Wot yer givin’ me?” says he.

“’Struth,” says L Bt pe “Dyin’?” says McNutt, scared an’ whisp’rin’ like folks do in a room with a corpse. :

“Yep; sure thing. He’s just a-fad-in’ out like snow before a Montana chinook.” :

The Q. M. department started us back to the states on a through packet from hell, an’ the Old Boy hisself was at. the hellum. Down in the stiflin’ hold they put us; with a few lights, dim an’ faint in the fog of fever breath. Bunks in tiers, with the grinnin’ ghost of what had been a soger in every one. It was a whole graveyard, stirrin’ at the last reveille. On deck it was as bad, or worse. How could fellers sleep with empty bellies an’ their blood on fire, an’ listenin’ to men in the hospital shriekin’ an’ dyin’—every one in his own terrible way? No two men ever die alike. Seme just quit breathin’; some prayed; some cursed; some just babbled with their folks, laughin’ an’ talkin’, pattin’ hands an’ sayin’ baby talk. Crazy! We was all kind of off'n our nuts.

Me an’ Billy crawled up an’ sat by Pluribus in the hospital, never sayin’ a word. The kid never knowéd us, an’ never wanted nothin’. His mind was a blank to his surroundin’s, an’ he didn’t seem: to suffer much. Just was dopey; smiiin’ to hisself, an’ talkin’ to his ma in a quiet happy way that made me an’ Billy creepy, knowin’ it wa'n’t real. 1 pitied Billy. while we was waitin’. Poor little Pluribus had the easiest detail, after all.

One day the kid went out—sur rendered unconditional. They stopped the ship, an’ it was quiet as the house of death, with the engines still. Billy had a small silk flag that some girl had given him at a station—always tradin’ buttons with the wimmin was Billy—an’ he sewed it over the kid’'s chest. The chaplain said a prayer, 1 guess, but I never heard fit, an’ there was a splash down below in the cool blue water. Then they gtarted the engines again. 3 Me an’ Billy never spoke; we couldn’'t for a long time. Just standin’ lookin’ back over that trail of white foam in the blue water; that trail marked every mile with a dead, starin’ sentry in blue. And it stretches from Santiago, round Cape Maysi, up through the Bahamy channel, past Hatteras, right up the coast to Montauk here—a thin blue line of tearin’ fine men.

But me an’ Billy are thinkin’ most of a little cuss with a flag over hias breast, down yonder in the sea. .

KNEW THE SYMPTOMS. /ff' X ' 3£y S, ) A | g A . 1 2 « AR i \ é ‘:‘?;.'A | . T / . wk 1 <E \ﬁ" f The Minister—John, John, I am sur prised to see you. What good does it do you getting muddled like this,. putting you off your work. 'When you go to bed you cannot sleep, your toague is parched, your head is like to split, and you bave no lppotlt’e-sa{i _ John—Gie us yer hand, sir; y'a'vc4 ‘been drunk, yersel’, B

CLAIMS RICH EGYPT VALLEY. F. C. Whitehouse in Paris and New : York on Same Pay. New York.—This is not Rameses the First. It is the eminent Egyptologist, ¥ O W&iitehouse, better known as Cape Whitehouse, who through the state department at Washington, lays claims to a valley in Egypt, worth perhaps $50,000,000. Mr. Whitehouse claims this valley was the original reservoir for the irrigation of Egypt, and his ambition is not to make money out of it, but to see Egyptian prosperity restored by its use. Mr. Whitehouse is probably the only man on earth- who can be proved by

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judicial evidence to have been in Paris and New York on the same day. He was interested in some litigation over property in Buffalo and, returning from Europe, was startléd to find that the Erie county records showed he had appeared personally in New York city and abandoned his claims in the suit on a day when the records of the Fyench institute will show he read a very able paper on Egypt before that institute in Paris. ' ! The matter was laid before the judge who had certified to Mr. Whitehouse’s appearance in court, but he threatened imprisonment for contempt of court—probably on the theory that it is contempt of a Tammany judge not to have been in New York when he certified that you were.

PEACOCK THRONE PEDESTAL.

Relic of Grand Mogul Now in- Metro- : politan Museum of Art.

New York.—Sir Purdon Clarge, on his return from Europe a few weeks ago, told of the acquisition of one of the pedestals of the famous peacock throne of the grand mogul. He had been negotiating, for this object ever since 1880. It was once held at an extravagant figure, but was finally obtained, by waiting, for much less, although price is merely an incident in the realm of art. Two of the four pedestals of the throne were saved. One of them is in the South Kensington museum, in NIRRT SPR N, ¥ | SN2I /// VON ‘(rx. ..':‘# :—‘.f ¢ ) R /7’ ST2 3 / | /’\ 00/ R e et .?" I% : f:“' » ! A 7 X 2 o A A\ Gy ' Pedestal of Peacock Throne. London, and the other is now in the Metropolitan, where it was shown recently for the first time. It is in a case especially constructed for it. It consists of a small column of white marble, of which the base and the capital form three-quarters of its height. The capital has a square abacus diminishing by means of a highly ornamental stalactite work to a carved chain. The compressed bulbous shaft, 16 sided and faceted, is inlaid with in. tricate patterns in lapis lazuli, jade, carnelian and yellow marble. The base has rows of leaf-shaped forms and the termination is a flat molding profusely ornamented. The column is 22 inches high. : ; Mr. Albert M. Lythgoe, curator of Hgyptology, explained the institution’s plan for erecting here one of the burial chambers taken from a pyra mid. The stones must first be coated to prevent the pictures and inscriptions on them from deteriorating, for the damp climate of New York is likely gseriously to affect them.

Landslide Threatens Railroad. A whole mountain located neér Palisade, in Nevada, has been set in motion by blasting on the line of the Western Pacific railroad. Every available section man in‘the employ of the Southern Pacific Company has been set to work trying to save the new tunnel recently completed at a cost of $150,000. It is believed that the company will be compelled to abandon the tunnel and make another route around the hill. Only a few hundred feet south the Western Pacific recently completed a similar tunnel. The heavy blasting done in boring this tunnel apparently has shattered the whole mountain and it is moving.

Ambassadors Free from T;xqtipn.

‘Ambassadors are to be envied for their freedom from the burden of taxation. They disburse not one cent in taxes, either directly or indirectly, and as for the custom house it is nonexistent so far as they are concerned. No duty whatever is charged in re spect of wines, cigars, cigarettes, etc, that are consigned to them. 4 Folly. There may be a pearl in the oecasional oOyster, but anyoné wanting peatls would be foolish to go to a seafood house to buy them—Detroit

Solomon

Anointed King Sunday School Lessem for Nov. 22, 1908 Specially Arranged for This Paper

LESSON TEXT.—I Kings 1:32-40; 50-53. Memory- verses, 39, 40. ‘ 2 GOLDEN TEXT.—“‘Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind.”’— 1 Chron. 28:9. T TlME.—Solomon began to reign ‘B. C. 1022, or according to the Assyrian records B. C. 971. He reigned 40 years. PLACE.—'f‘he city of Jerusalem. Solomon was crowned at Gihon, identified as the modern fountain of the virgin.

Comment and Suggestive Thought. Solomon’s Early Life and Training. —l. He was -the#first son of David and Bathsheba after their legal marriage. ) 2. His name, Solomon, means the Peaceful, one whose reign was foreteld to be a reign of peace and quietness (1 Chron. 22:9). It may have also’ expressed the fact that David himself had found the peace of forgiveness. Nathan called him - Jedidiah: “Beioved of Jehovah.”

3. His parental inheritance was remarkably strong in several directions. His father, David, was in the maturity of his age, and his mother, Bathsheba, was the granddaughter of the wise Ahithophel, whose advice ‘“was as if a man had inquired at ghe oracle of God.”

4. His early environment had several advantages over that of Apsalom, the son of a heathen mother. Solomon was placed under the care and training of the prophet Nathan, a

faithful, pure and wise teacher. He would be brought up thus in the religion and learning of the Jews. He developed a great taste for science and literature (1 Kings 4:32-34). He had the advantages of being the child of David’s later years and of being under the influence of the subdued piety which characterized those years. His mother, too, doubtless joined with David in his. penitential piety, for she had great influence over him to the last. : <

On the other hand, he was “born to the purple;” he was brought up in luxury and-wealth, and knew nothing of the hardships which developed much of the character of his father. The influenees of the court were often bad. He came in contact with other princes and ke had to resist all the temptations of a beautiful and flattered youth. - : = 5. He was probably 19 or 20 years old when he began to reign. There are some very wholesome lessons from this picture of = Solomon. (1) Almost every child born into a Christian family has greater opportunitics and blessings than even Solomon had. All Solomon’s wisdom and wealth could not bring him so many advantages and comforts and blessings as a poor child may have in this age. How much God ana your parents expect of you. Many a hope and joy depends on you for fruition. Whether you shall be the blessing of your parents’ old age or bring their gray hairs in sorrow to the grave depends upon your conduct. (2) It is a great advantage in many ways not to be born and brought up in the luxury of riches. The other extreme of deep poverty is as little to be desired. But that condition of neither poverty nor riches, where the child must learn to work, learn selfdenial, learn to do Lis part in the. family, and sees that only work and energy can give ‘him real success, is the best for all.

(3) It is wisdom to put. ourselves under fhe best and strongest religious influences. No ene can escape temptation. Everyone must make a choice of the influences around him. And the influences he chooses out of alk those which are around him will largely determine his future life.. Compare Burbank's “Training of the Human Plant.” . B :

V. 39. “And all the people said; God save King Solomon.” They accepted him as their king, “with shouts that rent the earth with the sound thereof.” The attempt of Adonijah was thus nipped in the bud. The kingdom was a limited monarchy, perhaps the first in history. 'ln 1 Chronicles -28 and 29 there is an account-of a great assembly of the princes, the army officers, the statesmen, and the Jewish leaders, called by David. To-them he told his plans far the temple, presented Solomon to them as their king, and entireated both him and the people to keep all his commandments with a perfect heart and a willing mind, “that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you forever.” And David said to Solomon his son: “Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed, for the Lord God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord” (1 Chron. 28:20). The leaders accepted Solomon as king, proved that they were in sym. pathy with his great work by immense contributions given with great joy, and confirmed their allegiance by religious services, and a great feast of thanksgiving. ¢ God has given each of us a kingdom to gain. - R ~Three influences brought Solomon to the throne. (1) His inheritance as the son of David and grandson of Ahithophel. (2) His fitness for the place and work. (3) His choice by the people. These three influences have to do with the success of the young people oI to-day. . There is an element of Divine Providence in every life beyond the individual's control. But his use of it and his choice of those things which fit him for use. fulness will largely determine his career, though he must also have those. qualities which lead the people to freely choose him for his place and. work. e e The worsgﬂ.ﬂ' preﬁmueqigfﬁ the young, for their life work and success, is what Is called “Sowing wildoath” -~ & - G We have in this story a lesson in. ‘fAint toward the desire o in Hve: ”'m SYONEEN S WeRLE L W LT .23_'“: : :’%%s:‘“”""‘:-%?::i"f‘ iy

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