Ligonier Banner., Volume 45, Number 14, Ligonier, Noble County, 23 June 1910 — Page 7

When Zeb Acted y By LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY i

“})ir—f Zob'*limmy! Mary has gone! Her bed' ain’tibeen slept in!” Farmer. Jot_‘n White, Zeb Hastings, his hired map, and his son Jimmy were-'si\nmg v§c{wn to breakfast when Mrs. White; who had been upstairs to see why thel daughter Mary didn't come down, stood at the foot of the sthirs and made the above announcement. . "“What do ypu mean, ma?”’ slowly asked the husband, while Zeb turned. pale and rose lup, and Jimmy, the 14-year-old son, Had a-guilty look. . “Come right| upstairs and see for yvourselves. I itell you: her bed ain't been slept in, land I shouldn’t a bit wonder if most of her clothes was gone!” : z : : The husband|f wife and Zeb filed up the stairway dnd gazed at the bed, while Jimmy made a sneak for the barn. The bed was there, without a crease or a crinkle in it, and Mary's best things wene mijssigg. : “She wouldnit hang herself in the garret, would she?” asked the father. “She wouldn’t drown herself in the well, would shle?’ asked the whitefaced wife, as she wrung her hands. Zeb Hasting | had been a farmer’s hired man sincg he was 18. He was steady and hard-working. He had been with the Whites for three years, and for two yeajrs he had been in love with ' the daughiter Mary. He hadn’t exactly said s'o,i but the father knew it, the mothet] knew it and -Mary knew. it.. Zeb w‘as a little slow—that’s all. > : ’ “Zeb’ll make| Mary a good man,” was thé comment between husband and wife. . ‘ : = L Mary liked Zeb. As for loving him, sha didn't knmj. She had let things

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But for the arrival of a summer boarder things would have continued to drift. He vaas a young man of good looks, wore clothes of the latest pattern and wasi a new being to the isolated girl. He told her of the outside world—appealed to romance, ambition #nd curiosity—and, after a stay of a fortnight, gave the farmer a worthless bank check for his board and disappeared.

It was a week later that Mary failed to come down to breakfast. Zeb had been jealous|of the boarder and had heaved a sigh of relief at his departure.

“For the land’s sake, what is it, and what are you goin’ to do?” asked Mrs. White, looking at Zeb instead of her husband. . |

Without & word in answer, Zeb turned - and | walked downstairs and made his way to the barn. The granary door wag’.shut. He opened i'tvand got a firm hold of the collar of the hiding Jimmy and lifted him out on the barn floor and shook him three or four times, and demanded: “Tell me‘agwhere she went! You know all abaut it.”

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“And, gol /[darn you, you knew she was going and kept still about it! Go on and tell me everything or I'll shake the head off you!” :

He was led into the house to sob out his story. The summer boarder was an actor-manager. In no other way could he have appealed so strongly to the girl.| Bhe had never seen a play, but she had .read. She had but to be cast as Little Eva in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and romance, fame and the world were hers. At first she had doubted her talents, but after committing & 50-word speech to memory and repeating it to the manager, he had pronounced her a marvel, and she had doubted no more. - Brother Jimmy had overheard enough, so that they were: obliged to take him into their confidence. In fact, on the night Mary left the house he had carried her satchel for three miles. on the way to the village. When his story had been finished—and there were many other details—both father and mother looked at Zeb Never before had they seen a paleness through his sunburn—his eyes look so steely, his jaw so hard set. They didn’t ask what he was going to do; they could read it in his face. The “New York Uncle Tom’s Cabin company” was to foregather that night at a village 25 miles away for rehearsal previous to taking the road." The boy

Jimmie had it all down pat. If he had only been a year or two older, so he had been told, he would have been taken along to play the part of George Harris. : . Zeb Hastings went npstairs and changed to his Sunday suit. When he came down he went to the barn and harnessed the old mare to the democrat wagon. He had the barnyard gate open to drive out when Mrs. White came out and asked between her sobs: ? 3 Sy - “Zeb, what you goin’ to do?” . - “Goin’ to tip over Uncle Tom’s cabin.” ; L He drove to the village where Mary must have taken the train, put up the horse "at the tavern barn and then went to the depot to wait for his train. Men who knew him for a good fellow shook hands or slapped him on the back, and, after looking at him in his Sunday suit asked if he was going away to be -married. To their surprise ‘he replied that he was. He wasn’t mentioning names, but he expected to bring a wife back with him. At two o'clock in tﬁg‘a’fternoon Zeb Hastings was landed at the depot in ‘Schofield. He made a few inquiries, got a bite to eat and then made his way to ’l‘urner's’.hall. A citizen named Turner had the enterprise to turn the second story of his hardware store into a place where outraged taxpayers and other bodies might meet. Theatricals had been given there and there were bills on the walls and- boards announcing that the Uncle Tom company !wounld take its chances at an early flate. : A rehearsal had been called for two

o'clock and as Zeb made his way into the hall it was just beginning. He paused for a moment to locate two of the actors—Mary White and the summer boarder. Then he advanced and lifted himself upon the stage. Mary stared and turned pale and trembled. The summer boarder didn’t recognize the farmer’s hired man, and he advanced and demanded why the intrusion. ’

“I have come to act!" replieq Zeb and he proceeded to do so.

It was great acting. It never will be beaten. It brought down the manager and the house—the manager first. Zeb didn’t have many speeches, but the dction was superb. He selzed that manager by the hair and shook him silly. Then he mopped the stage with him. Then he booted him about The women of the cast crowded together and shrieked and screamed. They were real shrieks and screams—warranted three-ply. The gentlemen in the cast woke up after a bit and pitched into-Zeb in a body. There was no make-belie%'e in that pitch, but they were as straws in a 40-mile gale. Down went Uncle Tom, and down went Legree. The Lawyer Matks was tossed aside like a chip and George ‘Harris received two black eyes in onetwo measure. 3 . _ It took Zeb Hastings just nine minutes to tip over Uncle Tom's cabin and ‘Uncle Tom and everybody connected with it and bring about a financial wreck. When he had finished he beckoned tp Mary White. She came over and took his arm, and they left ‘the hall together. It was 11 o’clock that night when they drove up to the farmhouse. The family rushed forward with extended arms to cry: “Oh, Mary, how could you—how could—!" : “Cut it out!” interrupted Zgb. “Mary and me was married before we left Schofield, and there’s been acting 'nuff for one day!” C :

Who Named Pennsylvania?

In connection with a recent sale in England of the letters of William Blathwayt, a correspondent of the London Daily News makes the interesting assertion' that Blathwayt, and not William Penn, selected the name for the commonwealth which he founded in the new world. According to this authority, when William Penn applied to Charles 11. for permission to name his new colony after the king, Blathwayt, who was in attendance on his majesty, being a staunch Tory and high churchman, vigorously objected. “N&, ‘your majesty,” said he, “let the Quaker call it after,himself,” and Pennsylvania accordingly it was named. Secretary of state though he was, Blathwayt must have been an odd character, for he contrived to obtain the good opinion of both Pepys and Evelyn at one and the same time, but he played not fair to the Stuart cause. “He crossed, I believe, with James to Dublin, and probably joined in the Irish jig with O’Flynn and-Lady Bendetta at Dublin castle, and then apparently he went straight back and espoused the cause of William.” - : :

Language of Switzerland.

It is a curious fact that the people most celebrated for love of country should, in a manner, be without a language—that is, a mother tongue. The Swiss have three official languages— German, French and Italian. About three-fourths of the population of the mountain confederation speak German, while the remainder divide four languages among them, chiefly French and Italian, these languages being found, as a rule, in districts in close proximity to the countries wherein those languages are the principal tongue. : In Switzerland documents and notices are printed in both the French and German languages. In the National assembly members deliver their speeches in either French or German for nearly all members understand both tongues. The decrees and proclamations of the president are translated by an official interpreter and furnished to the press in both languages. : Soap Advertisements? Right—Did you see my verses in Scribbler’s Magazine? Penman—No; 1 never read the magazine advertisements. e~ Yonkers mman. m e

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HE natural wonders of Yose- | mite have probably altered little since Adam and Eve walked in the garden, but the circumstances that owe their origin to the hand of man have changed much in the last ten years. To reach the valley, instead of the former long stage ride through a Dret Harte country, with the exhilarating possibility of ‘being held up by a bandit, a ride over roads half a-foot deep in fine gray or red dust, with its stop at the end of the hot day at delightful Ahwanee or Wawona, you now sit at the rear of an observation car, watch the Merced river canon slip behind, muse on the days of the Argonauts as deserted placer digging and humming quartz mills glide by, contrasting.the old method of gold hunting with the new; and in a few hours the train stops at El Portal, within a dozen miles of El Capitan. S

According to Henry S. Vandyke the artistic appreciation of lofty heights is best gained by viewing them from the bottom, and the common practise of rushing to the top to look down is. from the ®rtist’'s point of view, a mistake. As you look from a foreground of bright meadow and limpid river to ‘dark green pines standing out against marvelous gray cliifs, which sheer upward, height above height, into wonderful domes backed by the deep blue of the mountain sky, your artistic sense is indeed satisfied: - And at night by moonlight, from the valley floor Yosemite is a glimpse of paradise. Whatever of sternness there be in the grandeur of its precipices seen by day is dissolved in that soft, silvery radiance, until the gray cliffs become unreal, unsubstantial, luminous with the light ¢hat never was on land or sea. Yosen.lte falls lies a silver ribbon against a wall, slightly darker, but itself translucent. As well try to describe to the unlettered savage the beauty of poetry; to depict to the natural man the things of the spirit, which, being spirituall¢ discerned, are foolishness to him, as attempt to show forth in words the miracle of Yosemite by moonlight. But Yosemite has a universal appeal, and its downward vistas will stir the heart that beauty and sublimity may fall to touch. The. terrific yvet fascinating sensation in which the breath comes in gasps, the heart thumps in audible pulsations, and the body shrinks backward in shuddering recoil, can be experienced by any one who peers over the edge and down that vertical three-quarters of a mile at El Capitan or Glacier point. And the magnetic attraction of that frightful downward glance is fresh and undiminished at every point. Yosemite ' has thrills for all. Gy

Glacier point becomes the objective after a day or two, dlike of the artistic and of those who merely desire to look down. The grandest view on earth is to be seen from the porch of the Glacier Point hotel, that never-to-be-forgotten scene embracing the Half-Domre, Vernal and Nevada falls, Panorama cliffs and Mt. Starr King with the forest between, the smooth stone canon of the Merced above the falls, and the snowy jagged peaks of the high Sierras in the background. And barring flying machines, nothing outside Yosemite can compare with

An Unintended Warning.

Arnold—Have you any idea why Shadeler’s drummer left Bustere’s office without even showing him any goods? : Warner—Yes; there’s a motto hanging above Bustere’'s desk that reads, ‘Try, try again,’ and the drummer took it as a warning. ) Arnold—A warning of what? . Warner—Waihy, you know Bustere has failed se¢veral times and the drummer was afraid that he might be going to try to fail again. A Poet’s “Thoughts. * “Don’t you sometimes have thoughts that are unutterable?”’ asked the sweet young thing who was on the verge of graduating. ; “Never,” replied the poet with the unbarbered hair, “but I seem to have a good many that can’t get into print.” _ * Meant So. “My sister received shocking treatment at the hospital which was so highly recommended to us. - “Indeed! How did that happen?” “She had t> have application of an elactric battery.” :

the Hanging rock as a point from which to get a thrilling downward look.

A tramp through the woods to the fissures, coming back in time for the sunset from the top of Sentinel dome, is a trip' that well repays its labor, Beyvond the dome is a forest of fir, tamarack, and the “little” sugar pine, with glades of the greenest velvety grass, on which the foot gives forth no sound. Under the trees the thick carpet of pine needles crackles beneath the step; the sunshine falls slantingly through the branches, ma-

king flecks and patches of dazzling light on the white rocks and granite soil, which reflect the warmth with hardly diminished force; the odor of the pines, pervasive as light, sweet, pure, free, scents the air; the low, soft murmer of the wind in the trees is like distant surf, now faintly falling, now swelling in crescendo. California is, in such sights and sounds and smells, the California of romance; and the true sons of the golden west are those who, like the Bohemians, celebrate their mysteries in the depths of the forest, amid the majestic trees that are distinctive of the state.

Entirely new aspects of Yosemite are gathered in an evening walk down the short trail from Glacier point. As the sunlight withdraws, a light blue haze suddenly fills. the valley. It looks like thinly-diffused smoke; but it springs into existence everywhere at once, and its effect is as if one should look at the landscape through a delicately colored blue glass. As the night falls, the lower parts of the valley, the shadowy woods, ‘the canon mouths, darken to blackness; the gathering gloom blurs the details of the great cliffs, draws them nearer, magnifies their vastness, ‘until they seem to rise put of bottomless depths and to tower portentously ‘overhead. The metallic gleam on their western edges, from the copper sky where the sun has set, only augments and renders sinister the mysterious effect of the deepening obscurity. Awesome, monstrous, titanic, the scene is a Dantesque dream, suggestive of the loneliness and thg mystery of death, of the solitude ¢f a lost soul wandering amid the frightful abysses of a chaotic universe, in maddening need of sympathetic touch and communion with some kindref being.

Yosemite speaks in its sublimity of the eternal; yet it ranges over a wide gamut of the human emotions, and a single: day’s experiences may touch the humorous as well as the serious sentiments. Always there is something new, always something interesting. The mountains, the cliffs, the waterfalls, the animal and vegetable life, the weather, perefct but for the occasional thunder shower, the people, possessed by the holiday spirit, thoroughly democratic and thoroughly delightful—all combine to form a vacation environment unsurpassed and unsurpassable. Other places throughout the Sierras have individual features as remarkable as those of Yosemite; but none has so many and so striking exemplars of nature’s beauty and grandeur within the radius of a day’s walk, and none can ever compete with the place ;hat “quite comes up to the brag.” ; 3 JAMES E. REYNOLDS.

: HIS GREED. “] don’t see to what else you can aspire,” I said to the despondent airship champion; “you have flown farther and higher than any of your competitors, and your ship has carried five times as many pasengers as theirs. I should think you would be contented with your achievements.” A look of infinite longing shadowed the man’'s intellectual and daring countenance. “Alas!” he sighed. “My achievements can never be complete and I can never be contented until people can say of me that I was the first man to sail an airship through the completed Panama canal.” : Of Course Not. “He certainly talks silly!” “How so?" : “He says if the world’s longest rivers were placed end to end they would come within 500 miles of encimling the earth.” =5 “And what Is there silly agout that?"’ ‘ “Why, you sillyl it couldn't be done.” . :

‘The Parable of the Tares Sunday School Lesson for June 26, 1910 : Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT.—Matthew 13:24-20, 36-43. Memory verses, 37, 38 GOLDEN TEXT.—"Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kin‘:e‘,ng\ of their I’at!xg,"‘—i\ln{:‘ 13-43. TlME.—Autumn of AT D. 28 PLACE.--On the shore of the Bea of Galilee, probably not far from Capernaum. . Suggestion and Practical Thought, This parable helped the disciples to understand some problems that continually in'esemed themselves in their thoughts about the kingdom of heaven. It i{s £ picture of the contending forces of good and evil in the world; and the victory of the good. The Good Seed—Vs. 24, 37, 38. “The kingdom of heaven"” is the kingdom which has its origin in heaven, and which Jesus as king came to establish on earth; in which the laws of heaven are obeved on earth, so that earth becomes like heaven. The Sower of the Good Seed.—Vs. 24, 37. The man represents the “Son of Man,” through whom God was manifest in the seed sowing. He is the source of all good seed. He began in the Garden of Eden, and has been sowing ever since. Every good man, wherever found, is a child of God. born from above by the Spirit,. and made alive with the life of God. .

The Field Sown.—Vs. 24, 38. “The field is the world.” It is not the church, but the whole world: not Christian lands, but all lands in which the true church is the good seed. “In his field.”. The whole world belongs rightfully to Christ. The sowing of tares is a usurpation. Christ “came unto his own.” :

The Good Seed.—Vs. 24, 38. “The good seed are the children of the kingdom,” those who in heart belong to the kingdom, are filled with its spirit, and strive to live according to its principles. - ‘God’s children are good seed, living seed. The principle of life, of increase is in them. Dead seeds do not increase. A " dead church does not grow; and this is fortunate, for neither God nor man desires an increase of that kind of Christiams or churches. . 3

There is a great variety of good seed adapted ic all.seasons and all circumstances, producing different kinds of fruit at different times. But remember that Christians are

planted as well as sown, planted where God desires them to be, “by the streams of water” (Psa. 1:3). Professor Vincent on this Psalm says: “The Gospel man is ndt like a tree which grows wild. He lis like a tree planted, and that in a place which will best promote his growth. ‘Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and planted you’ (the true rendering of ordained in John 15:16). He is always planted by rivers of water. Men find these channels in the most ‘unpromising parts of God’s garden,” as amid trouble, difficulties, bereavements, sickness.

The Enemy Sowing Tares Among the Wheat.—Vs. 25, 28, 39. “While men slept,” that is, secretly, when the good did not realizé what was going on, any more than a sleeping person could. The beginnings of evil are often scaveely discernible. The young often begin courses of evil,” as. unconscious of its tendencies and outcome, as if they were sound asleen. “His Enemy.”—The wicked one, the devil (vs. 38, 39). He was the original source of evil among men. The story is truly told in Genesis. God is not the author of sin either at first, nor at any time since. Everything God does is toward making men good. “The tares are the children of the wicked one,” filled with his spirit, living according to his principles, and under his control. They are not a degenerate form of virtue, but as digtinet as virtue and vice. They often resemble the good till the fruit begins to appear, but they are as different as wheat and tares, as thistles and roses. !

The Wheat and Tares Growing Together—Vs. 26-30. *“Let both grow together until the harvest.” Because at first it is very difficult to distinguish between the wheat and the tares. The tares are counterfeit wheat. Because when the distinction is clearer, there is danger lest “while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them,” for the roots of the two are interlaced together, It is absolutely necessary before the grain is used in the harvest, “to avoid the mingling of the kernels of the darnel and the wheat lest the bread be poisoned. : The Harvest. The Fate of the Tares.—Vs. 30, 39-42. “Let both grow together' until the harvest, which takes place at “the end of the world” (v. 39), orage. - : : “Say to the reapers . . . the angels” (v. 39), (Matt. 16:27; 24:31;: 2 Thes. 1:7); any beings or powers ‘which accomplish this work.

“To burn them.” So as to destroy their power of evil, and to keep them from spreading. “They shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend” (v. 41), that cause others to stumble in the path of righteéusness.

~ The Harvest. The Blessedness of the Righteous.—Vs. 30, 43. “Then, ’lwhen separated from evil, “shall the .righteous shine forth as the sun.” ' Here are found hope and cheer amid ‘times of opposition and the flourishing of evil. Make the evil help the ' good. Overcome the evil by cherishing and strengthening the good. . Put- | ting a plant from the hothouse out of doors for freer growth often gives it the victory over the insects which ate destroying it. g Christians themselves are educated and disciplined by contact with the tares. They would not be nearly so good 'if shut off in a community by themselves. Tares would still come in. If the wheat does not seek to change the tares into wheat, the wheat will degenerate into tares. This is always so when good people would fence themselves in from all contact with the world, whether by mon“asteries and convents, or by exclusiveness of churches, or neglect of missionary work. As Professor Bowne says: “Character cannot be developed regardless of activities of life.”

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By KNOCKOUT.

THE eyes of the 'sporting world are on San Francisco. -

Even baseball with its thousands of followers has been forced to take a back seat until July 4, when James J. Jeffries, retired champion, who returns to the_ring to win back the glory for the white race, and Jack Johnson, champion, meet for the world’s supremacy in]: pugilism. That it will be a great battle there is no doubt. Jeffries at his best never had -a superior. Few persons who have followed the pugilistic game belleve there ever was a fighter who could have whipped the Jeffries that trimmed Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Corbett. But right there is the question on which this fight hinges. Is Jim Jeffries the man he was in 1899, when he took the championship away from “lanky Bob,” or in 1902, when he defeated the Cornishman a second time? Reports from Jeffries’ training camp for the last month have said that he is in the greatest of condition. Experts from =2ll over the land have expressed their astonishment that the “big fellow” should have been able to bring himself to such rare form. jim Corbett has been with Jeffries since May 28 and they have had some wonderful tilts with the gloves. Joe Choyinski, though much lighter, Brother Jack Jeffries and Bob Armstrong have tried their best to knock Jim out, so goes the reports, but he has been too much for them. Corbett’'s aim has been to give Jeffries speed and judgment of distance, so easily lost by a man who has been out of the ring six years. When the match was made they said Jeffries would not be able to get into condition. ' But if taking off many pounds and hardening his muscles makes condition Jeffries has it. He will weigh close to 225 pounds when be strips for the fray, but will there be behind that mass of bone and muscle the stamina required for a battle with a man like Johnson? Candidly I think the stamina will be there.

Jeffries never has fought a man as big or as good as Johnson. This is saying a good deal of the man who dethroned Fitzsimmons, but the Johnson of today probably would have whipped the Fitzsimmons who fell under Jeffries’ crushing blows. It is true that Johnson never has whipped a man who was the equal of Fitz in his palmy days, but that is because he never had the chance. Johnson never has been known as a great “knocker out.” Men who had any claim at all to class have stood him off, but Jack is a loafer in the ring and has always seen fit to take it easy and go just hard enough to get the long end of the purse. Johmson also is in the condition of hisg life.

But this battle with Jeffries will be different. Johnson will have to make a fast battle. -He will have to worry Jeff with his speed. He must make the big fellow use his legs. It would be suicide and the fight would be over

inside of six rounds if Johmson attempted to rough it with the “Alfalfa King.” He’'ll have to keep Jeff off for at least ten rounds and then peck him to pleces if he wins. To do this to a man who has never been knocked down will be a hard task. Is Jack Johnson equal to it? The big bettors

say he is not. Their money is talk ing. :

Billy Papke says the criticisms hurled at his victory over Joe. Thomas are unjust. In a signed statement sent broadcast by Papke he explains why it would have been folly for him to have faked the match and let Thomas stay more than 15 rounds. The critics seem to have ignored the fact that Thomas never has been the easiest man in the ring to whip. He has a 20 round draw with Stanley Ketchel ‘to his credit and it took the Michigan “Assassin” 32 rounds to defeat him once before, although in their last battle Ketchel won in two rounds. ;

From all the press accounts Packey McFarland got much the worst of the decision in his fight with Freddie Welch in London on Decoration day. The spectators hissed the draw verdict handed down by Referee Scott and it was almost the unanimous opinifon of those at the ringside that the American won by bhalf a dozen city blocks. Now let Welch come over here and see what McFarland will do to him. : ) :

Confession by Johnny Evers.

Johnny Evers of the Chicago Cubs is considered the brainiest man playing baseball. He makes more out of the ordinary plays in almost every game than any other ball player makes in ten games. And yet the other night he made a speech at a banquet in Chicago, which demonstrates that players are born and not manufactured. He made the astonishing statement that he had never in his life read the book of rules on the game, but instead he said: *“I take the plays as they come up, and my noodle usually tells me the right play to make.” = W

Billy: Murray a Scout.

Billy Murray, former manager of the Phillies, has been hired by Barney Dreyfuss as a scout for the Pirates. Dreyfuss has been impressed by - Murray’s ability in" getting ' together the present Philadelphia National league team, and declares that the former Quaker manager s just the man needed to find players to fill the places of some of the oldtimers, who must. retire before many years. &

Chance and Clarke Bench Bosses. Frank Chance and Fred Clarke, sc rumor has it, are to manage from the bench next season. Campbell 1g slated for Kred’'s place, while Luderus will occupy the first cyshion instead of the Big Bruin , : ;

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