Ligonier Banner., Volume 45, Number 25, Ligonier, Noble County, 8 September 1910 — Page 2

f . . 9 . Ihe Ligonier Bannei LIGONIER, INDIANA : - THE DANGEROUS HOUSE FLY. ' The city department of public health glves a timely and needed warning to those leaving the city for their vacations to avoid places where there are many flies. Those who follow this advicé will avoid places which are uncleanly, which allpw food and garbage to be g 0 exposed as to attract and feed the flies, says the Philladelphia Press. They will avold places where stables and dwellings are in near viclnity, as the exposed manure is the choice breeding place of thousands and even millions of flles. In other words, to avold disease-conveying flies avoid

places where they permit flies to preed and feed. Formerly the conditions which. multiply flles and the flles themselves were considered obfectionable but. endurable. Now the patient toleration of flles'is known to be a heedless trifiing. with the health and life of human b,e,hng's. Disease germs are for the most part innocuous to man, until through some convenient medium they are conveyed to his system. This purveyor of disease is the fly. His guilt has been proved to a demonstfation. His capacity for carrying on his feet from foul and putrescent sources the bacteria of disease thas been recorded. by gélatin plates on which he has been made to alight and have proven his guilt. . S :

The raisin growers of Frespg-coun-ty, California, are\tryflng?‘ to. "fi_xomote the consumption of ralsins by establishing “raisin day,” on which all patriots who belleve 1n patronizing

home enterprise and consum_ing home productions are expected to indulge in —raisin cakes and puddfngs, raisin bread, etc. The boys and girls will fall in line for this, and as they .;ziro the best consumers of things sweef; it would' seem to be good -policy to awaken the enthusiasm of young eaters. Parents are now busy striving to get enough of ‘things more staple than -raisins, which wpuld be adopted ~ generally if they could })e made to take the place of meat, eggs and other products. Moreover, §it 1s suspected that if all were to do as| the raisin growers desire there would be a boom in the price as a result of the boom in the demand. L

Smokers who are going-to France should know that, now the French duties on.tobacco and cigars have been increased, travelers entering France are allowed to bring into the country free of duty only ten clgars, 20 cigarettes, or 135 ounces of tobacco, and this must be on their person, or in their hand luggage examined:- at the frontier. The customs officials are fully entitled to confiscate or tax any quantity of tobacco or cigars however small which may be found In the heavy luggage of passengers sent under seal to a terminal station (St. Lazare or Gare du Nord) and examined -there, and just now they are very strict. . The British commercial attache at Yokohama reports that there has been a sudden development at Tokyo and Yokohama in the use of colid rubber tires for jinrikishas, and the adoption of the new tire promises to become general in Japan. The utilization of rubber and its products for every conceivable purpose s so:i rapidly‘ swelling the demand that thére_ will have to be a corresponding .augmentation of the annual crop or prices will bound to prokibitory heights. The world will shower wealth on the inventor who produces an artificial rubber that will give service approaching that of the genuine article. - :

Misfortune seems to follow the Zeppelin concern. Hard upon the recent disasters to several of the flying machines come the explosions in the works at Friedrichshafen, resulting in serious damage to property and the death of one man and the injury of a number of others. Still, German determination is of the holdfast order, and it is quite likely that there will be persistent effort toward perfecting the Zeppelin principle to the point where present perils will be mintmized. :

A man and-his wife are demanding $150,000 because they were ejeeted from a New YorK hotel. People who have so often been told when applying for a.cc_ommodatlons at New York hotels that there were no rooms left will extend sympathy to the ejected pair. ...

The city of Cleveland has just celebrated its one hundred and fourteenth birthday. People who remember when there wasn’t anything but a schoolhouse and a grocery store there are becoming scarce. _

A movement is on foot at Atlantic City to prohibit people from maintaining poultry yards inside the city limits. We have always been inclined to believe that cities were not intended for the purpose of stock raising. :

A woman recognized an old, long missing sweetheart by his voice as he called out the names of stations in the Hudson tube. Fear ot such things probably accounts for most conductors apparently disguising their natural woices.

The New York Herald wants to know the name of the man who inwented the cocktall. Why net let himy oy his’' obscurity i he is trying to m it down? T

: 'DISCHARGED EMPLOYE FIRES AT | OFFICIAL WHO IN TURN | KILLS HIM. : ; : FIVE BULLETS MISS MARK \ Victim of Attack Ends Life of Wouldt Be Assassin, Who Was Dismissed . for Firing on Man at ‘Duluth, | Minn. ; ‘ 3 . . St. Paul, Minn.—Alfred G. Ray, ' chief special agent of the Great North- ; ern railway, Tuesday shot and killed ' Charles P. Welsh, a former subor\dinate in the Great Northern offic. ibuilding at St. Paul after Welsh had ifired five shots at Ray. : | Welsh was about 456 years old and ' had been dismissed by Ray about two ' months ago for shooting a man at Du‘luth. Since that time Welsh had been | expressing vindictive feelings to Ray. | Welsh met Special Officer John ' Lane of the Great Northern raillway ' at the headquarters building and be- | gan to revile Ray, saying he would | “get” him. ii Lane told Welsh to keep quiet, as | he would not allow Welsh to speak | disrespectfully of his superior officer, | whereupon Welsh turned his wrathful fiutterances against Lane, saying he ! would “get” Lane also. | Before Ray appeared at his . office | Welsh walked in and inquired Q_f ' Chief Clerk Hess if there was any !mail. On being told there was noth- | ing for him, Welsh said he would re- | turn in a day or two. Shortly aftc.f ward Ray entered his office and Welsh | returned. As soon as he opened the {door he drew a revolver from his | pocket and. began to fire at Ray. At | the fifth shot Ray succeeded in get- | ting his weapon into action and with | one shot killed Welsh. | o L e 'DEATH THREAT: IN I. C. CASE !Dlrector of Ostermann Company Tes- | tifies to Intimidation to Prevent i Car Fraud Narrative. I ~Chicago.—Hearing of the case | against Frank B. Harriman, Charles ‘IL. Ewing and John M. Taylor, former Illllnols Central officials charged with |detrauding'the company through car ‘ repairg, was resumed in Judge Brugge- | meyer’s court Monday.

Theophile Reuther, formerly a director of the Ostermann Manufacturing company, the first witness, testifled that Henry C. Ostermann, president of the Ostermann company, had ¢hreatened to kill him if he (Reuther) ¢=ld the story of the defrauding of the Illinois Central out of $1,000,000 throtugh car repairs. Reuther told of Ostermann’s alleged attack upon him in the offices of the eompany when he threatened to disclose the gigantic steal. - Thefts of valuable records, confes. sions, letters, reports and other proofs of frauds, together with copies of important documents, came to light in the graft war as a rival to the §l, 500,000 car-repair swindle. .

Documents containing evidence against the men higher up in the huge fraud disappeared from the Illinois Central offices two months ago simultaneously with the discharge of an employe in the railroad’'s secret-serv-ice department. Rev. F. G. Bingley, an evangelist, who preaches to the women of the levee, turned the bulk of the missing papers over to Murry Nelson, Jr, chief counsel for the Illincis Central, Monday. “My boys. Paul, eleven years old, and Cecil, nine years old, found the papers floating in the river,” said the evangelist. ) DYNAMITE TWO STREET CARS Strike Sympathizers at Columbus Wreck Two Coaches and Injure . ° Several Persons.

Columbus, O.—Exploding dynamite wrecked two street cars here Tuesday night. One car was blown from the tracks at Long and Garfield avenues and the conductor and motorman were severely injured. Dynamite also wrecked a West Broad street car, injured a woman passenger and knocked unconscious a pedestrian. The cayr, south-bound, was crossing Sandusky street when it was lifted from the tracks by a terrific explosion beneath its front trucks. The wheels were shattered, the floor ripped up and windows broken.

Cholera in Germany.

Berlin.—Fifteen cases of cholera, or suspected cholera, have been discovered in different sections of this city and the suburb of Spandau. In Berlin proper there has been one death and nine suspected cases have been isolated. In Spandau there has been one death, another case has been definitely diagnosed as cholera and three other sufferers are under observation as suspectcd cholera viectims. i :

Palace of Salt Is Burned.

Salt Lake City, Utah.—Salt Palace, a structure built on salt, and one of the scenic features of Salt Lake, was destroyed by fire Monday entailing a loss of $25,000. Defective wiring was the cause of the blaze.

Freight Into the Hudson.

Albany, N. Y- A freight train, south bound, on the New York Central railroad, Monday plunged into the Hudson river at Castleton, nine miles south of here, killing Engineer Timothy Banker.

Save Young Tetanus Victim.

~ St. Louis.—After having lain for three days in a continuous spasm, due to tetanus in an advanced stage, Gertrude Bodener, a ten-year-old girl, was Friday cured by the use of an unusual amount of tetanus serum.

Lead Magnate Dies Abroad.

New York.—News of the death of Rilliott Cole, president of the National Lead company, at Carlsbad, Bohemia, was received Friday. Mr. Cole safled from New York in Jul’s in hopes of recovering his health.

000 K AFTER POLE RECORDS

EXPLORER AGAIN MAKING DASH FOR FROZEN NORTH.

Goes in Search of Papers and Instruments Which He Says Will _ Exonerate Him.

Copenhagen, ‘Denmark.--Dr. Frederick A. Cook, discredited in the eyes of the world by the findings of the Univergity of Copenhagen in regard to the explorer's claim of having reached the north pole, again is on his way to the top of the world. : From Goochayn, Greenland, there came a letter which establishes apparently beyond doubt that the Brooklyn surgeon is making his way northward in the effort to find records and instruments he is said to have left in the frozen north.

By these records and instruments Doctor Cook hopes to establish his contention that he was at the north pole a year ahead of Commander Robert E. Peary. i It is stated in the lettér that the Brooklyn man has expressed himself as confident of being able to convince the world he is entitled to full credit as the original discoverer of the pole and to force the scientists at the University of Copenhagen to reverse their adverse decision. In this respect the writer of the letter asserts that among the residents of Greenland there exists the belief that every claim made by Doctor Cook in connection with his dash northward is based upon fact and that tne explorer will be enabled so to prove. ' i “An American steamer bound southward recently dropped anchor in Goodhaven harbor, says the letter, and from the captain and crew was obtained further confirmation of the report that Doctor Cook had started a second dash northward with the obJject of obtaining the proof which he expects -will set him right before the world.

TAFT PLEADS FOR HARMONY

In Campaign Letter He Applauds Work of Congress and Tells Plan . of Fixing Tariff.

New York. — President Taft's keynote. letter addressed to Wil liam B. McKinley of Illinoils, chairman of the Republican congressional committee, and was given out by the New York headquarters of the committee. g

In it the president defends the Payne tariff law, but acknowledges that there are parts of it which may be amenable to:- change. His plan for getting at the inequalities of the law is investigation by the tariff eommission, and then revision by individual schedules. He thinks that by this means the statute may be adjusted properly without causing uneasiness in the business world. “It seems to me,” says Mr. Taft, “that all Republicans—conservative, progressive and radical—may well abide the situation with respect to the tariff until evidence now being accumulated shall justify changes in the rates.”

The letter is a straight from the shoulder defense of hic administration and of the congress that aided him in the formation of the laws recently passed. These are termed the most progressive legislation in history. Mr. Taft pleads for harmony in the Republican party and urges all factions to drop their differences and get together for defense against the common enemy. If this is not done, he says, the only alternative is Democratic. success in the congressional campaign this fall, and he points to the difficulties which would be attendant upon an administration handicapped by an opposing legislative branch in its efforts to further redeem the pledges of its platform. The president admits there are other promises to keep, but at the same time he asserts that the party has gone far for good under his guidance.

He outlines the economies which have been practised during his administration and in this connection declares that the present tariff, in conjunction with other, economies, has turned a deficit of $58,000,000 into a surplus of $26,000,000 in a little over a year's time. :

Col. Roosevelt Is Snubbed.

Milwaukee.—"ln view of the unscholarly and unfair position that Mr. Roosevelt has taken in the discussion of the movement for which I have spent all my spare time and energy, it is‘impossible for me to accept the intended honor.” This is a portion of a letter of Mayor Emil Seidel, Socialist, to Frank Cannon, chairman of the Milwaukee Press club reception committee, in which the mayor declines to serve on the reception committee 6n the occasion of the visit of Colonel Roosevelt, who will be the guest of the Press club next week.

Man Blown High But Lives.

Greeley, Col.—Blown 30 feet into the air by a heavy charge of dynamite which he supposed had failed to ignite, S. L. Hoffman, an engineer employed on an irrigation project, escaped Tuesday with only a few minor injuries. :

Rich Tobacco Man Dead.

Redlands, Cal.—George §S. Meyers, multimillionaire tobacco merchant of St. Louis, died here Tuesday after an illness of several years. The body will be taken to St. Louis.

Find Editor Dead in Chair.

. Washington.—When a contributor walked into the office of the Washington Journal, a German weekly published here, Saturday, he found the editor, Emmanuel Waldecker, dead in his chair.

U. 8. Women at Danish Meeting.

Copenhagen.—Ten American delegates are aitending the congress of women Socialigts here. Mrs. Clara Twinning of Colorado opened the discussion of woman suffrage Satumr day. :

VOTE PERJURY BILL

DETECTIVE KEELEY, FORMER 5 STATE’S ATTORNEY AID HELD ! BY GRAND JURY.

TELLS OF NEW BRIBERY FUND

Charles A. White Creates Sensation in | Browne Bribery Trial When He I Names Peoria Man—Defense | Closes Case.

. Chicago.—The naming of Edward Hull of Peoria in connection with an alleged request telegraphed = from Springfield, for $60,000, two days before the election of Senator William Lorimer, caused a sensation at the trial of Lee O'Neil Browne Wednesday. . Charles A. White, recalled by the state in rebuttal, made the statement concerning Hull and the $60,000 fund.

_White testified that the information was given him by William Rossell, an fmportant witness for the defense. He told of meeting Rossell and of a conversation they had in which White asked Rossell where the money came from that is alleged to have been used to bribe legislators to vote for Lorimer. ¥

“Rossell told me,” testified White; “that while in Springfield he had heard of a telegram being sent to Edward Hull of Peoria two days before the election of Senator Lorimer requesting Hull to start at once for Springfield with $60,000.” Attorneys for the .- defense started from their chairs at these words and a commotion in court followed. Patrick J. Keeley, suspended detective, former aid who turned against State’s Attorney Wayman, was indicted on a charge of perjury by the special grand jury called by the prosecutor to investigate perjury charges in the Browne case. Rumors were rife that before the case of Browne could go to the jury half a dozen more indictments, involving persons closely connected with the trial. would be voted. The indictment of Keeley came just as the Browne defense had closed its case. After Browne closed his defense State’s Attorney Wayman attacked his case. Residents of East St. Louis were placed on the stand before Judge Kersten to impeach the testimony given by George Gloss, a motorman, who was one of the most important witnesses for the defense. The state's witnesses swore they would not believe Gloss under oath. A fist fight between State’'s Attorney Wayman and Attorney Erbstein was narrowly averted in the trial. The state’s attorney was called a trickster .by the attorney for the defense. He retorted hotly. In a moment Attorneys O’Donnell and- Forrest were on their feet to support their colleague, while the state’s attorney’s force joined in the hubbub, ‘the noise of which drowned Judge Kersten's raps for silence. Finally the judge made himself heard and threatened to send all the attorneys in the case to jail in contempt which quelled the disorder. The case will go to the jury Saturday or Monday. :

NOVELTY WINS THE FUTURITY

Takes $35,000 . Saratoga Classic— Jockey Shilling in Masterly Ride: ' —Bashti Second.

Saratoga, N. Y.—Novelty, with Shilling up, won by a length, Bashti second by two lengths and Love Not third. Time, 1:12 .1-5. :

That was the result of the $35,000 Futurity Wednesday. It was the most stirring turf battle of the year. A crowd of 15,000 rose to its feet and cheered long and lustily for the winner. The horses were at the post more than ten minutes, due to Love Not's getting away from the barrier. When Starter Cassidy sprung the barrier, the entire field was sent away in perfect order. l.ove Not immediately shot to the front, but Shilling was not caught napping. He had Novelty at her heels. Iron Mask was behind him, Footprint was next, Rockville following and Bashti, the equal favorite, was next, apparently out of it. As they came to' the stretch with Love Not still in front, Shilling still second, reached for his whip and shook it at Novelty. Good colt that he is, he redoubled his efforts and in a twinkling had caught Love Not. Then something in a light blue' and brown cap flashed on the rail. It was Bashti and Jockey Glass. Glass was Whipping the $30,000 colt and she was coming fast. Shilling saw what he had to do to beat in a flash and he bent over Novelty’s withers in coaxing fashion. The last two hundred yards was a thrilling drive. Both the colt and the filly were tired and the race resolved into a question of Shilling or Glass. Superior horsemanship told, and Shilling went past the judges winner by a comfortable margin, with the crowd cheering in frenzied excitement.

Michigan Bank Is Closed.

Mt. Pleasant, Mich.—The Farmers’ and Merchants’ bank closed Wednesday. Cashler Vermillion is missing, the vault is locked, with no means of oyening unless experts can solve the .combination and the officers Believe it conceals a shortage.

Admits Robbing Bank.

New York.—E. J. Wider, cashier of Russo-Chinese bank, Wednesday pleaded guilty to $525,000 larceny. He “will be sentenced September 9.

Spend Millions for Baubles.

New York.—Gen. Howard Carroll, who returned Wednesday after a tour of Europe, criticizes the “extravagance of tourists from this country,” who “spent $250,000,000 in REurope this jyear for baubles; souvenirs, jewelry and traveling expenses.”

Faints, Falls, Dies.

Newburgh, N. Y.—Mrs. Mary Bradley, seventy. fainted Wednesday while standing at an open window and fell out. - She struck the flagstones 30 feet below and was killed.

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A . 1‘ ' : ~? 7 PR | l "I"MR’ ’ \ B \ ?fir:«:nn s~/ NORTH 1 ;V G ‘ TR govuxes Vol ) v'uifl Lasengi 0 / ! . ‘\ \ '\... AewTEmpA { \’\ o ¢ _ TERRITORIES| | i i \(\}‘Tl\ \‘.\ %}/‘f{i s RN ‘ fl.{:v / @3 Qb fig:’» ; (BRITISH / i “\3s*/ - f’ ’ R / 5 Nz (G (NS / \3" " - ; JABF COLLMBINA {y gyt e } —F: E‘ g ne, ..\' y‘\_ o ‘:.f' '3?.1...-.11.5"?,‘.' 3 (R ‘%\':* Adcovveß \'-. " THE YUMON ' GOLD=MINING COUNTRY T is over a dozen years since the news flashed round the globe that gold in immense quantities had been found amid tke snow and ice of the Yukon territory, on the border of far-away Alaska, and adventurous spirits hastened from . every quarter into the bleak and inhospitable land whose very name had been till then unknown to the vast majority. Gold, indeed, had been found there for many years, but the phenomenal wealth of Bonanza creek was only revealed fn 1896, and it was not till the summer of 1897, when a steamer load of happy miners—every one of whom had “struck it rich” and bore with him & fortune in dust and nuggets—arrived at Seattle, that the world awoke to the fact that another great goldfield, rivaling those of California and Australia, had been discovered. 8 Klondike, Yukon, Bonanza, Eldorado these magic words were on all men’s tongues in the closing years of the nineteenth century, and extravagant though the reports were that trickled over the long and perilous path lying between the frozen fastnesses of Klondike and civilization, the reality far surpassed the wildest estimates of the first prospectors, and eventually it became certain that the new gold-field was the richest ever known in the history of placer-mining. b For this was not another Rand, where wifhout expensive machinery and unlimited capital the earth could not be made to yield an ounce of gold. This was the poor man’s gold field, and he needed but a pick, a shovel, and a pan to place him on the road to fortune. 'To get there was the only difficulty, for one had either to make the long and costly journey via the mouth of the Yukon upstream to the diggings, or land “at Juneau or Dyea, surmount the dangerous Chilcoot or White passes, and then travel through the line of lakes to the head waters of the Yukon, and so downstream to the newly-founded Dawson City—already a flourishing town of 4,000 inhabitants. Now Dyea is deserted. Gold Qutput of the Yukon.

Wealth beyond the dreams of avarice awaited those who won through to the Klondike. In the first season the few pioneers took $1,500,000 out of Eldorado creek alone, and claims were j selling for $600,000. A single “pan” of | “dirt”-~two shovelfuls of earth—was known to yleld $5OO, and $l5O and $2OO pans were plentiful. Men could earn | $l5 to $2O a day in wages, and at {that figure labor was scarce, and an ; attempted reduction was speedily followed by a strike. By the last year of the century the population of the Yukon territory had grown to 30,000, and the annual gold yield to $20,000,000, \though the recovery of the precious metal was carried on under peculiar difficulties. The ground being frozen solid, it had to be thawed out by huge fires before the dirt could be excavated, and this was the work that could be done during the long and severe winter. The actual extraction of the gold by washing was only possi‘ble during the three summer months. ’ When the gold fields of California | were discovered and the stories of their unlimited wealth heralded ! throughout the world, there was a wild | and woolly rush to the shores of the | Pacific. In those days it was almost an impossibility to get the worst of a venture to its coast. Starvation was almost out of the question, save in the northern and mountainous districts, i

and a comfortable bed could always be found on the hillside of the land of elernal summer. There were no huge ice and snow ~fields practically destitute of bird and beast. On the contrary, there were streams full of fish, _anxious to be caught, and forests fnhabited by flocks of birds that have since acquired reputations for high prices in city eating houses. Again, the argonauts of California and Nevatda were almost exclusively hardheaded, painstaking and sober-minded men, who were willing to brave hardships and privations providing they ultimately obtained independence. Frozen Up in Winter,

~ The Yukon river 1s absolutely closed to travel save durlng ‘the summer 'momhs. In the winter the frost king asserts his dominion and locks up all approaches with impenetrable ice, and the summer is of the briefest. It endures only for ten or twelve weeks, from about the middle of June to the :arly part of September. Then an un‘l:ndlng panorama of .extraordinary fcturesqueness lis unfolded to the voyager. The banks are fringed with flowers, - carpeted with the all-per-vading moss or tundra. Birds countless in numbers and of infinite variety of plumage sing out a welcome ffrom every tree top. Pltch your tent i where you will In midsummer, a bed of rosés, a clump of poppies and a bunch of blue bells will adorn your camping. But high above this paradise. of almost tropical exuberance glant glaziers sleep in the summit of ‘the mountain wall, ‘'which rises up from a bed of roses. By September ‘everything is changed. The bed of roses has disappeared before the icy | breath of the winter king, which sends the thermometer down to 80 degrees below freezing point. The birds fly to the southland, the white man to his cabin, the Indian to his hut and the bear to his sleeping chamber in the mountains. Every stream becomes a sheet of ice, mountain and valley alike are covered with snow.

The Klondike Today.

From 1900 the production gradually diminished as the crude methods of the individual miner became ineffectual with the exhaustion of the richest areas on the Bonanza and Eldorado creeks, which between them have yielded over $50,000,000. In 1907 the output had dropped to $3,000,000, and for the following year it was even smaller, but this did not mean that the gold fleld was worked out. The fact was that placer mining had given way to hydraulic and dredging “propositions” in the hands of wealthy companies, and the vast areas acquired by them were unproductive pending equipment for operations on a large scale with modern appliances. Work is now in full swing, and every scrap of earth in the auriferous creeks—right down to bed rock—is now being put through the dredging machines and washed for gold, the dredger plowing its way steadily from one end of the valley to the other, while the hydraulic machinery deals with the soil on the hill sides. Science, indeed, has swept away the romantic side of gold-mirning in the Yukon, but through its agency the territory is entering on a fresh period of prosperity, which may yet rival the heydey of its glorious past.

Dissatisfaction.

The haughty-looking woman, upon whose features the dermatologist had been working for more than twa hours, sneered when she glanced in the mirror. “I certainly thought you knew your business,” she snapped, “but you haven't even given me fair treatment.”

The man shrugged his shoulders. “If you had wanted fair treatment you should have been more explicit,” he retorted. “I thought from what you told me that you wanted brunette.”

Neighborly Talk.

Mrs. Critson—Mrs. Buller’'s second husband looks more enterprising than her first one did. : Mrs. Scallin.—Yes, and he is more enterprising; her first husband married her when she hadn’t a cent, while the second one waited till her first husband had made a fortune and left it to her. . | !

The Test Case.

“Say, paw,” queried little Sylvester Snodgrass, “what’s a test case?” ““A test case, my son,” replied Snodgrass, Sr., “is a case brought in court to decide whether there’s enough in it to justify the ldwyers in working up similar cases.”—Lippincott’s. :

THE KING'S Sunday School Lesson for Sept. 11, 1910 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT.—Matthew 22:1-14. Memory verses 8, 9. ’ GOLDEN TEXT.—''Many are called, but few are chosen.”—Matthew 22:14. TlME.—Tuesday, April 4 A. D. 30. Three days before the Crucifixion. PLACE.—The Temple court at Jerusalem. . Suggestion and Practical Thought. The Kingdom of Heaven Like a Wedding Feast.—Vs. 1, 2. And Jesus answered the unspoken needs, desires, and questions of the people. By parables, the most picturesque method, compelling attention, but not antagonistic. The enemy could not easily attack it, while to those who wished to know it was full of light. - The kingdom of heaven, the new order which he came to establish on earth, in which each citizen lived according to the laws of heaven. The king represented God. The son was Jesus Christ. This feast represents all the blessings which God has proyided fn his gospel, enjoyed in large measure here, and perfected in heaven. The emphasis is on the marriage, the union between Christ and his ‘people. It is ‘the highest ideal of love and friendghip, It expresses intimate fellowship with God, the mutual love and delight in one another, the protecting care on the one hand and perfect trust on the other, the unity of purpose, of character, of hope, .the abiding forever in cne perfect home, all of which belong

to the union of Christ with believers. The Invitation.—Vs. 3, 4. And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden. Literally, “‘to call the called,” to summon those: who had previously been invited; because they had no timepieces, and the hour when the feast could be ready was very uncertain. This custom is not now observed “very strictly among the common people, nor in cities where western manners have greatly modified the Oriental; but in Lebanon it still prevails. If a sheik begs, or emeer invites, he always sends a servant -to call you at the proper time. These having refused to.come, he sent forth other servants, who were “not merely to invite to, but to command the feast, with a view to create a desire.” Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings, i. e., smaller animals, as lambs, calves, specially fed for the occasion. All things are ready; come. There was no threafening, but only a loving, earnest invitation, as if they might have misunderstood the first invitation, or not realized its value. . . ' How the Invitation Was Received.— Vs. 3-6. They refused without giving any reason, they would not come. They simply did not regard the invitation as worth attending to. They treated it with indifference. They plead other interests. . Their farm duties, their business gains, weighed more than their king’s service and good will. Others displayed active opposition. They did not like the king. They bhated his rule, his commands, his enforcement of law. These interfered with their unjust gains.

Their excuses were- like the one “which Mark Twain's oriental made for himself when, having declined to lend an ax, saying he needed it himselr to use in eating soup, and being re-

minded that one does not eat soup with an ax, he replied: ‘“When one is determined not to do a thing, any excuse is good enough. )

The king . . . was wroth. Any ordinary earthly king. would be angry at the insult; and indignant at the folly of those that refused, and would feel the necessity of punishing those who openly rebelled in the act of refusing. There was no other way of preserving his kingdom. God’s “anger” is never passion, never desire to barm even the worst of beings, but a burning indignation' against wrong, against the ruin of his children and of the hope of the world, and also a feeling of the necessity of punishing wrong-doing in order to save all. "God’s plans never fail, but if one instrumentality refuses to carry them out, others are chosen to take lits

place. They which were bidden were not worthy, as they had shown by their treatment of their opportunities. Go yet therefore into the highways. Or, “the partings of the highways,” the cross-road- the places where great numbers meet, “the broad, welltrodden ways of the world.” Gather together all ~ . . both bad and good, whoever was willing to come and by that very act showed that they wanted to be good. The fullness of the time had come. The preparations were complete.. Everything was prepared for the redemption of man—heaven, love, . theatonement, the strongest motives, the power of the Holy Spirit.. The world was in the best condition for the coming of Christ. Never before or since has there been so fitting a time—one government, one language, . ' peace, roads, synagogues of the Jews everywhere. The slaying of the animals is an allusion to sacrifice. Only when the Lamb was slain on Calvary were a.;] things ready for the marriage. The long preparations for the Gospel were completed; the forerunner had done his work; Jesus himself had come from Heaven, and had taught the Jews the divine message, and even now he was uttering his last words. The time had come when the Jews must decide whether they would accept the Messiah or not. The leading Jews had very much at stake—their country, their holy city, their temple, their synagogues, their rank aud wealth, their leadership of the people. They were .so busy with these, they were so afraid they would lose them if they accepted the humble Nazarene as their teacher, and obeyed his precepts, that they were unwilling even to consider his claims. | The kingdom of God was transferred from the Jewish nation to the Gentiles. The Jews henceforth, instead of being the people and kingdom of God, would be a mere Semitic nationality. Many of them then and since belong to the kingdom of the Messiah. The Messianic kingdom is today the mightiest power on earth \

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