Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 26, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 November 1899 — Page 3

KEEP WATCH OVER US 'We Are Guarded by Angels Says Dr. Talmage ••penal Betafi Who Giro Wanlag When Bril Approachea—Next to God. They Control Onr Destiny.

(Copyright, 1899, Louis Klopsch.) . Washington, Oct. 21. The brilliant beings supposed by tome to be imaginary are by Dr. Talmage in his sermon shown to be real and to have much to do with our everyday life. The text is Judges 13:19: ■“And the angel did wondrousiy." Fire built on a rock. Mantua* and his •wife had there kindled the flames for aaorilice in praise of God and in honor of a guest whom they supposed to be « man. But as the flame rose higher and .higher their strange guest stepped into the flame and by one red leap ascended into the skies. Then they knew that was an angel of the Lord. “The angel did wondrously.” Two hundred and forty-eight times does the Bible refer to the angels, yet I never heard or read a sermon on angelology. The whole subject is relegated to the realm mythical, wierd, spectral and unknown. Such adjournment is un-Scriptural and wicked. Of their life, their character, their habits, their actions, their velocities, the Bible gives ■us full length portraits, and why this prolonged and absolute silence concerning them? Angelology is my theme. There are two nations of angels, and they are hostile to each other—the nation of good angels and the nation of bad angels. Of the former I chiefly apeak to-day. Their capital, their headquarters, their grand rendezvous, is Heaven, but their empire is the universe, They are a distinct race of creatures. No human being can ever join their confraternity. The little child who in the Sabbath school sings: “1 want to be an angel,” will never have her wish gratified. They are superhuman, but they are of different grades stnd ranks, not all on the same level or the same height. They have their superiors and inferiors and equals. 1 propose no guessing on this subject, but take the Bible for my authority. Plato, the philosopher, guessed and divided angels iuto superceleslial, celestial and subcelestial. Dionysius, the Areopagite, guessed, and divided them into three classes, the supreme, the middle and the last, and each of these into three other classes, making nine in all. Philo said angels were related to God, as the rays of the sun. Fulgentius said that they were composed of body and spirit. Clement said they were incorporeal. Augustine said that they had '" been in danger of falling, but now are beyond being tempted. But the only authority on this subject that I respect says they are divided into cherubim, seraphim, thrones, dominions, principalities, powers. Their commander in chief is Michael. Daniel called him Michael. St. John called him Michael. These supernal beings are more thoroughly organizedJthi\n any army that ever marched. They are swifter than any cyclone that ever swept the sea. They are more radiant than any morning that ever came down the sky. They have more to do with your destiny and mine than any being in the universe except God. May the Angel of the New Covenant, who is,the Lord Jesus, open our eyes and touch our tongue and rouse our soul while we speak of their deathlessness, their intelligence, their numbers, their strength, their achievements.

Yes, deathless. They had a cradle, but will never have a grave. The Lord remembers when they were born, but no one shall ever see their eye extinguished or their momentum slow up or their existence terminate. The oldest of them has not a wrinkle or a decrepitude or a hindrance, as young after 6,000 years a® at the close of their first hour. Christ said to the gopd in Heaven: “Neither can they dia any more, for they are equal unto the angels.” Yes, deathless mre these wonderful creatures of whonM speak. They will see world after wojfd go out, and there shall be no fading of their own brilliance. Yea, after the last world has taken its last flight, they will be ready for the widest circuit through immensity, taking a quadrillion of miles $n one sweep as easy as a pigeon circles ®. dovecote. They are never sick. They are never exhausted. They need no sleep, for they are never tired. At God’s -command they smote with death, in one ttight, 185,000 of Sennacherib’s host, but no fatality can smite them. Awake, Agile, nwultipotent, deathless, immortal! A further characteristic of these radiant folk is intelligence. The woman of Tekoah was right when she spoke to King David of the wisdom of an jam gel. We mortals take in what little we know through the eye and ear and nostril and touch, but those ^beings have no physical incasement, and hence they are all senses. A wall five feet thick is not solid to them. Through it they go withftyt disturbing flake of mortar ott erystalof sand. Knowledge! It flashes on them. They take it in at all points. They absorb it. They gather it up without any hinderment. No need of literature for them. The letters of their books are stars. The clashes of their books are meteors. The words of their books are constellations. The paragraphs of their books are galaxies. The pictures of their books are sunrises and sunsets and midnight auroras and the Conqueror on the white horse with the moon under his feet. Their library is an open universe. No «eed of telescope to see something millions of miles away, for instantly they are there to inspect and explore it. All astronomies, all geologies, all botanies, all philosophies at their feet. What an opportunity for intelligence la theirs! What facilities for knowing Avery thins and knowing it right away!

There Is only one thing that putt them to their wits* end, and the Bible taya they hare to study that. They have been studying it through all the ages, and yet 1 warrant they have not fully grasped it—the wonders of redemption. These wonders are so high, so deep, so grand, so stupendous, so magnificent, that even the intelligence of angelhood is confounded before it. The apostle says: “Which things the angels desire to loOk into.” That is a subject that excites inquisitiveness on their part. That is a theme that strains their faculties to the utmost. That is higher than they can climb, deeper than they can dive. They have a desire for something too big for their comprehension. “Which things the angels desire to look into.** But that does noj discredit their intelligence. No one but God Himself can fairly understand the wonders of redemption. If all Heaven should study it for 50 centuries, they would get no further than the ABC of that .inexhaustible subject. But nearly all other realms of knowledge they have ransacked and explored and compassed. No one but God can tell them anything they do not know. They have read to the last word of the last line of the last page of the last volume of investigation, and what delights me most is that all their intelligence is to be at our disposal, and, coming into their presence, they will tell us in five minutes more than we can learn by 100 years of earthly surmis

lug. Another remark I hare to make concerning' these illustrious immortals is that they are multitudinous. Their census h^s never been taken, and no one but God knows how many there are, but all the Bible accounts suggest their immense numbers-^companies of them, regiments of them, armies of them, mountain' tops haloed by them, skies populous with them. John speaks of angels and other beings round the throne as ten thousand times ten thousand. Now, according to my calculation, ten thousand times ten thousand are 100,000,000. But these are only the angels in one place. David counted 20,000 of them rolling down the sky in chariots. When God came away from the riven rocks of Mount Sinai the Bible says He had the companionship of 10,000 angels. I think they are in every battle, in every exigency, at every birth, at every pillow, at every hotir, at every moment, the eai^i full of them, the heavens full of HM|m. They outnumber the human race in this world. They outnumber ransomed spirits in glory. When Abraham had his knife uplifted to slay Isaac it was an angel who arrested the stroke, crying: “Abraham, Abraham!” It was the stairway of angels that Jacob saw while pillowed in the wilderness. We are told an angel led the hosts of Israelites out of Egyptian serfdom. It was an angel that showed Hagar the fountain where she filled the bottle for the lad. It was an augel that took Lot out of doomed Sodom. It was an angel that shut up the mouth of the hungry monsters when Daniel was thrown into the caverns. It was an angel that fed Elijah under the junipef/tree, It was an angel that announced to Mary the approaching nativity. iShey were angels that chanted when Christ was born. It was an angel that strengthened our Saviour in His agony. It was an angel that encouraged Paul in the Mediterranean shipwreck. It was an angel that burst open the prison, gate after gate, until Peter was liberated. It was an angel that stirred the pool of Siloam, where the sick were healed. It was an angel that John saw flying through the midst of Heaven, and an ungel with foot planted on the sea, and an angel that opened the book, and an angel that sounded the trumpet, and an angel that thrust in the sickle, and an angel that poured out

the vials, and an angel standing in the sun. It will be an angel with uplifted hand swearing that time shall be no longer. In the great final harvest of the world the reapers are the angels. Yea, apfl the Lord shall be revealed from Heaven with mighty angels. Oh, the numbers and the might and the glory of these supernals—fleets of them, squadrons of them, host beyond host, rank above rank, millions on millions, and all on our side if we will have them! What an incentive to purity and righteousness is this doctrine that we are continually under angelic observation! Eyes ever fin you, so that the most secret misdeed is committed in the midst of an audience of immortals. No door so bolted, no darkness so Cimmerian, as to hinder that supernal eyesight. Not critical Eyesight, not jealous eyesight, not baleful eyesight, but friendly eyesight, sympathetic eyesight, helpful eyesight. Confidential clerk of store, with great responsibility on your shoulder and no one to applaud your work when you do it well and sick with the world’s ingratitude, think of the angels in the counting room raptured at your fidelity! Mother of household, stitching, mending, cooking, dusting, planning, up half the night or all night with the sick child, day in and day out, year in and year out, worn with the monotony of a life that no one seems to care for, think of the angels in the nursery, angels in alj the rooms of your toiling, angels about the sick cradle, and all in sympathy! Railroad engineer, with hundreds of lives hanging on your wrist, standing amid the cinders and the smutch, rounding the sharp curve and by ap^ palling declivity, dicharged and disgraced if you make a mistake, but not one word of approval if you take all the trains in safety tor ten years, think of the angels by the throttle valve, angels by the roaring furnace of the engine, angels looking from the overhanging crag, angels bracing the racing wheels off the precipice, angels when you mount the thunderbolt of a train and angels when you dismount! Can you not hear them, louder than the the bell at the crossing, louder than the whistle that sounds like the scream of a flying fiend, the angelic voices saying: “You did it well, you did It well?” If I often •peak of engineers, it is because 1 ride

ao much with them. I always accept their invitation to join them on their ;ocoinoti ve, and among them are um« of the grandest men alive. Men and women ot all circumstances, only partly appreciated or not. appreciated by all. never feel lonely again o* unregarded again! Angels all around; angels to approve, angels to help, angels to remember. Yea, while all the good angels are friends of the good, there is one special angel your bodyguard. This idea until this present study of angelology 1 supposed to be fanciful, but 1 find it clearly stated im the Bible. When the disciples were praying for Peter’s deliverance from prison and he appeared at the door of the prayer meeting, they could not believe it was Peter. They said: “It is an angel.” So these disciples, in special nearness to Christ, evidently believed that every worthy soul has an angel. Jesus said of his followers: “Their angels behold the face of my Father.” Elsewhere it is said: “He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways,” Angel-i-shielded, angel-protected, angel-guard-ed, angel-canopied, art thou! No wonder that Charles Wesley hymned thes»

words: Which of the petty kings of earth Can-boast a guard like ours. Encircled from our second birth W-ith all the heavenly powers? Valerius tuid Iluflnus were put to death' for Christ’s sake in the year 287, and after the day when their bodies had been whipped and pounded into a jelly, in the night in prison and before the next day when they were to be executed, they both thought they saw angels standing with two glittering crowns, saying: “Be of good eheer, valiant soldiers of Jesus Christ! A little more of battle, and then these crowns are yours.” And I am glad to know that before many of those who have passed through great sufferings in this life some angel of God has held a blazing coronet of eternal reward. Yea, we are to have such a guardian angel to take us upward when our work is done. Y’ou know, we are told an angel conducted Lazarus to Abraham’s bosom. That shows that none shall be so poor in dying he cannot afford angelic escort. It would be a long way to go alone, and up paths we have never trod, and amid blazing worlds swinging in unimaginable momentum, out and on through such distances and across such infinitudes of space we should shudder at the thought of going alone. But the angelic escort will come to your languishing pillow or the place of your fatal accident and say: “Hail, immortal one! AH is well. God hath sent me to take you home.” And without tremor or slightest sense of peril you will away and upward, farther on and farther on, until after awhile Heaven heaves in sight and the rumble of chariot wheels and the roll of mighty harmonies are heard in the distance, and nearer you come, and nearer still, until the brightness is like many mornings suffused into one, and the gates lift, and you are inside the amethystine walls and on the banks of the jasper sea, forever safe, forever free, forever well, forever rested, forever united, forever happy. Mothers, do not think your little children go alone when they quit this world. Out of your arms into angelic arms, out of sickness into health, out of the cradle into a Saviour’s bosom! Not an instant will the darlings be alone between the two kisses—the last kiss of earth and the first kiss of Heaven. “Now, angels, do your work!” cried an expiring Christian, Yes, a guardian angel for each one of you. Put yourself now in accord with him. When he suggests the right, follow it. When he warns you against ♦he wrong, shun it. Sent forth from God to help you in this great battle against Kin n 11 rl nrmont Uie flaHvavonno

When tempted to a feeling of loneliness and disheartenment, appropriate the promise: “The angel of the Lord encampeth around about them that fear Him and delivereth them.” Oh, I am so glad that the spaces between here and Heaven are thronged with these supernaturals taking tidings home, bringingmessages here, rolling back obstacles from our path and giving us defense, for terrific are the forces who dispute our way, and if the nation oi the good angels is on our side the nation of bad angels is on the other. Paul had it right when he said: “We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in .high places.” In that awful fight may God send us mighty angelie reenforcement! We want aM their wings on out side, all their chariots on our side. Thank God that thpse who are fox us are mightier than those who are against us! And that thought makes me jubilant as to the final triumph. Belgium, you know, was the battleground of England and France. Yea, Belgium more than once was the bat-tle-ground of opposing nations. It so happens that this world is the Belgium or battleground between the angelic nations, good and bad. Michael, the commander in chief, on one side; Lucifer, as Byron calls him, or Mephistopheles, as Goethe calls him, or Satan, 19 the Bible calls him, the commandex in chief on the other side. All pure angelhood under the one leadership and all abandoned angelhood tinder the other leadership. Many a skirmish have the two armies had, but the great and decisive battle is yet to be fought. Either from our earthly homes or down from our supernal residences may we come in on the right side, for on that side are God and Heaven and victory. Meanwhile the battle ia being set in array, and the foroes celestial and demoniacal are confronting each other. Hear the boom of the greet cannonade already opened! Cherubim, seraphim,, thrones, dominations, principalities, and powers are beginning to ride down their foes, and, until the vrork is completed, “Sun, stand thou st|ll upon Gib eon, and thou, moon, in the valioy at Ajalonl*

JN BRYAN’S STATE. Former Governor of Illinois Talks to Nebraskans. . r • ■ v • l • Chartei MeKlalcjr with Setat rater the Coetrel ot Sradleatei aad • Carrapt Colonial Poller. Former Gov. John P. Altgeld, of Ulinoiis, opened his speech making tour of Nebraska at Blair October 25. An immense crowd greeted the Illinois orator, and when he ascended the speakers’ stand he received an ovation. His speech was punctuated with enthusiastic applause. In part, he said: “We witness In our country to-day a most remarkable political phenomenon. The men who helped to bring the republican party Into being and who guided that party in Its great career, and through It helped to shape the destiny of the country, find themselves now, forced to leave it. We see John Sherman, ex-Senator Edmunds, ex-Senator Boutwelli ex-Senator Henderfp.n, Carl Sehurz and a host of men who made the republican party gjreat now vigorously denouncing the executive elected by that party and declaring that the life of the republic is threatened. The conscience of the party is leaving It and

OUIUJ IldUU W VVUU^l j»KCU 19 CACt vtolng absolute control. "The party began Its career as the child of humanity and the champion of liberty. Thist was when it was guided by Lincoln and his associates. But it seems now to have traveled the semicircle and reached the opposite pole, where it is guided by the slimy hand of Mark Hanna and stands for despotism and pelf. When we see men severing their connections of a lifetime, cutting loose from all that they helped to build up and raising a cry of alarm for their country we may feel assured that the republic is in danger. « Question of Despotism. “What, then, is the question which has created the alarm? It is not a question of expansion. It is not a question whether we shall add territory to the republic and Increase the population that shall be subject to the constitution and laws of the United States; for, however men might differ as to the wisdom of such act. they would not regard it as destructive of our Institutions. "Personally, I have no doubt that, moving In the line of a natural growth and development, this republic will expand. It will in time extend to the frosen seas of the north. It will In time embrace the West India Islands, but this development will come naturally, will come by constitutional methods and with the consent of the inhabitants of the territory thus acquired, will become subject to our constitution and laws and the inhabitants will become citizens of the United States. No violence will be done to the basic principles of free Institutions. I repeat, if it were merely a question of expansion we would not to-day see the distinguished men.I have named raising their voices in alarm and severing their connection with the party they had helped to make great. "It ia a question of establishing a despotic system of government. It is a question of following in the wake of England and acquiring and holding subject colonies whose people shall be govern eel not accordI ing to the principles of our constitution and. j laws, but in violation of them, and whose I people, Instead of becoming American citizens, are to occupy the relation to us that I they formerly occupied toward Spain. We | are to go into the business of robbing other nations of their liberty, and it is because i this must result in the ultimate destruction : of our own liberties and the overthrow of i our own institutions that the alarm is raised. * The Money-Making; Influence. “On April 18, 189S, congress declared war against Spain. It declared that the island of Cuba was and of right ought to be free 1 and independent, and, among others, adopted this resolution: ‘Fourth, That the i United States hereby disclaims any disposition or Intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over said island exi cept for the pacification thereof, and asi serts the determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the Island to Its people.’ “This was high ground and was in harmony with the principles of our government. It commanded the respect of the world and placed us in a more favorable and honorable light than any nation had | ever occupied. But a change soon came i over the spirit of the administration. You [ recall that prior to the declaration of war the great syndicates and the influences that were controlling the admlnistratioh were opposed to interfering. It was .claimed that some of them were interested in Spanish bonds and other property rights and were, therefore, willing to see the Cubans slaughtered so long as It did not affect them, and President McKinley, who was apparently under the control of these influences, stated that rather than embark his administration in an unholy war he would have it go down into history as a failure. Note the words.*, He was asked to go to war in the cause of liberty, and he talked about an unholy war. "But the American people forced congress to act, and no sooner did congress adopt the declaration of war than the syndicates, the politicians and other powerful interests that had opposed it turned around and apparently took charge of the government and went in with a determination to make as much as possible out of the war in the way of contracts, in the way of offices and In the way of advantages of moneymaking which the island where the war was to he carried on might offer, and from that time on the entire tone of the administration wa s changed. A Corrupt Colonial Policy. “By successive steps we have followed in the footsteps of England and have embarked upon a corrupt colonial policy. England maintains a colonial policy in order to have offices to give to the sons of the aristocrats and in order to be able to exploit the industry of others. We are embarking upon a colonial policy in order to furnish places for corrupt and hungry politicians and! to enable syndicates to exploit the industry of the Philippine islands. After having stood upon the declaratloifbf independence for a century and a quarter and held it out to the world as a guide for all people, we are now stabbing it to death, turning our backs upon this glorious career and are entering into a scramble with other despotic nations of the world on the low and barbarous plane of brute force. “The president has been practicing a confidence game upon the American people. Everything points to the fact that the policy of Imperialism and forcible acquisition of the Philippine islands wps settled upon early In the summer of 1898, when the syndicates wore camping in the white house and straddling the nation. Early in August, 18?8, Gen. Merritt, who had just come from Washington and was in the secret of the administration, took command of the American forces and reversed the policy of a friendly attitude toward the Philippines. He refused to recognize Aguinaldo and the Philippine officers, and publicly stated that he could take no more notice of Aguinaldo than if he were a mere boy in the street. .. Filipinos Are Snubbed. “During September and October, 1888, the Philippine commissioner who had gone to Parts for that purpose asked to have the peace commission consider end respect the rights ot the Philippine people, and the doors were slammed In his faoe. The attitude of the American commissioners was one of hostility toward him and his people. The commissioners framed a treaty upon the theory that Spain was In full possession and control of the Philippines and had a «• *

right to m(1 and deliver then. Instead of looking with a friendly and encouraging eye upon a people who were making a life and death struggle for the liberty of men Secretary Day wrote' to the United State* consul in China that the McKinley administration would take no other view of the Filipinos than that they were simply rebellious subjects of Spain. “The war could even now be ended In M hours If we would assure them of ultimate Independence. To sttll further show the deep scheme that President McKinley, at the dictates of the syndicates, .had endeavored to carry, out I direct your attention to the fact that he had applied to congress when It convened In December, 1888. for a standing army of 100,000 men. Not an army of volunteers, mark you. but a regular army of 100,000 men. The despotisms of Europe rely on regular armies, but tbia republic has always depended upon the volunteers. The glory of this republic largely rests upon the achievements of volunteers, yet In the face tn this record the president makes a new departure. Our regular army had rarely exceeded 25,000 men, but President McKhiley in December, 1898, after the war with Spain was over, when, there was no enemy threatening our. institutions or assailing our rights anywhere, asked congress to establish a regular army of four times its former strength. What was this for?

Two Kinds of Soldiers. “If there was a definite purpose in view why did he insist upon having a regular army? My friends, the explanation was recently given by Qov. Lind, of Minnesota, when he stated that the volunteer soldier carries a conscience as well as a gun. This kind of a soldier is not so well suited for purposes of despotism as the so-called regular soldier, who is supposed to be a mere brutal fighting machine and to have no conscience. So long as we adhere to the principles of the declaration of independence just that long a volunteer army is the most desirable, but when we wish to de-e part from republican principles of government and to enter into a brutal struggle for the subjugation of weaker people, when we wish to establish despotic principles of government, then we need a different kind of soldier. Have you reflected upon the consequences of having a body of men set apart from the test of the community, having false standards of honor and supported by the government and spending their time largely in gambling, flirting, scheming, intriguing and dissipating? “The American people were shocked at the revelations of the recent Dreyfus trial. Yet, my friends, the conditions existing in France, as disclosed in that Dreyfus trial, are the natural and legitimate outgrowth of militarism. It rests on brutality and force. No set of man who are permitted to eat thread that islearned by the sweat of other men’s brows understand free institutions or are safe guardians of liberty. It was a man swaggering in a glittering uniform who recently declared that we had outgrown the constitution. Brushtng aside the constitution with brass buttons and a sword is a performance that the world has become familiar with, and it always signifies the same thing.” Eloquence from Hanna. This is a great year for the discovery of orators in holes and ^corners where they were not previously known to exist. We have praised the, blossoming Gage and glorified the new mown Hay. We will now, for our instruction, reproduce a gem from the Youngstown effort of the unexampled Hanna. He said in part and in one breath: “I hold and being a business man and being in a community where men havevengaged themselves in this business and who have devoted all of their lives to the accomplishment of industry that much credit can be given to them who have tried to shape the destiny of this government and the policies of it in the direction which will form the best interests of this country and which has been due to the aid and care of the republican party.” Cicero in his reply to Hayne, or Daniel Webster in collaboration with his language-murdering cousin Noah, denouncing Cataline, would not have been a foot high by the side qf this eloquent burst.—Washington Times.

--Combinations of capital are the outgrowths of the protective tariff, according to Mark Hanna. He is the first republican of his kind to acknowledge that the tariff is the parent of the trusts. Many more progressive and broader minded republicans have recognised that the trusts’gain an immense benefit from the .tariff and they have declared themselves in favor of abolishing tariffs wherever they protect trusts. But Mr. Hanna is the only man in the country who has the temerity to commit the double folly of defending trusts because they are the creation of the tariff and of praising protection because it has built up the trusts.—Kansas City Star. -As late as -May 1, 1898, there wasn’t a traitor in the United States. The nation was in ecstasy over its unity and solid loyalty. The McKinley administration has many merits, yet most distinguished of all is the fact that within less than two years it has managed to make more ^‘traitors” out of sincere, conscientious, liberty-loving and God-fearing citizens than any other administration in an equal period of time since this republic was founded. Hence arises tha imperative necessity that Mr. McKinley should be indorsed —Springfield (Mass.) Republican. -—“It is no longer a question of expansion with us; we have expanded,” said President McKinley at Iowa Falls, la., adding: ‘‘If there is any question at all it is one of contracting, and who is going to contract?” Well, perhaps congress will have something to say on that subject. That body may consider it dangerous to lei one man, even the president, have such unlimited power over the constitution and the traditional policy of this country as is implied in Mr. McKinley’s position on the Philippine question.—Philadelphia Ledger. -Mr. McKinley always has a weather vane up to see which way the wind is blowing. He does not possess the courage and foresight to decide great problems on their merits. He is not a leader of men in the sense of formulating ideas for the people to follow or of molding public sentiment. He is constantly on the lookout to see what is the popular thing to do. He has pursued this course all through hia public life, not ao much from his desire to serve the people as to promote his own political fortunes.—Kansas City Star. -In the last presidential compaign Candidate McKinley was too busy romancing on the beauties of the protective tariff to discuss the money issue. Candidate McKinley is now too much engaged in unfolding the charms of imperialism to discuss the trust* which is the offspring of his erstwhile lovely code of protection—Houston Post, »

BOB, THE YALE MR. ROBERT WESTENMARK, Sit. looked across the table «a£p»:wii* reproachfully. The greater pan of the meal had been eaten iu silence because of a little disagreement between them. If ever Robert Weetenmark wanted anything in his li‘ to take his baby son to the clast-’ cises at Yale, and if there was which Mrs. Westenmark opposed just that same thing. She coul test particle of sense in any so ing. To think of her baby being i by a crowd of howling college men because he was the class baby was sob she couldn’t stand, and every timet,..__ jeet was mentioned she got mad. But the fond father was proud of his offspring and wished the boy's to see him, and the boys themselves were equally anxious for the baby to come. Finally he said : lit -- “My dear, I can’t see what prmnjijjpp[ii> it could do the youngster!” “Well, if you would stqp to consider the fact that the thermometer will in nil probability stand at 90 degrees in the shade all week, that a hotel is not the best place in the world for a baby, that there are about 40 summer diseases especially designed lor in* fants, and that your son is only six months old, you might see.” “The evidence is certainly crushing* but if we took Maggie and half a doaea trunks full of preventives, I confess I don’t see why it would hurt hima bit—and just think how it would please the fellows.” llllp . “I don’t think you have any right to run i risks with your own child, evagate please the fellows.” “My love, you seem to forget that your son is the class baby—Yale, '97!” :§l§|£ “Well, he’s my baby, first, last and all together, and I’m not going to have a whole lot of fellows handling him and bouncing

him around. ff :||gg||gg “One might sappose from your tone, Mr*. Westenmark, that they intended to play football with him. I’ve been counting on showing him to the feHows for weeks—but of course if you feel thiawway about it we won’t go; I’ll telegraph the boya this mom* ing that we won’t come.” /' Mr. Westenmark gave his wife achilly kiss and departed for the office, leaving Mrs. Westenmark lost in thought—until hi* highness came in and demanded andience. Later in the day, when hs» highness, together 'with his suite, went out to take the air, a short halt was made at his highness* maternal grandmother’s, where Mrs, Westenmark, with tears in her eyes, explained the ^unreasonable desire of Robert Westenmark, Sr., to expose his highness id. the dangers of New Haven during commencement week, ' “Well, and why not take him? fVwould be fun for you, and think how it would please Robert." i *■ “But, mamma, he might catch cold- -or something, and then I’d never forgive ray•elf" “Catch, nonsense! He won’t catch any-t thing there that he couldn’t catch here. to do Take Maggie along—she knows for him—and go.” o W - “I think it would be a foolish thing to do myself.” “Dear child, don’t make Robert feel that the baby is always first." ' “But this is a question of exposing him.” “With the faithful Maggie alontf there's little danger of that. Be careful:;that it isn’t a question of selfishness on ; Mrs. Westenmark decided that hearted world was against her, home aggrieved. She found four there directed to Robert, and „ next hour six others arrived. Mrs. Westenmark became alarmed and called bet husband up on the telephone to inquire anxiously what it all meant. He laughed and tpld her she had better open theijga&d see. The tep telegrams all read the same, only the signatures were different, | “We must have the boy. Bring him on the 4:20, or a delegation of 50 will call for him.’ At first Mrs. Westenmark was: _ then she laughed, and that night when Mr. Westenmark came home and said - he bad received 40 telegrams during tbfi ’ gave in, and that was howdt 1 his highness and the suite started t Haven, on the 4:20 train. Such a racket “as never waa opland or sea” greeted the 4:20 train a* it rolled into New Haven on Friday afternoon. Bis highness and his suite descended from the train to the accompaniment of “Rah! rah! rah! ’97!” which made his highness* eyea almost pop out of his head with astonishment. Mrs. Westenmark was surrounded for a moment, and when^she turned to speak to Maggie she saw—this iru^at shftfaw, and shuddered-^Hayworth, '97, the famous center rush, making his way through the crowd with his highness held high above his head. Before him went a man with a horn, and behind him came '97, a hundred strong, lockstep, yelling:

Brickety kax, co-ax, co-ax; bnekety kax; co-ax, co-ax; hoo-rah, hoo-rah, hullabaloo— Yale!” Maggie, breathless and irate, and blanket, brought up the highness’ mother, with, fear ture, dragged her grinning them, only to see Hayworth eli seat of a tally-ho, the baby still: The trumpeter blew a blast, '97 j the shafts and the triumphal gan. His highness had evident his suite, and there he sat, Hayworth’s big forefinger, and appreciation of the whole ing was fast and furious—e\ met other crowds, which vied lung power and enthusiast highness smiled. 01 He was finally handed over to] v who had never expected to see hialive again, and who, by the way, had already registered a vow to take him home the first thing in the morning. She was a wise little woman, however, and said nothing, but just put him to bed early and followed soon her self, while his highness’ father went to the class supper. About 11 o’clock a man tiptoed into the Westenmark’s room, pinned a piece of paper on the crib bearing these words; “Will bring him back in a minute.-—Bob§||jNoise' lessly he wrapped Robert, Jr., in a blanket and departed. A few blocks in a cab, and then this man burst into a brilliantly lighted dining-room with the bundlein his arms. Ho Was greeted with a cheer, and then father, his highness and all were lifted oz^to the shoulders of the crowd and bernipto the place of honor at the head of the table. Oa a raised platform was a high chair, and before it was a huge gold loving cup with “Yale, *07,” inscribed on it. His highness, who by this time was thoroughly aroused to the jollitv of the occasion, was gravely seated on the throne. Somebody offered a$|ast—-hii V highness grinned. Somebody else the loving cup—his highness plunged in his fist. * “A toast, old man, a toast!” said hi* proud father to him. Then hia highness wrinkled up his face and sneered—“co-ay, eo-ax.” And with one accord *97 finished it up— “Hoorah, hoorah! Hullabaloo Ohio-State Journal, MSS •