Walkerton Independent, Volume 46, Number 7, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 July 1920 — Page 2

W ALKERTON INDEPENDENT Published Every Thursday by THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD THE ST. JOSEPH CO. WEEKLIES Clem DeCoodres, Business Manager W. A. Eudley, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year |LSO Six Months .......... .90 Three Months 60 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton. Ind., as second-class matter. : Seen and Heard : In Indiana : Evansville. —The wheat crop in Vandeiburg county may be sold to Independent buyers, and not sold to the organized grain buyers, at a minimum price of $3 a bushel A grain committee has been named by the president of the Vanderburg County Farm Improvement association to determine the best market. This committee is composed of one representative in each- township in Vanderburg county, exclusive of Pigeon township. Part of the work of the committee will be to investigate the outcome of the wheat crop in this county after thrashing time. After the yield has been determined the committee will decide what price the farmer must have to get a just return on his investment Michigan City.—Three persons are dead and three others were badly hurt In an accident at the Wabash street crossing of the Pere Marquette railway here. An automobile in which the six were riding stalled on the crossing and a passenger train struck it and smashed It to bits. The dead are Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Lucien of Gary and Marvin Jester of Chicago. F. J. Simon of Gary suffered fractured ribs; Mrs. Simon was slightly hurt, and Mrs. Sophie Barry of Chicago suffered a nervous shock. P Indianapolis. — Governor Goodrich' has called a special session of the state legislature to convene Monday, July 12, at 1:30 p. m. The governor in the proclamation did not set forth the program, but the most important subject for discussion is expected to be a bill providing money for the maintenance of state institutions, several institutions having exhausted their funds. Lafayette.—The Indiana Horticultural society, co-operating with the horticultural department of Purdue university, will hold Its annual summer meeting. August 5, at the orchard of the Laurel Orchard company at Laurel. The orchard consists of approximately 200 acres of commercial varieties of fruit trees just coming into full bearing. Columbus. —Wheat harvest is practically finished in Bartholomew county and thrashing will begin. The yield will not exceel 50 per cent of a full crop. Home-grown blackberries are on the market. The crop is the largest in the history of the county. Especially is this true of the wild berries. Grocers are paying from 25 to 28 cents a quart for them. Terre Haute. —Hugh Gregson was Instantly killed and Richard Gregson, age six, his son. was fatally injured when an automobile which the father was driving struck the second engine of a double-header Vandalia passenger train in West Terre Haute. Thomas Gregson, age four, another son of the dead man, was seriously injured. Indianapolis.—Judge Louis B. Ewbank was named by Governor Goodrich a member of the state supreme court, to succeed Lawson M. Harvey, who died recently. Harry O. Chamberlin was appointed to succeed Judge Ewbank on the bench of the Marion circuit court. He was formerly an Indianapolis attorney. Columbus. — Bartholomew county farmers are having much difficulty in getting men to work in their harvest fields. The fanners are paying S 5 a day for men to help in their wheat harvests, and a farmer in search of harvest hands offered $7 a day, but found no takers. Valparaiso.—The Knights of Columbus lodge here has been notified by the state officials that it led all of the lodges in the state in membership gains during the fiscal year just closed. The Valparaiso lodge showed a gain of 391 per cent. Ind|a na pol is.—Twenty-f ou r prisoners In the Marion county jail, by the aid of a well-planned delivery, made their escape from the prison, but the majority of the number now rest behind the bars. A number of the men are federal prisoners. Evansville. — Announcement was made that the coal mines of the Possum Ridge Coal company, of which ’■ ’iv Bertelsen of this city is president, have been sold to L. E. Fricke ai d John 11. Blair of Washington for $75,000. Petersburg.—Although Pike county does not belong to the Posey-Gibson Cow Testing association, yet Pike county cows carried away first honors for the number of pounds of butterfat produced in the month of June. Lafayette.—The Indiana State Soldiers’ home recently celebrated the twenty-fourth anniversary of its dedi-<-ation, Col. D. B. Kehler, comi. mdant of the institution, officiating. North Vernon.—Mrs. James Boyer. : ninety-eight, a pioneer of Jennings county and the oldest citizen in the county, is dead at her home in this < ity. Delphi.—The Carroll County Big Type Br< <•<k■rs’ association has been < rganized. South Rend. —The Indiana department of the United Spanish War Veternns elected Charles F. Zillmer of South Bend department eomTnamier. Indianapolis.— Warren D. Miller of Terre Haute was elected president of ’he Indiana Society of An hitocts at : semiannual convention held here. P. iersburg.—Wheat is cut in many parts of rke county. Watermelons,

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“WHAT A WORLD.” Synopsis. — Cornelius Irvington, well-born, an orphan, comes to ’ manhood through the devious ways of the underworld. He is saved for a better life by Andrew March. The strange adventures of “Yellow Men Sleep” begin when Con takes i by force a small leather sack from i Chee Ming, the Chinese cook of an , acquaintance.. This sack contains a Chinese map of the Gobi desert, which is precious beyond price to Andrew March. Eighteen years before armed men in the Gobi had taken March’s wife and infant daughter from him. Now he sends Con in search of them. On the voyage Con finds Chee Ming a fellow passenger. Con is shot by a poisoned dart, and while he is In the U consequent stupor his map is stolen. On the river boat to Peking he again sees Chee Ming, and realizes Un<i-ro g°eklii>. the same destination. Con keens . drew March an^ atarc^xo^-TTrsmis - Sion westward' —Witha caravan. After weeks of difficult travel he reaches the little settlement of Shan-sung and reads instructions from Andrew March to the effect that Con has been made a federal agent to search out Chee Ming, who has brought quantities of koresh, a deadly drug, to San Francisco. At Shan-sung Con is unexpectedly Joined by March. The two Americans press forward into the desert. Armed horsemen swoop down on them, rob them of everything and leave them to die in the desert. ■ ■ CHAPTER VI T respass. This shred of a chance, half humorous, was deep-set In anger and loss. Sand was a rasp to their bodies, and the slashed clothing gave scant protection. Already, In Imagination, Con was in need of a drink. The thought of brandy was a horror now, and the Idea of clear, cool water like a knife In the throat. Andrew March sat down and studied the bottom of his foot. “How much do you think," Con inquired, “in miles?" “Oh, not so very far. If we only had one camel—” “Yes—one with milk in her.” “Don’t talk like that I" said the elder man, sharply. The subject of drinkables was thus dismissed by the veteran, and Con bowed his head In acknowledgment. Late In the day the sand-storm passed, and the air cleared. They went up along the vanes of sand, fresh drifted, out of the gully, to gaze at large upon their world—a prison as vast as the horizon circle. “The white race could wander in hero and get lost,” said Andrew March. “Let's not talk about getting lost, either," said Levlngton. It was the elder man’s turn to nod agreement. The country was fantastic in formation and color, reddish hills running in rows ahead, like the spine of a world monster showing through. At intervals were cuts, showing the deeper layers of rocky blue and blood-color. Not so much as a dead twig anywhere, or a bird. The skyline was notched with tilted rocks. Levlngton could not help wondering how soon he would wither and dry up, to bleach beside some colorful boulder. Pain was gripping him. It was neither grief nor illness, but the current of life, deeper than many are called to feel. He met it silently, with a fortitude that perhaps his mother and father before him helped to integrate. Death had small part in this bitterness. It was a matter of life. “Help me to keep sane,” he said to March. “That is mutual,” said his friend. “But you are net in an.v danger. I watched you a long while before choosing you for this task. You are not a materialist, and only materialists go insane.” “Yes, I suppose all the others are born with a touch of some kind.” “So I’ve heard,” replied March. They walked through the sand. Sometimes their feet sank deep and threw them backward, but perhaps the next step would find smooth and solid rock. Progress was a rack of physical strain, and pitifully slow. The hills ahead, so hard to reach, were on a diagonal across their route. It startled Levlngton to find that this diagonal straightened out every hundred paces. This was simply the effect of the landscape upon their eyes. The hills were distinctly misleading, having a tendency to deflect the course that should lie at an angle over them. Without strict attention to their shadows, the two pedestrians must certainly have wandered off into sandy oblivion. The perennial hands of the ages had wrought cunningly to confuse. “Our path should lead across those big lumps to the southwest,” said March. They suffered the illusion of growing smaller, since there was nothing anywhere to "enew familiar associations and comparisons. Night drew down before they had i made an.v noticeable progress. They rested upon the pink sands, and Con had a pillow of proper shape, restful | to the eye in its imitation, although it was solid rock. A dull substitute for sleep claimed their bodies. Lovington's dreams werr wrecked by huge tumbling mountains that proved at the striking-moment to he riders, desert । robbers with the fervor of a perverted religion in their ice-colored eyes. All I through this wretched slumber, the J white man ached ami burned from the lashing of the storm, nerve-torn by the | thought of their capture and plight, i At daybreak the wind began again. “My utebT-mnding” —ns March f. m. he made this

' " M IM » I 1— 1,1 pun—“dictates plainly a continuance of that direction.” Levlngton followed him over the unfriendly surfaces. An old wind, half asleep, hissed against rocks, and at moments burned their ankles. By the flying dust the sun was diminished to a far red-hot griddle. Con could not look at his friend for the hurt It gave him. He knew that he must himself look as bad. It was not vanity that made him care, but a simple desire to remain human, and not become a thing of rags and beard and thirst. Tolling up the unequal slopes, to arrive at a new point of confusion, they would note that their shadows 4-no longer fell true beside them, and March would sit down and study the map in Its inconvenient location. Then they w'ould go on. The crest of the first series of hills Vl' '.T Sharpet^-wmii; TPritiirauvr vista of desolation. Levlngton was desperately weary. His step slouched, j and the once powerful shoulders lurched sidewise. Lonely thoughts passed through his mind, like birds in a ruined hall. His eyes were puffed. There was Memphis, and that mystic high board fence at the end of the blind alley. There was Bill the yellow cook, twisting his hands together in such a quick fascinating manner; or ' laughing with a voice like the cry of । gulls; again, intoning wonder-tales In a language beyond translation. A phantom Shast stood at moments on the edge of the world. Then the unclean woman of Dowagiac appeared, with oily black hair, straggling upon her neck, her body bulging with neglect —and suddenly Levlngton was choking. March gave him a hand. “Control yourself,” whispered the elder man. “It can be done. Same ' as walking straight when you're drunk. I’ve seen men In India go for ten days without water, and fifty days without food. It can be done.” “Thanks,” muttered Con hoarsely. “I’ll try. Ten days, you say, without —water.” “And they haven't as good reason as we.” After a time Con turned again to ' March, and the twist on his face was meant for a smile: "Do you think j it will be ten days this time?” They pressed down into the narrow valley. The next miniature range did not He parallel either to their course |or to its dry sister range. Complexity 1 of lines and contours Increased. The two sun-caught men could no longer rely upon their own shadows, for time was passing, and they could not deteri minate how much to allow for the shifting of the planet. Con’s heart pounded with fear. It seemed old earth herself was no longer tolerant. Much of the former Levlngton was broken down. All the cells of his body that had ever cried for brandy were now dead ami gone. He had been burned down to the pure primitive thirst for water. No trifling attach- ; ments could remain here to nettle a man. Desire, once red and full as the storms of summer night, had faded out. Con had been seared and whipped to a plane of humanity bare ami “I’ve Seen Men in India Go for Tea Days Without Water, Fifty Daya Without Food. It Can Be Done." solid and basic —a relation of man to the earth ami sun—where the heats of sex are but a new zero. All the moist forces of Levington were turned inward to sustain life itself. “Is that that I hear thunder?" “Maybe tin* pulse in your own ears,” answered March. They staggered up a third series of hills, which were spread fan-shape in the midst of the world. Looking hack, they noted that the first range appeared to have turned partly about since they passed that way. The sun of afternoon showed in the wrong quarter of the sky. March sank to his knees ami began to draw intersecting line:, in the sand. To Con, as lie sprawled near his friend, it was like forcing the solar system back into place. West and north were again established. almost against conviction. They dragged across the third range, but the instinctive flutter of hope in their hearts died quickly, when they saw that had miscalculated. Across a deeper valley Mgs another monster bank of dust, another range. Abruptly Con slopped and pointed down the slope. Directly below them , something was moving.

3 Stones were rolling down the hill. It was not clear from what point they - started. Perhaps a dragon had burs rowed into the hill and was kicking t out the earth from his nest. Clods 3 of red clay went flying down, below ) the two watchers. Levlngton peered, t forgetting the awful sun. It was like » recovery from blindness, to find somef thing In motion in the dead world, t At length, from a hole in the hillside, ; a ii ing creature appeared, resembling i somewhat a man. Now other^of the same species ’ emerged and stood on a sandy ledge, , .q the slope. They seem- ’ WHIRe lit. '^hapen children, thln--1 legged, hui * of shoulder, with 3 heads set close Their caps Svere coTtv . of their own Mir. The arms of all were dwarfist They ha_d come out to 3 take the air, ai labors within r ‘MTL clay had stopped. ? More and y^i more of these deml- , humans came out into the sunlight, - until the slope" was darkly patched 1 with their leathern bodies. 1 March shook his head. Levlngton - noted the first sign of fear in the elder i man, who remained silent. 1 From that distance they determined • that the creatures were naked above 1 the waist, but that they wore short, r dark skirts Ilk-’ those pictured upon f the ancient walls of Assyria. Their 1 canes or staves proved to be linple--1 ments resembling garden hoes. The 1 faint sound of their conversation drift- ■ ed up to the Americans. But this was • drowned in the slow thunder of Con’s 1 temples. “Cave men?” muttered Levlngton. ’ “Witches’ children." “Aren't they solid? Have my eyes * gone out?" March did not hear, for he simply • whispered to himself. "What a world !” t A dromedary was coming across from the further hills. Leisurely it followed a slanting way up to the cluster of creatures around the pit. On the beast were strapped four baskets. Now many hands set about filling these with pebbles, or so it appeared. The camel-driver was another of the crooked dwarfs. When the baskets were full, lie led the animal ' down by the same path, starting across the valley toward the opposite barrier 1 of sand. The little men who had come out of ’ the hill began to disappear. Their bare bodies were like rough nuggets of copper. Levington's eyes twitched, and r lie brushed a hand across his face. 1 ‘ He wanted to laugh and fling himself down hill. He would ask them for water. For aM Instant he hated Ant drew Marell for being afraid, and an । instant later realized this feeling was ’ j merely his own deep-stirring fear. He L I swallowed thickly. A tear stood in * ; one eye, making humorous the pain in ‘ | his heart. 1 “Didn’t know I had It in me,” he P said, grinning. March did not see the tear. He had 1 grown pale beneath the grime. “Oh, God!” he mumbled, “this isn't what we came for!” ' “Suppose we'd better not ask them j for a drink." said Con. “We’ll go on ! and hunt for it, because it must grow ' natural somewhere around here. Shall I i we follow the dromedary?” Tile little men had gone in. Dust | rose like smoke from the open shaft. ! Tiie laden beast was etching his way : across the valley. March had roused । from his apathy. He looked at Con, , ' who asked : “Can you make it —down hill?" “Boy,” said March steadily, “you've । got a tungsten nervous system.” Commanding their scant energies, ; j the white men made a final play for l life, and walked along the crest of the ridg°. to keep the animal in view without exposing themselves. The afternoon was waning. The wind slackened. The valley beneath them was painted with soft purple shadow. The hunched little humans and the dromedary turned into a cleft in the great j bank, and disappeared. “There must be something to drink where lie is going,” said Con. “Yes, because the dromedary Is natural, at least.” “You might wait here,” continued Levington, “anti I’ll run on to maktt sure.” t I “We ll go together,” said March. > They desce r ed to the valley, anA crossing, eiiM.-d the ravine. Con was light-hoar&d now. He had no ‘ further though! of avoiding discovery. by no matter Jwhat enemy. Instinct I began anti endptl in thirst, and even the idea of d^ath meant a possible ‘ drink. This pervasive dryness was a a question of the soul, a thirst far deeper than the body. Reckless intent shone ( in Levington's eyes. March looked at him sidewise, and t Con heard only the latter fragments of bis speech : “Cincinnati—you were going like this when I first saw you. I knew then > how Washington needed you in tin Gobi. God needs you—this is it —” f “Cincinnati,” said Con, uncertainly, j "netted me the best friend in the world." He stumbled headlong in a returning •_ wave of weakness, quite the opposite P of a moment since. f Dust of tlie dromedary was rising •_ not far ahead. It required a furious s expense of will power to gain upon it. Then, something like a loving Imml p touched their faces. This was a cool p breeze from the far upper end of tlie i, ravine. The pathway was wide and well graded. In the sunlight colored i. strata walled high and various on .. । either side, as might appear to an ant j ' traversing a lane of birthday cake. v I The breeze was. soft upon their cheeks. t Perhaps the peculiar halting person r ! beside the dromedary felt that he was being followed—a most fabulous event ] to him. Some antenna of his wretched ij consciousness was troubled, and he j glanced behind him, through the dun

cloud. His throat closed upon a cry of horror. Convulsed, he fled up the rise, and out of sight. Ills pale scream came back. “Announcing us,” whispered Con, grimly. "But look!” .Another figure waited at the end of the upward road —some one upon a horse, motionless. The sunlight was a rain of black dots for Levlngton now, but his muscles were galvanized to a forward motion. It was not In him to stop. He took time to note, stupidly, that though his feet were bleeding, • 1 J A Rushing Cloud of Horsemen Thundered Into the Ravine From the Upper Levels. they were insensible as boots. He I guessed that the mounted figure might ;i be a sentinel. The sequence of what 1 followed was never afterward clear to r j Con. ’ | Closer, he saw the glitter upon a ; long gray cloak. Tlie sentinel had no [i weapon, and gave no sign other than » ! to watch with curiosity the two jaded ! wanderers. Tlie pon.v was well groom- - ed and restive, Arabian In build. From t beyond the crest of the road a volley . of shoujs came down Into the ravine, - and the swift heat of hoofs. All these . on coming riders were as yet invisible, I but the cries were resonant with hate. < March called out to the gray sen- - tine!. In the best Chinese he could frame with swollen lips. In response, ! the left arm of the rider came up, - glittering, to shield the face below the f eyes. I A rushing cloud of horsemen thundered into the ravine from the upper f levels. Swords were hare, flashing In ' the ruddy light. Harsh battle-chant- - j ing tilled the dust. The riders swoopi ed down to trample the intruders. 1 Levington was not accountable. He • leaned forward to breast them. His i hands worked with strange power, i Something elemental lived in him; something like the centaur# that had » peopled the night horizons. His throat rattled the challenge. The first of the 1 wild horses swerved as if he were a crouching wolf. Con rocked forward, t and seized a sword-wrist as it swung low at March's head. And abruptly i all strength left him. He fell In tlie i road. i The gray sentinel turns out to be a princess. r — ' 1 (TO UE CONTINUED.) FIRST USED BY FRENCH KING ‘ Expression Now So Common, “Let George Do It,” Said to Have Originated With Louis XII. r . ? Many people go no further back ■ than to the well-known play to ac- ■ count for The interesting little ejaculation, “Let George Do It.” Its sentis nunt appeals to all of us strongly, - when we wish to shift a disagreeable ■ task from our own shoulders to those I of some other available person, whom I we make ourselves believe is more effi- ' cient—perhaps we are lazy. Incidentally, we may succeed also in making 9 him believe that he is the only person for the job. 1 It may chance that we have the legal 9 and ethical right to request George to do it and that it is tolerably certain that George will patiently receive and discharge the responsibility; or it may । be that we merely wash our hands of o the matter and with a shrug of the \ shoulders proceed on our way, remarkt ing. “I can't. Let George do it.” i However that may be, remarks the a Kansas City Star, tlie origin of the a sentence is this: Louis NII of France, r himself a strong niler, was fortunate e to have a prime minister who was a clever executive and possessed of good (1 sense, George d’Amboise. To him s Louis referred many of the most delicate and onerous affairs of the kings dom. Things turned out so satisfacn torily under George’s manipulation e . that I.ouis’ slogan came to be “Que Georges le fasse” (Let George do it.) Facts About Corn Culture. g | The tribes of North America saw e : the possibilities of corn and ha <tened its evolution. There has been crossg breeding by white farmers, yet, as a s matter of fact, the corn culture of rhe ' present day is practically as it came 1 1 from the hand of the Indian. He has 1- adapted and modified it to various sece tions of the country by a process of 1 . careful selection. 1 ; Recently it occurred to some scienn ' lists that despite the drawback of the t ; weather the Mandan Indians of the North wer<‘ raising corn. Ari expedii. : tion made a study of the agricultural n methods of the Manflans, ami it devels opefl that for centuries the farmers of t tlie tribes had been deidcieug a hardv 1 corn. The seed had been selected e year to year from stalks which showed a . no effect from frost.

IMPBOVED UNIFOBM INTERNATIONAL somsaiooL Lesson IBy REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D.. i Teacher of English Bible in the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (Copyrtght, 1920, Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR JULY 18 DAVID SPARES SAUL’S LIFE. LESSON TEXT—I Sam. 26. GOLDEN TEXT—Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you.—Luke 6:27. ADDITIONAL MATERIAL—I Sam. 24. PRIMARY TOPIC—The Man Who Was Kind to His Enemy. JUNIOR TOPlC—“Paying Back.” INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC —Overcoming Evil With Good. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC —Treatment of Wrongdoers. I. Saul in Pursuit of David (vv. 1-3). Ever since David took his departure from Jonathan (co. 20), when that crowning act of friendship was shown, Saul had been hunting him as a wild animal. He now pursues him with 3,000 chosen men. David flees from place to place, hiding as an out- ■ .law. Sometimes he is in the enemies’ country doing disreputable things. This is the period of his schooling which fitted him to be the eminent king that he was. It was a bitter period in his life, but God sent him to this school and adapted the instruction to his needs. David never could have been the broad man that he was, had he not been prepared in this crucible of bitter experience. His wading deeply Into trouble adapted him to write psalms suited to all men, in ail ages, and under all conditions. His life swung through the arc of human experience, touching the highest point of fame and dipping to the depths of sorrow and shaine. Then, personally, he learned many lessons, among whlcl may be mentioned: 1. His own weakness. It was necessary that he be humbled under the sense of his Infirmities. Unless a man has learned this lesson, sudden elevation to power will utterly ruin him. 2. His dependence upon God. David's many miraculous escapes caused him to realize that the Lord had redeemed him out of his adversity. His hiding places in the rocks gave him much of his imagery for the psalms. 3. He learned the country and people over which he was to rule. By knowing the grievous afflictions which Saul had heaped upon the people he could sympathize and remove them. 4. He learned the magnanimity of self-control. This a man must know before he can be a true king. He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city (Prov. 16:32). 11. Saul in David’s Hands (vv. 4-20). 1. David sends out spies (v. 4). This he did to find out as to whether Saul was come In very deed. 2. David at Saul’s camp (vv. 5-11). He took with him Ablshi and went in the night to where Saul was sleeping. Abishi asked to be allowed to kill Saul, but David forbade him because Saul was the Lord's anointed. 3. David takes Saul's spear and cruse of water (vv. 12, 13). Once before at Engedl (ch. 24) David spared Saul's life. Now again he was at his mercy. This he did that he might show tangible evidence to the king that he had no evil intent. 4. David taunts Abner, the king's bodyguard (vv. 14-16). He calls to Abner and taunts him for his listlessness —his failure to watch over the Lord's anointed, the evidence of which Is the cruse and the spear in his hands. 5. David reasons with Saul (vv. 1720). When Saul recognized David's voice. David began to reason with him, showing that he had nothing but zood intentions toward the king. He asked that he would show what wrong he had done or what evil intent was In his heart. David is very humble ' and begs Saul to relent, for surely if he had any wicked purpose he would not have saved his life twice when the Lord had placed Saul wholly at his i :ercy. David had peculiar regard for the Lord's anointed. He recognized the fact that the Lord had delivered Saul into his hands not to kill, but to ’ save. He did not kill, neither did he ( allow his servant to kill. He regard- ’ ed th.'M which he could avert as being done by himself. 111. Saul’s Confession (vv. 21-25). 1. He confessed that he had sinned. ’ The sad feature about his confession Is that it lacked conviction, for he । went right on sinning. This is the , great trouble with people. They are ( willing to confess that they are sin- [ tiers, but still they go on sinning. 2. He confessed that he had played p the fool and erred exceedingly. We , see about us daily many using such expressions, but still they go on repeating their sins. David shows his , magnanimity of spirit, however, in de- , Hvering the cruse and the spear to Saul’s servant. He knew that Saul's j confession was not genuine, so he was t afraid to go near. He knew the cunI ning of that old fox. He still appeals 1 to Saul’s kindness to him, and they . part never to meet again. Rise From Profoundest Grief. ; A merciful Creator has so constitut- > ?d us that wc rise from the profound- । ?st grief to bear with fortitude the saddest bereavements. What seems he awful decree of ’’ate. which rives ’ hearts and makes the years to come I seem black and bleak and cold and - lesolate, is le-s awful and less tragic i as the months roll by. Men smile » again, though poverty follows afflu- > ?nce, ami though obscurity follows ; fame. A lost love finds halm in the . troa«i re house of the future. The F darkest hour Is the hour before the lawning.—Humphrey J. Dosmm I. » Where Is Your Treasure? > What is the worhl to us—an end . t»r a pathway? W here does our treasi uro lie —hero or beyond? As the years pass, are the world and its poor prizes r bulking ever less and l»s-s in mir ■s- , teem, ami the Lord Jesus CbrL- un r- , Ing more wonderful In our eye- and I his love more precious to our i • ^rts?— De vid Smith.

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