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.'M>i' " v'i'ffi1.^..', ** '." ' ? The Gall of the || Cumberlands | I' By Charles Neville Buck B|" . With Illustrations from Photographs of Scenes ~ in the Play ,i (Copyright, 1913. by W. J. Walt & Co.) Iiy SYNOPSIS. s .. On Misery creek Sajly Miller finds u?org? Leacott. a landscape painter, unconscious. Jesse Purvy of the Hollman l- ^>een 'hot and Samson is bust ?* the crime. Samson denies it. I ^e^ ahootinx -breaks the truce In the . Homnan-South feud. Jim Hollman hunts f wth bloodhounds the man who shot PurfI J&i Tbe bloodhounds lose the trail at 1 SMer Soiith's door. Lescott discovers > rt*st^c ability In Samson. \^hile sketchR' *ltb Leseo tt oh the mountain, T&ma[?," discovers Samson tola Jeering crowd ?5.0*. mountaineers. Samson thrashes him *no denounces him as. the "truce-buswho; shot Purvy. At Wile Mc"dance Samson toll* the South claa, th*t he Is going to leave the mountain#. Lescott goes- home to New tfr'/XTTifD* fiAmwm hMo flntnov ftnff Rflllv In New York Samson studies art and learns much of city ? JW*- Drennltf Leacott persuades Wlltrea Horton,' her dilettante lover, to do a "fen* work to the world. CHAPTER IX. V : Christmas came to Misery wrapped a drab mantle Of desolation. At the cabin of) the Widow Miller 8ally was sitting alone before the logs. She : laid down the slate and spelling book, over which her forehead had been strenuously puckered, and gazed some* >_/what mournfully into the blaze. Sally had a secret. It was a secret which she . baaed on a faint hope. If Samson should come back to Misery he would came back full of new notions. No I aa^n had. ever yet returned from that f outride world unaltered. No man ever would. A terrible premonition said be " would not oome at all, but, if he did? i if he did?die must know how to read and write. . Maybe, when she bad Kx learned a little more, she might even :. so to school for a term or two. If The cramped and distorted chirography on the slate was discouraging. It was all proving very hard work. The ,;gazed for a time at something she saw in the embers, and then a faint ~ 1I~. n? rhi-iof. V w aw uyu? VMI iH?i 1,_ ?*? she would surprise Samson with a * MUr. It should be well written, and ^ every "hain't" should be an "Isn't." norma) human mind is a res erroir which fills at a rate of speed 9 regulated by the number and caliber IB of its feed pipes. Samson's mind had long been almost eApty, and now from HR *>' many sources the waters of new K things were rushing in upon It that M under their pressure it must fill fast, H He was " saved from. hopeless comB pBcatiriris fat thought by a sanity w which waft ,'willing to assimilate tfldiB out too mutch effort to analyze. The trfrm Mlnarv was nr^BPntlv IfBR r hkarre to the eye thaj/jnany of the I snkempt bofcemlans^f met in the life | atB^^tfgg who quarreled m&T gxrrLWw>>flr'over the end and aim of W Art, whfafr they spelled with a cap!I taf A-^aadVstop the most pa& knew 9 nothing of. He retained, except wlthK '.far a small circle of inilmatei, a silence ? that passed ^fo? .taciturnity,J and a r solemnity of 'visage that was often coairtttrtdrinto sortf egotism. He still wore his hair'long, and, though his 'qdnversatiou gradually sloughed off much of Its Idiom and rnJgartim^^nbugh of the mountaineer stood cht to- lend to his personality a ^ ^rudely, picturesque. Meanwhile be .drew. aod read and stadfed and walked, and every day's , advancement was a forced march. i .Aju^ott. tremendously interested in his experiment , began to . fear .that the I boy's too great somberness of dlspoattioc would defeat the very earnestseas from which it sprang.' So one morning the landscape-maker called 1 on a friend whom he rightly believed to be the wisest 'man, and the greatest humorist! In New York. > "1 want your telp," said Lescott want yoy-rto meet a friend of mine and take htm under your wing In a i. fashion: He needs you.** ^ILf_ atoct man's face clouded. A few ?{ years ago he had been peddling his Dhannscripts with the heart-sickness of ' / aMucceesful middle age* Today men conpjed,. ht% name with those or Kip Ung' and De Maupassant One of his antipathies was meeting people whb sought to lionize him. Lescott read the expression, and, before his host had time to object, swept Into his recital. At the end he summarized: "The artist is much like the setter pap. If it's in him,-it's as instinctive as a dog's dose.. . But to become efficient he must go^abfleld with a steady veteran of his own breed." Ik "1 know!" The great man, who was also the simple man, smiled reminlseently. "They tried to teach me to herd sheep when my nose was itching for bird, country. Bring on your man; [. I want to know him." !>\V o? onn nM fold nnthlns nf th? ha. iv nevolent conspiracy, but one evening 5 shortly later he found hlmBelf sitting si at a cafe table with his sponsor and a stout man, almost as silent as bim ell The stout man responded with something like churlish taciturnity Hp-IP the half-dozen men and womei who came over with flatteries. But later, 8 When the trio was left alone, his face I brightened, and he turned to the boy | from Misery. "Does Billy Conrad still keep store at Stagbone?' J. Samson started and his gaze fell in amazement At the mention of the name he saw a crosa-roads^store with . rough mules hitched to feneMM^^ f?V ft wa? * picture of home. aitiK^KHM ' ' M man who had been thea^Hj^H F' glowing eyes, the boy dropKHsKE ciously bach into the v?mEBE6m j the hills. A M [ "Her y<? I TJl corfessed, as he drifted Into remlnls- S cence, which to Samson was like wa- d ter to a parched throat S When they left the cafe the boy v felt as though he were taking leave t of an old and tried friend. By homely s methods, this unerring diagnostician b of the human soul had been reading h him, liking him, and making him feel a p heart-warming sympathy. It was not until much later that ? Samson realized how these two really s great men had adopted him as their 11 "little brother" that he might have p their shoulder-touch to march by. And I it was without his realization, too, that they laid upon him the imprint 1< of their own characters and philoBO- c phy. r ? . a "I have come, not to quarrel with you, but to try to dissuade you." The Hon. s< Mr. Wickliffe bit savagely at his cigar and gave a despairing spread to his b well-manicured hands. "You stand-in g I danger of becoming the moat cordially F hated man in New York?hated bji the h mo??t powerful combinations in New w York." n Wilfred Hdrton leaned back in a swivel chair and put his feet up on his ir | desk. For a while he seemed Interested o in hiB own silk socks. * p i "It's very kind of you to warn me," tl UI1U lusaiiift jruur UU1 us. *uu uiauc w war on those whose interests are yoar la own. You seem bent on harfrkari. You have toys enough to amuse. Why w couldn't you stay put?" lo "They weren't the right things. They were, as .you say; toys." The S< smile faded and Horton's chin set Itself for a moment as be added: "If you don't'think I'm going to stay put?watch me." \ 1 w "Why do you have to make war? to be chronically Insurgent?" ai "Because"?the young man, who had in waked up, spoke slowly?"I am reading'a certain writing on the wall The cl time is not far off when, unless we regulate a number of matters fromwithjn we .shall .be icgulated from bl wltho?j?.~ "Take for Instance this newspaper 4>; war you've inaugurated on the police," grumbled the corporation lawyer. "It's la less dangerous to the public than these financial crusades, but decidedly m more so for yourself. You are re- 1 garded as a dangerous,agitator, a marplot! I tel^ you. Winfred, aside from yfl all other considerations the thing is fa perilous to yourself. You are riding el for a fall. These men whom you are 133 whipping out of public life will turn on yon/' i "So 1 hear. Here's a letter 1 got this morning?unsigned. That is, I thought al it waB here. Well, no matter. It warns me that I have less than three v' months to live unless I call off my pl dogs." ( ? 01 It is said1 that the new convert is w ever, the most extreme fanatic. Wil- rt fred Horton had promised to put on ai his working clothes, and be had done j" it with reckless disregard for consequences. At first, he was simply obeying Adrienne's orders; but soon he ai found himself playing the game for s( the game's Bake. Political overlords, a assailed as unfaithful servants, showed w their teeth. From some hidden, but unfailing, source terribly sure and dt ai rect evidence of guilt was being gath- h' ered. * For Wilfred Horton, who was demanding a day of reckoning and cr\ spending great sums 01 money to get ? it, there was a prospect of things do- hl ing. tc Adrienne Lescott was in Europe. Soon she would return and Horton gi meant to show that he had. not burled ai his talent 81 * , * For eight months Samson's life had T rr.n In the steady ascent of gradual pi climbing, but in the four months from ai the first of August to the first of December, the pace of bis existence sud- C( denly quickened. He left off drawing from plaster casts and went into a life class. In this period Samson had bis first ti acquaintanceship wnn women, except thost he had known from childhood? T and his first acquaintance with the h< men who. were not of hla own art world. w Tony Collasso was an Italian Illus H tratcr who 'odged and painted in r? studio-apartments in Washington n< Square, South. His companions were various, numbering among them a y< group of those pygmy celebrities of si whom one has never heard until by b< chance he meets them, and of whom in their intimates speak as of immortals. y< To Collasso's studio Samson was y< called one night by telephone. He m had sometimes gone there' before to fr sit for an hour, chiefly as a listener, while the man from Sorrento bewailed tc fate with his coterie, and denounced tl all forms of government over insipid ti Chianti. But tonieht he entered the door to c< find himself la the midst of a gay and boisterous party. The room was al- si ready thickly fogged with Bmoke. and ii a dozen men and women, singing snatches of current airs, were Inter- iz The Hon. Mr, Wickliffe rose in ex- yi asperation and paced the floor. The smoke from his black cigar went be- M fore him in vicious puffs. Finally he si stopped and leaned glaring on the si table. v . tu "Your family has always been conservative. When you succeeded to the '] fortune you showed no symptoms of w this mania. In God'B name, what has tl changed you?" . gi "I hope I have grown up," explained It the young man, with an unruffled w smile. "One can't wear swaddling yi clothes forever, you know." ir The attorney for an instant softened *c< his manner as he looked Into the u straight-gazing, unafraid eyes of his al client . . cj "I've "known you from your baby- & hood. I advised your father before jj you were - born. You have, by the g< chance of birth, come into the control a of great wealth. The world of finance y< is of delicate balance. Squabbles in d< certain directorates may throw the li; Street into panic. Suddenly you SI emerge from decent quiet and run e: amuck in the china shop, bellowing hi J ? ... V?M mnlra itarr. Having come, as they explained, irect from the theater where Miss Itarr danced in the first row, they ?ere in evening dress. Samson menally acknowledged, though with Intinctive disfavor for the pair, that oth were, in a way, handsome. Coli8so drew him aside to whisper imortantly: "Make yourself agreeable to Farbisb. le is received in the most exclusive ociety, and is a connoisseur of art. f he takes a fancy to you, he will ut you up ..t the best clubs. 1 think shall sell him a landscape." The girl was talking rapidly and judly. She had at onoe taken the enter of the room, and her laughter ang In free and egotistical peals bove the other voices. "Come, Baid the host, "I shall pre ent you." The boy shook hands, gazing with Is usual 'directness into the showirl's large and deeply-penciled* eyea. arbish, standing at one side with 1b hands in hiB pockets, looked on ith an air of slightly bored detachlent His dreBS, his mannerisms, his bearlg, were all thoBe of the man who has verstudied his part They were too erfect, too obviously rehearsed irough years of social climbing, but lat was a defect Samson was not at prepared to recognlza Someone had naively complimented [iss Starr cn the leopard-skin cloak le had just thrown from her shapely loulders, and she turned promptly ad vivaciously to the flatterer. "It is nice, isn't It?" she prattled. It mav look a little UD-stage for a girl ho hasn't got a line to read into le piece, but these days one must at the spot-light, or be a dead one. reminds me of a little run-in 1 had ith Graddy?he's our stage-director, du know." She paused, awaiting the ivitation to proceed, and, having rejived it, went ?ayly forward. "I was >n minutes late, one day, for rehears1, and Graddy came up with that Baristic manner of his, and said: 'Miss tarr, I don't doubt you are a perfect' nice girl, and all that, but it rather ats my goat to figure out how, on salary of fifteen dollars a week, du come to rehearsals in a million Dllars' worth of clothes, riding in a mouslne?and ten minutes late!'", be broke off with the eager little cpression of awaiting applause, and, iving been satisfied, she added: "I as afraid that wasn't going to get a ugh, after all." She glanced inquiringly ct Samson, ho had not smiled, and who stood oking puzzled. "A penny for your thoughts, Mr. outh, from down South," she chalnged. ~ \ "T guess I'm sort of like Mr. GradT," said the boy, slowly. "I was just ondering how you do do It." He spoke with perfect seriousness, id, after a moment, the girl broke to' prolonged peal of laughter. "Oh, you are delicious!" she claimed. "If I could do the ingenue ke that, believe me. I'd make some [f ~She came over, and, laying a md on each of the boy's shoulder'sisaed him lightly on the cheek, rhat's for a droll boy!" she said, rhat's the best line I've heard pulled tely." Farbish was smiling in quiet amuneent. He tapped the mountaineer on te ahoulder. "I've heard George Lescott speak of ju." he said, genially.. 'Tve rather a ' ? - 4U ^ mcy ror oeing ttuiuug luu uibuuyw s of men of talent We must see ore of eacu other." ; Samson left the party early, aiad ith a sense of disguBt. Several days later, Samson was lone in Lescott's studio. It was'nearig twilight, and he had laid aside >lume of De Maupassant, whose slmle power had beguiled ilm. The door ?ened, and he satf the figure of a oman on the threshold. The boy >se somewhat shyly from his seat, ad stood looking at ber. She was as chly dressed as Miss Starr bad been, it there was the same difference as stween the colors of the sunset sky nd the exaggerated daubs of Collas)'s landscape. She stood at the door moment, and then came forward ith ber hand outstretched. "This is Mr. South, isn't it?" she jked, with a frank friendliness ,tn er voice. . ' t ."Yes, ma'am, that's my name." . "I'm Adrienne Lescott," said the irl. "I thought Id find my brother ere. 1 stopped by to drive him upiwn." . t Samson bad besltatingly takeo the loved band, and Its grasp was firm id strong despite its .ridiculous nallnesB. "I reckon He'll be back 'presently." be boy was in doubt as to the proper rocedure. This was Lescott's studio, id be was not certain whether or not lay in his province to Invite Levitt's sister to take possession of it. OBsibly, he ought to withdraw. * is eas of social usages were very vague. "Then. I think I'll wait," announced le girl. She threw oft her fur coat, id took a seat before the open grate, he chair was large, and swallowed ar up. Samson wanted to look at her, and as afraid that this would be irapolJte. e realized that he iiad seen no :al ladies, except on the street, and 3w he had the opportunity. "I'm glad of this chance to meet ju, Mr. South," said the girl with a nile that found its way to the boy's sart. After all, there was sincerity i "foreign" women. "George talks of 3u so much that I feel as if I'd known ju all the while. Don't you think I ight claim friendship with George's lends?" Samson had no answer. He wished i say something equally cordial,- but ie old instinct against effusiveness ed his tongue. "I owe right smart to George Les)tt," he told her, gravely. "That's not answering my question," ie laughed. "Do you consent to beig friends with me?" "Miss?" began the boy. Then, raalingthat in New York this form of ddress is hardly complete, he hist3ed to add: "Miss Lescctt, I've been i As be accused himself, Samson was looking at her with unblinking directness; and she met his glance with deyes that twinkled. "Mr. South," she said, "I know all about manners, end you know all about a hundred real things tint I want t.o know. Suppose we begin teaching each'other?" Sanson's face lighted with tbe revolutionizing effeet that a smile can bring only to features customarily solemn "Mlsu Lescott,** he said, "let's call that a trade?but you're gettin' all the worst of it To start with, you might give me a lesson right new in how a feller ought to act, when he's talkin' to a lady?bow I ought to act with you!" Her laugh made tbe situation as easy an art old shoe. Ten minutes later, Lescott en>ered. "Well," he said, with a smile, "shall I Introduce you psople, or have you already done It for yourselves?" , "Oh," Adrlenne assured him, "Mr. South and I are old friends." As jihe left the room, she turned and added: "TQe second lesson naa oeuer oh at my house. If I telephone you some day when we can hare the school-room to ourselves, will yon come up?" Samtion grinned and forgot ta be bashful as he replied: Til >:ome a-kltln'!" ' CHAPTER X. T? ' ? Early that year, the touch of antumn came to the air! Often, returning at sundown from the Afternoon life class; Samson felt the lure of its melancholy sweetness, and paufted on one of the Washington Square benches, with many vague things stirring in his mind. He felt wi1;h a stronger throb the surety of youag; but quickening, abilities within himself. Partly. It was the charm of Indian summer, partly a sense of growing with the days, but, also,: though he hart not as yet reall^d that, 11;. was the new friendship into which Adrlenne 3ad admitted- him, and tjie new experience of frank camaraderie with a woman not as a member of an inferior Hex, but as an equal companion of brain and soul. He had seen her often, and usually alone, be cause QB BUULLUifU mccuufio niui strangers. Until bis education had advanced further, he wished to avoid social embarrassments. ' He knew that she liked him, and realized that It was because he was a new and virile. type, and for that reason a diversion? a sort of human novelty. She liked him, too, because It was rare for a man to offer her friendship without making love, and she was certain he would not make love. He' liked her for the} same reasons that every one else did?because she was herself. Of late, too, he h&d met a number of men at'Lescott's club. 'lie was modestly surprised to find that, though his attltnde on these occasions vat always that of one sitting in the backgrou ad, the men seemed to like him, and,' when thfey said, "See you again," at ptirting, it was with the convincing manner of real friendliness. ,<J)n.e wonderful afternoon in Goto* b?r, when tte distances were misthung, and the skies very clear, Samson sar across the .table from Adrlenne Lescott at a road hoijse on the Sound. The sun had set through great cloud battalions .massed against the west, and the horizon was fading into darkness through a ha;:e like ash of roses. She had picked him up ,on the Avenue, and. taken him into her car for a short spin but the afterhooq had beguiled them, luring them on a little farther, and still a little farther. When they were a score of miles from Man-ns* ho/I aiirfHenlv hrnlran uaiiau, vuo vt*i WMW down. It would, the chauffeur told them, be the matter of an tiour to OLD CRAFT OF ODD DESIGN Mesopotamia Boat, Known at Kufa, Kn iwn to Have Been in Use Be. fore dhrlttian Era. The Kufa, a curious circular boat made of basketwork, and seen nowhere else in the world, Is a common Eight in Mesopotamia. The ferrymen charge only a cent each pas aimi' 'Plioro to nno crtnri nrtlnt flhout these stnmge craft?tbey are not easily upnet Their carrying capacity also is great, and the kufa men pack In their pasnengere like herrings in a barrel. I had the good luck to take a photograph of the actual building of a kufa on the banks of the Tigris river, says a writer in the Wide World. They are made of date palm branches wovec together with rope made out of leaves of the same palm, thickly plastered oa the outside with bitumen. They range from four to twelve feet | in diameter. Nowhere but on the Tigris an (Mower Euphrates rivers can one see these curious craft, which serve principally tor the transport of passengers, country produce and beasts of burden across the river. About three men are required to make a kufa of respectable size, and it takes them some twenty days to build it' Like the kelek, the kufa is of great antiquity, for both these strange craft were in use long before the time of Christ The evidence of this is in-1 disputable, for on the bas-reliefs taken from the paluce of Sennacherib both craft are clearly represented. Llamas In Harness. An interesting attraction in one of the European zoological gardens is a pair of tame llamas that carry pas effect repairs, so tbe girt, explaining to the boy iL?t this event .save the affair the aspec. ~ turned and led tae way, on foot, to the near est road house. ~ "We will telephone that we shall late, and then have dinner." she laughed. "And for me to bave dinner with you alone, uncbaperoned at a country inn, is by New York standards delightfully unconventional. It borders on wickedness." Then, since their attitude toward eacb other was so friendly and innocent, they both laugbod. They bad dined under tbe trees of an old manor house, built a century ago, and now converted into an inn, and tbey bad enjoyed themselves because it seemed to them pleasingly paradoxical that tbey should find In a place seemingly so shabbygenteel a cuisine and service of such excellence. Neither of them bad ever been tbere before, and neither of them knew that the reputation of this establishment was in its own way wide? and unsavory. The repairs did not go as smoothly as the chauffeur had expected, and, when he had finished, he was hungry. So, eleven o'clock found them still chatting at their table on the lighted lawn. .After awhile, they fell silent, and Adrlenne noticed that her companion's face had become deeply, al* moat painfully set, and that his gaze was tenBely focused on herself. . "What 1b it, Mr. South?" she demanded. . "lUe young man began to sp&ric< .in a steady, self-accusing vpice. "I was sitting here, looking at you,"; he said, bluntly. "1 was thinking how fine you are in every way; how there is as much difference In the texture of men and women as there is In the texture of clothed. From that automobile cap you wear to your slippers and stockings, you are clad In Bilk. From your brain to the tone of ' v " "I Was Thinking of My People." > . r i y,.y /! ' your voice, you are woven of human stilt I've learned lately that silk isn't weak, hut strong, TTiey make the b<5st balloons of It" He paused and laughed, but his faqe again became sober. "I was thinking, too, of your mother. She must be sixty, Due sne s a young woman. Her face is smooth, and on wrinkled, and her heart Is still in bloom. At the sam? age, George won't be much older than he is now." The compliment was so obviously not Intended as compliment at all that the girl flushed with pleasure. "Then," went on Samson, his face sJowly drawing with pain, "I was thinking of my own people. My mot-her was about forty when she died. She was an old woman^ My father was forty-three. He was air old' man. I was thinking how , they withered under their drudgery?and ot. the monstrous injustice of it* all" (TO BE CONTINUED.) MUCH LIKE THE PRESENT DAY Walpole Complained Many Years Ago That Rulers Abrogated Law of Nations. . i? In a letter to Hon. Henry Seymour Conway, from Strawberry Hill, of July 8, 1788, Horace Walpole made a number of- observations In regard to the European situation of that day which are amazingly, curiously apposite to the existing situation. "The invasion of Portugal by Spain in the last war, and the partition of Poland, have abrogated the law of nations," writes Walpole. "Kings have left no ties Detween one auumer. . . . He Is a good king that preserves his people; and if temporizing acswers that end, is it not justifiable? "Dr. JosepM* (the emperor of Austria) and Dr. Frederick (Frederick the Great of Prussia) with 400,000 commentators are reading new lectures?and I should say, thank God, to one another, if the 400,000 commentators were not in worse danger than they. Louis XIV is grown a casuist compared with those partitioned. "Well, let us simple Individuals keep our honesty, and bless our Btars thai W3 have not armies at our command, lest we should divide kingdoms that are at our blenseance! What a dre^d ful thing it Is for such a wicked little imp as a man to have absolute power!" Depends on the Well. "Truth lies at fhe bottom of a well," quoted the Sage. "Not If happens to be an oil well," corrected tho fool. ' Warmed By Snow. The earth, ander a thick coating of ijjjnpw, is ten degrees wanner than the ulr ln?ned|ately above the snow. T ^ |j^ ^ inimai10nal SMSdt Lesson (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of Sunday School Course, Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) LESSON FOR MARCH 7 I ' SAUL ANOINTED KING. LESSON TEXT-I Samuel 9':17-10:L GOLDEN TEXT?Fear God, honor the king.?I Peter 2:17. ' * . ...... Because of the acts of Samuel the people petitioned for a king (ch. 8:5). Tfiey are told plainly what to expect If a king Is set In authority (ch. 8:19). God, however, granted their petition and spoke "in the ear" of Samuel, saying, "I will send thee a man," telling him of the work which this man is to undertake (ch. 9:15,16). I. "Samuel 8aw Saul" vv. 17-21. Saul was a man to gaze at and to admire (cn. 9:3). his irumess eearcn ior his father's asses leads Mm t8 the city wherein Samuel was7 residing. There 'hevls advised to' consult the "man of God" about his difficulty?a good suggestion for us all This experience (cV 9:6-14) exhibits Samuel in a new Ught The word "seer*' indicates "one who sees/' one who sees the things God makes manifest in dreams (Num. ^ 24:4-16). While the word is similar to j the modern term' "clairvoyant;" yet the . latter are not the successors of these , Old Testament "seers" or "prophetk" { They are rather the successors of the false prophets (Jet. 17:14), and of , those who dealt Vith familiar spirits < (I Chron. 16:13-14Isa, 8:, 19-20; 2 Kings 21:1, 2, 6). Saul evidently did , hot know Samuel (vv. ^18). There ( is no necessary conflict in this account , and that recorded in the tenth chajk ter. Samuel's warning to thV people was useless 4ujitt lots were then cast that the people migh*. ?ave a visible, token that the choice) of this oiscure youth was from God. Samuel took Saul vrith him for the night to take his mind off his father's as864 and to prepare mm 10 receivo the word from Qod. Chrisflans take i fir too little time to withdraw themselves and take their restless minds off the things of time and sense to be stilLand hear the word of Qod. What were a few asseB to Saul, to him "for whom all that is desirable in Israel", (v. 20 R. V.) 7 Christian^ who are ! heirs to the heavenly kingdom ought ' not to set their affections on the poor 1 possessions of earth (Col. 3:1,2;2 Cor. 1 4:18). In response to Samuel's information, Saul disclaims any greatness; * indeed, is he not from one of the least; < of the families of one-of the smallest ' of the tribes (v. 21). Sufch humility ' gave great promise for Saul's future 1 *t?A#nlnnan On?1< ntoa >hn manful anrt 1 UODlUiUCDD. UUV/U TT?ftO VM<u spiritual attitude of the man whom God chose to be king <ch. 15:17). It 1 was later, when pride and power had ' puffed him .up, that the kingdom was ' taken away from him (oh. 15:23; 16:1; ' Luke: 14:11; Heb. 13:1)/ , 1 II. "Samuel Took Saul" vv. 22-24. Saul was then led Into the guest cham* 1 her and placed In the chief seat. Read our Lord's parable found In*. Luke 1 14:7-11. Samuel then bade the cook ' bring the thigh, which was a choice 1 piece of meat especially reserved for those thus honored (Ezek. ?4:4). Such a portion belonged to the priest (Lev. < 7:32). That which did not belong upon the altar Saul was to ,eat (v. 24). Samuel and. Saul may have had the preference and eaten before the other guests (v. 13), and^BauI is rdade ac- ' quainted with the special honor con- ferred -upon him. Following the feast, 1 they return to Samuel's home, where Saul ia conducted to a couch upon' the flat housetop (Acts 10:9). Here Sam- | uel had private converse with Saul (v. 25 R. V.),' What that converse may have been we know not, but we are reminded of one such nocturnal conversation which gave to the world' ' God's most precious summary of his < love (John 3:1-16). Such rare expert- ] ences are of short duration and the < summons to be on came to saui at mo "spring of the day," i. e., about dawn, the usual time of departure in that hot country. Our summons is to those duties which lie between us and our promised crown. There are times for us to be up and away (v. 26)', but there are also times when we should hear the command "stand thou still awhile, that I may show thee the word of God" (v. 27). Many ^11 to hear God speak because they are ever so busy, the noise of the rattling of things drowns out God's voice from their ears. Even in some prayers we rattle along perhaps charmed by the sound of our own voices, or admiring our own sentences, and God cannot make himself heard. j Samuel poured oil upon Saul's head. Prophets, priests, kings and cleansed lepers were so anointed, a type of the anointing by the holy spirit (I Kings 19:15, 16; Lev. 8:12, 14:2, 16-18; Isa. 61:1; I*John 2:20 R. V.). This act < wan also a svmbol of ehtire consecra tion to God, and pointed forward to the coming king (Messiah, Anointed One) whom God himself would anoint < (Ps. 45:7). ' ] Saul was anointed to be "a prince" i and to save God's people (ch. 9:16; ( Acts 5:31). His ear is always open t to the cry of his people. Even though they had sinned, and their sorrow was because of their own disobedience, yet God regarded their affliction (Ps. 106:43, 44). Only God's anointed ones < can save (Isa. 61:1-3). Saul's selected task was to save Israel out of the hands of the Philistines (See Luke 1:69-71). God's eye sees toe oppression 01 manKina ana his ear is always open to the cry of the poor and needy; of innocent children suffering because of the sins of parents; of men defrauded of justice; of Europe, because of blood-lust, and the struggle for commercial su- 1 premacy. These cries will surely come : up before a Just an& righteous God. lie b^poght by any earthly klDg.. Man*^ 1 reel weu?: U mm have no bitter taste in my mouth. IamgWtoMrl do not need Peruna any longer, I am perfectly weiL I have Perana in.the house aD the time/ When 1 have a cold or when I do not fed well I take Peruna. We were all tick with the grip last winter. Wetook Pero? . na and it faelped ua. Pemna Safety Flrrt. J In> a certain village, down . South them wan a nhvairfan noted for hla - * reckless automobile driving., One rdasjr r v! when he answeredthe telephbne.a : woman's voice asked hto' if he were : this afternoon," replied the doctor. 'Bat why d6 you dslrt" "Well," replfed his anonymo*? <JW tioner, "1 want to send my ltttle daugh- ; ter downtown; Ifor some thread if you Gently ^cleanse, your Hv^ and ; ?Hcka h^^hei^* biliousness, diaarlr ^coated tongue, foul taste and fouX bowels or sour, gassy stomach. , ; Poisonous inatter clogged in the i?r. restlnes, instead of being 3f the system iB re-abeorbed into th*. Mood. When this poison reaches, the , delicate brain ttsdfce It causes con? , ;estion and that dull, throbbing, sick* enlng headache. Caecarets immediately cleans stomach, remove the sour, undigested food and foul gases, take the exce^*||| bile from the liver: and carry, out all. the constipated waste matter amt poisons in tne ooweis. A Cascaret to-night will mx&j itraighten you out by morning. They, , work while yon sleep?a lOrcent box from your druggist means your clear, stomach sweet and yonr Hrflr and bowels regular for moaUis, A dr. 1 Quite 80. "Now they are advertising drea<^'.. - ; naught gray.' They ought not to drag, the varLras colors into this Imbroglio." ' ' "What do you mean ?" "Gray has always been considered a neutral tinfVKansaa City Journal. GRANDMA USED SAGE TEA TO DARKEN HER GRAY HAIfi . She Made Up a Mixture of S?0? TM i : and Sulphur to Bring BacfcrColofV, Gloas, Thickness. Almost everyone knows that Sage' Tea and Sulphur, properly compound* sd, brings back the natural color and lustre to the hair when faded, streaked or gray; also,ends dandruff, itching scalp and stops falling hair, Tears':' H;' ago the only way to get this mixture nras to make It at home, wMch Is mussy and troublesome. Nowadays, by asking at any store for "Wyetitei V Sage and Sulphur Hair llemedy," you: will get a large bottle of the famous Did recipe for about 50 cents. Don't-stay gray! Try it! No one *: can possibly tell that you darkened four hair, as it does it so naturally EMd evenly. Ton dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and drfcw " thla ' ; through your hair, taking one small " strand at a time, by morning the gray H balr disappears, and after another application or two, your hair becomes /* beautifully dark, thick and glos4yv?% Adv. t *v/^; 1 -7 r r - 4, . n. " Same Old Story. ( Green?Do you remember that stock [ bought in a gold mine last summer? Brown?Yes. How did'you-come out? Green?Minus. i RUB-MY-TISM vVlll cure your Rheumatism and all kinds of aches, and pains?Neuralgia, tramps, Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts, Did Sores, Burns, etc. Antiseptio Anodyne. Price 25c.?Adv. This Didn't Really Happen. "How did you enjoy the dinner?" "Pine; nobody mentioned the wax even once." f Treat Children's Colds Externally Don't doefl delicate little stomaoht with harmful internal medicines. ' Vick'r- "YapO-Eub" Salve, applied externally, relieves. 'Jl by inhalation as a vapor and by absorption through ^the skin. Tick's can be used -^1 member of tEefemily. 25c, 50c, or f 1'