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AMD VOLUME XVIII. CAMDKN, S. C.. FRIDAY, SKPTKMBHU 20.1907. , NO. 37. SOUTH CAROLINA ITEMS Newsy Item Mnrtd Prom the Different Sections of S?uth Carotin*. Order Against Open Bur. Columbia, Special.?The open bar gtion B.C., o te 1 o bavepta ro that bat; been run several years in de fiance of the law at the I?le of Palms resort, adjoining the dance pavilion of tho Seashore Hotel, where Friday r night hops held, has long been a subject for lost throughout the State, and it has been still more generally commented about since Cbsrlestqp V has recently shown a disposition to get good and obey the new dispensary Uw. The manner in which the Isle of /' Palms place continues to be run has been thrown in the teeth of every i one defending the sincerity of Char-1 leston's reform. A new and unex pected attack was made on tho place, tho gun this timo coming ?rom At-! torne^ General Lyon's office in the form of a temporary restraining or- j dcr ho secured from Assooiate Jus tice Gary, of tho Supreme bench, en joining liiddock & Byrnes, proprie tors of tho Seashore Hotel, the Clfnr-1 leston Hotel and half a dozen other . .such pluccs in Charleston and near Charleston the Consolidated Gas and Electric Company, tfhich carries tho crowds from Charleston to tl\p sca bido resorts and which is alleged to . he in possession of the premises whei? the law is being violated; and E. TV. Blitch, said to be in charge of the bar. Now, avjjather a civil pro cedure like this will lie in a criminal < notion there seems to be doubt, even on the part of the State authorities, but they aro confident that they can use the injunction arm of the courts to put an alleged public nuisance out. of business. That point, however, re mains to bo tested in the courts, and its adjudication will be looked for-' ward to with great interest. Letter Threatens to Kill and Burn. ; Columbia, Special.?Following* tin , acquittal of Ex-Coroner W. E. Green' of the murder of a negro hacknmn j a threatening note scrawled in pencil on a large sheet was ?otind "bn the piazza of the Burnside boarding house where Gjvecn c^id his family live with his mother-in-law. The notrf is thought to have bppn written by' h negrowho accused Mrs. Burnside of ? furnishing the money to free Green,' and threatened that unless Green were permanently gotten out of the community within twenty-four hours j ho would be killed and tho Burnside, place burned. The police have 110 clu&v If there is an attempt to carry j out tho threat' a race riot is certain. NegTO Shoots Constable. Chester, Special.?Mr. James F. j Thomasson, of Mitford, Fairfield county, wap^ahot and killed at an , early Ji^V/^t^'Jrft'Murphy, colored.' Mr.: ^homaflK} ;wis a special eon- ' stable ii/theViiaploy of the Southern : Power Company^ with headquarter* \ at Great Falls, and met with his death while attempting to arrest a ' party of negroes, of which Murphy ! was a member. Murphv we*t to | Winnsboro during the mbrning and . surrendered. Mr. Thomasson form erly lived near Rock Hill. He was a J member of the coi^tpbulary during tho early and more troublous daya of the State dispensary. Contract Let for Bridge. Gaffney, Special.?The county com- ( missioned in theip?session Tuesday ( awarded the contract for'the erection of the bridge at Stacy's Ferry to tlwta "Roanoke Bridge Company. The pri^T to be paid for the bridge completes* $9,000 with tlie stipulation that the job is to be completed within five " months. ?> I Reward for Incendiary. J Columbia, Special.?-Gov. Ansel of fered a reward of $75 for the arrest and conviction of the parties who burned tho tobacco barn the property ? of J. E. Dority. The foe occurred at Timmonsville on August 28 and thore is said to be positive proof that it was incendiay. ' Victory for Education. Winnsboro, Spocial.?The eleotion t in" school districts Nos. 4, 14 and 28 on the proposition to establish a high school in Winnsboro under the terms of the recent act of the legislature resulted in an almost unanimous voto in favor of the proposition. The re sult of -this election is that Mount Zion institute will get about $800 for its high school department making ?-tuition in said department free to all in the county. Heretofore a tu ition fee of $2.50 per month has been charge* each high school pupil. The Maaagmwrt of theSfOr* Oil K?w York, Special.?Wall street wporW1ll?t Hjnrjr C- FriA wUl/oon " ?- active management of tbe Oil Company. rwiwd I-WW* Getting Ready for State Fair. Columbia, Special.?The first steps towards the entertainment of the fair I week visitors by the city of Columbia were taken at the meeting of a spec ial committee of the Chamber of .'Commerce. By a previous agreement of the executive committee of the chamber with the fair authorities there to bo no street attractions to conflict with the attractions at the fair grounds and ^or this year the organization will be absolutely hands I off during the hours the fair grounds are open. Heretofore tlxo complaint has been made that the ?street carni I vals have opened early in the after ; noon and it is claimed by the fair ' association that this has taken away many coming in on afternoon trains who would otherwise go to the fair grounds. The executive committee decided that this year there would be no attractions to interfere and aii erwards the fair association will he asked for a statement showing ju*t how much this has beuclited the Staty fair. The meeting of tlie committee was principally for organization pur poses. Mr. B. F. Taylor was elected chairman and Mr. T. B. Stackhouso treasurer. Mr. C. W. Moorman sec- j retary of the Chamber of Commerce was also elected secretary of this committee and president Willie Jones is also a member ex officio. It was decided to add to the committee Messrs. (justaf Sylvan, William Banks and A. Hardy. There was a, general discussion of the plaijjj^-t'or lighting the streets and bringing at tractions here for night performan ces. A sub committee was appointed to confer with Secretary Love of the fair society regarding the' latter and if possible some excellent shows wiMP bo given. Mr/ Love receives every year a number of propositions of at tractions that his association can not accept and some of these may be turned over to the Chamber of Com merce. The fair is only a few weeks off and all of the committers of the Chamber of Commerce are at work on plans for assisting the fair society in bringing the crowds here. There is a disposition on the part of the members to aid the society in every way possible provided some effort is made for bringing the visitors into the city after the fairxbas been closed each dav, and should^ any agreement be mad/ with cifcy council as to light ing and decorating the streets it will be with this understanding. Railroad Commission. Columbia, Special.?At a meeting of the railroad commission Messrs. Epps Browu general manager and L. J. Oliver sujferintendent of the Charleston office of the Southern Bell Telephone company appeared with a petition to put in a new exchange at B>ennettsville with an increase in the rates. As the ^ petition had been sign ed by a majority of the people of tho town it was granted. Plans for $hc depot at Belton were discussed, there being a dispute as to its location, sev eral people of the city wanting it in the public sqi&re and others wanting it in the 4<Y, tracks. The commis sion decided that it should be located 1 in the square. The commission will visit Charleston and Timmonsville regarding complaints on terminals .and trackage facilities. The hearing of the Western Union officials on the charge that thfty have been mailing, messages given the officials for trans port ation by twire was postponed un til next week. Southern Wins Damage Suit. ' Union, Special.?The jury in the case of Mr. John H. Wilbujn who was suing the Southern Railway com pany for $25,000 for the death of his son Richard H. Wilburn who was rid ing on the engine at the time of a wieek on the Lockhart road in May 1!)05, brought in a verdict in favoi of the Southern* County Bonds. NashVille, Special.?The proof of the design of bonds to be issued by Davidson County for the building of two bridges was submitted to Judge W. M. Pollard on Tuesday. The proof will be submitted to the County At torney and counsel for the purchas ers. There are to be 800 bonds of the denomination of $1,000 each hav ing sixty coupons to be presented in the semi-araual collection of inter est for thirty day*. The bonds are to be printed by. the Foster, Webb & Porter Company. : . v Sucker's Hew Court Hons*. Sumter, SpeetaL?A resolution has been passed by the county board of couimttsiooeTs looking to the dedica tion of the new ftmrt bouse. Tho Senior Bnr. Association, the county IsgisltUre Irisf lion sad Hon. Bkb aid Jr. Msondair Win have charge BITS ? NEWS \V .\ S111 NCiTON. Tho Nav/ Department asked pro posal* for 253,000 tons of coal, to bo used by lho battleship licet on Its voyago it) the Pacific. Secretary of the Navy Mot calf ro? turned to Washington front bin ten weeks' visit to California, and will discuss details of the forthcoming transfer of the Atlantic fleet with President Roosevelt. Luke E. Wright, retiring Ambas sador to Japan, said the responsible classes in Japan were not i nil-Amer ica u. Authoritative announcement w*s made at Washington that the Sr. I Ciaudons designs for tho new $10 and $2 0 gold pieces have been accepted. Tho annual report of tho National I)ureau of Labor shows an increase of 4.5 per cent, in wages in manufac turing and mechanical Industries, and an advance of 2.1) per cent, in tho prico of food. It has cost tho United States ap proximately $4 00,000,000 to acquire and hold the IMilllpplno Islands. Tho battleship Kansas, supposed to be an eightoon-knot ship, made but 11.81 knots on the best run of her final acceptance trial. Colonel J. G. Galbraith, Acting ln spoctor-Goneral of the Army, In' his an/iual report, urged that tho army enlistment conditions bo made more attf'actlvo for tho private toldlor. Representative Loud, of Michigan, member of the House Committee, in specting the naval stations along tho Atlantic seaboard, said it was thj plan to place a dr.vdock in every navy yard in the country. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Trade between Singapore and tl. > Southern Philippines is constantly growing. O The United States army transport Thomas is on tho way to Honolulu, Guam and Manila, with nine troops of tho Sixth Cavalry and a detaeli ,.|nent of field artillery for tho Philip pine^ in addition to a largo number of cabta passengerB. A. J.> Campbell, Treasurer of Ha waii, Is on his way to New York to float an issue of $308,500 Territorial bonds. Dlifders and receptions as well as a number of automobile trips about Hawaii were given to the lxmg worths. Tho Pope called the first Plenary Council ever held in the Philippines. DOMESTIC. D. Willis James, senior member of (lie Arm of Phelps, Dodge & Co., and well known ns a philanthropist and publicist, died at Bretton Woods, N. H., where he had been spending the summer with Mrs. James. Last yoar 10,618 persons were killed on the railroads of the Unitei*. States, che Interstate Commerce Com mission reports. Dispatches from Chicago sai'Jrf3. H. Harriman would spend $75,000,000 in doublo tracking his Railway sys tems west of Chicago. Burton Plummer, nineteen years old, has confessed that"he set fire to tho Normandie Hotel, at Columbus, Ohio, which was destroy^ with a loss of $200,000. ^ Nineteen British financial editors arrived on the Lusitania,, on their way to Canada as guests pf jthe Gov ernment of Ontario. Congressman Nicholas Longworth and Mrs. Longworth arrived at Sati Francisco on the steamer Sierra from Honolulu. The Lusltanla, the Cunard line's new turbine steamship, was warmly welcomed to New York at the olose of her maiden trip aeross the Atlantic, when she reduced the record between Queenstown and New Ydrk by six hours and twenty-nine minutes. ,A' suit against the Standard Oil Company was postpohed at Boston because of the Illness of H. H. Rogers. Congressman Weeks (Rep;), of Massachusetts, denounced the pror posed Pacific crulso of the battleship fleet as "an unwise, expense and In judicious." Archibald Henry Blount, of Orle ton, Hertfordshire, England, has be queathed $4 00,000 to Yale Univer sity. f' Chester B. Runyan, who stole $!>C, 000 from the Windsor Trust Com pany, was sentenced In New York City to seven years in prison FOREIGN. ' The barbs of the new Agricultural College at St. Anne de Bellevue, ut Montreal, were struck by < lightning and destroyed. The college Is being erected by Sir William MacDonald at a cost of $3,0.00,000^ The Japanese Consi&General at Mukden has been transferred because of failure to obtain commercial con cession* from China. Russian newspapers severely crit icise "the seamanship of the navy for letting the Czar's yacht run ashore. Some Moorishvtiibes are suing for peace,''and General Drude has given them until this afternoon to accept his ternn. Count Okuma declared in Toklo, Japan, tho Canadian authorities were more sincere than those of California. M. Gradevsky, a former member of the Russian Parliament, who con lected money In America {or Polish schools, has been banished and the money confiscated. ? Anti-American agitators In Japan are silent In the face of the Van couver affair, Nathen Straus, Of New York, told the International Pare Milk Congress at Brussels of thv benefits of the Pas teurisation of Milk. France has decided to settle claims for damages at Casablanca thropgh an International commission, Motocco being lieli! responsible for losses. The King of Sweden baa iniiniil HEAD ON COLLISION SPLITS CROWDED TRAIN Quebec Express Wrecked Near Canaan Station, N. H. OVER 50 KILLED AND WOUNDED Night Operator, Who Became Con fuscd and Wiolc "No. ilO" III Place of "No. HI," Illumed For 11K* DiMtloi'.' White River Junction, Vt.? Plung ing Into each other at forty*miies an hour, the Boston and Maine Hall road's Quebec express and a freight train at daybreak mot in n crash that k11U><i twenty-five persons and injured more than thirty. Twenty-soven of the wounded were* in such dangerous condition thai they were rushed to the hospital at Hanover after being brought to thib town. Many of those killed were womon and several were children. The express was running south-with a full load of holiday makers returning from a fair in Slu?r brooke, Quebec. Most of the victims were Americans, a few being Can adians on their way to points in this State and New Hampshire. None had a chance of escape. The head on collision drove tHo haggago car of the express back through a pas senger coach carrying half a hundred person k. Most shocking of all the tragedies wan that in which Benjamin Briggs, who has a prosperous farm near West Canaan, was an actor. Hriggs was one ot'Hhe first of the farmers to go to the rescue. He helped to take sev eral bodies and half a doften injured persons out of the wreck in the first two hours he was on the spot. Then he lifted from under a pile of timbers the body of a woman. As ho turned the body to get a better hold he found himself looking into the dead faeo of his mother. Mrs. Briggs had been visiting friends north of this town and was gojLug to Boston. Her son, when he joined, the rescuers, did not know she had traveled as a passenger on the wrecked train. When ho recog nized her lie swooned with her body in his arms. The killed are: Miss Barrett, Man chester; Mrs. C, F. Blake, South Cor inth, Vt.; Mrs. E- T. Briggs, West Ca naan, N. II.; Mrs. Adolph Boisvort, Concord, N. II.; Richard F. Clarkson, Lebanon, N. II.; J. L. Congdon, Som erville, Mass.: John G. Duncan, Beth el, Vt.; Mrs. Philip Gagnon, Sher brooke; GIITord, Infant child of Irv ing Clfford, Concord, N, H.; Miss Al vina Glron', Nashua; Fred M. Phelps, Ochiltree, Texas; Austin Royer, Man chester. N. II.; Timothy Shaughnessy, Castle Bar, Quebec; Mrs. Shaughnes sy; George L. Southwick, No. 6 Lin den street^Worcester; Mrs." Annie St. Pierre, Isle Verte, Quebec; Mrs. A. E. Warren, Haverhill,MasB.; Mrs. Webs ter, a dressmaker living in Massachu- ' setth. , There are seven bodies unidenti fied. The injured are: J Jolrn Barrett, Manchester, N. H.; lioad and breast injured; E. A. Batch elder, Som$rville; ankle brokenfc William Cunningham, Hamilton* Mass.; back and chest Injured; Mrs. C. A. Dewey, Manchester; right .side injured; Philip Gagnon, Sherbrooke; internal injuries; Arthur Jacques, Millbury, Interim! Injuries; Miss Jen-, nle Jameson, Nashua; hip wrenched: Miss Abby Janson, Nashua; broken frontal bone; Miss Delia Moran, Man* cheater, N. H.; bruised (ace; Henry Moran, Nashua; wrist bruised; Mrs. Moran, Nashua; concussion of heat* ? Miss Juno Noyes, North Somerset, Vt.; head and back Injured; Miss Rosa Reagan, Manchester; bruised face; Frank Ryan, brakeman, Whjte River Junction; right arm bruised and leg cut; Saunders, Nashua, N. H.; Jeft leg ahd wrist Injured; Mrs. S. Saunders, Nafchua; head and back injured; Mrs. C. N. Saunders, I Nashua, N. H.; scalp wounds; Miss J C. Saunders, Nashua; contusions on 1 face; Miss D. Saunders, Nashua; in< ternal injuries; Fred Saunders, Nashua, shoulders injured; Mrs. Hes ter Saunders. Brockton, Mass.;.head and back injured; Charles St. Pierre, Isle Verte,.Quebec; internal Injuries; Miss Ella Vintumen, Lisbon, N. H.; clavlcal bono broken; three children cut and bruised not seriously. COUNT 1,408,732 IN OKLAHOMA, Census Shows Largest Population of Any State When Admitted. Guthrie, Okla.?The special censuS of the new State was finished, when* the population of the two Territories, with but four districts missing, was announced by Census Commissioner Hunt as follows: Oklahoma Terri tory (two districts missing), 718, 765;. Indian Territory (two districts missing), 689,967. Total (four dis tricts missing), 1,408,732. Washington.?The Census Bureau announced that the total population of the Territories of Oklahoma and Indian Territory, as made public, is an increase of seventy-eight per cent, over 1900, and that the aggregate population is larger thau any State at the timo of admission into th* Union,. West Virginia was tLe next largest. i War Ram or* Rfdlcnled.^, - Ex-Ambassador Wright in an/Inter view in Washington. D. C , ridiculed talk of war between the United States and Japan. Gulllotlae #e Aboltafeed. ~ ~ President Fallieree cool touted the sentence of Soleillant to laprtooa ment for life,- nhowln* that tfao ?M Of the guillotine In France will not to rsvlved. Pmifcw Ws? Iklifitf. PIITSBIM HAS AUTOMIA ? ?v'** 1? % 111,11 Police Say City is "Speed Crazy'' and Prohibit Racing fiupcrlntoiirii'iit Mci^uatdo DodaiVH Thai the I<iyes of i'eopli' Aro in Pan^or at Kvcry Turn. Pittsburg, Pa. ? Greatly aroused over tho number of automobile aecl donts iu tblH city in tho last two wooks tho i)olice have determined to prohibit automobile races in the fut ure. They believe that racing arouses automobile ownerB to increase their speed. According to Thomas A. Mc Qualdo, Superintendent of Police, tho automobile owners of Pittsburg nro suffering from a diHeauu which lie calls "automania." In an interview Superintendent McQuaido said: "Tho automobile owners of Pitts burg and vlciulty have gone speed ? crazy. In spito of the fact that bov ' oral bavo been killed and many in jured In the last two weeks tho work of blood and, death goes on. The lives of our people are iu dongcr at every turn. The people c! Pittsburg are at present divided into two classes, one owning autos who are trying to break thotr own and other pedple'8 pecks, and tho others who are trying to dodge. We have (/led to stop thi^speodlng, but we seem to be powerless. It appears that when a sensible business man of Pittsburg buys an automobile ho becomes Inoc ulated with the speed mania, which cannot bo checked. Wo have passed laws, but men who respect every other law laugh at those. The other day I had before me one of the; most prominent business men of Pittsburg for speeding his automobile, lie seemed very sorry, and I believo he was sincere, llo paid his line and promised nevor to speed again. When ho reft my office ho got into his auto mobile and started out tho" Boulevard at a speed of forty miles an hour. The city Is auto crazy, that's oil." Tho Coroner's Jury in the case of Frank Armstrong, who wan killed In an automobile accident on Grant Boulevard last week, returned a ver dict In which the vity was censured for having tho boulevard torn up. This in spite of tho fact that tho re pairs were needod, and that there was a warning red ligh^t over the work. BURTON HEADS THE <j. A. It, Elected Commander-in-Chief-?-Parade Fatal to Two Veterans. Suitatoga, N. Y.?Charles G. TJur ton, of Nevada, Mo., ex-member of Congress, was elected Commander in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at its forty-first annual en campment here. Tho new Comman der-in-Chief was opposed by three\ candidates, General John T. Wilder, of Knoxville, Tenn.; Charles Bur rows, of Rutherford, N. J., and Pat rick H. Couey, of Topoka, Kan. Ills plurality was over 300. Other ofll ceri^elected by the encampment were: Lewis C. Griffith, Troy, N. Y., Senior Vice-Commander; William 11. Scott, Atlanta, Ga., Junior Vice-Command er; Dr. T. Lane Taneyltyll, Baltimore, Md., Surgeon-GeneraU Bishop Sam uel Fallows, . Chicago, 111., Chaplaln ln-Chief. Toledo, O., was selocted as the place of meeting for tho next en campment, As a result 6f the parado two vet erans died, Ensign S. Burfce, Past Commander of John E. Grlswold . Post, of Troy, N. Y., was stricken on Broadway* dylrirg shortly after from heart disease, oaused by exposure and over-exertion. Eli S. Robinson, of Post No. 234, New York City, also died At his boarding place, NEGRO TROOPS FOR NEW YORK. Regiment is Ordered to Uarracks Near Watertown and Gswego. Washington, D.C.?General Oliver, Acting Secretary of War, Issued an order that will pj-obably cause a com motion in Now York, his home State, it provides for the relief of a nuiu . her of reglmenta that, have been serv ing in tho Philippines for more than the full allotted term of two years, and tho point of Interest is found iu tho fact that included in the return ing organizations Is a negro regiment ??tho Twenty-fourth Infantry. With the dispatch to the Philippines of tho Twenty-fifth Infantry soma months ago, the United States wasi left with out any negro troops except a few short-term cavalry men employed in the stables at tho West Point Military Academy. When the proposition wa*; mado about two months ago to return the negro troops several strong protests were made to the department by Con gressmen and other prominent per sons representing communities where, It was reported, these troops were to be posted. General Oliver has settled the matter by ordering these soldiers into his own State. BALLOON FELL ON GLACIER. Wellman Made Start For Pole in Teeth of a Heavy Storm. London.?The Walter Wellman party arrived at Troms^e from Spitz bergen,' where an attempt to make the ascent In the airship with whleh Wellman hoped to readfc the pole was made September 2. ^ A aevere storm drovo the balloon back-upon the glacier, but the car and equipment were saved. This ascent seems to have been the last desperate effort before all hope was abandoned of making the voyage till next summer. ^ liftoa Challenge* For Cup. Through Its aacretary, Richard 0. IfeMakon Smyth, the Ro^sl Irish Yacfrt Club baa sent by ihe steamer Vwrls a challenge for the America's cup lb 1906, naming Sir Thomas Lip toajM the owapr-oc^the challenging 'ho PuOojt A 5JCHM0N 4 tAere/-.! iR&V/^NDEIgofy Subject i l Ate, Brooklyn, N. Y.?Preaching at the Irving Hquaro Presbyterian Church. Hamburg avenue and Weirfleld streot, on (ho above themo, the pas tor, Rev. Ira Wemmoll Henderson, took as bin text John 1:4. Ilo WRfc I-nut Lord'a Day wo dlscussod In Home measure and mannor the faot of death. To-day we shall discuss for the moments that we are together tho fact of life. The reality with which we have more presently and Immediately to deal, l,ife in among; tho mlKhtlest reali ties with whlrh humanity Is familiar. It thrlllB and sufifuaeR every living one of us. It energises all that is active and moving and sentient round about ub. It is at tho soutco of all that 1b; at the centre of all crea tion. It 1h divine, for It if) of Qod and imparted from 111m. It is real and tho ono thing in all tho world of which wo are conscious. For we see it outworking itsolf into tho pulsat ing, throbbing unlverso about it. All nature Kings the praiHo and mani fests the force of life as it chants tho glory and the might of Qod. In it wo live and movo and havo our being. ] is at tho centre of humanity's ex-' istcnco. ? | AH of which is trlto and obvious and old. There is not muoh that is now that we can tell about concern- I ing life. For tho piimrii man know 1 life in its fullness and its beauty as do we. Ho heard tho songs of tho j feathered host <* and witnessed tho i manifestations of tl)0 majesty of Jo- | liovah as Ho revealed it in the heav- : enly galaxies and expressed it in tho j varied forms and tho diverse beauties I of nature. Tho primal man may not havo been so familiar with so many of the actual laws operated in lifo as wo are. He may not havo been so I conscious of tho subtler forms of lifo i that inodorn scientific investigation the revealed to tho world of to day. But taking In tho broad we may safely say that thoro Is Hot much that Is new that wo can say about In fact, life Is so Intangible that it Is In reality properly indefinable. We cannot dofino lifo exactly. Wo may appropriate a definition, but wo can not compass in tho forms of flnlto speech tho fullnoss of lifo itself. For j life ig^divlno and limitless. Language J lt> finite and circumscribed in its j scopo and possibilities. Life knows 1 no bounds. Language Is confined. | Life is the creatlon,of God and is co extensive with Him. Language is tho method of human intercommuni cation, and as such It Is hemmed within tho horizons of humanity. Life per so Is Intangible. It is as in tanglblo as It Is ultimately indefin able. Wo may touch a man's hand that is sentient with life; we may look into his eye that Is alive with life; wo may hear tho pound of hlB voice and witness tho exhibition of his strength; wo may see the various expressions of the life that vitalizes 'him. But we do not see his life. We 'may roam tho ftelds and sail the seas ?and climb tho hills and till the pas tures till Qod calls us home. We ipay see the evidences of lifo, but life It self wo do not see. Life Is intangible. Wo may know It In Its manifestations and through them. But we shall not know life?that mysterious, wonder working energy that enlivens us? until wo enter into the presences Divinity hereafter. For Ufo is as ln? tangible as God, ^ Life is indefinable. We may de? fine life In the terms of life's expres sions. Whether we see life In cloud or tree or drop or hud, this Is ever so, For the beauty of the cloud is not the life that brings the beauty Into being. The grace and dignity and charm that is manifest in humanity Is not the life that animates humantty. We may'define human life in the terms of iifo's self-expression, through the modium of humanity as we may de scribe Its manifestations In the nat ural world about us. But when all Is said and done, to define life In the terms of Its manifestations Is not en tirely to define life. For life Is more than its manifestations, as is God. Lifo is more than what we sec and know of tho expressions of life. And yet, for the sake of definition and in the interest of the culture of tho moral and spiritual life of man, It Is not really necessary that we shall bo ablo to do more to-day than define life In tho terms of its expres sions and relations. For It is not necessary to know all about the con stitution of the world In order to live happily within It. It l*oet heed ful that wo shall know all about the 'Inner dUd hidden laws of electricity in ofder to ride on an electric car or to enjoy the illuminating power of the olectrlc light It Is not necessary that we shall be able to define God with comprehension and finality In ordor to draw near to Him and to enjoy tho pleasure" of communion with Him or enter into the realisation of the potency of IUs love. Not oth erwise is it with life. We may not understand it all, -we may not be fble to define It %lth finality, we may not be competent to penetrate its mys tery, but we know that It is, that it Is central in ourselves and in oor society: we are aware that we are In the midst of it; we view ita mani festations and experience lta expres sions. We may stats our experiences and the results of onr investigations and observations In ther terms of hu-< manly understandable speech. vAiM that is enough. We shall know nwre. But that la enough for now. ^ ^ We may. therefore, define life In the terms of opportunity, responMWl * la the term of opportunity. alive to hm a to be in follow ta 1mm wUl or no, upon us. It Is Insistent^* [\r? Lne8CBl,ft,,l?- ^ omnipresent, whether our position bo high or low. our labor groat or inconsequential, our capacity much or small, oppor tunity outers Into the sphere of our aotivitios. it dominates our vision. ' lie is a dull man who cannot heap 4 the insistent call of opportunity to the soul. Wo may in our wilfulness * close our oars and shut our eyes to - the ontroatleg of opportunity. But we shall bo hold to account by God. Life is determined In the terms of responsibility. To be alive with pressing and eager opportunity at hand Is to Invested with responslbll fty. For the opportunity ImbMes our ability to uso It. /For' God never sends opportunities to men that they are unable totally to use. For God never' Jests with men. And to call a man to a hopeless task la to Jest with him, to make light of him. But upon ovory man to whom the golden opportunity comes la laid the respon sibility to utilize that chance to the?* glory of God and to the best of hi* own ability. The church, not other wise tlmn mnu, Is under compelling responsibility to rtake^use of the op portunities that are here. She can not still the appeal of those oppor tunities; she ought not to deny them; she ought not to endeavor to avoid or evade them. Sheahould gather the opportunities to herself with Joy, and welcome the responsibilities thereto attendant with happiness un feigned. Life is determined In the terms of possibility, That Is to say, that life Is hope. "vVJilIo there is life there It hope," ndiimero catch phrase, K Is profound philosophy In a sentence. For 11 vo men who are really living are expectant. They look nhead. Tholr faces front the future. Thejr are Interested In that which la un atlainrd, that which may be achieved*^ that which Is not yet realized. Fdln < life is full of possibilities. An'd pos sibilities made progress possible. To bo alive is to progress. But where there are no possibilities there Is no -v progress. Life Is delightful because of its possibilities; possibilities for self-culture, for moral and spiritual advancement, for constructive "ser y. and glorloui for GodV This is the salt of life. vice, for the doing or fdee<Js both doughty, and glorious for man and This lon&e llfo zest and gives it flavor. ? Life Is determined in the terms of divinity. For llfo is Of God. And?" ovory soul that lives may partake of / the character and of the beauty of .f tlio personality of God. Whatever *'* you and I are not, of this we may be sure, we are the children of God. we are divinely born. Our life is the Father's gift. Therefore, If we are children we should bo obedient. We should enter Into such flllftl lelaUuu* ships with God that our divinity shall bo manifest, that we shall show the heirship with Christ that la oui Let us, then, be alive to our op - portunities, glorying in our responsi bility, augmenting our forcefulnew in tho achievement of our possibilities, maturing the divine life of God that indwells us. For this is life* ? i ? ? ? * . ' rilled With the Fulness of God. This is how the Rer. Dr. Dixon IKr lustrates the thought*of being filled with the fulnees of God; "Standing on the deck of a ship In mldocean, you see'the su:t reflected N from its depths. Prom * little boat on a mountain lake you see the sun - reflected from its shallow wattTa.^-' Looking Into mountain spring, not more than six Inches in diameter* % you see the same great tan. . "Look inta the>d*#drop of' tba * morning and there it is again. The' sun haa a way of adapting itself to Ita reflection* The ocean la* not tog large to hold It, nor the dewdrop too small, 80 God can fill -any man, . whether his capacity be llba. tba ocean, like the mountain lake. Mitt the spring, or like tba dewdrop. Whatever therefore, ba the cnpeeKy.'.^ there la opened up tha possibility ot being 'filled with tha fulnees of God.' "?Methodist Recorder. ? ? ,, ( ? ? 1 Better Hum Ten Thousand Pounds. :*? >: Glvo ma ten thousand pounds, and one reverse of fortune may scatter ' it away. Bat let me have" a spiritual hold of this divine asaurance, "The Lord is My Shepherd. I shall not mjk want," and then I am all tight, I I cannot bras m. ??c?vi vmii *j%j ? uauni u|/t, hold this security, l*The Lord Shephord.^I shall** hot. warn.' am set up for life. I cannot breaV with such stock as this in bapd. ?? > I never can be a bankrupt, for I ? - 'mmm p? * not give me ready money now; girt me a check book and let me.draw what 1 like. This Is what God doea* with the believer. He does not fmfr mediately transfer his inbetltanee to him* but lets him draw what he need* ; out of the riches of hla fulaeaa l|. Chrlst.^-Spurgeon. Development of the Divine. ' \ The highest aim is tbe develop* ment ot the divine la man. Tfcoed*'.' who have the keen sight of 1ova may / detect ita presence la every one. They.-I know that as the slime bldaa " ? root and blossom, as tba ba holds the precious ore, as tba encompasses tha oak, so a man life contains tha poten the divine. They are not dot the external slime and hardness meanness, but perceive and faith in the inherent and tba mate. To pa aware of tba dfr ot the soul'and of every km* 1x4 know the sublimit truth disc* to the human mind.?Paragraph , ^ pit. , How Direre Becspe 4??"* "Tbe direr at lives still, though