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BEE HUNTING A PASTIME. There Is a Fascinating Charm Aboi it. Some bright young women wl spent last summer in a western Mas achusetts town, tired of hunting bir< which never sat still, turned bee hut era. Discovering a veteran bee hut er and overcoming a feminine di trust of the little insect who so shar ly resents interference with her a fairs, they were initiated in the art lining bees, and thereafter eve tramp afield was with an object view. Bee hunting possesses a charm p culiarly its own and it can be pra ticed wherever flowers grow, evE within the lmits of a town. The ne essary outfit consists of a box thr( inches square and as many dee This is divided into an upper at lower story by means of a slide. T1 cover is fitted with a glass windol In the lower compartment is placed piece of comb filled with a syrup sugar and water. The slide Is push( In place and the nearest flower b( or clover patch is sought. With ti box in one hand and the cover in tl other, it is an easy matter to trap honey bee busy robbing a flower Its sweets. Watching her through tl glass window, the moment she quie down the slide is gently drawn. does not take the be long to discov the syrup, and she nce begins 1 load up with this tre ure. The box is now placed on a po andt a sharp watch maintained. Pre ently the bee is sated, and, circlir for her bearings, starts straight f the hive or tree. When she com back, for she will surely return, sl will bring another bee with her, ai In turn this one will bring a thir and so on until a line is establishe Then, while one or more fill with tl syrup, the cover is replaced and tl box carried forward along the line flight. From the stopping point f ne'w lind will be established as befor Thus In time will the bees lei straight to their home. permanentlyc No fits ornervou after first dav's use7 Dr. Kline's Gre erveRestorer,82trial bcleand treatise fr .B H.KaNELtd., 93rch St., Phila., P Pittsburg has alreadl expended $25,00( in the skyscraper b;om. Piso'sCurefor Consuiption is an infallib eine for coughs 'and colds.-N. I , Ocean Grove N. J., Feb. 17, 190 Tel ph poles ala g a railway are a thirty to the gile. Horses Swam R'ver With Load. While trying to get a two-horse ri aded with hay o board of the ferr: at at Suncook, '. H., both horse d day were p ecipitated into th mac river. In falling the pol e way be ame caught on th boat and the whc e was safely lande on the other sid . The river is 1,00 fleet wide at this point and the horse by swimming - pt up with the boa over the 'whole istanice. A W RECOVERY. 'A P~mia~at ffecr of the Rebec Wiit to k Doan's Kidney gardner, a loc ofilct Topeka, Kans., Room. 10, 812 K~ansa ave ~uWrites: 'used Dn's Kidne .Pills. during the psat year,4 for kidney tr ible and kindred ailments. I was sufferinig from ~ ' pains in the back and4 headaches, but found after the use of one box of the remuedy that the troubles gradually disappeared, 3 so that before 1 bad. finished a second package I was well. I,' therefore, heartily . dorse your remedy." ed) MRS. 9. E. dUMGARDNER. A FREE TRIAL--Address Fostei Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sal by all dealers. Price, 50 cenits. The Quest. I saw the towering clouds take fire From the low sun, and thought thel blest; They neared the land of my desire, The splendid West. Spring laughed in breaking bud, clea In skies that took the tone of rest; S I saw, yet found them not so f-ir As in my West. j ight grew, a breathing silence fell, A.nd peace, pure peace, was manifest; Yet loved I not quiet peace so well As in my West. What balm, then, for this ancient pal This torture of the baffled quest? Onl .to take the same dear road agal Tht reaches West. -London Outlook. So. 39.' R OANOKE COLLEGE ~A R.* FOR. YOUNG WOMEP / Education of aoaen. 24 Taehers and i eers-ALL SP'EcIALISTS. Last year the mo successful in history of institution. Ideal hos ju~adings. RLst-s low for advantages offer. de fo a ae. 5 * ,E H ATTN. M., PH. D., Presidet ?E*RSO) A LL Y Conducted Tou TO SAINT LOUIS VIA Seaboard Air Line Railway Cc nder the personal supervision of R EV. F. CON R AD. Special Coaches and Slee ing Cars will be operated from Charlott Raleigh an W ilmnugton, consolidatii at Monroe, running through to St. Loul Sto., leaving the above points'fuesda; October 4th. 1904. ROUTE S. A. L. to Atlanta, N.C. & St. L.to Martin, Ills. Cent. to St. Louis. A Passenger Representative will go throug to destinatior. with the party, thereby assu ing those going on samne every attentioni e route. Pulktnan fare $6.00 from all point Exceedingly low rates of fare will be in effe from all Stations For complete informnati< and reservations ad-iress. N. L.IHERilAN. C. P. &f. A. Charlotte, N. C. HARLES H. GATTIS, T. P. A.. Raleigh, N. C. CHARLES B. RYAN, (4. P. A. Portsmouth, Va. A SERMON FOR SUNDA: at AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY TH LO REV. C. CAMPBELL MORGAN. D. D. S Subject : The Attractiveness and Excli siveness of Jesus-Listen to the Cs of Christ-He Will Brook No Divisi< S- ot Your Loyalty. P- LONDOX. ENGLAND. - The foiowi: f- serrion, entitled "The Attractiveness az 3f Exa.usiveness of Jesus." was spreach4 here on a recent Sunday by the Rev. Campbell Morgan, D. D. lie took for h o text: Then said Jesus unto His disciph if any man will come after Me let hi e- deny himself and take up his cross a follow Me.-St. Matthew 16:24. There were two facts about Jesus Chr n whi-h no one can read the Gospel 2 C- cords without recognizing; facts whii e appear to be contradictory, but which, a matter of fact, are complementary, a: - the understanding of which reveals f d all time the method of the Master e dealing with men. I refer to facts . the attractiveness and exclusiveness aJesu. There can be no question about t A former; there can equally be no questi d about the latter to those who have cai d fully read the records and have seen t methods of. Jesus while He was he Le among men. He was constantly drawi te people to Him, and He was perpetual a oding them aloof. By the o y wi )f someness of His person. He was drawi: men and women of all sorts and cont te tions, at all times and in all places ts Himself, and yet by the uttering of wor It so severe, so searching, so drastic, maki: )r us tremble even to-day, He held. m, back from Him. .I I venture to say that the words I re to you this morning from the Gospel 3t Luke come to those who are most famili with them bringing a sense of surpri We never read th em without feeling mo or less startled by them - "nless yl )r hate father and mother, husband and wij s parent and child, you cannot be My d e ciple." We have attempted to account f these words, but I do not hesitate to s d that in some senses they have stagger d, the faith of many, and yet there th d. stand. And not there only, but through le His teaching there is evident the sat 6 Viethod of Christ, that of holding m :f back just as they were a proaching HiT a drawiag them to Himsef by multitud and then holding the crowd as th pressed upon Him, and sifting them wi Ld such surprising words as these. Now the must be a reason lor this. and it is i that reason that I want to look, with yc a little this morning. 9- But first allow me to say a few words 3-t this :'act of the attractiveness of Jest o because the more clearly we recognize ai a. understand that, the more clearly sh, we understand, as I think, the other tru of His perpetual method of holding mi back and excluding certain persons fro close companionship with Himself. e Tale first, then, this great fact of I - attractiveness. the -ost fascinating su 3 ject .n which to speak. Remember, pray you, that if the Gospel records 3 veal one thing more clearly than anoth they reveal that Jesus was, somehow other, a Person that drew men to Hi irresisitibly. I g-> back to those silent years at Na; g reth concerning which we know so ve r- little. You will remember that on the a days Luke opens for us just a little we e dow :hrough which we look when he say "'He wvas subject to His parents, and in fav-or with God and with man." e not stop one moment to dwell on t I state:nent that He grew in favor wi God, although it is a very interesti: statenent, but just for a moment, for t sake of our argument, listen to the oth~ t part of it: "He grew in favor with mar Take that as it is simply stated, and y, at once see a picture of the boy growi: up to be a youth, and passing from you into young manhood until He became t Carpenter, of Nazereth. known to all t 'little town that nestled among the hil aS just removed from the highways of lia Thi is all the truth that is revealed. If almost startle you, because somehow Iother we have come to think that holine Iis almost always accompanied by aagula Iity, and there is a popular idea that if Iman is good he never can be a favorite. Iis a great mistake. It is by the measu in which a man lacks holiness that a ma is not in favor. Here is a man living in Nazereth, a: IHe is a favorite. I do not want to li th:'t, into a_ super-spiritual realm, but Iyou 'nave no imagination you can just go Isleep for two minutes wvhile I imagine look into that window and I see the Ce penter at His work, and I tell you what ing their toys to Him to be mended, and am quite sure He mended them. I s Iyoung men going at eventide to take the p ~roblems with them - because they knc H e is sane, honest and pure. I think I s Iold men, upon whose brow alreadT -' Ilight that never was on land or sea,' tal 'na to Him because He has such a wond< ful' way of talking about "My Fathe: house" and "the many mansions;" a favc ite, sane and strong, and pure, and attra< eive as to personality. I know full well that a little later< these same men took Him to a hill a: tried to murder Ifim, but that was ther sult of something else to be discover< later. The pure, human, simple life nJesus was, in itself, attractive, and Lul nsays, "He grew in favor." L~eave those hidden years and look Hm jist for one rapid moment as treads the pathway upon which a fiere n light falls tharn ever fell upon a throne the path way o:i the public teacher, and you read these Gospel stories the one thi that strikes you is the fact of the -r-11 tudes around about Jesus Christ. Whe ever He went they followed Him. If]I went out into the city the counitry peop crowded the streets to be near Him; if i went out into the country place the ci i, men and women flocked after Him, folio ing Him so far that at times there wasi n chance for them to i~rovide themselv with food, and He had to feed them; f in their eagerness to follow they had ic " gotten foo4 and had forgotten distanc And whei ver He went they came aft _Hi-n. -I an not saying that these multitud crowned Eim;'that is not rmy point, b He drewv the people after Him. The o I, thing they could not do with Jesus was let Him alone; they came, whether to cr e icise Hlira cr crown Hirn is not now t) i- ouestion; the point is, that He drew m< s and woman after Him in all those days liis earthly life. Tfhey came after Him. sorts and'conditions of men, the schola t. and the illiterate, the learned and the ign rant, the debased, the depraved, they came. Of course, there were more po, people came than rich because there ways were more poor people than there a rich, and, of course, there were more the illitcrate than oi the learned for t) se.f-saime reasoni. but I prot.3t against ti idea that Christ on'y attracted a clas There is somnething about H~im that tracts all kind~s of m en, and it is true those old dars. Come, in v~ou ill. outside the Bible, a: frcom the day that this Man walked amoi men in Jutdca until now there has ner e, tcn so attractiv.e a personality in hum: ihistory as dess And I want to say td s, superfative thing about Christ. No ee ,tury, wvhatever its peculanity, or quahit or quatty. has prdue any. person wl was so ppa- as:Jes Christ. HeI h always toeo c bove~ His ife::ows, aho those histr: eroa':es that the cent ries look ba.-k to, or to thiose imag;inati personages that the centuiries give to us literature. .Jesus hais been the mosta tractive perenagee always. h~ I come to thik very houi-. Who is t! Smost attractive personality -in the world this hauri Let me1 1ke a rarro..er eire WVho is the mtas attract ve personanitV En;:!and at the houri I a'swer witho fear oi controdiction-Je~:s, Christ. I am not saying thant ti ajonity people hav:e 't crowned Him. Letr take my il:ust ration :o bec lowest lev< Can you think of ay p -son .in histor dead or ahve, or any per. mO :magmnati literature, that . ill Iked of. a: thought of, and Mung ad discuse and critic'sed, and'abuu d crowned Jesus Christ? There is ingle theat I hakespeare's plays' .glad .ouoo igran I don't speak from any inside knowledge, but every one knows it to be true. Tnere T is not a 'single theatre that can exist with out variety. There must be change; some E other genius than Shakespeare must be IN forthcoming. And yet, with all our wail about the decadence of the church and the failure of Christianity. every Sunday i Manchester more people are gathe'recd t, t- 'tether to sing the old hymns and hear the .d sermons-i beg your pardon. to hear n sermons on the old texts-and listen to the o:d. old story of the cross than for any other purpose. ig Let us begin with the last. When Christ d was as fond of a phrase as He evidently to d was of that phrase lFoVlow Me." there T1 must be ,soie deep signification in it. 1 So s have been going through my New Testa- SI s, ment during the last few months. traein m< that phrase. It has been a very interest- E ing study to see how constantly Ghrist ed used it. It was the almost perpetual for- to st mula of His call to individual soul-"Fo!. ho -e- low Me!" W. h Now what is it to follow? Two things th as are involved. Neither of them covers all to id the around, taken alone. Both are re- tu quired. n First, to follow, I must trust. I shall So never follow any one I haven't confidence tr of in. I may trust and yet not follow. as Secondly. not only is trust necessary, but , obedience is necessary. Christ contronts is the inlividual soul, bringing that soul out no e- from the crowd, as He is calling some man Je here this morning. He says, "'Would you ri eg trust Me? Then obey Me." se How am I going to do it? What does it pr mean, this tre 'ing and obeying? "Deny fo yourself, ti' the cross--" It seems te to me that ioint which must be ob- th t served first ' - deny self is the only ho s way in which n follow Christ. How g shall I follow ? Deny thyself. lie Be n two things are. matelv related. and it pe seems to me that-, veryting is said wheu go d "Follow Me" is said, 'and yet it is neces- fol of sary to say the other in order to under- 0 ar stand what He means by following Him. to] ;e. What is it Christ calls me to? To deny te re myself! Not to practice self-denial; th s ?u is a very cheap business, but to deny self- Sh a very costly matter. He says. "Denv is. yourself. Listen no lon.;r to the call of a or your self, but listen to My call. Don't con IV sider any more whether this thing will alt a I minister to your pleasure or to your ag I grandizement, or answer the cry of your ambition. But Me first." Christ says, id< .11 "Deny yourself and follow Me. Put Me on thi ae the throne and dethrone yourself. Don't th< an let the queston ot the morning be, What wa a; shall I like to do. but What will Christ i es have me do: not Will this pay me, but will hii y it hasten the coming of the kingdom of cri h God. Don't let the underlying, mastering Et re passion of your life be your own selfish or desire; crown Me, follow Mc." u, , It is a superlative call, and the call of juo Jesus is always imperial. He will brook no .Te >n division of your loyalty, and that is wnat fo is. He means. "You must hate father, moth id er, wife, child. That means that when the ill soul comes into contact with Me I must be co th absolutely first." Let me stop here to say ,se an that whenever a soul does that he gets a m back a hundredfold lands and fields and ar mother and father and children. Jesus pr is Christ said He must be first, and He has e b- never lowered that standard, and the re- fo' I ligion that is simply an addendum is worth , 'e- nothing to Him. P; er Jesus Christ comes and says, "Deny Pe r yourself," but there is the other wor a ei m "Take up the cross." Wel!. what is it. int Christ's cross? No. No man can carry is, :a- Christ's cross. What then? Your own. ph a What is this cross? I don't think that it fo' r is ever the same in two persons. The se ma n- cross is that in your life which immediate- d lv costs you something if you crown Al Christ. There is a business man here ths th 1 morning who is saying in his heart, "Well, a e if that is Christianity, I will have to go ho th home and change my method of business." a 1 That is your cross. There is a young man here say's that, If that is Christianty, if er it means putting Christ first, then I will "have to go home and give up that compan ionship." That is your cross. Some one ahere says, 'If that is what Christ means, ph thtIam not to listen to the call of my A Sown life, I shall have to go home and say Q e II was wrong qnd confess my wrong, to w sthose to whom it is so hard to confess it."' That is your Cross. And somebody else ' says, "If that is Christianity I shall have uP to goback on my history, throw upevery- h t' "thina'I am doing and go into the minis- to try.'7 That is your cross.h >rYou -npow what your cross it. Don't- let sh any one bome and, ask me. You kno this morning chE.ges your allegiance to Jesus Ah eChi'ist. You cannot play tricks with God.ki nYou cannot deceive your own con science when you stand in the clear light of the yer dcall of Christ. He says. "Deny yourself';x take up that cross,(and you know what hii fis) an'd follow Me.-se to why are Christ's terms so drastic? t For two reasons. First, no man ever gets toChrist but by the way' of the enthronie. sai rment of Jesus Christ. It is possible to ad- Jal -mire and cheer Him, possib'le to patronize no Him and never to know ilim. It is not E ethe crowd that gets. to Him, but the cross- t rbaring soul. And if you read on you will t rsay, "Whosoever wou'd save his life shall M e1lot it; whosoever will lose his life for My p tsahe shall find it." i - Christ confronts the soul and says virtu- pa ally this: "You don't understand your own go life, dear heart. You cannot realize yourph r- own kingdom. You cannot build your ow.n tr t character and carve~out your owa dcsany, but I can do it, though I can only do it up 1when you have put Me absolutely on the sa dthrone for your own life's life. For its co: founding and ennobling and developing wv you must come to Me, and by the way ox 9s d a w-hole-hearted surrender.'' s~a e But there is another reason why Christ reZ makes His terms drastic. He wants men Je at and women upon whom He can depend in a': [e the day of battle. I am quite sure there be er is nothing Jesus Christ wants at this mo his - zment so much as men and women who wil f go through darkness and death for Him. gYou remember that picture of Jairus be- Eli - seching Jesus to save his child who wasEi ..dying, and how, with the people thronging go eabout Him, the Master suddenly ex- ja le claimed, "Who touched Me?" ..be< e Now don't let us be angry with the dis- G y y ciples. We should have said the same thing. "A hundred people have touched th oo you in the last five minutes. The multi- ", es tude throng 'Thee and press,,Thee, and say-ea r est Thou, who touched Me-?" r-But Jesus Christ always knows the ,dif- m e. ference between the crush of a curiousSf' r mob and the touch of a needy soul that has come near Him. And this morning as as this service closes I hear His voice speak' ed it ing once again-the attractive Christ thatse ebhas drawn this crowd - this exclusiv~e seh o Christ-and He says: "Who touched Me?"s t-We have all jostled Him this morning. a e We have all looked into "His face again. n We have all had a newv consciousness of of the infinite music of-His voice. Have you c ill got anything out of Him? Has any virtue tiv rs healed you this morning? If not, even tr y- now stretch out your hand and touch Him.ki 1 - And to do that you must deny yourself, >r crucify your pride. Having done that, his- shi il- ten to the cry of your own life, and listente re to His imperial call and crowvn Hin Lord c o of all. a is J Good News for Anglers. s.A new type of fishhook, the inven in tin of E. Hindon Hyde of New York, re Ishows how even the simplest thing ed dof common life can be readily imi- of Iproved. The improvement consists wl nin transferring the barb of the hook * a afrom the inside of the point, that is. fo: beween the point and the shank, to w: Sthe opposite side of the point, so that de a it lies on the outside of the book. pa ""The advantage of the new hook is |ok that it renders it much more difficult er a for a hooked fish to release himself ca 5-upon a slack line. This is due to the fr< fact that the new location of the barb cc acreates a bar to the extraction of the na e. hook after it has penetrated, and also ha in to the fact that the barb, instead of gr Lit playing against the soft mucus mem- el of brane of the mouth to prevent rele te pas in the old style of hook,p "i- against the hard epider Stific American. ddBni H SUNDAY CHOOL (ERNATIONAL LESSON MENTS FOR SEPTEMBE 25. riew o the 2pwe Lesonr. of the 'bi - f- Read Paalm 103, 1-12 - Golden Text, Psalm 103, 8 Summary and Topics. Lesson I.-Topic: Rehoboam's answer the ten tribes ar.d their revolt. Place: e assembly was held at Shechem. After lomon's death the people assembled at echem to choose a new King. Solo )n's son, Rehoboam, was heir to the rone; he was young and tender heart but vain and wicked; the people asked be relieved of excessive taxation; Re boam counseled with the people as to iat answer he should give; he forsook e counsel of the old men and listened the counsel of the young men; he re ened a stern reply and caid that he >uld be more severe than even his father lomon had been; ten of the twelve bes then revolted and chose Jeroboam King. [I. Topic: Jeroboam's effort to estab h himself.in his kingdom. Place: The rthern part of Palestine. As soon as roboam was declared King of the ten bes. he took measures to establish him f in his kingdom; there were bright spects before him; he enlarged and tified several cities; he then took steps keep his neople from going to Jerusa a to worship, fearing that if they did !ir hearts would become attached to Re boam and that they would kill him; he Lde two calves of gold and set one up in thel and the other in Dan, urging the ople to worship in these cities instead of ing to Jerusalem. This became a sin, - the people soon fell into idolatry. [II. Topic: Judah's prosperity and vic ry. Place: Judah. Asa's kingdom. Af -e death of Rehoboam, Abijah, his 2, reigned in his stead; his reign was >rt, and at his death, Asa. his son, gned in Judah forty-one years; Asa was 'ood King and did that which was right the sight of the Lord; he removed the ars of the strange gods which had been up in tne kingdom, and broke down 'images which had been erected to >Is he commanded his people to seek Lord and to obey the law; he fortified cities in Judah: the land had rest from .r many years; Asa raised an army to et the Ethiopians who came against n; the battle was set in array; Asa ed unto the Lord; the Lord caused the hiopians to flee. [V. Topic: Jehosaphat establishing a liciary. Place: Jehosha hat reigned er Judah. At the death of Asa, hoshaphat, his son, reigned in his stead - twenty-five years. Jehoshaphat was a >d King and trusted God; .he thorough cleansed the land of idolatry, but he nmitted a great error in joining him f to Ahab; he went with Ahab to filght iinst Ben-hahad, King of Syria; the )phet of the Lord warned him not to , but he did and Ahab was slain. Then hu, the prophet, reproved Jehoshophat - helping the ungodly. 7. Topic: The ido atry of Israel's kings. ice: Omri and Ahab reigned over the i tribes. Omri and Ahab were both y wicked kings; they led the people o the worship of idols and fully estab aed Baal worship in the land; the pro ets o God were slain and His worship -bidden; Omri founded the city of Sa ria and made it his capital; at his ith Ahab, his son, reigned in his stead; tab was worse than any of the kings it had precededfor he married Jezebel, heathen woman; he built a house in nor of Baal in Samaria aiid set up im !s to the heathen god; the ju' the Lord fell upon Ahab, and in in battle. 7I. Topic: Elijah's obedience an ices: Samaria, Brook Cherith, e' ath. Elijah the prophet appen ab and told him that there wou at dought and famine in .th ich would continue three yea rd se--t Elijah to the brook C ravens fed gim there; the brook Elijah was sent to ' arephath; woman.was-commanded to feed asked her for a little water; tol bring him a morsel of bread; she had but little; Elijah encourage i asked her to bring him a cake said they would all be supplied. 7I. Topic: Elijah meets Oadiah ab.Place: Somewhere in A igdom. The faimine had laslted trs and six months; the supplies iausted; the Lord told Elijah to aself to Ahab; Obadiah and Ahab king grass; suddenly Elijah appe Obadiah and asked him to tellA Lt Elijah was there; Obadiah feared d that if he should tell Ahab that was here, and then the prophet appear to Ahab, he would be sla jah said that ?, would certainly app !III. Topic: Elijah convincing Isr tt Jehovah is the true God. Plac >unt Carmel and Jezreel. A test posed by Elijah in order to prove i was the true God; Baal's prophets p -ed their sacrifice and called upon th I to send fire; no answer; Elijah p ed his offering; dug a trench; cover Soffering and the altar and filled t nch with water; Elijah then calle n God and fire fell from heaven; t rifice and the wood and the stone wer isumed, and the water in the trene s licked up; the people said, "Jehova God." The 450 prophets of Baa] wer in. X. Topic: Elijah's flight. Places: Jes , Beer-sheba and Horeb. Ahab tol tebel all Elijah had done; Jezebel sen nessenger warning Elijah that he would killed; Elijah fled for his life; dismissed servant; went a day's journey into the derness; sent angels to care for him. . Topic: God's manner of dealing with jab. Place: Horeb the mount of God. jah was at Horeb or Sinai in a cave. d asked Elijah why he was there; Eli ttold the Lord how zealous he had mn, and how they had sought his life; d caused a great wvind to rend the iuntain and break the rocks, and after Swind an earthquake, and after the 7thquake a fire, but the Lord was not realing Himself in these; followving these .nifestations the Lord spoke in a still all voice. GI. Topic: The parting of Elijah and sha. Places: Gilgal. Bethel. Jericho, i the p lace where Elijah was translat Elijah made a farewell visit to the ools of the prophets; Elijah asked Eli what he should do for him; Elisha d, "Let a double portion of thy spirit upon me." Elijah went up by a whirl ad into heaven. GI. Topic: Israel reproved and exhort to seek God: Places: Amos was a na e of Tekoa, but prophesied at Bethel. oboam II. was King of Israel; the igdom was prosperous and rich; the >ole were very wicked and were wor ding idols; because of their sins Amos Is them that they would be carried into >tivity. First White Man to Sec Okapi. Major James Harrison has just turned to England after a prolong-i journey through the dense forest central Africa, during the couf-se o1 ich he saw the okapi in its natural bitat. This is particularly dense rest, the trees being. thickly Inter >ven with creepers and tangled un rgowth. On the sixth day his rty encountered the spoor of the api. This was followed for sev al hours, when suddenly the party me upon the animal fifteen feet in nt of them. Before the major uld obtain his rifle from one of the tives accompanying him the okapi .d escaped in the thick under owth. It stood between ten and 3vn fe inhi An Era of Road Buildin. That the first quarter of the twen tieth century will be a great era of road building in this country now seems probable. All persons who have given serious thought to the question are agreed on the following proposi tions: That road building in the United States has been greatly neglected; that we are far behind other civilized nations in this respect; that the gen eral improvement of the highways throughout the country would do more to promote the welfare and happiness of the people than any other work which could be undertaken, and that the present is an auspicious time for Inaugurating a national good roads campaign. The last of these propositcins is in some respects the most important be cause on it rests the hope that some thing is actually going to be done. The last quarter of the nineteenth century was the great era of railroad building, but that has now passed into history. Of course, we are still building rail roads, and will continue to build them for ages, but ne'er again on the enor mous scale of the past thirty years. The necessity and the opportunity no longer exist. The energy, the enthu siasm, and the capital heretofore di rected to the building of railroads is now seeking other channels. one of which is the building of improved highways. Another reason for believing that the time is ripe for a great popular uprising for good roads arises from the extension of the rural free mail deliv ery. This is rightly looked upon as oYe of the most beneficent develop-, ments of modern civilization. In fact, the people have scarcely begun to re alize the extent of its benefits. Proper Construction of Eoads. Broken stone roads may 'e conven ilently divided into two classes-mac adam and telford. The principal dif ference between these two construc tions is as to the propriety or necessi ty of a paved foundation beneath the coating of broken stone. Macadam denied the advantage of this, while I Telford supported and -racticed it. This pcint will not be argued here, but it is suggested that good judgment should be used in the selection of one or the other of these systems. The macada tem is the best under so while the telford is others. The dvan fA fo:rth, was c its ac Lydia "DEAR feels that her being restore advised. t' M womb. The w set; but Lydia an elixir of life; good health ret daily and each do the help I obta 3007 Miles Ae.,-. A medicine can produce pr is the record of cannot be equall duced. Here is ca "FRE|Ei