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He had been shot right through the
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?eart, or lungs, ariu uuwu xit* iwi ?>n" i
a crash, stone dead.
- But in escaping from Scylla I had
run into the paws of Cbarybdis.
I heard the elephant fall, and glanced
round. Straight in front of me, and
jiot fifteen paces away, were the other
two bulls.
They were staring about, and at that
moment they caught sight of me.
Then they came, the pair of them?
came like thunderbolts, and from different
angles.
I had only time to snap my rifle to,
lift it and fire, almost at haphazard,
at the head of the nearest, the unbounded
bull.
: Now, as you know, in the case of the
'African elephant, whose skull is con,rex,
and not concave, like that of the
Indian, this is always a most risky and
;very infrequently a perfectly useless
shot..
The bullet loses itself in the masses
of bone, that is all.
But there is one little vital place, and
should the bullet happen to strike
thprp. it will follow the channel of the
nostrils?at least I suppose it is the
nostrils?and reach tlie brain.
Down came the great bull all of a
heap, and rolled over on bis side as
dead as a stone.
I swung round at tliat instant to facc
the third, the monster bull with one
tusk I had wounded two days before.
He was already almost over me, and
In the dim moonlight seemed to tower
above me like a house.
I lifted the rifle and pulled at his
neck.
It would not go ofF.
Tlien, in a flash, as it were. I remembered
that it was on the half-cock.
The lock of this barrel was a little
weak, and a few days before, in tiring
at a cow eland, the left barrel had
jarred off at the shock of the discharge
of the right, knocking me backward
with the recoil; so afteu that I had
kept it on the half-cock till I actually
.wanted to fire it.
I gave one desperate hound to the
right, and, my lame leg notwithstanding,
I believe that few men could have
made a better jump.
At any rate it was none too soon, for
as I jumped I felt the wind made by
the tremi^ftfous downward stroke of
the monster's trunk.
Then I ran for it.
I ran like the wind, still keeping hold
of my gun, however.
My idea, so far as I could be said to
have any fixed idea, was to bolt down
the pathway up which I had come,
like a rabbit down a burrow, trusting
that he would lose sight of me in the
uncertain light.
I sped across the glade.
Fortunately the bull, being wounded,
could not go full speed; but, wounded
or not, he could go quite as fast as I
could.
' I was unable to gain an inch, and
away we went, with just about three
feet between our separate extremities.
We were at the other side now, and a
glanced served to show me that I had
miscalculated and overshot the opening.
To reach it now was hopeless; I
should have blundered straight into the
elephant.
So I did the only thing I could do;
I swerved like a coursed hare, and
started off round the edge of the glade,
seeking for some opening into which
I could plunge.
This gave me a moment's start, for
the bull could not turu as quickly as I
could, and I made the most of it.
But no opening could I see; the bush
yv&s like a wall.
We were speeding round the edge of
the glade, and the elephant was corningAip
again.
Now he was within six feet, and now
as he trumpeted, or rather screamed,
I could feel the fierce hot blast of his
breath Btrike upon my head.
. Heavens! how it frightened me!
We were three, parts round the glade
now, and about fifty yards ahead was
the single large dead thorn tree against
which the bull had been leaning.
I spurted for it; it was my last
chance of safety. But, spurt as I
would, it seemed hours before I got
there.
Putting out my hand, I swung round
ine tree tuus onaging my sen met; iu
face -with tbe elephant.
I liad not time to lift the rifle to fire.
I bad barely time to cock it and run
sideways and backward, wben be was
on to me.
Crasb! he came, striking tbe treefull
with bis forehead.
It snapped like a carrot about forty
inches above the ground.
Fortunately I was clear of the trunk,
but one of the dead branches struck
me on the chest as it went down and
swept me to tbe ground.
I fell upon my back, and the elephant
blundered past me as I lay.
More by instinct than anything else
I lifted tbe barrel with one hand and
pulled the trigger.
It exploded, and, as I afterward discovered,
tbe bullet struck him in the
ribs.
But the recoil of the heavy rifle held
thus was very severe.
It bent my arm up and sent tbe butt
with a thud against the to;i of my
shoulder and the side of my neck, for
the moment quite paralyzing me, and
causing the weapon to jump from my
grasp.
Meanwhile the bull was rushing on.
He traveled for some twenty paces,
and then suddenly he stopped.
Faintly I reflected that he was coming
back to finish mc, but even the
prospect of imminent and dreadful
death could not rouse me into action.
I was utterly spent; I could not move.
Idly, almost indifferently, 1 watched
iiis movements.
For a moment he stood sti!!. then he
.trumpeted until the. weJkin ranjr. and
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then very slowly, and -with great dig- <
nity. he knelt down. j
At this point I swooned away. ]
When I came to myself again I saw
I from the moon that I must have been {
insensible for quite two hours. ,
I was drenched with dew, and shiv- ,
ering all over. j
At first I could not think' where I j
was, when, on lifting my head, I saw
the outline of the one-tusked bull still (
kneeling some tive-and-twenty paces <
from me. )
Then I remembered. .
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Slowly I raised myself, and was instantly
taken with a violent sickness, ]
the result of overexertion, after which <
I nearly fainted a second time. 1
Presently I grew better, and consid- <
ercd the position.
Two of the elephants were, as I ]
knew, dead; but how about number
three? 1
There he knelt in majesty in the 1
lonely moonlight.
The question was, was he resting, or
dead? i
I got on my hands and knees, loaded
my rifle, and painfully crept a few 1
paces nearer. (
I could see his eye now. for the moonlisrht
fell full upon it; it was open, and r
rather prominent.
I crouched and waited: the eyelid
did not move, nor did the groat brown
body, or the trunk, or the ear, or the 1
tail?nothing moved.
Then I knew that he must be dead.
I crept up to him?still keeping the
rifle well forward?and gave him a i
thump, reflecting as I did so how very
near I had been to being "thumpee <
instead of thumper." i
He never stirred; he certainly was
dead, though to this day I do not know
if it was my random shot that killed
him, or if he died from concussion of r
tbo brain consequent upon the tre- {
mendous shock of his contact with the
tree. j
Anyhow, there lie was.
Cold and beautfiul he lay. or rather
knelt, as the poet neatly puts it. 1
Indeed, I do not think that I have i
ever seen a sight more imposing in its i
way than that mighty beast crouched
in majestic death and shone upon by ]
the lonely moon.
While I stood admiring the whole j
scene, and heartily congratulating my- ?
self upon my escape, I once more be- i
gan to feel sick. ?
Accordingly, -without waiting to examine
the other two bulls, I staggered 1
off back to the camp, which in due ;
course I reached in safety. <
Everybody in it was asleep. <
I did not wake them. I threw off
my coat and shoes, rolled myself up in i
a blanket, and was soon fast asleep, i
When I woke it was already light,
and at first I thought that, like Joseph, ?
I had dreamed a dream. i
At that moment, however. I turned
my head, and quickly knew that it was \
no dream, for my neck and face were
so stiff from the blow of the butt end j
of the ride that it was agony to move i
thorn. I
I collapsed for a minute or two.
Gobo and another man. wrapped up l
like a couple of monks in their blankets,
thinking that I was still asleep, ;
were crouching over a little tire they
had made?for the morning was damp {
and chilly?and holding sweet con- j
verse. i
Gobo said that he was getting tired i
of running after elephants which they |
never caught. ]
Macuruazrthn (that is myself) was
without doubt a man of parts, and of \
some skill in shooting, but also he was ]
a fool.
None but a fool would run so fast i
and far after elephants which it was <
impossible to catch when they kept
cutting the spoor of fresh ones. I
He certainly was a fool, but he must
not be allowed to continue in bis folly,
and he, Gobo, was determined to put a
stop to it.
He should refuse to accompany him (
any farther on so mad a hunt. f
Yes, the other answered, the poor ?
man certainly was sick in his head, and i
it was quite time that they checked his 1
folly while they still had a patcb of i
skin left upon their feet.
Moreover, he, for his part, certainly (
did not like this country of Wambe's, i
which really was full of ghosts. 1
Only the last night he had heard the <
spooks at work; they were out shoot- ]
ing; at least it sounded as though they
?t'11%
It was very queer, but perhaps tbeir
lunatic of a master?
"Gobo, you scoundrel!" I shouted out
at this juncture, sitting bolt upright
on tlie blanket, "stop idling there, and
make ine some coflee."
Up sprang Gobo and his friend, and
in half a moment were respectfully
skipping about in a manner that contrasted
well witn the lordly contempt
of their previous conversation.
But all (he same they were in earOni/I
nVtnnf linnCntr
iicot ill uuui lucj cam tiuvui
tbe elephants any further, for before 1 j
had finished my coffee they came to |
me in a body, and said that if I wanted
to follow thbse elephants I must follow 1
them myself, for they would not go. i
I argued with them, and affected to
be much put out. <
Tbe elephants were close at hand, 1 i
said: I was sure of it. I had heard
them trumpet in the night. i
Yps answpi'etl the men. mysteriously:
they too liad heard things 111 the night ,
?things not nice to hear; they had
heard the spooks out shooting, and no
longer "would they remain in a country
so vilely haunted.
It was nonsense, I replied.
If ghosts went out shooting, surely 1
they would use air-guns and no black
powder, and one would not hear an
air-gun. (
Well, if they were cowards and
would not come, of course I could
not force them to. but I would make a
bargain with them.
They should follow those elephants
for oue-haif hour more; then, if we
failed to come upon them. I would ,
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.. "f.iSwfiiteiis
ibandon tbe pursuit, ami we would go
straight to Wambe, chief of the Mntuiu,
and give him boDgo.
To this compromise the men readily
igreed. Accordingly about half <111
lour later we struck our camp and
started, and notwithstanding my aches
ind bruises, I do not think that I ever
felt in better spirits in my life.
It is something to wake up in the
morning and remember that in the
lead of night one has, single-banded,
jiven battle to and overthrown three
)f the largest elephants in Africa,
slaying them with three bullets.
Such a feat had never to my knowledge
been done before, and on that
sarticular morning I felt a very "tall
man of my hands" indeed.
The only thing that I feared was that
should I ever come to tell the story,
aobody would believe it, for when a
strange tale is told by a hunter, people
\re apt to think it necessarily a lie.
nstead of being only probably s?.
Well, we passed on, till, having
?rossed the first glade where I had
seen the lions, we reached the neck of
jusli that separated it from the second
wKaha /lfinrl olonh.inis wpi'A.
5HI UU nucic iuc uvuu
And here I began to take elaborate
precautions, among others ordering
3obo to keep some yards ahead and
ook out sharp, as I thought that the
jlepbants might be about.
He obeyed my instructions with a superior
smile, and pushed ahead.
Presently I saw him pull up as
:hough he had been shot, and begin
:o faintly snap his fingers.
"What is it:" I whispered.
"The elephant, the great elephant
ivith one tusk, kneeling down."
There knelt the bull as I had left
lim last night, and there, too, lay the
)ther bulls.
"Do these elephants sleep?" I whispered
to the astonished Gobo.
"Yes. Macumajjahn, they sleep."
"Nay, Gobo; they are dead."
"Dead? How can they be dea'd?
{Vho killed them?"
"What do people call me, Gobo?'
"They call you Macumazahn."
"And what does Macumazahn
nean?"
"It means the man who keeps his
\ves open, the man who gets ut in the
jight."
"Yes, and I am that man.
"Look, you idle, lazy cowards.
rnn elont Inst nifllt' I rosp.
tnd alone limited tliose groat elephants,
ind slew them hy the moonlight.
"To each of them I gave one bullet,
ind only one, and it fell dead.
"Look." and I advanced into the
;lade, "here is my spoor, and here is
he spoor of the great beast charging
ifter me, and there is the tree that I
oolc refuge behind.
"See. the elephant shattered it in
lis charge.
"Oh, you cowards. you who would
;ive up the chase while the blood spoor
steamed beneath your nostrils, see
ivhat I did single-handed while you
slept, and be ashamed."
"Ou," said the man?"ou. Koos.
coos, y umcool!" (chief, mighty chief):
tnd then they held their tongues, and
roing up to the three dead beasts,
jazed upon them in silence.
But after that those men looked upon
ne with awe as being almost more
han mortal.
No mere man. they said, could have
slain those three elephants alone in the
jiglit time.
I never Lad any further trouble "with
:hem.
1 believe that if I had told them to
iurnp over a precipice niul that they
ivould take no harm, they would have
)elieved me.
Well, I went up and examined the
3ulls.
Such tusks as they .had I never saw
ind shall never see again.
It took us all day to cut them out,
ind when they reached Dehlgoa Bay,
is they did ultimately, though not in
uy keeping, the single tusk of the big
mil scaled ICO pounds?a most wonderful,
indeed an almost unprecedented,
ot of ivory.
Unfortunately. I was forced to saw
he big tusk in two, otherwise we could
aot have carried it.
"Oh, Quatermain. you barbarian!" I
jroke in here; "the idea of spoiling
such a tusk!
"Why. I would have kept it whole if
: had been obliged to drag it myself."
(To be continued.)
Country Schools.
"In the old settled and rich farming
listricts one would naturally expect to
ind the best equipped country schools,"
said Charles A. Harding, of Detroit,
vho represents a school supply house,
'but ten years on the road has convinced
me to the contrary. If you
tvant to find up to date and well
quipped schools go up into some of the
newly settled sections, and more than
hat, they are more particular as to the
nullifications of the teachers ttfey employ
and willing to pay salaries which
will attract the best.
"In some districts in old sections the
?quipment is substantially the same as
t was fifty years ago. I have seen
naps on the walls that were published
thirty years ago, and blackboards that
liad long outgrown their usefulness. I
liave visited schools where conscientious
teachers have had to supply portions
of the equipmeut themselves in
ji'der to do satisfactory work.''?Milwaukee
Sentinel. ^
Modern Beati tuilci.
Blessed is he who desires nothing,
Tor everybody will be willing to let
tiim have it.
Blessed is he who does nothing noticeable,
for he wili escape the hammers.
Blessed is lie who is wrapped iu selfconceit,
for no "slings and arrows of
outrageous fortune" shall jar it.
Blessed are ye when men "shall say
nil innnnor nf evil JlCflinSt VOU false
ly," for it proves that they consider
yon worth the ammunition.
Blessed is fashion, for it gives some
women nn object iu life.
Blessed is the man who always
knows he is right, for the truth that
looks in another direction shall not
shake him.?San Francisco Call.
Aactrala^inn Gesture L?ns:ui?xe.
Gesture language still exists in parts
of Australasia. Some tribes possess
so excellent a code that it is almost as
efficient as a spoken language.
Lyons, in the valley of the Ilhone il?
Franc;-, is the largest silk manufacturing
centre in the world, producing
annually abcut SSO.vJGO.COO worth.
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BITS I DEWS
WASHINGTON.
Mr. Ridgely. Controller of the Cur
rency, has announced a dividend o
twenty per cent, to the depositor
and other creditors of the failed En
terprise Bank of Alleghany, Pa.
Secretary Wilson, in Washington
issued stringent rules which will gov
err* the meat inspectors in the en
forcement of the new law.
The first death from smallpox a
Colon was reported at the Washing
ton office of the Isthmian Canal Com
mission by Governor Magcon.
Rumor in Washington says tha
the Nobel peace prize this year is t<
awarded ti President Roosevelt, 01
the recommendation of a number o
universities.
Changes in American army uni
forms suggested by an English tailoi
have been officially approved by th<
War Department.
Orders were issued at the War De
nntifrvirtti} nrrinnino' TVf O "inr-Clmi HTZl 1 A
J'fll IUJC1I I. UCOlgUJii^ iUttjwi V.WUVI ??? **
W. Greely to the command of th<
Northern Division, with headquarters
at St. Louis.
Attorney-General Moody has directed
further prosecutions of a num
her of railroade for violations of th?
Federal safety appliance acts.
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.
William E. T-.lor Medical Inspcc
tor United States Navy, died at Hono
lulu, Hawaii.
General Lee. commander of th<
American forces on the Island o
Leyte, has 500 regular troops, be
i sides a number of scouts and con
stabulary, to "round up" the Pula
janes.
Governor-General Ide has receivec
reports stating that during the fisca
year the importations of rice to th<
Philippines decreased 61,072,41]
pounds, valued at $3,0S4,183.
Aguinaldo says that the presenl
depressed condition of the Philippint
Islands is the result, to a creat ex
I tent, of gambling.
The yacht Wakiva. of New York,
I chartered by M. H. Dodge for a Wesl
| Indian and South American cruise,
! was seized by the United States auj
thorities at San Juan, P. R.. for violation
of quarantine regulations and
fined.
The decrease of importations at
Manila is a result of the poverty of
the people, who are not buying rice,
but are living on yams and other
food.
DOMESTIC.
Hov/ard S. Borden, a millionaire
was appointed a policeman o
Shrewsbury township, New Jersey,
for arresting reckless autornobilists.
Lycurgus Winchester, son-in-law
of Dallas Bache Pratt, was instantlj
killed in a collision between an automobile
and a trolley car in Baltimore
Justice Olsted, of the Court oi
Special Sessions, New York, handed
j down an opinion saying the State had
| no right to formulate laws in the
] restriction of labor.
Private Duer, of the detachment ol
! marines at the Charlestown (Mass.)
Navy Yard, was killed by a blow a!I
leged to have been struck by Acting
Corporal Jenkins.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit officials
issued a statement alleging thai
Eorough President Coler's attacks
upon the company had been accompanied
by bear movements in the
stock in Wall Street.
licensed at taunts of girl companions,
who laughed at hio inability to
swim, Samuel Gutten plunged into
Gravesend Bay, L. I., and was
drowned.
Friends < [ W. E. Corey and his divorced
wife *n Bradd^ck, Pa., say the
Steel Trust's head paid Mrs. Corey
S3.000,000, she agreeing not to involve
any woman in her divorce suit.
Dr. Frank Eillings, of Chicago,
presented a bill to the Field estate
of $25,000 for seven days' work, at
the approximate rate of 53572 a day.
Judge Landis, of Chicago, decided
that Alexander Dowie is not the owner
of Zion City, and that he could not
appoint his successor.
Nearly a dozen workmen were
killed by the fall of a partially constructed
building at South Framingham.
Mass.
The referee in the matter of the
looted Federal Bank ah Alleghena,
Pa., decided that the stockholders
are liable for the losses of depositors,
The Illinois Central has roraiiienced
the construction of a third
main track between Cnicago and
Kankakee, and a fourth is contem
plated.
It was announced from Chicagc
that the merger of all the elevated
railroads in the city would soon he
effected.
Counsel for W. R. Hearst offered
to supply new ballot boxes to the city,
in order to keep the Mayoralty boxes
impoundec.
James F '.chard De Remar, buildei
of the swinging bridge of the Denver
and Rio Grande Railway in the Royal
Gorge, died at Denver.
FOREIGN.
A new Krupp submarine for the
j German Government "was launched
at Kiel.
Emperor William's visit to Spain
has been fixed for the second week ic
September.
The new City Council has elected
| Julio De Cardenas Mayor of Havana,
I He is a conservative.
Secretary Root held a receptior
j on board the Charleston, at Rio df
j Janeiro, before sailing for Monte;
video.
j The British Association for the
| Advancement of Science met at Yori
under the presidency of Edwin Raj
Lankester, and decided to meet at
Winnipeg in 1909.
A mutiny on the Russian cruisei
Bogatyr was promptly suppressed.
The losses of the Hamburg-Bremer
Fire Insurance Company owing tc
the San Francisco disaster are estl
mated at $4,265,000, and an assess'
ment of fifty per ccnt. fcas been leviec
on the stockholders.
The crew of the Russian armoreC
cruiser Pamyat Azova mutinied of
the Esthonian Coast, killed the cap
tain and four officers and seized th<
vessel..
The Russian Government has ob
tained the consent, of its Germar
creditors to the postponement of tli<
payment of the Treasury bonds.
Charles Hodson, for thirty year!
chief clerk of the American Embassy
in London, is dead. Mr. Wodsoi
served under eight Ambassadors.
The St. Gothard Pan? has beer
opened to automobile travel by th<
Swiss authorities, but the restriction
are rigid.
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I THE GREAT DESTROY
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SOME STARTLING FACTS ABC
THE VICE OP 1NTEMPERANC
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{ "Nviiat Wfrfeftf Did?Wife and Mol
g Murdered, Father Hanged, C
dren Outraged, Home Destrc
?Traffic Wrought Utter Ru
' I was sitting at my breakfast ti
* one morning when I was callec
my door by the ring of the door-1
luere stood a boy thirteen year:
1 age, poorly clad, but tidied up
best he could. He was leaning
crutches, one leg off at the knee.
I a. voice that trembled with emot
t I tears coursing down his cheeks,
"> said:
i . "Mr. Hoagland, I am Frei
f Brown. I have come to see if
will go to the jail to talk and j
with my father. He is to be t
r to-morrow for the murder of
> mother. My father was a good n
but whisky did it. I have three
. tie sisters, younger than myself.
are very, very poor, and have
j friends. We live in a dark, di
3 room. I do the best I can to i
port my sisters by selling pap
blacking boots and doing odd j
but, Mr. Hoagland, we are a\
poor. Will you come and be witl
tv ueu icxtiici & uuuy is uruugui uu;
The Governor says we may have
body after he is hung."
I was deeply moved to pity,
promised, and made haste to
- jail, where I found the father.
He acknowledged that he n
; have murdered his wife, for the
f cumstances pointed that way, bul
. had not the slightest remembra
of the deed. He said he was era
- with drink or he would never Ij
committed the crime. He said:
j "My wife was a good woman
j a faithful mother to my child
; Never did I dream that my ha
[ should be guilty of such a crime.'
The man could face the penalt:
. the law bravely for his deed, b;-".
broke down and cried as if his hi
i would break when he thought
leaving his children in a destil
and friendless condition. I read
prayed with him and left him to
t fate.
The nest morning I made my 1
to the miserable quarters of the r
children. I found three little g
' on a bed of straw in one cornei
the room. They were beautiful gi
had they proper care.
They were expecting the body
their dead father, and between tl
cries and sobs would say, "Papa
good, but whisky did it."
In a little while two strong offi<
came bearing the body of the d
father in a rude pine box. They
, it down on two rickety stools. '
f cries of the children were so he
rending they could not endure
and made haste out of the ro
leaving me alone with the terr
r scene.
In a moment the manly boy ner
himself and said, "Come, sisters, ]
papa's face before it i3 cold." T
gathered about his face and smoot
; it down with kisses, and betw
| their sobs cried out, "Papa was gc
! but whisky did it."
I raised my heart to God and s
. "0 God, did I fight to save a com
that would derive a revenue froi
traffic that would make a scene '
' this possible?" In my heart I s
"In the whole history of this accui
traffic there has not been eno
t revenue derived to pay for one s
i scene as this. The wife and mot
murdered, the father hung, the c
i dren outraged, the home destroy*
I there promised my God I wc
vote to save my country from
ruin of the oligarchy.?Evangel
j Friend.
3229 Oliio Saloons Close..
Now that the new Aiken high
i cense law has gone into effect
Ohio 3229 saloons have been clo
and their owners and keepers h
been compelled to go out of busin
One thousand dollars for a permii
i carry on the work of the devil 1
more than these men could pay,
they will seek other means of ea
ing a living and leave the business
! the hands of law abiding "gen
men" who can afford to pay the
cense fee.
Now it is proposed that a law s
! ilar to the Aiken law be enacted
Indiana by the next Legislature,
certainly would get rid of the lo^
dives and groggeries if such a
1 would be passed. So much at 1(
> would be gained.
I ,.
A Japanese Soldier.
A Japanese lieutenant will
wound in his left lung lay in
hospital nest to an officer witt
wound in each lung. The see*
? was in a far more serious conditi
l vet he recovered far more quid
i and was dismissed from the hosp
more than a month earlier. r
L lieutenant, when asked the reas
was told by the surgeon, "The ot
! officer's blood is not poisoned by
cohol anfl tobacco as^ yours fis." r
lieutenant is now an outspoken t<
' perance man. Every soldier in
company has signed the pledge
Christian Endeavor World.
*
Gospel For Saloonkeepers.
What gospel of redemption cl
> the saloonkeeper offer to men v
1 have blighted their careers by ac
terv, who have stained their nar
t by embezzlement, who have distor
t their souls by graft, who have lap
into moral bankruptcy by re^
I against the law of God? Only thi:
eat, drink, be merry?drown y
life in drugs?bury your soul in
, | ileptbs of a wild debauch. Getdru:
Discharged.
; A brakeman on the Consolida
' Road, which was formerly a part
the old New England Railroad s
tem, was discharged by the compj
for entering a saloon and takinj
drink. He was informed that he
forever barred from being emplo;
i by the company in any capacity wh
) soever, for breaking the rule that 1
bids the use of intoxicating liqu
at all while on duty, and the ex<
I sive use of them while off duty.
i The President and Rum.
I President Roosevelt, when at
v.^o/1 nf (ho Mow Ynrlr Rnarrl nf
} li<*:>. gave his opinion of the r
traffic as follows: "The liquor bi
ness tends to produce criminality
1 the population at large, and li
1 breaking among the caloonkeep
themselves: debauches not only
5 body social, but the body politic
, well."
j
Twelve cities as valuable as
j burned area of San Francisco co
. be built in a year with the money
i liquor traffic costs this nation.
ER I THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
,
)UT INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMIE.
ME NTS FOR SEPTEMBER 2.
Lher Subject: Bartimacus and Zaccliaeus,
Hiil- Luke xviii., 35, to Luke xix., 10
>yed ?Golden Text, Luke xix., 10?
in. Memory Verses, 42, 43.
able T. Bartimaeus cries aloud for
I to mercy (vs. 35-39). 35. "Was come
sell, nigh." When Jesus and His discis
of pies were entering Jericho they met
1 as the blind men and Bartimaeus was
on healed. Mark 'says it was when they
In were leaving the city. "Certain blind
ion, man." Matthew says there were two.
he 36. "The multitude." In addition
to the crowds that frequently
3die followed Jesus, there were many peoyou
pie on their, way to attend the Pass>ray
over at Jerusalem. 37. "Jesus of
ung Nazareth." So called because Nazareth
was His home until He began
aan> | His active ministry.
litw
[ 38. "He cried." He had evident?
ly heard of the fame of Jesus, and
Vi r>r\T Uc onnlH 1 +Via Klltifl T + i'c?
ilVH AAV vuutvt UP(41 lut U11UU> lb 10
the chance of a lifetime; there is no
sU^" time to lose; in a mofaent He will
^5?* have passed. "Son of David." With
?D ' the Jews this expression was applied
to the Messiah. "Have mercy on
me." The case of this blind man ilj.'
lustrates well the condition of a sinner
and his efforts in coming to God.
y 39. "Rebuked him." Whenever
the a soul be?ins t0 cry a{ter Jesus for
light and salvation the world and the
lust devil 3?in together to drown its cries
cir_ and force it to be silent. "Cried?
l more." He was in earnest, and opince
P?sition only caused it to increase,
-i II. Jesus restores Bartimaeus'
sieht (vs- 40-43).
40. "Jesus stood." The csy.for
and J mercy will always cause the Saviour
rei). to stop. He takes not another step;
nds this is the first thing to be attended
to. "To be brought." He could havo
f of healed his eyes at a distance, but this
he is an important case and He decides
jart to show I-Iis power before this whole
of company. "When he has come."
uto Mark tells us that in his haste to
and reach Christ he cast away his garhis
ment. 41. "What wilt thou?"
Christ knew what he desired, but He
tvay must know it from him; the divine
,oor P*an is to ask if we would receive.
;iris "Lord." The Revised Version in
of Mark renders this Rabboni?my Masiris,
ter. This was the highest title of
reverence.
' of 42. "Thy faith hath saved thee."
iieir~ His faith was the medium through
was which the blessings of God were
brought to him. It was not his earners
nestness, or his prayers, but his faith
ead in Christ that was commended, and
set yet earnestness and prayers are also
The important. 43. "And immediately."
art- it was not necessary to wait a long
it, time for a gradual healing, but inom,
stantly he saw. "Followed Him."
ible As a disciple.
AAA. uacv^uucuo uvu wuica UliilUUl"
ved ties (vs. 1-4).
kiss i. "Passed through." "Was passbey
ing through."?R. V. Zacchaeus
bed evidently lived in the city. Tidings
een 0f the appr h of Christ and His
>C(J? apostles must l * preceded Him. 2.
"Zacchaeus." was a Jew by birth
(v. 9), but because he had engaged
itry in a business so infamous in the eyes
a of the Jews he was considered as a
like mere heathen (v. 7). "Chief among
ai(J- the publicans." At Jericho was lo"sed
cated one of the principal custom
u&h houses. The trade in balsam was
ucl1 extensive and Zacchaeus was evidenther
]y superintendent of the tax collecthil
ors who had the oversight of the rev*d.
enue derived from that article. As
^ a publican he was a religious outcast,
the "Rich." And like many rich men
ical had not always come honestly by his
money.
3. "Sought to see Jesup" At
this time Zacchaeus must have had
li- conviction of sin. He was not satisin
fled with his riches and his dishonsed
est, wicked life. "Little of stature."
avo And could not see over the heads of
ess. the multitude. 4. "Ran before."
( tn Lavine aside his dienitv as rhtef nnh.
was lican.
so IV. Jesus abides with Zacchaeus
irn- (vs. 5-7). 5. "Jesus?saw him."
3 in The truly divine part was that Jesus
tie- fathomed his heart and understood
li* its longing. "Zacchaeus." Jesus
called him by name, although He
im- had probably never met him in the
in flesh before. "Come down." Those
We whom Christ calls must come down,
rest must humble themselves. "Must
law abide." Christ invited Himself, not
:ast doubting a welcome. How long He
remained we do not know. 6. "He
made haste," etc. He had not expected
to have the honor of being j
noti<*d, much less to entertain the I
i a Royal Guest.
the 7> "When they saw it." The
1 a crowd of Jews murmured. It re-vn
. ? ? ...
*-" quireu courage to meet tne preju- I
on> dices of the nation, but Jesus always !
had courage to do the right. "To be
ital guest." Thus recognizing Zacchaeus
rhe as an equal, socially. *
^n' V. Salvation comes to Zacchaeib
her (vs. 8-10).
rhe "Tlie half of my ?oods>" etcSome
consider this to mean that he
'hjs had already done this, but it is far
more probable that he now determines
to use b#; property for God
and humanity. "If?by false accusation."
The "if" does not imply
doubt; he had taken money wrongoes
fully. "Fourfold." This restitution
irlio the Roman laws required the tax
Iul- gatherers to :u.i!;o when it was
nes proved they hau defrauded the peoted
pie. 9. "Salvatioa come." Zacsed
chaeus was saved ? delivered from
rolt his past Bias aiu1 made "a new creats?
nre." 10. "Is com; to seek." While !
our Zacchaeus was so desirous of seeing
the the Saviour, Jesus we*; iiu.u-6 desirous
ait! to see and save him.
MoulitTul ol' Gold and Diamonds.
Alfred Eeit was a friend of the
young Sultan of Johore, who once
ted visited him at Johannesburg for the
of purpose of purchasing a handful o?
;ys- diamonds. Tho Sultan was accommy
panied by a large retinue, including
? a a celebrated Paris dentist. While a
was mere lad an accident with a horse ,
yed resulted in the loss of nearly every
iat- tooth in his head, and when he
:or* reached his majority ne naa iwo
ors plates of solid gold substitutes inside, .
:es" and in the crown of each a De Beers
diamond was set. When he laughs
the effect is weird, more especially
when the sun catches the gems and
the makes them flash like fire.
Po
um Rocord Price For a Blooded Pig.
usi- p Martin, of Beloit, Wis., paid
*n J. Querrelo, of Kansas City, Mo.,
aw" breeder of Berkshire hogs, near Indelprs
pendence, $3000 for Lord Bacon, a
^ie Berkshire boar. It is said to be the
as highest price ever paid for an American
bred hog. Lord Bacon is a
grandson of Masterpiece, which was
the sold by Querrolo for $1000 to an
"Id Illinois man, who afterward sold him
the to M. T. Gentry, of Sedalia, for$2500.
Querrolo raised both hogs.
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jflfilf
CNVE1LED.
Deep in the stillness of a night
?Vhose rain had drenched the way I
' rod. _ .'
1 wakened from day's earthly dreama
And walked alone with God. v'q
The moaning winds were hushed in rest*
The world seemed sleeping after pain,
And where the cloudy rack had gloomed
The stars shone clear again. 4
Each wayside puddle held a glimpso !
Of heights wherein it used to dwell, As
if the rain had brought with it j
Memories of whence it fell. *
Rained down and drowned in dusty pools
The quiet stars lay shining througn;
And earth was all so steeped in Heaven \
That it wa3 Heaven, too. /
T tliA rAi'/ift r\f fJnH
Spoke to ine in that lonely place;
1 raised my eyes in wondering fear,
And looked, and saw His face.
And ever since, I see but God .
In earth and man, in deep and height,
As one whose eyes the sun has filled
Looks round, and sees but light.
?A. St. John Adcock, in The Academy.
The Fundamental Truth.
How is it that ye have agreed together
to tempt the spirit of the Lord??Acta,
At the outset the Christians of
Jerusalem agreed to have all things
in common. Those who had fields
and houses sold them and the proceeds
were put into the common ?
purse. Only a certain* couple, Ananias
and Sapphira, decided that they,
wished to be Christians and get the*
advantages, whatever they might be,
of Christianity without bearing all
the burden of it.
They therefore agreed to sell part
of their property and put the money;
in the common purse, but to represent
that money to be the proceeds
of the sale of the whole property.
Thcv Hid so and were nunished by
death, visited upon them miraculously,
because they had tempted the
Spirit of the Lord. The words of the
text are the words of St. Peter, which
he addresses to the woman whom he
accuses of the conspiracy between.
herself and her husband to defraud
God.
This story of Ananias and Sapphira
is, as I take it, an allegory intend- ,
ed to express a profound Christian
i-"iU Ua ?A />om?
iruiii. 1UCIC ^au UO UV uiViv
plete unity and community orinterest
than that which exists among
children of one household. But by,
virtue of its fundamental principles
Christianity is such a brotherhood.
All are children of one Father?and
brothers each of the other. This relation
is the first thought in the
Lord's Prayer, "Our Father, which
are in heaven," the pattern prayer of
Christendom. It underlies the two
Commandments which our Lord sub- stituted
for the ancient ten?namely,
(1) "Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy mind,"
and (2) "Thou shalt love thy neighbor
as thyself." Expressed in terms
of property, it appears in our Lord's
leaching that a man should regard
himself merely as the steward, not
the owner, of his possessions; that is,
that his prdperty is not his to enjoy,
for himself, but only to administer ^
for the greatest good of his brethren.
No man is a true Christiail who
has not made the fundamental surrender
of himself and all that he has
a- ~ J v? in fallAW
IU VjUU ill (tiiu imuugu uio iguvTn
men. He "who, professing the name
of Christianity, still regards worldly,
goods?his powers, his talents, his
knowledge, tbe wealth which he has
inherited or acquired?as his for his
own amusement, for his own aggrandizement,
for the enrichment of his -1
children and not for the service of
his brother men, has tempted the
Spirit of1 the Lord, and his punishment
is spiritual death. He cannot
know God, for God is love; but to
know God is to possess eternal Hfe,
and not to know God is to be dead
eternally.
This is the fundamental truth of*
Christianity, above all expressions of
creeps. A man may believe with his
mind and express with his lips belie?
in all the doctrines of the Christian
Church; unless he makes the surrender
of himself and what he possesses
he does not in fact believe in
Christ. True belief in Jesus Christ
is the acceptance as the rule of life
of the Spirit of Christ, the spirit of
service and sacrifice. To choose as
the standard and the aim of one's
life self-advancement or self-pleasing
instead of the service of one's
fellows?above all, to make one's
very profession of religion a means
of self-profit?that is the sin against
the Holy Spirit which may not be
forgiven either here or hereafter. )
That is the meaning and the lesson
of the parable of Ananias and Sapphira.
who agreed together to tempt
the Spirit of the Lord.?John P. Peters,
Rector of St. Michael's Church,
New York, in the Sunday Herald.
The Judas Tree.
"What is this tree?" I asked.
"The Judas tree," said Vittoria.
"Do you not know how it got its
name? In the Garden of Gethsemane
grew a beautiful tree covcred
w/'"5 white flowers. When Judas
eL?.ered the garden and betrayed his
Mister with a kiss, the tree blushed
for shame. It blushes still, and will
do so till the end of the world.'-?
From Howe's Two in Italy.
"Blessed Are They That iinngcr."
"To be satisfied," writes another,
"is to stagnate and become unwhole- (^^
some; to be satisfied is to petrify.- fl
and become a monument sacre.l to! H
the memory of an experience; to bo- 'H
satisfied is to lay down the histor-. 9
ian's pen; to be satisfied is to term-; 9
inate one's spiritual biography. No, i 9
no. Blessed are they who arc not) 9
satisfied, who long for more, for taey.: 9
shall find both joy and inspiration in ( 9
nnrsnit "?Christian Intelligencer. 9
High Record on Births. " ' '
Jpsala, a town of European Tup* ^
key, has a remarkable case of fecundity.
A Turkish woman there has had
seven children in two years. She had
quadruplets in 1904 and recently she
gave birth to two sons and a daughter."
All are in excellent health. The
mothsr is twenty years old.
Titles For Mayor.
Mayor Ekers. of Montreal, Canada,
is addressed personally ?;s "your worship,"
and in the third person as "hi3
worship." i
We ? - - -