tumorous department. Fun With the Parson.?A clerical friend of mine told me a capital story of a Yale man who was the stroke oar of his crew and the chief athlete on the football field. He entered the ministry and spent years in missionary labor In the far west. Walking: one day through a frontier town, a cowboy stepped up to him and said: "Parson, you don't have enough fun. Take a drink." The minister declined. "Well," he said, "parson, you must have some fun. Here's a faro layout. Take a hand In the game." The minister declined. "Parson," said the cowboy, "you'll die If you don't have some fun." And he knocked the parson's hat off his head and hit him a whack on the ear. The old athlete's spirit rose. The science which had been learned in the college gymnasium and forgotten for a quarter of a century was aroused, and a blow was landed on the jaw of that cowboy that sent him sprawling in the street. The parson walked over to him as if he had been a door rug, picked him up and dusted the side of the house with him and then mopped up the sidewalk with his form. As the ambulance was carrying the cowboy away he raised his head fee bly and said: "Parson, what did you fool me for? You are chock full of fun."?New York Times. Remembered His - Nephews and Nieces.?Colonel J. T. McLaughlin, who represents the defense In the Nome contempt proceedings, worked his way up from the bottom round of the legal ladder to the position he holds. In his early practice he was glad to get anything that came along. Among the experiences that helped him to emerge from the condition of a briefless barrister he tells the following: One day a miserly old fellow came to him and asked the young attorney to draw up a will. "How much cash have you?" was the flrst Interrogation. "Well, I dunno," responded the client, "somewheres nigh onto $30,000, I reckon." "How do you wish it divided?" "I want my old woman to have $15,000, and you can say that I give and bequeath $5,000 to each of my three children," said the old man, unloading himself of the legal phrase with much gravity and deliberation. "What else do you wish to say?" "Say that to each of my several neices and nephews I also give the sum of $5,000." "Hold on, sir, this is a work of supererogation; you have already disposed of ail your money. How are they to be given the sums of money you specify?" "Gol darn 'em, let 'em work for it as I did," came the answer.?San Francisco Wave. Closeness and Thrift.?Two prominent Wall street brokers, while at luncheon at the Hoffman House one day last week, indulged in a series of good natured recriminations about the tendencies of each to refrain from spending money. One said to the other; "I don't blame you for being close. It is in the family. Why, I remember your father when he ran a grocery store. He was so close that if a fly settled in the sugar barrel he used to catch the fly, dust its feet off with a broom and let it go." "So?" said the other. "You needn't get chesty. Your father was a fanner. I can remember when he raised bees. He made those poor bees work hard all day, and, not satisfied with that, he crossed them with lightning bugs and made them work nights." "That's right," said the first, goodnaturedly. "The old man was a thrifty chap. Why, I remember when he crossed strawberry plants and milk wwi. anu gui aixawuemea unu urea.ni. Then they had a drink.?New York Tribune. A Youthful Promoter.?A horseman had an amusing experience near the speedway a few days ago. He ^ called an idle newsboy to hold his horse while he made a call on a client. On leaving the house he was surprised to see another boy in charge of the horse. So he asked: "How's this? You are not the boy I left my horse with?" "No, sir. I jlst spekilated and bought him of the other boy for 10 cents. He said as how you were only worth a nickel, and I says you were good for a quarter. See?" The boy got the quarter and went around the corner, where the first boy was waiting under an open window in the home of the horseman's friend. "That's the way to work the swells," said the young speculator to his companion. "Ef you had stayed, he would have coughed up a dime. The bluff made him ershamed to hand over less than the two bits. You gets 12 cents, and I keep the extry cent for permotin' dis scheme. See?" Easy Enough.?A certain member of parliament has expressed a pronounced disbelief in most of the wonderful tales of the prococity of children. He contends that the stories are usu any manuiactureu Dy oiaer persons, with the sole object of making amusing reading. Once in awhile, however, his theory receives a setback by something in his own experience, and he confesses that he has come across some genuine humor and some unconscious witticisms. One such was recently brought to his notice. A Sunday school examination was in progress, and the examiner put the question: "What did Moses do for a living while he was with Jethro?" Following a long silence, at last a voice piped up from the buck of tne room: "Please, sir, he married one of Jethro's daughters."?Youth's Companion. tsr Idle talk has a peculiar way of keeping at work. International Wesson. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL " ? LESSON XI, FOURTH QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, DEC. 15. Text of the Leaaon, Ex. xll, 1-17. 8 Memory- Veraea, 12-14?Cioldcn Text, ? I Cor. v, 7?Commentary Prepared * by the Rev. D. M. Stearna. I] [Copyright, 1901, by American Press Association.] ^ 1, 2. "This month, shall be unto you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you." Thus a spake the Lord to Moses and Aaron in ^ the land of Egypt in connection with the a feast of the Passover. It was the mouth . Abib and the seventh month of their fc civil vear. but became from this time the j first month of their sacred year. It was g the national redemption month and the c beginning of their existeuce as a redeemed people unto God. So with every redeemed soul, the time of its new birth is ' to it the beginning of days, the time he- 1 fore that being lost, for it is ojly he that r hath the Son who hath life (1 John v, 12). ]| We begin to live only when we come tin- j der the shelter of that precious blood. a 3, 4. "Every man. accord.ng to his eating, shall make your count for the lamb." A iamb was to be chosen on the tenth 8 day of that first month, a lamb for each <3 house unless the household should prove o too little to eat the lamb: then the nest t neighbor was to be included as fur as i; necessary, that each lumb might be eateD. a When they gathered the manna for their daily food, they did so on the same principle?"every mun uccording to his eat- c ing, some more, some less" (Ex. xvi, 10, c 17). While redemption is by the blood fc of the Lamb, it is all important to abun- t dance of life to eat the Lamb, for He i Himself said, "He that eateth Me even j< he shall live by Me" (John vi. 57). j 5. 0. "Your lamb shall be without blemish." The physical perfection of the animal was txpicul of the ubsolute perfection of the antitype, the Lamb of God. our Passover (I Cor. v. 7). Compare 1 Lev. xxii. 19-21; Dent, xvii, 1; also li Num. six, 2. concerning the sacrifice of 0 the red heifer without spot and without j blemish, all typical of Him who wus holy, ? ? ?J ?i < narmjpss, UIIUCUICU UIIU >r|iuiuir iiuiij c sinners?the Lamb of God without blem- ' ish and without spot (Hob. vii, 2(5; I Pet. c i, 19). The male indicates the perfect s Btrength of the sacrifice. There was no l weakness in Him. and even when He f died He cried with a loud voice. He gave { His life, for He said. "No one taketh it . from Me" (John x. 18). The four days that they kept the lamb is suggestive of a the 4.000 years from the promise of the r Redeemer until He was offered a sacri- <3 fice for our sins (Gen. iii, 15: I Pet. 1. 20; a II Pet. iii, 8). ii 7-10. "And they shall eat the flesh in e that night, roast with fire, and unlenven* j. ed bread, and with bitter herbs ihey ^ shall eat it." The blood being sprinkled on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost, they were then to dispose of the ^ whole lamb, burning with fire that which t they could not eat. Consuming by fire t was God's way of accepting, so God and \ they ate the lamb together. The roast- t ing with fire indicated the sufferings of t Christ by which lie was prepaml to be t our life. The unleavened bread signifies that we must put away all evil in order a to feed upou Him. for leaveu is always a 1 symbol of evil. The bitter herbs teach fl us that we must be willing to suffer with \ Him. for it is given unto us so to do \ (Phil. i. 29: iii. 10). r 11-13. "When I see the blood. I will c pass over you." This was the great difference that night. Some houses were sprinkled with the blood of the Passover ^ lamb, and some were not. and wherever li there was no blood there was death?the death of the firstborn. But where there had already been death?the death of the lamb?there was no death of the first- g born. "It is the blood that maketb an atonement for the soul." and "without shedding of blood there is no remission of sins" (Lev. xvii, 11; Heb. is. 22). In 2 Him we have redemption by His t blood, and the redeemed in glory sing, p "Thou hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood" (Eph. i, 7: Rev. v, 9). The firstborn in every house where the blood wai a sprinkled was pprfectly safe, whethef * they felt quiet about it or not, for safety d does not depend upon assurance; but, be- p Ing safe, assurance is our privilege, and b peace and joy will be ours if we only p believe God (Rom. xv. 13). They ate e with loins girded, shoes on and staff in hand; ready to depart. So we are taught to be ever ready for our exodus. p 14, 15. "Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread." Compare with these c two verses verses 18-20 and note the repetition of the statement that whoever ti should eat anything leavened would be cut off from Israel. In Lev. ii, 11, leaven was forbidden to be offered with any sacrifice, and in the teaching of our Lord ? Jesus He repeatedly warned the disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees 8 and of the Sadducees and of Herod. In ti the passage where Christ is called "Out Passover" we are exhorted to keep the feast, not with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth (I Cor. v, 7, 8). In Lev. vii, 13. and xxiii, 17. there Is a command to offer leaven, but in each H case it was to represent the evil that was in the offerer. Tbe first was a thanks- b giving offering and is explained by Amos p Iv, 5?"Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, for this liketh you." The other was typical of the evil that found its way into the gathering of believers at Pentecost. The passage that is most ^ misunderstood and perverted concerning leaven is Math, xiii, 33. which is gener- t ally taken to mean that the gospel will gradually fill the world, whereas in the c light of the whole discourse in that chapter it plainly teaches that in this age of the mystery of the kingdom (verse 11) p the woman ithe church) \yill corrupt her food till all shall be corrupted. See II o Tim. iii, 1-5; iv, 3, 4, as a comment. 16, 17. "No manner of work shall be s done in them." This and similar state- p ments concerning the feasts of the Lord .. and the holy days of Israel seem to me to have their spiritual application set c forth in Heb. iv, 10. with Eph. ii. 8. 9; Rom. iv, 5: Phil ii. 13, and similar pas- ? sages. The redemption of Israel was li wholly of God. as also is our redemption, g His work, not ours, gives peace. So also e the daily life must be wholly of God. As we eat the Lamb, appropriate Christ and . all that Is His more fully day by day. He will work in us both to will and to do s of His good pleasure, working in us that e which is well pleasing in His 6igbt, and A whatever He may accomplish through us we shall gladly confess that it has been a "not I, but Christ." "not I, but the grace e, of God" (Gal. ii. 20: I Cor. xv, 10). God ^ is seeking eurtheu vessels in which He may work unhindered all Ilis pleasure. If we are only willing and yielded. He s will do it. *"No one is useless in this world who js lightens the burden of another. S In scandal, as in robbery, the re- tl ceiver is worse than the thief. 11 XiY Be praised not for your ancestors, 'l but for your virtues. ittisccUanrous grading. FROM CONTEMPORARIES. ievri and Comment That Is of Mor or Leu Local Interest. LANCASTER. Ledger, December 4: About ten daj go, we chronicled the death of M: 2d Williams, a painter at Kershav )n Saturday evening last, his widov Irs. Mary Ann Williams, died at the! lome there after a short illness c monmnnlo She was Onlv about I ears of age and leaves only one chil< , little girl, which she requested t lave sent to the orphanage. She wa , member of the Presbyterian churcl ...On Sunday last, near Elgin, whll landling his pistol in his lei land trousers pocket, Mr. Ernes Itogner, son of Mr. J. W. Stogner, ac identally discharged It, the ball er erlng his thigh and passing dowr yard and lodging just above the knei ['he wound Is not serious.....We note ecently that a cat and a pup belong ng to Rev. R. J. Blackmon, of th i'ork Hill section, that were bitten b t dog that had been bitten by th trange animal perambulating In thfi ection, had shown symptoms of h> Irophobla and died. On Sunday, a pi if Mr. Blackmon's that had been bil en, also began having fits, and late n the day it died Several yeai .go a darkey names James erving a sentence on the Cheste halngang for assault, made his es ape and nothing more was heard c ilm until recently he was located o he Mcllwain farm In this county, gc ng by the name of John Heath. Pc Icenian Pardue arrested him here o Jonday and he was returned to th Chester chaingang that afternoon. CHESTER. Lantern, December 3: Mr. T. I Vhite, cashier of the Exchange Dam las resigned to go into effect the Is >t January. In doing so Mr. M. i jewis becomes cashier; Mr. W. J tarkill, assistant cashier; Mr. Cr< Ipratt. bookkeeper; Mr. Lowry Gu; ollecting clerk Yesterday the cler old the land advertised, as follows ?he Steedman place to S. C. Steedmai or $1,250; the Hood place to J. I lenry, attorney, $1,150; lot at Ricl lurg, to Jay Barber, for $.75; two lot ,t Lando, to Henry Samuels, for Ms letta Mills, for $805 and $605 Es [uire A. D. Darby has lived all his lil t Baton Rouge, and has been a mag Btrate 27 years. He has seen consic rable change in his day. He says li las seen as many as 13 fights in or lay, three going on at .once, som< imes Jerry Crosby, colored, wa :illed at Grassy Run trestle, beyon he Eureka mills, Saturday mornini iy the southbound S. A. L. train. H k-sis coming in the same direction a he train and had reached the end < he trestle, but did not get off th rack. He was somewhat deaf, prot bly became bewildered when he foun hat the train was approaching. Core ler Gladden held an inquest and tti erdict of the jury was that his deat va8 due to his own carelessness. Jei y had been living a few miles in tli ountry, but was well known aboi own, having stayed about the DaVeg [rug store many years. He was hart y less than 70 years old. ROOSEVELT TO CONGRESS. allent Feature* of the President' First Message. The president's message is aboi 8,000 words in length, dealing with a he questions of vital importance no' n the public eye. In the beginning Mr. Roosevelt pav , glowing tribute to the memory < he lamented William McKinley an enounces anarchy. He not only dt lores the existence of the anarchis >ut beseeches congress to make it irr ossible in the future for the chief ej cutlve of the nation to be shot dowi He calls attention to the great pros erlty of the nation. He deals at length with industrk onditlons and problems. He declares that trusts must be cor rolled; otherwise, trusts will contro A new cabinet officer Is suggestec .'ho shall be known as the secretar f commerce and industry. Mr. Roosevelt urges that congres ee to it that the United States secur he greatest service from its employe! Much stress is laid upon the brother ood of men. Better Immigration laws are aske or by the president. The message declares that reciproc :y is no enemy of protection. An encouraging word is said for th enefit of our merchant marine. Mi toosevelt declares that the America lerchant marine should be restored t he ocean. "Maintain the gold standard," say Ir. Roosevelt. It is suggested that congress amen he interstate commerce law. Much attention is given to the agri ultura! interests of the country. Intelligent forestry is urged by th resident. The message urges the importane f the reclamation of arid lands. Mr. Roosevelt declares that Hawa hould bv all means be develonec ointing out in detail the Immense ad antages to be gained from the nei ountry. The great problem of the governmen f the Philippines is given much spac i the message, and the president sug ests that a sterner policy is demand d by conditions in the Orient. In no uncertain words the presiden eclares that the Monroe doctrin hould be the cardinal feature of for ign policies of all nations of the tw Lmerlcas, as it Is of the United States Congress is directed to the fact tha greater American navy is demand d. He declares that the work of up uilding the navy must not be neglect d, but pushed forward with all pos Ible speed. He reviews the situation In Chin; t length. He advises that closer relations ex it between the United States and th outh American countries. The president takes a bold, stand fo fie educational interests of the people The postal service and rural mail de very is given the support of the pies lent in his message. Attention is called to the opportuni ty of the United States that now exists In the trade with China. - The consular service, says the president, is in need of reform. Expositions as upbuilders of a coune try are endorsed, and attention is directed to their good. Congress is especially urged to pay the expense in ,s connection with the removal of the r government exhibit to Charleston. 7 The message calls attention to the f good resulting from the army reorgan[r izatlon. A liberal pension policy Is urged. 15 A strong plea is made for the civil j service. o The president says there is no need a now for an increase in the United lt States army. ] le In closing, the president reiers 10 me tt death of Queen Victoria, of England, 5t and the death of the Empress Dowager Frederick, of Germany. i- , , l" SA,W A BLOODHOUND IN ACTION. 5. d Unerring Work by a Dog \ mined at * a Thousand Dollars. ie "I had an opportunity to observe the efficiency of the bloodhound as an inlt strument for tracking criminals while r_ I was at Wichita," said a Macon atR torney the other day on returning from ' t_ a trip over into Kansas. ,r "An atrocious crime had been com,8 mitted out in the suburbs. The sheriff _ was promptly notified and he respond;r ed immediately with his large, sombre assistant. The dog was taken into the house and to the room where the crime n occurred. It immediately started out with a bound, cleared the fence and dashed into the timber with the sheriff n and the others following close behind, ie The hound ran to a stream, where it ( appeared to be mystified for a few minutes. It ran up and down the ( I. banks, panting and wagging its tail ( t, nervously. Suddenly it caught the , st trail again and dashed onward up the ( 3. bank of the stream, ran around a tree, ( 1 ?lla nn/1 thon tnnlf v. onut uvci a ui uou piic ?* ?v* v???? | ;e a bee line for town. y, "From this time on it never faltered ' k nor seemed to be in doubt for a mo- i i: ment. The trail led to a mammoth i i, grain elevatorv "rtie dog burst into a < Z. side door without hesitation, and dart- i i- ed for the steps, dashing the surprised 1 :s workman right and left. It went clear I i" up to the topmost floor of the eleva- < ' tor, circled round a few times and 1 'e then darted down another way. When ] it reached the bottom floor it ran out 1 on the sidewalk, through the business i ie part of town and then to the boarding ' ie district. It was blocked by a closed J- door at a small boarding house, but ' 18 when the officers caught-up with the d dog they had the door opened. The dog ascended the steps with a bound, went [e directly to a room occupied by one of j 13 the boarders, pushed open the door , with his fore feet and attacked the i ,e clothes of a man who was in bed | )_ asleep. ( ^ "The savage growls awoke the man i up and he yelled loudly for protection. I ie The sheriff entered the room just in 1 h 1 time to seize the dog and pull him from j the man's throat. By this time a large a _ . _ ' ... A ' " crowd had congregated at tne entrance of the boarding house and was impa-1 a I T* ST\ fT\ /T\ /T\ /T\ /T\ fT\ . /T\ ^ /Tl ^ fcf . ./T^. .. . /T1 . ./T^/T^. . /T*^/T\A/T^A/T^A #? vw I I \X/ 1 l?/ w 4 Ia/ T I ^ I ^ 'Mr W ' WT j 01 : I No Catc '-'I I II Men's Sui I Men's Ovc ? Everythin I We've I J. I ; || J. L. wii "5 T Vr^jp*?V \i> w " VTW^/" * w" ~ - - ^ - - /T^ - ffl A /T^ . /T^ . . /Ti /T^ - - - - . . f the best in the state. It was not i /ery prepossessing animal, but whei t was in action, like a courageous sol lier, it looked much better than it di< vhen on dress parade."?Kansas Cit; lournal. The Presbyterian Creed.?The pre imlnary work of revising the creed o :he Presbyterian church so as to mak t more popularly understood was inau ?urated in Washington last Thursda: it a meeting of a section of the com nlttee of 20 appointed at the last Pres byterian assembly to accomplish thi -esult. The section that met today begai the preparation of a new statement o the doctrine of the church. It spen several hours in discussion, but no ac tlon was taken on any phase of th subject. A form of statement to re place the one now in use was submlttei and other forms will likely be submit ted. The object is to secure a forma jxpresslon of doctrine that will be mor Jeflnite and convey to the lay mind ilearer understanding of the subjec than the present declaration. No vita changes were contemplated in today' iiscussion but mainly a different mod 5f expression was aimed at. Two other sections of the committe (vill meet contemporaneously with th full body and frame propositions to action by that body. One of these wi jraft new chapters on the Holy Splrl and on the love of God, and the othe will make a slight revision of the con fession of faith with reference to th alect infant declarations. It is felt tha the present statement on this point im plies that any infant dying in infanc Is "lost" from the standpoint of th religious future state and the creed t be adopted will make it clear that th Presbyterian church does not hold th belief that those who die in infancy ar "lost." tST Recently a visitor In an idiot asy lum not far from New York, asked a attendant how the management knei when an inmate was sufficiently re 3tored to sanity to be dischargee 'That's easy enough," was the replj "We take them all into a yard wher there are several troughs, turn on th taps and give them buckets to ball ou the water and empty the trough! Many of 'em keep bailing away whil the taps keep running, but them a sn't idiots stops the taps." ta* TAKE COUGH EASE. It Cnre*. YORK DRUG STORE. /Ti /T^ .*. /n /T^ - - /T^ . . /T^ . . /T?> -? . . /T^ .?. /T^ . . /Tl A iT?.? tf. 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